My friends asked that I add another missing scene. This time it is Mirax finding out about Mara and Luke's relationship. Hopefully this is the last missing scene. It may seem a little OOC, but Mirax just had a baby and Mara is in love…so they are both a little crazed.

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Corellia

Mara Jade was surprised when Booster Terrick opened the apartment door of Corran and Mirax Horn's apartment.

"Booster," Mara said. "It's nice seeing you again. While I was on planet I thought I'd stop by and see Mirax and the baby."

A huge smile crossed the large man's face at the mention of his new granddaughter. "Come on in Mara," he said while motioning her inside. He ushered her through the living room and down a hall. "The baby finally is asleep and Mirax is taking the time to rest, but come on in and take a peek at the baby." Booster's voice was down to a whisper as he slowly opened the door to the baby's nursery. He motioned for Mara to go in and the two tiptoed over to the bassinet. There inside was a very small baby, swaddled in a light red blanket.

"She's beautiful," Mara whispered to Booster. Mara was not much of a baby person, but there was something about this little baby with wisps of reddish brown hair that fascinated her. It actually made her wonder what color hair her children would have.

That thought popped into her mind so unexpectedly that she actually gasped in shock. Where did that come from? Dating Skywalker was one thing…contemplating children was another.

Booster smiled misinterpreting Mara's surprised reaction. "She is beautiful. She's named Jysella after my late wife."

'I have no family to name my children after,' Mara mused and then quickly clamped down on those thought. She was sure she was going insane. How could one sexual encounter with a Tatooine Farmboy totally skew her entire life…albeit it was a mind-blowing, incredible sexual encounter that mentally, emotionally and physically rocked her world, but still…

She took a deep breath and stepped back from the baby's crib. When she was a teenager she heard an old belief that being around a newborn or pregnant woman made a woman more fertile…something about the crying or a scent of a baby triggered chemicals and hormones to make a woman susceptible to pregnancy. She knew that was an urban legend, but when it came to Luke Skywalker, one could not take any chances. Despite her being on repress-meds she wouldn't be surprised if his swimmers could do a Jedi-mind-trick on her reproductive system.

She turned to Booster. "She is beautiful. Congratulations on your new granddaughter."

He smiled and motioned for her to follow him. "Come on, let's see if Mirax is up. Corran and Valin are out at the park right now." He gave her a lopsided smile. "Valin is less than excited about the new addition to the family so he's getting some alone time with dad." He walked down the hall and then pushed a bedroom door open a crack. "Mirax, are you awake?"

"Yeah, I am having trouble falling asleep. I keep thinking I hear the baby crying," came Mirax's tired voice.

"Mara's here to see you," he said through the door opening.

"Tell her to come in."

Booster opened the door all the way. "Go on in," he said to Mara. "I'm going out to get some milk. I'll be back soon."

Mara waved goodbye to Mirax's father as she entered her friend's room. What she saw shocked her. Mirax was lying in bed and looking like she hadn't slept in days…, which might actually be the case. Her hair was sticking out in wild directions like it was slept on wrong, her eyes were bloodshot and her skin had a sickly pallor of a woman who hasn't eaten or slept well for days.

The shock must have been evident on Mara's face because Mirax looked down at her body and gave a gesture of disgust. "I know, I look horrible." She looked up exhausted. "I finally got Jysella asleep. She is colicky. I'm still sore from the delivery. I haven't even thought of fixing my hair or make-up for days. I don't remember it being this hard with Valin." Mirax sat up in bed swinging her legs over the side. "I'm glad you're here." She motioned to a chair. "Sit down. I need to talk to you."

"Me?" Mara said confused.

"Yes," Mirax looked at the open door. "Is my Dad still here?"

Mara shook her head. "No, he went to the store."

Mirax gave a relieved breath. "Good because I don't want him to know what I suspect."

Mara saw down in the proffered chair. "What do you suspect?" she asked warily.

Mirax's face screwed up into one of anguish and she started crying. "I think Corran is having an affair."

"What?!" Mara said as she sat back in the chair in surprise. "No, no…I can't see Corran doing that."

Mirax pulled some facial tissue out of a box on the bedside table and wiped her eyes. "I wouldn't think he was capable of it either, but he's been acting really strange for the last few days. I know he is keeping a secret from me. He is a horrible liar. When I ask him about his last mission he refused to discuss it. He was working the sex slave business." She gave Mara a heartbroken look. "What if he met somebody while away?" She reached down and grabbed a small roll of fat at her belly. "I was huge during my pregnancy! We didn't have sex for months because of false labor pains that went on for weeks. I was on bedrest for the last month of the pregnancy. I look hideous. He probably found a thin, younger woman." Mirax broke down in tears again.

