#ohgod this means doc's her husband for the assault on dromund kaas

[queen-scribbles]

One thing that was real fun in Tressa romancing Doc, she was able to handwave it away as Not An Attachment in the beginning. It wasn't a Relationship, it was Just Sex bc he's not entirely hard on the eyes and calls her things like beautiful and gorgeous and is v clearly not interested in commitment.

So both of them are happy with this arrangement and they don't talk about defining it or anything, it's Just For Fun and neither one of them realize they're maybe catching feelings. Tressa doesn't even use him as her companion most of the time, she lets him stay on the ship and takes Kira or T7, so there's not any obvious signs of a developing connection. Purely physical relationship, "we can stop at any time"(or can you?) etc etc.

And then, one of the conversations after Hoth, Doc's talking about reading medical journals, there's an opportunity for sex(which Tressa took), but THEN he just very casually drops this

and Tressa just reflexively says Sure and it's not until halfway through eating(she's sideways on the bench with his shoulder digging into her spine) that she realizes this is a very Couple-y Thing to do. The casual intimacy of snacking together is what does her in. xD She has this moment of "oh, shit. does this mean we're a couple?! Do I actually LIKE HIM? Him, DOC, of all people, do I actually like him?!" and it hits her she, uh, can't honestly say no.

Cue an internal mini-crisis bc Jedi aren't supposed to form attachments and REALLY, HIM?!(she can hear that part of her in Kira's voice xD) She doesn't wanna let on that anything's wrong changed, so she keeps up the flirty banter and everything and just wrestles with this privately.

And then she notices the shift in his end of the banter, less sleazy "hit on all the girls" more "hey, you're amazing and gorgeous and so am I don't we make a great team?" and internally goes UHOH but externally says NOTHING bc if things are different for her and things are different for him then this might be about to become a Problem.

And it's kinda scary that the thought doesn't bother her like it should.

AND THEN she gets an I Love You and technically a marriage proposal out of him in the same conversation and listens to her instincts and says yes(even if the part of her that sounds like Kira is questioning her sanity). She can make this work. She can be in love(married!) without getting Too Attached and he's changed and she find the ego a bit endearing tbh and so then this happened last night

(she plans to tease him for a good long while about hiding the droid for WEEKS, how long have you been planning this, handsome?!?!? Awfully confident I'd say yes)