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Always – ohstardustgirl – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) [Archive of Our Own]

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“Need to… you need to get out of here,” Jyn groaned as Cassian pressed the patch hard on her belly, and all colour left her face. “Leave me here.”

“Jyn, we need to get you back to the ship.” The jungle had gone quiet save for his pulse thundering and Jyn’s laboured breathing. The Stormtroopers would be regrouping and preparing to attack. He risked peeking out from behind their cover and couldn’t see any glimpses of white. They had already taken down half a dozen Stormtroopers before Jyn was hit, and given how remote the outpost was Cassian had hopes that it would be a long time before any reinforcements arrived by ship. Time was still running out.

“I’ll slow you down too much,” Jyn ground out as if reading his mind, her brow knitted. She tried to sit up straight and clutched at him as sweat dripped down the side of her face. “We got the the intel we came here for, don’t let it go to waste for me.”

“Hey,” he held her face, forced her glassy eyes to focus on him, and pushed back the strands of hair that had become plastered to her forehead. With all the gentleness and determination she inspired in him, he told her plainly, “I am never leaving you behind. Not today, not ever. Understand?” He didn’t give her a chance to respond, just held her gaze as he pressed her blaster into her shaking hands. “You’re going to make it. But if you can’t run, we fight until the coast is clear. Then we’re getting out of here together, or not at all.”

He thought for a moment she was going to argue and tell him just to run for it, and so it was a shock when she grabbed the front of his jacket, pulled him down to her and kissed him hard. It was the first time his lips had touched hers. She tasted of sweat and blaster discharge and the reality of it was just as perfect as his fantasies, and over too quickly. “For luck,” she whispered.