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[alderaans]

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compatible through return of the jedi.

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[withinreach]

That's funny, because you've been pretty scarce at my debriefing meetings lately. What's been keeping you so busy?

[ what or who ]

[alderaans]

I should hardly think you'd need me there. You seem perfectly capable of handling it on your own.

[ notice how she avoided answering that. ]

[withinreach]

[ yeah he did notice that ]

I don't need moral support. It just means you're hearing it from Mon Mothma later instead.

R2 says you've been leaving them before I get there.

[alderaans]

[ that droid needs to be stripped for parts. ]

And what's so critical that I just have to hear it from your lips instead of hers?

I have other meetings to attend.

[withinreach]

[ like he needed anyone to confirm what the already knew anyway come on ]

What's so important that you can't be bothered to show up to hear it yourself?

Unless it's my lips that are the problem.

[alderaans]

You presume too much, Commander.

Is there really anything so pressing that you need to relay it to me personally?

[ she’s really just leaving herself open. all the time. ]

[withinreach]

Do I, Princess?

Because this only started happening after our little moment in the corridor and I'm starting to think that you're too embarrassed to look me in the eye.

[ that was a near miss and she knows it ]

[alderaans]

Oh, is that what we’re calling it now?

I thought we’d both established that it didn’t mean anything. [ wishful thinking in her part, maybe. or maybe she doesn’t want to think about how she might have liked it. ]

[withinreach]

We could call it what it was.

[ or what it wasn't, more accurately ]

We did, but you think about it every time we make eye contact. That's why you can't stand to be in the same room with me, you'd start blushing.

[ oh he went there ]

[alderaans]

And what was it, exactly? Do tell.

You're making too many assumptions about what I'm thinking about when I'm around you.

[ sure, that made sense. she's not going to pretend how close he hit to the mark. ]

[withinreach]

I almost kissed you. You almost kissed me. Don't pretend like you don't know.

[ you're not fooling anyone sweetheart ]

If that's wrong then you tell me something that explains the way you've been acting around me lately.

[alderaans]

I do know. It was a severe lapse in judgment. It should never have gotten to that point.

And I think it would be for the best if we weren’t in a situation that would lend itself to a repeat occurrence.

[ there. happy now? ]

[withinreach]

[ not quite ]

So your plan is to stay on the opposite side of the base from me indefinitely now? And they say I have crazy ideas.

I've got a better one. Maybe if we just did it we wouldn't keep thinking about what it could have been.

[alderaans]

My plan is to avoid distractions, and yes, you fall under that category.

That’s your solution? And just why would I go along with something so half-witted as that?

[withinreach]

Are you honestly less distracted right now?

[ because he's not. he can make it through a meeting, sure, but he can't stop thinking about it either ]

[alderaans]

At present? Yes. In fact, I barely think about you when you’re not around.

[ someone’s telling fibs. ]

[withinreach]

Leia, you are a terrible liar.

[ she's not, but he knows that's not true ]

If it was that easy we wouldn't be having this conversation at all.

[alderaans]

If I recall correctly, Commander, you started this conversation to begin with.

I’m not sure you know how to make anything easy.

[withinreach]

[ still with the 'commander' thing, he sees how it is ]

So?

I know how to make some things very easy.

[alderaans]

[ one if you is trying to maintain some professionalism here. ]

And you’ve been told this before, or are you just that confident in your own abilities? Don’t answer that.

[withinreach]

[ oh no, he's not even trying ]

I don't need to.

[ she knows it's both. maybe now's not the time to bring that up though ]

What are you so afraid of anyway? Are you worried about what people might say if you got caught with a military boy like me?

[alderaans]

Don’t be ridiculous. Who said anything about being afraid?

[ although she has considered what it would do if it seemed like she was playing favorites in any way. ]

It has nothing to do with that. You’re a loyal pilot. I can’t afford to have anyone questioning if that loyalty skews one way.

[withinreach]

[ well here's a minefield of things he shouldn't say ]

I have a hard time believing that anyone would question my loyalties at this point.

[ of the many things that do invite criticism, his commitment to the cause isn't one of them. hers even less so. true, if they got caught in an intimate moment the rumor mill would run wild. but he would inevitably be blamed for it. he's got a reputation

which may be the part of the problem ]

You keep deflecting. We're talking about a kiss, not a marriage proposal.

[alderaans]

You know what I mean. In their eyes, I’m your superior, and there are about five different reasons why it could go very badly for both of us.

Is that all? I have a hard time believing that. [ that poe dameron, he of the give-one-inch-he’ll-take-a-mile won’t seize every opportunity to extend that barrier between them as far as he can. as if he’d only stop at a kiss. as if she would. ]

[withinreach]

[ like he hasn't heard that one before

is five really too many?

well ]

It could be.

[ alright, yes, but his inability to refrain from pushing his luck as far as it'll go at any given opportunity isn't really the problem, is it? it's a problem of whether or not she wants him to ]

That almost sounds like a challenge.

[ she knows how he feels about those ]