He’s not the sandy-haired child she remembers.
She’s not the sixteen-year-old fireball who looked
out for him on Tatooine either.
They aren’t the same people they once were and it’s
almost chilling to realize that maybe they never really
were those people to begin with. Not really. Their destinies had
already been set, the force weaving them into the fabric of a
chaotic saga before they even realized it.
She had set the course, getting the plans for the Death Star.
He had fired the shot and completed her father’s mission.
They had both known Obi-Wan.
He was Luke Skywalker,
and she isn’t Liana
no, she was Jyn Erso
and they were both rebels now.
There hadn’t been time to speak to him before the mission, hadn’t been time to process the death of someone they both held so close to their hearts. Jyn Erso had still been in recovery-- and had nearly murdered a medical droid in her stubbornness to want to be part of the fight herself, injury be damned. Yet now an eternity was held in suspension as she stood feet away from Luke, leaning on the side of a ship to support her injured leg. She doesn’t launch into explanations, just offers two words that speak more volumes than a collection of archives. “Thank you.” And maybe that’s all she needs to say in that moment because they share an understanding that only they know.