Toombs woke not sure if last night really happened. He sat up and moved to the edge of his cot letting his feet touch the floor. He sat quiet unmoving listening for the casual conversation his crew normally held at this time of morning, while they waited for a new bounty to come in.

Nothing.

He heaved himself out of bed and put a new pair of jeans on. He walked into the makeshift kitchen (which really was a table, chairs, two hotplates, a couple of dishes stacked on the floor along with a few pot 'n pans) He suddenly stopped when he saw a figure kneeling next to a hot plate making what appeared to be eggs.

"You know it's dangerous to have these things so close to the floor?"

"How so?"

"I don't like to kneel."

Toombs just laughed at this. "So was the couch okay?"

"Yea, but I wouldn't want to sleep on that everyday."

"I'm just surprised to see that I'm still alive."

"Well, I thought about slipping into your room last night and just slitting your throat for what you did to me."

"C'mon Grey that was years ago."

"I know but you never really did explain what the purpose of shooting me then leaving me to die in the middle of a desert on some planet where I don't even speak the language."

"You never gave me a chance."

"Um ... wouldn't that be under the LEFT ME THERE TO DIE part."

"Well, if you want to see it that way."

"But you know I wasn't angry then. I knew you where a cold hearted son-of-a-bitch. What got me pissed of bud is when you pinned the murder of the rest of the crew on me. What you couldn't handle letting the world know that you got so close to him you could touch him and you let him go? You let him go after he killed them. And what you pin that shit on ME." Grey stood up and walked over to Toombs. She grabbed the shiv from the loop of her jeans where she put it for easy access. She held it up to his throat. "Would you like to explain that part to me...dear?"

Toombs couldn't decide whether or not to talk. He couldn't tell wetter of not she was that willing to kill him.

"I can tell you one thing." He said as he smiled.

"And what is that?" Grey was getting quite irritated with him.

"Your eggs are burning."

Grey turned her head to look. "they don't look like they a----" She took a step back as she did Toombs pulled his own shiv out of her hip where it just missed her femoral artery. Her hand went instinctively to her wound. Bad move. When she did that Toombs took the opportunity to kindly kick her in the face. He kneeled down next to her and whispered.

"I left you there because you know. Darling you where really trying my patience always making me look like a god damn fool so I did what I had to and well you know the rest."

He stood back up, placed his right foot on her chest to pin her to the floor and looked across the room to make sure all the windows where closed. "Guess what babe today's trash day and you're the trash."

"Next time I promise." He didn't even see it coming. While he was talking she pulled the pocket knife out from her pocket flicked it open and cut his left Achilles tendon in one fail swoop. She quickly pointed the tip of the blade up wards and heard the satisfying sound of him sliding along the blade and hit her hand gripped around the handle. He rolled him over and pulled her blade out of him. She dragged him into the other room back onto his cot. She stabbed him again in the leg knowing he would not be able to get up, walked into the other room grabbed Toombs cuffs for bounties walked back very calmly and cuffed him to the steel ring off of his cot that connected it to the wall. Both she and he knew that she was going to leave him for dead like he had to her all those years ago.

Before she left she paused at the door before putting on her cloak and leaving him helpless.

"Didn't I tell you….payback's a bitch."