"Learned from the best," John answers with a small twitch of a smile before he goes to order Finch's tea and another coffee for himself. He hasn't finished the other, but he doesn't feel right drinking coffee from somewhere else in a place that sells their own.
By the time he makes it back to the table, he hasn't actually decided how he's going to approach the topic, but he sits down and places the newspaper on the table and then folds his hands over it. Really the only way to go about it is to be honest, to tell Finch exactly what he's about to see and then let him read it. It's only that John doesn't want him to think he's trying to hurt him, that he wants that sort of reaction when all he really wants is to make Finch understand how different -- and how much better -- his life is for having met him.
"It's not a current paper, it's a few weeks old," he explains. "The city over there seems to be a mirror of this one in a lot of ways, including the people. There's an article about me in here, Harold, and it's not a happy one."
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By the time he makes it back to the table, he hasn't actually decided how he's going to approach the topic, but he sits down and places the newspaper on the table and then folds his hands over it. Really the only way to go about it is to be honest, to tell Finch exactly what he's about to see and then let him read it. It's only that John doesn't want him to think he's trying to hurt him, that he wants that sort of reaction when all he really wants is to make Finch understand how different -- and how much better -- his life is for having met him.
"It's not a current paper, it's a few weeks old," he explains. "The city over there seems to be a mirror of this one in a lot of ways, including the people. There's an article about me in here, Harold, and it's not a happy one."