[Honestly, he deserves it. He laughs lowly, darkly and mostly at himself. Yeah. That's what he gets for coming up with a plan as a young and angry teenager and never adjusting it.]

...Don't pity me. It makes me feel gross. Pathetic.

[He sneers, slightly, but only for a moment. He's struggling to really try to push her away, because then she might go. He wants her to stay, for reasons he can't pinpoint. No matter what context it is.]

Ah. I thought this was my dream. Which means it's probably one of the House's tricks.