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Chapter 4
Runai looked over to the nearbye cliff to spy the situation that she was about to enter into. Jango had already left to look for the back entrance, and her job now was to do something she in no way wanted to do.
"Why do I have to be the decoy!" she grumbled to herself. She heard Jango's words about how she looked identical to him and quickly waved them away.
"Hmph fine.....but this better work..."
She gazed through her tele-goggles to get a better view of the situation. She could see what appeared to be a giant compound across a bottomless chasm. Tthe walls were set up with barb wire, and there were two guard towers positioned on either side of the main entrance. Both had large gun turrets attached on top. Runai came to realize that it must of been an abandoned prison before it was taken over by their bounty. She glanced around to see what the guard situation looked like.
"Hmmmm there just appears to be Twi'leks wandering around. Why are they all in dark robes though? And more importantly, why do they all seem to be patrolling like zombies."
It was true, as Runai zoomed the lens in, Twi'leks were wandering to and fro around the base. They seemed to all be in a daze, and Runai was becoming doubtful that if she flew around screaming "I'm Jango Fett!" That they would even notice.
She pulled out her bazooka cannon and sighed.
"Well since I'm the decoy there is no reason to be secretive."
With that she quickly took aim and fired a volley right in the middle of the patrolling guards. Their once zombie like state was quickly covered by panic as they all scattered from the area and returned fire.
Runai almost started laughing with glee as she prepared to fly into battle head on.
"Well here goes! I forgot how exhilerating this can be!" she screamd as she activated her jet-pack and flew over the chasm between the cliff and the prison and began firing random volleys as she flew.
Back on the Slave 1, Boba could only think one thing as she watched the small dot that was Runai fly directly into the fray of laser fire.
"She's totally bonkers."
Runai slowly descended towards the ground, and landed awkwardly, having just dodged an oncoming laser shot. Her legs were hurting her already, and she had to find some cover quick.
"Shit shit shit!!!!" she screamed as she hid behind one of the guard towers.
She glanced up to see people's feet moving around through the mesh overhanging of the tower. A smirked split her face as she aimed her cannon up, blowing the mesh clean off. The unsuspecing guards who had lost sight of her moments ago were now plummeting hundreds of feet to their deaths.
She waited a moment, preparing to fly up the tower when a suddenly gang of Twi'lek's ran at her, waving their arms in the air like they were mad.
"What the hell?!" she cried as she was quite frightened by their animalistic movements. Before she could think of it any longer though they already had her surrounded.
She backed up against the edge of the tower sniffling.
"I'm sorry, please...please don't hurt me. I'll be good I promise." with that she dropped her bazooka on the ground.
"See I have no more weapons." she showed her hands to them.
She shrugged her shoulders slightly, actings as if she had just remembered something.
"Well of course except for the FLAME THROWER!"
A few seconds later.
~crackle crackle crackle~
"Eeeeeyuck! That smells nasty!" she groaned as she waved her hand in front of her helmet. She shook her head and quickly reasserted herself to the task at hand. She picked up her cannon and prepared to fly up the tower. Suddenly she felt a hand grab her foot, as the flaming remains of a guard was clawing to get closer to her.
"Persistant little bastard aren't ya!" she said with a laugh, kicking the fallen opponent into yet another unsuspecting guard. The flaming Twi'lek slammed into the guard, quickly causing him to burst into flames and soon both were nothing but a burning pile of refuse on the ground.
Runai giggled slightly as the guard's expression had turned from angry conviction into tortured screaming as he had been suddenly set ablaze. Her expression became fierce though as she returned to her mission.
"I gotta get inside. This place is getting ugly out here." she said as she flew up to the top of the tower. She ducked as incoming blasts from the opposing towers laser turret started to fire. Runai, unable to stand peeked her bazooka over the edge of the railing surrounding the top of the tower and fired back. The entire second tower erupted in flames and soon came crashing down, leaving Runai safe to stand. With a fresh laser cannon in front of her she enjoyed using the remaining guards as target practise until the last guard fell.
