Chapter 4 by Lukundra

What is Rose's decision?

Take Finn's advice

Begrudgingly, Rose landed in the shipyards with the other ships. Finn was right, they couldn't afford to be captured. Plus, he was kind of cute, so she didn't mind taking his advice. Finn glanced at her, and she blushed.

"Everything OK?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"Fine!" she said quickly. "Let's hurry and get to the casino." She quickly hurried off the ship, a confused Finn trailing after her as they joined the humans and aliens making their way to the large building. Thankfully, the walkway to the casino wasn't very long, so they didn't have very far to go. As they got close, Rose noticed a branching path and glanced down it. To her horror, she saw a stadium for racing animals!

"Look Finn!" she shouted, pointing. Finn jumped and quickly put a hand on her arm, lowering it.

"Not so loud!" He hissed under his breath, smiling nervously at the people giving them annoyed looks as they walked by. "We don't want to stand out too much."

"Oh, uh, sorry." Rose replied, slightly embarrassed, her face reddening slightly. Her face grew a little more red when she realized Finn was grasping her arm. They were almost holding hands! "It's just, those poor animals, being treated like that! It's not right!" Finn frowned and glanced at the animals being ridden.

"Yeah, that's too bad," he said. "But we have to complete our mission, so-"

"No way, I can't just leave them like that!" It just isn't right!" she repeated, raising her voice again. Finn clapped a hand over her mouth.

"Quiet!" he hissed again, glancing around. Satisfied that no one was paying any attention, he turned back to Rose, and took his hand off. She must be pretty serious, he thought, noticing her increasingly reddening face. "Look, if you feel so strongly about it, you can try helping them while BB-8 and I find the codebreaker, or wait until later. What's it gonna be?"