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Leia must’ve slept in the library that night.
Jyn remembered Leia leaving pretty late, holding the golden egg and muttering something about using dark magic if she damn well had to. The door had barely shut before Jyn whipped out a quill and tore off a piece of parchment, scribbling Leia’s gone, come over , rolled it up, and cast a quick charm on it, sending it fluttering through the castle, up from the dungeons through air ducts and pipes to reach the Ravenclaw tower.
“You must’ve finished the book.” Cassian smirked when he’d shown up at her door.
“Yes, it was riveting. Who knew there could be so many genetic mutations in sea monsters.” She grinned and leaned against the doorframe.
“It was dragons.” He said.
“Hm.” She said disinterestedly, but pulled Cassian in by his collar and pressed her lips to his, muffling a surprised noise from Cassian. He caught her, wrapping his strong arms around her waist and pulling her closer, tracing a hand up to tangle in her hair, and dropping the other to the small of her back.
They stumbled backwards, Jyn pushing him forward until Cassian fell backward onto her bed. She stood back for a second, admiring the sight of the dark haired Ravenclaw’s disheveled hair and intense eyes staring up at her. His cheeks were flushed and his lips were parted, expecting another kiss. It really was a gorgeous sight.
Then he pouted at her and she laughed, shedding her sweater and climbed onto the bed and into Cassian’s lap.
She really meant to make him go back to his room, after all, she wasn’t sure when Leia was getting back, but when the dim rays of sunlight that reached her window from the lake woke her, Leia’s bed was still empty.
Her own, however, was not.
Cassian was still asleep, arms wrapped around her and legs tangled together. There was no way Jyn was getting up soon, not that she wanted to anyways. Cassian’s presence was warm and comforting, she could’ve lay there forever.
Cassian stirred, pulling away slightly to stretch, and Jyn huffed at the loss of warmth.
“Since you aren’t freaking out, I guess that means Leia’s not back yet.” He muttered, words still slurred by sleep.
“Didn’t come back last night.” She said, rolling over to face him. “I think we’re in the clear.”
She spoke to soon, Cassian pressed closer to her and closed his eyes, intent on going back to sleep, when Jyn heard footsteps right outside the door.
“Shit, that’s Leia!” Jyn hissed, and Cassian was immediately awake.
“Are you sure?” He asked.
“Do you want to stick around to find out. Under the covers, now .”
Cassian ducked and Jyn shoved him to the space where her bed met the wall and threw a few pillows on top of him right as the doorknob rattled and Leia’s head poked in the door.
“You look like shit.” Jyn remarked, heart still racing. Leia shot her a sleepy glare. One of her buns was still in, but the other was undone and fluffed up with bedhead. Her eyes had dark circles underneath and looked like she’d crawled back from death.
“Yeah, well I think I’ve got a lead on the egg. But it could just be another dead end.” She shrugged, dumping her bag on her bed and rubbing at her eyes. “But fuck if I’m going to make myself pretty for dance lessons with Kenobi today.”
Jyn’s stomach dropped, and she felt Cassian’s arm shoot out to grab hers under the pile of blankets.
“What?”
“You didn’t hear?” Leia asked. “Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs are doubling up, Slytherins and Ravenclaws are learning together. Guess they didn’t trust dad to teach us alone. I mean, pretty valid in all honesty.”
Leia talked quickly as she shed last night’s clothes and pulled on jeans and a Slytherin sweater, Jyn sat up in bed, with the sheets clutched to her chest. Somehow she had to distract Leia and let Cassian escape, but her roommate was in no rush to leave. She was rummaging around her desk for her makeup bag and cursing the whole time. All the while Jyn can picture Cassian’s frustrated frown, which probably complimented her tight lipped “everything-is-totally-fine” look.
“Hey,” She started cautiously. “Wanna grab breakfast?”
Leia shook her head and rolled her eyes.
“Ate a thing of Bertie Botts last night.” She said, like it constituted a meal.
“Damn, all of them?” Jyn asked.
“Yeah, downed them all in one go.” Leia said, staring into her own dead eyes in the mirror. “Can’t taste ‘em if you eat them all at once. It just all tastes,”
“Bad?” Jyn guessed. Leia nodded. “Come on, if we have to sit through dancing with the Ravenclaws you’re gonna want coffee, at the least.”
“I’m gonna need something stronger than coffee.” Leia grumbled. “But I don’t suppose you’re too upset about that.”
“Dancing?” She asked innocently. “I haven’t danced in a while, but I do like it.”
“I imagine there’s a Ravenclaw you’ll want to see.” Leia smirked at her. “Did Cassian ever take his sweater back?”
Jyn’s heart dropped into her stomach. The sweater in question was sitting at the end of her bed, in her heated frenzy last night it slipped her mind to hide it under her bed like she usually did.
Leia would claim that she secretly wanted her to find it, probably. A freudian slip or whatever. Something like that.
“That’s Luke’s.” She lied. “He must’ve left it here at some point.”
“Last I checked, Luke was still about as tall as a third year.” Leia said without looking up. “But who knows. Maybe it was from the lost and found.”
“Yeah. Yeah that was it.” Jyn laughed nervously. “You’re right.”
“You know what, I’m gonna take a shower.” Leia decided after assessing her tangled hair. “If I’m late to the class, cover for me, or dad will never let me hear the end of it.”
Leia swung her legs off the chair and grabbed her towel. As soon as the bathroom door clicked shut, Jyn threw back the covers and Cassian sat up.
“Go, quickly ,” She hissed. Cassian’s face was unreadable. Jyn’s heart was still hammering and she avoided looking into Cassian’s dark eyes. “Come on we only have a few minutes, go .”
Cassian got up quickly, pulling on his jeans and grabbing his wand off the nightstand. Impulsively, Jyn grabbed his sweater off the end of the bed and shoved it into Cassian’s arms.
“Better take this back.” She said. She could feel Cassian trying to meet her eyes but she looked down at the sweater instead, letting go and stepping away quickly. “It’s been causing too many problems. Like you just saw.”
“Right.” Cassian said. “Problems.”
He didn’t say anything after that. Neither did she. Instead she busied herself with pulling her hair into a bun and only risked a glance in Cassian’s direction when she saw his figure retreating through the door.