I really liked the dialogue of this chapter. Witty in a way, though a snippet looks familiar from a book I read, coincidently involving a Corran (the very same Corran mine is named for, as in an ancient relative of that one. Too bad no one commented on that). Just an interesting fact…


Chapter 2

Corran awoke slowly, groggily, his head pounding.

To make matters worse, he found himself getting hit rather hard in his back. He opened his eyes slowly and glanced back. "What do you want Carth?"

"Move your fat ass is what I want. I'm stuck up here." Corran rolled his eyes and tried to wake Sienna, but he couldn't seem to wake her. Shrugging, he punched the button to open the door and dragged Sienna out.

That's when he noticed the huge trail of blood dripping from her neck.

"OH SHIT!"

Carth looked up at him, and then glanced at Sienna when he saw the wide-eyed look in Corran's eyes.

"Son of a!" He quickly moved over to her, as Corran put her on the ground and tried to stifle the blood flow.

"Shit! It hit her cartaroid. She'll bleed out in under 30 seconds!" cried out Corran as he tried to stop the bleeding. "Don't you die on me! We escaped up there. You're not dieing here."

Carth frantically looked around for something to bind the wound, found a towel and they held it too her tight as they could. They couldn't hold it too tight or else it would cut off her airflow though…

Carth took a few deep breaths, before clearing his voice. "Private, she's gone. We'll never be able to save her."

Corran glared up at Carth. "Fuck you sir. We've gotta try."

Carth held up his hands. "I'll let that go this time. But the Sith are gonna be here any moment."

"Then go… I'm staying," Corran replied calmly.

Carth stood there a moment, before hesitantly replying, "We'll hang around until she's gone. Then we go, deal?"

Corran was too busy, already checking for other injuries. There were a few other cuts and bruises, but nothing major. "How'd this happen?" he asked absentmindedly.

Carth poked his head out of the escape pod, in there salvaging for supplies. "Piece of metal… when we pulled her out it stopped blocking the blood form escaping…"

Corran cursed. He'd been in too much of a hurry. He knelt down, and cradled her head in his lap, willing her to somehow stay alive.

He felt a tingling sensation in the back of his mind, and suddenly an electric thrill shot into his hands. He felt it travel down his arms and into Sienna. It left a lasting impression, with the energy arcing back to his spine and to his head.

Corran just sat there wide-eyed as the blood stopped pouring out, until at last he pulled back the towel and the cut was closed.

"Si… sir. I think you should look at this."

Carth stumbled out of the pod again, expecting to see Sienna dead.

Instead his jaw fell open, seeing her wound closed, and fine save for the huge loss of blood.

"What… what just happened?"

Corran didn't respond, before taking a few steps away. "Don't know, don't wanna know. Let's just scram before the Sith come." He jogged into the pod, grabbed Sienna's and his rifle/sword and came out. He slung em over his back, and then picked Sienna up gently as he could, supporting her with his arms in front of his body.

Carth slung a pair of survival bags over his shoulders and they proceeded to get as far away from the crash site as possible.

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A Female Jedi swung her golden double bladed lightsaber smoothly in front of her, taunting a Dark Jedi forward. The Jedi had a beautiful pale complexion, with gentle brown hair resting on her head. Her entire look was one of serene beauty, and the Dark Jedi eagerly attacked such a weak looking opponent… but found himself dangerously overmatched. The Female Jedi pushed him back quickly and easily, before striking him down with a single blow. The Jedi turned around, and said, "Wake up. Come on gal…"

"…we don't have time for you to sleep the day away." She felt a tap on her cheek, and then another, harder one after.

She opened her eyes in time to see another hand coming, but with lightning reflexes she didn't know she had she grabbed the hand and twisted.

"AHHH! HEY… OW! Stop it! I was…" She immediately relaxed her grip, recognizing it as Corran's voice. He stopped speaking, letting a silent prayer go out that she'd stopped. "… I was just trying to wake you up."

She glared at him for a moment, before pushing him away hard. He had been kneeling awkwardly, and so was off balance, and easily flew through the air to land in a heap on the ground.

"Oomph. No fair! Save a gals life and look what you get for it!"

Sienna grinned slyly at him. "Yeah, that's how it works. Though I bet it was more our brave ol' commander here then you." She turned to the commander, who blushed brightly before responding.

"Ensign, get you're act together. We're on an enemy planet!"

Sienna sobered up, immediately switched to Soldier mode, though hurt by Carth's response. "How long was I out?"

Carth shrugged. "About 3 days. You lost a lot of blood in the crash and took a nasty bump. You looked like you were having some nasty nightmares."

Sienna bit her lip absently. "Nothing too weird," she said after a pause. She realized her hair was pasted to her head with sweat, and that she was a complete mess.

