Thank you for your patience! Welcome back everyone.

I managed to snap my disk over the weekend so im having to re write the next 3 posts on all three fics so this is unbetaed and any mistakes are mine.

My beta will go over it soon so i'll rewrite it.
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I hope i haven't lost any readers and those faithful who have returned please enjoy this.

DWB has finally started to go away.

My Dad made off with my laptop so i'm having to post this from my babysitters comp.

LOL two little kids think that the icons are really cool.

I will read my normal fics soon.

Anyway without further ado...

The Queen and The Karrde?
Chapter 6 post 1.

Day 1.

Even a ship as unconventional as the Errant Venture could not miss the, rather spectacular, entrance of seven extraordinarily well known women. Not that one would guess who they were from their behavior!

Each woman carried an assortment of colourful shopping bags brimming with the day's purchases. The same purchases that moments later were deposited on the Bridge, directly in front of Booster Terrik. Who was then ordered to take the few bags they had brought to their suite.

The women then turned to leave clearly expecting instant obedience!

Booster Terrik proceeded to thunk his head on the aft of the Bridge exclaiming, "I'm never doing this again!"

One of his crew members turned to him sympathetically and said," It's not like you had a choice sir. Like you told us a few minutes ago it's only for a couple more days."

Occupying the large living room the six women now sat chatting and consuming rather liberal amounts of alcoholic beverages. Additionally to this the seven women had begun to model the newly purchased additions to their wardrobes, having had the delivered moments after leaving the bridge.

Now that the new clothes were put away the women took a few little bags and sat down in a somewhat stilted circle.

"You know Tycho's going to kill me for this." Winter Said with a smile brandishing the first set of newly acquired lingerie. " Not that he'll be seeing it any time soon."

After a round of laughter Mirax replied, "It's their own fault. They're the ones who went and started another bar fight on their night out. We deserve this time."

"True," Leia piped in; " I had to get away from his sheer stupidity. Refusing to go to the med bay. Lying in bed still beat up and expecting me to wait on him hand and foot until he heals. "

Grinning Iella said, " It's just like before you got married Mara. Wedge still refuses help from me. He's letting Wes who came out surprisingly well play pranks on him because he's too hurt to stop him."

" If you think that's bad," Mara said, "I had to put Luke in a healing trance when he refused hospital care. I'm here to escape his temper when he finds out what I've done."

The statement set the women off again.

As if it had just occurred to her Iella turned to Shada and asked her, " So what's your excuse for being here? I didn't know Karrde had gone with them."

"He didn't." Shada answered flatly. "Not that it would be any of my business if he did go. We're not together you know that."

Sensing Shada's unease Mara changed the subject. "So Leia, Who am I going to have to kill to put a smile back on Jaina's face?"

"What's wrong with Jaina?" Winter asked clearly concerned.

Leia with an uncharacteristic anger in her voice answered the women's curious looks," You remember me telling you about her first Real boyfriend?"

"Zekk right?" Shada replied, "The bounty hunter turned Jedi apprentice."

"Yes him." Leia's voice turned angrier still. "Well that boy broke my little girls heart. He led her on for weeks. Apparently he has been pretending to love her as more then a friend for the last month!"

"Oh, I am going to kill that boy!" Mara sputtered after the few moments of silence the news garnered.

Leia turned and started again. "That's not the worst thing either. He gave her the lets be friends' speech ten minutes later. She was devastated."

"Men are clueless when it comes to break ups." Tendra spoke up.
She had just gotten up from her nap. She had had a headache after their breakfast and had missed the shopping trip. Well not that she hadn't gotten purchases. The other women had seen to that.
" I remember Lando tried that line with me when he joined the war efforts. Of course he didn't mean it and was only trying to protect me. But still he almost lost his two front teeth after that one."

Winter and Iella then said "what about the it's not you, it's me line," in unison. "I can't stand it when they say that. It's so obvious they're lying!"

"Men!" All seven women exclaimed shaking their heads in disgust.

Mirax then brought out a picture of Valin who had just started middle school. He was posed with an arm around a prettily smiling girl.

"Who's that?" Iella asked her.

"Her name is Wiara Rymarkiewicz. She's a girl in his class." Mirax told her.

" I don't remember Syal mentioning her." Iella replied.

" Valin said she's new. Syal may mention her when she finds out that Val asked her out. My little boy has a girlfriend."

"Syal is going to kill him!" said Winter." He's her best friend. I always assumed they would get together at some point."

"She probably will come to me about that." Said Iella. "I guess I always assumed the same thing."

Mara rejoined the conversation by saying. " If they're anything like Luke and me that won't happen for at least another ten years."

Chuckling Shada broke in; "Maybe it will kick start Syal into a little jealousy."

Iella smiled, "That ones doubtful he's her best friend she will never admit to anything more."

" So what did Corran say about this?" Tendra asked Mirax.

Shaking with suppressed laughter Mirax replied. " He gave Valin the Talk. I swear he was traumatised he went straight to his room even agreeing to do the dishes to make Jysella stop teasing him about it."

"Teasing how?" Asked Leia.

"Oh, I heard her chanting one of those sitting in a tree rhymes last week." Winter said. " I wasn't really paying attention but now I guess I know why. Hang on yes it was Wiara's name mentioned." She finished laughingly.

" I don't know how they come up with those silly rhymes." Shada said. " No mother teaches them."

Iella grinned suddenly. " I know my Syal learned it from a holodrama of Syal Antilles. Apparently the rhyme originated from her holo. The one she starred with Face Loran in."

"Really?" Tendra asked. "I'll have to remember that next time he hits on me. I'll send him running without any death threats this time."

" He hits on you too?" Asked shada. " I've taken to just threatening him before he even opens his mouth."

Laughing Mara raises her glass. After the others followed suit she said. " A toast to the idiocy of the male species. And how we are superior to them in everyway!"

"Hear, hear!" came the replies off all six remaining women.

As the night progressed side conversations broke out.

Mara and Shada had retreated to one couch and sat speaking quietly.

The conversation clearly conveyed Mara's concern for her friend.

Unaware that the other women had heard Mara ask of the incident in the mess hall at breakfast where she had witnessed Shada's strange reaction to Karrde. She asked her friend,

" Are you feeling any better?"

" To be honest Mara," Shada said slightly miserably. " All I seem to be feeling is worse now even though I had a good time. I can't shake the bad feelings."