Can we talk about Mr. Djarin and hand holding?? 🥺 Im just imagining the first brush of hands and how tense he would get and then after he had time to mull it over, he would try to "accidentally" brush against your hand again while in the ship or when you're reaching for something!! 😩
Absolutely ma’am!
The first touch is genuinely accidental and Din is so touch starved that it startles him, enough to jerk his hand away and spin around to do something else, desperately trying to pretend that it didn’t happen, even though it’s all he can think about that night and for the next few days. His heart flutters every time he reflects on it, and when your hands brush again a week later, you both reaching for Grogu’s metal ball, he ends up replaying that moment over and over again in his head too.
He doesn’t mean to continuously end up touching your hand all the time, but you always seem to be reaching for the same things, or standing so close to each other that you inevitably brush knuckles. He eventually becomes better with his reactions in such moments - he doesn’t jerk away so much and sometimes you think his hand actually lingers for a moment before he pulls away, though you’re never entirely sure when you’re so concerned with your own fluttering heart in such moments.
It’s only when you admit your feelings to each other that Din’s reaching out for your hand become intentional, and even then, at the start of your relationship, he worries that it’s not what you want. You need to be the one to initiate any hand holding a few times before he’s truly comfortable with reaching out for your hand.
Maybe you start out with ‘smaller’ hand holding in public, like your pinkies intertwined as you wander markets, it being busy enough for the contact to be mistaken as your hands simply being close together by any passing bystander.
Din is a mess the first time he holds your hand without the separation of his glove, his hand near shaking as he pulls it off. He lets out a shuddering breath and closes his eyes when your skin grazes his, slowly slowly wrapping your fingers around his hand. ‘Your skin is softer than I imagined,’ you mumble, and that’s enough for Din to let out a nervous chuckle and release the tension held in his shoulders.
He comes to adore holding your hand at night especially, even if he’s nearly on top of you he has to have your hand in his, and if you separate during the night, he picks it back up first thing in the morning and presses a sloppy kiss to your knuckles or palm as a ‘good morning’.
He comes a long way from the first time you two brushed hands. 💕
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