𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 ✧ 𝚒𝚝'𝚜 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚎𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠

[realists]

who: jyn erso, cassian andor, cullen rutherford, finn, rey, & jim kirk
what: jumanji: welcome to the forest
when: mid-june; prior to kidnappings
where: outside the wall, near the amusement park
warnings: pg-13 level monster fights & swearing

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The woods don't seem incredibly sinister anymore, what with the Amusement Park of the Old City being nearly fully open next to it now. As night falls however, the faint, tinny noise of rides and games becomes almost eerie in the planet-light of the Capital World. The mission is simple, Jyn wants to find out if the copse of interconnected trees really are sentient and if it would be safe to move them to a different spot so the encroaching Amusement Park won't cause them any damage. It's supposed to be easy. Sure.

Comments

[winscenario]

[ He smiles lopsidedly. It's nice hearing her chuckle, even if it's evidently laced with tiredness. ]

Yeah, exactly. But you could always ask her to make you some porg stew when we're back. I mean, if you're really hankering for it. [ He kids, really. ]

Yeah. I like to think we work well together in that aspect too. [ Neither Victor nor Jim have any experience taking care of a kid, but together they manage to each fill in where the other lacks. They complement each other. So far, it hasn't gone that badly. ]

Fiction, you mean. [ He nods. ] Sci-fi, then. I'll pick something out for us to watch. [ Probably something older because those are his favorite. ]

[talentedscavenger]

Uhh, no I think I'm good. Maybe for something else that doesn't involve porg. [She knows he's kidding and it doesn't hurt to play along. But, she wasn't going to try and cook porg in her crockpot any time soon.]

That, I don't have a doubt. I mean, you're good with people, why wouldn't you be good with kids? [Because kids are just tiny people? But, clearly, she doesn't know what happened when Jim and Lucy first met.] But, Victor is very nice. I didn't know who he was when we started chatting with one another.

[A nod of her head. Sci-fi would work--as long as it was comedy and not...depressing. Or, anything that really had a heavy feel to it.]

[winscenario]

Thought so. [ He chuckles. Can't really blame her, though. In any case, there are a lot of options to choose from here, food-wise, so she doesn't have to suffer through porg meat if she doesn't want to. ]

I'm not that good with kids. [ He arches his eyebrows, looking away with a tilt of his head. ] Should've seen when we first met. I'm pretty sure she was about ready to call the police on me.

[ Luckily Victor was there, and managed to calm things down. ]

We're close, now. But... we had a pretty rocky start.

[talentedscavenger]

That's good. Regardless of how things started...at least you mended things, and you're close.

[Which is the opposite of her situation, but she was slowly making strides towards fixing things. Little by little.

Though, right now she preferred to talk about Jim and his new life with Victor. Honestly, she was really happy for him.]

Since you're getting along well with her, do you think you'll want another kid? [What? If he likes one, maybe he'd have another? Or adopt one? Being a 'family' man kind of...suited him. At least, that's what she thought.]

[winscenario]

Yeah. We're alright now.

[ He smiles fondly. He does care a lot about Lucy, though he doesn't really know what to say that they are to each other right now. He's more than just her friend; but he's not sure if he'd say he's her parent. It's not the same as Victor, he doesn't think.

His thoughts are derailed when Rey asks that question, though. If he were drinking anything right now, he'd have probably choked on it. ]

Wow—! Where'd that come from? [ He raises an eyebrow at her. ] I'm not— she's not even my kid, to begin with. Technically speaking. And Victor and I haven't even talked about anything like that. We haven't been together that long.

[talentedscavenger]

What?

[Sorry, Rey is a bit confused about this. Jim was in a happy relationship. one that she could only assume would go on for quite a while. He also has one kid with Victor, wouldn't they want another? Wasn't that how relationships sort of worked? Another child for them to raise? Or, was she entirely over stepping bounds?

Yes, yes she was.]

So, you don't view her as your family? [Did she misread things there?] You could look into adopting her, if you want.

Besides, I mean, you're in a happy relationship. Victor has a daughter, I would've thought you'd want another one. [She shrugs. Hey, growing up on Jakku didn't give her the best example of what families were supposed to be like.]

[winscenario]

[ She was indeed overstepping bounds a little, but she also was his friend, and Jim didn't actually mind her getting that personal. If he seemed awkward or uncomfortable it was only because he wasn't entirely sure of what to give her as an answer. ]

No— that's not what I meant. I do care about her. It's just complicated, is all. She has Victor, and she sees him as a parent. It's different, with me.

[ He's more like 'Papa's boyfriend' than anything else at this point. Which, admittedly, is a step up from 'potential evil stepfather'. ]

That's not how things work. Not always, anyway. Victor and I didn't exactly go through the conventional steps in a relationship. We sort of... skipped ahead in a lot of things. But a kid is a lot of responsibility, and it takes time, and commitment, and... [ And hell, he doesn't even know if he'll choose to stay here, if one day he's given the chance to go home. ] It's just complicated, is all. I don't think we're ready for that.