i truly do not understand why there aren’t more people shipping chase/foreman from house md, because the more attention i pay to the two of them the more i find myself shipping it. here’s why:
i LOVE their progress from not giving a shit about each other in season 1 to slowly becoming friendly and then acquaintances and then close friends by the end of season 8
foreman in season 3 told chase “i don’t like you. never have, never will” and then he goes on to
go to chase for relationship advice CONSTANTLY
go to chase to vent about his job with house
hang out with chase outside of work even when they’re no longer in the same department
cover up murder for him, while risking his own career (MORE ON THIS IN A BIT)
support him through his trauma and PTSD and the end of his marriage
take his advice and feedback on how to be a better boss while still being a good doctor
support and encourage his decisions to seek out something better for himself
hire him back as department head to fill in some pretty big shoes that he himself has failed to fill previously
chase up to season 3 kept saying “i don’t care about foreman” and then he goes on to
support foreman and give him advice on coping after foreman accidentally killed a patient
let foreman vent to him about being stuck with house
hang out with him outside of work
discuss his relationship with him
go to him for advice on issues in said relationship
spend time with him and be there for him (along with cameron) after amber’s death
constantly tell foreman that he isn’t obligated to cover chase’s ass after the dibala incident
share his problems and trauma with foreman
give foreman good advice on how to handle an admin position while ensuring he doesn’t distance himself from his friends now that he’s their boss
looking out for foreman when taub insisted on getting him a girlfriend
coming back to work for him when he offered him a job as department head
OKAY THE DIBALA THING, SO LISTEN. LISTEN.
early on foreman has been well established as a very ambitious character who puts himself first. this point has been reinforced by
foreman writing an article on the same case cameron was writing hers on, knowing she was writing it, knowing his would be published first
foreman delighting in having power over house whenever he has to supervise him even though it’s the most irritating job in the world
foreman asking to be made head of department the moment he finds out house is quitting in season 6, barely after the door’s closed on house’s ass
foreman firing his own girlfriend just because working together makes them fight, instead of giving up his promotion
foreman letting her dump him instead of accepting that giving up his promotion would have been the best thing for their relationship
this is a man who’s worked really hard to come as far as he has, and is painfully aware of it. in my opinion he has every right to his ambition and to putting himself first, but yes, it is objective fact that sometimes he does so without caring about the collateral damage
and yet, when he finds out that chase faked dibala’s test results, leading to his death, at a time when the department was being headed by foreman (and therefore his ass on the line), his first instinct was not to turn chase in and save himself
it was to cover up for chase
and he continued covering up for chase even when he had to give a presentation on the case and lie his ass off to cover the discrepancies. he could have turned chase in at any point. he’s well within his rights to, considering that by not doing so, he’s an accomplice, and just as liable, just as likely to lose his license and be jailed
this guy, whose number one focus in life is his career, who has been described by pretty much everyone as unfeeling and cold, continues to lie for chase and support him emotionally when he absolutely does not need to
he is painfully aware of everything he’s risking – his medical license, the career he has so painstakingly built, his reputation, his entire life and freedom – and yet that does not stop him from being there for chase
i find their dynamic so, so interesting. their development is such a pleasure to watch, honestly, and no matter how many times i rewatch season 6, it never fails to astound me the lengths to which foreman went for chase when he was under no obligation to, when it would’ve been far easier and so much more logical to turn him in. man, no one does that for someone else unless they really truly care about them on a deep level. not just covering up murder, but also risking everything they’ve got.
also! when he hires chase back at the end of season 8 to replace house – that is the biggest thing, honestly, because the implication is i think you’re the best person to fill house’s shoes. something foreman himself failed to do earlier on, quite a few times. he respects chase’s medical knowledge and skills so much that he’s literally asking him to take the place of someone who mentored them both, someone they all thought irreplaceable.
not to mention, at the end of season 8 they’re literally house/cuddy parallels! literally no one can convince me that they don’t go on to have the slowest of burns, about 30592 years of denial and pining and then eventual acceptance, and then a relationship filled with mutual respect, snark, and medical clownery. no one.
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