(no subject)

[imthepilot]

 Bodhi has the cook-top running and the kitchen full of the scent of spices before Galen gets out if the fresher.

He waves a stick of some stingy herb at Galen. "You are a terrible temptation. And a distraction." And his smiles says he loves Galen for it. 

Comments

[imthepilot]

Bodhi nods. "We don't know what we'll need it to manage yet. So the more I know about how it handles and what it can do, the better off we'll be."

"You'd think the way the Empire shipyards build these things, they'd all be the same but ships are like people. They have eccentricities."

[galen_erso]

"That's what I heard," Galen nods. "It must still be hard for you to give up your old ship."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi shrugs, not quite looking Galen in the eye as he eats some more, fiddling with the seasoning. "Another one of my grandmother's adages - things are things, people are people. Things can weigh you down. People should lift you up."

[galen_erso]

"As you do me."

Not said sappily, stated as dry fact.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi flushes warmly. Dry fact or not, it still makes him feel sappy. "Literally, once I have a ship again." Covering much?

[galen_erso]

"Yes," Galen says. "I will fly with you, then."

[imthepilot]

"How long? Since you've been off-world?"

[galen_erso]

"Years," Galen says. "Not more than two or three times since..."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi gets up to pull Galen into a hug. "I'm going to take you away. We're going to leave here. Together. I'm going to show you the planet-rise."

[galen_erso]

Galen ist happy to cling for a moment. "And then, we will rise out of it."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi holds him tight, stroking his hair. "We will rise." He draws back enough to kiss Galen softly. "Together."

He looks Galen in the eye. "Eat. We're going to need all our strength in the days to come."

[galen_erso]

Galen smiles. He finds he smiles often since Bodhi is better, more than he'd smiled in the last years.

"It's for pleasure, too, not just for strength."

He starts eating.

[imthepilot]

Bodhi hums an agreement, enjoying his curry, even if it's getting cold. "I should start working out. Just in case."

[galen_erso]

"Throw bigger rocks, kick bigger asses?" Galen says, between two bites.

[imthepilot]

"If needed." He nods. "I'm not a fighter but that doesn't mean I won't. If needed."

[galen_erso]

"We never know what might be needed," Galen says. "I better start working out as well."

[imthepilot]

"We can work out together. If you like?" There's something very appealing about getting sweaty with Galen.

[galen_erso]

"We can," Galen says. "The chief medic will approve."

[imthepilot]

"I'll take to her, see what she thinks is best."

[galen_erso]

"Anything that pulls at your scars is definitely bad," Galen agrees.

[imthepilot]

"And I have to learn how to work with them." Bodhi shrugs. "Those scars are part of me now."

[galen_erso]

"And part of what connects us," Galen says. "With their small counterpart on my body."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi reaches out to touch Galen's hand. "I don't regret it. Ever. I'd do it again and more, if it came to that."

[galen_erso]

Galen turns his hand around to hold Bodhi's.

"I know," he says softly. "For me. I feel -- humbled."

[imthepilot]

Bodhi holds Galen's hand, just... looking into his eyes. "Because I love you. Because you matter."