Jyn Erso One-Shots

All Grown Up

Jyn Erso sat on a blanket holding hands with Hadder Ponta. His mother, Akshaya, was away on business. They took the opportunity to take the Ponta's planet hopper to spend some alone time together.

It was still early in their relationship, Jyn mused. She had known Hadder for only a few weeks. Their relationship had blossomed after learning they both shared many similar interests such as exploring and flying.

Jyn's eyes fluttered closed as she listened to the birds and felt the warmth of the sun on her face. She laid her head on Hadder's shoulder and felt his arm wrap around her. Jyn sighed. She was content.

How did she end up here with Hadder Ponta? How had she become so happy after everything she had been through?

Jyn's thoughts wandered through time. Her memories came and went just like the many starships in the Galaxy.

She was back in her family's apartment in Coruscant's Galactic City. Her nanny droid, Mac-Vee, was with her as she watched her favorite holodramas. She was surrounded by her beloved toys brought back by her father.

She was around three years old when she accompanied her mother on archeological projects on different worlds. Jyn would explore for hours, finding strange new plants, animals, and stones. She enjoyed new adventures and the triumph of discovering something new.

Suddenly, she and her parents were hurrying through the parading crowds on Coruscant. They climbed on board a starship owned by a man named Saw Gerrera. She was only four years old but her memory of the event was crystal clear just like the water in the stream flowing a few yards away from her and Hadder.

Jyn was on Lah'mu. The lush greenery vivid in her mind's eye. Their humble homestead...They were happy there. And that fateful day. She was eight years old. She remembered the death troopers and the man in a white cape coming for them, her father staying behind as she and her mother ran to the hiding spot. She saw her mother's body fall as she went back to stand with her father. She still couldn't remember how long she had been in the hiding spot until Saw Gerrera came for her.

From then on, Jyn lived a life of a soldier. Saw had raised her as his own and taught her how to fight and survive. She had become one of his best soldiers working with the rest of the insurgents until she was sixteen and abandoned on Tamsye Prime. She recalled that day with bitterness. She had been abandoned for a second time. But Jyn had not given up. It wasn't in her nature to give up. She became "Jyn Dawn" and arranged passage on a freighter ship operated by Hadder's mother. Jyn had helped Akshaya evade an imperial ship by using her refined forging skills. Akshaya had offered Jyn to live with her and her son on Skuhl. Little did Jyn know how her life would change after that day.

She met Hadder. At first, she didn't know what to make of him. They were around the same age, both equally willful and stubborn. But there was something about him that intrigued her. He had aroused something in Jyn she had never felt before.

And now here she was sitting next to him, holding his hand. They had grown close, very close. They could predict each others moods, thoughts, and tones. Jyn opened her eyes and looked up at Hadder. He was her world...