Dinner time, at the cantina on the Chimaere:
"So, you really just worked for the ISB, the whole time?"
"Yes, I've not a family or something like this," said Kallus.
"Yeah, I see it. You're the same boring single like for five years," said Kasari.
"What do you want to say whit this?" Kallus jumped up from his chair, leaned over the table to Kasari.
"Hey, come down. Everyone is looking on us. I've not a problem with being the center of something, but every time I'm out with a male person and he acts like you, they think I've a date. So please come down, Kallus!" said Kasari strict.
"Ohh, I'm sorry. I've forgot you're the dream of every men," said he cheeky.
"Hahaha really nice from you. But you have no idea, how hard this can be. Short after my father's dead, every man wanted to date me. That was no fun. I even couldn't go to the bathroom without getting asked for a date."
"Wow. How have you survived this?" asked Kallus impressed.
"I had help. Thrawn helped me. He was a good friend of my father. You know before my father died he said always 'Don't touch or stalk my daughter, if she doesn't want it. If you do it anyway you have to count with me. And it will not end well for you.' So but then he died. And they hadn't something to fear, but then came Thrawn. He did the same for me as my father did. He protected me form one of the less things I couldn't protected myself. But otherwise as my father he taught me, to protect myself from them," explained Kasari.
"Wow"
Beep beep beep
"Kallus, your comlink is beeping."
"Ohh, yes. Here Agent Kallus. Where is there?" said Kallus into the comlink.
"Agent Kallus here speaks Grand Admiral Thrawn. Do you know where Agent Joruic is? She is not answering my calls."
"Yeah she is…" But before Kallus could finish the sentence, Kasari jumped up and ran swearing outside. "….I mean she was here in the cantina."
"Did she run away?" Thrawn asked.
"Yes Sir, but I've no idea where she wants to go," said Kallus.
"Hmm… then we have-"
"Not to search her. I'm here. Sorry I forgot our meeting. Can I please get the comlink? Thanks," said Kasari at she entered the office and took the comlink from Thrawn to her. "Kallus, could you please buy a dessert for me? I'll give you the money later. Bring it please in a hour to my room. Thank you," said Kasari into the comlink and then she turned it off.
"Agent Kasari Joruic! What do you think are you doing here?"
"Err doing my job? Or what do you mean?"
"I mean your acting. I am still your supervisor. So please respect my like one." said Thrawn. "I hope you have something for me what can excuse your acting."
"More or less. I was getting Kallus to trust me again but then someone interrupt our conversation. But I'm confident that I'll get something from him. Still today. I know you want something right know. So here." Kasari gave Thrawn a data pad. "On this data pad is everything I could find out about Kallus personal live and what he's doing in his free time. It's not much, but a planet appears every time. Better said it's a moon from Geonosis. It's the Bahryn moon. His interest for it started directly after his accident on the Geonosis station." Kasari ended her report.
"Bahryn. Hmmm. I never heard something about this moon. Could you please tell me something more about Kallus accident on Geonosis?"
"Yes, Sir. Kallus and some Stormtrooper were out there for catching some rebels. But on his hunt on one of this rebels, he was pushed by this one rebel into an escapepode. He got hurt and break down. He stranded on an ice moon with a broken leg. After we caught his signal he went back to the ship of Admiral Konstantin."
"Interesting. You can go Kasari. And be careful. I want him alive." said Thrawn. Kasari went out from Thrawn's office to her room.
As she entered it she noticed that it was too hot. So she tried to turn the air condition but they didn't work. She put out her comlink and said in it "Service unit, here Agent Joruic from the ISB. My number is 2-3-7."
"Understand, Agent. What's your problem?"
"My air condition is broken. Please send some technician to fix it as fast as possible"
"Okay we will send tomorrow morning someone to your room."
"No! Not tomorrow. Now!" screamed Kasari into the comlink.
"Sorry, Ma'am. But that's impossible. Our technicians are working on a broken deflector at the moment. We have no time for such baby-things at the moment."
"…If it's not fixed till my shift end tomorrow, you are going to clean some toilets for the rest of your career. Understand?"
"Yes. Ma'am"
"Good." said Kasari and turned off the comlink.
"Kasari? Can I come in?" Kallus asked.
"Yes; come in."
Kallus entered the room.
"Kasari! What do you think are you doing?"
"Reading and waiting form my dessert, or do you mean something else?"
"Yes! Why is your jacket unbuttoned, and your hair are open? And where are your shoes? And why is your face red?... I'm not sleeping with you!"
"Ohh… you misunderstand this. I don't want to sleep with you as well, but it's fucking hot here, so I'm wearing my outfit open, also my hair and that's why I have a red face. What's wrong with it?" answered Kasari.
"Nothing, just these rumor. I thought…"
"No, I don't want you. Can I have my dessert now? Or do you prefer to stare at me holding it in your hand and discuss about rumors?"
"No. Here," said Kallus and want out of her room straight to his own.
"-Hey! Wait! Your money!" shouted Kasari and jump out to the floor. Two Stormtroopers came around and stared at her. "What is? Have you no job?" said Kasari to the Stormtroopers and went back to her room.
The same time on the Ghost:
"Someone should talk with him," said Kanan.
