One of the biggest lessons Poe learns with Rey is patience. He has always been the type to jump in headfirst and think things through later, and it's served him well up until now. In most ways, she has the same approach – but not when it comes to discussing emotions and showing vulnerability. That's one area where her preference is to overthink forever and act never.
A few weeks into dancing around their feelings, he's ready to lay all his cards out on the table so they can move forward. After all, what's the point in waiting and delaying the future it's clear they both want?
But he knows her well enough by now to know she's still overwhelmed by all of it. If he tells her everything he's feeling and makes her confront her own emotions, she'll bolt faster than the Millennium Falcon. Understandable or not, that's something he's not sure his pride can get over.
So he waits. He tries to show her how he feels in his actions – by bringing her dinner when she's caught up in her work, joining in on her farfetched schemes, and praising her at every opportunity – and he trusts that someday soon, she'll be ready too.
A/N: Prompt: 'This bridge will only take you halfway there.' from This Bridge by Shel Silverstein
