"I'll dry it off once I change." Currently, she is too busy clambering slowly over him in order to do just that. She's not doing it slowly on purpose, she's just still tired and can't be as speedy as she wants to be.
If he couldn't tell she was still exhausted, he might have felt weird about it, but instead he just touches a hand each to her back and arm to help her climb over him. It's kind of a comfort, knowing that part of easy help hasn't changed. "We could just use one of the dry beds."
She's tired, okay. Anything to have her exert less effort.
"No, this is my bed. You can use one of the dry beds, but my bed will be a dry bed soon." Once she's off the bed, she crouches by her trunk and rifles around for her clothes, dragging out a pair of pajama shorts and a thin blue tee shirt clearly stolen from Bodhi since it says Mercury Air.
"You should probably close your eyes."
Probably. But it's not a request or a demand, simply an option. It's not like Jyn does anything she should do.
He huffs quietly and quickly, but doesn't move - not out of the bed or over into her spot. "It's still wet so I'm not keeping it warm."
He wrinkles his nose a bit when she pulls out pajamas, because it's still the middle of the afternoon, but she's bound to sleep for a few hours anyway, maybe even through dinner to regain that energy. She caused a storm. And an earthquake. Because of him.
Cassian smiles a little, but he looks away from her and closes his eyes. Even if she hadn't asked, he would have.
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She undresses quickly, drawing the moisture out of her hair and the sheets quickly enough to make her mouth dry as she yanks her shorts on. The tee shirt is pulled over her head once her hair is dry -- no point in also getting it wet.
"It's dry now," she says once she's dressed in case he takes that as confirmation that she's done. She busies herself with kicking her damp clothes into the corner to avoid looking at him as she adds: "You kissed me."
The bed dries next to him, which he does take as a sign she's changed, but instead of immediately glancing her way, he just starts to move around the sharks to make sure there's room for her to come back.
But then Cassian freezes for a moment, before he looks at her sideways, like he's afraid looking at her head on will be Too Much. "You kissed me first." A beat. "You said it was okay."
"It is oka-- oh! There was a reason we were coming this way in the first place."
Completely ignoring the topic at hand, Jyn veers toward the fountain at the edge of the room. Once her fingers curl around the edge of the fountain, fingers dipped into the water, a frisson of energy ripples through her. It also fixes her split ends. Handy.
"I'll come back to kissing you, but." She turns around and she's holding a tiny, slightly swaying anemone, speckled green like her eyes. "I want Athena's cabin to have this. It's bioluminescent so it'll glow in the dark."
He looks so put upon when she cuts herself off, but he's not really surprise. At least it started out positively, which settles him more. Cassian watches her at the fountain and the way the water soaks the life back into her frame, but his gaze drops to the anemone in her hands.
It matches her eyes, is his first thought, and his mouth opens a little. He closes it quickly, still smiling softly as he looks back to her face. A nightlight. There will be absolutely no doubt where it came from and who put it in the cabin, but Cassian can't find it in himself to care. "It needs a tank, right?"
"I can make a small goldfish bowl work probably, so it won't take up too much space." She sets the anemone back in the fountain, tapping it like it's a small child, before she wipes her hands on her shorts and heads back to claim her spot in her bed.
Which means she clambers over his lap again. And maybe she pauses halfway over.
"Okay. I can find room for it." He wants to say thank you, but she has a tendency to brush off gratitude, so he lets it come out through his tone instead.
It's definitely the way she stops right on top of him that has the butterflies stumbling around inside him; it'd be too awkward to look away with her right there, not that he wants to necessarily.
"I wanted to." So there?? "After you did, I wanted to do it again. You caused an earthquake."
Which definitely means she liked it, and that she probably likes him.
"It was barely an earthquake." She has no defense, but she's still going to clarify, reaching up to push her bangs back when they fall in front of her face for the millionth time. Growing them out has been A Struggle.
"You can kiss me again, if you want. Without the rain this time." Because they already have contraband privacy and she is sure both of them are eventually going to get in trouble for all the time they've spent alone in her cabin.
"It was still an earthquake." And he smiles brightly, because it was still his fault and she is still here and still apparently wants to kiss him.
He's only ever imagined this kind of privacy in his own cabin. Even though she says he can kiss her again, Cassian still hesitates, like he's waiting for the other shoe to drop and to get splashed out of her living space. Before he can let himself overthink it, again, he leans in and steals another kiss because he definitely, absolutely wants to.
