A huge thanks to my absolutely fantastic beta, JaggednJaded who was a huge inspiration for the last part of the chapter, and, in fact helped to write it! Thank you all for your excellent reviews! If you ever have a question you want answered, just ask, I can't promise anything but I'll try!

Chapter 14: Fear Factor

Jag got out of his speed boat the next morning feeling good about himself. Other than the rather terrible start the night before with Danni, they managed to have a good time – or as good a time as one could have while doing homework.

He saw the pretty blonde in question heading towards the school from the water taxi that ran between Coruscant and the Academy. Jag was about to get the girl's attention when Jaina ran up and jerked her around. He couldn't see Danni's face, but Jaina's features were contorted, as usual, in anger, eyes hard as stone. He knew that whatever the brunette bitch was saying, it had to be upsetting Danni. Jag moved to intervene, but both girls turned and stalked off, mirroring each other's images as Danni went towards the school and Jaina met up with Lowie near the water way.

Jag ran to catch up with his friend who he immediately saw trying to open her locker in the senior hall.

"Hey, Danni." She turned around, startled.

"Oh, hi."

"Are you okay?"

"Of course, why wouldn't I be?" She smiled sweetly, but he could tell she was trying to cover up how she really felt.

"I saw you and Jaina… out there."

"Right, it was nothing, really."

"Okay," he said, deciding it would be best not to push it, though he wished he could know what was said. "Want to walk with me to Biology?" She nodded shyly, and they walked in silence to class.

First period was tense. Everyone went immediately to their lab groups and began gathering their supplies to do the experiment. Jaina and Danni were completely avoiding each other, leaving Jag to work with Danni and Zekk to work with Jaina. As Jag and Danni created a chart to record their observations, Jaina and Zekk were supposed to separate the flies by their gender. Though Jaina, surprisingly, seemed to actually be working, all Zekk seemed interested in was making a weapon out of a pair of tweezers and a rubber band.

Mating flies for genetic studies was a disaster as the entire class was erupting in chaos. Flies buzzed around, ignoring the attempts of various students to catch them. At Tesar's, Lowie's, Raynar's, and Ganner's table, the chanting of "do it, do it" came frequently as Tesar and Lowie took turns eating some of the flies a la Fear Factor. Jag's group seemed to be the only one having any success thanks to Danni's strict adherence to the rules. They were certainly the only group to not be chasing around flies, as theirs were properly put to sleep.

Finally, Zekk seemed to perfect his weapon. He took aim and released. The rubber band flew right into Danni's cheek.

"Zekk!"

"Relax, Danni, it was an accident," Jaina said, immediately coming to Zekk's defense.

"An accident? Are blind?"

"Not everything is a personal affront to you, Danni. And people call me egotistical."

"I cannot possibly be hearing this. He aimed for me."

"Oh my God stop blowing it out of proportions."

"Accuses the Queen of Blowing Things Out of Proportion!"

"Aren't we being a little hypocritical? Especially after this morning."

"Hyp- hypocritical? You define what it is to be a hypocrite!" Jag watched the two teen girls throw barbs at each other wondering what the hell was getting them so worked up.

Zekk seemed pleased with himself and his aim, though he also seemed to become very quickly bored. "Hey, check it out; I'm speeding up the mating process!" The argument ended abruptly as the girls and Jag whipped their heads over to where he had taken a male fly and placed it on top of a female creating a pseudo-sex position.

"Zekk, could you please stop being an idiotic little brat for one second?"

Before Jaina could come to Zekk's defense again, she was interrupted. "Yeah, Zekk, besides, you can't just have them lying on top of each other," Jacen said as he approached the group, most likely coming over to see what the argument was about. "They have to move or it'll never work." Jacen started to move the male up and down until the bug split in half.

"Jacen, go away and harass some other group!" Danni exclaimed threateningly. The surprise on Jacen's face at Danni's tone and loss of control probably matched Jag's. Jacen didn't let it faze him for too long; he almost immediately flashed the infamous Solo smirk.

"Oops, that must be why all our bugs died. I was just coming over to borrow some."

"No," Jaina answered for the group, "You already killed one of ours."

"Fine, but don't blame me when I force you to watch Attack."

"You wouldn't dare," she hissed.

"Oh I would."

"I don't think so, unless of course, you want me to tell Tenel Ka where you and the other guys went while we were on Rodia for the day during spring break last year." Jaina crossed her arms and smirked at her now ashen faced twin.

"How did you find out?" he whispered urgently.

Jaina rolled her eyes. "You act like it's not obvious. Just because your girlfriend lives in blissful denial, doesn't mean I do." Jacen stalked off to follow Danni's original orders.

Both Jaina and Danni seemed to mirror their exasperated faces perfectly. "Immature ass," they muttered under their breaths in unison and then glared at each other. Jag was utterly confused as to what was going on between the two, but he did know that the tension between them was palpable.

"Attack?" he said the first thing that came to mind.

Jaina's eyes flickered over to him at the mention of the name of the old movie. "What about it?"

"That's the corny pre-civil war movie with Wynssa Starflare isn't it?"

"Giant bugs from outer space taking over the world aren't corny, they're terrifying, and I'm not ashamed to say it. I mean, have you ever seen Raynar naked?"

"Uh…" Jag couldn't exactly see what that had to do with the present conversation, "I can't say that I have."

"Well, let me tell you, it's one of the most disturbing things anyone has ever seen, but the scene where Wynssa Starflare's lover is getting his brain sucked out by the blue beetle…" She trailed off and shook her head.

"Dude, Wynssa Starflare was hott in that movie," Zekk commented. "C'mon, Fel, even you have to agree with that."

"Considering she's my mother, I don't think so."

"Wynssa Starflare is your mother?"

"Yeah."

Jaina seemed to be rather disturbed by the revelation. "Let's just work on the lab."

"Fine by me," Danni answered, and the two turned to their work ignoring everything else until the bell rang. Jaina was the first out, brushing past everyone, including Zekk, on her way.