Everything is so easy to say in hindsight. We all get to look back and grieve the would and could-have-beens. [ Drift snaps before he could stop himself. ]

You get to think you didn't leave him behind because you weren't there to see the aftermath. Regrets are so much easier to quantify when you're not there to see who gets left behind. [ Knowing exactly who Megatron was referencing, Drift knew this was just twisting the finishing blow where it hurt. Only there was such a catharsis in it all that he couldn't stop himself. ]

I've made friends here, people I think I could care about again. But none of it- none of it I would take for just one more...one more day- just another day-

[ The happy-go-lucky front Drift had kept up for the last couple of weeks around Buffy, Dean, or Erik had collapsed right along with his resolve. Drift doubled over, face in his hands, and let out the frustrated and devastated howl of pent-up anguish he had been holding back. ]