Blood Sisters
A whole month has passed since the B-Wing was acquired by the Rebellion and also when Errol and Hera first had sex.
Ever since then, the two have entered a whole new phase/development with their relationship. Whenever they'd take a break or when they're by themselves, Hera would have Errol wrap his arms around her lovingly around her stomach and she'd curl up like a feline pet with its owner. They'd even steal a kiss every once in a while in front of others. And there'd be times where they'd tell the other about something they love about them, whether it was something physical or emotional.
Errol even revealed to Hera that when they had sex, Errol actually transferred the Force into her so that she could live up to 200 years like him and his parents since they're so in tune with the Force and he didn't want to outlive her, but while not being Force sensitive, which she cried in happiness over, finding the notion romantic.
As of this moment, the Ghost was in a hangar in Garel City. Hera and Errol were talking with some Rebels about getting some cargo needed for the Rebellion and as they did, Ezra (with his cadet helmet), Sabine and Chopper came down the ramp of the ship.
"Vaux, you're picking up our fighter parts in the market. The crates are labeled 'Ronto Meat'." Hera told one of them, reading off the pad in her hand.
"Make sure to keep an eye out for Stormtroopers as they've increased patrols." Errol cautioned.
"Good luck." Hera finished and the two Rebels walked off, right as Ezra, Chopper and Sabine reached up to the couple.
"You said you had another mission. What do you want me to do?" Ezra asked Hera, assuming she's referring to him.
"Actually, this one's for her." She corrected him, looking at Sabine, who with her helmet in her arm, walked up to her and elbowed Ezra in the chest, resulting in Chopper chuckling.
"There's a courier coming in who has secret information. I need you to pick him up and transport him to Havok outpost." Hera explained to the Mandalorian.
"Sounds easy enough." She said, not seeing any difficulty.
"We'd have sent someone else if it was easy, Sabine. That's how important the info is. Oh, and make sure to keep a low profile." Errol told her with a sly smirk.
"Don't worry. You can trust me. What's this courier look like?" Sabine asked.
"I don't know, but they'll respond to this code phrase." Hera stated, pressing on the pad and then Sabine's gauntlet beeped, meaning the code phrase was in her possession.
"Got it." She said before putting on her helmet, nod at the couple and walk off.
"Hey, I can be low profile too." Ezra said and Hera stopped him with her arm out. Errol snorted in amusement since he believed Ezra always attracts attention.
"You can be… backup, along with Chopper, but she is in charge." Hera told him, like a mother would.
"Understood." He replied and walked off with Chopper to catch up with Sabine.
Now that the couple are by themselves, Errol looked over at Hera and saw that she was still working on the pad in her hand. She's been working non stop for the last few days.
"Hera, you need to take a break. You've been working all day for some time now." He warned her with concern.
"I can't. I need to make sure things go smoothly." She waved off, never taking her eyes off the pad. Errol rolled his eyes and grabbed her by the shoulders, turning her to face him.
"Hera. At the rate you are working, your body won't function properly when we truly need you. You have to balance yourself and take a chance to relax yourself." He used his Jedi wisdom on her and it did seem to work since she knew that she'd tire herself and that would be bad if/when she'll be needed if something bad happens.
"In fact, I'm thinking it's time we had our first date." He then told her, making her a bit surprised, because of the fact that they never really had a date before and that he wants to go on one now.
"But Errol, what if we're needed and we're not there?" She asked with hesitance, not wanting to leave the ship.
"Don't worry, if we're needed, we can just drop the date and immediately go help and we can sort the date out for a later date." Errol argued rather well and Hera couldn't help but think he planned that reason.
"Alright, you won me over, love. Just let me clean up and we can go out on our first date." She finally caved in and kissed him on the cheek before walking into the Ghost, leaving Errol by himself who pumped his fist in victory. He didn't need to get changed as he was in black trousers, one of his white long sleeve shirts and a brown vest. He didn't have his saber with him, though he had his blasters strapped to his legs.
After a few minutes, Hera walked back out and with her regular attire straightened out, cleaned up and looked fresh. She of course had her blaster with her, just in case.
"You ready?" He asked, his hand out for her to grasp.
"Oh, yes, handsome." She replied sultry with her hips swaying and she grabbed his hand and they both walked out of the hangar.
The two walked around the city, making sure to avoid Imperial patrols and then they both managed to find a diner that Errol has been to before and said had some really good food.
They sat together by a table next to the window and they ordered some blue milk pancakes with syrup and ordered their milkshakes.
Once their food and drinks arrived, they started to eat and Errol decided to tell a story.
"You want to hear a story?" He asked Hera as she took a sip of her milkshake. She nodded as she was swallowing.
