This post has the following content warnings:
Daisy zips up the trail toward home, grateful for how much faster the speeder is when it's not laden with supplies. Today, the only things weighing it down are her, the human passed out over the handlebars, and the unresponsive and immobile battle droid lashed carefully but inelegantly to the storage area.
Up ahead, there's a flash of red light. There's really only one thing that can be, this time of the morning.
"Yeah." Pet pet. "You weren't trapping me at all, but it's understandable, it looked like that a little." Squeeze. "Happened to you?"
"Yeah. Sometimes."
...
"It also just feels weird. Like I'm pretending to be the guy."
She's already holding him close; she gives him another squeeze.
"Pretending?"
She nods, gently tracing the edge of one of the blisters on his shoulder with her thumb. "I think I get it."
"Being in charge is hard; it doesn't suit you. And - I think you care too much about doing it right to do it anyway."
"Hey, I can do stuff that's hard. And I could totally be in charge of somebody if I tried."
Nuzzle.
"Just not gonna try."
Headpetting. "I don't mean you couldn't, just that it wouldn't suit you. Like - if I said, hey, since you're going to be around a while, why don't we build you a house; go ahead and draw up a layout - you might need some tips, but I bet you'd be fine. But if I said we were going to knock down the house, and it's up to you to design a replacement - much less comfortable, even though it's all the same skills, right?"
"Yeah." She presses her forehead to his and drops her hand to his hip. "And that's fine, there's nothing wrong with it."
He gets to build a house!
Even if she couldn't feel it, he'd clearly be pleased.
Reality intrudes after a minute, though.
"The stuff I've been doing for money kind of depends on...not being out here."
Nod. "I'm not going to stop you from leaving, if you want. But I'm not charging rent or anything, either," she grins.
He nods.
"I just don't wanna hang around and eat your food and not help out any."
She nods. "We're really not hurting for money; I cleared out Pritruth's bank accounts after I killed him, and I still have most of that. But I hear you, it's good to feel like you're doing something useful. I do machine repair, and the art of course, and Daisy brings it into town every month to sell; you could do something like that?"
Nod.
"And, uh...I'm definitely gonna have to go sometimes. Just because otherwise I won't be seeing enough new stuff, I think."
"Yeah, of course." Pet pet. "Maybe we'll come with you sometime."
"That'd be fun."
He tries not to overestimate the action/adventure component of that trip and fails.
She chuckles. "Yeah. Been a while, for me, I'm kinda looking forward to it."
"Wonder where we'll go. Erutak's supposed to be great, except for the volcanoes...can't really afford to go to Dion-5 but it'd be kind of fun to sneak on..."
"Doesn't sound like either of those would be a problem. You might be thinking too small."
View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
