i can’t forget you ( just the lies ) Ch 5

melanoradrood:

Two years of his life, just gone… and now Cassian doesn’t even realize that he broke up with her, that he ripped her heart out. Two years gone, and every day, he can’t even remember her telling him that they broke up, and that he never proposed.

Rebelcaptain Modern Amnesia!Cassian Fic
Word Count: 4654
Rating: Mature
Warnings: ALL TAGS APPLY. PLEASE READ THE TAGS.

The rest of their appointment is… nothing like he expected, primarily because they no longer talk about them, about what happened in the past, but instead, talk about the next few weeks.

In truth, Cassian had expected that this might be a one time thing, that this was it for him, that this was his one chance, and that he would probably blow it. Instead, the therapist asks them if this appointment time every week works for both of them. Jyn agrees, telling him that it’s just after one of her two weekly appointments, and Cassian –

He’d be a fool to disagree with a single thing that Jyn said.

And then it’s… harder.

“I think, at present, that the two of you should not communicate outside of this room. Clearly, there is a lot of baggage here to unload on both sides, and both of you, by your own admissions, tend to be reckless, without thinking through the consequences. Unless it is to reschedule an appointment, for now, you should only talk in this room.

Cassian hates that thought, not being able to text her, but he agrees to it.

Jyn agrees as well, and he doesn’t look at her, but he wants to.

“So every week, then,” Cassian says, looking over at Jyn.

“We’ll go for a month, I think. Your homework for this week is to think about what happened here, to think about you want for the future-”

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