some unrequited pining for y’all!
After Cassian drops Jyn back off at her apartment, he doesn’t see her for a few days nor does she contact him. To make sure that she’s all right, he reaches out a couple times through text, but only gets one word replies; at least she’s answering, even if he spends an absurd amount of time staring at the bright screen waiting for something more than “yes” or “no.”
He’s not foolish enough to think that she returns his feelings for him, but he wants to help all the same. There’s no resentment against her, no anger. Unfortunately, he’s all too familiar with unrequited love.
Just being in her life is enough. However she’ll have him, whatever she needs that he can give – it’s enough for him.
(How do people meet Jyn Erso without being tugged into her orbit? How do they meet her and forget her weeks later?)
When the day of the meeting arrives, Jyn shows up to his house about an hour earlier than the time they’d agreed on. She insists on getting to the meeting point – Bodhi’s apartment – before her father does, and insists on taking his car instead of public transportation so “they’ll have a quick route out if all goes poorly.”
Who is he to deny her anything?
When she insists on shoving a few crumpled dollar bills as payment for his help – alongside his freshly laundered clothes that she’d previously borrowed – he pushes them right back at her. They’re partners, he reminds her. He’s helping her because he wants to, not for monetary gain.
“But you keep driving me around!” she retorted stubbornly, in that typical Jyn fashion he’s come to both anticipate and adore. “I can’t afford a car, but I can at least give you something.”
“You can pay me back some other way,” he tried again. “I don’t want your money, Jyn.”
That she considered, glancing up and down his form before nodding slowly. “Some other way,” she repeated. “All right. I’m holding you to that.”
He could only wonder what she had planned for that.
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