i'm like losing my mind over the idea of a bactatryst fakedating mission that only tryst knows is fakedating bc bacta doesn't know what a fuckin date is

everyone on the entire planet they're visiting: oh what a nice couple
bacta, sitting at a table in a fancy restaurant with tryst in nice clothes, letting tryst button a flower into his lapel to better hide his comm: what a pleasant and elaborate cover with no symbolic meaning

tryst spends the whole time being Certain bacta's gonna figure it out and call him out on it & the things bacta's saying to him are Not helping

bacta: this is nice
tryst:
tryst: uh, what's. nice
bacta: you know, having a meal. not running for our lives. you look nice
tryst: h

bacta: we should do this again sometime
tryst:
bacta: maybe with less of a time limit. really take some time for ourselves.
tryst:
bacta: bring leenik along
tryst: you know i REALLY wish that clarified things for me but it absolutely does not!!!
bacta: what

tryst, calling leenik while bacta is occupied w the mission: i messed up
leenik: what happened? who's dead
tryst: no one, everything's fine. except it's not fine, because i think bacta just asked me out for real but i can't tell, how do i tell??
leenik: you're asking ME this

leenik: gee idk tryst did you kiss him?
tryst: obviously, what does that have to do w anything?
leenik: well did he kiss YOU?
tryst: like, during, or—
leenik: separately.
tryst: ...no.
leenik: well, don't sound so sad about it, i haven't even managed it w/o hypnosis.
tryst: wait

leenik: so u know how u kiss people p much at any time, for any reason, but mostly bc in the holovid of urself playing in ur head it'd look cool
tryst: yeah
leenik: sometimes people kiss u because they want to date
tryst: huh. & u know this bc...
leenik: it's, uh, hypothetical

tryst: so you're saying i have to get bacta to kiss me. won't be hard, i'm extremely kissable
leenik: no, that's not—I'm saying if he DOES kiss you, don't just take it as the same as you kissing him.
tryst: but me kissing him IS abt wanting to date
leenik: !!
tryst: wait kriff no

leenik: look it's not like i'm surprised this whole thing was transparent to begin with
tryst: but i don't DATE it's LAME and i HATE it
leenik: then what the heck is with the clothes! and the restaurant! I killed a waiter for you and i was SO quiet about it stop bsing me

tryst: he was flirting with bacta & I felt things about it
leenik: what kind of things
tryst: well at first i thought it was the threesome emotion—
leenik: not an emotion but continue
tryst: but then thinking abt that made me mad? thinking abt threesomes should never make you mad

leenik: that sounds like jealousy. & i should know, because i'm jealous of pretty much everyone u or i ever meet
tryst: no, jealousy is the thing when u see a family not torn apart by war & slavery who are actually free to communicate & love each other. wait what
leenik: wait wha