Because I couldn’t sleep tonight, here’s another chapter of The Nakadia Job, my Leverage-inspired Rogue One AU. (I need a better graphic for this, don’t I? This doesn’t look Heist-y enough, and Kay’s not in it.)
Chapter 6: It’s a very distinctive style
“How does she do that?” Bodhi asked with some exasperation, because Jyn’s ability to go straight for the throat of a problem never failed to startle him.
Cassian’s mouth twitched into a small smile as he shrugged at his screen. “She’s good,” he said simply. Jyn hummed quietly, a soft sound that made Cassian’s mouth curve up more and made Bodhi fidget, feeling suddenly like a third wheel (or fifth wheel? Sixth? The whole team was on the comm, but Chirrut at least didn’t show any visible reaction, Baze and even Kay stayed quiet, so perhaps it was only him feeling awkward and intrusive as he listened to his friends flirt).
“We made it to the door,” Baze informed them, cutting into the moment.
“Looks like triple code Sandring tech on the lock,” Jyn said. “This is definitely the right place. It’s Imperial military grade, given out only to their favorite business partners. They put this stuff on the high-end prisons, too.” Like Wobani went unsaid, though from the silence on the comm, everyone heard it anyway.
“So that will, will take you, what, five minutes to crack?” Bodhi joked weakly, hovering his finger over the “send” button before dropping it back to his knee with a sigh.
“Please,” Jyn snorted. “Three.”