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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-06 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
She looks so Imperial right now that Cassian almost bristles. Fortunately time and experience are on his side and there's no sign of it. If there's any good impression he's gotten about Jyn, it's that she might have been raised under the Imperial thumb but she doesn't seem to care for them.

K2 answers her first, dropping his voice like he's trying to be quiet. "I do not stomp."

He looks at her sharply when she grabs his sleeve, but doesn't yank away. It'd be too much of a scene. "Listen to her, K2. Walk quietly."

The droid does his best, which is enough to get them to the lift unnoticed. Cassian is almost too still while they wait for the doors to open, but he moves like lightening when the lift arrives, pushing both K2 and Jyn in the elevator first.

He presses the door close button quickly and thinks he's really going to need to talk to Galen about knowing exactly when Krennic usually shows. If he's learned anything about the Empire, it's their obsessive scheduling tends to be mostly predictive.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-06 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
Every single thing she says in this elevator is a very good sign, but Cassian has only just got here and he's not about to burst at the seams with his secrets. Bail seems to trust Galen and by extension Jyn. Cassian has kept himself alive by being more cautious.

"Everything I have heard of this man leaves me wary about meeting him." Or staying in his company for extended periods of time. Still, he wants this from Jyn's perspective. She might not like him much right now, but it doesn't mean she won't be a useful ally in avoiding Krennic. "How often does he come by? Do you usually have time to prepare?"

K2's eyes make a whirring sound, but the droid keeps stationary as the lift moves downward.

"I'm not particularly interested in discussing my work with the man."

Just because she said it's not bugged or watched doesn't mean he's going to be anything less than the Model Student. At least until he feels confident enough in the security.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-06 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Any warning is better than none, and Cassian knows he's quick on his feet. There's already a running list of reasons to keep out of Krennic's way should he be there when the man stops by. He likes to imagine a world where they don't exist in the same space, but the galaxy is not that kind.

Like he understands entirely more than what the surface conversation carries, his tone is dry: "I suppose he is checking up on just how his dear friend's daughter is doing."

She is so openly disgusted by Krennic. Cassian approves. "There's always feigning a nap as well."
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
He likes conspiring with her to avoid Krennic way more than arguing with her over a fake thesis. He can sleep in a shared room, but he's not about to counter that. "And research is conducted at all hours. A regular sleep pattern tends to be unattainable with grad work."

K2 is surprisingly silent, and Cassian hopes that maybe he's taken the warning to be seen and not heard far better than anticipated. It's a stupid hope, but it's great right now.

"He is not so fond of my adopted father." It's true enough, even if that's not the complete reason why he hates Krennic. Imperial reasons is why. But Jyn looks as sad as she does angry with the question, and he feels like he can use that to smooth things over.

It's not a very nice thought, but it is a spy thought. "Bail as good as raised me as his own. I'm not about to make friends with a man who hates Organa."
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
She's kind of easy to read, but Cassian has always been good at reading people. He makes a note when she softens to use his relationship with Bail too and hopes the man might forgive him for it.

Cassian doesn't react when she steps into his space; if anything, he leans in more and meets her gaze, looking downward with curiosity. She's trying to figure him out, much the same he's working on her. "I suppose I'll have to give you reason to earn my trust first, won't I? It would be presumptuous to assume I can just have it."

It's definitely got elements of a non-answer because he hasn't figured out what to do to earn her trust yet, except maybe become ride or die for her father. Which isn't happening. It's not even the answer he'd give if he was 100% being himself, but he's still working on what part of himself would get along with her best. "You can ask me things. That's usually how you stop being a stranger. But I would not be here without your father's approval."
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Seeing her eyes up close suddenly explains her nickname of Stardust.

Cassian raises an eyebrow, answering her question with one of his own. "How much do you know about Alderaan, Miss Erso?" He's not about to openly discuss the planet's deep involvement in the Rebellion, but it's well known that Alderaan is not exactly one of the most Pro-Empire places. Bail totes a fine line since his days as a friend to the Jedi. "Do I need to discuss my own father's former tumultuous position as a Senator?"

He's relieved she hasn't been indoctrinated by the Empire. The files on Lyra Erso were minimal, but from what he's read and heard from Jyn, she very much takes after her mother.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Cassian was in essence anti-Empire before it even became the Empire. He spent the first few years of his life in the Outer Rim, in a Separatist anarchist cell. He sees the potential to even tell her one day. Not in detail - but if she's just as disloyal to the Empire as he is, his childhood will help.

Apparently even that can be weaponized for the Rebellion, but he's trying not to think about it. When she steps back and accepts his answer, he nods at her.

