[ WELL HE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THE LONGER SPEECH THEN ]
Army Captain.
[ she tries to remember all the people she'd met on yavin 4, but the majority of them were in intelligence. there was that ginger pilot at the command meeting though, he'd have been navy. ]
Yes. When necessary I have command of troops or units, and sometimes that may extend to all the people on board a ship, but when that happens we were usually on our way towards a mission.
[he was not prepared at all for this train of thought. there is no rebellion here, but it's been easy to at least fall back on old habits, on digging around, a pseudo-reconnaissance. it's too instinctive to do anything but spy. he let himself fall into it because he didn't want to think about being dead or anything else.]
[she's right though. he doesn't have to. but when he thinks about not being a spy, he just feels...lost. he tried to make a better choice, he knows why he went to scarif, to do better, but it ended there.]
[what. what?? he feels like he did something wrong but he is also feeling kind of mentally dizzy so he stares at the text for an unusually obscene amount of time. how does jyn manage to do this to him??]
[Honestly, whipping up a batch of cupcakes doesn't take all that long; even decorating them only eats up about half an hour of his time all up, so he can easily make it to Cassian's by early evening. He thought taking a cab would cut down on his likelihood of running into a ghost, but he was just like, super wrong.
By the time he makes it up to the 11th floor (no elevators), Barbara's ghost is ranting angrily behind him, gesturing at the roughly axed sized dent in his waist. The ghost has almost, but not quite, been cleft in twain.]
Did you kill little Jerry too, huh? Is that the kinda guys you are? Did you chop him in half? What about regular Jerry?
[Taako knocks on the door, rolling his eyes.]
I don't fucking remember, but we did kill Marvey. Twice. That fucker came back for round two and we got him again, so I dunno what you're hoping to achieve here, my dude.
[cassian is deliberating what to make for dinner when he hears the knock at the door. in his strange desire to surprise jyn with cupcakes he neglected to mention someone would be coming over, and it's not like they get visitors. maybe he should have gone with magic.]
[but she's burrowed in blankets and reading so he gets to the door first and doesn't say anything along the way. mostly because it sounds like taako is talking to someone outside too.]
[cassian opens the door only about two inches at first, warily looking out.]
[a ghost, of course. he doesn't know if that's better or worse than another actual person.] You've brought company.
Yeah, sorry, this is uh... what was your name, dipshit?
[The ghost manages to look even more pissed off, with that.]
It's Barbara! You couldn't even find out my name after you and your friends murdered me?
[Taako shrugs, clearly not even a little bit bothered by the entire situation going on here. There are plenty of ghost that could upset him, but Barbara is not one of them.
Instead, he holds up the white cardboard box, which is likely full of cupcakes. Just based on context cues.]
[taako seems unconcerned about the apparition, but cassian is not interested in the slightest in a murdered ghost. murdered ghosts are the reason he does not want to leave the house at all if possible! too many corpses in his wake okok.]
[he opens the door a little bit more.] If he's not going to follow you, you can bring them inside.
[Taako seems to consider this, working out how to get rid of Barbara, and then goes with something simple. He makes a point of putting his hand on the umbra staff, where it's hooked on his belt, and Barbara glances at it nervously.]
You can't do shit, I'm a ghost!
[He doesn't sound too convinced.]
And I'm a wizard, my dude, you think I can't fuck up a ghost?
[A few more seconds of consideration, and Barbara seems to fall through the floor, disappearing.]
Sorry about that, I guess he was pissed cause we killed him, not like he wasn't a crook anyway.
[Barbara did crimes, that makes the murder okay???]
[ SO WITHOUT CONTEXT THIS IS THE ODDEST CONVERSATION TO HEAR HALF OF? which is most of what pulls jyn out of her blankets, still holding her book when she pads over, expression wary. ]
We have guests?
[ IN UR HOUSE THAT SHE HAS NO CLAIM OVER AT ALL? hdu make unilateral decisions in your own home, cassian, wow. it's almost like jyn doesn't actually live here. ]
[part of him may have wanted taako to use whatever magic, because he's talked about it a lot, but cassian's seen very little of it. if anything, the easy admission of killing the guy makes cassian feel better about his decision to Avoid Situations.]
[he does not look back at jyn when she comes over, just opens the door enough to finally let taako inside.] Just one, with a delivery.
Unless your ghost friend decides to come back. He seemed a little pressed about the apparent murder.
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