Once Bodhi had them on a course heading for a base that they could probably take with the resources at their disposal, Jyn decided that she needed to lay off a little steam. She was a little bit angry at Draven and the Alliance for kicking Cassian out and acting like they weren't worthy of being out part of the team. Right now, she either wanted to punch something or have sex, and she didn't think that this was the right time to have sex with Cassian for the first time. Jyn remembered every single time they went to bed when she had to repeat the mission to Scarif, but she hadn't slept with this version of Cassian yet, and she didn't want to rush it. That meant she needed to work things off in the other way.

"Come with me," she said as she took Cassian's hand and dragged him toward the cargo hold where they would have a little space.

"And what exactly are we doing here?" he asked. Baze and Chirrut both got up and followed them into the hold and looked a little amused as Bodhi said that he was good to stay and watch to make sure that they got to where they needed to go all right. Jyn didn't like leaving him out like that, but they didn't have a body for Kay yet, so they didn't really have a choice.

"I want to spare," Jyn said as she released his hand. "I'm still furious at them for court martialing you like that, and I need to take it out on something. We aren't at the base yet, so I can't take it out on some Stormtroopers, and you're right here, so I guess we're going to spar."

"Twenty credits on little sister," Baze said.

"Ah, I bet twenty on the Captain," Chirrut replied, and they both smiled at each other. Cassian raised an eyebrow but didn't look unopposed to the idea of fighting her. "And what about our wounds?"

"I won't use yours against you if you won't use mine against me," Jyn said with a shrug.

"So what are your rules? Best out of three?" he asked. Cassian shrugged off his jacket, and she got a little distracted by the way he rolled his shoulders and smirked at her.

"Let's do our best not to draw any blood. We're about to storm a base, and we don't want to have any problems," Jyn said as she took off her vest and pulled off her gloves. "Baze, would you like to be the judge?"

"I think you both will know when the other wins," Baze said.

"Sounds good to me," Cassian said, and he charged at her. Cassian was clearly an experienced hand to hand fighter. She knew that he had spent a lot of time as a spy, and that meant he needed to get himself out of a lot of situations quietly. He was graceful, and the way he moved looked more like dancing than fighting. He ducked her first punch, and he was surprisingly light on his feet, considering how much taller he was than her. Jyn knew that Cassian has muscle underneath his clothing, and he was still recovering from falling, but he was still insanely fast. She was impressed, and against most people, he would have won easily.

Jyn, however, was not most people. She grew up in bars and knew how to throw a punch that could end a fight. She knew how to use her entire body to take someone down so they couldn't use it against her. Jyn was a brawler, and she knew how to take a punch just to get the opportunity to deliver a better shot at the person she was fighting. It went against every instinct she had, but for the first few rounds, she let Cassian get the upper hand. She thought she could maybe let him think he was winning, but Jyn forgot how well he could read her.

"Stop holding back on me," Cassian said. "You're the one who said you wanted to spar, and there is money on this fight, so let's get to it." Jyn couldn't take a taunt like that lying down and went at him. Cassian ducked her first punch and blocked her second one easily. He tried to hit her in the ribs, and Jyn took the hit but counted by elbowing Cassian in the stomach. He grunted and smiled at her.

The fight shifted, and suddenly they both weren't playing anymore. Jyn forgot that they both promised not to hurt each other and hit Cassian hard enough to split his lip. He countered by knocking her down hard enough to knock the wind out of her. Cassian pinned her down and smiled down at her. Jyn relaxed for a moment as if she had yielded to him, and hooked her foot around his knee, and flipped the two of them over. Cassian blinked as he stared at her, and this did not feel like a fight anymore.

"Who won?" Chirrut asked, which effectively broke the moment so much that they both jumped away from each other.

"Both of them," Baze said. Jyn glared at Baze but offered Cassian a hand to help him up. She reached forward and touched his split lip.

"I didn't mean to do that," she whispered as she heard Baze and Chirrut walk away.

"You did," Cassian said. "But it's okay; we're both fine, so it doesn't matter." He was close, and Jyn wanted to kiss him, but she knew he would taste like blood if she did. It would remind her of all the times she failed at Scarif, of holding him in her arms as he bled out, and she didn't want to think about that. She still wanted to touch him, so she settled on kissing the corner of his mouth, on the side opposite of the blood, and took his hand into hers.

It was strange to walk through the ship with his hand in hers. Jyn knew that they both didn't have any experience when it came to conventional relationships, but for him, she was more than willing to try. Jyn wanted to figure out what their version of a relationship was going to look like because she wanted to be with him. She loved him, and now she wanted to wait to see if Cassian caught up and would love her someday too. Even if he never loved her, even if they just had this for the rest of their lives, it was enough.

