[ Finn gives it a quick once-over once he catches it, just to make sure it didn't get too scuffed up or potentially damaged from the fall. What he sees is satisfying enough, combined with getting it back immediately, to relax his shoulders. The corners of his mouth twitch. ]
I was trying a different pocket.
[ So yeah, fair point. He thinks it wouldn't hurt to start leaving it at the apartment. Or at least at his desk, or in his jacket or something. He's lucky it's still in one piece right now.
And the question saves him the trouble of trying to ask if John got a look at it. He has no idea how he planned to navigate that one without accidentally sounding accusatory about it. So Finn mulls over how to answer, a little grateful not to have to broach it himself.
It would be easy to back out of answering. Say he has somewhere to be, never mention it again. To shut off the projector and do that, never think about this, never mention it again. Hope that John forgets, like it's not important. But he thinks about Slip's face, how few people have ever seen it, how many fewer have seen it and thought it was worth caring about (just Poe and Rey, here, only him back home).
He thinks about how readily John gave the holoprojector back. How related it is to a conversation that he honestly should have had with him sooner. Backing out doesn't sit right. ]
He was a member of my old fireteam. We, uh. [ He hesitates. Offers a twitchy shrug. Deliberately avoids addressing the friend issue for the moment. It'll be easier to explain once he's laid the full picture out. ] We called him Slip. Just a nickname. Kept things shorter on the radios.
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Date: 2018-04-15 11:33 pm (UTC)I was trying a different pocket.
[ So yeah, fair point. He thinks it wouldn't hurt to start leaving it at the apartment. Or at least at his desk, or in his jacket or something. He's lucky it's still in one piece right now.
And the question saves him the trouble of trying to ask if John got a look at it. He has no idea how he planned to navigate that one without accidentally sounding accusatory about it. So Finn mulls over how to answer, a little grateful not to have to broach it himself.
It would be easy to back out of answering. Say he has somewhere to be, never mention it again. To shut off the projector and do that, never think about this, never mention it again. Hope that John forgets, like it's not important. But he thinks about Slip's face, how few people have ever seen it, how many fewer have seen it and thought it was worth caring about (just Poe and Rey, here, only him back home).
He thinks about how readily John gave the holoprojector back. How related it is to a conversation that he honestly should have had with him sooner. Backing out doesn't sit right. ]
He was a member of my old fireteam. We, uh. [ He hesitates. Offers a twitchy shrug. Deliberately avoids addressing the friend issue for the moment. It'll be easier to explain once he's laid the full picture out. ] We called him Slip. Just a nickname. Kept things shorter on the radios.