Umm…here goes another one, if any one is actually reading this…which you may not be…or you may be too. Who knows? I don't…Or maybe I do? Maybe I'm confusing myself….yeah, that sounds right!

Oo, and disclaimer: Star Wars does not belong to me because I am not that old (Sorry Uncle G! So, any ORIGINAL SW Characters are not mine. However, anything that came from my imagination belongs to me, whee!

Chapter 2-Powers without Force

Ace's mouth dropped as he saw Kasia and Lyndsay drive up in a new model blue-black, 756-TJAK model speeder, top down and all. Checking to see Niles, he saw that he wasn't the only one with that expression. Lyndsay and Kasia were laughing, and they stopped right beside the boys.

"Well, how does it do for travel?" Lyndsay asked. Kasia bit her lip in mirth, a smile trying desperately to escape. Ace nodded dumbly. Niles stared appreciatively. The girls seemed pleased.

"But-you-how-the rules-its-ah." Ace tried. The girls laughed again, Kasia saying, "Are you really just going to stand there, or are you going to put the stuff in. We can always explain on the way over."

In less than 10 minutes, all the stuff that needed to be moved from the ship to the speeder was, with still plenty of room to spare for the other passengers.

"So, if you don't mind me asking, how is it that you acquired this interesting piece of equipment without using any power?" Niles asked.

"Or in other words, tell how we did it, right?" Lyndsay asked.

Ace and Niles nodded.

"Well, we did use power, but not the one your necessarily familiar with, you could say," Kasia said, navigating through trafic.

Lyndsay said something softly, barely heard by the boys.

"What was that?" Ace asked.

"I said, 'Charm,' thank you very much," Lyndsay yelled, her face flushing.

"You'll see," said Kasia. "We're here." She pulled up to the bottom level of a very, very tall hotel, which was covered in lights that were beginning to glow as the light of day began to fade.

"We're on the bottom?" Niles groaned. "That's the best you could do?" Lyndsay hit him to silence him as they walked inside. Ace watched as Kana waved to an old, grumpy looking humanoid behind the desk. She called "I told you I would be back, Mr. Selinias. I even came from the bottom. Thank you again for the rooms."

"Anything, Miss Kasia. For you and Miss Lyndsay, anything." Mr. Selinias said, his face lighting with a smile that looked as it had never been used before. Kasia and Lyndsay threw sweet smiles back and kept walking, shooting warning glances back at Ace and Niles, who walked along in shock.

They walked up to a transporter and stepped in, Kasia reaching up and pushing the highest button. The doors shut and they began to ascend at an alarmingly quick rate.

The doors finally opened three minutes later, on some floor too high to count, and the girls stepped out, dragging the boys who were dragging the luggage, behind them.

"Do you like our floor? It's all ours."

"How much money is gone?" asked Niles, who gazed around in amazement.

"One-fifth of it, and we can stay as long as we want," Lyndsay said.

There was a huge circular center room with an entertainment holo in the center and lots of squashy memero-foam couches. There were six bedroom doors, a door to a kitchen, a holo room, a bathing room, a hospital/recovery room… The list went on and on.

Each bedroom had a huge bed and a closet, which contained some clothes, a private bathing room, all of it furnished completely and beautifully. Ace looked around in amazement while Kasia stood nearby watching him, a smug look on her face.

"I still don't see how you managed it."

Kasia shrugged, then smiled wide, taking obvious pleasure in the hidden compliment. Ace watched, hidden in his mind. She didn't look bad when she smiled. No, she would never look bad, but smiling was…different…and….

He shook his head and smiled back, calling out loudly, "I think we all need to get ready."

They all agreed.

Three hours later, the boys stood half ready in front of the girls door, listening in. In the odd hilarity that followed, they heard strange things, such as,

"Pull, pull tighter! No, the other way! Ah! Not that tight!"

and,

"I'm supposed to put that where? Oh, I don't think so!"

or,

"Whoa, that's supposed to go all the way on? That's all the way on?! Is it folded somewhere? Where's the second half? I've seen heads bigger than this!"

That last one was Ace's personal favorite. He tried to see in Kasia's mind to find out what it was, but she yelled from inside the room, "Thanks, but no thanks! I'll keep this secret to myself. Go get ready, you nosy boys!"

Another hour after that, Niles was pounding on the door, trying to get them to come out. They had to get to this club by a certain time, and this time was approaching at great leaps and bounds. Finally, the door opened up and Kasia and Lyndsay stepped out.

For the third time that day, Ace's mouth dropped in surprise. These things weren't supposed to happen, and he wasn't supposed to quite be thinking these thoughts, but, oh goodness, how could he not?

Lyndsay walked out first, wearing a short, tight black top with long, tight pants to match. The color went well with her skin and hair, and her make-up was perfect. Around her neck was a gold and blue necklace. Her long, dark hair was down and held back with a blue band

Kasia walked out next, smiling nervously. She had on a short, tight red dress, the same color red as in her hair. It had ribbons criss-crossing up her arms, around her dress, and down her legs all the way to her lace-up boots, red as well. The dress was tied up in the back, and her hair was twisted into many braids. On her wrists hung many golden bracelets, and she had a golden choker around her neck. Her lips were glossy and red, and her eyes were lined and shone brightly.

"Are, going, we, need?" Ace stuttered. Kasia flushed and nodded, hanging her head slightly.

"I conferenced down to Mr. Selinias, and he got us a driver for the night," Lyndsay said, breaking the awkward silence. They all nodded, not quite sure what to say.

In the speeder on the way over to the club, Niles said to no one in particular and out of the blue, "We have to be couples."

"You said what?" Lyndsay asked, looking at him hard.

"My Master said that we have to do whatever we have to do to keep up the façade of being, well, un-Jedi as possible. He said that, at the club, we have to be close. Close-close, not just 'gee, we're friends' close."

Lyndsay shrugged. "Alright."

"Fine with me. All part of the team," Kasia said.

"Too true," Niles replied.

"How are we pairing up?" Ace asked, glad that the car was dark enough to hide his flushing face.

"Ace, Kasia. Me, Lyndsay," Niles said freely.

How could Niles think of things so easily? He wasn't tainted by these not-nice thoughts as Ace was. He was a good Jedi. Damn.

The car stopped. Everyone got out, and Ace's blood ran cold. He wasn't quite sure he wanted to go through with this anymore, and he hung back slightly.

"Ace, aren't you coming?" Kasia asked. She walked back towards him, looking concerned. "It's alright," she whispered, "I'm a little nervous without my Master here too."

Ace nodded. Sure. That works. Kasia grabbed his hand and pulled him up, and the whole time he thought of nothing but the way her hand made sparks shoot up his veins.

Somehow he made it inside and to a table where they all had to sit slightly too close for comfort. Three more hours till midnight. This wait was going to be unbearable.

Ok, well, here's number two. I hope you liked it…uh. Review???