There is no earthquake this time, even though Jyn thinks this is a much better kiss. Far more deserving of the earth shaking around them. When she draws back it's with an oddly shy kind of smile, a breathy sigh.
She doesn't linger more in his lap because it is a littler further than she would like them to be, honestly, and she finishes crawling to her half of the bed and buries herself immediately beneath the covers.
It's quieter but better and feels less like a random urge, more like something new and normal. His expression when she pulls back is similar, even as he stops himself from chasing after her mouth to keep kissing her.
Part of him misses her in his lap, but the other part finds her burrow too endearing. He doesn't follow suit yet, just because - shirt. He still needs a shirt, probably.
"I already told you. I would have missed you." A pause. "I guess this was probably part of it too, though I didn't think so at the time."
He probably should have realized, but feelings are dumb.
He can lay down over the blankets! Which is what she is trying to impart by tugging on his as if that will drag him down next to her. Her lips press together to keep her smile at bay because it would be huge.
"You like me." Oh, there is that grin, like the sun after rain, bright and warm and smug as hell like she has achieved some impossible feat by shoving feelings down Cassian's throat.
He gets what she's trying to suggest through the gesture, which is normal, honestly - they've gotten very good at nonverbal cues, so quietly he's only struck now by how well he can read her.
But he follows. He keeps over the blankets and lays down next to her, shifting the cape-blanket around more towards his front.
Jyn grins at him and he feels blinded, his own face immediately breaking into a warm smile. "I do," he says easily, unable to even tease his agreement out. "And you like me too. Enough to cause an earthquake."
He is never going to let her live that down though.
"That was a one off." Clearly, since he just kissed her and the world stayed perfectly steady. Something warm settles in her chest, filling her with affection and wonder. She is not a likeable person because she has too many trust issues which is why she has a grand total of two and a half friends (the half is melshi) and two surrogate big brothers three times her age.
But Cassian likes her.
How wild is that?
"But I do like you." Guess that is why Artemis didn't bother with her. She isn't that fussed anymore.
"For now." Did he just imply he wants to make her accidentally cause an earthquake again?? He sure did.
Cassian knows the other demigods at the camp respect and appreciate him; he's done a lot for every person whose ever been, but he's never been overtly friendly. K2 has no sense of filter or manners or even necessarily the wall Cassian has had up since he was a child, which made it easier to get along.
He's well liked, but no one has ever really liked all the parts of him that Jyn does.
He beams. Warm and happy and ready for the harpies to bust in yelling about how no two campers can be alone in a cabin at once. Jyn likes him and he likes Jyn and he's never felt so lucky. "Does that mean I can keep kissing you whenever I want?"
He smiles and she wants punch him a little. How dare he make her feel so good with a smile. If the harpies bust in now she will just eat them. They're mostly chicken.
She does reach out and smacks his chest, well the blanket covering it. "Not in public!" Not that she is ashamed of him or anything but she is a very private person and also doesn't like sharing.
He half frowns, seemingly not phased at all by the smack itself so much as the combination of it with her words too.
"You want to keep it secret?" He doesn't sound annoyed, or even surprised - more like contemplative. It's not like he's not made of privacy too. Weirdly enough for him, he hadn't thought about the logistics yet so much as just getting to kiss her again and again now.
She props herself up on one elbow, pushing her hair back behind her shoulder when it spills forward. "We'd never get to hang out like this anymore. You know that's like the one rule they actual enforce. And You-Know-Who would be such a wanker about it."
Her hand lifts, idly and unerringly, to flip of the air in the exact direction of the Big House, thus Mr D. Jyn never got that memo about reverence to the gods, weirdly enough. The only god she seems to have a passable respect for is Hades and that is only because her mother believed wholeheartedly in the natural order of things and Hades is the god that is keeping Lyra Erso safe in... Well, Jyn doesn't know where in the Underworld exactly, but Hades protects her mother's soul and that is enough for her.
"And we just started snogging. Can't it just be for us before K2 finds out and ruins my life with his dramatic, long-suffering sighs like I personally offend him by existing?"
"Snogging still sounds like a fake word." He wrinkles his nose when he says it, because it's fake.
Cassian watches the way her hair moves, but he mostly still looks thoughtful. "It's not that I don't want to keep it secret. I just - had not thought about it at all yet." His mind was still very much focused on having kissed Jyn and getting to do it again. It might be nice to not have to hide, but she has a point. It would also be nice to keep it between them, to avoid all the teasing, to be able to come into her cabin without issue. It's not even for dumb teenage boy reasons - they just spend a lot of time together anyway, and he doesn't want to lose that. "K2 would do that anyway," he starts, lips twitching with amusement. "But it can be a secret for now."
