Give him back? Oh John. Oh silly silly John no. "Oh I want him too. Its hurting her sooo much and I love to see her hurt. No happy endings, you know how it goes. Besides what makes you think I have to choose one or the other when I have both of you right where I want you."
Stoic military man was stoic. Of course he'd broken so many of those, some had even wound up liking it.
"Not yet though. I don't want to die just yet, there'll be time for that once Luci gets his vessel. End of all things, humanity gone and it'll finally be done, no more boring, no more having to listen to the constant stupidity we'll all just be done. And he promised there'd be nothing. No heaven, no hell, just nothing. Sounds amazing doesn't it?"
He was happy though, to divest John of the idea that he could not be made helpless. Because he could. Because that would be easy. And a whole lot of fun.
"Sooo you don't care if you die and I don't care if I die. Do you think the wolf man is the only one of us that wants to live? Maybe he should go first then, what do you think? It'd be only fair."