action;
I had a job, a mission, people who needed me. I abandoned them once, I couldn't do it again. ...well, not so much abandoned as fired them and kicked them out of my hotel, but we've already covered how dark that dark place I was in was. Besides, you seem to have come through it okay.
[ though, he still wishes he'd been there. separate cities and separate obligations, as well as lingering issues neither of them had been in the right frame of mind to sort through before now had made doing that near to impossible. they'd still needed their space. a part of him hated that it was spike of all people who had been there for her, despite how well the two vampires got along these days. they'd even stopped bickering over her in the wake of the fall, but him being with her again changed that 'let it go' outlook. if only in the confines of his mind. ]