I've always wanted to try writing about Barriss...

This is my first time, so she's probably extremely out of character.

My apologies in advance

~Arctic

Barriss Offee was a quiet padawan, a quiet and thoughtful young lady with blue eyes and olive skin, with diamond tattoos across the bridge of her nose and both cheeks. Now while this girl was quiet, she was very opinionated, though she rarely spoke of them. They were obvious in the way she acted.

Of her opinions only a few were truly important to her:

She wanted to become a jedi knight

She wanted to further her abilities in healing

Attachment was unacceptable for a jedi in any case.

Though attachment was unacceptable, she meant the more extreme cases. Her friendship with Ahsoka was fine, and so was her being what she called 'best friends' with Commander Cody was also. She loved nothing more than to talk with Ahsoka about anything...well everything except boys. Why would they do that? With Ahsoka secretly with Rex and Barriss' views on attachment, the topic had never came up. Though sometimes when she went through villages she would hear girls talking about them, and wonder if she was missing out because of her being a padawan. Though she usually just shook that thought out of her head after a few seconds.

-insert warp to present time where Barriss is-

Barriss stood beside her master, an emotionless look on her face as her master talked with a commoner of the planet, trying to figure out if he knew anything. Barriss looked over and saw a couple of girls that looked to be in their teenage years talking, they held a magazine in their hands. They were pointing to spots in it, talking for a moment, and then breaking out in giggles as if they had just heard the funniest thing in the world. For some reason these girls reminded her of Ahsoka, maybe because they were loud and didn't care who heard and what other people thought of them.

She wanted that magazine.

She was very curious as to what was in it, what was so funny that they had to laugh so loud? What was so damn funny that they had to be so obnoxious? She watched as they finished it, and then dropped it onto the ground and left. Apparently they were now bored and were moving on to something more exciting.

Barriss watched as her master went to follow the commoner as he had told her that there was something related to the separatists that she needed to see. She had given the girl no orders to stay in that spot or follow her so...

Barriss looked around her to see if anyone was watching, no one was. She dashed over to the magazine, picked it up and dashed back within a matter of seconds, the only thing signifying that she had moved was her skirt, which was swaying slightly in the wind. She looked at the cover, reading it thoroughly, to see if there was anything interesting on it. The cover told of the contents inside like, 'Lose 20 pounds in 10 days!', 'Are you and your crush compatible?', 'What kind of girl are you? Cute? Trendy? Sexy? Take the quiz and find out!' She was confused, what kind of information was this? Why did those girls think it was so funny? What was a 'crush' it sounded painful...

Nevertheless, Barriss flipped open the first page, it was an ad for a type of bra, a picture of a teen twi'lek female wearing panties and a bra, the caption saying, 'Comfort for your chest is only achievable with Rezard brand bras' Barriss was horrified, this much skin showing, even Ahsoka was dressed better than this! She hurriedly flipped to the next page, her face turning into a dark green blush. The next wasn't so bad, just some stories that girls sent in, they were on the topic of embarrassing stories and the newpaper rated them from 'It'll blow over by tomorrow' to 'Pack up, leave town and NEVER move back!' Barriss was just starting to read the first story as she saw her master coming back, Barriss knew that she couldn't put the magazine back in time for her master not to notice, so she tucked it into her skirts.

"We're going young one."

"Master?"

"I have to speak to Master Kenobi about the situation here." Barriss trailed behind her master, her mind whirl winding as she thought of the magazine. They boarded the flyer that would bring them to their ship.

As they landed, her master told her that she had to speak to the council about what she had found out, so Barriss should stay out of trouble. Barriss nodded, and gave a polite bow, as her master turned and left. As soon as her master was out of sight, she looked around quickly and dashed off to her room. She watched as the door closed before she locked it, and sat on her bed with a sigh, finally allowing herself to pull her hood off and let her purple (I think) hair shine gently in the low light of the room. She pulled the magazine from her skirts, and began reading it, getting sucked into the articles from girls complaining about 'high school' experiences.

5 hours later...

