For once, John was at a loss. How did you save someone who adamantly didn't want to be saved, a friend who didn't even know you were his friend? He could remind Loki about the debts he owed, but he wouldn't remember those either and had no reason to believe they actually existed. And there came a point where badgering a mate for his own good just started to get cruel.
"Look," he said finally, deciding to give it one last shot before he finally wrote Loki off as a lost cause, "you've got no reason to listen to me, so I won't blame you if you just tell me to bugger off. But I gotta tell you, Loki, if blood was the only thing that tied us to people, you'd already be dead. If it matters so much, it should be Odin standing here telling you to live, not Ana and me. And if you kick off because you wouldn't risk that bond, then it's Odin who's killed you, not the disease. Is that what you want us to tell him when he finally gets around to coming back for you?" He shrugged. "Besides, he was willing to make you his brother once, great bloody pain-in-the-arse that you are. What makes you think he wouldn't do it again?"
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Date: 2008-02-03 12:34 am (UTC)"Look," he said finally, deciding to give it one last shot before he finally wrote Loki off as a lost cause, "you've got no reason to listen to me, so I won't blame you if you just tell me to bugger off. But I gotta tell you, Loki, if blood was the only thing that tied us to people, you'd already be dead. If it matters so much, it should be Odin standing here telling you to live, not Ana and me. And if you kick off because you wouldn't risk that bond, then it's Odin who's killed you, not the disease. Is that what you want us to tell him when he finally gets around to coming back for you?" He shrugged. "Besides, he was willing to make you his brother once, great bloody pain-in-the-arse that you are. What makes you think he wouldn't do it again?"