[network] @hotstud_xxx; text/video [open] Night 198

[rubikscomplex]

[Ever since waking up, collecting his things, and stepping into the stairwell in the hospital, pushed by the force that always pervades revival areas, House has been absolutely paralyzed. Should he go up? Should he stay? Should he contact someone? Should he...? Anything, really. It's like his will has been stripped out of him completely, leaving someone who is absolutely craving direction. He has none. He has too many. There are too many choices, and he can't make a decision. Finally, when the locks click to lockdown, there's one decision that he can make for the simple sake of actually surviving for the immediate future.

House wants to make it private to just one person, but he has no idea who to choose. In the end, he sends out an open message on the network. There's a video showing an elevator and stairwell area that anyone who's been through the hospital will recognize. House is careful of his phrasing. This is an incredibly damaging loss... whatever the hell it is.]

someone tell me where to go from here tomorrow

Comments

@Ecks | text

[ecks]

go somewhere other than into the morgue to die again

[Joy, and obliging if vague obedience from her. And then the anger of earlier in the day returns.]

you killed yourself again
you are a bad friend

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, that's unhelpful.]

you catch on quick, don't you?
i already told you we're not friends

you wanna be more specific than "not the morgue"?

@featherydouche; text

[mrcreamsicles]

[Seeing this strikes like a bolt. He's alive again, here again, and it brings together all that rush of exhaustion and upset at just how much people die around here and how little he can do about it, how easily House just walked right into it. It hurts, even as glad he is that he's alive again.]

how about somewhere that doesnt get you fucking killed again

text

[rubikscomplex]

[You people.]

well, maybe if you told me where to go
i'll avoid going one of them dying places again

@Spoiler; text

[spoileralert]

Can you even get out of the hospital?

[ She is, of course, assuming he's blind. ]

[rubikscomplex]

[And he's happy to encourage that assumption.]

probably
i just need to know where the hell to go

@beyonce | voice to text | cw suicidal thoughts

[thewarningafter]

I hope your happy ass hole.

[No, really, he's glad House is alive again...and this is one more data point to help tip the scale for him.]

[rubikscomplex]

feeling guilty, stevie wonder?

@ASolomons; text; private

[devoutish]

[Holy shit, is this what he thinks it is?]

Come find me.

text; private

[rubikscomplex]

[Oh, fuck you, Alfie.]

where are you?

@totheark; text

[0thingsonmymind]

*Huh, House's behavior with Ecks and Steph is sure interesting...its too bad he doesn't need anything from House. At least not anything specific. Though there is one thing...*

why doyou re fuse to
ac cept
magic super natural un known
?

it makes asmuch sense as
tech nol ogy

doyou think only your worlds
real not real
counts ?

[rubikscomplex]

because it doesn't make as much sense
and nothing we've seen so far has been linked to magic

yes

@cutthroatbitch; text;

[wilsonsheart]

What did you do, House? Why didn't you talk to me?

[She didn't see his name on the last obituary...but reading the other comments, whatever he was doing as an "experiment" got him killed. Even though he hates her, and even though they've barely spoken since she arrived--especially since Wilson died--the thought of House dying still fills her with dread. One day he's not going to wake up after he pulls a stunt that puts his life in danger.]

[rubikscomplex]

i died
and i thought we agreed we aren't talking
unless you have something to tell me

@IAmLegend; text

[definingfuture]

You owe me a new speaker.

[rubikscomplex]

throw your tablet away or break it
you'll find a new one

private, text, a few hours later;

[termineur]

[ Sylar has been distracted today by his new traveling companions, so by the time he reads through all of this, the damage has clearly already been done. ]

Damn. That's a hell of a death price, House.

Tell me if I can help you with anything, okay? If you're in danger, let me know. And I still owe you a bottle of Vicodin. It's yours the next time we're near each other. I'm south of the school at the moment.

private, text

[rubikscomplex]

[Well, thank god Steph is the one in charge at the moment, and he doesn't have to take orders from anyone else. But the orders that Sylar gives... House feels compelled to follow them anyway. But he has to follow Steph's orders. And he has to follow the other orders. And he should be following all of them.

House is curled up in a ball at the top of the stairwell in the hospital, and it takes him a long while to reply to Sylar as he just... breaks. There's something like relief there as tears gather in his eyes and roll down his cheeks. Even if he has to give all of his Vicodin to Alfie, Sylar has more. But there's the internal struggle of wanting to comply, of needing to comply, and having a counter order, as well.]

You can help me. I'm in danger.

@itsybitsy; text; private

[redrooms]

[Well, isn't that an interesting penalty?]

Are you alright, House? Where are you headed?

text; private

[rubikscomplex]

no

i'm heading north

@gravedigger; voice

[harlequinofhate]

Didja die again, babe?

assuming this is before Steph's order to not listen to anymore orders

[rubikscomplex]

[One of several people House least wants to see here.]

Yep. Apparently it was on the network.

[Check Dr. Strange's message's, bro.]

@vnikiforov; text

[vitrissimo]

what's that saying? only up from here!

or something.

text (assuming Victor ICly tagged in earlier so House can suffer more)

[rubikscomplex]

wow
that's so helpful
i've never felt more helped in my life

jesus christ, dude
give me some actual direction
not inspirational commentary

[Mostly he wants you to tell him to go up, bro.]

text @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

[It takes him some time to find the context. Only getting on the network now and again is really not good for him, honestly.]

Do you have sufficient direction?

[rubikscomplex]

[Why did it have to be a question with a choice? Jesus.]

I don't know.

[Not Here]

[peacemongering]

[Pierce has already deduced the fact that dying causes losses and this one is particularly interesting to him. He assumes that many other people have figured it out based on the replies that he can see and assumes there are about the same amount in private that he can't.

He doesn't bother to add to it, though he is extremely familiar with all of this. Amusing that it's House and even more amusing that it has to be public. At least HYDRA had made the Soldier report privately to limit confusion.]