HK-47 walked to Mission and Dustil's apartment. "Rhetorical Query: Why must Master always ask me to pick Masters Daughter up from Twi'lek and Little Republic Meatbag's apartment?" He finally came to the door and the Militia Guard allowed him in because HK picked up Maya on a regular basis if Chitari had to work late.
He banged on Missions door and she opened it. "Ah, HK."
"Greeting: Hello Twi'lek Meatbag, is Masters Daughter ready to go home?" HK was impatient to get home.
"Yes, just let me get her," Mission went into the living room and awoke a tired Maya.
"How are you feeling?" Mission asked her.
"Better now," Maya sat up a little and looked at the door. "Hi HK."
"Greeting: Hello Masters Daughter."
"Are we going home now?"
"Answer: Yes Masters Daughter, we are going to your living space now."
"Ok," Maya got up and grabbed her bag that Mission had giving her that had the holo-tape about her mother and Carth inside.
"Statement: Farewell Twi'lek Meatbag," HK said as Maya walked to the door.
"Good-bye HK," Mission said.
"Bye Aunty Mish. See you tomorrow," Maya hugged her 'Aunt' quickly and then followed the droid.
"Bye-bye Maya!" Mission called before stepping back inside and closing the door.
Over at the Cantina, Chitari finished cleaning off the last table, dreading having to go to her other job tomorrow. She was one of the lead Restoration people and she was looking after Telos, Taris, and Dantooine. Those were the three planets she had chosen, mostly because of her having at least a small part in the destruction of each planet.
Tomorrow, she and Maya would heve to go to Telos to check on things there. She tossed her head back and heard the door open, this was a normal thing cause cantina rush hour was starting about now.
"Hello miss," a recognizable voice said.
"You just don't give up, do you Carth?" Chitari looked at him as she swung her head back down.
"Nope. You told me you'd tell me who the father was."
"I never said such a thing!" Chitari argued.
"Well, you're here aren't you? Please Chitari?"
"What do you want to know?" she sighed.
"First of all, who's the father?"
"That's not going to be the first thing Carth, the first thing is you get my a glass of Juma juice, and you keep em coming."
"Fine," Carth motioned for the bartender to come over.
"What kin I git you folk taday?" the bartender asked.
"Juma juices Athar, and keep them coming please," Chitari answered with a smile.
"Anythin fer my favourite gurl," Athar smiled back and went to get a new bottle of Juma juice mix.
"Is he the father?" Carth pursued.
"Athar? No way Onasi! He's more like my father!"
"Fine, then tell me."
"Not till I have at least two drinks."
Carth huffed and Athar came back. "Pour her two drinks please."
"Al'ri," Athar poured Chitari two drinks worth of Juma juice and she drank slowly.
"Thank you Athar," Chitari smiled.
"Yur welcome Chitari."
"Chitari, I'm waiting for an answer," Carth said impatiently.
"Alright, you want an answer? Here's your answer. You're the father Carth. I found out the night of the medal ceremony that I was pregnant, I could feel it, and I was scared. I didn't want to leave, but I also didn't want to put another burden on your life and I didn't want you to leave me once the baby was born. I wanted you there Carth, please believe me," Chitari felt tears run down her eyes. "I hid the fact that I'm a Jedi from Maya, and she doesn't know about you. The thing that scares me most is that I can feel the Force in her, but I don't want to give her to the counsel."
This was a lot for Carth to take in. "Chitari, why would you think I would leave you?"
"I don't know… I just… I didn't want you to," she wiped tears away, "Carth I tried to tell her, I swear, I just, I didn't want her father not to be there and her know about him. I told some things about you. I told her that you were a soldier for the republic… and I told her you were my best friend for the longest time, and that she has your personality," Chitari chuckled.
"She does?"
"Yeah, if there's something bothering her you can see it, but she won't say anything unless you pry it out of her."
"I'm not like that!"
"Yes you are Carth."
Carth huffed again.
Chitari chuckled as one of her favourite songs that the band played came on. The twi'lek singer did an excellent job at singing this in basic too.
Chitari mouthed the word "basic" to the singer who nodded in return and cued the Bith band.
"Do you want to dance?" she asked as some other couples got up to dance to the song.
"Err, sure…" he got up along with her and Chitari took his hand, going to the center of the dance floor.
