He was always captured when she looked at him like that. The idea that it was something he'd said that had done it…
He pushed it down, as usual. But felt hyperaware of their points of contact—her fingers, his arm—as they joined the party.
Before starting this assignment, Cassian had been given a lot of new training. A lot of it just to fit in on Coruscant to a degree he'd never had to before. One lesson had been given by Mon Mothma herself: how to do Core ballroom dancing. He'd been to a number of events already, danced with quite a few people. He didn't imagine he'd be expected to that anymore; he'd only have to dance with Jyn. It only occurred to him now that he should have asked how she even felt about dancing.
It also occurred to him that they might be expected to kiss at some point in the night. And maybe they would have preferred to have their first kiss be one they actually chose, for themselves and one another, not for an audience. But don't worry about that now, unless/until it comes up.
To start, they stuck together working their way through the room. Cassian brought them over to where he'd spotted Admiral and Mrs. Grendreef, presented Jyn to them (as if they didn't know her). Had Grendreef make the jaw-clenching suggestion that, later in the night, they'd have to share a dance, only with Grendreef dancing with Jyn and Cassian dancing with Aune. There didn't seem to be a way not to agree. Again, though, one thing at a time. And first there were more people to meet and greet.
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He pushed it down, as usual. But felt hyperaware of their points of contact—her fingers, his arm—as they joined the party.
Before starting this assignment, Cassian had been given a lot of new training. A lot of it just to fit in on Coruscant to a degree he'd never had to before. One lesson had been given by Mon Mothma herself: how to do Core ballroom dancing. He'd been to a number of events already, danced with quite a few people. He didn't imagine he'd be expected to that anymore; he'd only have to dance with Jyn. It only occurred to him now that he should have asked how she even felt about dancing.
It also occurred to him that they might be expected to kiss at some point in the night. And maybe they would have preferred to have their first kiss be one they actually chose, for themselves and one another, not for an audience. But don't worry about that now, unless/until it comes up.
To start, they stuck together working their way through the room. Cassian brought them over to where he'd spotted Admiral and Mrs. Grendreef, presented Jyn to them (as if they didn't know her). Had Grendreef make the jaw-clenching suggestion that, later in the night, they'd have to share a dance, only with Grendreef dancing with Jyn and Cassian dancing with Aune. There didn't seem to be a way not to agree. Again, though, one thing at a time. And first there were more people to meet and greet.