[Seeing House talk like this pulls something painful in his chest. It's fucked up to see how much he's changed, and to infer from it how much he had to go through to become the bitter, prickly person he was as an adult, so wary of letting even a little of his guard down. He's kinder now and more open, still just a kid in his own mind, and he has enough of an idea of House's father to guess he didn't help even beyond a dislike for apologies.]
[He's still sorting out how to feel about Bro, and probably will be for a long while to come, but it reminds him still of himself.]
apology accepted officially and for real even when you get your memories back so no take backsies your dad was being a douche because everybody fucks up sometimes and take it from the literal actual time traveler that you cant ever undo what already happened maybe theres another timeline where something else went down or it got prevented or whatever else but theres always going to be the one where it did and the important thing is just to do better than that to realize your mistake and go ok not going to do that again sorry guys i fucked up and you dont always know whats going to go wrong from the outset youre not a mind reader and you cant see the future because magic and psychics arent real where you come from i was pretty pissed about things then because it felt like you were trying to dance around actually saying what you meant but if this is the reason then i get it so @ future house if something happens again and you mess up ill take a straight apology so long as you mean it i wont pull this bullshit your dad did promise
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[He's still sorting out how to feel about Bro, and probably will be for a long while to come, but it reminds him still of himself.]
apology accepted
officially and for real even when you get your memories back so no take backsies
your dad was being a douche because everybody fucks up sometimes
and take it from the literal actual time traveler that you cant ever undo what already happened
maybe theres another timeline where something else went down or it got prevented or whatever else
but theres always going to be the one where it did
and the important thing is just to do better than that
to realize your mistake and go ok not going to do that again sorry guys i fucked up
and you dont always know whats going to go wrong from the outset
youre not a mind reader and you cant see the future because magic and psychics arent real where you come from
i was pretty pissed about things then because it felt like you were trying to dance around actually saying what you meant
but if this is the reason then i get it
so @ future house
if something happens again and you mess up ill take a straight apology so long as you mean it
i wont pull this bullshit your dad did
promise