OKAY IT IS TIME I am finally getting towards the end of these~ whew!
Luckily I have had an idea for this forever, after watching this video on youtube (linked at the end b/c spoilers!)
It was meant to be pure fluff and a comedy but uhhh my hand slipped and it turned a little angsty, but there is still a punchline, promise 😛
Here goes!
“So what’d I miss?” Jyn rejoined Cassian on the sofa, feet up on his lap and wet hair dripping down her sweatshirt.
“Jonathan just gave the guy a lesson on conditioner, and Antoni found months-old stroganoff in the back of the fridge.” He let a hand fall on her ankle, running his fingers over her newly shaved legs. “It rivaled the time we forgot about the remains of your Christmas casserole until Valentine’s Day.”
“That’s a high bar.”
Cassian reached forward. “Also you got a bunch of texts. I think it’s your dad.” He tossed her her phone from the coffee table.
“Oh yeah.” Jyn scrolled through her unread messages. “It’s that time of year again.”
He raised his eyebrows. “Summer house time?”
“Yep. He’s probably been stalking the weather in Cape Cod all month.”
“Do you know about when you’ll be joining them?”
She shrugged. “Two-ish weeks from now, I think. For like a four-day weekend. I’m actually done grading all my finals, and Chirrut’s taking Bodhi to the Northeast Cell and DevBio conference, so I’m pretty open.”
“Sounds good.” He licked his lips and looked back at the episode of Queer Eye. Draven was going to a conference around that time as well, and Melshi was going with him to present, having published the latest paper.
It would probably be a pretty boring time, slacking off in the lab as much as he could get away with and maybe catching up on some reading. He’d have to ask Kay if he was free to hang out that weekend. He started thinking of places they could go with good air conditioning besides the movies (maybe laser tag… again), when Jyn spoke up.
“I was thinking…” She fiddled with her phone, tossing it up and down in perfect 360 flips. “…Maybe you could come with me this year.”
Cassian tried not to outwardly react. He had somewhat complicated feelings on the subject of Jyn’s parents’ summer home. On one hand, it sounded incredible– a house right on the water with a private, secluded beach and a view of the ocean from every bedroom.
On the other… “I don’t know if I’m really ‘Cape Cod’ material.”
She gave him a weird look. “What does that mean?”
“Oh… you know.” Cassian felt uncomfortable. He almost never thought about what kind of family Jyn came from. As long as he’d known her, she clipped coupons and shopped at Ocean State Job Lots, turned down the heat at night in the winter to save on energy, and hang-dried the laundry on wooden racks in their spare room.
“No, come on. What are you talking about?” She propped herself up on her elbows and he felt her legs tense under his hand.
He shrugged. “I just don’t know much about that kind of… culture.” Plus, he’d stick out like a sore thumb in whatever rich, white suburb the house was located in.
Jyn scoffed and slumped backwards again. “So you’ll learn that it’s stupid. Just remember, WASPs are always more afraid of you than you are of them.”
He laughed. “I suppose.”
She sat up all the way and leaned in close, pressed a kiss to his neck and rested her chin on her shoulder. “Does that mean you’ll come?”
He sighed, then turned his head and kissed her, long and slow enough to taste the toothpaste in her mouth.
She leaned into it and shifted forward onto his lap, sliding her arms around his ribs so their chests were pressed together. “Is that a yes?”
He wrapped his arms around her waist and sighed. “Yes.”
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