Very interesting :3

What a coincidence! I just read the Rime of the Ancient Mariner in class.

That must have been one of the weirdest plots I've ever read. ] But it was cool.

Brilliant! A very realistic case scenario, ans very well written. I loved it!

O_O!

Very interesting.

I absolutely LOVE this story!Great job!

This story is so unique. Thank you.

Nice. I like how you mixed in the poetry in the course of the story, and how it was a mother's love that drove the woman to do it. Very good.

That was very well done. Excellently described.

The story line was a bit past me, but well done on it.

Good god. Every story of yours I embark on, I tell myself I'm not going to review. But you put Coleridge in there! Ryme of the ancient mariner is my favourite poem ever. When I read the line 'A seabird was engraved on the front of the locket,' I knew, and I nearly cried. It's just so beautifuly fitting. I think that perhaps, House got desperate just a bit too fast, because his leg wouldn't have started torturing him that quick. Maybe if she'd poked him a few more times with the cane to make it flare up, or if you'd mentioned at the start that he was about to take another dose right before he walked into the exam, so he was already going into withdrawal...

But oh man, another great story. It was so beautiful, so poigniant, so sad. And the last line... I really do love that poem/ballad.

(And through the drifts the snowy clifts,

Did send a dismal sheen,

Nor shapes of man nor beast they ken-

The ice was all between.)

wow. this really intersting. you made me think. and oh yeah, this is good.

Dode... that was totally creepy. O_o I'm pretty sure that's a good thing, though.

Wow..this is an awesome fic. I can see House accidentally doing something like that, sadly enough. Well done.

This story is intriguingly different. It was kind of cool that House's tendency to "cry wolf" came back to bite him. One part of it, however, was implausible, and it distracted from the tone of the story: House wouldn't be so desperate for his Vicodin so soon. I understand that you wanted the story to take place in the clinic (so that house could have the WTF reaction to hearing no heartbeat), and that this setting imposes time restrictions - surely somebody would come looking for House if he stayed in the exam room for hours. However, with the semi-mystical nature of the story, you could easily get around this issue: just have more time pass in House's perception than is passing in the world outside the exam room. Doing that might even add to the creepiness of the situation.

Wow, this story just blew me away. The thought of a man like House having to wear that locket symbolizing his failure almost brought a tear to my eye. Loved it.

Megan