Working On It

Disclaimer: I don't own any of this, except for the OCs. And one character, named Marin Macer, is based off of one of my friends; I have her permission and everything.

Summary: Jaina and her apprentice pick up Zekk and his apprentice when they're stranded on Commenor and then takes them to Mon Cal. On Mon Cal, turns out Zekk doesn't have a place to live on there yet and Jaina invites him to stay with her. Jaina and Jag aren't together and he will not make an appearance on my watch. J/Z, sorry for the crappy summary, I'm not too good at this. Flames allowed, but NO one disses the pairing, or Zekk!!! Just so y'all know, Jaina's 24 and Zekk's 26.

Warning: May have extreme levels of stupidity, so watch out.

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Chapter One: Oh joy I get an all expense paid retrieval mission/vacation to Commenor. boy wants.

The started off normal enough, with Jaina and Kionne scrambling to get to the hangar so Jaina can have fun teaching the green pilots. The got there only to see Jaina's favorite person, her commanding officer, General Shnickie. The guy had come out of no where and started bossing Jaina around like she was his subordinate. Somehow, he had passed her up in the ranks and became a general. It annoyed her to no end that the man boasted about everything he did and asked her out. She had answered him by threatening to punch in his face. Now don't get me wrong, the guy was easy on the eyes with wavy blond hair and gray eyes, well toned body, and a killer grin. But he was like one of those men who always thought that they were better than everyone and an attention seeker. Okay, enough with the babbling, let's see what the pretty

"General, how pleasant it is to see you this morning," Jaina said, the look on her face saying exactly the opposite.

The Shnickie gave her a toothy grin and bowed to her.

"Now, now, Jaina, how many times have I told you to call me Jixon?" Shnickie asked.

"And how many times have I told you that it's Colonel Solo." Jaina had officially lost all patience and decided to stop beating around the bush and ask what he wanted. "What the kriff do you want anyways?"

"Ahh, charming to the last, well you see, I've been thinking that you need a vacation. So I found an easy retrieval assignment to Commenor, " he started, "you see, we've received a distress signal that stated that we have a Jedi Knight and his apprentice stranded on planet. And I took the liberty of claiming the job for you."

Jaina glared at him. Her short temper was growing shorter by the nanosecond. "Excuse me, sir, but with no due respect, I don't want the job. I'm quite happy training the greenies. Give it to someone else," Jaina said.

The General dropped his smile and he glared back at Jaina.

"Unfortunately, Colonel Solo I'm giving you a direct order to go, now is there anything else you'll be wanting?" Jixon regained his smile back on his face.

When Jaina was about to tell the General that she wanted to punch his perfect face in, Kionne stepped between them and smiled sweetly at the General.

"Sir, my master would like to have the jump coordinates and where she should pick the Jedi up," Kionne said.

"Very well, it will be delivered to your quarters. Colonel, you better start packing, you're going to be leaving at 1500 hours."

Jaina fumed and opened her mouth but didn't get to say anything because Kionne dragged her away. When they were out of earshot Jaina turned to her apprentice and glare at her. Kionne was a 13 year old human spliced with Mon Calamari DNA. She had salmon colored skin, blue eyes, and white-blond hair. Kionne was like Jaina's little guardian and attempted to stop her from doing stupid things, it didn't always work, but it was for Jaina's own good. She made sure that Jaina got up in the morning and didn't overwork herself.

"Kionne, what the heck?! I didn't wanna go on this stupid assignment!" Jaina said.

"Well, if you had refused the way I think you were going to then he probably would have suspended you."

"But still, you're supposed to be on my side!"

"Master, let's just make the most of this, okay? Look on the bright side; you can sleep in all the way to Commenor."

Jaina grinned at the sudden realization and gave an excited yell. "I didn't think about that. You're right! Let's get going!

Commenor docking bays, 3 days later

"Master, who's supposed to be picking us up?" asked a girl around 13 years old.

A man turned to the girl and shrugged. "I don't know they didn't say."

"Okay, when are they going to get here?"

"Soon."

