Another quick songfic, well more of a songpoem, written to English Summer Rain - Placebo. Written from Aquila's point-of-view.
Summer Rain
And here we are again, blasters in hand.
You watch my back, I'll watch yours.
The crash of sabers against metal, against flesh.
The high-pitched wails of blaster bolts, yours, mine, others unknown.
The melody of the battlefield. A melody we know all too well.
But what's there to expect, in a galaxy like ours? For every moment of peace we're given there's another like this, one of fraught emotion and fights for life.
The others pushed forward forever ago, mingled in with the blur, the belly of the fight.
But you hung back, stayed by my side.
Your blaster bolts couldn't so much as scratch our targets from this distance.
In the past I'd have reprimanded you for it,
Wakamancha, nudd cha!
But now it's welcome company.
More than welcome.
No time for talk, just knowing glances between shots.
I shoot to kill, you shoot to look busy.
Comfort in a glance, the heat of your eyes.
There's movement to the left.
They've pushed forward.
No more time to linger at the edge of the fray.
One last glance, you throw up a stealth field.
Enemies fall to the ghost on the field.
I can't see you, but I can feel you.
That spark in you.
Please don't let it fade.
You're out of sight.
I ready my blaster.
Chess ko, muni.
You watch my back, I'll watch yours.
Huttese:
Wakamancha, nudd cha! - Coward, move forward!/forward march!
Chess ko, muni – Be safe, lover