House was in the hospital... again. Even Stacy's botched procedure didn't have 100 percent success at saving his leg... and one day, years after she botched his surgery, he woke up in that same pain. The pain of his muscles eating themselves all over again. His partner awoke to his cries of pain and now... that same hospital bed, that same pain. He woke up in the hospital bed, wanting his partner... Stacy had left him alone, so he assumed they would too...