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[aurebesh]

I didn't say anything about a joyride!

[ technically, she has her own x-wing now! ]

If there's a lead, someone has to follow it.

[withinreach]

[ he wouldn't mind flying that x-wing himself sometime. for reasons ]

Right, and we'll decide who, when and where once we know what we're looking at.

[ aka you are not sneaking out of this base today, sweetheart ]

[aurebesh]

I know what we're looking at! A bunch of Final Order scumrats, sitting around debating how to reincarnate a dead Emperor for the third time.

Who are you going to send that's more qualified than me to handle them?

[withinreach]

We don't know that, and if it was that easy to find these guys then we would have taken care of this months ago.

I'd say keep your pants on, but feel free to leave them off.

[aurebesh]

Then what do you think it is? A knitting class?

[ he's being overprotective and it bugs her. ]

You can't treat me like an equal and then start giving orders when it suits you, Poe.

[withinreach]

I'm not saying we should take them any less seriously. You know that. But the emperor's gone and we don't have any reason to believe that anyone's trying to bring him back.

[ and he hopes they never do, but as much as he wants to rule that out permanently he knows they can't. and that gets under his skin, worrying that some decrepit abomination is always going to be looming over rey's head no matter what they do ]

This isn't even about that. We're talking leads. We still have digging to do, and I don't even know where that's going to happen yet.

[aurebesh]

But you would have talked about it — you'd have had a whole conversation when whomever you sent out came back, all while I was sitting here without pants on waiting for you to come back! And you would never have called me, would you? You'd have left me in the dark so that I wouldn't know what was going on.

[ all so that he didn't have to try and convince her to stay. ]

Unless you're placing me under watch, General, I don't need your permission to leave the base.

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[withinreach]

Rey.

I've got half a dozen reports that might or might not amount to anything at any given time, I didn't know this one was going to pan out at all until just now, you've got plenty of time to get down here to hear it with me when it gets here.

[ or she could fly off in a huff to sulk for a while, that's also an option, but given that this is text and not a shouting match he's got the restraint to not say so ]

[aurebesh]

[ she doesn't sulk!!! she runs the damn training course until she can't feel her lungs anymore, because she can't just sit still when she's this angry.

which is exactly where she's headed when the slam of a hangar door echoes through the building. ]

Hear it for yourself. I wouldn't want to get in the way of your tactical expertise on the Final Order.

[withinreach]

[ he's so close to telling her that she's being completely ridiculous and leaping to all the wrong conclusions but he eventually settles on something else ]

Fine. Let me know when you want to participate then.

[ this sounds much calmer over text than it really is ]

[aurebesh]

When you value my input, maybe I'll be able to.

[ but you won't, all but spat out between them. she kicks a slim, weathered tree trunk and watches with narrow-eyed satisfaction as it splinters and cracks in place. ]

[withinreach]

[ did he really have to fall in love with the most aggravating woman in the whole damn galaxy?]

I wouldn't have brought it up if I didn't.

[aurebesh]

[ absolutely because he's the most aggravating man ]

You could stand to act like it.

[withinreach]

[ maybe he wasn't before he met her >:| ]

Should I send a formal invitation next time?

[aurebesh]

[ nobody else thinks she's annoying!!! ]

If it would please you, General.

[withinreach]

[ they clearly don't know her as well as he does ]

It would please me if you would join me so I don't have to repeat all of this to you later.

[ don't you general him in that tone, skywalker ]

[aurebesh]

[ he's still not really giving her choices here ... so she has to be difficult. this is the way. ]

And if I don't?

[withinreach]

[ commander poe would have said a stupid thing here

general poe has decided not to ]

Then I'll wait for you.

[aurebesh]

[ hmmm. ]

You might be waiting a while, General. I don't want to keep you.

[ she does know he has other things to do. but she's thawing, somewhat. ]

[withinreach]

[ that's a slightly better tone

don't ask him how he knows. he just does ]

I will if I have to. I need you here.

[aurebesh]

You are a very difficult man, Poe Dameron.

[ she's coming, she's coming. ]

[withinreach]

That's what my best people keep telling me, so it's probably true.

[ there might even be an apology in here somewhere?? ]

[aurebesh]

Is there someone else I should know about?

[ nobody better say that to him in her tone or there might be a fight ]

[withinreach]

It's just you and Finn.

[ if anyone else is thinking it they don't dare tell him so, also he's not that stupid come on ]

And even Finn doesn't call me General in that tone.

[aurebesh]

It'd be strange for him to pull rank when it's equal, you know.

[ it's not just that. it's that there's some pleasure in it for rey, when she's in the mood to oblige him, to submit to the order of things. she doesn't often like it, but she trusts poe with that in a way she doesn't share with anyone else. not even finn. ]

Meet me outside?