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A Light To You (In Dark Places) by @skitzofreak

Something was wrong with Bodhi and Cassian, and Jyn didn’t know what. Bodhi was the most obvious; he wouldn’t quite meet her eyes today. Instead, he sat in the cockpit of the light freighter they’d been given for the mission, singing under his breath in Jedhan and absently kneading at the faint scars on his temples the way he did when his thoughts felt scattered and uncertain. Jyn didn’t understand Jedhan that well, but she could pick out words like “dark” and “lost,” and when he caught her staring at him, he hunched one shoulder and muttered that it was a traditional song. Then he went back to humming, and Jyn touched her crystal and decided not to ask traditional for what?

Cassian was not as scattered as Bodhi; on the contrary, he seemed extraordinarily focused as he bent over his datapad and several sheets of crumpled flimsi in the common area of the freighter. He’d been there for the entire three days of the trip so far, only leaving it for the ‘fresher or to check on something in the cockpit.

Jyn, who had lived through her share of restless nights, had not commented the first night he hadn’t come to bed, choosing instead to pass out for a few hours on the hard benches in the common area. The second night, she’d reminded herself that sharing a narrow bunk with someone else wasn’t really that comfortable anyway, and they had only been together a few months as it was. He didn’t owe her an explanation; she didn’t need him to be there.

Read the whole story at @skitzofreak‘s AO3 account here

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I loved this story and it is one of the stories that I have re-read quite a few times. We forget that there is a war going on in this universe that we love to play in and the author reminds of this and the toll that the war can take on everyone. One of my absolute favorite rebelcaptain stories. 11/10!