Poe/Jess
Fair, but being stuck in perpetual rookiehood while grounded sucks. For the record.
Caring hurts. I know. I learned that early on. And it's worse with the resistance in some ways. Every mission might be our last. And with Starkiller, well, that's the norm, not the exception. I don't think you ever get used to that. Maybe you need to if you're going to be in command, I don't know. Caring makes you a good commander, Poe, even if it makes it harder.
I'm sorry, about your wing-man, really. That couldn't have been easy.
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Is this a big explanation as to why you'd have no issues sleeping with Wedge but I'm off limits to you?
When I flew for the military before I joined the resistance, it was always that the squadron comes first. Keep romance out of it. The stakes are higher in the resistance, I get that. And I have no intentions of falling for anyone. Not when I might disappear here any day. Or they might disappear. Not when back home everything is borrowed time. Sex is another thing.
Sleeping with people doesn't necessarily mean you're going to care about them more. Sometimes it's just stress relief or mutual attraction and desire.
Long story short: Not going to screw up the friendship with Wedge, even if I- Didn't mean to drag you in the middle of all this. But it's sorted out now.