When it was finally all over she drooped her head and sighed. She spied a nearbye security camera near the laser cannon and looked into it.
"Look out whoever you are. Jango Fett is coming for you!" she said in her most convicing Jango Fett impression.
"I hope thats good....enough......" her voice slowed as she heard the gates of the compound opening, a few hundred soldiers waited behind it to take her on.
"...hehehehehehe........" she started to laugh to herself evily. Her mouth slowly started to curl into a sneer as a wild fire blazed in her eye. As she gazed down at the oncoming army she suddenly began to laugh out loud as her expression contorted to that of a crazy woman. She loaded her cannon with her left hand, and stared down at her right, curling it into a fist
"Lets.....DO IT!" she screamed as she jumped down from the tower, flying straight for the oncoming army.
~BANG~
A exhaust vent fell to the ground as Jango slowly emerged from the exhaust system, deep within in the compound.
"Boba, I'm in the north end of the compound. I'm right near the main gate. Is that woman living up to her reputation?" he asked through his comm link.
"That and then some. Its getting ugly out there dad. The enemy is lying in piles. I am starting to wonder if this girl won't slaughter you as well."
"I agree. This girl is powerful, but don't you worry, your old man is much stronger. Hmmmm..."
He peered down a hallway, seeing the coast was clear.
"I'm heading for the main gate now."
"Ok. I follow your position."
Jango ran down the hallway and peeked around the corridor.
"What the...!"
There was absolute chaos in the ante-chamber of the complex. The gate was wide open and there were mobs of guards everwhere. A gigantic laser battle was occuring, and amongst it Runai was somehow the center of it all.
"Freeze!" Jango suddenly heard behind him. A guard had somehow snuck up on him while he had been baffled by the scene before him.
"How could I be so careless...."
"I found him. He was trying to sneak off!" the guard yelled to the mob. They all stopped fighting and turned their attention to Jango.
He grit his teeth as he tried to figure his way out of this one.
A sudden "fwip" sound could be heard as the guard behind Jango fell to the ground. Jango turned to see what had happened and spied a sizeable dart etched into the Twi'lek's neck.
"That looks like a..." he was interrupted as the hiss of a firing missle could be heard behind him.
At that moment Runai suddenly came flying down from the rafters of the ante-chamber. She flew past Jango at lightening speed.
"Go!" she simply yelled as she zoomed past.
Jango was quickly to follow and activated his jetpack flying out of the ante-chamber along with Runai as a explosion sounded behind him, incinerating hundreds of guards.
Jango landed a few feet away from Runai as the recuperated from the small ordeal.
"You lived up to my name. I am impressed......slightly."
She laughed.
"Hmph I know you've been in worse. I can only imagine what it must of been like when you busted into Oovoo IV. There was a mass riot, and you were smack dab in the middle of it."
He nodded.
"Yes that was something that....shhh." he said suddenly as he heard marching footsteps coming their way.
Runai heard it to and looks from somewhere to hide. When she glanced around it seemed that Jango had dissapeared. She let out a yelp as something yanked her out of the hallway.
As she regained her bearing she relaized that Jango had pulled her into a small alcove adjacent to the hallway, and was out of view of the passing guards. Her breathing reverberated in her helmet as she found her armor pressed right up against his. They were so close that she could even make out his facial features under his tinted helmet visor.
Jango breathed slowly as he stared at Runai. Yes, he had been impressed by what she could do, but she had ruined the plan. This was job was going to be a covert operation. He was supposed to sneak her inside, not make a giant mess of it. Now everyone knew that were in the compound. It was too late to get out now, so he would have to make sure she didn't mess this up.
He heard a small clink as he realized her face plate had just lighlty tapped his and he could see that she was staring right at him.
"I think they're almost past." she whispered through their private comm. She was so close that he could actually hear her through the comm and from her lips naturally.
"Yeah just a few more moments." he said without emotion.
He could see her smile.