Barriss hadn't realized how engrossed with the magazine she had been until there was a knock on her door. She jumped and gave a small shriek before hurriedly hiding the magazine under the covers of her bed and pulling her hood on, "Come in." She spoke evenly, giving no indication of how her furiously her heart had been pumping just a few moments ago. Why do I even care if anyone finds out? She thought idly as the door opened slowly revealing Gree. A clone that had, over the course of time, become like an older brother to her.

"Hello Gree." She gave him a gentle smile.

"Hello Commander Barriss." He nodded at her.

"Is there something you need, Gree?" She asked quietly, inside she was slightly agitated just wanting to go back to reading her magazine.

"Master Luminara sent me to find you, she wanted to make sure you were okay since you ran off so quickly." He replied.

"Oh, of course. Thank you Gree." Barriss paused for a second to think of an excuse, "Could you please tell her I wasn't feeling well and went to take a nap because I felt it would help me."

"Of course Commander." He saluted, turned on his heel, and walked out of the room.

Barriss watched impatiently as the door closed, and as soon as it did, she threw the blanket up in the air, grabbed the magazine and sat back down, the blanket landed nicely on her lap, draping over her legs. She opened the magazine back up, and flipped through the pages till she found her spot, resuming her article of 'How to prevent zits in three easy steps!'

Barriss was about to close the magazine and rest as another article caught her eye, "I missed one? I was sure I had read them all..." She shrugged and read it, the title was, 'How to tell if you are head over heels in love with him' She knew she would never use this article in her life, but hey, she wouldn't paint her nails, or color coordinate her clothes to match her skin tone either now would she?

You ever wonder if he's into you? Well, with these signs listed below, you'll be able to know if he is...or is not!

Goodnight/goodmorning greetings

Text all the time

"What's texting?" Barriss wondered aloud.

Teasing

Random gifts

You start acting weird around him

You tell them how much you like [weird thing]

Dates to eat or to browse places

Secrets

Notes

Calls just to play/sing to sleep

Barriss rolled her eyes, As if anyone would do this to someone else! She thought, tucking the magazine under her bed and then lying down to sleep.

-next day-

Barriss stood on the bridge with her master, watching a hologram of Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.

"-I will be joining you shortly, Master Luminara." He concluded, crossing his arms and shifting his weight to his left leg.

"Yes, Master Kenobi, I will see you then. May the Force be with you." She replied, and the blue hologram shut off. She turned to her padawan, "Tell the men to make room and prepare for Kenobi's men." She ordered.

"Yes Master." Barriss replied, turning and swiftly making her way out of the room, her skirts trailing behind her.

Luminara waited till the doors closed until she turned to the admiral, "Prepare the fighters, once Master Kenobi joins us we'll be a desirable target for the seperatists."

"Yes, Sir." The admiral saluted, and began directing clones to start prepping the fighters, and tell the clones to be on high alert.

"There's a republic ship entering the sector." A clone spoke up after a half hour of mostly quiet chatter.

"Contact Master Kenobi, I wish to speak to him."

"Yes sir." The clone began pressing some of the brightly colored buttons that were scattered about the console until Obi-Wan appeared on a huge screen.

"Master Luminara, good to see you again, I expect that this is another measure the council installed?"

"Yes, they want us to contact the head of the ship to make sure it is truly them boarding, not some droid in case of a breach." She replied, placing her hands together in the upwards steeple gesture.

"Ah, of course." He muttered, stroking his rust colored beard, "Well, now that this is over with, we must discuss plans for the capture of the bounty hunter 'Kyaya' and her band that have taken the mayor of Kilo hostage..."

"Yes of course, I have the boarding docks ready, your men may board my ship, I am sure it will fit all of them."

"Yes. I think it should; I will board shortly."

"I shall see you then." A clone ended the transmission and Luminara turned to leave the room, "Contact my padawan, tell her that she is to direct the clones to their sleeping areas." With that said, Luminara elegantly sped out of the room, skirts creating a ripple-like effect on her skirts.

