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It isn't until they're nearly there that it dawns on Jyn just how strange this is. Though hardly exclusively, most of the time they spend together winds up being in Cassian's apartment, late nights and interrupted sleep and leftover takeout when they wake up. For a while, at least, after they got here, she would go and stay for days on end, though that much isn't exactly an option anymore. She doubts Cassian would object to her hanging around his apartment while he's gone, but she wouldn't be able to stand it, probably. It would feel too much like starting to take something that she wants too much to let herself have. Now, she comes over at night when she knows he'll be there and leaves when he does the next day, if not before. If it's a strange adjustment, she tries to pretend it isn't, tells herself that it shouldn't be. The very fact of that means this is for the best, after all, that she'd gotten too used to the way things were.

She still sleeps better in his bed than she does in her own, though, and finds that it's when she's around him that she misses him the most, as if his presence is a reminder of how unlikely this is to last.

This, at least, is a deviation from what is, or was, normal that's a little easier to swallow, as long as she doesn't think too much about it and what it could be but isn't. Still, when she tips her head up to look at Cassian, the café that's their destination just down the block, it's with an expression of mild, almost amused, confusion. "Remind me again why we're doing this?" she says. "Aside from the whole making up for the pets we don't have thing."