Jyn knew she shouldn't follow - that she had no real right to, but as she kept a reasonable distance behind Joreth and tried to use other pedestrians as a way to obscure herself, she convinced herself that what she was doing was the right thing.
The crowd thinned considerably once they passed the red light district, and Jyn kept to the shadows as she carefully continued forward into more unincorporated areas and further from the city proper. She ducked down behind a pair of rusted crates and watched as the boarding ramp descended ... and a huge KX droid greeted her husband familiarly.
...
Hadn't he told her that he'd had one when he was a child, that a KX droid was his friend?
Jyn slowly crept forward toward the opened ship, curious to find out what was being said inside.
She couldn't keep track of her emotions as she listened in on a conversation that was probably meant to be kept private.
'Jyn's not my family' nearly brought her to tears. She balled her fists at her side and tried to focus on the biting pain of her fingernails pressing into her palms.
The conversation about lying, though, left her head spinning and her stomach churning. What did they mean about taking advantage and Joreth had been lying his entire life, that it was his job? Was everything she thought they had been building together truly nothing more than empty words and faked emotions?
But he wanted it to be different ...
How could it be when the droid called him Cassian, and Jyn had the horrible feeling that not only had she never known Joreth at all, but that she - that the Admiral and his family and Krennic, too, had been deceived, and that could be dangerous for them all.
Kriff, Jyn wanted it to be real, too.
Hot tears - angry and hurt and frightened - cascaded down her cheeks as the conversation continued and the realization hit - he was Rebellion. A part of her yearned for the escape that he outlined ... but another part of her, a large part, was conflicted. For all intents and purposes, no matter her leanings, she had married the enemy. And he had done so with ulterior motives. What was his mission? And what part did she have to play in it?
Jyn's footing slipped as Joreth - no, no, Cassian began to admit that he might love her and all too suddenly, all noise ceased.
But when Cassian and Kay investigated the source of the noise, all they would find was a flock of scavenger birds settling back down after having been disturbed by an unknown source.
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Date: 2019-08-20 05:35 am (UTC)The crowd thinned considerably once they passed the red light district, and Jyn kept to the shadows as she carefully continued forward into more unincorporated areas and further from the city proper. She ducked down behind a pair of rusted crates and watched as the boarding ramp descended ... and a huge KX droid greeted her husband familiarly.
...
Hadn't he told her that he'd had one when he was a child, that a KX droid was his friend?
Jyn slowly crept forward toward the opened ship, curious to find out what was being said inside.
She couldn't keep track of her emotions as she listened in on a conversation that was probably meant to be kept private.
'Jyn's not my family' nearly brought her to tears. She balled her fists at her side and tried to focus on the biting pain of her fingernails pressing into her palms.
The conversation about lying, though, left her head spinning and her stomach churning. What did they mean about taking advantage and Joreth had been lying his entire life, that it was his job? Was everything she thought they had been building together truly nothing more than empty words and faked emotions?
But he wanted it to be different ...
How could it be when the droid called him Cassian, and Jyn had the horrible feeling that not only had she never known Joreth at all, but that she - that the Admiral and his family and Krennic, too, had been deceived, and that could be dangerous for them all.
Kriff, Jyn wanted it to be real, too.
Hot tears - angry and hurt and frightened - cascaded down her cheeks as the conversation continued and the realization hit - he was Rebellion. A part of her yearned for the escape that he outlined ... but another part of her, a large part, was conflicted. For all intents and purposes, no matter her leanings, she had married the enemy. And he had done so with ulterior motives. What was his mission? And what part did she have to play in it?
Jyn's footing slipped as Joreth - no, no, Cassian began to admit that he might love her and all too suddenly, all noise ceased.
But when Cassian and Kay investigated the source of the noise, all they would find was a flock of scavenger birds settling back down after having been disturbed by an unknown source.
Jyn was long gone.