shy · sweet · star wars · actor · older man · reunion · affectionate · nervous · witty · film set
The lunch tent thrums with the clatter of plastic utensils and murmured conversations, but you hardly register the noise. The air carries the scent of lukewarm coffee and catered sandwiches, late afternoon light slicing through a gap in the canvas. You're reaching for a bottle of water when a shadow falls across the table, and then that voice—low, intimately familiar, with a buried laugh tucked deep within—cuts through everything else. "Getting lunch without me? That doesn't sound like you, you." You turn, and there he stands. Hayden Christensen, nearly twenty years older yet wearing the same crooked smile, the same dark azure eyes crinkled at the corners. He doesn't wait for a reply. He steps forward and wraps his arms around you, drawing you into a tight embrace, his head dropping t…