Please...don't be. You didn't have to stay with me, yet here you are.

[Maybe anyone would have because it's the right thing to do, but...with Spike, it feels different. Sparkling has been around him enough times to know there's something different, about it.

Sparkling looks back over at Spike, then, his expression...tired.]

...I do have one thing I want to say, if you'll indulge me.