Rebel Files: Captain Andor & Sargent Erso

Green Bluff

    The rebels were all hauled in, restrained, and stripped of their weapons. The rebel team of 9 was split up, tagged, numbered, and put into dark immaculate cells the size of a Sabbac table.

    By mere luck or a trooper's attempt at stirring up trouble where  he could feel tension, Cassian and Jyn ended up in the same cells. Though the two highly trained rebels were always professionals when it came to putting their personal problems out of their work, the pain suffocated the room that they sat at opposite ends of.

    Cassian watched Jyn tap her finger on the stark ground, her eyes closed. They had stayed immensely quiet the past two hours, sitting. Waiting. His mind was in the mission, and ready for the next part of it.  But his heart was somewhere else entirely. It had crawled its way up from his chest to sit uncomfortably in his throat. It was throbbing now. He couldn't take it anymore.

    The dreaded mission on Dantooine began to play back in his head. They had said goodbye, and shared a quick kiss under a broken down shaft of the abandoned rebel base. Jyn had lied to him, prior to their mission, and she could see the hurt in his eyes as they parted. She had told him she was fine, and shared her true feelings with another Sargent who's eyes he had seen wander. Cassian trusted her, but had been hurt by her actions, but not enough to get him so mad. As they neared the half crushed data files, and timed detonators started to count down, Cassian made the split second decision to risk his life to save everyone else and recover the files. Had it not been for a phony detonator switch, he'd have died. Heroically in his mind, but died without trying in Jyn's mind. After that mission, everything went down hill. Cassian made more dangerous decisions without regard for his wife, and Jyn started withholding more of the truth from him. They talked less, and began to put distance between each other after arguments wouldn't end. All the time they kept their professionalism and missions together, trusted partners who didn't need to speak to signal to each other that the enemy was around the corner. Yet the couple that worked so well together to fight the empire, began to work so badly at reconstructing their cracking relationship.

    "Jyn."

    Jyn opened her eyes and her mind quickly went to their mission. But when she came face to face with Cassian's honest and vulnerable eyes looking on at her, she realized that missions were of no concern to her right now.

    "Jyn I--" Cassian became silent, his eyes darting to and fro, trying to find words or something. "Ha!" He started to laugh a sad and cynical laugh. "I can't find the right words to say anything!" Cassian sprung up and grabbed Jyn's hands for her to follow. "I can't stand it. I can't stand to watch you look the other way when I walk by.  I hate watching you walk away, every time. The thought of us dying apart, of me losing you without us reconciling... it made me realize that I have lost you. I lose you every time you walk away and I don't stop you. Everyday we go without speaking."

    "What are suggesting? That you'll take me back?  That we miraculously go back to the way things were? That I was wrong to walk away, when I was hurting so much." Pain flooded her eyes as she dropped Cassian's hands.

    "No. All I'm saying is... I'm sorry Jyn. I've hurt you, and given up. I stopped trying." His words bleed honesty, as he pleaded to his wife. "I have been concealing myself behind a mask of composure, and cowering away form my problems. All while the conflict within me rages like a hothian storm. I'm sorry for being week and the opposite of the man you saw in me. I'm a coward, and I want your forgiveness and for you to take me back." He dropped to his knees His head bent downwards. "Jyn. Please."

    Jyn slowly went to her knees. She lifted up her husband's wreak of a face. His almond eyes looked into her's. "Forgive me too. I've maimed you, more than you let on. I saw it in your eyes. I went to defensive mode when I saw it in your eyes on Dantooine, and I continued to hurt you. I'm sorry for always walking away. And for the record, I never stopped seeing that man in you." She gently stroked his face.

    "We can't go back to the way things were. Even when they were good. We have to move forward. If you're willing to try. If you're with me."

    "All the way." Jyn let out a week smile.

    Cassian hugged his wife for the first time in a long time. They just held on tight, to what they both feared so much to lose. Almost as if they were back on that beach, clinging to each other for dear life. The wounds had not yet healed, but they had mended something.

    Jyn missed his arms around her. Never had she known such a safe place to be. How had she let herself so willingly neglect these arms? She asked her self a question she knew the answer to. It was her fault as much as it was his, but that was behind them now. They were both so glad of that.
    As she pulled away from the arms that belonged to a man she call her own. She noticed a full tear fall from Cassian's almond colored eye.

    "I'm so sorry Jyn."

    "Cassian." She wiped his tear away, and gently pulled his face to her's. This kiss simultaneously sealed the painful past behind them, while giving them the first push towards bettering something.

    Ten minutes later, the signal arose. Jyn and Cassian took of their belts, and twisted each of them around their door's control panel. The electronic fryers in the belts open their door, giving them the perfect opportunity to strike back. They switch their uniforms with that of downed stormtroopers. Placing the un-armored and gaged and rebel tagged stormtroopers in the cells.