J.C. An unlikely love story (Thrawnxf!reader)

The Trial : Get set!

You're frozen in place, unmoving, eyes wide open and silent under the warm body of Thrawn. Eyes fixed on a point away, you're pressed against his chest where you can hear his steady heartbeat and your heart could sing if only you were fully aware of your surroundings and not terrified at the same time. You start contemplating on how you ended up in this position...

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"... and after you took note of your last test's scores we will follow on with the Final Exam of Simulation."

A rumor spread around the amphitheater, some students laugh with excitement, others shudder in disbelief and some shrug their shoulders, uninterested.

"Quiet!" Barks the professor.

You don't miss a beat and dive into the file to find your notes with a loud heartbeat. You hold your breath as you discover the results... And sigh with relief immediately, all positive. You turn towards Eli with hope, he doesn't say a thing, he nods with a smile and you clap your hands as mutual congratulation. You bend over a little to see Thrawn and his scores, as per usual he's revising his datapad with an olympian calm, nothing could disturb him ever. No need to talk to know he nailed his exams, he's the most experienced after all. You tap his shoulder.

"I owe you a beer Sir!" You murmur.

"Thank you, I do not drink Cadet."

"Well I owe you a drink anyway" You say slouching back on your seat, it's the least you could do after he helped you with your course.

You look back at your scores: strategic, battle simulation, rifles... All the arts of war revealed under your eyes each with satisfactory numbers, those evenings with Thrawn and this weird tension definitively paid up!

You place back your datapad with a smile focusing on the ballet on the platform; your professor just gets joined by several other professors and persons you've never seen. Some take their seats while some discuss matters with low voices, others stare at the room with harsh eyes. You recognise the uniform of a commander of the navy with a gruffly face, a strikingly beautiful junior lieutenant is speaking with an equally handsome governor giving side eyes to the first row students. Why are those two so familiar to you? You've never heard their name but you could swear you've already seen them somewhere! But where? You focus on those two, this lieutenant woman with green eyes and raven black hair is whispering something to the ear of the wavy blondie ponytail guy with gray eyes, hiding an air of surprise behind a fan. Those two are weirdly out of place between those adults worn out by the years by their beauty and more strongly by their youthfulness here, they are much younger than their counterparts in the room. But where did you see them?

"You alright J-C? You're red..." Eli asks.

You blink in surprise, touching your cheeks heated by your blood. He looks in the same direction and a laugh like a snarl comes and shakes his shoulders.

"Okay! I Got you."

You nudge him for teasing you.

"Listen up!" A professor shouted, starting a slideshow. "We're gonna reveal to you the modalities of the trial. As you already know it will happen on one of the moons of the planet Athulla, more exactly the third one, and spread across seven days maximum. Your exam will consist of a regular spying mission where you will extract information from a subject. You will receive specific uniforms, motorized means and weapons for this particular occasion-"

"Ha!" You exclam yourself as a flash of realization touches you.

You know where you've seen these two fellows: they posed for the posters of the Empire for the navy and the bureaucracy for years where you lived. You grew up watching them incarnate the values of the regime.That's why you feel they were familiar. You had such a crush on them when you were younger!