Oh my...this hit extremely close to home for me. I really struggled for the first six months of motherhood and your descriptions of what Cuddy went through brought back all those feelings of guilt and inadequacy.
I thought the way House behaved at the start was pretty bad, even for him, but you managed to make it believable by showing the emotional turmoil underneath. The gradual realisation of the changes he felt were brilliantly done (and made me cry too).
I loved the interactions between House and Eva - perfectly in character for House. This bit made me melt:
"Most of all, she was beginning to recognise familiar faces and voices. His was one of the most familiar faces to her, and the way she always responded to him was unlike anything he'd ever known."
Basically, all of it either had me grinning or in tears. But I loved it!
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I thought the way House behaved at the start was pretty bad, even for him, but you managed to make it believable by showing the emotional turmoil underneath. The gradual realisation of the changes he felt were brilliantly done (and made me cry too).
I loved the interactions between House and Eva - perfectly in character for House. This bit made me melt:
"Most of all, she was beginning to recognise familiar faces and voices. His was one of the most familiar faces to her, and the way she always responded to him was unlike anything he'd ever known."
Basically, all of it either had me grinning or in tears. But I loved it!
And what a perfect ending too.
Thank you for sharing!