"I still think you have pretty eyes; And those scars really give you that tough guy look."
"..."
She grumbled, wanting to get a respons out of him.
"If you wanted to get this close to me you could of just asked you know." she flicked her eyes down a second to show that they were indeed pressed right up against one another.
"Keep your mind on the job." he said sternly.
She harumphed again.
"Man, you don't seem to be having much fun here at all. If you don't have as much fun as I do doing all this stuff then why do you do it?"
"..."
"Again nothing..." she thought. In light of her unresponsive partner she found her mind beginning to drift. For the first time in her life she was really starting to reflect on her life ever since she had caged herself in the shadow of the great Jango Fett. She had never really noticed it before, but Jango seemed to take to this sorta work naturally, yet he didn't seem to enjoy it very much at all. Her nature made it so she loved to be in danger. Her hatred for Jango had only fueled her reckless and wild behavior. In actuality the hatred had only formed after she had spent many a year following him around, and getting no credit for many of the things she had done. She had seen the benefits of copying someone like Jango Fett right from the beginning, yet the fact that Runai, the attention depraved bounty hunter, wasn't getting any glory made her spiteful. She began hating Jango for hogging what she had always thought to be her attention. It was then that she had made the decision to kill Jango Fett, and become the only bounty hunger in mandalorian armor. Yet in the end, all that following Jango around had given her life a purpose. Plus she had never been bored, not even once. She sorta enjoyed the thrill of trying to outwit the supposed "great" bountry hunter. Maybe it was because he her ideal man...
The reality hit her like a ton of bricks. She did not in fact hate Jango, in actuality she depended on him. She shuddered to think what her life would of become if she had succeeded in killing him. It would of been meaningless, directionless. His calm, collected nature was everything she wanted to be.
"I don't really hate you that much anymore..." she said spontaneously.
"Good, because your not as annoying as you were when you first tried to kill me."
For the first time ever she felt actually guitly about that reality. She knew though that it mattered little to a man who was always in danger.
"I'm still curious ya know. Why do you do this job?"
"..." Again he didn't answer.
She narrowed her eyes as she stared into his.
"You are so annoying. Now I know why I hated you for so long. Its kinda fun though being in a situation like this with the great Jango Fett. Makes me sorta wish we could do it more often. I know! How about after this job we become partners!"
She had a big smile on her face.
"No....I don't do partners." Jango replied sternly.
She looked down angry. She then smirked as she leaned her head down on his shoulder, closing her eyes gently. Her actions puzzled Jango, but before he could assess why she was doing it she slowly stareted to move her lips.
"Then how about we get married."
Jango almost fell out of the alcove with her.
"That got a reaction!" she said softly with a laugh.
"..." he stayed silent. Usually his helmet would hide his facial expression, but the "clink" of their helmets was heard once again as Runai stared into his visor. She could see his face contorting as he attempted to suppress any visual emotion on his face that he knew could be seen by her.
Runai watched him for a few moments in a gentle silence, starting to enjoy teasing him.
"Hmmmmm....I was only kidding you know."
"..." he still stayed silent.
She realized that they were both had been breathing heavily for a few minutes now. She gasped as she realized that they also had un-consciously had their arms around one another. She stared to panic and get red with embarrassment at the same time.
"Wait, y...you didn't really think we could get m...mmarried. Did you Jango?"
She stared at Jango intently, her breath almost becoming hoarse as her face shown bright red.
As Jango started down at the young woman before him, for the first time in Jango's life, he had momentarily forgotten about the job.
"I..." he started.
He was interrupted when Runai was suddenly yanked out of the alcove.
A guard had noticed them, and now had Runai thrust up against the opposing wall.
"Thought you could get away did you?"
Runai just stared down at him, her voice was caught in her throat as her head was swimming in the suddeness of the moment.
"Hey I found one of..."
~SLAM~
The guard fell to the floor unconscious as Jango withdrew his hand from the back of the Twi'lek's neck, heaving slightly.