Same place, but Jaina's landing

Jaina landed the ship in the designated docking bays. They had taken a government ship to the planet and were told that the Jedi would meet them in the docking bays. Jaina sensed 2 people, one familiar and the other not. She and Kionne calmly walked down the ramp and were enthusiastically greeted by a girl with short blond hair and pale green eyes wearing a cat ear head band.

"Mrow! Hiya, are you guys here to pick us up?" she asked.

Kionne yelped in surprise and half hid behind Jaina. "Err, yeah. Umm, I'm Kionne."

"Hi, Kionne, my name's Marin Macer! Nice to meet you! Do you like Inu Yasha?"

"Umm, I've never heard of it."

"What?! You're kidding me! I must show you the beauty that is Inu Yasha!" Marin dragged Kionne onto the ship, leaving Jaina alone to deal with her master.

Jaina peered around curiously, trying to find the guy. He came in through the entrance way and Jaina gasped. Jaina stared at his familiar emerald green eyes and long ebony hair pulled back at the nape of his neck. Oh crap, it was Zekk. Jaina, of course, didn't notice that Zekk was staring at her with the same surprised look on his face that she was wearing.

Noticing that an uncomfortable silence had fallen over both of them Jaina cleared her throat and said, "Long time no see, huh?"

Zekk nodded in a trancelike fashion. A couple seconds later he shook his head and gave her a smile. "No kidding."

"Yeah, umm, maybe we should start going now?"

"Sure."

Jaina half ran up the ramp and into the cockpit. She hadn't noticed that Zekk had followed her until he had sat down in the co-pilot chair and started helping her with the pre-flight check. Absently she wondered why she hadn't sensed him, but didn't wonder anymore about it until they were out of the atmosphere and into hyperspace.

"So, how have you been doing, lately?"

Jaina started and looked over at him. He was looking expectantly at her, which caught Jaina momentarily off guard.

"Err… Okay, I got a jerk for a General, but other than that life's been pretty good. You?"

"Well enough. How's Jag?"

Jaina shifted uncomfortably. "We broke up about two years ago."

"Oh, sorry."

"Don't be, it was for the best and we put it off for too long."

They were both silent for a few minutes before Jaina got up and said that she was going to start making dinner. She walked out of cockpit and glanced at the lounge where Marin was educating a wide-eyed Kionne about whatever the heck she was going on about. Jaina walked to the food prep and started to prepare the meal. A few minutes later Zekk came in holding his and Marin's duffel bags.

"Where's the bunk room?"

"Umm, go past the lounge and it's the only door on the right. The free bunks are the ones closest to the door," Jaina answered.

"Thanks, Jay," Zekk said before walking away.

Jaina blinked in surprise. Did he just call me Jay? I guess he's not too angry about Hapes. Maybe we can fix our friendship… hopefully.

10 minutes until the ship comes out of hyperspace in Mon Calamari

The trip had gone on without much trouble and now everyone was congregated in the small cockpit.

"Where are you guys gonna be staying on planet?" Kionne asked.

"We don't have a place to stay."

"Really? Then you can stay with Master and me! That's okay right, Master?" Kionne looked at Jaina hopefully.

"Meow, that would be ssssssoooooo great! Can we, please, Master Solo?"

"I wouldn't want to burden them, Marin. Don't worry about it, Jay, we'll just find a hotel to stay in until we can get a place on planet."

"But that would take too long! There isn't enough space on planet."

"We'll manage, I don't want—"

"No, Zekk, Kionne's right, like she usually is. There are still too many refugees coming in. You guys better stay with us. It's easier and not too mention cheaper."

"Yay, Marin, we're gonna be roomies!"

"Mrow! That's so great! I can hardly wait!"

"Kionne, you do know that you're not going to have your own room anymore, right?"

"That's okay. I don't mind at all."

"Good, then we don't have a problem. Oh look, we're exiting hyperspace in 1 minute."

The girls buckled up and Jaina and Zekk prepared to pull the ship out of hyperspace.

-End of Chapter-

Sorry it was so short. Umm, I'll make it longer next time, I promise. Please review if you want.