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Time-Line: 3 years, 9 months after Naboo,
Chapter 25: Don't you Wanna Ninja?
There are some things you only realize at three am. Some things that hit you with all the force of a freight train in the wee hours of the morning. "Ninja wire is awesome!" