[ Bitterly, miserably, she pins him with a look. ]
Then I guess you're stuck with me until the weather clears up.
[ They won't talk about the fact that they would rather be anywhere else but with each other. For a time, she shared everything with him. It had only hurt them both in the long run. Still, the self-denial of holding herself away from him is worse than wasting away under the Jakku sun. It's not just heat bleaching her bones while she sweats out the last of the water she'd drank a day before. The Jakku sun never cared what happened to her either way.
This sun is angry at her for daring to step outside at all.
The Force had drawn them together. She spares a thought to whether this is bad luck or something else. That's the kind of thinking that got her into this in the first place, though, so she tries not to entertain destiny and higher powers for too long. The Force would work how it willed. He'd either make sense of it or ...
She doesn't have an 'or what' yet. That's her problem. She isn't ready to imagine the version of this where he doesn't come around—sooner or later. She can be patient. She just can't be patient and near him. ]
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Then I guess you're stuck with me until the weather clears up.
[ They won't talk about the fact that they would rather be anywhere else but with each other. For a time, she shared everything with him. It had only hurt them both in the long run. Still, the self-denial of holding herself away from him is worse than wasting away under the Jakku sun. It's not just heat bleaching her bones while she sweats out the last of the water she'd drank a day before. The Jakku sun never cared what happened to her either way.
This sun is angry at her for daring to step outside at all.
The Force had drawn them together. She spares a thought to whether this is bad luck or something else. That's the kind of thinking that got her into this in the first place, though, so she tries not to entertain destiny and higher powers for too long. The Force would work how it willed. He'd either make sense of it or ...
She doesn't have an 'or what' yet. That's her problem. She isn't ready to imagine the version of this where he doesn't come around—sooner or later. She can be patient. She just can't be patient and near him. ]