These Foolish Things The House Fan Fiction Archive Home Quicksearch Search Engine Random Story Upload Story   These Foolish Things by phineyj A dusty piano stool with medical journals mixed up with the sheet music An out of date reference book with 'moron!' scrawled in the margin Crutches with 'love' and 'hate' written on the handles in Liquid Paper A tuxedo jacket with a hole chewed through it by sharp rat teeth These foolish things remind me of you An old blue button-down shirt used as a rag to clean a car Out of date bottles of drugs prescribed by a Dr J Wilson A large pair of Nike sneakers; the left more worn than the right A motorbike screaming down the empty freeway at dawn These foolish things remind me of you A wedding ring, discolored on the inside A pile of unopened, unanswered conference invitations A half empty bottle of twelve-year old malt The click of a cane on the sidewalk outside the window These foolish things remind me of you The echoing hallways of the hospital at midnight A pager that calls but no-one answers A ringing telephone in an empty office Footsteps dragging one behind the other, like the ghost of a limp These foolish things remind me of you The bright workshop smell of WD40 A fresh pot of coffee brewing; but who's to drink it? The bleep of a machine as it monitors the last minutes of someone's heart A whiteboard with nothing written on it These foolish things remind me of you. FIN   Please post a comment on this story. Legal Disclaimer: The authors published here make no claims on the ownership of Dr. Gregory House and the other fictional residents of Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Like the television show House (and quite possibly Dr. Wilson's pocket protector), they are the property of NBC/Universal, David Shore and undoubtedly other individuals of whom I am only peripherally aware. The fan fiction authors published here receive no monetary benefit from their work and intend no copyright infringement nor slight to the actual owners. We love the characters and we love the show, otherwise we wouldn't be here.