A/N: "Koccic sulng" is old Corellian for "Be quiet".

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For one boy, one girl
Two hearts beating wildly
To put it mildly
It was love at first sight
– "One Boy, One Girl" by Bryan White

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Jaina's head spun with pain and nausea when she finally started to wake up. She was lying on her side; her legs bent at the knee and held behind her and her arms were yanked behind her at a painful angle. Her arms might've been bound, however, they were numb and she had no way of knowing for certain. Her head lolled to the side and she tried to stretch her legs out, a tangled scream of agony ricocheting off the walls as it jerked her arms and shoulders back. She reached for the Force and was met with resounding… nothing.

Ysalamiri, was the one coherent thought in Jaina's pain-fogged mind as she struggled to understand what was happening.

A large Togorian pulled her head back ruthlessly and a gasping whimper was pulled from Jaina's throat. The face swam before her eyes as she tried to focus on it. There were teeth – lots of teeth, she finally made out.

"You're a troublesome little thing," Eznorb dug his claws into her shoulder. Jaina's mind couldn't process the pain and she simply groaned.

"Careful man!" someone yelled. "The bounty's only good if she's alive!"

"Alive?" Eznorb snarled viciously. "Oh don't worry, she'll be alive. Possibly in multiple pieces—"

"No!" several people yelled simultaneously.

Eznorb hissed angrily, backhanding Jaina across the face. "Fine!!"

The sound of shattering glass froze the occupants of the room as tiny projectiles rained down on them. There was the distinctive sound of a blaster and not even ten seconds later, over half of Jaina's captors slumped over dead.

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A tall man dropped almost twenty feet down to the ground, landing on his feet, blaster in hand. His hair was tucked under a mask that covered his face, showing only his freezing blue eyes. He hadn't even caught his balance before he squeezed off two more shotspunched in the time-studs on a mini detonator and lobed it at the others. He smiled grimly as the explosion tore the others apart. Eznorb was frozen in horror as he watched his men as they died. The sound of their dieing screams was the last thing he heard as his face was blown apart. The last image in his mind was of his second in command: From one side, he looked unchanged. Then his head rolled to the side and you could see that it had been stripped to the white bone. Scarlet blood stained his skull and a fragment of durrasteel was lodged in his head, right in front of his ear, slipping in a little more to pin his head to the ground.

The man scrambled over to Jaina, his gloved hands pushing back her hair, cradling her face. "Jaina?..." He whispered softly. "Jaina! Wake up…"

"I'm awake," Jaina groaned, keeping her eyes firmly closed. "Light… pain…"

The man smiled a little, then grew serious again. He fumbled a bit and then pulled a Litch-knife out of his boot and cut through the ropes. Jaina's pain-muddled mind registered what he was saying and she grinned slightly.

"Not the ropes fault," she rasped.

He paused to grin at her. "You can talk? Good! I was a little worried."

"Who're you?" Jaina barely managed to say, her throat raw.

"I'm your savior," he said. "Koccic sulng."

Jaina raised her eyebrows at him, wishing that her eyes didn't hurt so much and that he made more sense.

He rolled his eyes at her and grinned. "Be quiet."

"Oh."

They both were still as he finished cutting her free. "Alright," he finally said, rubbing her hand in between his. "You need to stand, we have to get out of here."

Jaina cracked her eyes open, the opened them all the way when she saw at all the carnage. "Oh Force…" she breathed softly. "Why?" Then she seemed to shake herself and her eyes shot to his face. "Why should we have to go? You killed them all." Her voice was accusatory and he rolled his dark blue eyes.

"Hello, Goddess?" the man said teasingly, waving a hand in front of her face. "Ever heard of backup?"

Jaina glared at him, angry that he was being so flippant. He smirked confidently and she found her ire slipping away and leaving in its place a fascination for his lips. The man's smirk faded away when it failed to get an angry rise out of her.

"Hey," he said awkwardly. "Jaina? Snap out of it?"

"Huh?" Jaina asked, blinking back into focus, mortified.

He grinned, but this time it was just an expression of joy and not one of smug satisfaction. "C'mon." He stood, pulling her up with him.

"Ahhh!" Jaina screamed, falling back, her arms curling around her deadened legs of their own violation. The blood had rushed into them, startling her oxygen deprived muscles into awareness and almost crippling the young Jedi.

The man cursed, his arms slipping around Jaina's shoulders and knees, pulling her up to his chest in a defensive movement. "Shavit Jay¯I am so sorry!!" he pleaded with her, his brilliantly hued eyes filled with worry.

Jaina's eyes were closed tightly, her eyelashes were all smashed up against her cheek and the tall man could feel his heart constricting.

"We have to go," Jaina said in a shallow, rasping whisper.

"Right." The man said, turning resolutely towards the door.

"Wait-" Jaina opened her eyes as she shook her head. "There's someone here who works for Boba Fett… if its true that the bounty on me hasn't been cleared off, then Boba would want my head…"

"…And you think that Boba Fett would send his prodigy to do what he would want to do himself?" the man asked wryly, his emotions mixed. Amusement that she was worried about it, depression that she thought that Fett's employee would turn her in. Well you twit, he told himself savagely. She doesn't exactly know that you're the guy she's thinking about…

Jaina nodded mutely and the man just gave her a tiny smile.

"Don't worry, Solo." He promised. "I'll take care of you; there's no way anyone's going to take you to Boba Fett while I'm alive."

And strangely enough, she trusted him. She closed her eyes again with a soft sigh. Draping one arm around his neck, she snuggled closer to his chest and let the beating of his heart lull her to sleep…