Timeframe: about 34 BBY
Characters: Leila Durmon, Jango Fett
Keywords: Bounty Hunter, Assassin, Seedy Side
Summary: Leila Durmon is hired to kill Jango Fett.
Notes: Third story in a series.

...and Loyalty

So that was it. Leila heard the door close softly behind her and began to walk towards the exit. He really wanted to have the bounty hunter killed. And for whatever reasons, he had indeed hired her to do it. Graden had also been rather specific about the proof of the job done.

"With Jango Fett? I'll believe he's dead when I see his dead body," he had said.

Leila nodded. "With or without armour?"

"As you please."

And that was that. It wasn't that there was too little room in the Snakebite to transport a second person, or body in that case, but Leila avoided dragging corpses around when possible. It tended to make authorities suspicious and end up in more trouble than a job was worth. Except that this job was worth a big lot. So much, that it automatically raised her trouble tolerance by several notches. Graden had eve set up -

"Lana, wait!" a familiar voice called.

Leila almost forgot to answer to the name she had assumed once, but within seconds the voice fell into place. Elida.

"What are you doing here? Did my father get you, too? Are you saved?" The girl almost fell over herself with excitement.

Leila measured her coldly "I am an assassin and your father just hired me."

Elida stared at her. "An assassin? Then how did you end up in Raad's place?"

Sorely tempted to roll her eyes at the naiveté of Graden's daughter, Leile suppressed a sigh. "He also hired me to retrieve you and terminate Raad," she explained.

Shocked, Elida's hand flew to her mouth. It took her some time to gather her courage. "And, did you? I mean-

Leila nodded.

"Oh, how could you! I-"

Leila cut her off with an impatient gesture. "In a galaxy like this, men like your father will always find women like me to hire for such jobs. No matter which man you had chosen, if Lord Graden disapproved, he would have found the same end. That's just the way it is."

"My father…" Elida's voice trailed off.

"You better do what he wants Elida, He's a mighty man and not very patient if opposed."

Leila clapped the girl on the back and left. High time for an eye-opener there, she thought as she returned to the Snakebite.