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Poe "Fite Me" Dameron ([personal profile] flightforfreedom) wrote in [community profile] sekkritaus2018-12-02 01:12 am
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ct_7567: (NO HELMET - arms crossed and looking sli)

[personal profile] ct_7567 2018-12-07 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
I've never been coy in my life.

[ ...okay, that one's probably not a lie. It's not in Rex's make-up. But he stops to consider what Poe says, not because he understands it, but because it's obviously important to him. Hell, it's important to Andy too, if she stormed out over it. He can't place a single time when he'd felt jealous of Andy about anything other than her prowess in a fight or, perhaps, the fact that she always manages to fire off one-liners before he gets his out. But when it comes to Poe? He can't imagine why he'd be jealous, or upset. Andy deserves goodness in her life, and so does Poe - them together just means that they got to stumble into it together. To feel jealous of such a thing seems to Rex a decidedly selfish notion.

There's just one thing he doesn't understand. ]

What made you think we weren't already happy? With the way things were?

[ So he loves them. That idea will take time to get used to. He knows that. But how it changes things, concretely, in their day-to-day is absolutely negligible. He'll still have their back, and they'll still have his. They'll still be together, to hell with Andy's whims. What more is there to it? ]
flightforfreedom: (is that what we're doing now?)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-07 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't say I thought you weren't. I said I wanted you guys to be as happy as I am.

[ Which was why he was now starting to feel so honestly guilty for even bringing it up. ]

I'm sure it would have been fine if we just - ignored it - but that's pretty rich coming from me. I'm obviously getting the best end of the deal.

[ He faltered, trying to come up with the right words to explain. When he spoke again, it was carefully. ]

It's like - it's like being in a squadron of fighters, right? We work good together. But all of my maneuvers are either with you or Andy. And every time I think about it, I can see a hundred thousand ways that we could be so much better if our attack runs used all three of us. [ He's really stretching this metaphor, but... ] We're always better together, Rex. The three of us.

And because whatever either of you say about it, I would have to be a blind hutt not to know how much you guys want to be together, too. It just - it makes sense.
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[personal profile] ct_7567 2018-12-09 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Poe thinks he's the one getting the best end of the deal? That makes Rex look even more skeptical than ever. Maybe they'd all been aimless at the beginning, but Rex had been the one on the run, unable to meet anyone he could possibly trust. No friends, no families, no allies, not a friendly face in sight. And somehow, impossibly, he'd wound up with two people not only willing to stay by his side but people he wants by his side - good, noble, brave, foolhardy people he can trust with his life. He doesn't need the word love bandied about to get the good end of this deal.

He has a life now. A happy one. It's something he'd never dared dream of before and something he's still astonished he's got now. Sure, the idea of - of maneuvers with Andy is -- well. She's an remarkable woman, isn't she? Coy at times and fierce at others, as enchanting as any gussied up noble that Rex has ever seen, even when covered with grime and blood, a wild grin on her face, in any of her many moods. And perhaps he's heard and known that they're - maneuvering, which is not without some accompanying --

Well. Rex coughs and looks away, his neck and ears beginning to burn traitorously in a way that means that he knows he's flushing. ]

I think it's fair to say we are as happy as you are, [ he says, voice tight in a way that has nothing to do with being upset with Poe. All this business is just a bit embarrassing. He's out of his depth, every step of the way. ] But regardless of how all this pans out, we need to go find her.
flightforfreedom: (you're my whole world bro)

[personal profile] flightforfreedom 2018-12-09 12:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ The blush was - well - really fucking cute, and Poe felt a surge of affection run through him. Affection, and then relief: Yeah. He was right. He'd been pretty damn sure he was right, but Andy had thrown him off, so it was a relief to get some kind of confirmation that wasn't "thou protest too much". The 'regardless of how this pans out' was more worrying - if only because it reminded Poe that there were a few different ways it could go- but he nodded. ]

Yeah. Though Force knows if she doesn't want to be found-- [ He was still frustrated and annoyed, but he was a lot calmer than he had been. ]

We'll find her. She'll come back.

I'm going to go grab BB-8 - she can't resist him, at least.

[ He moved as if to head off to another area of the ship, but stopped before he passed Rex. He put a hand on his arm, squeezing it gently, and then - a little compulsively, and the first time he's really done it outside of Rex's quarters - pressed a quick kiss to the clone's cheek. ]

Let's go.

[ Then he was off, calling for BB-8 as he went. ]
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