"Uh...thanx...." she said out of breath, sliding to the ground..
Jango glared down at her, breathing heavier than he should from such a feeble maneuver.
"I don't have time for you stupid games now. I have a job to do. You can be part of it or not, it doesn't matter to me. Now lets get moving." he said harshly, running off.
Runai for once did not have a snappy comeback for what he said. She was still breathing heavily and even trembling slightly from the whole ordeal.
"That was scary..." she whispered to herself. Not referring to the guard grabbing her. But rather the whole ordeal inside the alcove. She bent over and went to pick up her cannon, but fumbled it causing it to clatter to the floor. She growled at herself as she attempted to stop her shaking hands.
"Bastard..." she whispered to herslef as she picked it up successfully.
"Piece of shit. I can't believe him. I'm going to make him suffer for all this later. When this job is over, I'm so out of here." she growled to herself. Runai's new and confusing emotions were frustrating to her, and because of it those emotions were turning to anger.
Jango ran ahead of her, waiting next to a corner for her to catch up.
"Damnit. What was I thinking? What came over me?" he growled to himself, pressing his back against the wall.
"...find a nice woman and settle down. You won't live forever in this business."
Those words of Roz, his late friend had rung in his ears over and over again since she had said them. Even more so since her passing. He thought that Boba was enough to suffice for him. He thought that he could be complete if he could at least have a son to take care of. Yet he supposed at that moment just maybe he secretly wanted something more. That just maybe that Runai did have something that no other woman he met before had.
He looked down at his wrists, covered in weaponary he used for his hunts.
"Why do I do this..." he wondered to himself.
Runai quickly caught up to him seething with anger.
"Idiot, idiot, asshole, bastard, piece of garbage. Little shit that I'm going to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and..."
"C'mon Runai let go. The guards are on to us and I'm going to need you to cover me."
"....shoot and...." he voice caught. "...ok...Jango..."
In only an instant her feeling had gone from seething hatred to her quiet admiration of him. Her anger did peak for a moment however when she thought about how annoying he could get, but she could only smile lightly when she watched him run to the next juncture and wave to her, telling her the coast was clear.
"God do I hate him. I hate.....hate......hate him. I hate him so much I think I'm falling in love."
Both hunters knew what these emotions did to people. They could not exist in a professional relationship. If they did not let them pass they would be the death of each other for sure. Runai knew this, and as she reflected on her emotions, her heart told her one special thing that she knew without a doubt:
"I'm screwed shitless..."
Meanwhile..
"There are two of them m'lady. Both are wearing mandalorian armor. It seems Jango Fett planned to use the other one as a diversion. The other succeeded somewhat, but it appears that he was too reckless, and now we know of their pressence in the compound."
"Hmmmm something tells me that there something between these two bounty hunters." Komari Vosa thought to herself as she looked down at the captain of the guard making his report. She recalled a female bounty hunter saving Jango back on the burial moon. Perhaps this second bounty hunter was the same woman.
"Hmmmmm..."
Vosa thought to herself, then began to laugh deviously as she thought of something wonderful.
"Bring them both to me. I want them alive." she said simply to the captain.
He nodded.
"Yes ma'am. You will have them within the hour." with that the captain left.
Vosa smiled as she sat on her throne.
"I am going to make that bounty hunter pay for everything he's done to me. I will make him suffer in ways that he himself cannot even fathom." Vosa said lowly as she laughed gently.
Her laugh suddenly became violent as she stood up in a rage.
"I will show him the wrath of Komari Vosa!!
To be continued......
((Well I hope you all liked chapter 4. I've been a starving artist as of late, and I'm attempting to approve my writing with every chapter I compose. Its getting harder though and the fact that I don't have any food for eating is making me think I may have to declare a state of emergency. Good thing I have my emergency food supply, "Ooooohhhhh Menchi!!!" (excuse the Excel Saga humor). But anyway I'll see you next time, this is your friendly neighborhood Genro signing off.))
