ficlet : run like your life depends on it

melanoradrood:

prompt request: rebelcaptain kiss … #22 in a rush of adrenaline
requested by: @gloriouswhisperstyphoon and @cats-and-metersticks

Jyn can practically hear her heartbeat pounding in her ears, and Cassian is two steps behind her, a rifle in his hands. She has her own truncheons out, but they’re slowing her down – she should stop and put them away, so that they’re no longer catching on the branches and trees they’re running through, but if she stops, if the adrenaline stops pounding through her, she’ll get caught, and if she gets caught – 

She can’t think about it. Jyn can’t think about what happens if she’s caught, if Cassian’s caught, if they’re caught. They can beat this, they can win, they can run fast enough, run far enough, hide well enough – they just have to last. They don’t have to fight their way out, they don’t have to fight their way to the surface, they just have to wait long enough, wait it out, just survive until their time comes.

“Don’t stop!” Cassian yells, and she doesn’t need him to tell her that, doesn’t need him to remind her, which tells her something worse – he needs the reminder, he needs to remember to keep going he needs – he needs to stop lagging behind.

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