"You can always share with me if it gets too much," Jyn offers with a huff of laughter. She's spent her entire life with Bodhi's snoring and she's still not used to it. Galen packed her earplugs because he's a good dad.
Crouching down to collect the original sticks, Jyn peers up at Cassian in the darkness, studying him carefully like he's a puzzle she is intent of figuring out. "Were you correcting me or introducing yourself?"
Because Jyn has only just realized that, technically, they'd never introduced themselves to each other because Jyn was too busy fussing about something when Bodhi made all the introductions.
"I appreciate the offer," he says dryly. He shines the flashlight down at the sticks she's picking up, leaning over to gather up a few himself. She looks up at him for a bit, curious, and he pretends to not notice.
"Both." He's vaguely aware of all the doctors on this venture, just like he knows she is Bodhi's sister Jyn, but proper introductions were never quite the priority considering they all sort of immediately dove into the work. "This is the part where you normally tell me your name in return."
She does not offer her name, she knows he knows her name. First, Bodhi's been badgering her all day so he's been whining her name all day and second, her full name was plastered all over his job offer.
She does, however, continue to ask about him. Well, asking via statements instead of questions. "Bodhi said you were a Captain."
He rolls his eyes. He's not surprised at all, but he rolls them anyway. It just feels appropriate. She can still say it even if he does already know her name! But he supposes that's typical given what he's heard of her bedside manner (with adults, at least).
"Shouldn't you already know that too?" Take that?? He shrugs his shoulder. "My service is no secret. I reached a captaincy rank before my discharge."
"Honestly?" She straightens up, realizing she's closer to him than she'd thought, taking a step back out of his direct personal space. "Bodhi picked you. I never read your file. I picked Baze and Chirrut."
And Bodhi, technically, but he'd picked Cassian. The rest of the doctors back in the city, not part of their roving group, were mostly a team effort, but Lyra and the Organas did most of the work narrowing down their choices. Bodhi would say 'what about this person?' and Jyn would decide either yes or no based on the limited information that Bodhi supplied her with.
Oh. He hadn't realized how close she was until she stepped back either, or maybe it just hadn't bothered him.
He is getting the impression that Bodhi spearheaded a lot of the organization to this, at least moreso than Jyn. It's not that Jyn is uninterested in being here, Cassian can tell she's eager to work, but he can also tell she isn't a people person.
"Medical School is expensive. The military paid for it. I served as expected, and now I am here." It seemed like a good middle step between the front lines and civilian lines.
Bodhi likes organizing, he likes people, it was right up his alley. Jyn likes children and her work. It was stupid, in her opinion, that she even had to be the face of the group but she was the one with the Erso name and she is the one that reminds people of her father, if she wanted to course correct her family legacy, unfortunately she had to put her name on it.
But Bodhi could still do most of the background effort.
"You're very young to be a captain, aren't you?" Maybe she is just used to Captains Kirk (the Shatner version) and Picard and Von Trapp. Comparatively, even with medical training under his belt, he seems pretty young, if not still older than her. Maybe she just really knows zero things about rank. That was Air Force doctor Bodhi Rook's thing, not hers.
He is getting more and more of a picture of these siblings and he's only spoken to them both very minimally. It's not a bad thing, but it does kind of make him miss Shara. He hasn't seen her since Poe was born.
"I was not aware you were an expert on captaincy." He's probably a little old for it, but he hadn't really wanted to advance in the military much more beyond that. He just wanted the school, however grueling those years. "I am in my thirties, if that's what you are trying to ask."
"You don't have to be so prickly, Captain Andor." Says the most prickly person on the planet. Maybe it's just the darkness, but it looks almost like Jyn winks at him before she moves back to the tent construction. The fire is made, food is made, and Jyn retreats to her single tent with her ear plugs once she's eaten and that is the last he hears from her that day.
The work isn't difficult, but trekking across the countryside is tiring even for Jyn who gives up her morning runs after about two days. It leaves them quieter at camp than they usually would be she imagines, but it means the sleep is good and they all conk out almost comically early. It's a few days in when Bodhi comes down with a summer cold and his already terrible snoring becomes unbearable. Jyn's tent is already as far as can be without losing the heat of the fire but she gives up and decides to move it further back, to just under the canopy of the trees.
She's clambering out of the tent when she straightens up to find Cassian lingering in front of her tent. A small smile flutters across her expression as she shoves the sleeve of her loose sweater back up on her shoulder, it falls back down immediately.
"I told you so. Come on, Captain, help me move the tent back and then you can admit defeat and move in until he can breathe again."
It's a last ditch effort, trekking across the camp towards Jyn's tent. She is the only one who probably understands the need to escape Bodhi's snoring, and if he's being honest, he hasn't really spoken to anyone else as much as he has her.
"He is just one person," he grumbles. "Not even the ear plugs helped."
