for those prompts, Rebelcaptain and 102?

jynirso:

102. “Do you really think I could ever replace you?”

thank u for the prompt !! 

read it on ao3! 

One mission is all it takes. 

One mission where Cassian chooses someone other than Jyn, and she’s already falling to pieces. 

She can’t help but wonder if there’s something wrong with her. Anxieties rise up in her throat, threatening to choke her, cutting off her air. He’s picked her for undercover missions way more complicated than this one – what’s different now? 

As she slouches in the back of the briefing room, legs kicked onto the chair in front of her, she racks her mind for what she could have done wrong on their last mission. It had all gone smoothly – they’d gotten the intel needed with relative ease. Sure, there had been a bit of a scuffle on the way back to the ship, but they’d both escaped with minor injuries. 

And then she remembers how Cassian’s eyes had lingered on the darkening bruise blossoming on her cheek, how he’d probed the bone there and checked for a fracture, how his gaze had darkened when she insisted that she was fine before he hid that away and excused himself to the cockpit, mumbling Festian underneath his breath. 

Her stomach churns. Is that it, then? It must be. Maybe he doesn’t think her fighting skills are up to par if she’s letting ‘troopers get in easy hits. It doesn’t matter that she’s proved herself time and time again – to him, she must not be good enough. 

The thought makes her hands clench in anger. She has to ask herself why she cares. She shouldn’t, she knows. She hadn’t even known Cassian until a few months ago, and yet she finds herself eager for any hint of his approval, like a stray dog begging for scraps. Stars, Saw would be disgusted with her right now; probably is rolling around in his grave right now. 

“Weak. You can’t depend on other people like that, my child. It will get you killed. The only person you can trust is yourself. Never forget that.”

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