Δ = playing with their hair . ( x )
She’s exhausted – doesn’t remember the last time she’s slept ( and if she doesn’t, then Poe’s probably been up even longer than her ). But Iolo is lying pale – so pale – in the medical center bed and she can’t sleep until she knows that he’s going to be okay. Even if they’re not on the same squadron anymore — he’s hers. He can’t go before she does.
Poe shifts in the uncomfortable chair the doctors have set up for the two of them once they realized that the two pilots weren’t going anywhere despite visiting hours being long past, and she glances over at him. His face is drawn, shadows smudged under his eyes, but he doesn’t look away from Iolo, gaze still focused and solemn.
Karé tries to stifle the yawn growing in her throat, not wanting to disturb the fragile silence that’s fallen in the room, but fails — and Poe’s arm reaches to pull her towards him. Her head falls onto his shoulder and she opens her mouth to protest ( it’s not fair she can’t rest, not now — ).
“Shhh,” he silences her, voice pitched low, as if to avoid waking the Keshian, “get some rest. I’ll wake you if anything happens.”
And his fingers card through the hair that’s fallen loose from the ponytail she’d pulled them up in a long time ago, in an almost hypnotic rhythm. Her eyes fall shut, without permission. Maybe – just a few minutes.