[He waits once he's finished. Jon has barely really even touched the drink in his hand beyond just tilting the glass back and forth and around in a circle by its bottom. He's never laid it all out before, even with some of the finer details of his own suffering omitted. It's odd. Having it all out of his head, to someone who's had no idea what could happen.
It's a dismissal that greets him, though. A gentle one, words meant to ease him down from the panic that had started to spike at being so open and vulnerable and seen; Jon starts to slowly close up again. He runs one hand down his face, settling to just letting it cover his mouth and chin as he turns his gaze down at the table space between them.
Of course it sounds mad. If it had been Jon on the other side of this, he'd have likely been less kind about the dismissal. Internally filing the information away to examine later, of course, but. He remembers a lot of his comments at the start of the job. He'd truly hurt some of those statement givers - he can never truly forget what he'd said to Naomi Herne, nor that very first head butt with Melanie - and sometimes he wonders what would have happened if he could go back and change that.
Now isn't really the time. He needs to focus on what's in front of him. After all of that emotional outpouring, he takes a steadying breath. Forces his voice quiet and calm, even so as to not betray his heart here.]
You'll understand if I can't accept that. I'd like to do my own research into this.
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It's a dismissal that greets him, though. A gentle one, words meant to ease him down from the panic that had started to spike at being so open and vulnerable and seen; Jon starts to slowly close up again. He runs one hand down his face, settling to just letting it cover his mouth and chin as he turns his gaze down at the table space between them.
Of course it sounds mad. If it had been Jon on the other side of this, he'd have likely been less kind about the dismissal. Internally filing the information away to examine later, of course, but. He remembers a lot of his comments at the start of the job. He'd truly hurt some of those statement givers - he can never truly forget what he'd said to Naomi Herne, nor that very first head butt with Melanie - and sometimes he wonders what would have happened if he could go back and change that.
Now isn't really the time. He needs to focus on what's in front of him. After all of that emotional outpouring, he takes a steadying breath. Forces his voice quiet and calm, even so as to not betray his heart here.]
You'll understand if I can't accept that. I'd like to do my own research into this.