sleepykalena:

@crazy-fruit is lowkey throwing some salt my way because my updates for The Right Key have been so slow, and I joked that it’s because she just wants to read Jyn and Cassian smut on a piano, to which she responded “That too”.

I’m too lazy to cut this WIP up into 2,000 character chunks that Discord allows, so here, have some post-story, pre-smut writing in The Right Key AU.

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“Really? You want to do another
duet?”

Cassian shrugged. “Would you
rather we not?”

“No- it just seems weird that you
want to do one.”

He leaned slightly, shoving Jyn
as they sat together on the piano bench.

She pushed back with a scoff. “Alright,
but just know that I expect you to up your game this time. If you’re going to
insist on playing with an expert like me, you better show some progress.”

“And if I don’t?”

Jyn scrunched her face teasingly.
“No more duets, you’ll just frustrate me.”

Cassian hummed. “Alright, fine.”
His hands were poised over the lower octaves of the piano, readying his fingers
in the C key.

But Jyn didn’t move her hands.
Instead, she eyed his hands thoughtfully. “Hmm…no.”

“Jyn, I know what C looks like, you
can’t use this against me,” he laughed.

She pinched his arm. “Shut up. We
should switch places.”

“Switch?”

“Yeah, I think you need a
challenge by playing in the higher notes.”

“Notes are notes, Jyn- I don’t
think there’s much of a challenge in changing octaves.”

She arched an eyebrow. “Then you
won’t mind switching places.”

Cassian pursed his lips thoughtfully.
She had a point, after all.

“Alright,” he said with amusement,
and stood up. “Give me some room, then.”

Jyn eagerly scooted to the left
of the bench. “Ready?”

He remained focused on the pages
in front of him, but nodded nonetheless. He was definitely ready.

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