He and his droid follow her out, and Cassian takes K2's silence as a sign of data analysis. A perk of Coruscant being so bustling. "There's little I won't eat. I'm sure this planet has quite the variety. Do you have any favorites?"

It's as true as it is fishing for what she likes to eat.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
Cafes are great. Cassian loves cafes. He drinks a lot of caf and they're excellent social spots. He can make new contacts, maybe even find some old ones. He doesn't follow her gaze to the cameras, mostly because he already knows where her building's security is. He's got it memorized. He's not surprised by the stormtroopers and doesn't seem affected by their presence either, not like Jyn stiffens.

He can definitely keep up with her, but offering her hand is a good gesture he's not going to pass over. He takes it without thought, because it'll make them more inconspicuous too.

Her hand is very small in his and not as soft as he expected. Probably all the rocks. His own is a lot more calloused than a typical academic. "I know where the library is, but a local's sense of time is best. How far is it?"

K2 decides to chime in with a mutter, especially once he sees their hands folded together. "As if Cassian would lose someone in a crowd."
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Jyn will learn soon enough that K2 doesn't shut up, even if he's being quiet right now. Cassian sighs at his droid in response, but easily notes that Jyn finally called him by just his name.

"I just meant he's good in a crowd, as you are too apparently."

"K2."

The warning seems to suffice as Jyn leads them through the streets, and Cassian is unconcerned about walking. He prefers it too, taking in the buildings and memorizing the path for the next time he needs to use it alone. He likes being this low too - it's less noticeable; people tend to look up before they look down. His fingers move easily, adjusting his grip as she does until they find something comfortable enough. "An easy enough walk," he remarks, trying to think about what he might know of the area in relation to her building.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-07 08:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Cassian feels better being in the supposed bad part of town. It's far easier to blend, and he isn't afraid of being mugged or attacked. It might happen for sure, but he knows he's capable of fending it off.

Besides, apparently Jyn is a friendly face. He blinks at the little boy, the only sign he's confused, but the affection Jyn has for him is clear. She likes kids. Another note to add to his mental file.

He plays along. "He might have a little ways to go, just until he's taller than you," he says, because he decides going right for the height jugular is a Great Idea. It seems to amuse Soren at least who giggles gleefully. "But he certainly looks quite grown up so far."

Having grown up with Leia, Cassian is not too terrible with children like he might have been otherwise. He still feels a little awkward, mostly because his own childhood was such a hodgepodge of Rebellion versus Politics, but it's much easier to fake. He just pretends kids are Leia, and it makes it easier, even though she was quite opposite the regular little girl.

"It is anatomically impossible for a human child to grow over one foot in one night." There he is, K2 the killjoy. "This is clearly still an adolescent. Jyn Erso, do need glasses?"
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-08 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
K2 seems affronted, but Cassian turns to level his droid a Look and whisper at him to keep quiet. The warning only ever carries so far, but at least it works for now.

Jyn is very natural with kids, and it brings on a different side to her. The encounter speeds by so fast and Cassian feels so irrelevant to it that it takes him two seconds to recognize it's over. He waits for follow up that doesn't come, but he's not surprised. She has no reason to explain her life to him, but he suspects even if she did know him well, she wouldn't offer much else regardless.

"So when's the party?" is what he tries first, lightly, because he's determined to try another round of conversation. Maybe Soren put her in a better mood. It seems a better question to ask that anything directly about the boy in relation to Jyn.

Mechanic muttering filters from behind them. "I still don't know if she needs glasses."
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-08 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
The party is a dead end topic, but talking about K2 doesn't seem like the best transition.

Cassian sighs. "No." A beat. "This is him being polite."

It takes a lot to reprogram a droid. Cassian did do it successfully, but the complete lack of tact is an unfixable error. Or maybe he's just too used to it to care, or maybe it's some weird semblance of K2's personality that he refuses to touch.

His best friend is a rude droid. Dealing with a rude!Jyn will probably be familiar.
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[personal profile] evasives 2017-06-08 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
"By original design." There's a but not anymore in there that he's not willing to elaborate on out in public, even if they're in a shitty part of the city. He's trusting her to read him very quickly.

"He has been with me for twelve years. I don't intend to take him everywhere -" K2 starts to protest, but Cassian raises his hand and the droid goes silent with what could be a mechanical huff. "But I was not about to leave him unattended before he was properly debriefed."

No way was he going to let his droid sit with Krennic before he got a handle on the situation for himself. Maybe in the future but it was too rushed and jittery before.

Cassian hesitates, letting her rest her hand and tucking his arm in like a proper sort of escort. "I know he is not often welcome. I lived through the Clone Wars. But K-2SO's loyalty is mine and mine alone. It has been invaluable in the past."

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