Raven Pan: I hope this is just as amusing as the last one. Anna: Hehe I'm glad you loved it, I hope you enjoy this one as well.

-------------------------------- Of Twi'lek and Sugar-Hyped Toddlers By EbrooklynW

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Kyp sighed in pleasure at seeing his nice, soft bed, combined with fluffy pillows. 'Ahhh', this is the life. Coruscant's night was rapidly setting in, the sky fading from twilight into the dark night filled with neon glow. Kyp decided against seeing Coruscant's nightlife with Han. After having trouble sleeping past 2 AM for the last couple of nights, Kyp was ready to do one thing and one thing only. Study the inside of his eyelids. 'Starting now...' With a dull thud Kyp's head hit the pillow and the dark- haired youth was down for the count.

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The wall was shaking. The floor rumbled. Jaina woke from her horrible dream of being attacked by a rabid animal to hear the rabid animal growling. It was loud, and harsh and it was coming from Kyppie's room! This thought made Jaina sit upright immediately, 'Me save Kyppie'. The small nightlights in the corners made the room seem bright to her eyes.

Quickly she glanced around, feeling for the presence of her parents, or 3PO. Sensing them in their room, or in 3POs case, powered down, she decided that she'd have to save Kyppie all by herself without the help of her daddy. Resolution firmly set in her mind; Jaina slid out of bed and tiptoed toward saving Kyppie.

The growling of the rabid beast grew louder as she quickly tiptoed to Kyppie's room. Opening the door, the noise almost knocked Jaina over but she pressed inward. Quickly scanning for the rapid animal, Jaina realized it was on the bed, ready to attack Kyppie! Jaina couldn't let that happen. Tensing her body she ran full force onto the bed and landed on the beast. which turned out to be Kyppie!?!

Kyp had been enjoying his study of his eyelids. He was deep in REM and had started seeing pictures of Twi'leks. Very scantily clad Twi'leks. Kyp was enjoying this dream greatly. Yes he was. One was green, the other was purple and they were very interesting. Yes it was. They were beckoning him. Why couldn't he move? Wait something bad was about to happen. Kyp snapped his eyes open just as a dark object dressed in footy pajamas hurled into him, knocking out his breath.

"Did the bad thing hurt Kyppie?" brandy-brown eyes blinked up at him, open wide with concern.

"What bad thing? Jaina the only bad thing to come in here all night was you!" Kyp said sharply once he had recovered his breath.

Jaina sniffled. She sniffled once, twice, three times. Then the tears started. They seemed to be the size of her big brandy-brown eyes and were rapidly falling down her cheeks. Kyp sighed. He was going to have to fix this. The gentleman his mother had instilled in him made him want to make sure the little girl wasn't sad because of him.

"C'mon Kiddo, I didn't mean that.lemme treat you to a nice midnight snack, Just you and Kyppie. No Jasa, no daddy, no mommy, and no Goldenrod, how does that sound?" Kyp wanted to stop the pangs of guilt and also wanted to stop Jaina's crying before she started to wail. When she wailed nothing could stop Han Solo from magically appearing with a blaster set to kill. Kyp didn't want to ponder that possibility.

Sure enough, the sniffling slowed, the tears stopped and the wailing never took place. "Pwomise no Jasa? Just Jaya and Kyppie?" brandy brown eyes looked up at him.

"I promise. Just Jaya and Kyppie." Kyp picked up a tissue and mopped up Jaina's face, making sure she blew out her sniffles at the end. Picking her up and setting her against his hip, Kyp carried the sweet twin into the kitchen. Setting Jaina on a stool he knew what her preference would be something sweet. 'Please don't let Leia come in and see us eating something sweet.' Kyp took some cookies and added some frosting in between, making sandwiches. Adding some blue milk for health reasons Kyp laid out the midnight snack and began to hope to the force that Jaina didn't get a toothache.

Jaina quickly finished her snack and eyed Kyppie who was slowly consuming his oh-too-sweet cookie sandwich, making sure to drink plenty of blue milk to wash it down. 'How could she eat this that fast? It's too sweet for human consumption.' Then he remembered, Jaina wasn't human, she was a little kid. Little kids weren't human, they were odd and got extremely hyper after consuming-'Oh no! What have I done! Nooo!!!' Glancing at Jaina, Kyp tried to assess how long he had before a sugar inspired blow out. 'not very long'.

"Kyppie,"

'Oh boy here it comes'

"Let Jaya braid hair."

"Of course you can braid your hair."

"NO Kyppie! You let Jaya braid your hair."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes." Jaina's lower lip started to tremble and Kyp could almost see the bantha-sized tears starting to form.

"Fine." Kyp was eager to keep her from wailing in the open area of the apartment. Less chance of Han running in with his blaster ready to fire. Kyp began to clean their dishes and missed Jaina's triumphant look directed towards his back.

Taking Jaina back into his room Kyp settled down hoping to get it over and done with. Surprisingly he found he quickly nodded off due to a combination of the feeling of the tiny fingers in his hair and her soft mumbling and light humming. Kyp couldn't really understand what Jaina was saying, it sounded like baby talk to him, but it comforted him and settled him into a peaceful slumber, completely without the turmoil of Kessel disrupting his peace.

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Han Solo observed a very interesting sight the next morning. After all, how often did you see Kyp Durron with his normally messy hair separated into uneven clumps of braids? This was just irresistible, and he had no intention of trying to not get a good laugh. "Kyp-?"

"Don't ask." Kyp was grumpy. This was too good to pass up. "Your daughter is very persuasive. I hope for the man she marries, she's learned the meaning of no by then."

The only answer Kyp heard to this was the deep rich laughter of someone who had a new load of black mail.

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