FIC: "Burn", Robert Chase
Jan. 20th, 2006 03:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rwryterTitle: Burn
Fandom: House
Character: Chase
Prompt: 039. Taste
Word Count: 176
Rating: Everyone
Author's Notes: Written in about ten minutes, and thoroughly unbetaed.
Chase can’t drink.
This is different from saying he doesn’t drink; if he could, he might, just to try to see the appeal. He can be around people who are drinking, and he can be around alcohol. But the one time he tried to drink the foul stuff, he had to spit it out before he could even swallow. It burned his mouth and his memories stung, and in the end, he couldn’t get down so much as a sip of beer. The taste of the beer itself wasn’t the problem; it was cool and bitter, and actually rather good. Fire underlying that, though, dredging up memories of his mother, and mental images of what alcohol had done to her before it finally did her in. Since that first taste, Chase has discovered that nonalcoholic beer has the same taste without the underlying edge, and he can drink that fine, and hardly anyone gives it a second thought. After all, he’s a doctor, could be called in any time.
Chase’s memories won’t let him drink alcohol.
Fandom: House
Character: Chase
Prompt: 039. Taste
Word Count: 176
Rating: Everyone
Author's Notes: Written in about ten minutes, and thoroughly unbetaed.
Chase can’t drink.
This is different from saying he doesn’t drink; if he could, he might, just to try to see the appeal. He can be around people who are drinking, and he can be around alcohol. But the one time he tried to drink the foul stuff, he had to spit it out before he could even swallow. It burned his mouth and his memories stung, and in the end, he couldn’t get down so much as a sip of beer. The taste of the beer itself wasn’t the problem; it was cool and bitter, and actually rather good. Fire underlying that, though, dredging up memories of his mother, and mental images of what alcohol had done to her before it finally did her in. Since that first taste, Chase has discovered that nonalcoholic beer has the same taste without the underlying edge, and he can drink that fine, and hardly anyone gives it a second thought. After all, he’s a doctor, could be called in any time.
Chase’s memories won’t let him drink alcohol.