Chapter 4
Runai looked over to the nearbye cliff to spy the situation that she was about to enter into. Jango had already left to look for the back entrance, and her job now was to do something she in no way wanted to do.
"Why do I have to be the decoy!" she grumbled to herself. She heard Jango's words about how she looked identical to him and quickly waved them away.
"Hmph fine.....but this better work..."
She gazed through her tele-goggles to get a better view of the situation. She could see what appeared to be a giant compound across a bottomless chasm. Tthe walls were set up with barb wire, and there were two guard towers positioned on either side of the main entrance. Both had large gun turrets attached on top. Runai came to realize that it must of been an abandoned prison before it was taken over by their bounty. She glanced around to see what the guard situation looked like.
"Hmmmm there just appears to be Twi'leks wandering around. Why are they all in dark robes though? And more importantly, why do they all seem to be patrolling like zombies."
It was true, as Runai zoomed the lens in, Twi'leks were wandering to and fro around the base. They seemed to all be in a daze, and Runai was becoming doubtful that if she flew around screaming "I'm Jango Fett!" That they would even notice.
She pulled out her bazooka cannon and sighed.
"Well since I'm the decoy there is no reason to be secretive."
With that she quickly took aim and fired a volley right in the middle of the patrolling guards. Their once zombie like state was quickly covered by panic as they all scattered from the area and returned fire.
Runai almost started laughing with glee as she prepared to fly into battle head on.
"Well here goes! I forgot how exhilerating this can be!" she screamd as she activated her jet-pack and flew over the chasm between the cliff and the prison and began firing random volleys as she flew.
Back on the Slave 1, Boba could only think one thing as she watched the small dot that was Runai fly directly into the fray of laser fire.
"She's totally bonkers."
Runai slowly descended towards the ground, and landed awkwardly, having just dodged an oncoming laser shot. Her legs were hurting her already, and she had to find some cover quick.
"Shit shit shit!!!!" she screamed as she hid behind one of the guard towers.
She glanced up to see people's feet moving around through the mesh overhanging of the tower. A smirked split her face as she aimed her cannon up, blowing the mesh clean off. The unsuspecing guards who had lost sight of her moments ago were now plummeting hundreds of feet to their deaths.
She waited a moment, preparing to fly up the tower when a suddenly gang of Twi'lek's ran at her, waving their arms in the air like they were mad.
"What the hell?!" she cried as she was quite frightened by their animalistic movements. Before she could think of it any longer though they already had her surrounded.
She backed up against the edge of the tower sniffling.
"I'm sorry, please...please don't hurt me. I'll be good I promise." with that she dropped her bazooka on the ground.
"See I have no more weapons." she showed her hands to them.
She shrugged her shoulders slightly, actings as if she had just remembered something.
"Well of course except for the FLAME THROWER!"
A few seconds later.
~crackle crackle crackle~
"Eeeeeyuck! That smells nasty!" she groaned as she waved her hand in front of her helmet. She shook her head and quickly reasserted herself to the task at hand. She picked up her cannon and prepared to fly up the tower. Suddenly she felt a hand grab her foot, as the flaming remains of a guard was clawing to get closer to her.
"Persistant little bastard aren't ya!" she said with a laugh, kicking the fallen opponent into yet another unsuspecting guard. The flaming Twi'lek slammed into the guard, quickly causing him to burst into flames and soon both were nothing but a burning pile of refuse on the ground.
Runai giggled slightly as the guard's expression had turned from angry conviction into tortured screaming as he had been suddenly set ablaze. Her expression became fierce though as she returned to her mission.
"I gotta get inside. This place is getting ugly out here." she said as she flew up to the top of the tower. She ducked as incoming blasts from the opposing towers laser turret started to fire. Runai, unable to stand peeked her bazooka over the edge of the railing surrounding the top of the tower and fired back. The entire second tower erupted in flames and soon came crashing down, leaving Runai safe to stand. With a fresh laser cannon in front of her she enjoyed using the remaining guards as target practise until the last guard fell.
