MCA #1- Saturday afternoon

[thatwaslucky]

The overall meh feeling of yesterday had carrier over into today, which Rey told herself was fine. She blamed a slow trickle of things, failings in training weeks ago that she wasn't quite over or the possibility of a friend leaving when the opportunity hadn't even happened yet, things she could ignore in the day to day until it all built up to meh.

Out of habit she tried to ignore it, and her plan of quietly translating texts was not going well. That was the point when it occurred to her that she could actually go to people about stuff/moods like this. She'd just never actually done that before.

So from her little reading book, she sent a quick text: Are you busy?


[For that guy!]

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[long_memory]

Silver had not been busy. If he ever was busy on this island something had gone terribly wrong with the universe.

He shot over a quick Be right over text before making his way across the hall and knocking on the door.

[thatwaslucky]

"It's open," she called, closing up the book to put it away.

She mostly kept her door unlocked during the day anyway. He was the only one coming over.

[long_memory]

Silver let himself in, closing the door behind him. "Hello."

[thatwaslucky]

"Hi," she said, getting up to walk over to him. "Not busy, I'm guessing?"

[long_memory]

"I can't think of what I could possibly be busy with," he said with a smile. "Everything okay?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah," Rey said, though she didn't sound sure about it. "Just kind of in a mood. I wanted to see you rather than sit with it."

[long_memory]

Silver smiled. "Well I'm happy to help out in that regard."

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh good, I can use you as a distraction," Rey teased, slipping her arms around his waist.

[long_memory]

"You definitely can," he said. "Any particular reason for your mood?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I do t know," she said. "A lot of little things, I think. All I know is I hate it."

[long_memory]

Silver put his arms around Rey to pull her closer to him. "Well is there anything we can do to make the little things go away?"

[thatwaslucky]

She loved it when he said "we" like that.

"I'd be pretty happy doing this all day," she told him.

[long_memory]

"Me too," he said, reaching for her hand. "Come on, I think we'll have a better shot maintaining the all day thing sitting down."

[thatwaslucky]

"I did the right thing by texting you," she decided, letting herself be led.

[long_memory]

"You could have done it sooner," he said, sitting down when he reached the couch. "I hate to think you've been in a bad mood all morning."

[thatwaslucky]

"I think I was being stubborn," she said, sitting and immediately curling up next to him. "And then I couldn't get anything done and kept getting more annoyed..."

[long_memory]

Silver put an arm around Rey's shoulders, leaning in to press a kiss against her temple. "Definitely call me sooner next time."

[thatwaslucky]

"I will," she promised. "It's just habit, I think."

[long_memory]

"I can understand that," he said. "Do you want to talk about what's bothering you?"

[thatwaslucky]

"I don't think it's any one thing," Rey told him. "Feeling on and off in training- yesterday was bad- and I fully expect Annie to leave, and there's some Jedi stuff..."

Which also involved finding out some stuff one might do when they're Darth Vader, and it didn't change anything, except that she had to think about it. But she couldn't say that.

[long_memory]

"That actually sounds like a lot when you say it all together," Silver said.

[thatwaslucky]

"It's not, usually. Or it doesn't feel like a lot, until I guess it does," she said. "And it's fine, overall. Just a lot on my mind."

[long_memory]

"I understand," he said, kissing the top of her head. "I can't really help with the training or the Jedi stuff, but even if Annie leaves it's not like you won't talk to her. This century has a remarkable amount of ways to keep in contact with someone. When I came from you had to write a letter and it could be weeks before someone got back to you."

[thatwaslucky]

"That sounds awful," she said honestly.

[long_memory]

"And that's if the letter reached them in the first place," Silver said. "It was a lot of waiting."