No, he didn’t consider it stealing if you intended to give the vehicle back. In this case, he actually had simply been trying to steal the TIE/LN and get off world, but he had purposely not wanted to cast himself in too much of a negative light. He still wanted to impress her. Still wanted her to like him. It was, also, why he didn’t mention that he had enlisted either. He can’t imagine the Princess from a world that eschewed violence would be all that impressed that he was a Imperial Academy washout and Ex-Stormtrooper.

“Mmm, so you like it, huh?”

The cut on his chin hadn’t worried him so much. Or the bruises that he’d sustained. It was the scratched cornea that had come from the crash that had been really concerning. He had to cover his eye with a bandage for almost a week.