When it was finally all over she drooped her head and sighed. She spied a nearbye security camera near the laser cannon and looked into it.
"Look out whoever you are. Jango Fett is coming for you!" she said in her most convicing Jango Fett impression.
"I hope thats good....enough......" her voice slowed as she heard the gates of the compound opening, a few hundred soldiers waited behind it to take her on.
"...hehehehehehe........" she started to laugh to herself evily. Her mouth slowly started to curl into a sneer as a wild fire blazed in her eye. As she gazed down at the oncoming army she suddenly began to laugh out loud as her expression contorted to that of a crazy woman. She loaded her cannon with her left hand, and stared down at her right, curling it into a fist
"Lets.....DO IT!" she screamed as she jumped down from the tower, flying straight for the oncoming army.
~BANG~
A exhaust vent fell to the ground as Jango slowly emerged from the exhaust system, deep within in the compound.
"Boba, I'm in the north end of the compound. I'm right near the main gate. Is that woman living up to her reputation?" he asked through his comm link.
"That and then some. Its getting ugly out there dad. The enemy is lying in piles. I am starting to wonder if this girl won't slaughter you as well."
"I agree. This girl is powerful, but don't you worry, your old man is much stronger. Hmmmm..."
He peered down a hallway, seeing the coast was clear.
"I'm heading for the main gate now."
"Ok. I follow your position."
Jango ran down the hallway and peeked around the corridor.
"What the...!"
There was absolute chaos in the ante-chamber of the complex. The gate was wide open and there were mobs of guards everwhere. A gigantic laser battle was occuring, and amongst it Runai was somehow the center of it all.
"Freeze!" Jango suddenly heard behind him. A guard had somehow snuck up on him while he had been baffled by the scene before him.
"How could I be so careless...."
"I found him. He was trying to sneak off!" the guard yelled to the mob. They all stopped fighting and turned their attention to Jango.
He grit his teeth as he tried to figure his way out of this one.
A sudden "fwip" sound could be heard as the guard behind Jango fell to the ground. Jango turned to see what had happened and spied a sizeable dart etched into the Twi'lek's neck.
"That looks like a..." he was interrupted as the hiss of a firing missle could be heard behind him.
At that moment Runai suddenly came flying down from the rafters of the ante-chamber. She flew past Jango at lightening speed.
"Go!" she simply yelled as she zoomed past.
Jango was quickly to follow and activated his jetpack flying out of the ante-chamber along with Runai as a explosion sounded behind him, incinerating hundreds of guards.
Jango landed a few feet away from Runai as the recuperated from the small ordeal.
"You lived up to my name. I am impressed......slightly."
She laughed.
"Hmph I know you've been in worse. I can only imagine what it must of been like when you busted into Oovoo IV. There was a mass riot, and you were smack dab in the middle of it."
He nodded.
"Yes that was something that....shhh." he said suddenly as he heard marching footsteps coming their way.
Runai heard it to and looks from somewhere to hide. When she glanced around it seemed that Jango had dissapeared. She let out a yelp as something yanked her out of the hallway.
As she regained her bearing she relaized that Jango had pulled her into a small alcove adjacent to the hallway, and was out of view of the passing guards. Her breathing reverberated in her helmet as she found her armor pressed right up against his. They were so close that she could even make out his facial features under his tinted helmet visor.
Jango breathed slowly as he stared at Runai. Yes, he had been impressed by what she could do, but she had ruined the plan. This was job was going to be a covert operation. He was supposed to sneak her inside, not make a giant mess of it. Now everyone knew that were in the compound. It was too late to get out now, so he would have to make sure she didn't mess this up.
He heard a small clink as he realized her face plate had just lighlty tapped his and he could see that she was staring right at him.
"I think they're almost past." she whispered through their private comm. She was so close that he could actually hear her through the comm and from her lips naturally.
"Yeah just a few more moments." he said without emotion.
He could see her smile.
