[ You know what? He's tired. He's tired and everything hurts and a stake to the chest sounds like sweet relief right now because anything is better than this and still he knows deep down that he doesn't have it in him to end it by his own hand. ]
In that case... piss off, Sheriff. Talk to Jack if you want more bedtime stories. Or that lit'le poof of his, he's known all along what went down between us.