Barriss received the orders from the admiral moments later, she made her way to the boarding zone, and greeted Kenobi as he made his way through first, the man had waved at her and given her a simple, "Hello little one." Before continuing his trek to the council room of the ship; it was soundproof, guarded by two clones personally picked by Luminara and without a doubt one of the most boring, spotless rooms in the ship.

Barriss met Commander Cody moments afterward. He was a man that Barriss had never really talked to before, as she had never really dealt with any of Kenobi's men. The man saluted her politely, and she nodded, acknowledging his presence.

"Orders, Sir?" The man asked after a few moments of awkward silence in which Barriss had been examining the Commander.

"Oh, yes," She blushed slightly, as she had momentarily forgotten what she was supposed to be doing, "Your men are to be situated in the east bunks. If you have any extra men, send them to the west bunks where my men reside and tell them that I said to make room." She paused to recall the rest of the information, her skin flushed a darker green as she did so, "...and you are to be situated in my room, using the bunk on the opposite wall as mine, seeing as we have no other Commanders quarters aboard this ship." She was looking at her feet, her hood falling even more over her face to hide her eyes and burning cheeks. "...o-of course sir." He stuttered, "I will show my men their barracks, then I will find you and request to be guided to my- er...I mean our quarters."

"Yes, of course, Commander." She replied, and watched as he left, I need to find a new place to hide my magazine... She surmised idly. Turning and speed-walking all the way to her room to find a new place to put it.

Cody sighed, he had to waste about 40 minutes more than he had expected trying to get everyone settled. It wasn't that either Generals' troops were rude, no it was quite the opposite, it was just that, honestly, Luminaras' ship was horrible on maximizing the room it had.

Eventually he had solved all the problems, and had even found room to spare. Now he just had to find the little padawan that he...had to share a room with. He inadvertantly blushed. I mean, he would rather share his quarters with Kenobi, then there would be no awkwardness. But since Barriss was a padawan, she was lower on the food chain than Kenobi or even Luminara. And it was taboo to sleep in the same barracks as his underlings unless there was absolutely no room anywhere else. It was a rank thing. He was tired and ready to sleep, but had no idea where her room was at...

"Commander Barriss?" He tried on his comm link, after a few seconds of waiting the reply of,

"Yes, Commander?" Came through.

"I was just reporting that I was finished with situating everyone, and felt the need to request to know where your quarters were." He replied, and a few seconds later she turned the corner and stopped in front of him.

"Follow me." She told him gently, turning and making her way down the stark white hallways, turning a few corners every now and again. She finally stopped at a door, and it opened, she took a step back to let him through before following him in herself.

"You're bunk is on the right, mine is on the left." She told him as he looked around, noting that a picture of her and Ahsoka hung on her side of the room, "Make yourself comfortable, Commander." She whispered.

"Yes, sir." He took his helmet off and lay down. He heard her removing some fabric, and turned to see, she was removing her cape and hood. She paused, and glared at him for a second.

"Er, do you mind?" She asked, a slightly hostile tone to her voice.

"Oh, uh, sorry Commander." He blushed, and turned again. She resumed dressing in nightclothes, then he heard her settle in her own bed.

This is going to be a looooooooooooooong battle... Cody reflected. Trying to ignore the sound of her slow, quiet breathing.

Soooooo, what do you think? This will be my first ever Barriss/Cody fic.

Sathre: Who cares? Let's just go over the poll votes...

Arctic: Okay... 2 votes for 'Awesome'

Sathre: Booya! –runs around in a circle arms waving-

Arctic: -rolls eyes- One vote for 'you should totally pair him up with my oc'...

Sathre: Ladies~

Arctic: ...idiot. Oh, and one vote for...eh...

Sathre: Tellmetellmetellme.

Arctic: ...'Jerk! I hope he gets killed soon!'

Sathre: ...aw...-sits in the corner-

Arctic: ...well at least they were being honest, Sath.

Sathre: ...er...yeah...happy Wednesday everyone...

Arctic: ...uh...he'll be in a better mood later, please review.