To ninjamonkey- I am soo sorry I left you out of the last chapter!  Yes, there will be some Jacen/Tenel Ka and some Jacen/Danni flashbacks (all part of my evil plan). Kyp will make a somewhat surprising entrance as well (again with the evil plan) and so will some of the other characters.

To Lady Leila- I'm so glad you liked it - I've wanted to do a songfic to that song for a while, but could just not settle on the character to use it with.  If you liked the Zekk interlude – just wait until you see what happens to Kyp.

To movielover03-no worries mate, I'm not going to ditch this fic!  It's too interesting(LOL, even I don't know where it's headed, I put random words down on or rather into my word processor and some how they manage to make sense *shrugs*) I myself want to see where this is headed.

AN: This part is mostly all about Kyp and I've divided it into three parts (more or less).  There is some J/J in here- mostly in the second and third parts. There's also some Jacen/Tenel Ka. There are a lot of my other characters in this, so if you can't keep them straight, just email me and I'll send you the family trees( it still amazes me how I can start off with one character and end up with 52 other(necessary) characters just to write one fanfic!).

Oh and I don't own Firefly, the Star Wars universe, or anything else that might pop up. Oh and there are some obscure movie quotes in here- I'll give a virtual chocolate covered banana to anyone who manages to find and identify them.

Interlude Kyp-Part One The Arrival

A month into Jag and Jaina's honeymoon

I'm bored, Kyp thought, bored out of my mind. I really need something to do-but I've done everything that needed doing and a lot of stuff that I've wanted to do for some time. I wish Jay were here or Laya, especially Laya. Shavit, why'd she have to go on assignment now?  She's part of the Twin Suns- we need her here, I need her here.  I thought that being the Twin Suns Intelligence junkie was her assignment.  It's going to be a very long next two months without Droid-boy and Jay.  I just love monotony and new recruits.

Kyp knew that it wasn't just him that was feeling this way, all of the Twin Suns were happy for their leader, their Goddess, but they also desperately wanted her back.  He continued brooding for a short while until a familiar voice snapped him out of his reverie.  A very familiar voice –one he hadn't heard since the war had begun.  He spun around just in time to catch the petite red-headed blur coming straight for him.  He grinned as he effortlessly picked her up off the floor and spun her around in a circle before setting her down again.  Her laughter was infectious and he laughed along with her, feeling as if a great weight had been lifted off of his chest.

Noticing that they were attracting some stares from the mixed bunch of other pilots and Jedi in the mess hall, he led her to one of the smaller conference rooms that were sometimes used for Insider/High Council meetings.  Once they were seated, Kyp grinned and asked, "So what brings you to this part of the galaxy?"

"I stopped here to refuel and see if Thace had any news about Shug and Salla. She mentioned that you were here and that you seemed kinda bored."

"I was going out of my mind."

"Lucky for you I stopped in then."

"You have no idea."

Just then, the door to the conference room opened and in walked the Skywalkers and the Solos. They paused for a minute and Mara shot Kyp a questioning look. Luke broke the silence asking, "Won't you introduce to your friend, Kyp?"

Kyp smoothly got to his feet and with a fond look at his friend next to him and replied, "Master Skywalker, may I introduce Estel Andrade Cracken, Loremistress, Lighter operative, Jedi Knight, and my little sister."

"You're what?" came the exclamations from the four adults in front of them.

"I am what he says I am, Masters though we are not related biologically."

"Oh" was the rather brilliant response that came from Luke and Han.

"Just what exactly do you do for the Lighter gang, Estel?  It seems to me that I know you from somewhere, but I'm…"

"Having trouble placing me?  I get that a lot, Ambassador."

"It's Leia, please I am longer an Ambassador per say."

"I'm Tell, anyways to answer your question; I am the second-in-command of the Lighters." Tell shrugged, letting them process this rather startling news.

"Tell? Tell Andrade!" Mara said triumphantly, "I remember you now, you're Thace's twin.  We met at one of those *special* Intelligence meetings held by the *Colonel*."

"Yeah, I remember." Tell giggled girlishly, "That meeting's been forever imprinted on my mind-the subject material plus the play-by-play commentary was too much really. I don't think that anyone walked out of that meeting with a straight face."

 Mara grinned broadly, "And to think that I had the unique chance of using one of those objects somewhat recently."

"Wait a minute" Luke interjected, "Mara, what do you mean she's Thace's twin? Thace doesn't have a sister, much less a twin!"

"That's not entirely accurate Master Skywalker" Tell paused for a minute then directing her question at Mara and Kyp, "Do you think I should show them why we're referred to as Twins or should I wait until Thace can join us?"

"Wait, his reaction will better, more gratifying" Mara replied with a sidelong look at her husband standing barely a meter away, his face clouded with confusion.

"I agree, mei mei"

"Tell ….Andrade…. Cracken" Leia remarked distantly, putting an emphasis on each part of Tell's name, "I know I've heard that name before….."

"You probably have Ambassa….Leia." Tell replied before Mara cut in, "Cracken!?" You mean you and flyboy actually found a way to be together that didn't involve killing his father outright!?"

Tell snickered, "Yeah, we found a way.  Pash finally got really really ticked off at his dad and basically told him that he could show up at our wedding or not, either way we were still going to get married. By the time the first grandkid, Drew came along, the good General and I had reached a comfortable understanding. He respects me and I respect him and it works."

Leia laughed, "That's where I've heard of you before, from Airen. I knew I'd heard your name somewhere."

Tell smirked, "I'll bet the good General had a great deal to say about me, most of it hardly complimentary and in a loud voice as well."

"Quite so, you it seemed really got under his skin and that annoyed him to no end. The only other person that I know that has done that would be Dria Klivian, Crix's advisor."

"I know and that's partly when he felt such animosity towards me at the beginning because I reminded him so much of her."

"That reminds me, mei mei, where is the flyboy and my niece and nephew now? I'd kinda like to catch up being as it's been a couple of years since I've seen you."

"Pash is somewhere doing something with Diric and Drew and Eowyn are at Eclipse along with the rest of the Sunrider/Rendar-Tharen clan."

"Ouch, my sympathies go out to Kam and Tionne." Kyp said then winced as Tell's hand came into contact with his forearm.

"It's the whole "never expect the Jedi spy clan inquisition" thing, Tell."

Tell narrowed her eyes and leveled a finger at him saying ominously, "Your day will come, Master Durron. Mark my words, your day will come."

"We'll see about that, anyways mei mei, you mentioned something earlier about a thing you had to do that you wanted my help with?"

"Yeah, it's a special mission that as the Matriarch puts it, 'is of great interest to the Collective' so naturally one of us has to check it out and I thought that…….."

End of Part One

Stay tuned for Part Two The Mission!