"I got yelled at for not waiting for them to arrive," he admits as he drops down into a chair and rests his forehead against his good hand. He knows he deserved it, he knows things could have turned out a lot worse, but if he'd had to go back and do it all over again, he knows he still wouldn't wait. He'd do anything to keep Spencer safe.

"As soon as I called Detective Astor, he was on his way," he says. "But I just couldn't wait. I was already there and... I couldn't wait. He's too... he's too important already." He doesn't know how that happened in a month, but it has. Spencer is too important to lose, to risk, to be without.