𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚎𝚍 ✧ 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚑𝚎𝚕𝚍 𝚖𝚢 𝚑𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒 𝚏𝚎𝚕𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛

[realists]

who: jyn & cassian
what: date night
when: during dragosta festivities
where: the intrepid, followed by movie night in the park
warnings: nothing more than smooching in the dark

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( ♪ how sweet it is -- james taylor )
Movie night! It's movie night in the park and it was her idea actually, but she'd enticed Cassian with a picnic that... he had to make. As far as enticing offers went it could use some work but. Whatever, it was a joint effort and movie night is definitely happening, complete with picnic blanket and picnic basket and a secondary blanket for when someone inevitably gets chilly. That's ideal anyway, blanket on both sides, nice and warm and comfortable. An indulgence.

It's weird, going on a date. A picnic date. A year in and simple, commonplace activities that she should have loads of experience in are still something of a novelty. She's only ever been on two dates in her life and one of them was with James Tiberius Kirk and a farce. She and Cassian don't date, per se, because Jyn keeps unintentionally making their dates not dates without realizing but this is definitely a date.

Movie date night has date in the name, she can't escape it.

She can, however, completely forget about it even after she neatly folded the two blankets this morning and set them on the table next to the door. She'd gotten distracted with work and mission reports that she lets pile up hoping Cassian will do them for her -- he won't -- and then she'd gotten happily distracted fiddling with the computer on the Intrepid, seeing how fast she could dupe clearance codes on this ship. The technology is different, but forgery is intuitive and after a couple hours, Jyn really starts getting the hang of how this particular system works, which is the exact moment that date night (and time itself, honestly) escapes her entirely.

Which is why Cassian finds his partner sitting on the floor in the cockpit of the intrepid, industriously typing away at a key pad as tiny holograms flicker across the screen, codes and names and more codes until a mechanical voice bleats clearance granted and Jyn whoops out a soft, "Yes."

Comments

[evasives]

It feels good to be able to do it! Just a small side note, a neat happy fact. His fall before was such a low point especially for his time in the Quarantine, but this tiny little lift already feels like an accomplishment after it.

He smiles at her and takes in the way she relaxes into the seat, feigning innocence despite the implications of their conversation. "Next time could just be after the movie. I was planning to go home with you later."

[realists]

"Perfect, that sounds perfect."

She smiles up at him, hand lifting to touch the stubble against his cheek. They've been here for so long, she's seen his beard in every possible state, and it's always so familiar somehow. Cassian's stubble, Jyn's eyeliner, some things never change.

It's a strange thought, apropos of nothing, and her expression softens. "Why are you suddenly so friendly, Captain?"

[evasives]

He seemingly melts a little under her touch, like the tiny bit of soft contact satiates something. A few months ago he might have felt awkward about the tiny display of affection, but now he just welcomes it. He lets himself feel warmed by it. He tilts his head just enough to press a kiss to her palm, but he likes the feel of her hand to his face so he slides it right back.

"Should I not be?" He gets it though. It did come out of nowhere, even for him. "I do not know why. I had an urge and I followed it instead of questioning it."

Something she has been allowing him to do more and more.

[realists]

"I'm not complaining," she assures him, sitting up so she can lean forward only enough to bestow her own kiss against his mouth, soft but determined. If he wanted to divert their movie date to a picnic on the floor of the ship, she wouldn't mind at all. If he wanted to divert their movie date to a nap she wouldn't care, she simply likes being with him, regardless of the activity.

"Please, do continue to follow that urge, don't let me interrupt."

[evasives]

"I should interrupt." But he immediately kisses her back, closing his eyes briefly. He's supposed to be the one doing the distracting, but it isn't hard for her to turn it around sometimes, especially when apparently all he wants in return is that quiet kind of attention.

"I really want to go on a date with you." He wants to do that as much as he wants to keep kissing her. This is the worst! He could just kiss her on the date, though he supposes getting this handsy in public is not necessarily his thing. Even though he quite clearly says he wants to get a move on, he still ducks in to steal another kiss, speaking against her mouth. "Maybe it is silly, but I still want it."

[realists]

"We can go on a date here." Here on the ship, watching a film on one of their phones, laying on the blanket and eating their picnic. She doesn't know what the make up of a date is. Do they have to be in public? She assumes they have to be out of the house, but this is actually out of the house so maybe it works.

But maybe they can also just go to the movie once they stop acting like lusting teenagers. Not that Jyn seems keen on the idea of not kissing him, pressing another to her lips before she veers off course and starts a trail across his jaw.