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[warriorscribe]

[Such a wondrous device. Are there little invisible couriers for these messages?]

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[warriorscribe]

[Have fun with that maybe-not-totally-incorrect assumption, House. Enoch's shitty coping mechanisms are worse, somehow, when he's aware of them. How does that work?]

But to do this, he'll have to kill me. I don't want to hurt him, he's hurt enough. Don't want someone in his mind... He wants this. But...

But...

[Disjointed? Pretty much. There's a lot of raw emotion he's got to sort out left over from that false time, and House caught him in the middle of it. He's very disoriented, pulled from such a deep sleep as he was.]

I'll do it. If he wants this, and wants me for it. I'll do it.

[rubikscomplex]

[House isn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Enoch's clearly scrambled. That's ideal. He's not asking too many questions because of it.]

perfect!
i'll have a chat
where are you?
near him?

[warriorscribe]

Don't know, I don't know. He ran off, when we...gained time. It broke him. I failed him.

[That didn't answer where, unfortunately.]

[rubikscomplex]

[He rolls his eyes.]

so go and find him and put him back together
i'm sure the blood'll help
vampire physiology and all that jazz

[warriorscribe]

Should've...

[He's just going to dissolve into quiet sobbing here, which speech-to-text won't parse for House. Someone's going to have some nightmares when he goes back to sleep. In the meantime, more non-sequiturs, because he didn't actually listen to his tablet reading off House's message and just kept talking.]

It was, I was so- I should've seen...but it didn't happen. But it did. It would. Could.

[rubikscomplex]

[House has a general idea based on the rest of this conversation, really.]

coulda
woulda
shoulda

stop whining about what's in the past
you can't change it
do something for the future
that's the only way things change

[warriorscribe]

The future...some things can't be changed. Need to protect him.

[There's a long pause before the tablet picks up one more thing:]

So tired. I'm sorry.

[rubikscomplex]

don't be sorry
just do it
and get back to me
later

[And he hangs up.]