little nervous about posting this one, but instead of fiddling with it anymore i thought i would just throw it out in the world
excerpt:
“Right then,” she says, leaning back in her chair and looking him dead in the eyes. “I suppose I should start with the day Krennic killed my mother, yeah?”
Cassian chokes on his spit.
Jyn sighs, crossing her arms over her chest. There’s a faraway, glassy look in her eyes, the one that comes with remembering details of the past. Rubbing at her forehead, she mutters, “This is why I don’t say anything.”
Though he hasn’t verbally responded to what she’s just told him, his reaction is enough of a statement for her. He’s quick to correct that. “No! No, you just…surprised me, that’s all. I didn’t think that it was that…”
When he trails off helplessly, she fills in the blanks. “Fucking awful?”
He nods, unable to do anything else, left speechless by the horrors she must have seen at such a young age. It reminds him of his own childhood, of losing his parents at such a young age…but at least he hadn’t actually seen them get shot in front of his eyes. Despite not having seen their deaths, it still haunts his nightmares all these years later; he can only imagine how bad it must be for Jyn.
(He wants to hold her, to wrap her up in his embrace and never let her go.)
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