"You sure don't act like it," he mutters, not looking at Ratchet. But he does what he's told at least and scoots back because, well, what choice does he have?

"It's not his fault," he says automatically, because it isn't. Drift told him it was stupid and he was insane for even considering it, but Rodimus had done it anyway because Prowl had said-- well it didn't matter what Prowl said. "I was captain, I let it happen, it's my responsibility." This is stuff he knows, and regurgitating it for Ratchet isn't hard for him to do now, even though his expression is slightly pained when he does so. Because he doesn't like admitting to his mistakes any more than he likes being reminded of them. "But I-- I just got him back, Ratchet."

He couldn't do that to him. He didn't want to do that to him, shove all that on him when he didn't remember it all.