flightforfreedom: (telling you how it is)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Poe, on the other hand, was dealing with it precisely the same way he dealt with every life-threatening and bizarre predicament he found himself in: getting through it and then dealing with it later. Maybe not the healthiest way of dealing with things, but certainly the one that kept him alive. Talking about it could wait until they were back on the ship. And hopefully until he could look at Finn without turning bright red.

Poe managed to find his boots and communicator too, turning it on just in time to catch BB's worried but relieved series of whistles and beeps on the other side.

"Yeah, sorry buddy," He replied to the droid as he pulled on his shirt. "We uh - we got held up. Don't think it's a good idea to grab any of the supplies from here, though. Probably contaminated. Can you boot up the diagnostic tools in the med supplies? Just to check."
flightforfreedom: (look he's pleased for once)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Poe was pulling on his own jacket, and then leaning down to grab a blaster that had slid into a corner, before holding it out to Finn.

"I do now," he said, sounding a little amused. Trust him to start making jokes at a time like this. "Let's get back to the ship. This is going to be an - uh - interesting debriefing." And like an asshole he just turned around and started heading back the way they came, checking around corners to make sure there were no plants hiding around behind anything.

If Finn didn't talk first, he wouldn't say much else the entire way back to the ship, preferring to get there as quickly as possible.

Once they got in the ship, however, he stopped Finn before he went past the main airlock. "Detox first. Who knows what the hell that stuff was but probably a good idea to make sure we aren't carrying any of it. Can't really fight the First Order if the Resistance just turns into an orgy, right?"
flightforfreedom: (that hurt me emotionally)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"Finn."

He couldn't know what was going through the other man's head, obviously, but Finn wasn't exactly the hardest guy to read in the world. "Abject Misery" seemed to be the man's current state. It caused Poe felt a very sharp pang of guilt. Just how much of that had he forced on Finn? So when he spoke now, his voice was a little softer, a little quieter, and he reached out to touch his shoulder again, to get Finn to meet his eyes.

"Let me make sure you're okay, alright?" The joking bravado was gone. "I need to know you're okay. So detox. Diagnostic. That's gotta happen first, before - well, anything else. Want to make sure you're totally with me, okay?"
flightforfreedom: (hey)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Poe wet his lips.

"Can't wear clothes for detox, but - you want to go through first? I can hang back if you're not- I mean- I get it, if you think I've had more of a fair share of an eyeful. But it'll be faster if we go through together."
flightforfreedom: (a gentle touch)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Poe had the sudden urge to kiss him. Not like before - not like his mind was being overridden, the safe guards bypassed. But just because he wanted to wipe that blank sullenness off his face. But he didn't. Who knew how long the plant's effect might work. Sure, Finn might forgive him for when they were both in the throes of it, but now that Poe felt mostly himself, if he took advantage of Finn- - he'd never forgive himself. Better to wait.

He didn't reply, just nodded and started to strip, not at all self concious. It was a lot easier to see the bruises, though - dark purple marks on his hips and thighs and sides, looking exactly like Finn's fingerprints..

He managed not to flush, this time, and once they were both disrobed he shoved the potentially contaminated clothes in a bag for later testing, then turned on the decontamination process. No water, no steam, but lasers strong enough that they felt hot. After a minute, the system chimed.

"Alright, med bay."

Med bay was a large word for the tiny bunk style cot that made it up - definitely not big enough for more than one person. And they had to walk the whole way there naked. But the diagnostic tool was already rolled out.

"Take a seat. I'll run it on you, first, then you can do me."
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flightforfreedom: (talking over his shoulder)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The scan was first, and Poe was thorough, if still professional, and at the end he paused, pressing the device to Finn's throat. A sharp prick, and he pulled it away again, blood sample taken.

"Alright, alright, let's see--" he paused as he scanned the read out, lips moving as he read it to himself. Finally he let out a relieved sigh. "Nothing. Some trace remnants of a protein in your blood, but already mostly disintegrated. That's it. We're completely ourselves again."

His relief was palpable, and as he raised his head to meet Finn's eyes. "Thank the Force."

He handed over the diagnostic tool, still trying to convince himself not to just kiss him. The urge was a hell of a lot stronger, now.

"Check me over and then tell me if I'm allowed to kiss you or not because I'm going a little nuts, here." So much for suave.
flightforfreedom: (thinking hard)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-11 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
He didn't smile, despite how cute that reaction was, because he hadn't been lying. Trying to hold himself back was miserable and driving him crazy. The tone gave him some hope, though.

"Yeah. If that wasn't already made painfully obvious. And there's no point to try to hide it anymore, so--" He didn't flinch, but his words did halt as the device took the blood sample from his neck.

"So if that's something you want to do, too, you'd better tell me."
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flightforfreedom: (slow processing speed)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-12 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
The lack of answer was a bit worrying, especially with how intensely Finn was staring at the device. Poe was starting to think he'd made a terrible miscalculation, and then Finn was staring at him.

"Look, it's totally okay if you --" he was starting to say, when Finn cut him off with a kiss, surprisingly tender. Not like whatever had happened to them on the station. It was gentle, and it made his heart thump almost painfully in his chest as he returned it, lips parting in almost a sigh against Finn's.

He'd never felt this relieved.

He settled his hands around Finn's hips, tilting his head up into the kiss as he tried to deepen it. But the angle was not easy to keep and after a second he pulled back, looking a little flushed. "I, uh- would have preferred a better way to tell you, but--"
flightforfreedom: (action hero pose)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah." He offered a warm, relieved smile. "Well pretty much all of it. Pretty sure I would normally have begged for a break somewhere in there, but."

He paused, shifting so he could stand up, sliding his own hands to cup Finn's jaw.

"Yeah. I've been in love with you for a while. Though I really didn't think it was mutual until, ah--" Until we were fucking each other's brains out? -- "Until today, so--"
flightforfreedom: (Default)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-12 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Judging by the grin spreading over Poe's lips, it probably felt just as good to hear, and he was still grinning when he leaned forward and took another kiss - still tender, but maybe with a little more fire in it that the last.

"I love you too," he mumbled against his lips before stealing another kiss, deep and long.
flightforfreedom: (action hero pose)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-12 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
"Ow-- watch the hips--" Poe said, but he was laughing into Finn's lips. "Do you know how many bruises I have? I don't. I can't count that high."

Which would probably sound more like an actual protest if he wasn't pressing closer, sliding his body up against Finn's, feeling the heat radiating off him. He'd thought that the sexual desire was mostly the vines - not all of it, obviously, since it wasn't like he hadn't stroked himself to thoughts of Finn before - but the wanting to go over and over and over was definitely something he wasn't used to.

How long had they been asleep, anyway?

"Look-" he murmured against Finn's lips. "I need to get us into hyperspace. But if you want to - meet me back at your bunk in - say - five minutes--"
flightforfreedom: (follow me)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-12 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
The kiss made his pulse race a little faster, made him feeling like he was melting a little. Force, Finn was good at that. When did he get so good at that?

It took way too long to stop himself from dragging the kiss out, as long and deep as he could, and even longer to force himself to step back.

"I don't know about going again, but - I want at least a few more hours of that before we get back to base---"

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