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Hey guess what guys! I'm finally 16 today. Woot!
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Chapter 5: He really should know better by now
Cyber sprang at Maul, murder in her eyes.
"Don't you dare even think about saying that again. I am not some low-born scum who has to feed myself on money gotten by pleasuring others. I have much more class than that, as you should well know."
Cyber had her fists wrapped around Maul's throat, doing her best to squeeze the air out of him. Then she felt a sharp electrical pulse go into her side, followed by blackness.
When she woke up, Maul was watching her, with a faint trace of an emotion she had never seen on his face.
"Maul, is that actually worry I see on your face?"
"You're awake. One of the guards jabbed you with his overgrown cattle prod. You collapsed, and once the guards decided that neither of us were going to die, they left."
"You didn't answer my question."
"What question?"
"Maul,"Cyber replied, with just the faintest amount of annoyance tinging the word.
"Oh, that question. Of course I wasn't worried, you're too stubborn to die on me."
"Ri-ght. Heh-heh-heh"
"Cyber, we've had this discussion before. I do not, never have, and most likely never will harbor any sort of 'feelings' for you or any others. If you saw any trace of worry on my face, it was beacause of what the Master would do to me as punishment if anything would happen to you."
"Our master only cares about my force potential. If I weren't as strong in the force, he would have killed me in a heartbeat. A lot of good the force will do here. Right now the force is a liability rather than an asset. Not only that, but you're way too cocky for a captured little daemon.
"You just wait. Once I hit puberty, I'll be 2 meters tall and then you'll be the short one."
"Maul, you're 17, your voice changed years ago, and you're only a little over 1.75 meters. You aren't going to get any taller."
"You're still shorter than me."
"By 5 damn centimeters. Give it a break!"
"Every little bit counts."
"Just drop it. Please."
"Wow, her highness has actually decided to use the word "please." Master Sidious would be most disappointed in you if he heard."
"Are you looking for a fight! Just shut up!"
They lapsed into an uneasy silence.
"Uh...Darth?
Not looking in her direction, he replied. "Don't call me that."
"Ok then…um…Jim-Bob?"
"Not my name. Not responding."
Cyber let out a sigh. "Lord Maul?"
He finally looked at her. "I like the sound of that one. Yes, Peasant?"
"Never mind, then."
"I take that back. What?"
"Sorry for snapping at you like that."
"Master Sidious would say that Sith don't say that they're sorry."
"Well then, just for now, I'm not a Sith. I'm just a scared little girl who doesn't want to be hurt and is all out of good ideas to avoid getting hurt."
"Sith revel in pain, it makes them more in tune to the Force."
"Won't help me here. Can't use the Force with those animals around."
"So how's brute strength?" Maul touched the bars and quickly jerked his hands back. "It shocked me! Those stupid bars had the nerve to shock me!" he yelled indignantly. Cyber laughed. Maul kicked the bars in frustration, thinking just after hitting the bars that the bars would shock his feet. They didn't. He could see the bars crackle with energy, but they didn't shock him.