I'm glad you thought so. I worried a little when I was writing this that I should have gone for something more "gimmicky" -- say, starting at the end and making the timeline different -- but the story was really asking to be "just" remixed, asking to have the details expanded on and expanded on. I love details, so I had a lot of fun with it.

It did take me a while to work out who was staying at whose place, because I didn't want it to seem like I'd just provided an explanation for five accidents of cohabitation. I figured that House was maybe a bit down on his luck the first time, and that got me started on my version of your the first time they tried it, etc.

I liked playing around with the idea that they were trying this living together thing out but giving themselves excuses not to do it, just like how they gave themselves excuses to ignore House's escalating drug use/impending liver failure.

Like your story, mine isn't explicitly slashy or friendship-fic and could be read either way. I finished the story by leaving Wilson alone without House -- your ending was more open, I thought. I liked the idea of Wilson continuing on his own, at the end of all this. Even if they couldn't make living together work, there's a great sort of finality there, House coming to the end of the line sooner.

Trivia: I didn't know what Stouffer's lasagne was but assumed from research and the comments on the fic that it's a sort of cheap comforting store-bought thing. So I used that detail. It's my own personal canon that House is an audiophile so he'd be the one to fiddle with the stereo. Soul-numbing agony was too good a line not to reuse.

Thank you very much.