"I can't do it. I have to repair the shields. Come one Chopper! We've work to do," said Ezra fast and went out of the room together with Chopper.
"Wait…," said Hera.
"You are too late. He's gone," said Kanan.
"Okay. Soo, who will talk with Zeb? You or me?"
"I would say you should do this. You have more experience with such love things."
"You also. We are together for about one year. So could do this as well," said Hera.
"No. You're my first girlfriend and my first partner like this. And I know that you had boyfriends before me. So you are more qualified for this."
"… We've no other choice, or have we?"
"No."
"Okay I will talk with Zeb, but you have to promise me that if something will go wrong at the meeting with Fulcrum, you will first think one the rebellion! Understand Kanan? First come back if there is no risk for the rebellion."
"Yes, Hera. But I will do this just this one time," said Kanan.
"Zeb? Can I come in please?" said Hera as she knocked on Zeb's door. "Zeb? If you say nothing I'll come in." She waited. "Okay, I'm coming," said she and entered the room. On Zeb's bed she saw him. He laid there with a tiered and sorrowful view. "Zeb! What's wrong? You look terrible!" asked she upset.
"I'm fine," said Zeb.
"You're not fine! You lay there since Kallus called us. Do you worry about him? Come on you can tell it me," said Hera softly.
"No. I can't tell it you. You wouldn't understand!"
"What make you sure that I wouldn't understand. I have also a boyfriend, Kanan."
"It's not the same," said he.
Hera set down on Zeb's bed next to him. "You're right. But that doesn't mean that I could not understand you. And even if cannot, sometimes it just helps to talk about it," said she softly.
"…It's so terrible! I don't know if I'll see him again," said Zeb slowly.
"Ahh and that's everything?" asked Hera.
"No. You know we both were stranded on this ice moon…. and…and… before I went to you…I kissed him and he kissed me… and then after a few days Fulcrum appeared …and..and…and he has called me personal every day since the thing with the ice moon, even before Fulcrum appeared..…and sometimes…sometimes we met us…but now…I…I don't know what I should do…" said Zeb sadly.
Hera took him into a huge. "You will have to wait till I meet him. And no you can't go with me to the meeting. You are too much personal involved. You wouldn't act professional. I'm sorry but you have to wait to see your boyfriend again," said Hera. Zeb just nodded and then he slept in.
"Is he fine?" asked Ezra.
"More or less. He had accept that he can't go with me to this meeting. But he still misses his boyfriend," explained Hera.
"Ohh yes his boyfriend. How he can fall in love with Agent Kallus? I mean he destroyed his home and killed really much of his kind! How can they love each other?"
"I don't know. And that's one of the reasons why I don't want that Zeb takes part at this mission. I have the bad feeling that this could be a trap from Agent Kallus. And if so, I don't want that Zeb get through this," explained Hera to Ezra.
"But you can't protect him the whole time! If Kallus is a liar, Zeb will find it out. Sooner or later. And I think it's better when he gets it directly from Kallus than from you," said Ezra.
"Yes, but if Zeb would be with me there and it would be really a trap, Zeb would break down. So it's better for him, if I tell it him," said Hera.
"Okay, you're right. But if Kallus is a liar you have to tell it him by your own. I will go sleeping now," said Ezra and left the room.
"Zeb? Are you sleeping?" said Ezra as he entered their room. He got no answer. "Zeb! Where are you?" screamed he into the Ghost, after he realized that Zeb wasn't in their room. "Zeb! Are you here?" asked he, as he walked into the cargo area. No answer. Where is he? He can't disappear. Ezra thought. But then he got an idea where Zeb could be. He ran to the docking for the Phantom. "Zeb! Stop!" screamed he.
"No. I'll not stop. I have to save him," answered Zeb.
"You can't. You don't know where he is. He could be on Thrawn's ship, on his own or everywhere else in the galaxy. It will not help him if you disappear." said Ezra and looked to Zeb.
"Why? I can help him," said Zeb.
"No. It won't help him. If you go out for searching him, you will get trouble with the Empire. If they catch you, they can use you against him and the rebellion. So please stay. Here you have more use for us all. Hera want you, Chopper and me as back-up crew, in case something at the meeting went wrong," said Ezra quickly. "Please Zeb! Stay!"
Zeb took a deep breath. "Okay. I'll stay," said he finally. "But not because of you or Hera. I just don't want that Kallus gets into trouble cause of me. I'll go back sleeping." He went back to their room.
"Wait Zeb. Promise me please that you will not do something by your own," said Ezra before Zeb entered their room.
"I promise you that I will not do something by my own as long as Hera and Kallus are in no trouble at and after the meeting. Lasat word of honor," said he and went into their room. "Good night, Ezra."
"Good night Zeb," said Ezra. Now I have just to explain Hera that she has a back-up crew. He thought.
"Okay. And there was no other way?" asked Hera.
"No. It was the only one or do you want to search Zeb now?" asked Ezra.
"No. But that wasn't a bad idea, the back-up crew. The rest for the meeting, we'll plan tomorrow. And now you go back to your room and sleep," said Hera.
"Okay. Good night, Hera," said Ezra and went back to his room.