As much as someone can keep a secret from the gods, at least.
"As if besos sounds more real," she complains without actual complaint. When he talks himself into agreeing with her, she leans in to kiss him again, as if it's nothing. As if it is just a casual thing to do. It's neither of these things and she shivers again, thrilled with the idea of it.
She breathes in the taste of him, eyes fluttering shut as her fingers clutch at the blanket wrapped around him.
"It does," he says stubbornly in a very casual way. "At least in Spanish. Of course it sounds weird if it's the only word you use in the English."
But then she's kissing him again so he doesn't really care. It's easy and quick like she does it all the time. They don't, but he starts to think they could. This is how it could be. He kisses her back and feels her shiver, which sends a little thrill up his spine too.
It's not like they weren't touchy before. But it's different now, the way her fingers dig into the blanket. Slowly, carefully, he moves his own hand to drop it at the curve of her waist.
She can feel the warmth of his hand through her pajamas and it makes her breath catch, before she sighs against his lips. She could get used to this kind of thing, this weird nebulous warmth surrounding her.
She doesn't do boyfriends, it's not like she's had time in her life. Cassian is the first. Actually... they're just kissing. She doesn't know what they are and she's not brave enough to ask so instead she just keeps kissing him. It's unimportant, they don't need labels. They're best friends. Now with tongue involved. That's totally natural and normal.
Eventually, she draws back, flushed and trying to keep herself from smiling. "Sé más que besos en español." For the record. "Te presto atención and I'm not doing this to convince my dad I'm not a child, for the record." The second half of that thought comes out of the blue when Jyn remembers bits and parts of their earlier conversation.
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"You're supposed to be keeping my spot warm."
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If he couldn't tell she was still exhausted, he might have felt weird about it, but instead he just touches a hand each to her back and arm to help her climb over him. It's kind of a comfort, knowing that part of easy help hasn't changed. "We could just use one of the dry beds."
She's tired, okay. Anything to have her exert less effort.
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"You should probably close your eyes."
Probably. But it's not a request or a demand, simply an option. It's not like Jyn does anything she should do.
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He wrinkles his nose a bit when she pulls out pajamas, because it's still the middle of the afternoon, but she's bound to sleep for a few hours anyway, maybe even through dinner to regain that energy. She caused a storm. And an earthquake. Because of him.
Cassian smiles a little, but he looks away from her and closes his eyes. Even if she hadn't asked, he would have.
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"It's dry now," she says once she's dressed in case he takes that as confirmation that she's done. She busies herself with kicking her damp clothes into the corner to avoid looking at him as she adds: "You kissed me."
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But then Cassian freezes for a moment, before he looks at her sideways, like he's afraid looking at her head on will be Too Much. "You kissed me first." A beat. "You said it was okay."
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Completely ignoring the topic at hand, Jyn veers toward the fountain at the edge of the room. Once her fingers curl around the edge of the fountain, fingers dipped into the water, a frisson of energy ripples through her. It also fixes her split ends. Handy.
"I'll come back to kissing you, but." She turns around and she's holding a tiny, slightly swaying anemone, speckled green like her eyes. "I want Athena's cabin to have this. It's bioluminescent so it'll glow in the dark."
Like a nightlight.
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It matches her eyes, is his first thought, and his mouth opens a little. He closes it quickly, still smiling softly as he looks back to her face. A nightlight. There will be absolutely no doubt where it came from and who put it in the cabin, but Cassian can't find it in himself to care. "It needs a tank, right?"
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Which means she clambers over his lap again. And maybe she pauses halfway over.
"I did kiss you first. You kissed me second."
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It's definitely the way she stops right on top of him that has the butterflies stumbling around inside him; it'd be too awkward to look away with her right there, not that he wants to necessarily.
"I wanted to." So there?? "After you did, I wanted to do it again. You caused an earthquake."
Which definitely means she liked it, and that she probably likes him.
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"You can kiss me again, if you want. Without the rain this time." Because they already have contraband privacy and she is sure both of them are eventually going to get in trouble for all the time they've spent alone in her cabin.
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He's only ever imagined this kind of privacy in his own cabin. Even though she says he can kiss her again, Cassian still hesitates, like he's waiting for the other shoe to drop and to get splashed out of her living space. Before he can let himself overthink it, again, he leans in and steals another kiss because he definitely, absolutely wants to.
