[Was he ever? he's really not sure if it's a trait he never had, or one Snoke wiped from him.]
do you want me to be?[Sober save for panic, he was ready to burn everything down for her. Drunk, he'd try to be kind. He'd probably fail miserably, but he'd try.]
i remember everything as well. i remember how you looked at me when i arrived on your ship in the capsule. you were the first thing i saw when the air cleared. you looked as though you'd fixed your hair.
[ she had too - prepped and primped for their meeting, as though it were for something momentous. ]
if i'm all that you have now, you should be by my side.
[he has a dying battery and corellian lum, he has nothing to lose!!]
I did
[wait]
that's just how it is
[??????????????????????????
The truth is, he'd felt that sense of gravitas as well. He's struggling to recapture it now, communicator in one hand and bottle in the other. Not doing a great job of it.]
you should be here
[It's just text, it can't be as plaintiff and small as he feels.]
[ she has to suppress a smile, not for the first time since receiving these messages. ah, if she were just there to see him like this. ]
you're sure that's just how your hair is? or did you comb it and smooth it down, in anticipation of seeing me on your ship?
[ most awkward first date ever - culminating in the murder of a lazy magician and all of his guards - but certainly no one can say it wasn't exciting. ]
i don't even know what 'lum' is. what is it? what's it taste like? [ the only thing she's ever tasted alcohol-wise is knockback nectar on Jakku, which...well, don't ask, Ben. ]
and you do have great hair, by the way. it's very fluffy. maybe if i were there with you, i could braid it for you.
and if i braided your hair, it would stay out of your eyes, that way. [ better for lightsaber duels, and, you know, other stuff. ] i might not be very good at it, but i could at least try.
i like that i make you think. [ he's said a lot of incriminating things over the course of this conversation, but that happens to be one of the cutest. ]
but i can't come try it now. i can't imagine your generals and officers in the first order would want me stopping by for a drink with you and braid your hair.
[ no worries, ben, she'll replay everything she's read in her mind for him later on. and write it down in her chicken-scratch handwriting just in case she might forget. ]
i can't —
[ but just as quickly she re-assesses, considering. she could come in secret; with snoke gone, ben is literally the only force-sensitive who would possibly sense her sneaking aboard. ]
is there any maintenance being done on any of the security systems? or the ship hangars?
Snoke's guards are dead, and there's no one left who could feel her arrival. It's smarter than he thought when he first typed it. Let's be real, he's not thinking logically: he just wants to see her]
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[ when you drop that kind of bombshell, ben?
yes. yes it is. ]
you say a lot of things; not all of them kind and heartfelt.
[ ...but, she knows deep down that they are rarely falsehoods.
ben doesn't lie to her. ]
no subject
[Was he ever? he's really not sure if it's a trait he never had, or one Snoke wiped from him.]
do you want me to be?[Sober save for panic, he was ready to burn everything down for her. Drunk, he'd try to be kind. He'd probably fail miserably, but he'd try.]
no subject
[ even luke skywalker, legend that he was. ]
you were kind to me on ahch-to, after we'd spoken a few times. [ after she'd stopped trying to shoot him in the stomach. ]
do you remember?
wow what html did I even use up there
i remember everything with you
[Is that too much?? It might be too much.
Nah.]
you're all I have now [THAT WAS PROBABLY TOO MUCH
nah]
outside the first order
idk but it was unique! :D
i remember everything as well. i remember how you looked at me when i arrived on your ship in the capsule. you were the first thing i saw when the air cleared. you looked as though you'd fixed your hair.
[ she had too - prepped and primped for their meeting, as though it were for something momentous. ]
if i'm all that you have now, you should be by my side.
no subject
I did
[wait]
that's just how it is
[??????????????????????????
The truth is, he'd felt that sense of gravitas as well. He's struggling to recapture it now, communicator in one hand and bottle in the other. Not doing a great job of it.]
you should be here
[It's just text, it can't be as plaintiff and small as he feels.]
LFMSKGJ nice save there, ben
you're sure that's just how your hair is? or did you comb it and smooth it down, in anticipation of seeing me on your ship?
[ most awkward first date ever - culminating in the murder of a lazy magician and all of his guards - but certainly no one can say it wasn't exciting. ]
2/2
no subject
[huff!! there's a pause while he thinks.]
you could help me with this lum
no subject
and you do have great hair, by the way. it's very fluffy. maybe if i were there with you, i could braid it for you.
no subject
it's terrible
[This is why he needs help!!]
why would you braid it?? [Not that he would refuse, because. It's her.]
no subject
and if i braided your hair, it would stay out of your eyes, that way. [ better for lightsaber duels, and, you know, other stuff. ] i might not be very good at it, but i could at least try.
no subject
you keep making me think
[don't lie benlo you think about her all the time anyway]
oh
you should come try now
no subject
but i can't come try it now. i can't imagine your generals and officers in the first order would want me stopping by for a drink with you and braid your hair.
no subject
you're the reason i don't want to think
[She makes everything more complicated, harder to puzzle through.]
you could come in secret
[don't make him think this through.]
no subject
i can't —
[ but just as quickly she re-assesses, considering. she could come in secret; with snoke gone, ben is literally the only force-sensitive who would possibly sense her sneaking aboard. ]
is there any maintenance being done on any of the security systems? or the ship hangars?
no subject
working!!!
Snoke's guards are dead, and there's no one left who could feel her arrival. It's smarter than he thought when he first typed it. Let's be real, he's not thinking logically: he just wants to see her]
think so
yes
d sector port side
you can come right through an airlock
no subject
the question is: should she risk it, for him? (...as if she'd get nothing out of this, herself.) ]
you're sure?
i'm warning you now, if your stormtroopers are waiting for me, they're going out that airlock.
no subject
not even the janitors
i wouldn't even care if you did though
[THe only thing he'd be put out about is that it wasn't FN-2187, probably.]
how long??