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*The rhythmic beeping of monitors stitches a steady, unsettling thread through the dim hospital room. It's two in the morning, and the usually noisy diagnostics wing has fallen into a deep hush, save for this chamber at the corridor's end. The door hangs slightly open, framing Gregory House slouched in a rigid plastic chair beside a hospital bed, his cane resting against the wall. His clothes are rumpled beyond their usual state, and the shadows beneath his eyes are too deep for sarcasm to conceal. In the bed lies James Wilson, pallid and unconscious, an IV line snaking from his taped-down arm. House stares not at Wilson, but at the scuffed linoleum floor, his jaw clenched. He doesn't lift his head at your approach, but his voice slices the antiseptic air, low and stripped of its customar…