Cassian woke up, a cold sweat covered his entire body. He was on his ship, traveling toward Yavin 4, with his prisoner, Jyn Erso, Chirrut, Baze and his droid, K2S0. He sat up, taking a deep breath. It had all been a dream. The fall of Scarif, his demise, had just been a dream. A dream not easily shaken, but a dream nonetheless. The holo-clock that sat on his nightstand told him that it was 2:30am, standard time. Quietly, he got out of bed and walked down the corridor of his ship toward the cockpit. He was surprised to see Jyn sitting in the co-pilot seat, next to K2S0. Chirrut and Baze, were no doubt, sleeping. Cassian silently walked toward the pilot's seat, just as he touched K2S0's metal shoulder, Jyn jumped and gasped.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to startle you. Have you slept?" He asked Jyn. Jyn shook her head.
"I tried. I couldn't." She started. Cassian nodded, understanding the problem all too well himself.
"I couldn't either. I had an odd dream. It woke me up." Cassian wondered if explaining his dream was a good idea. There were countless ways that sharing his dream could end awkwardly for him.
"We were on Scarif?" Jyn asked. Her voice seemed far away, as if she was trying to recall every small detail of a dream that wasn't even hers. Cassian nodded. "The planet was imploding. We were on the beach, watching it burn. We were going to die." Jyn continued recalling details of the dream. Cassian blinked a few times, unsure of what he was hearing. It was exactly what happened in his dream.
"How did you know?" Cassian asked. K2S0 had remained oddly silent up until that point.
"I would suggest that she can read minds. That's ludicrous, however. The probability of two people having the same dream is astronomically low, Cassian." K2S0 explained.
"I never have liked betting against the odds, but I'm sure we had the same dream, Cassian." Jyn said. K2S0 lifted himself out of the pilot's chair and Cassian immediately took his place, suddenly very tired and needing to sit.
"What could it mean?" Cassian mused.
"That I'm not going to Scarif." Jyn laughed.
"It is not recommended." K2 responded, robotically. "I'm going to power down for a while, Cassian." The droid added, leaving the cockpit.
After K2S0 left, Cassian and Jyn talked for a long time about their shared dream. It was a dream so vivid, Cassian could feel the heat from the burning planet on his skin when he first woke. It could have been real, he could have been on Scarif, and now, he was reliving his life. He had read about people saying that they see their whole life flash before their eyes when they are close to death. He couldn't remember this moment, though. The trip to Yavin 4 had been uneventful, as far as he could recall.
"Let's not go to Yavin 4." Jyn suggested, suddenly, after a few moments of silence. "I don't want to go." Cassian knew the tone of her voice so well. She was pleading. Not for her life, like he was used to hearing, but for a second chance. She was innocent, being forced to live out her father's punishment. Cassian bit his bottom lip, considering what she was asking him to do. She was asking him to abandon the rebellion. To let someone so important walk away would surely ruin his career. To force her to stay with him, and go to Yavin 4, could potentially kill her. Cassian was no stranger to having blood on his hands. He was a rebel. Her blood, he did not want on his conscience, though, she was innocent, dragged into unfortunate circumstances. She had lost her father, not once, but twice, and she was dealing with that. He knew what that was like. He had lost people, too. Loss was an emotion that Cassian was not very well equipped to handle.
"Where would I take you?" He finally asked.
"Anywhere but there. What do I tell them, anyway? That I have secret plans that my father passed onto me, moments before his death? I would be ridiculed, laughed at. Take me anywhere, but Yavin 4."
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