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Jyn Erso ([personal profile] nextchance) wrote 2018-09-30 03:44 am (UTC)

Jyn stays still, again, when he pulls her in close, taking a deep breath to try to pull herself together. It isn't a rejection, or at least she hopes he knows it isn't meant as such. She'd be pushing him away and walking off somewhere if it were. Before, when they first started sleeping together and she started spending days on end in his apartment, she would put physical distance between them when she started to feel like she was getting too close or like she made herself too vulnerable. She has no desire to do that now, but it still isn't easy for her to talk about things like this. That would be the case under normal, equally serious circumstances, but it's even more so with the weight of something they've been carrying around and leaving undiscussed for a year and a half. She's left feeling strangely raw now, sad in a way she wouldn't have the first idea how to articulate. Even if she tried, it would probably just bring them back in circles and not help anything.

She just has to pull herself together. Easier said than done when Cassian has long since become the person around whom she lets her guard down the most, but she still ought to try.

"Yeah, alright," she agrees with a nod. With her stomach in knots, she doesn't feel half as hungry as she did when she first got here, but she's too much in the habit of not letting herself turn down food. Especially after Cassian cooked for her, she doesn't want to let that go to waste or to seem unappreciative just because of an unexpected turn of conversation. Instinctively, she thinks that it shouldn't even matter now, except she thinks the fact that it's always mattered might be at least part of what's stopped her from bringing it up. "Sorry. That would be great. It really is good, I just got... sidetracked."

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