"i like large parties. they’re so intimate. at small parties there isn’t any privacy."

[realists]

♪ take me to church -- hozier (cover)

It's been a handful of weeks and things aren't going badly. Jyn is a good house guest since she takes up all of zero space and has an almost sad lack of belongings. But eventually she makes herself at home in the guest bedroom, going to so far as to use the dresser like an actual human being. She keeps the sparse apartment clean, she somehow has tea perfectly timed for when he comes home, even if it's early or late, she doesn't eat all his food, she washes the dishes when he makes dinner. When he is at work, she explores the sights and when he is home, he continues her pop culture education.

Breaking Bad is boring (if completely reasonable in her eyes), the Wire is the most incredible piece of television she's ever seen, she loves and hates Patch Adams, she doesn't get the appeal of Johnny Depp, and she will only watch the Motorcycle Diaries in Spanish with Cassian translating the entire movie for her.

Any time Cassian offers to buy her something she says no and one random day he finds the exact cost of her meal plus 20% tip from the day he picked her up from jail tucked into his wallet with a post-it note that says thank you in Jyn's fluid scrawl. She seems to get along fine without a job because she does seem to have money for necessities.

He tells her about a gala and she absorbs the information (he'll be home very late, chamomile tea), but dismisses it as something she needs to worry about until a couple of days later when he asks if she'd like to borrow money for a dress. Borrow, he's learning. That's probably when he realizes that she completely missed the fact that he'd invited her in the first place. She still refuses to take his money, but assures him she will look like a proper society lady, don't worry.

The day of the party rolls around and when he comes home to dress and pick her up, he finds her barricaded in his bathroom and very unwilling to come out. She's not ready!!! Which is odd coming from the woman that can get dressed in the back of a car in two minutes flat. Eventually she convinces him (demands upon threat of not going) to leave without her so he isn't late and she will catch a cab.

Which is what finds her running up the steps of the party ten minutes late. She edges through the door somehow -- she had a ticket! Who did it come from! -- and spends a bit trying to find Cassian in the crowd. When she finally does, she twists and twirls through the party-goers like a beautifully dressed ballerina before she steps up behind him and clears her throat.

"Hi."