The twi'lek sang perfectly to the song.
"I play a good game,
But not good as you
I
can be a little cold, but you can be so cruel
Im not made of
brick, Im not made of stone
But I had you fooled enough
To take
me on
If love was a war, its you who has won
While I was
confessing it, you held your tongue
Now the damage is done...
Well there's blood in these veins
And I cry when in pain
I'm
only human on the inside
And if looks can deceive
Make it hard
to believe
I'm only human on the inside
I thought you'd
come through,
I thought you'd come clean
You were the best
thing I should never have seen
But you go to extremes, you push me
too far
Then you keep going 'til you break my heart
Yeah, you
break my heart
See I bleed and I bruise, oh, but what's it to
you
I'm only human on the inside
And if looks could
deceive,
Make it hard to believe
I'm only human on the
inside
I crash and I burn, maybe some day you'll learn
I'm
only human on the inside
I stumble and fall, baby, under it
all
I'm only human on the inside
And the damage is done...
Well there's blood in these veins
And I cry
when in pain
I'm only human on the inside
And if looks can
deceive
Make it hard to believe
I'm only human on the
inside
I thought you'd come through,
I thought you'd come
clean
You were the best thing I should never have seen
But you
go to extremes, you push me too far
Then you keep going 'til you
break my heart
Yeah, you break my heart
See I bleed and I
bruise, oh, but what's it to you
I'm only human on the
inside
And if looks could deceive,
Make it hard to believe
I'm
only human on the inside
I crash and I burn, maybe some day you'll
learn
I'm only human on the inside
I stumble and fall, baby,
under it all
I'm only human on the inside
I crash and I
burn, maybe some day youll learn
I stumble and fall, baby, I do it
all
Im only human on the inside"
Once the song was over, Chitari didn't want to leave Carths arms. She held him close and then leaned up towards his lips.
They were less that a centimeter apart when Chitari's personal comlink rang. She gave Carth a sad look before she touched the button to answer it.
"Renn."
"Statement: Master, it is HK-47."
"I guessed that HK. What is it?"
"Answer: Masters Daughter is wondering where you are, she says that she needs you."
"Why?" Chitari asked, mildly scared.
"Answer: she says that she cannot fall asleep without you here to 'tuck her in.' I find it all very silly."
Chitari sighed. "Can you get her for me?"
"Answer: yes Master. One moment," HK called Maya to the com. "Statement: here she is Master."
"Thank you HK," Chitari said into the comlink.
"Mommy?"
"Yes sweetheart, what's the matter?"
"I want you to tuck me in," Maya sniffled. "Are you off work yet?"
"Yes Maya, I'll be there soon."
"How soon?"
"15 minutes?"
"Ok," Maya sniffled again. "Bye Mummy."
"Bye sweetie, I love you."
"Love you too," Maya looked at the comlink in frustration. "HK? Can you turn this off?"
"Statement: Very well. See you soon Master," the comlink went black as HK turned it off.
"I've gotta go Carth," Chitari said sadly.
"It's ok, I'll… see you tomorrow?"
"Ummm… No you won't."
"Why? What's the matter? Are you going to leave again?"
"Carth, please, don't bombard me with questions. I have to go to another job and it's on Telos. Nothing is the matter and I'll be back in about 2 weeks."
"What about Maya?"
"She's coming with me. Now I really have to go. That girl can hold a grudge… Hmm… I wonder where she got that?" Chitari said sarcastically giving Carth a look.
Carth glared at her. "I had a reason for that."
"You still held the grudge against Saul."
"Chitari!"
"Ok ok. Now I'm leaving," she turned to the door.
"Wait! Chit!"
She hadn't heard her nickname in a while so she automatically turned. "Yeah?"
"I'm coming with you."
"What?"
"To Telos. I'm coming."
"No, you're not."
"I am. Deal with it. I'm going anyway, I have to check up on some Exile or whatnot that Grenn called in."
"Why do you have to?" she still hadn't heard about Carths promotion.
"I'm an admiral. That's what we do."
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow at 0600 hours Admiral sir," she mock saluted.
"Get outta here," Carth shook his head as she left, laughing her head off.
((Just so everybody knows, you can get the song that I used by looking up the Pretenders or the song: Human.))