"Alright. When I was ten years old, I was really mischievous. One morning, I decided to play a prank on my parents. I was able to draw a moustache on my mom's face and write 'I LOVE ASS' on my dad's forehead without them waking up and I ever so waited patiently to see how they'd react to my prank. When they finally woke up, dad laughed at the apparent facial hair on mom and mom was confused why he laughed and why he was raunchy, expressing his love for butts. It was when they heard me screech with laughter that they knew it was a prank and they saw their reflection on the mirror." Errol said and Hera laughed so hard that she thought she was going to piss herself.
"How did they react to what you did?" She was curious.
"Mom found the fake facial hair funny and dad was a bit embarrassed so he grounded me for a week. But it was so worth it." He told her with a proud grin.
"It's so hard to believe you were a prankster." Hera commented, since she's known him to be loving, brave and selfless.
"My parents made sure that I had a fun childhood. So, do you have any funny stories?" Errol asked, taking a bite of his pancakes.
"There's one you might like. As you know, Chopper has quite the attitude, and you know for sure how he is with new crew members. So when we first got Zeb as part of our crew, Chopper thought he was some oaf and mocked him, shocking him with his prod and Zeb, being new to that, ran around the ship to avoid getting shocked." She told him and that of course made Errol laugh since the visual of Zeb getting chased around by some droid looked so funny.
The two then continued exchanging stories and talking about whatever for the next hour. But then Errol felt the urge to take a piss just as he finished his meal.
"I need to go to the toilet." He told Hera, who nodded in understanding as he got up and headed to the toilets. He then relieved himself and washed his hands. But then as he was about to get back to Hera, he heard something from the window he walked past. It sounded like struggling and so he looked through the window and saw a human male getting hassled by a group. There was a red skinned Devaronian, who seemed to be the leader with the rest being two large Trandoshians.
Errol can barely make out what is being said but he hears the Devaronian talk to who must be the owner of the diner about how they're here to collect their debts and that it would be a shame if his diner had an 'accident'. This made the owner quiver and Errol knew that he and Hera had to do something.
Errol bolted out of the toilet and ran to Hera, who just paid for their meal.
"Hera, the owner is being hassled by thugs. We have to help him." He whispered to her and she didn't need to ask as she got up and followed Errol to the alleyway behind the diner where they saw the owner still getting hassled.
"HEY!" Errol yelled out and that got the attention of the thugs, who stopped and looked at them.
"This is none of your business. Leave before you get hurt." The Devaronian told them and then they continued to beat up the owner. Errol and Hera looked at each other.
"You take the Devaronian, I'll take the Trandoshians?" Errol asked.
"Yep." She agreed and so they walked up to the thugs and Hera turned the Devaronian to her and punched him in the face while Errol jumped and kicked and punched the Trandoshians at once.
The two were able to fight against the thugs with relative ease since they were trained in hand to hand combat, while the thugs were just brawlers.
By the end of it, the thugs were all on the floor, with bruises all over their bodies and the couple stood in front of the owner, looking ready to fight again.
"Want some more?" Errol challenged them. The thugs looked at them and then at each other and proceeded to run away. Hera shook her head in amusement as they turned and helped the owner up.
"You alright, sir?" She asked once he got up on his feet.
"Yes. Thank you, both. But they'll be back. They always come back." The owner grimly told them.
"How long has this been going on for?" Errol asked.
"Ever since the Empire took over. I'm just trying to protect my children and my business, it's all I have left." The owner explained. The couple looked at each other, feeling bad for him as he's just providing for his family. But these thugs will remain a problem unless they do something.
"Where's their hideout? We'll make sure they won't bother you anymore." Errol told him, which shocked the owner but having seen how they handled themselves, they just might be able to take down the group of thugs.
So he told them where their hideout was, which was a former restaurant consisting of hallways to the various tables, drenched in blue lights.
"Let's sneak through and see what this place has to offer." Errol told Hera and she nodded in agreement and so they entered the hideout and quietly made their way through the place, avoiding the odd thug patrolling the hallways. There were some close calls but they weren't caught.
They went through a door and were surprised to find that they were in what must be the armoury as there were blasters lined up and what caught their eyes were some explosives.
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Hera asked Errol as she saw the smirk on his face.
"Yep. There are gas tanks and generators all over. We can place these on them and time them to explode, destroying their hideout." Errol detailed and with that, they grabbed some and split up to rig them up to the gas tanks and generators. They placed them on places where they won't get noticed and set timers off.
Errol had just finished placing an explosive on a gas tank near the bar when he felt a hand grab him by the shoulder and pull him back and he saw it was a Trandoshian.
