"Yeah. Maybe even here." Maybe there can be family here. Family is very important to Alcide even when they drive him nuts, even when they hurt him. Maybe he's a masochist in that way. He keeps going back to his dad again and again. He keeps picking people who put him last knowing he'll hang around like an idiot. He keeps making the same mistakes over and over again.

And speaking of that, given what happened between him and Buffy, he feels he needs to put this out there too. Because Alcide is never one to let things remain unsaid if they need to be said. "I got a girlfriend back home. Her name's Sookie. I mean, she's sweet. She's fucked up but she's also the most normal girl I've ever been with."

He dips his head because it's his turn to stare at the space on the mattress between himself and Buffy. "Only right before I got here, she lied to me and ran off with her ex. I ran off, shifted and tracked her down. I was trackin' her when I showed up here. Got no clue what's goin' on. I always knew it. I knew she wasn't over Bill. Deep down, I knew it. I knew I loved her more than she loved me." Which sucks and hurts and he kept thinking he'd give it time and she'd come around.

Again, same mistakes over and over. He's always hanging on to less than he deserves with every woman he's ever been with.

"Anyway I thought you should know." He says. Because all that hurt he's feeling is not Buffy's problem. Maybe he shouldn't even feel guilty about being with Buffy. But a part of him does, because Alcide isn't that kind of guy who steps out on his girl. He has no idea if he still has a girl though, or if he should even want Sookie to still be his girl. And then there's Buffy and whatever is going on there. "Honesty is the best policy and all that."