the story was believable enough, but was it too convincing? there just so happens to be a photograph of his biological parents waiting in a box somewhere for him. one that his adoptive parents had kept, even though they kept the identities of janette and marcus hidden from him until his father died. it wouldn’t sound suspicious to anyone else, but fin always had to be on guard. it was the only way he had ever stayed alive. he could be polite, but trust didn’t come easy to the hunter. it hadn’t for a long time, and for good reason. glancing down at the photo again, eyes linger at his dead mother and his missing father, only glancing over the baby in their arms before fin looks back up to the now grown sawyer.
‘ must’ve been wild, looking everything up and finding me and, uh - well, y’know. everything i do, ’ most people thought his videos were fake ; just really good special effects. it was probably better, that way. at sawyer’s last sentence, finley pauses, wondering how much he was willing to tell sawyer after having just met not moments ago. ‘ i’m assuming you didn’t find much about them. right? just vague files, stuff that didn’t really lead anywhere, ’ another pause is taken, fingers continuing to tap on his mug. ‘ what they did, um… well, they did what i do. kind’ve. it was a little different, but… ’ finley trails off, now leaning forward, never breaking eye contact with sawyer. ‘ i’m gonna be honest, i’m not sure i can trust you. i’m good at, like, reading people - my gut usually tells me when i’m in trouble, so… how do i know i can trust you? ’ it was a simple enough question to him, one he waits for an answer to before he continues.
sawyer was trying to make sense of it himself. he found himself replaying the details over and over again. not because it was a ruse he was trying to maintain, but he was trying to smooth out the questions in his mind. he would have through that his mother and father would have been more forthright with him about his parentage. lying was never taken lightly in the dunn household so the fact that they could do it so easily is what unnerved him. what had scared his parents so much they didn’t even dare to talk about it?
“it wasn’t what i expected if that’s what you mean. made it easy to try and talk to you though - with these conventions and everything.” he took a sip out of his mug, leaning back in his chair. “no, everything that came up about them just seemed to be in relation to you.” he said with a light shrug. sawyer could specialize in i.t. but that didn’t mean his researching skill were different than anybody else. he cocked his head to the side, trying to make sense of it. “that fair. i mean we don’t know each other, and i did show up out of the blue.it might take time to get to trust, and i would understand that.” he said after a moment. it seemed like finley was a pretty guarded guy.” i could tell you a little about myself i guess. but i’ve got two daughters at home and a wif - ex-wife back home. didn’t take it well after my dad passed and everything seemed to fall apart after that.”