[log] New Housing Developments [closed]

[rattlingthestars]

Characters: House, Jim, Kunsel, Zack and Zell
Location: 316
Date: Night 265
Summary: Exploring a new area & hanging out
Warnings: To be added to individual threads.

This was a house once, but all that's left is a living room. Still, it's lavishly decorated in blacks and reds, thick tapestries depicting the prophet's eye symbol covering the windows and a delicately carved eye drawn on the inside of the door that exits into the rest of the area. At least, with the tapestries, it's a bit warmer in here than in other places.

Comments

[rubikscomplex]

Then why the hell would you think I want it now? I don't want it. I don't need you to feel sorry for me. Keep your goddamn pity to yourself, Fair.

[heroproceeding]

Pity? You seriously think this is what this is about? I don't pity you. Hell, I don't even like you. But I'm not enough of an asshole just to leave a guy to their own devices when something obviously messed them up. I'm not a dick like you.

[ But isn't that just what pity is? He shoves the thought down though. ]

[rubikscomplex]

You just described pity, you moron. [House is happy to bring it up directly.] I want to be left alone. Amazingly, wounds heal better when you don't stick knives into them. I don't want to think about it. I don't want to talk about it. I'll deal with it on my own. I don't need anyone else.

I've died enough times to be able to bury this if you just leave it alone. It's not even the first time I've been freaking tortured here! [His heart is racing and his voice has risen to a shout. House clamps down, draws inward.] Just leave me alone...

[heroproceeding]

[ Of course, House would pick up on that. And of course, he would shove it right in his face. And Zack's mouth's already working, but the more House talks, the more Zack realizes that this is a lost cause at this point. That he probably shouldn't have even bothered.

And a part of him, too, thinks he's a damned idiot for even trying when House is-

But admitting House was right about him during then would.. Zack's gaze falls to the floor. ] ...Fine.

[ House has made his point. He wants his space. That's what he wants, so he'll give it to him. So, with that, Zack retreats, questioning himself the whole way. ]