ficlet : never let you go

melanoradrood:

prompt request: rebelcaptain platonic touches… #15 Absently tracing patterns on the nearest exposed skin, #20 Carrying while half asleep, #29 Crawling into bed with, #43 Sharing a blanket.
requested by: @oh-nostalgiaa and @stars-of-kyber

It’s movie night on the Falcon, which means that the first thirty minutes are spent with Han kicking the projector before R2 rolls in with the save, so Jyn and Cassian are late. They’ve been hard at work lately, every waking minute not spent at work spent working on a KX droid that they were having to rebuild from hand. There were multiple pieces, but with each day, they were one step closer to uploading the copy of K2 that Cassian wore on cord around his neck.

They take off for movie night, though, because it’s important that they remember their friends, that Cassian not shut himself away, that Jyn learns to trust…

And because Bodhi practically begs them to come, so that there’s not enough seats, so that he and Luke have to share a small chair. Cassian and Jyn always end up sharing one as well, the one that either Bodhi or Luke would end up sitting on, because Shara and Kes always share as well, no one shares with Leia, and Chewie is big enough to get his own seat.

It’s kind of nice, hanging out with everyone else… Not that Jyn or Cassian would ever admit that, but they enjoy it, showing up and making Bodhi shift over to sit with Luke, getting to spend time touching.

It’s the only time they ever touch, and it’s entirely platonic, there’s no real meaning to it, they’re just touching because it’s a confined space…

When the night ends, they both pull away, never to touch again, not until the next movie night, when they’re crushed together, Cassian sitting down in the seat, Jyn sitting half in his lap.

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