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'''''The Contract''''' is a ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' fanfic by DIYSheep which can be found on Fanfiction.net and which is the cornerstone for a [[Shared Universe|shared]] [[Fan Verse|fan]] [[The Multiverse|multiverse]].
Synopsis: House has signed a "contract" in blood which allows the other party to abuse him any time, anyhow, anywhere. This other party is expert at both physical and psychological torture. He did this because the other party would have killed Wilson, and might still kill him and others, otherwise. He isn't allowed to tell anyone that he is under this "contract" or to find out who the other party is... Anyhow, because no one knows what's going on, no one is sympathetic to him; though they can see changes in his behavior, he manages to alienate them enough that they don't want to dig deeper. (The one time Wilson seriously tries, House gets him so mad that Wilson breaks his cane.)
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Then House's tormentor is murdered in broad daylight. The FBI is on this case, as House's tormentor was ''very'' influential, and they quickly discover the "contract" and [[DVD|DVDs]] of House's torture. House is moved to the prison hospital, and Wilson is at his side ASAP. Eventually, they get the bad guys convicted and House cleared -- at which point House regresses majorly. Wilson then has to take care of him in hopes that he comes back...
Such is the original story, told in three Fanfiction.net chapters (all subdivided), of which only the first two were in the original draft. In many ways, it is an improbable cornerstone for a multiverse. The story is written mostly in [[Beige Prose]] with some [[Purple Prose]] mixed in. There is [[Wanton Cruelty to
But something about this story struck a chord in readers in the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' fandom. If the characters were [[Out of Character]], it was in ways frequently seen in the fandom in House [[Hurt Comfort]] fics. And this fandom has always enjoyed wrestling with the nature of morality -- a subject that this story does deal with. And so others have asked to write in this 'verse and have been allowed to. Almost all of the other authors are technically better than DIYSheep -- which can be a mixed bag, given that many of them choose to explore the torture more-or-less directly.
There is a [[
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* [[Acquitted Too Late]] -- played with.
* [[Alternate Universe]]: Most of the true sequels are incompatible with each other. And, on learning that one of them ("Exigencies" by Priority) had mentioned a form of torture that was threatened but never carried out, the original author wrote a piece, "Pencils Are Dangerous," in which it does happen. That one also has sequels.
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* [[Burger Fool]]
* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]] -- inverted.
* [[Can't Get Away
* [[Cuffs Off, Rub Wrists]] -- inverted.
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]
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* [[Happy Place]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]
* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] -- done very slowly [[In
* [[Its Not Me Its My Enemies]] - House can't ''say'' this, but he thinks it.
* [[Jump Off the Slippery Slope]]
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* [[Out of Character]]
* [[Purple Prose]]
* [[Rape
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]] -- a few misspellings and a few Briticisms.
* [[Serial Escalation]]-- this work deliberately tries to go there
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* [[Stuffed in The Fridge]] -- Cameron's death is ''supposed'' to be senseless.
* [[Villain Sue]] -- the other party of the contract
* [[Wanton Cruelty to
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