Not even Spike can resist how cute he is. That's exactly the reason he's stayed.

And later it will occur to him to never bring up anything that bothers him if he doesn't plan on it coming back to bite him in the ass. And this was one of his more trivial issues.

When she shifts, his distraction stops being enough of one though. This is still a weird position to be in with her. "...Well, there aren't too many normal people to choose from around here."