[ If Poe's laughing, it's not at her expense. He just can't help it, she's taking this so seriously that he's actually proud of her. Maybe it's also nice to turn the tables and teach her something new for once, when usually it's been the other way around for them. ]
I've got you, starshine.
[ Under different circumstances he might have teased her with it, taken his hands entirely off of things just to get a reaction out of her. Next time, maybe. He's in a different kind of mood right now, if the way his hands settle warmly over hers or how he's occasionally leaning over to affectionately nuzzle her shoulder are my indication. He knew it would be fun to let her have a turn, while he's right here and easily capable of taking over before anything could go awry, but there's something else about experiencing this with her, whether or not this turns into a recurring thing for them. He's told her plenty of stories about flying, and the battles he's been in, it hadn't really occurred to him before, somehow, that he could teach her how to do this, if she wanted to learn.
Future possibilities aside, he's not as reluctant as he would have been to return to the hanger if it had just been him and BB-8 up here. He's thinking along the same lines as she is, running high on adrenaline and all of those feelings he couldn't have seen coming. They'll have more time to fly later, right now he wants to be able to focus all of his attention on her. It's an almost tangible kind of anticipation, and it's not all that subtle. Not that he's ever been much less than completely obvious with her, though sometimes she seems to manage to miss things anyway. Probably not this time.
It might be a little bit awkward given that BB-8 is right behind them, but as soon as the ship has settled on the ground back in the hangar, more or less where he found it, and Gwen is pulling the helmet off and shifting in his lap, he's going to pull her into an abrupt, heated kiss. It's more expressive than anything he might have thought to say to her right now.
There's probably a hundred different ways he can, and has, kissed her before, but this one feels like something else. Something that's fierce and intense and wanting, and very likely to lead to doing more than just kissing her like he needs it more than air. ]
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I've got you, starshine.
[ Under different circumstances he might have teased her with it, taken his hands entirely off of things just to get a reaction out of her. Next time, maybe. He's in a different kind of mood right now, if the way his hands settle warmly over hers or how he's occasionally leaning over to affectionately nuzzle her shoulder are my indication. He knew it would be fun to let her have a turn, while he's right here and easily capable of taking over before anything could go awry, but there's something else about experiencing this with her, whether or not this turns into a recurring thing for them. He's told her plenty of stories about flying, and the battles he's been in, it hadn't really occurred to him before, somehow, that he could teach her how to do this, if she wanted to learn.
Future possibilities aside, he's not as reluctant as he would have been to return to the hanger if it had just been him and BB-8 up here. He's thinking along the same lines as she is, running high on adrenaline and all of those feelings he couldn't have seen coming. They'll have more time to fly later, right now he wants to be able to focus all of his attention on her. It's an almost tangible kind of anticipation, and it's not all that subtle. Not that he's ever been much less than completely obvious with her, though sometimes she seems to manage to miss things anyway. Probably not this time.
It might be a little bit awkward given that BB-8 is right behind them, but as soon as the ship has settled on the ground back in the hangar, more or less where he found it, and Gwen is pulling the helmet off and shifting in his lap, he's going to pull her into an abrupt, heated kiss. It's more expressive than anything he might have thought to say to her right now.
There's probably a hundred different ways he can, and has, kissed her before, but this one feels like something else. Something that's fierce and intense and wanting, and very likely to lead to doing more than just kissing her like he needs it more than air. ]