Oh, I can just imagine Ricky asking Finley if anyone said anything about whether or not the MC is gonna be alright, and essentially:
Ricky: Did they… did they say anything?
Finley: About what?
Ricky: What do you think? Are they going to be alright?
Finley: Calm down, Dempsey. No they haven’t said anything, but they don’t need to. They’ll be fine.
Ricky: How can you tell?
Finley: Well, you were just in there with them. Do you think they’d let you visit a critical patient?
Ricky: You never know what could happen.
Finley: No, I don’t know. But I’ve seen enough to have a damn good guess.
Ricky: …
Finley: Look, they’ll… they’ve been through worse, okay?
Ricky: Worse?
Ricky: That’s not a very comforting thought. How could they have gone through worse than… than this.
Finley: Welcome to the real Nickelport, Mr. Dempsey. 'Bout time you got your head outta that glass high-rise cloud of yours.
Welcome back!
Yay! I’m happy you enjoyed it.
Oh right- so you’d rather have stale cookies and a bunch of cold tea instead of be a civilized shadow organization and wait for me. I mean, geez, it was already said:
See?
Lucy would be disappointed. (Mainly at the presence of cookies, but still.)
Finley, in a total bestie move, plays concerned gatekeeper (like a bit wary(?) I guess) until they see Ricky consistently checking up and making a bigger effort so things like MC getting hurt doesn’t happen again
(And consider: Ricky with the beard of sorrow and concern)
Ya gotta love 'im. (Okay, well, that’s a lie. You don’t have to. You could make him absolutely miserable and hate him if you wanted. That, too, is a possibility.)
(… Actually now that I think of it I’m slightly surprised that nobody has asked how you can ruin people’s lives or what will happen to them if you do in here. But you all seem like good people so I guess I’m also not that surprised as well.)
It’s because of Lucy, isn’t it?
Deal. Is lemon tea okay? Or blueberry? I also have apple tea and wildberry tea but those have to earned.
(headcanon: Nickleport has an ice cream place that sells these and Eileen is delighted when she finds out about it. Ricky also may stop by in secret occasionally)
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