A/N: For those who do not know who Jix is: Wrenga Jixton or "Jix" is Vader's secret agent/assassin from the comic book "Shadow Stalker". It was Djuva who made him oh so popular and likeable in her fanfics.

Marie and Suzette
(a Jix/Vader drabble)

Jix didn't even bother looking into the study or training room; he went straight down to the hangar level and from there, to the closed-off section where Vader kept his "projects". Indeed, as he stepped in, a pair of boot soles greeted him from under the belly of a sleek silver beauty. Further down stood another fighter, an unusually smooth-lined and graceful yellow Nubian.

"Hello, Marie, hello, Suzette, hello, Uncle Dee," Jix twittered in his best sing-song.

Ah. That brought the expected result. "What?" Vader rolled out from under "Marie".

"Oh, I just thought I'd greet your brides," Jix said nonchalantly, gesturing towards the ships. "Think I'd have a chance with them?"

"What are you babbling on about?"

"Well, those two beauties, of course. The ones you spend all your time with, so I assumed you must love them a lot. Your sweethearts, or have you got married already? Any little 'uns forthcoming?"

It took a moment before Vader was coherent enough to be able to string three words together. "I'll kill you, Jixton. I swear I'll kill you."

P.S. Oh, and a few weeks later when returning to Vader's castle to give a report, Jix found the Sith Lord once again in the hangar. He hid a grin when he saw "Silver Marie" printed in neat Aurabesh characters over the shuttle's side. That night the agent indulged in some Corellian best, toasting his new "godchild".