#ohbeeone

This is my EXCEPTIONALLY LATE rebelcaptain secret santa gift for @ohbeeone! I’m so sorry we were never able to catch each other, and that tumblr kept eating messages, but here’s your gift!!!

Your prompt included wanting something “Slice of Life”, which I had never really heard of or done before, so of course, I had to give it a go! A part of my research said that slice of life should be short and just a brief glimpse, but keeping it short? Me? Impossible! So instead, I went with two glimpses that are tied together, sort of!

Merry Christmas, my dear, and Happy New Year as well!

Rebelcaptain Modern College AU Word Count: 2284 Rating: General Prompt: Slice of Life

Cassian’s alarm goes off first.

In a house with six total people, Cassian has learned over the years that getting up first is a requirement to his own peace of mine. Getting up first means that he has first access to the only bathroom in the house. Getting up first means that he can make the coffee how he likes it, and enjoy a second cup before anyone else appears. Getting up first means that he can sit in peace at the table, reviewing the latest additions to his thesis that he had been working on late into the night before.

He’s not the first one that will leave the house that he shares with the rest of his friends, but is instead the last, but getting up first means that he gets to enjoy the best things… like time with Jyn.

Jyn is always the second to rise, despite the fact that she is not a morning person. Professor Krennic apparently despises her for some unknown reason that Jyn refuses to share, which means that she teaches his eight am Monday Wednesday Friday History 101, and his seven-thirty Tuesday Thursday History 102. She doesn’t hog the bathroom like Bodhi does, and showers the night before, so her routine is fast and easy, but she does require time to wake up, and at least two cups of coffee, before she can leave for class.

Cassian always makes enough for both of them, so that when Jyn comes down the steps from her attic bedroom, there’s a cup waiting for her at the table.

She says nothing, eyes still half closed as she sinks into her seat beside him, and it’s not until she’s halfway into the cup that she finally even acknowledges his presence, her head simple falling to the side. He knows that her eyes are open, reading over the last two paragraphs that he is working on, but she says nothing, just lets out a sigh.

They sit in silence together, the only sound the clicking of his fingers on his keyboard, and her sipping at her coffee.

I see what you did there... very clever! It would serve you right if I cheated & posted one sentence for all of you. 😉

A bang on the door startled her. “Who’s in there? Hurry up!”

Jyn couldn’t move. She became aware that her hands were clenched on the cold marble of the sink basin, her shaking arms barely holding up her weight.

omg i’d be so terrified to actually write and post a lotr oc haha! which is funny cause my veeerrrry first fanfic that i ever wrote was a legolas/oc. but i feel like i don’t know enough about the works anymore to do it justice!

although if i DID write an lotr oc then you and i could do CROSSOVERS which would be SO MUCH FUN.

17. Do you write your story from start to finish, or do you write the scenes out of order?

i try to write things roughly in order, but i tend to end up skipping around within chapters, especially if i get stuck and there’s a part coming up that i know i want to include and get to. i will occasionally write bits for future chapters, but those almost always end up being edited out of existence by the time i actually come to them.

18. Do you use any tools, like worksheets or outlines?

i have… tried. many times. in the end, though, i’m just one of those ‘seat of my pants’ types of writers. even my vague outlines that just sort of sketch the broad strokes of what’s in my head get ignored more often than not.

37. Talk about your current wips.

buh. my big current ones are the ffxii au, which it both a bit on the back-burner because of the may-4th exchange, and also because i’ve kind of hit a plot snag (because tbh the point in the plot it’s reached is one of my least favorite parts of the game) and i’m trying to work out how to translate the whole sequence into fic without just sort of… throwing it all out whole-cloth. the upshot is, luke is involved in this part! like, really big involvement, and the only reason that i didn’t just skip over it entirely.

also, melody and silence, which i’m hoping to get at least most of the next part done this weekend, if i can’t finish it and get it posted. there’ll be a lot more of the actual fake-married plot and high-stakes intrigue and an alarmingly familiar droid that won’t leave the room no matter what they do. also included: jyn learns new things about herself, re: whatever the opposite of a kink is, cassian is a scary good poker player, but horribly unlucky at roulette (he hopes this isn’t a sign), and a conversation is had regarding whether droids even can have free will.

Hello, @ohbeeone! It’s me, your Secret Valentine! :) It was really fun to write something that’s just straight-up happy (especially since it totally turned into Let’s Find Ways to Make Cassian Happy, and c’mon, who wouldn’t want to rise up to that challenge? ;) ), and to kind of collate a bunch of positive, long-term headcanons. I hope that you like it!!

Anyway: On Cassian’s 50th birthday, he and Jyn receive a group of visitors, and an unexpected gift.

Cassian stood on the back porch and watched the horizon turn violet-grey.

He had always been an early riser, and had always been able to function on little sleep. He’d never minded it; it had come in handy, over the course of his career. But in the recent past, through no effort or desire of his own, he’d found himself waking earlier, earlier, and earlier, regardless when he went to bed, and regardless how hard he tried to sleep in. The sunrise, and the special sort of stillness that preceded it, had become very familiar to him.

He’d heard it said that the dwindling need for sleep was a sign of aging. That couldn’t be so, because he was definitely not aging. Never mind what day it happened to be.

A thin line of pink stretched out beneath the violet. The tops of the mountains -- at least a hundred kilometers distant -- grew visible, tinged blue, and in the valley, he could make out clusters of trees and houses. A wonderful view, he thought, as he did most every morning. They’d lucked out with their housing on this installation. Then again, given their positions and status, it wasn’t really luck at all.

The door opened and closed behind him. There were footsteps, light and measured. He smiled. She always walked that way, cautious and ready. She’d be pissed, he thought, if she knew how good he was at recognizing her from that alone, even when they weren’t at home and he had no reason to expect her.

“How long have you been out here?” Jyn asked. She drew up beside him and handed him a mug. The scent of caf wafted up to him.

He breathed. “An hour, roughly.”

She lifted a second mug to her lips. Took a long draught. The air filled with a burst of birdsong. “You know, you’re getting…”

“Don’t you dare say it.”

…as a ‘yes’. (also for @whindsor)

Hello @ohbeeone! I’m your RebelCaptain Secret Santa giftee and I really hope you’ll enjoy the story I wrote from you based on the following prompt:

Something about family, be it the team as a found family or Jyn and Cassian's actual extended family or Jyn and Cassian having kiddos and starting their own family. Preferably on the side of happy instead of heavy angst! :)

Well, this was certainly something I enjoyed writing, especially because it gave me the opportunity to explore and write about several headcanons I had for RebelCaptain and Rogue One for what they do after the war.

This story is set in a “lighter” AU where the past of a few characters is a bit different, but I hope that does not effect the original idea of the prompt!

This story includes: RebelCaptain goes to university, what all of them do after the war, an interesting “job” for Jyn and Cassian and the surprise that is Amazing Drave.

Special thanks to @letthepeoplesay-oh and @pingou7 for their quality control beta-read and to @theputterer and @callioope! Their magnificent stories were a huge inspiration for the post-Jakku period.

You can read the story, titled “Rogue One Day” here! I hope you’ll have as much fun reading it as I had writing it! :)

Excerpt under the cut:

I was tagged by @ninquetolliel Thanks so much! :D

The Lion King

Galaxy Quest

Pride and Prejudice

How to Train Your Dragon 1&2

Spirited Away

entire Jurassic Park series