She woke up in a sterilized smelling environment, but she couldn't see where she was because…she couldn't see. Temporary loss of vision was a side effect of being frozen in carbonite.

"Oh good, you're awake." She jumped at the unfamiliar male voice exclaimed. "I'll get the eye drops so your eyes recover quicker." Whoever it was set something down and then she heard the sound of the pneumatic doors open then close.

Where the hell was she? She tried to sit up but couldn't do to restraints on her wrists and ankles. But there was no pain when she moved her hands and feet when she pulled at her restraints. Now she was really starting to freak out.

Blinded, bound and not knowing where she was or who was with her was stressing her out.

The beeping of her heart rate monitor must have been annoying because the Mandalorian who had to be somewhere to her left, murmured, Calm down." His words did nothing but make the beeping more rapid.

"Calm down? How am I supposed to do that? Especially after you froze me in carbonite?" A door opened and footsteps tapped closer and closer to her.

"I'm going to put these eye drops in your eyes and your sight should come back within seconds." A hand pressed on her forehead to make sure she didn't move and she started shaking. "Look forward for me." The person commanded softly.

She felt a warm substance hit her eyes and she blinked rapidly, light filtering though and after a handful more blinks she could see almost normally. Her eyes were sensitive to the bright medical lights. The doc dimmed the lights for her.

"How's that? Better." They made eye contact and that alone telling him the drops worked. She didn't answer just started pulling on her restraints again.

"Where am I?"

"You're safe dear, this is a medical facility." The doctor left, promising he'd be back later to check on her.

"Where am I?" She repeated.

"The doc wasn't lying, this is a hospital."

"But where?"

"Less than a Parsec from Orvax IV. We're in a space station. Stop shaking." He walked over, sat on the edge of her bed and put a hand on her shoulder. Hoping to ease the trembling and try to comfort her.

But that didn't work.

"I'm not taking you back to him."

Her trembling ceased for a moment as she processed his words. Then she got to thinking, "He won't like that. He'll just send someone else, another bounty hunter to collect me. He's a rich man. He's been sending hunters for a year. And he won't stop until he has me."

"It would be hard for him to send more people after you if he's dead."

She blinked a few times, "What?"

"You're not going back. But I am. To kill him."

"I don't believe you. I'm sure he offered you a lot of money, there's no reason for you to not take me back."

The Mandalorian let out a long sigh then looked toward the hospital windows. He stood up from his spot on the bed and walked over to a control panel and pressed a button that fogged up the windows for privacy. He returned to his spot and slid his helmet off his head and rested it in his lap.

Dark brown eyes peered down at her. And a face much more handsome than she expected. She didn't know what to expect, but that wasn't it.

He noticed the beeping on the monitor next to her was decreasing.

"I'm not taking you back." His voice, no longer altered by the mask, was heavy with emotion and thick with promise.

"And you're not going to try to kill yourself again."

She allowed herself to relax for a moment. Watching his expression for any hint of a lie.

"Do you have a plan?"

"Not yet."

"And you talk about me being suicidal? What you're talking out is madness. If you thought getting to me out of that compound on Orvax was hard it'll be nothing compared to trying to get to him."

"On a scale of 1-10 Orvax IV was like a three in difficulty. I'll come up with a plan to defeat Sanuck." He stated optimistically.

"You should take your helmet off more often."

"Mandalorians are often caught sleeping with their armor and helmet on. It's like a second skin."

"But why?"

"My people are warriors. Our armor also serves as a mask that hides our identity. Taking off our helmets only happens in private."

"But I can't see your eyes if you have your helmet on all the time." She liked his eyes. And he liked that she was finally looking at him and not his mask.

"Why did you freeze me?"

"So I could get you here without you bleeding to death, or trying to kill yourself again. I can't pilot a ship and watch a suicidal woman at the same time."

"I'm not suicidal."

She received a, 'you're kidding me' look.

"I don't want to die. But being with him again is worse than death. Untie me." She struggled against her restraints pointedly.

"What happens if I untie you? You've tried it so many times before what's stopping you from doing it again?"

"Promise me that you won't let him take me, and I won't try it."

"I promise." He undid her restraints.

"When did you change your mind?"

"You threw me off when you were about to run away when I threatened to shoot you if you tried. When you cut your wrists, then tried to rip off the bandages was the final straw. I've turned in many bounties. They try to bribe me, they try to shoot me on my ship. You did neither. None of them reacted the way you did."

"What's your name?"

"Corra. Yours?"

"Dyn."

"Dyn." She repeated sleepily. "We need to get out of here." Her eyelids were in a losing battle to stay open.

"We'll leave once you've rested." The last thing she remembered was him putting his helmet back on before she fell asleep.


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