I suppose that this is somewhat... strange story , but R&R plz

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Pure pazaak?

Aliisza yawned a bit, watching Atton playing pazaak again. He wasn't boring, but the game was dull like hell. After he had won she took his side deck and started to shuffle it.

"Why do you like this game, Jaq?" she asked.

"It keeps your mind focused and passes the time."

"It's boring."

"No, it isn't."

"Yes, it is." Aliisza shook her head in disbelief. "And it's just luck that whether you win or not."

"That's a lie."

"No, it isn't."

"Yes, it is. I can prove it to you by defeating you, lucky lady."

"Yeah, you wish."

"Just you wait." He smirked. "Nar Shaddaa rules?"

Aliisza narrowed her eyes and quickly counted how many clothing she had. Nar Shaddaa rules were just a form of naked-poker. She nodded and chuckled when he started to deal the cards.

"You're sure you want to play HERE?" Aliisza wiggled her eyelashes. "I'm sure you don't want to show your underwear to all the costumers of Pazaak Den." She said and turned around, heading towards the stairs.

"And I'M sure that you will be the one to show underwear, sweetheart." He got up and fallowed her.

OOO

Okay. It's not luck. It's something else thought Aliisza after he'd won for the sixth time in a row. It was incredible how he could make a 20 out of those cards.

"Wanna wrangler more that I'll win again?" he said.

"You're cheating. I know it."

"In what way?"

"You force the game to be just like you need it to be."

Atton winced. That was an odd reaction.

"May I ask you a personal question?"

Aliisza raised her eyebrow.

"Shoot."

"Are you a Jedi?"

She chuckled grimly, shaking her head. Her hair fell down her shoulders when she did that.

"No. You can think it's odd, but I don't even know WHAT is a Jedi."

"You're kidding."

"Maybe a bit."

He won again. Aliisza took off her shirt without a second of hesitation. Atton grinned at her.

"Let's wrangler something different."

"And may I ask why?"

"Hey, I'm offering you a way out of getting naked!"

"And?"

Atton paused, just staring at her. He realized that his mouth was opened, so he closed it.

"You definitely can't be a Jedi. Now serious, wanna wrangler something apart from your clothes?"

"Never seen a naked woman, didn't you?"

"Never met one who would play Nar Shaddaa rules and didn't take a chance to abandon it."

She chuckled.

"Okay. Shoot with your proposition."

"If I win, you'll tell me how come you don't know who a Jedi is."

"And if I win?"

"That won't gonna' happen lass." Atton smirked. "But OK, if you win, I'll be open to suggestions about spending the night.

"You call that a joke?"

"No, I'm being witty" he winked at her. Aliisza glared at him.

"If I win, you'll answer ALL my questions."

"Just that? Well.. alright."

"And you WILL be opened to suggestions."

"I thought I had to win that" he noticed with lechery in his voice.

"And you'll make me breakfast tomorrow."

"Hey, that's unfair." He smirked.

"And I deal this time."

Atton nearly chocked when he prevented himself from laughing aloud.

"Sure"

OOO

"You cheated!" Atton frowned and stared at Aliisza with a mixture of annoyance and surprise on his face. Alu demon smiled.

"No. I prevented YOU from cheating."

"What the hell are you talking about? I really didn't cheat!"

Aliisza shook her head.

"You can do it but not know it. It's irrelevant. You owe me some answers, flyboy."

"Not only that" he said, lolling it his hair. "Okay, shoot."

Aliisza stood up and flexed her fingers. Her clothes immediately came back to her. Atton inhaled in shock.

"Very Jedi-like trick." He pointed out. "Where did you learned that?"

"I won, Jaq."

"Yes, but."

"A butt had nothing to do with it, so answer me: why did you came to Nar Shaddaa?"

Atton stopped grinning at the butt-part and sighed aloud.

"And no lies." She reminded.

OOO

A deserter. No wonder he came to Nar Shaddaa. But it was more to that. He was a Sith – he explained that it was the opposite of Jedi – and he killed many people. Murdered was a better word. He was afraid of the revenge of Jedi Council so he fled to Smugglers' Moon.