"I still think you have pretty eyes; And those scars really give you that tough guy look."
"..."
She grumbled, wanting to get a respons out of him.
"If you wanted to get this close to me you could of just asked you know." she flicked her eyes down a second to show that they were indeed pressed right up against one another.
"Keep your mind on the job." he said sternly.
She harumphed again.
"Man, you don't seem to be having much fun here at all. If you don't have as much fun as I do doing all this stuff then why do you do it?"
"..."
"Again nothing..." she thought. In light of her unresponsive partner she found her mind beginning to drift. For the first time in her life she was really starting to reflect on her life ever since she had caged herself in the shadow of the great Jango Fett. She had never really noticed it before, but Jango seemed to take to this sorta work naturally, yet he didn't seem to enjoy it very much at all. Her nature made it so she loved to be in danger. Her hatred for Jango had only fueled her reckless and wild behavior. In actuality the hatred had only formed after she had spent many a year following him around, and getting no credit for many of the things she had done. She had seen the benefits of copying someone like Jango Fett right from the beginning, yet the fact that Runai, the attention depraved bounty hunter, wasn't getting any glory made her spiteful. She began hating Jango for hogging what she had always thought to be her attention. It was then that she had made the decision to kill Jango Fett, and become the only bounty hunger in mandalorian armor. Yet in the end, all that following Jango around had given her life a purpose. Plus she had never been bored, not even once. She sorta enjoyed the thrill of trying to outwit the supposed "great" bountry hunter. Maybe it was because he her ideal man...
The reality hit her like a ton of bricks. She did not in fact hate Jango, in actuality she depended on him. She shuddered to think what her life would of become if she had succeeded in killing him. It would of been meaningless, directionless. His calm, collected nature was everything she wanted to be.
"I don't really hate you that much anymore..." she said spontaneously.
"Good, because your not as annoying as you were when you first tried to kill me."
For the first time ever she felt actually guitly about that reality. She knew though that it mattered little to a man who was always in danger.
"I'm still curious ya know. Why do you do this job?"
"..." Again he didn't answer.
She narrowed her eyes as she stared into his.
"You are so annoying. Now I know why I hated you for so long. Its kinda fun though being in a situation like this with the great Jango Fett. Makes me sorta wish we could do it more often. I know! How about after this job we become partners!"
She had a big smile on her face.
"No....I don't do partners." Jango replied sternly.
She looked down angry. She then smirked as she leaned her head down on his shoulder, closing her eyes gently. Her actions puzzled Jango, but before he could assess why she was doing it she slowly stareted to move her lips.
"Then how about we get married."
Jango almost fell out of the alcove with her.
"That got a reaction!" she said softly with a laugh.
"..." he stayed silent. Usually his helmet would hide his facial expression, but the "clink" of their helmets was heard once again as Runai stared into his visor. She could see his face contorting as he attempted to suppress any visual emotion on his face that he knew could be seen by her.
Runai watched him for a few moments in a gentle silence, starting to enjoy teasing him.
"Hmmmmm....I was only kidding you know."
"..." he still stayed silent.
She realized that they were both had been breathing heavily for a few minutes now. She gasped as she realized that they also had un-consciously had their arms around one another. She stared to panic and get red with embarrassment at the same time.
"Wait, y...you didn't really think we could get m...mmarried. Did you Jango?"
She stared at Jango intently, her breath almost becoming hoarse as her face shown bright red.
As Jango started down at the young woman before him, for the first time in Jango's life, he had momentarily forgotten about the job.
"I..." he started.
He was interrupted when Runai was suddenly yanked out of the alcove.
A guard had noticed them, and now had Runai thrust up against the opposing wall.
"Thought you could get away did you?"
Runai just stared down at him, her voice was caught in her throat as her head was swimming in the suddeness of the moment.
"Hey I found one of..."
~SLAM~
The guard fell to the floor unconscious as Jango withdrew his hand from the back of the Twi'lek's neck, heaving slightly.