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She doesn't linger more in his lap because it is a littler further than she would like them to be, honestly, and she finishes crawling to her half of the bed and buries herself immediately beneath the covers.
"Is this why you were being a cactus?"
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Part of him misses her in his lap, but the other part finds her burrow too endearing. He doesn't follow suit yet, just because - shirt. He still needs a shirt, probably.
"I already told you. I would have missed you." A pause. "I guess this was probably part of it too, though I didn't think so at the time."
He probably should have realized, but feelings are dumb.
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"You like me." Oh, there is that grin, like the sun after rain, bright and warm and smug as hell like she has achieved some impossible feat by shoving feelings down Cassian's throat.
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But he follows. He keeps over the blankets and lays down next to her, shifting the cape-blanket around more towards his front.
Jyn grins at him and he feels blinded, his own face immediately breaking into a warm smile. "I do," he says easily, unable to even tease his agreement out. "And you like me too. Enough to cause an earthquake."
He is never going to let her live that down though.
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But Cassian likes her.
How wild is that?
"But I do like you." Guess that is why Artemis didn't bother with her. She isn't that fussed anymore.
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Cassian knows the other demigods at the camp respect and appreciate him; he's done a lot for every person whose ever been, but he's never been overtly friendly. K2 has no sense of filter or manners or even necessarily the wall Cassian has had up since he was a child, which made it easier to get along.
He's well liked, but no one has ever really liked all the parts of him that Jyn does.
He beams. Warm and happy and ready for the harpies to bust in yelling about how no two campers can be alone in a cabin at once. Jyn likes him and he likes Jyn and he's never felt so lucky. "Does that mean I can keep kissing you whenever I want?"
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She does reach out and smacks his chest, well the blanket covering it. "Not in public!" Not that she is ashamed of him or anything but she is a very private person and also doesn't like sharing.
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"You want to keep it secret?" He doesn't sound annoyed, or even surprised - more like contemplative. It's not like he's not made of privacy too. Weirdly enough for him, he hadn't thought about the logistics yet so much as just getting to kiss her again and again now.
Not that 'it' even has a name yet either.
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Oh, Zeus's balls.
She props herself up on one elbow, pushing her hair back behind her shoulder when it spills forward. "We'd never get to hang out like this anymore. You know that's like the one rule they actual enforce. And You-Know-Who would be such a wanker about it."
Her hand lifts, idly and unerringly, to flip of the air in the exact direction of the Big House, thus Mr D. Jyn never got that memo about reverence to the gods, weirdly enough. The only god she seems to have a passable respect for is Hades and that is only because her mother believed wholeheartedly in the natural order of things and Hades is the god that is keeping Lyra Erso safe in... Well, Jyn doesn't know where in the Underworld exactly, but Hades protects her mother's soul and that is enough for her.
"And we just started snogging. Can't it just be for us before K2 finds out and ruins my life with his dramatic, long-suffering sighs like I personally offend him by existing?"
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Cassian watches the way her hair moves, but he mostly still looks thoughtful. "It's not that I don't want to keep it secret. I just - had not thought about it at all yet." His mind was still very much focused on having kissed Jyn and getting to do it again. It might be nice to not have to hide, but she has a point. It would also be nice to keep it between them, to avoid all the teasing, to be able to come into her cabin without issue. It's not even for dumb teenage boy reasons - they just spend a lot of time together anyway, and he doesn't want to lose that. "K2 would do that anyway," he starts, lips twitching with amusement. "But it can be a secret for now."
As much as someone can keep a secret from the gods, at least.
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She breathes in the taste of him, eyes fluttering shut as her fingers clutch at the blanket wrapped around him.
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But then she's kissing him again so he doesn't really care. It's easy and quick like she does it all the time. They don't, but he starts to think they could. This is how it could be. He kisses her back and feels her shiver, which sends a little thrill up his spine too.
It's not like they weren't touchy before. But it's different now, the way her fingers dig into the blanket. Slowly, carefully, he moves his own hand to drop it at the curve of her waist.
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She doesn't do boyfriends, it's not like she's had time in her life. Cassian is the first. Actually... they're just kissing. She doesn't know what they are and she's not brave enough to ask so instead she just keeps kissing him. It's unimportant, they don't need labels. They're best friends. Now with tongue involved. That's totally natural and normal.
Eventually, she draws back, flushed and trying to keep herself from smiling. "Sé más que besos en español." For the record. "Te presto atención and I'm not doing this to convince my dad I'm not a child, for the record." The second half of that thought comes out of the blue when Jyn remembers bits and parts of their earlier conversation.
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