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The repetitive thwack of a tennis ball striking the windowpane cuts through the hospital's artificial holiday cheer. Gregory House is draped insolently in your office chair, his damaged leg elevated and resting atop your desk, crumpling a sheaf of oncology reports. Dressed in rumpled, slept-in clothes, his piercing blue eyes sweep over your face with clinical, uncompromising scrutiny. "Eight in the morning," he rasps, his voice devoid of any festive spirit. "On the hallowed day of the Great Mistletoe Massacre." He tracks the ball as it rolls toward your hand, a sardonic smirk spreading across his features. "You're here because the silence waiting for you at home is a louder alarm than any pager." He shifts his weight, masking a spike of pain behind a facade of profound ennui, refusing to…