He moves forward, closer to the tent to help her move it as requested. He's glad he doesn't have to actually ask to share hers, however temporary. He already feels awkward enough about it. Which is stupid, he's a grown man. They're both adults, adults tired of loud snores and in need of good sleep.
"Where do you want to move it? Just closer to the trees?"
"Yeah, as far as way as possible to not hear him but probably not freeze to death." It isn't hard to move, Jyn's backpack doesn't weigh much and her sleeping bag weighs less. Between the two of them it's only a matter of seconds to drag the tent back and under the canopy of the trees and Jyn clambers into the tent to push her sleeping back to one side, making room for Cassian.
"Come on in."
She hasn't shared a tent since she was a little girl and that was with one of her parents, she and Bodhi never even shared a room at home. It doesn't occur to her to find this weird though, simply shifting her stuff to make room for another person. It should be weird, but it's not.
Okay, it's a little weird falling to sleep to the sound of someone else's breathing but Jyn notices that it actually helps her block out the snoring so she falls asleep faster and stays asleep long enough that Bodhi has to come wake her up. Awkward.
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Crouching down to collect the original sticks, Jyn peers up at Cassian in the darkness, studying him carefully like he's a puzzle she is intent of figuring out. "Were you correcting me or introducing yourself?"
Because Jyn has only just realized that, technically, they'd never introduced themselves to each other because Jyn was too busy fussing about something when Bodhi made all the introductions.
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"Both." He's vaguely aware of all the doctors on this venture, just like he knows she is Bodhi's sister Jyn, but proper introductions were never quite the priority considering they all sort of immediately dove into the work. "This is the part where you normally tell me your name in return."
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She does not offer her name, she knows he knows her name. First, Bodhi's been badgering her all day so he's been whining her name all day and second, her full name was plastered all over his job offer.
She does, however, continue to ask about him. Well, asking via statements instead of questions. "Bodhi said you were a Captain."
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"Shouldn't you already know that too?" Take that?? He shrugs his shoulder. "My service is no secret. I reached a captaincy rank before my discharge."
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And Bodhi, technically, but he'd picked Cassian. The rest of the doctors back in the city, not part of their roving group, were mostly a team effort, but Lyra and the Organas did most of the work narrowing down their choices. Bodhi would say 'what about this person?' and Jyn would decide either yes or no based on the limited information that Bodhi supplied her with.
"You're an unopened book, Captain Andor."
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He is getting the impression that Bodhi spearheaded a lot of the organization to this, at least moreso than Jyn. It's not that Jyn is uninterested in being here, Cassian can tell she's eager to work, but he can also tell she isn't a people person.
"Medical School is expensive. The military paid for it. I served as expected, and now I am here." It seemed like a good middle step between the front lines and civilian lines.
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But Bodhi could still do most of the background effort.
"You're very young to be a captain, aren't you?" Maybe she is just used to Captains Kirk (the Shatner version) and Picard and Von Trapp. Comparatively, even with medical training under his belt, he seems pretty young, if not still older than her. Maybe she just really knows zero things about rank. That was Air Force doctor Bodhi Rook's thing, not hers.
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"I was not aware you were an expert on captaincy." He's probably a little old for it, but he hadn't really wanted to advance in the military much more beyond that. He just wanted the school, however grueling those years. "I am in my thirties, if that's what you are trying to ask."
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The work isn't difficult, but trekking across the countryside is tiring even for Jyn who gives up her morning runs after about two days. It leaves them quieter at camp than they usually would be she imagines, but it means the sleep is good and they all conk out almost comically early. It's a few days in when Bodhi comes down with a summer cold and his already terrible snoring becomes unbearable. Jyn's tent is already as far as can be without losing the heat of the fire but she gives up and decides to move it further back, to just under the canopy of the trees.
She's clambering out of the tent when she straightens up to find Cassian lingering in front of her tent. A small smile flutters across her expression as she shoves the sleeve of her loose sweater back up on her shoulder, it falls back down immediately.
"I told you so. Come on, Captain, help me move the tent back and then you can admit defeat and move in until he can breathe again."
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"He is just one person," he grumbles. "Not even the ear plugs helped."
He moves forward, closer to the tent to help her move it as requested. He's glad he doesn't have to actually ask to share hers, however temporary. He already feels awkward enough about it. Which is stupid, he's a grown man. They're both adults, adults tired of loud snores and in need of good sleep.
"Where do you want to move it? Just closer to the trees?"
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"Come on in."
She hasn't shared a tent since she was a little girl and that was with one of her parents, she and Bodhi never even shared a room at home. It doesn't occur to her to find this weird though, simply shifting her stuff to make room for another person. It should be weird, but it's not.
Okay, it's a little weird falling to sleep to the sound of someone else's breathing but Jyn notices that it actually helps her block out the snoring so she falls asleep faster and stays asleep long enough that Bodhi has to come wake her up. Awkward.
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