crack_van | Jeeves & Wooster / House (PG-13)

Title: Two Places We Shouldn't Have Gone by Montgomery Damn Crowley
Pairing: Jeeves/Wilson; Wooster/House (implied UST for Jeeves/Wooster and House/Wilson)
Length: 512 words
Author on LJ:

montycrowley
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:

This is an odd, fascinating little crossover with some of the sharpest insight into the characters - both sets of characters - I've ever seen. Angst is notoriously difficult to do well in J&W, the tone of the canon being so determinedly airy. But transposed into the House universe, and seen with that world's bitter analytic tint, Jeeves and Bertie are enigmatic and remarkable. The story's something of an offshoot of the "Five Things" genre; it makes no attempt to explain the impossibilities of time, space, or Hugh Laurie-incarnation. There is only the precision of language, and the two anti-OTPs revealing unexpected turns in all four characters.

House and Wooster are narcissistic love – well, narcissistic on House’s part. It’s impossible to tell what Bertie’s thinking behind those falsely innocent blue eyes. That’s Bertie’s pathology, apparently; he needs to be rescued, so he needs to be helpless. House thinks: Wilson would love him. House thinks: I can’t stand him. House thinks: He’s just a good lay.

Two Places We Shouldn't Have Gone