"Uh...thanx...." she said out of breath, sliding to the ground..
Jango glared down at her, breathing heavier than he should from such a feeble maneuver.
"I don't have time for you stupid games now. I have a job to do. You can be part of it or not, it doesn't matter to me. Now lets get moving." he said harshly, running off.
Runai for once did not have a snappy comeback for what he said. She was still breathing heavily and even trembling slightly from the whole ordeal.
"That was scary..." she whispered to herself. Not referring to the guard grabbing her. But rather the whole ordeal inside the alcove. She bent over and went to pick up her cannon, but fumbled it causing it to clatter to the floor. She growled at herself as she attempted to stop her shaking hands.
"Bastard..." she whispered to herslef as she picked it up successfully.
"Piece of shit. I can't believe him. I'm going to make him suffer for all this later. When this job is over, I'm so out of here." she growled to herself. Runai's new and confusing emotions were frustrating to her, and because of it those emotions were turning to anger.
Jango ran ahead of her, waiting next to a corner for her to catch up.
"Damnit. What was I thinking? What came over me?" he growled to himself, pressing his back against the wall.
"...find a nice woman and settle down. You won't live forever in this business."
Those words of Roz, his late friend had rung in his ears over and over again since she had said them. Even more so since her passing. He thought that Boba was enough to suffice for him. He thought that he could be complete if he could at least have a son to take care of. Yet he supposed at that moment just maybe he secretly wanted something more. That just maybe that Runai did have something that no other woman he met before had.
He looked down at his wrists, covered in weaponary he used for his hunts.
"Why do I do this..." he wondered to himself.
Runai quickly caught up to him seething with anger.
"Idiot, idiot, asshole, bastard, piece of garbage. Little shit that I'm going to shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot and..."
"C'mon Runai let go. The guards are on to us and I'm going to need you to cover me."
"....shoot and...." he voice caught. "...ok...Jango..."
In only an instant her feeling had gone from seething hatred to her quiet admiration of him. Her anger did peak for a moment however when she thought about how annoying he could get, but she could only smile lightly when she watched him run to the next juncture and wave to her, telling her the coast was clear.
"God do I hate him. I hate.....hate......hate him. I hate him so much I think I'm falling in love."
Both hunters knew what these emotions did to people. They could not exist in a professional relationship. If they did not let them pass they would be the death of each other for sure. Runai knew this, and as she reflected on her emotions, her heart told her one special thing that she knew without a doubt:
"I'm screwed shitless..."
Meanwhile..
"There are two of them m'lady. Both are wearing mandalorian armor. It seems Jango Fett planned to use the other one as a diversion. The other succeeded somewhat, but it appears that he was too reckless, and now we know of their pressence in the compound."
"Hmmmm something tells me that there something between these two bounty hunters." Komari Vosa thought to herself as she looked down at the captain of the guard making his report. She recalled a female bounty hunter saving Jango back on the burial moon. Perhaps this second bounty hunter was the same woman.
"Hmmmmm..."
Vosa thought to herself, then began to laugh deviously as she thought of something wonderful.
"Bring them both to me. I want them alive." she said simply to the captain.
He nodded.
"Yes ma'am. You will have them within the hour." with that the captain left.
Vosa smiled as she sat on her throne.
"I am going to make that bounty hunter pay for everything he's done to me. I will make him suffer in ways that he himself cannot even fathom." Vosa said lowly as she laughed gently.
Her laugh suddenly became violent as she stood up in a rage.
"I will show him the wrath of Komari Vosa!!
To be continued......
((Well I hope you all liked chapter 4. I've been a starving artist as of late, and I'm attempting to approve my writing with every chapter I compose. Its getting harder though and the fact that I don't have any food for eating is making me think I may have to declare a state of emergency. Good thing I have my emergency food supply, "Ooooohhhhh Menchi!!!" (excuse the Excel Saga humor). But anyway I'll see you next time, this is your friendly neighborhood Genro signing off.))