Whatever feeling Poe was expecting to feel at those words, it was not what he got. He suddenly felt a deep rush of relief, of longing, but not of the kind he was used to. He had been built up to respond sexually to everything - that was what the Admiral had wanted, and what the man had done so much to perfect. But the way that Finn said that made Poe's heart ache, rather than his cock.

It fluttered in his chest and he couldn't stop himself - surging forward to steal a hard, deep kiss, sliding an arm around Finn's back and pulling him tight up against him.