oh, and this

I still haven't quite caught up with my ad astra cross-posts, so ... the next:

title: per ardua ad astra (19/?)
verse: Death Star
characters: Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor, others; Jyn/Cassian
stuff that happens: Jyn and Cassian deal with the fallout of Zekheret's murder.
previous chapters: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen

With a sense of distant relief, she went to the fresher, changed, then sat blankly on her bed and waited for Cassian. She didn’t want to be alone. After last night, though, maybe—not that she’d pushed him away, she just slept in her own bed, a perfectly normal thing to do. And the shower would hardly swallow him up. It was only that she found it easier to rest when she could see him or hear him or touch him, or all at once. Dependency be damned: she had lost enough.

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*chants* almost there, almost there

title: per ardua ad astra (20/?)
verse: Death Star
characters: Jyn Erso, Cassian Andor; Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo; Jyn/Cassian, Han/Leia, Luke & Leia
stuff that happens:
previous chapters: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen

In that moment, Cassian loved her.

Not that moment alone, of course. Loving her wasn’t a revelation. It wasn’t even the first time he’d thought it; he didn’t know when that had been. But his mind spun a tight orbit about it, unable to track any other data. I love you. Jyn. Jyn, I love you, I—

As inexorably as the water had risen, his whole body leaned towards her, like some withered thing towards the sun.

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