They joined Bodhi in the cockpit not long after as he showed them the small Empire supply base that he remembered dropping supplies off once or twice.

"There shouldn't be a lot of security after the whole Death Star thing," Bodhi said. "There wasn't a lot of security before that, and I can't imagine it's gotten any tighter now that the Empire is chasing their own tails."

"What kind of supplies will they have here?" Cassian asked.

"The last time I dropped stuff off, it was just armor, but it could have changed," Bodhi said. "We might get lucky. It could be rations or something we could sell. Even if it's something useless, I'm sure we could find someone on the black market willing to buy it. We're going to run out of fuel eventually, and I know Draven isn't going to pay us."

"Whatever they have, it's worth stealing just so the Empire doesn't have it," Baze said, and Chirrut nodded. Cassian pulled out a datapad and began to go through so many different maps that Jyn couldn't keep all of it straight. She began to see the word "classified" more than once.

"Cassian," she said as she looked over his shoulder. "Does Draven know that you have that datapad?"

"He doesn't know I don't have it," Cassian said without looking up, and when no one said anything, he glanced up from the various maps. "Most of this intelligence work is mine. I thought it would be best if it came with me. I just failed to inform the Alliance that I was taking a copy of it with me."

"Captain," Chirrut said with a smile. "Are you telling us that you copied the entire archives of the Alliance Intelligence department before we left the base?"

"Of course not," Cassian said, and they all stared at him because it could not have been more obvious that he was lying. "I took more than just the Intelligence division, and Princess Leia may or may not have caught me doing it and given me permission." Baze laughed harder than Jyn had ever heard him laugh before, and it warmed her heart. It didn't take long for that laugh to catch on, and they were all laughing as they sat there and tried to get themselves together. They were coming up on the base soon, and they were going to steal a droid and who knows what kind of materials from the Empire, but right now, Jyn hadn't ever felt lighter.

The base turned out to be on some backwater moon in the middle of the Outer Rim that Jyn hadn't even heard of. As they predicted, there were almost no troopers at the base, but there did appear to be a decent amount of supplies hanging around, and a few droids were walking around. Jyn wasn't sure what else they could do aside from storm the place consider all they had was the gear on their backs, and that was what they were going to do. Cassian wanted to dismantle the entire base, but Jyn wasn't as keen to see that happen. There was a chance that there were too many people for that to happen. Right now, she wanted to make sure they got a droid to reboot Kay. The look in Cassian's eyes when his friend would sacrifice himself would haunt her for the rest of her life, and she wanted to replace it with some better memories.

Baze and Chirrut took the west side of the base while Jyn, Cassian, and Bodhi took the west side. Both Cassian and Baze knew how to shoot from long distances, and for a moment, they hid from the shadows and picked off trooper after trooper. They were panicking, and it didn't look like they had much in the way of leadership. Bodhi was nearby, and he managed to hack into their comm signal.

"It sounds like their commanding officer was on the last ship out to the Death Star and never returned," Bodhi said as he listened to the panicked troopers.

"Is there anyone in charge?" Jyn asked.

"It sounds like there is one trooper who is telling people what to do, but he sounds like he really doesn't know what he's doing, and the minute you two started killing people, he started saying he didn't know what to do," Bodhi said.

"Give me the comm," Cassian said, and he opened up a channel. "Attention troopers, we have you surrounded and outnumbered. If you lock yourselves in one of the ships, we will spare your lives and leave with only your supplies."

"And if we refuse?" one of the troopers snapped.

"Then we'll leave with your supplies and your lives," Cassian said in that spy voice that made it very obvious that he knew how to take a life. "The choice is yours." He put the comm down and pointed his sniper rifle out to watch them again.

"Do you really think they're going to just surrender because you told them to?" Bodhi asked. "There is no way that's going to work."

"Captain," Baze said over their private comm channel. "They are laying down their weapons and filing into a transport ship."

"You have got to be kidding me," Jyn said as she took the goggle from Cassian's belt and looked down at the base. She couldn't believe that the battalion of troopers had their hands in the air, and they were just leaving their weapons on the ground. She watched as they all filed into the ship one by one. "How the fuck did that work?"

"You'd be surprised how often it does," Cassian deadpanned, and Jyn couldn't believe what she was seeing. Cassian was an excellent liar, but she didn't think he was that good. Granted, with Baze and Cassian shooting people, it did seem like more people were surrounding the base than there actually was. Cassian picked up the comm channel and switched to the frequency of the troopers. "I can see you decided to take our offer. I don't think I need to tell you what will happen to all of you in that ship if I find out that you're not all in there."

"No, you do not," the trooper said. "The door is locked and sealed."

