Cassian sat in normal clothes next to Jyn, as people walked up and down the empty corridor as they weren't there at all.
"They said it would be a nice place," said Jyn, after a while.
Cassian nodded.
"Near the city centre," Jyn continued. "But just not in the nicest place because there weren't any council houses in the most expensive part of the city."
Cassian nodded again.
"They said it was going to be clean and safe, though."
Cassian took a deep breath, and nodded again. He felt Jyn's hand grasp his own, and he turned towards her.
"Cassian, are you alright?"
He nodded, and saw Jyn raise an eyebrow.
"I was just thinking about our friends," he said. "And if they survived like us."
In truth, that hadn't been the main thing on Cassian's mind. What he had initially been thinking about was the verbal dressing down him and Jyn had received over the past few days by these police people.
They had learnt some useful things. There was a police force, they were forbidden to use any aggressive forms of physical violence unless in exceptional circumstances and upon first impressions Cassian thought that this world must be peaceful indeed if all their police people needed to do was walk around and talk to people in order to resolve any crimes.
But he had found the interrogations draining, even from the comfort of his hospital bed.
After three days of questions and questions and more questions the police had come to this conclusion: Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor had been two young backpackers that had been mugged and attacked as they travelled through Fordham. Jyn and Cassian's inability to describe where they came from or in fact, any precise details about their past only served to cement the notion that the severity of their attack had left them with some kind of amnesia, with multiple doctors convinced that with therapy any repressed memories of the attack would resurface.
Jyn and Cassian had been quite still when they heard the police make their decision quietly in the corner of Cassian's room. Jyn had come up with the backpacking story after hearing some story on the news, and the rest neither of them even had to attempt making up, for as their fictional story suggested, neither of them truly knew where they were.
"Mr Andor? Miss Erso?" said a voice.
The two of them turned to look up at the social worker that stood outside her door smiling at them. They followed her into her office and took seats in front of her neat, organised desk.
"How are you both doing?" she asked gently. "Feeling better? The hospital report says that you're in the all clear which is absolutely wonderful."
Beside him Jyn nodded.
"We're both feeling very well, thank you," she said politely.
"I'm glad," the woman replied. "Well, I'm ready to take you to your new home if you're ready to go. I've all the paperwork with me, so I thought it would be nice to get it sorted over there, hm?"
For the first time in over a week Jyn and Cassian were led outside the hospital into the world beyond. Both had been dressed in civilian clothes from this new world that had been donated to the hospital. Cassian knew that Jyn had tried to make a case for them keeping the clothing they had come in, but the hospital had insisted that their old clothes be burned as they were apparently far too filthy for recovering patients to be wearing.
So, dressed in clean t-shirts and jumpers, Jyn and Cassian stood outside the entrance of the Royal Guildshire Hospital as the social worker - who went by the name Jenny - drove a vehicle known in this world as a 'car' came round to pick them up.
She poked her head out of the driver's seat window as pulled up.
"Go on, get in," she said.
Jyn and Cassian shared a glance before he tentatively pulled on what looked like a handle which swung the door open, and the two of them got inside.
They both stared out of the car windows as Jenny drove away from the hospital and towards the town of Fordham. This world was very different from any of the ones Cassian had known. There were buildings, concrete buildings but also plenty of greenery too. People walked with children and animals along pavements, adverts graced sidewalks selling food, toys and the like. It seemed that at no point were these people worried that some ships would descend from the sky and ruin their lives. Every day that passed Cassian became more and more certain that his dream of a new life, a peaceful life, was becoming a reality, but he still wasn't sure if he was able to believe it.
The car pulled up outside a plain, rectangular looking building that Cassian noticed was opposite a school.
"Here we are," said Jenny. "Iris Court. I'm very sure you'll like it here."
And the thing of it was that Cassian did. Sure, it wasn't the neat little farmhouse he pictured in his head but it felt like a home. There were two bedrooms, a clean bathroom, a living room and a kitchen all painted in shades varying from eggshell blue to beige. The countertops were clean, some shiny screen called a television was placed amongst some cosy looking sofas and each bed was big enough to fit not one but two people.
Out of the corner of his eye Cassian looked over at Jyn as Jenny sat down at the dining table and began to take papers out of her bag. Jyn visited each room multiple times, her face looking passive and unmoving, but her eyes wide.
"Cassian, Jyn - may I call you Cassian and Jyn? - would you like to come here?"
Cassian walked over to the woman and saw where she had drawn little crosses on lines printed on the forms in front of her.
"If you'll both just sign there and there it'll mean the apartment is under your care and that you've agreed to the visitations of a social worker once a week in order to check up on how you're doing."
Jyn signed first, her eyes still roving around the room as she did so before passing the pen to Cassian, who followed suit.
"Fabulous," said Jenny, who fished out a black plastic file and placed it on the table.
"Here," she said. "Here are the manuals for the apartment. I noticed there's no computer in here so I'll get someone to send down a cheap laptop for you."
Cassian didn't quite listen as the woman rambled on, then packed up her things, left their keys and some cash on the table 'so they could purchase some food' and left.
The two of the them stood there in silence for some time after the door shut on them.
Jyn turned to Cassian, about to speak when he strode over to her and pulled her in a tight embrace.
"Is this all real?" he heard her ask, as she returned the hug.
"You know," he said, feeling his stomach grumble just a little. "I'm starting to think it just might be."
Cassian smiled to himself. It might not be a farmhouse just yet... but perhaps one day it might be.
"Let's get some food?" he heard Jyn say.
He nodded.
"Let's."
