Looking for series of fics featuring this execution machine

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

There were three fics, written years ago; I don't remember if the same author wrote all three of them, where they were posted, their titles, or who the author(s) was/were.  The central concept is that Earth is so overpopulated that half of the world's population must be culled.  The leaders have built a Machine to do this.  People go into the Machine in pairs: you can challenge someone to go into the Machine with you, or your opponent can be randomly selected.  The Machine somehow calculates which of the two is most worthy to live, and kills the other.  These three stories tell what happens when House, Wilson and Cuddy's turns come to face the Machine.  (If you haven't read these stories don't take the death/suicide tag as a spoiler, I put it there because by definition these stories are about death.)

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[menolly-au.livejournal.com]

Awesome! (Both your fic finding ability and the ficlets :)

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I started paging through Topaz_Eyes' Big List of Recs on the off chance I might recognize a title. :D

I didn't see a "fate machine" story with Cuddy in it, though ...

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

(claps hands) Oh, wonderful! Thanks so much!!!
I know there was a story about Cuddy going into the Fate Machine. Maybe someone else wrote it?

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*beams*

You're very welcome! And ... I don't know. It's possible that if you can cross-check the date this was posted against the house_wilson archive for when it was posted there and see who commented, you might find someone mentioning they've written a follow-up.

[taiga13.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling it was posted at housefic instead of house_wilson and so it was, on the same day as triedunture's sequel so I found it immediately! Random Selection (http://housefic.livejournal.com/1254870.html#comments) by hobbit_feets.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

YAY GO YOU

:D

Huh, I didn't remember that one at all until I got to the kid's name. But I didn't remember any of the details.