Carth glanced over at Corran, who just shrugged, causing Carth to shrug too. "Ok… anyways, Corran and I scouted it out a bit, and we found this place to be safe. Unfortunately, no sign of Bastilla, nor any other Republics. We're hoping that we can search the Undercity or the Lower city even, but we haven't found a way yet. Who knows, with all your awards and stuff from the academy maybe you'll succeed." The last comment almost seemed like a dig at her.

Sienna smiled weakly before getting up and walking to the fresher. "Not now. Now it's shower, then its food, then it's searching." Carth flared his nostrils. "…Sir," she added on.

Corran grinned as she walked past, but she ignored him and continued past.

He followed her the entire way to the fresher, and couldn't help but watch that little tight butt, and waited for the sound of the refresher being on before turning back and winking at Carth. He had to say, she was a fine looking woman. Strong shaped jaw, beautiful lips, gentle hair, and the body was perfectly formed… he loved the curves. He shook his head slowly at the thought that came next.

"50 creds says she likes you boss."

Carth looked at him, and Corran thought he'd crossed the line for a moment before Carth grinned and responded. "You're on. I wager another 50 that she likes you!"

Corran just shook his head. "Don't I WISH! Man… well sir, if you have so much money that you can afford to give it to me, I guess I'll just have to take it."

Carth grinned. "Keep telling yourself that. Now, please say you can cook. I have this feeling that she expects a rather nice meal out of us."

Corran's grin faltered. "You're kidding me… my mom made me take cooking lessons, never thought I'd use em… Stupid cooking."

Carth's grin widened. "Kitchen, there… get cookin! Full meal, better be gourmet!"

Corran muttered under his breath and walked past, getting to work.

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Sienna walked out feeling much better, the refresher having done wonders. She saw the looks the two gave her, and she had to smile to herself. She may be a soldier, but she cleaned up nicely. She had found a bit of makeup in the fresher, and had used it to great effects.

She sniffed the air. "What you cooking?"

Corran glanced up at her again. "That's a surprise… though there wasn't much here, gotta warn you. Gimme 2 mins."

Sienna shrugged. At this point, food was food. She sidled up to the table, and sat there patiently, waiting to be served…

It was good to be waited on hand and foot. She loved the feeling, even though something told her deep down that she should do stuff for others and only then herself, but she ignored it.

Corran promptly brought out the food, and the 3 ate in relative silence. Sienna had to admit, for a lack of materials, the food was fairly good, and it was all cleaned out by the end.

"So, what now? I don't think marching around will get us anywhere."

Carth glared daggers at Sienna. "Well what do you suggest little miss high and mighty?"

She shrugged. "Walk around?"

Corran just laughed, and Carth flushed. "Haha, very funny. Fine, let's go."

He marched to the door and opened it, the other 2 right behind him.

As soon as it opened, Carth rolled his eyes, swearing. "Oh you've gotta be kidding me."

Directly in front of them were a few Sith harassing some Duros.

"Up against the wall you alien slime!" shouted one of the Sith at the Duros. One complied, but the other stood his ground. Without thought, the Sith brought their blasters to bear, and a volley of blasts slammed into the Duros, who fell heavily to the ground. Then the Sith noticed them.

"What have we here? What are you doing here?" The Sith soldier looked at them closer. "Hey… wait a minute, you're…"

He was cut off as Corran pulled out his rifle and began blasting away at point blank, cutting down the Soldier. Carth rolled to the left, firing his pistols as best he could to keep the other soldier and 2 droids from getting too aggressive.

As it turned out, it was Sienna who chose to be aggressive. She charged forward, wielding her vibroblade and instantly cleaved the soldier in the chest, who gurgled loudly before collapsing. The 2 droids went down to Carth's and Corran's blaster fire, and they quickly moved forward.

Sienna was kneeling next to the Duros, who was clearly gone. Corran walked over to the Duros. "Sorry about your friend here."

The Duros nodded solemnly. "I'm just glad you came along, or they would have killed me clean and quick. Thank you."

Sienna walked up. "I'm just happy we could help. Is there something we can do with these bodies?"

"I have a place we can dump them. Set up some swoop gangs to take the fall. Don't worry"

Sienna nodded. "Great, lets get to it."

They quickly hauled the bodies away, and bid their farewells to the Duros before moving on.

"Well that could certainly have gone better Corran. Let's try to be a bit discreet here!" muttered Carth.

Corran replied rather bitterly. "Oh, I'm sorry sir, I didn't realize we were just supposed to sit there and watch other and ourselves get killed.

Carth snorted. "I didn't say that private. Try waiting for orders next time."

