House shrugged. "In that case, keep watching and drive yourself crazy. I guess I've developed a severe case of determinism after being stuck here for six and a half years."

He paused, and then with some degree less dickishness added, "But you know, whatever you you're seeing up there, she's doing the exact same thing you would have done if you'd never come here, going by that logic. So you're there. You're helping. Two places at once, tada."