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Who: The most daring pilot of the Resistance, Poe Dameron!
Broadcast: Video
Action: if anyone else is on the Marsiva!
When: At this very moment

[He wakes up with a little gasp, immediately alert. Poe's not the world's lightest sleeper, but this bunk is way too comfortable, and it doesn't have the vague locker room smell of a Resistance base or the much mankier version that builds up after living in the cockpit of an x-wing for a couple of days.

Definitely doesn't look familiar.]

Huh. What the--

[This is not the first time in recent memory that Poe's woken up in an unfamiliar place. It's a sad measure of his life that this is by far the best one yet. He's not lost in a burning-hot desert with a pennelx-egg-sized bump on his head and no memory of who he is. Yep, still Poe Dameron, first thing he checks. And he's not strapped to the galaxy's most uncomfortable chair and waiting for the next deeply unpleasant conversation with either an Imperial interrogator or Kylo Ren (jury is still out on which of those was actually worse, he tries to not think about it at all).

So really, it could be a lot worse. Even though there does seem to be something going on with his neck, which is probably bad.

Sit up, look around, look down. Well, he's still got his orange flight suit, insignia and everything, but it's clean. So... that's nice. It's also a giant, flashing, hi, I'm with the Resistance sign, which is--good? Bad?

He slips out of bed and tries the door. Open. Okay. Peers out.]

Hello?

[Yeah, great move, Dameron. Warn the laundry-loving kidnappers that you're up and about. Excellent spy work. Well. Why not.]

Jess? Karé? Iolo?

[Maybe this is just some kind of elaborate prank. Sure, Dameron. And while you're imagining things, how about--]

...Finn?

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That's... well, that sounds really useful. [That is some crazy stuff, right there.]

Right? How good would I be as a thief? [Smirking a little.]

You'd be a hell of a spy.

Stealing's wrong, though.

Spying is a good an honorable sport but stealing is where you draw the line? [She looks amused.]

I wouldn't call it a sport. It's a dirty job that someone's gotta do.

I think there are circumstances where you'd say the same about stealing then. [She can think of a few from her past.] But I was kidding. [Even if she has "liberated" more than a few things from the enemy. She wouldn't take anything from refugees trying to flee to safety.]

I think if you're stealing to do your part in a war, it's called espionage or sabotage.

So, the real trick is to use fancier terminology. Clever.

That's why I'm a squadron leader, right? I'm all... tactical.

And here I figured you just looked good in the uniform.

Well, my squadron did threaten to put me on recruitment posters. If we had any. [Which they didn't. Being an underground resistance force and all.]

Must have been a very scary threat. [Smiling.]

Oh yeah. Can't you see me shaking? [Such a dorky grin.]

Is that what that's from? I was about to offer you a blanket.

That'd be really nice of you too. Something to cuddle up with over here would be great.

That can be arranged. [Suggestive tone, but also joking.]

[He laughs.] You're on.

Though. Uh. For a blanket I mean. I'm not really into girls.

[Just putting that out there. Smooth, Dameron.]

That came out way more awkward than I meant it to.

You think it's awkward? I was already picking out names for our kids. Poor little Tadpole and Cashmere. [Why those were the first words to pop into her head she'll never know.]

But full disclosure, I can't actually get a blanket to you. All of this was based on a lie.

Wow, I see how it is. I'm here stuffing my foot in my mouth, being all honest, and you're basing our relationship on a tissue of lies.

Well, we had to base it on something and based all my other relationships on bacon. It seemed like time for a change.

...what's bacon?

You poor deprived space child.

Maybe you're just making it up.

Maybe you should take a bacon poll and see for yourself.

Unless it's something I can get on the ships, I don't think I'm too worried about it. [Pfft.]

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