"Hah! If I had of waited for you one of us could have been hit. You're just angry that I was the first to react," Corran replied bitterly.

"Why I outta…" Carth started to advance towards Corran and Corran likewise towards Carth.

"Boys! Cool it!" Sienna stepped roughly in between the two of them, pushing them apart. "We're in the middle of enemy ground. Now it NOT the time for us to get divided." She turned to Corran and poked him roughly in the ribs. "Corran, remember, respect your superior officers. We're in a war, and in a military organization. You're seeing this as him trying to put you down. He's not, he's just a bit on edge."

Carth started to grin smugly, but Sienna turned on him and pushed him roughly. "And you, sir, need to get some perspective here. We're on a sith planet, surrounded by enemies. It doesn't matter how much you order us around if the Sith kill us. Corran was right to do what he did. No matter what you say."

The 2 stood fuming at each other for a moment, before Corran finally said, "Si… Sienna's right. I'm sorry sir. I made a mistake." He held out his hand to Carth.

Carth stood there for a moment, and Sienna began to wonder if he was going to burst at him again. Then he relaxed and grabbed Corran's hand in a firm grip. "Apology accepted son. I'm sorry I jumped all over you. I've been through a lot, lost a lot of friends and my ship."

"Understandable sir."

Sienna couldn't help but smile. "See, isn't it better when we all get along." The two men grumbled mildly but said nothing of importance. "Now, let's get moving." She moved to take the lead, and surprising to everyone, including Carth himself, they followed quietly.

"It was like she was born to lead," thought Carth. "I just follow her without thinking." He tried to pull his thoughts out of that, as it only lead to bad memories. He glanced over at Corran, and saw his eyes were clearly affixed on everywhere but the area around them, instead focused on a certain person's rear end as they walked. Carth couldn't help but roll his eyes. Boys would be boys.

"What did you say?"

Carth felt his cheeks start burning, wondering if he said it out loud, as Sienna turned around to glare at them.

They looked at each other, Corran turning an even brighter red, and coughed lightly. "Come one, out with it."

Carth merely shrugged. "We didn't say anything."

She marched up to him. "You may be the superior officer, but that doesn't give you the right to say those things."

Carth gave her a perplexed look as Corran went even brighter. "Ummm… as I said, we said nothing. What did you hear?"

"Why you idiotic man! Are you trying to make me angrier!"

Corran coughed lightly, as he asked, "Please… we really didn't say anything. What did you hear?"

Sienna paused for a moment, as if considering his words. "Maybe I was mistaken… but I tell you, if I hear anything like that again…" she stopped suddenly, before flushing in anger. "Which one of you said that! Come on! TELL ME!"

Carth just got more confused as Corran turned, if it were possible, even redder. "Calm down, you're making a scene."

"How can I calm down with you two saying that stuff around me? I'm not an object, I'm a human being."

Corran looked down at his feet. "Uhhh…"

Carth rolled his eyes. "Oh boy, this can't be good."

Sienna looked at Carth sharply. "What are you talking abo…" Suddenly she stopped. "Corran… if Carth wasn't talked when I heard that, that means it was you… start running now. I'll give you 5 seconds."

"WAIT! I was just testing something with that last one. Please, stop. I wanted to be sure. Don't hu…" he was cut off as she tackled him roughly to the ground, trying to strangle him.

Carth came over, waving off a few bystanders, and dragged Sienna off of him. "What is going on here?"

Sienna growled, "This bastard was just saying how he'd love to nail me. And before that he was making little comments about me, my looks, and being a whore to get to where I am." When she finished, she stopped bucking in Carth's grasp, instead letting him hold her.

"But he didn't say any…" he stopped as he realized what Corran had been looking at when Sienna first freaked out. "Oh you have GOT to be kidding me! Tell me it isn't true!" He looked at Corran pleadingly.

He nodded. Sienna looked confusedly at both of them. "What are you two going on about?"

Carth simply said, "You can read his thoughts," to which Corran nodded again.
She was silent for a moment before laughing. "What is this, a joke?"

Corran shook his head. "No joke. I was thinking every one of those things that you heard… Listen carefully."

Sienna did as told. "I'm not getting anything." Corran frowned.

"Hmmm… try now"

A moment passed. "Hey, what is that supposed to mean?"

Corran grinned. "See. I didn't say that, I thought that. It appears that its only thoughts of each other that we can read, as I heard a few… choice things from you."

She paled a bit. "What the heck is going on?"

Carth and Corran shrugged. "Who knows? But I bet it has something to do with that Force Mojo stuff. Let's find Bastilla and we can work this out."


No description for Corran leogrl19… next chapter I guess. Thanks for the nice reviews and suggestions guys!