// @miisterbarba is getting the thing
It had, for all intents and purposes, been a very rough night. His rent was overdue, the usual money having been blown on hard drugs, an attempt to NUMB himself to his own misery. Fin’s landlord had been threatening eviction for almost two weeks now, and he’d been trying to make fast cash the only way he knew how: selling his body to strangers. He’d never enjoyed doing it, but he was quite good (he probably undercharged, too- the prices Fin went for were rather cheap) and it brought in money when he needed it badly. Of course, though, tonight of all nights, the cops had found and arrested him. To make matters worse, Fin had had almost three hundred buck’s worth of ecstasy on him. If it hadn’t been for the drugs, he probably could have talked his way out of this situation.
They kept asking his name, and Fin kept refusing to say a word. The last time he’d been in a police station, it had been after he’d attempted to murder his stepfather when he was fifteen. Just being in this position again, wrists in cuffs, bright lights hurting his tired eyes, had Fin in shut-down mode. He wouldn’t talk, wouldn’t make eye contact. He just wanted to go home and sleep, really.
Maybe this would be easier if he carried identification in his wallet, but he didn’t. Maybe, you know, if he did he could be IDENTIFIED. He wasn’t even sure why he never had. If he wound up dead, it was unlikely that anyone but his dealer, his boss and maybe his landlord could identify his body- Finley barely saw anyone else. Instead of ID, the contents of his wallet were simple; two hundred in cash (payment from an earlier customer tonight), a coupon to a pizza delivery hotline, and a worn business card for one Rafael Barbra. Even though he was no longer in contact with the man in question- in fact, Fin wasn’t even sure if Rafael was still in business, much less at the number on the card- he always had it with him. Perhaps out of sentimentality. Either way, though, it was the only thing that Fin had on his body that the police found potentially useful, and he watched helplessly as an officer outside of the room he was in dialed the number.