Jyn let out a short, soft laugh of her own at his phrasing. "I don't think I've ever been accused of being positive in my whole life," she said, teasing but truthful. It wasn't such a surprise that he brought that out in her, though. He had a way of unearthing aspects of her that she didn't even know she was capable of having — letting her see glimpses, perhaps, of the person she might have been if life had dealt her a different hand of cards, without ever feeling like she should be anyone other than she was.
"But yeah. I know what you mean. ...Then again, I don't think anything would have gotten me to trust anyone before you came along. And then I did within, what, a day?"
"I did let you keep a blaster you stole from my own pack," he answered, teasing back.
…She'd been wrong to do so, in light of his secret orders… but no, she hadn't, because as soon as he got to know her in any meaningful way, those orders were null. Eadu really couldn't have played out differently. Anyway, they'd settled this between them, and he actually felt all right not raking it up again.
—And again, very interesting how she'd started going back to the beginning like this… like this was a fresh start, for her as well as for him. He wasn't going to throw it back at her, but it did make his heart speed a bit.
"Finders, keepers," Jyn said with a shrug, her smile just barely restrained. It was strange, but not unpleasantly so, being able to talk about that part of the past — those last few days of her life before she wound up here, so many years ago now — in a remotely lighthearted way. In his absence, she'd tried to put so much away, not to let herself think about him in any real detail. She couldn't and wouldn't ever pretend him away, because as Scarif's lone survivor, she owed it to all of them but especially him to remember, but much like her memories of her childhood, she'd locked them away in her mind. Some would seep out from time to time, mostly in dreams, but she hadn't let them be consciously present.
With him here now, she could think of it all with something other than grief. There still was and always would be plenty of that, but there was room for this, too, the kind of easy banter they'd likewise quickly fallen into, albeit had little time for.
"Besides," she added, a touch of self-satisfaction in the words, "what do you expect when you leave a known thief alone with your stuff? You're lucky the blaster's all I took."
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Date: 2025-06-18 02:44 am (UTC)"But yeah. I know what you mean. ...Then again, I don't think anything would have gotten me to trust anyone before you came along. And then I did within, what, a day?"
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Date: 2025-06-18 02:55 am (UTC)…She'd been wrong to do so, in light of his secret orders… but no, she hadn't, because as soon as he got to know her in any meaningful way, those orders were null. Eadu really couldn't have played out differently. Anyway, they'd settled this between them, and he actually felt all right not raking it up again.
—And again, very interesting how she'd started going back to the beginning like this… like this was a fresh start, for her as well as for him. He wasn't going to throw it back at her, but it did make his heart speed a bit.
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Date: 2025-06-18 03:09 am (UTC)With him here now, she could think of it all with something other than grief. There still was and always would be plenty of that, but there was room for this, too, the kind of easy banter they'd likewise quickly fallen into, albeit had little time for.
"Besides," she added, a touch of self-satisfaction in the words, "what do you expect when you leave a known thief alone with your stuff? You're lucky the blaster's all I took."
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Date: 2025-06-18 08:21 pm (UTC)