And you don't ever ask him. [he reaches up, rests a hand on Soundwave's upper arm, guessing.] So you're self-effacing, like my Soundwave. You get your real jollies being useful, being indispensable, but you get uncomfortable in the spotlight, you don't like feeling like you need anything from other people.

--That's why you didn't want to talk about feeling bad, earlier. It wasn't anything to do with showing weakness. [that was, in part, how he rationalized it after the fact.] You should let me in. I don't want to see you struggling.