"If I see any movement, I'll signal my men to blow that ship to pieces with all of your men inside. I know you've taken on a position of responsibility for their lives so bare that responsibility wisely soldier," Cassian said. He didn't wait for the trooper tor reply as he switched to their private frequency and told Chirrut and Baze to begin to move into the small base. The five of them met up in the middle of the base, and Bodhi immediately reinforced the lock on the ship where all of the troopers were so they couldn't get out.

"They aren't going anywhere," he said.

"Good," Cassian said. "Baze, I'd like you to escort Bodhi back to the ship so he can bring it here. It'll make moving the supplies a lot easier while the three of us gather our things and see just what the Empire has decided to give us."

"Yes, Captain," Baze said. "Come along, little brother." Baze walked with Bodhi back in the direction toward their ship while Cassian, Jyn, and Chirrut quickly made their way to the control room of the base. There wasn't a soul anywhere that they could see, and it didn't appear that they had sent out a distress signal, not that there was anyone close enough that could have come in time to help them as it was.

"Chirrut, Jyn, if you could both check any containers that you could find and see what they have here that we could steal," Cassian said. "I'm going to download and destroy all of their data." Jyn nodded, and she walked out into the eerie and empty Empire base with Chirrut at her side.

"The Captain seems good," Chirrut said.

"I hope so," Jyn said. "I'm worried about him, though. The Alliance was his entire life, and the mission took it all away. Now he has us and nothing else. I just hope it's enough."

"You both still shine," Chirrut replied with that serene smile of his. Jyn didn't know exactly what that meant, but they made it to the storage rooms. They found plenty of food and water that would make their lives easier for the next couple of months, and they found plenty of armor that they could sell on the black market to someone. There was a K2 droid that was powered down that didn't look like it had a lot of damage, but there was something about this base that was setting nerves on edge.

"Cassian," Jyn said into her comms. "Can you look into the blueprints of this place?"

"Why?" he asked.

"I feel like something is missing," Jyn replied.

"We'll be landing in two minutes," Bodhi said, and they really needed to start moving these supplies onto the ship. While this base might be in the middle of nowhere, there was still a chance that someone could check-in, and they could get spotted, but something was bothering her.

"Jyn," Cassian said. "There should be another room in front of you." Jyn stopped and stared at the blank wall in front of her. The Empire was hiding something from anyone that might be here. This was supposed to look like a standard base full of regular supplies, but there was something else here. Chirrut walked forward and ran his hand along the wall and closed his eyes. Jyn waited because if there was anyone who could find a hidden panel, it was Chirrut. After a moment, he took three sets to the side and knocked his stick against the wall. The wall opened and revealed a massive stack of crates. Jyn walked forward and pried one open.

"Weapons," she said. "Lots of weapons."

"Draven is going to be thrilled we'll have delivery so soon," Cassian deadpanned, and Jyn had to force herself to laugh. It was ridiculous that they managed to find a massive stash of weapons at the first base they infiltrated, and Draven was going to have to look them in the eye and tell them that they still weren't worthy of being part of the Alliance. It set her teeth on edge, she still hated it, but Jyn looked forward to being incredibly smug at the meetup.

It took the five of them a better part of four hours to get all of the weapons, food, supplies, and anything else they could carry onto their ship. Cassian maintained contact with the trooper captain and explained to him that he was leaving them enough rations to last them a month, and he was making sure that they could call for help, but that was it. Jyn wanted to blow the ship up, but Cassian was clearly trying to be a man of his word right now. She had to wonder how long that kindness would last now that he was away from the Alliance. There wasn't any room for mercy anymore. Not after Alderaan, not after Scarif, and not after they cut all of them loose like that.

The ship was packed tight, but they were all together as Cassian made the final repairs to the K2 unit and pulled out the backup drive. Cassian stared at it, and Jyn put a hand on his shoulder. She smiled at him and nodded.

"It's time to get your asshole friend back," she said.

"He'll certainly fit right in," Bodhi muttered, and Cassian shook his head. He opened the memory panel and pushed the card in. When he took a step back, Jyn reached forward and took his hand, threading her fingers into his. She hoped this worked; she really wanted something good for Cassian after all of the bullshit that they went through. The massive droid was already on its feet, but its eye slowly lit up, and it looked around the room.

"Oh, we're not dead, that's surprising," Kay said in his familiar deadpan.

"You have no idea," Jyn said, and she watched as Cassian's smile could light up the entire room. They all settled down and began to catch Kay up on what exactly was going on. Jyn wondered how the loyal droid was going to react to Cassian getting court-martial by the Alliance for saving the entire galaxy. Probably poorly, which was going to be amusing, maybe she wasn't the only one who was going to punch Draven the next time they saw him.