[So, what he's hearing is you want to be alive for the fight.]

Beckett had a similar revelation, as I recall. It made him a lot less boring to talk to a while back.

[Tenacity is something House has always respected, the refusal to give up in the face of impossible odds. That is his career and his life.]

And just as long as they're actual aliens and not magical, mythical beings from Beyond the Stars.