Aliisza was most interested in his knowledge about a person named Revan, but Atton didn't want to answer that and avoided her questions talking about Malachor V, a planet she heard that was destroyed at the end of the Manalorian Wars. It was Malachor V where the Jedi Civil War begun, but Aliisza didn't really care. She was just too selfish to think about wars and soldiers who sacrificed their lives for nothing.

His real name was Jaq, and he killed Atton Rand when he started to kill Jedi. It was his first victim and he took his name to hide his real identity. Nothing special, but he used "Atton" as a name for so long that he didn't ever remember anybody to call him "Jaq"

And last, but not least, he really had debts. A huge amount of them. But mostly he made them on Telos and the Citadel Station, when he hadn't gained the ability to won almost all matches. Aliisza wasn't so called 'Force sensitive' but her half demonic blood allowed her to feel that ability of Atton's.

"So you will run further." It was more a statement than a query. Jaq shifted uncomfortable.

"Eventually, yes… but…"

"I told you to leave that butt alone." Joked Aliisza. "Don't go to Peragus anyway. Go to the Outer Rim. Or even pass it, to unknown space. Just not Peragus."

Atton gazed at her with a smirk.

"What's about Peragus that effects you so much? You're not worried about me, I'm sure about that."

Aliisza frowned and glared at him for a few seconds before she finally spoke.

"I know that it will cause a chain reaction. In a few days something bad will happen on Peragus, and if you be there, the whole Peragus field will go nova."

"WHAT?" he shouted with shock on his face.

"I KNOW that just like you force cards to win."

"Yeah, right. There is no way you can know such things."

Aliisza started to walk around the room.

"So you will go to Peragus." She eventually said.

"Yes."

Aliisza sighed and pulled out a blaster. She aimed at his head.

"I'm sorry, but that can't happen."

Atton froze but just for a second, then he tried to pull out his weapon, but he find out that it was… unbearably hot! It nearly melted through his fingers.

He look up on Aliisza. Her eyes were crimson…

"Wha-?"

She silenced him with a quick gesture of her left hand.

"Listen to me. I am not quite a human, you see. And I have the ability to see the future events."

"Holy shit." Jaq swore. "The WHAT are you anyway."

Aliisza smirked.

"It's a long story."

Atton looked on the clock on the wall.

"Well, we have a lot of time. And… could you lower your blaster? I don't feel good being pointed with it."

Aliisza put her blaster away. "No tricks, Jaq. It's important."

OOO

Atton tried to understand, but it was far beyond his abilities. How he was supposed to understand that this woman was a half breed demon that knew what will happen?

He shook his head in disbelieve.

"Okay, I can put it that way. I think you're a Sith. All this talking about not knowing the Jedi and Sith it's bullshit, right?"

Aliisza sighed. "You are stubborn. But take it as you pleased. Either you at least try to accept it, or I'll have to shoot you. Choose. Now."

Jaq stared at her and frowned.

"You're insane if you…" he was disturbed by a sudden beeping. "What the hell?"

Aliisza rushed to the door and look at the camera report. "Damn. I doubt it's the room service."

Atton looked at the screen. "Those are Voga's thugs."

"Yeah? How can you tell?"

"I can. I know one of them"

Aliisza paused.

"They don't know you're here. But that doesn't matter, soon they will." She whispered when one of the thugs started bashing the door. "Good thing I have my swoop with me." She grasped his arm and left the room proceeding to the hangar beneath Pazaak Den. "This is it. You're with me or against me?" she stopped to watch his reaction. Atton quivered a eyebrow at her.

"Okay, with you. I have a feeling that those guys from Voga are not willing to talk anyway."

"Good." She replied and opened the hangar door. Inside, in a bay, stood a swoop ship. Atton almost choked with his split when he saw it.

"Now THAT is one tremendous looking swoop! Where did you get it?"

"Maybe later. Now just get in." She replied, hopping into the ship. "And close the door!"

OOO

"Shit." Swore one of the thugs. The other put his blasters into pockets.

"Now that's a way to say it."

"Shut up and think what we will say to Voga!"

The thug with two blasters sighed.

"That she had some help?"

"That's not about to work, Hub. Voga will go insane!"

"Yeah, I now. And ya' know what? I don't give a damn."

As I said, R&R and tell me what u think