"Fuck you." He won't as a matter of principal, because who is he going to ask? No one. That's who. Because then he'll have to tell them what happened and this is humiliating enough.

"This isn't the end of this, you know," he says even as he decides that's true. He won't give up until things are settled in a way he's comfortable with. And it can start with:

"For now, you're dismissed." And he walks into John's, trailing blood behind him, and the music and sounds and screens in there make it even worse for the buzzing in his ears but that's fine. Whatever happens in here is fine.

If he can't be strong enough to make things how they ought to be than he kind of deserves what he gets.