"Yeah," he answers easily. There's nowhere else he's expected and even if he were, it's nothing a quick text wouldn't solve. There's no one waiting for him. He and Spike aren't exactly the sort to make plans, they sort of just fall into the same places at the right times.

It's better that they're not the kind to make plans. He doesn't want investigate that or dwell on what he wants or all the pointless shit he's been thinking lately. None of it's the sort of stuff he can allow to matter.

"Yeah, I can stay," he says. "You think you got a space big enough for me?"