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As Face reopened the door into the Wraith lounge, nine heads looked up and turned towards them. The other three ladies were obviously in on the "secret" now.

Kell and Nicola glanced down at Adra's left hand, which was entwined in Face's right. Grins leapt to their faces. Nicola gave Kell a slight nudge with the Force, a small one that probably wasn't needed.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Kell said, standing up on a chair, an even broader grin on his face. "I present the future Mr. and Mrs. Loran!" Grinning insanely, he started to clap, the other Wraiths following suit.

Adra blushed for a moment before returning to the normal Adra. Stalking over to Kell, she pulled him down off the chair onto the floor, the big man remembering his hand-to-hand training just in time, narrowly avoiding injury. Getting back up, he mock glared at Adra.

"Sorry for trying to help there, Computer Girl."

Adra glared at him. "Yeah, sorry my ass. You're as sorry as Luke Skywalker was to see the second Death Star blow up. You'll be a lot sorrier when I get done with you," she paused for a moment, a new idea coming to her. "Or maybe I should return the favor?" The typical smile she wore when she wanted to cause trouble abruptly appeared on her face. "Like, maybe clear up some other people's misunderstandings about you and Tyria Sarkin, for example?"

Kell's mouth dropped open in shock. "That's so not fair!"

Adra rolled her eyes. "Really now? As Nicola once verbalized very plainly, life isn't fair."

"Did you have to tell everyone about Tyria? Couldn't you just pick on someone like Ryok, Elix, or Cloud?"

"I could, yes. But Elix and Ryok don't like anyone yet and you'd kill Cloud if I elaborate on him."

Kell looked suspiciously at her, "Why would I kill Cloud?"

"Gee, perhaps because he's-how should I say this?- in love with your sister?" Cloud chose that moment to disappear, shooting a murderous glance at Adra.

* * * * *

Face headed towards Nicola. "Thanks for that wonderful advice,"

Nicola looked up innocently at him. "No charge." Adra came over, her expression between glee and anger.

Using the Force so no one else would hear her words, Adra said I figured it was you. Thanks to your 'advice' I nearly made the worst mistake of my life. And that includes firing a Sithin' blaster at my father with an Imperial Academy watching.

That's a mistake? Nicola asked silently, raising an eyebrow.

Adra rolled her eyes. You know what I mean. I'm going to get you Afyon.

You mean you'll try to get me, Loran. The two grinned at each other, and then turned their attention back to one in shock Kell Tainer.

* * * * *

Kell stood there frozen in shock. He was going to kill Adra Ta- Loran. He was going to kill Cloud Ritril too. He and Tyria Sarkin, not his sister Tyria, hadn't planned to make their relationship public for another couple days. Sometimes, he thought that there were really five demolitions experts in Wraith Squadron. Three dealt with things that literally blew you up and the other two dropped bombs about your life right when you really didn't need them to.

And then he remembered the other thing that Adra had said. Cloud was in love with his sister. As Kell saw it, he had two options, either he could blow Cloud up, or he couldn't. Blowing Cloud up would be the easy way out, of course he'd most likely get a court martial for it but at least he wouldn't have to worry about his sister. Not blowing Cloud up complicated things a bit. He'd have to exercise an extremely large amount of self-control if Tyria return his affections. While many said that he was a man who only loved explosives, he was, as some said, "overly protective" of his little sister.

Out of habit, he started to toss a detonator back and forth from hand to hand, trying to decide. To blow Cloud up, or to not blow Cloud up.

* * * * *

Adra flicked her comm unit on, calling Tyria Sarkin over to Wraith headquarters. Glancing over, she saw Tyria Tainer sitting with her head on the table in front of her. Adra looked over at Gaeriel.

Why don't you go get Cloud? she asked through the Force. Gaeriel nodded and disappeared, coming back with Cloud in tow just as Tyria Sarkin came through the door to the Wraith lounge. Dragging Tyria Sarkin over towards Tyria Tainer, she spoke to them both through the Force.

Now both of you, Tyria Tainer and Tyria Sarkin, listen up and listen good. Tainer, I suggest you go give your brother an opinion on the matter, even if it's not what he wants and Sarkin? If need be, try to give him something else to think about than blowing people up. Adra closed with the Nicola tactic of pushing people with her mind.

Tyria Tainer looked helplessly over at Adra. "Umm, sounds great, except I have no idea."

Adra rolled her eyes and said, That's nice, make something up or Ill plant something in your head.

"Fine, how about I don't want to date anyone."

That works, just make sure that Kell doesn't blow anyone up in the process.

"That's Tyria's job."

Tyria Sarkin shrugged at Tainer's comment and walked over to where Kell was playing with his detonator, her eyes following it as it went from hand to hand.

Kell's gaze was fixed at some point on the floor as he contemplated how to answer his own question. Tyria watched the detonator for a few more seconds before grabbing it out of midair. Kell's head shot up to yell at whoever had taken the detonator but it closed abruptly as he saw it was Tyria Sarkin.

Smirking slightly, she said, "That's what I thought. Now, you're going to let Cloud enjoy his little crush in peace without blowing anyone up, got it?"

Kell nodded numbly and let both Tyria's remove all explosives and blasters from him.

* * * * *

And so, the Wraiths returned back to what they'd been doing before, what'd just happened really wasn't that odd for Wraith Squadron. After all, their slogan was "Pretty, what do we blow up first?"

Adra talked with Nicola and Asyr for a few minutes, then a sudden idea came across her head. This idea effectively wiped out any thoughts on her current conversation. A smile began to creep across her face and absently she excused herself from the discussion.

She walked up behind Face as he talked to Elix about random tidbits of information, like squadron security, for example. Resting one elbow on his shoulder, she places her chin on top of her own arm, waiting for the conversation to pause. When it did, she grinned slightly, then shared her idea.

"You know, Face, you've never met my parents," she began. "My mother always told me she wanted me to marry someone like you until I was about nine years old. I think we should go...er...'enlighten' them."

(This story is continued in AdraLoran's "Let Downs" where Adra and face go meet Adra parents...)