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[rebelspy]

It's really not something I think about.

[shiningstardust]

You're not on a mission. Someone is clearly showing interest. I don't know - nobody would blame you if you wanted to

blow off a little steam.

[Not jealous. Why would she be?]

[rebelspy]

I'm not interested in blowing off a little steam with some stranger at a party.

[ Color Cassian more than just a little confused. ]

[shiningstardust]

Wouldn't that be the easiest way to do it?

[Jyn, too. Navigating these things are hard.]

[rebelspy]

If I wanted to do it that way, maybe.

[shiningstardust]

How do you want to do it?

[As if it's any of her business to ask.]

[rebelspy]

Well with someone I actually knew. Someone I trusted.

Someone I wanted to be with.

[shiningstardust]

Oh.

[She doesn't want to know. She doesn't want to know. She doesn't want - ]

Is there someone you want to be with like that?

[rebelspy]

Even if there was... I don't know why anyone would want to be with me.

[ All that baggage he carries. He'd hate to share that with someone. She's been one of the first he's really opened up to. ]

[shiningstardust]

[If there's anything that Jyn understands - it's baggage. And not feeling worthy of anyone's affections.]

I think you think that you don't deserve it. But you're wrong about that. We all need someone to care about, and someone to care for, and someone to do the same for us. We're not meant to be solitary creatures, even if some circumstances force it.

[rebelspy]

... is there someone you care about that much?

[shiningstardust]

[That's a hell of a question to turn around on her. And it takes a few tense minutes before she replies - ]

Yes.

[rebelspy]

[ He likes to be blunt. ]

Do they know?

[shiningstardust]

[Clearly. She snorts softly as she sends the next messages in a flurry.]

I don't think so.

You tell me.

[rebelspy]

[ He had hoped, of course, even if it was something he wouldn't even admit aloud to himself. ]

Jyn...

You don't know me. Some of the things I have done... they are unforgivable.

[shiningstardust]

[Someone has taught her that having hope isn't necessarily a bad thing.]

Do you think I'm completely innocent, Cassian?

We've both done terrible things. That doesn't negate that we're still human, with human emotions and human desires.

[rebelspy]

[ Touche. ]

I admit, I didn't think we would survive Scarif, but... you believed there was someone out there listening, and your faith... that was enough for me.

You felt like home.

Now... I'm not really sure how to do this.

[shiningstardust]

I didn't think so, either. But I never would have made it as far as I did without your hope guiding my way. And at the end - I was content enough that we were together.

I haven't felt like I've belonged anywhere in ... quite some time. But I felt like I belonged with you.

Cassian, I don't know how to do it, either, but I know that I want to try, if you do, too.