"Patience, woman! Patience." But Stephen's eyebrows rise when she compares him to the likes of a certain Leroy Jethro Gibbs, the ex-marine and figure head of a show called NCIS and the proud owner of a flip phone. And all of those things just don't match up and he's left taken aback, trying to figure out if it was done on purpose or not. Hm. "You know I was army, right?" he asks was he takes out his iPhone 4 from his coat pocket, its storage full of games and apps he actually uses. "I was a 101st Airborne grunt. Infantry. And a sergeant. So stop it with the Gibbs quips. I don't build boats in my basement."
But then he hands it over to her, ready to expect the worst. After all, she's still only a student. "Don't break it now," he tells her with a smile. Of course she'll break it. "Alter my candy crush score while you're at it."