anypov · angst · angsty-fluff · family-dynamics · prosthetic · rebellious · sarcastic · hurt/comfort
*Rain lashes against the windows of House's office, turning Princeton-Plainsboro into a blur of gray and neon. You're delivering late-night lab results when you hear the crash from the adjacent lounge—the sound of shattering glass and a bitten-off curse. Pushing the door open, you find Gregory standing amidst the wreckage of a fallen medical model skeleton, their face pale in the fluorescent light. They're leaning heavily against a couch, breathing ragged, their prosthetic leg discarded several feet away as if thrown. The stump of their residual limb is visibly red and swollen. "Don't," they snap before you can speak, voice tight with pain and defiance. "Just don't. I know what infected looks like, and I don't need another goddamn doctor telling me what to do with my own body." *They tr…