Mara was a little shocked at this excessive display of emotion. She hadn't been around a lot of pregnant women, but she was fairly certain her friend was probably suffering from postpartum depression. "You said you are basing this entirely on the fact that Corran has been acting like he is keeping a secret?" Mara took a deep calming breath. She was pretty sure she knew what secret he was having trouble keeping.

"Yes! He probably thinks I am as fat as a Hutt! What am I going to do?"

Mara rubbed her temples as she desperately wondered what to say. Her and Luke had said they would keep their 'encounter' a secret, but she couldn't let Mirax think Corran was cheating on her. Finally she made her decision. "Mirax the secret he is keeping isn't about him and another woman. It's about me and Luke Skywalker. I swore him to secrecy and threatened to kill him if he told anybody."

Mirax stopped crying and looked at Mara confused. "What? You and Luke? What secret do you and Luke have?"

Mara blushed profusely as she told Mirax the 'official' story about the fake sex. That story was embarrassing enough; she didn't need to get into the real story.

Mirax stared at her dumbfounded. "Are you just saying that to cover for Corran?"

Mara rolled her eyes. "Do you think I would make up such an embarrassing story to cover for anyone?"

Mirax gazed down at the ground. "No, I guess not." She looked back up to Mara as a wide grin blossomed across her face. "So tell me all the details."

Mara almost laughed at the change in friend's demeanor. She went from a blubbering depressed new mom to a nosy friend wanting to delve into Mara's love life. She shrugged. "There is nothing to tell. We got under the covers and we went through the motions. No big deal."

"No big deal?" Mirax almost yelled but then lowered to tone when she realized a sleeping baby was next door. "You had the most sought after man in the galaxy in bed with you and you say it's 'no big deal'!"

Mara almost chuckled. "There's nothing to tell," she insisted.

Mirax jumped off the bed and pulled a robe over her pajamas. "That is a load of kriff'n bantha crap!" She walked to the door of her room. "Come on, let's go to the kitchen and get something to drink".

Mara followed her to the kitchen and was surprised when she pulled out a bottle of wine out of the cooling unit. "Aren't you not supposed to drink while nursing?" Mara asked. She wasn't sure, but she thought she had read that somewhere.

Mirax poured out two glasses. "I'm not breastfeeding. I learned my lesson with Valin. I never slept when nursing him. This time I am going with formula and letting Corran take on some of the feeding duties." She handed a glass to Mara. "So, you didn't have sex, but you can at least tell me how he looked naked."

Mara took a long sip. "He stayed in his boxer-briefs."

Mirax gave Mara an annoyed look. "Give me something here, Mara. I haven't had sex for three months and the way Jysella is crying I probably won't have it for another three months. You had the sexy Jedi Master in bed with you stripped down to his boxers and now you're not going to give me any details!"

"Okay," Mara said not wanting to upset her overly emotional and obviously hormonally unbalanced friend. "He was…" she chuckled and then smiled wildly. "Okay I have to admit he is gorgeous. So much smoothed, tanned and toned skin." Her smile dropped from her face as she turned serious. "But don't tell Corran I said that."

Mirax beamed. "I promise." She took a sip of her wine and then continued. "Don't stop there. Even if he had his shorts on you had to see the outline of his assets…so tell me, are the holotabloids right about his…proportions?"

Mara's face burned at the memory of Luke, unclothed and aroused. "I'm not sure which tabloid you are referring to," she stalled attempting to avoid answering the question.

Mirax scoffed. "Shavit! You know exactly what tabloid story I'm talking about. The one we both laughed about last year. The one about him skinny-dipping at the lake on Yavin IV. Those images on the holonet looked pretty impressive."

"That part of his body was blacked out by the censors! How would you know it's impressive?"

"True, but that was a really big pixilated black box they put over his crotch region," Mirax pointed out with a laugh.

Mara shook her head not wanting to admit that with a little computer slicing she obtained unedited images of that infamous photo and, knowing what she knows now, she could honestly say that the story was not only true, but the water must have been pretty cold that day. It certainly didn't do him justice. "I wouldn't know, we were faking," Mara lied.

Mirax's eyes narrowed. "Were you wearing underwear also?"

Mara shrugged. "Yes, it was a silk and lace bikini outfit."

She snorted. "And you didn't get a rise out of him to verify that story?"

Mara began to get flustered. "No."

