an. sooo it's been like 3 months...lol I'm sorry to the people who've read this and wanted an update. I work in retail and holiday was crazy and I've finally got time and motivation to actually focus on this. I wanna be better at updating in a timely matter and now that the holidays are over I feel like that's possible. So without an other excuses here's Chapter 3. Please review, favorite or follow it'd make me happy :)

Chapter Three: Baby, Please, Go All The Away

Inside their ship, the Milano, Skadi stood in their little kitchen area, making a snack for herself. She hadn't yet spoken to either Peter or Beret since leaving the planet. After discovering their temporary cabin mate, Skadi quietly put in the coordinates for Xandar and then retreated to her small room in the way back of the ship.

She didn't want to see or hear Peter and his excuses and how he had broken their one rule: no late night visitors were allowed on their ship, especially forgetting that they were there and having them while they were off on a job.

Even back when they lived on their old ship with the other Ravagers, their captain, Yondu made it very clear, no one was to bring women, or in Skadi's case, men, back to his ship. It was a thing of respect but more of a liability thing. In their line of work anything could happen and having a civilian around could cause them more trouble than Ravagers usually cared to get into.

She intended to stay in her room until they reached Xandar, but her stomach begged for food and her secret stash of snacks had ran out and needed restocking. She ignored Peter's advances to talk to her when she exited her room and entered the common area. Beret sat at the table nursing a cup in her hand. The girl tried to give Skadi a smile but she briskly ignored it and kept walking to the kitchen. Skadi shook her head when her favorite song off of Peter's tape began to play. She heard his footsteps trail behind her, stopping when he was a few inches behind her.

"You can play this all day long and I'm still going to be mad at you Peter." She said light heartedly as she finished making her sandwich.

"You love the Raspberries though." Peter almost sounded like he was whining.

"My love of the Raspberries doesn't change the fact that you're a dick." She turned around, biting into her meal using her other hand to point the knife she used to cut it at him.

"Easy there killer." He raised his hand in surrender. "Look I'm sorry-," he paused, surprised as she gave him the other half. He grinned cockily and took a bite before speaking again. "I'm sorry, okay? I didn't have enough cash for a hotel room and you wouldn't lend me any."

"Yeah, because I needed money for a hotel room." He grimaced at her response.

"Really? With who? That yellow dude who bought you a drink? Or the guy who wouldn't stop following you around like a lost puppy? You can do better than those two bozos" Peter stomped his foot, clearly irritated.

"Why do you care? What I do in my private time is none of your concern. I don't care about who you fuck unless you bring them here. " Skadi snapped, taking his sandwich out of his mouth. "I can't believe you brought her here. All the way here! What if we didn't make it out of there? Huh? What if that crazy cyborg dude managed to get us and she was stuck there or taken also. That's so irresponsible of you Peter." She scolded him as he ripped his sandwich back from her.

"Well, we eeedefed op bing feni." Peter responded with his mouth full.

"Don't speak with your mouth full. God I'm like your mother." Skadi groaned, throwing her hands up in the air, walking towards the common area to watch the tv that was playing in the background.

Peter swallowed, following after her. "I said, we ended up being fine and we'll stay fine because it's not like Yondu will find us, we'll get to Xandar sell the orb and get to the next solar system. He'll never find us." Peter spoke.

Skadi gave him a not so impressed look, ears perking when their tablet alerted them that they had an incoming call. Talk about timing. Both friends looked at each other like little children getting caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar. Neither moved to answer it, both trying to pretend that the ringing wasn't actually there.

"Peter you have call." Beret broke the silence, going ahead and hitting the accept button.

"What are you doing?!" Skadi shouted, causing the other girl to flinch.

"Fuck no." Peter cursed, turning around to face the main screen that now projected Yondu's angry blue face.

"Hunt. Quill." His voice added another layer of tension throughout the room. Both Ravagers held their breath waiting to see who had the nerve to speak first.

"Hey Yondu." Peter stammered out, trying to sound cool. Normally Skadi would have chuckled at this but he was the brave one to speak first.