"Crud." He cursed and he then kicked the thug in the groin, which made him let go and Errol then kneed his face and kicked his face, knocking the thug out.
"Hera, how's things on your end?" He asked his girlfriend over their comms.
"Just finished, let's get out of here before this place goes sky high." She replied.
"Roger that." He said and then he ran through the hideout and met up with Hera. They then made their way to the entrance but a lot of the thugs blocked their way. The Devaronian from before walked up and smirked triumphantly.
"We got you now. Time for you to learn not to mess with the wrong people." He told them as they all pulled their blasters out and aimed at Errol and Hera. The two looked at each other and nodded before Errol drawed his blasters out in a blur, taking down a couple of the thugs, starting a shootout with him and Hera getting into cover behind some pillars and they fired their blasters taking down some more of the thugs.
The Devaronian took cover as well as his fellow thugs were getting taken down. Deciding to fight back, he took his blaster out and aimed it at Hera's shoulder, and clipped it, making her hiss in pain and get back into cover.
Errol instantly got angry and he charged out, instantly shooting one of the thugs dead and threw him into another, who Errol shot as well, and then he grabbed the last thug and tackled him to the ground and slammed his head in multiple times until his face is smashed in and bloody. And he saved the Devaronian for last as he grabbed him and headbutted him.
"Hurt her again, I'll do much worse. Now you leave the diner owner and get out of the city, or else." Errol hissed at him and the Devaronian knew he wasn't joking so he nodded with a scared look on his face and ran for his life.
"Come on! The explosive will go off in 30 seconds!" Errol shouted to Hera and they both ran out of the place and just as they ran into an alleyway, the building exploded into a great fireball and many people crowded around it and murmured in confusion.
"Errol, what happened back there? Why did you get angry all of a sudden?" Hera questioned him as they walked away.
"Because that goon shot you, what did you expect?" He replied.
"But we tend to get shot at. This isn't something new. Errol, you have to control your anger better." She told him. Errol instantly felt guilty. He swore he'd control his anger better but it seemed that he can't.
"I know. I'm sorry." He said, looking away from her. Hera felt so bad for him as he wanted to be better than that. So she hugged him on the spot, a hug full of love.
"It's okay. I know you'll figure it out. " She told him and then they both continued walking, heading to the diner.
Once they made it there, they talked with the owner and told him that he won't have to deal with those thugs anymore and he was grateful to them. They then headed back to the Ghost and when they reached the docking bay, Errol stopped Hera and she faced him.
"Hera, I'm sorry that our date didn't go as planned, I was just hoping we'd have a moment all to ourselves without it being a mission and have a nice din-" Errol started to apologize but got interrupted when Hera silenced him with a kiss that lasted for ten seconds until she parted and smiled softly.
"Errol, it's fine. I enjoyed our meal and we managed to help someone in need while we spent time together. That sounds like a good day to me." She assured him as she wrapped her arms around his neck. That managed to bring a smile on Errol's face and he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Alright, you have a fair point. But I will make sure we have a proper date eventually." Errol replied and leaned in for another kiss when Hera's comlink beeped.
"Hera, the mission's gotten complicated." Ezra informed. Errol groaned at the interruption as they broke apart and Hera activated her comms.
"I thought you were keeping a low profile." She replied.
"Yeah, well, it just went high profile." He retorted.
The couple then waited for Ezra to show up and when he did, he explained what happened with Sabine meeting up with someone from her past named Ketsu Onyo and then a firefight with Stormtroopers and him getting shot off the ship Sabine flew in with the courier.
After a few hours, Sabine contacted them that she and Ketsu had handed the courier over and were heading back. After waiting for a bit, the three waited for them to arrive in a docking bay and then Ketsu's ship landed in front of them.
"So this is really happening? Eh, last time I saw these two, they were gonna shoot each other." Ezra said to the couple.
"Yeah, well, you were stealing from us when we first met you." Errol retorted. Ezra was about to fire back but he said nothing as he was right.
Sabine, Chopper and a third person who must be Ketsu walked up to them.
"Congratulations on a successful mission." Hera praised Sabine, who nodded with a smile. Errol then looked over to Ketsu.
"I guess we should thank you for helping our cause." Errol told her.
"Well, it was mostly an accident. I'm not sure I'm ready for a full on fight with the Empire just yet." Ketsu stated.
"No one ever is." Hera told her and then she and Errol walked away, back to the Ghost.
Errol walked into his and Hera's room and grabbed the communicator he uses to contact his family and called for his dad, who showed up on a hologram.
"Hey, son. What's up?" Dash asked upon seeing his son.
"I need your help with something." He told him.
"What's that?" Dash asked.
"I need you to teach me how to control my anger." Errol revealed, knowing his dad would help from his own experiences.