"I really don't mind," he answers and leaves it at that. There's no sense in qualifying that, in telling her there's nowhere else he has to be and no one else expecting him. Even if there were, he'd stay with her. She needs him and he's not always good at being needed, but he'll be damned if he leaves her at a time like this.

"Long as you don't," he adds. "You might change your mind after havin' to spend just a single night with me."

He doesn't have the slightest fucking clue how it is Spike puts up with him. They have weird, differing schedules, and still manage to spend some of their nights together.