"So I'm here on Morag. And I'm just a little confused. Why am I not seeing either of you here? And why is that when we went to go get the orb it was missing." Yondu scratched the scuffle on his chin, hiding the anger behind a fake voice of confusion.

Peter turned to look at the two girls. He bit his tongue, trying to think of what to say. He knew Yondu would be furious when he found out what they were doing. They had planned their leave from Yondu's crew for months now. They thought they had thought everything through. They were just going to wait for a big deal, get to the job before Yondu and get the cash and head to the furthest galaxy and start a new life.

It wasn't that Skadi wasn't grateful for what Yondu had done for her all those years ago. She was forever grateful. She didn't want to think about where she would be now if it hadn't been for him saving her. But a life as a thief wasn't one she wanted. She didn't want to live in constant fear of getting caught or taken captive again. She still had nightmares of her past. Skadi never admitted her want to leave until Peter had brought it up to her. The girl was beyond happy when he wanted her to go with him and that he had told her of his plans. She wasn't going to let them get caught by Yondu. If he found out what they were doing he'd probably kill them.

"Maybe someone beat us to it." Skadi said innocently as could.

Finding courage to lie to the blue captain, Skadi leaned back in her seat casually. Her face was serious and her body was relaxed. If Peter wasn't there with her when they took the orb he could've believed her. But Yondu wasn't stupid, he eyed the girl harshly inspecting her.

"Me and Peter went to Xandar, we were just heading to you now." Skadi continued.

Peter looked at her in shock. He knew that Yondu was always a little bit more lenient with her than himself. He was kind of proud of Skadi's sudden bravery and wish he could high five her at that moment. Instead he turned back to the screen, nodding along with Skadi.

Yondu looked at Peter. His composer was nowhere near the blonde's. Yondu laughed to himself. These two kids couldn't pull one over him if he was wearing a blindfold. Skadi was never calm when innocent. She would get nervous and stutter, not wanting to get in trouble for something she hadn't done. Peter would be the calm one because he hadn't done nothing so what did he have to be guilty about.

"Don't you dare lie to me girly, I know you better than that." Yondu pointed a finger at her. "Now you're goanna tell me where you are now or else I swear you two are goanna be in a whole lot of hurt, is that understood?"

Peter gulped, his throat suddenly dry. "We have it. She's just being funny. We wanted to save you the hassle, we were already nearby." He spoke quickly, yet smoothly.

"Uh-Huh," Yondu rolled his eyes. "Well where you at now, boy." He focused on Peter, knowing that since Skadi was caught lying she'd be a stuttering mess.

"Well Yondu, I feel kind of bad about this but I'm not going to tell you that." Peter rubbed the back of his neck.

Skadi stood up, deciding to go to the cockpit. She wanted to get to Xandar as fast as she could. She didn't care if she had to break every speed limit the Nova Core tried to enforce in the galaxy, they needed to beat Yondu to Xandar. She paused as she got to the ladder when Yondu and Peter started yelling at each other.

"I slaved putting this deal-,"

"Really? You slaved? You made a few calls,"

"You dare not rip me off. We're Ravagers, we don't do that to each other. When I picked you two up, I didn't have to keep you, you know that? How many Ravager captains have you heard of who take kids in? I could've sent you both on your own or let the crew eat you! How long do you think you'd survive up here alone that young Quill? Huh? A young Terrain like yourself? Skadi are you wishing you were back we I found you? You wanna go back there little girl?I can have that arranged. I know you're still listening-,"

Skadi gripped the railing tightly, turning where she touched to ice. Her throat felt tight, taking in Yondu's words quickly. She hated when he was like this. It was a reason why she wanted to leave. He loved to throw her past in her face whenever she disobeyed him or to get her to do something. She bit back tears as his voice suddenly was cut off. Skadi shut up to look back in the common area.

Peter had heard enough. He hung up on Yondu. He turned to Beret, telling her to get ready because they'd be landing soon. He headed to Skadi, determined to get them to Xandar. He stopped when he was right on her side. He motioned towards the railing where she had froze.

"You know that's a safety hazard." He smiled at her, trying to lighten the mood. "Come on, we got an orb to sell." He said as he climbed past her. She stated up after him, letting a smile escape from her lips.