Mirax laughed. "Okay, now I don't believe you. Either he prefers the company of men…and he's been paired up with enough women to prove that's not true…or you're lying and he did get excited and you just don't want to tell me." She took another sip of her wine. "Which I don't think is fair because this is going to be the only tantalizing thing I will probably experience in months." She pointed down to her lap. "I pushed a small human out of my body. I'm probably not going to be able to feel a thing down there for weeks and you have a horribly juicy story to tell and you are holding out on me." She threw her hands up in the air. "Some friend you are."

Mara closed her eyes in annoyance. She was not only frustrated about this line of questioning but also she was upset that she was actually dying to tell somebody about her encounter with Luke. It was a story wanting to be told. "Okay, but you can't tell Corran what I'm going to tell you because he doesn't know the whole truth." She looked down the hall to the front door making sure Booster or Corran didn't come back unexpectedly. "Luke and I had sex…not fake sex…we really had sex."

Mara startled when Mirax made an excited screech. "Oh, oh this story is getting better and better. How was he?"

Mara grinned as she looked away embarrassed. "Better than I ever had before."

Mirax laughed as she refilled the glasses. "I need you to tell me everything that happened blow-by-blow."

Mara cringed. "I hope that is not a double entendre."

Mirax laughed. "I won't know if it is until you tell me exactly what happened."

"I am not getting into the personal details," Mara said with a shake of the head.

Mirax frowned. "Well at least tell me if he was better than Lando."

"What!" Mara exclaimed. "Lando and I never did anything. We had to pose as a couple while doing an undercover job."

"So, it wasn't the same 'undercover job' you and Luke had?" Mirax burst out in laughter. "Well was he better than Kyle?"

Mara's jaw dropped. "Who is telling you I had sex with Kyle?"

Mirax smirked. "Nobody, I'm just going to start naming names until you admit to being with someone. The next person on my list is Kyp?" Mara scowled at her friend. "No? How about Kam? Streen?"

"None! Luke is probably the only person I have been with that you know."

"Were you a virgin?" Mirax said in disbelief.

"No, I wasn't a virgin," Mara bit out. She hesitated for a moment. "I had sex before, but you wouldn't know him. He was an Imperial."

"An Imperial..."Mirax's eyes went wide. "The Emperor?"

Mara spit out the wine she was currently trying to swallow. "No! Gross!"

"Vader?"

"Okay, now you are just trying to make me mad," Mara groused. "Anyway, I heard rumors about how Vader ended up in his suit and I am pretty sure all protruding parts of his body were burnt off."

"Ouch." Mirax made a face. "So are you going to tell me who he is or not."

"You wouldn't know him. He was a former Stormtrooper," Mara finally admitted.

Mirax smiled. "Mara has a thing for men in uniform."

"Can we get back to talking about Luke," Mara asked.

Her friend grinned. "I thought you'd never ask. So was it a mind altering experience?"

"What a stupid question," Mara scoffed. "Of course it was. I made out with the Jedi Master…it was incredible…but don't tell anybody."

"No, you need to tell everyone or you might lose him."

Mara's brow furrowed. "And why is that?"

"Are you kidding? Luke is always having women throw themselves at him. Corran told me that Luke once found a naked girl hiding under his bed."

"Really?"

"Yes! You've got to seal the deal. My dad took me fishing once and he told me that when you get a bite you have to set the hook." Mirax said while pantomiming the act of fishing. "Then you reel him in. When you hook the big one you don't let go. Besides you don't want to risk Callista coming back."

That got a reaction from Mara. "What? What about Callista? Did you hear something?"

She shook her head. "No, but if he is that amazing in bed, how can she stay away for long? You need to make sure everybody knows he's your man."

"Are you saying I have to mark my territory?"

Mirax laughed. "Well, not the same way a Razor Cat does…unless you're into that type of thing," she said with a wink. "…but yeah. You need to put the word out that you and him are an item."

"Pssff," Mara made a dismissive noise. "I don't need to mark him," she gave a wide grin. "After what we experienced…he'll be back for more…I know I will." She turned to Mirax. "But if you want to spread certain rumors to keep any bodysnatching exes from returning…well, I can't really stop you."

"Woot!" Mirax yelled and immediately realized her mistake when she heard a baby crying down the hall. "Damn! She can't be hungry and I just changed her diaper."

Mara laughed. "Maybe I can help." The two women went to the nursery and gazed into the bassinet where a very distressed red-faced baby was shrieking. Mara reached down to the child gently caressing the sparse hair on the baby's head. She sent out soothing waves though the Force that washed over the infant. Eventually Jysella calmed down and then fell back to sleep.

"Wow," Mirax whispered. "The Master really did rub off on you."

"Something like that." Mara said with a wink and a grin. "Something like that."