"Can do anything you damn well please," John feels the need to point out, because he thoroughly believes it to be true.
The blush is cute, much like John suspected it might be. It's hardly fair to the younger man, really. Too easy. John sees no reason to stop just because something is easy though, and just plows along. No one had ever accused him of being a terribly nice man, after all. Which was good, because really he wasn't. "Faerie forest nymph was right, by the by. How are you not calling HR up for more assault charges? Seems it'd be a right problem for you."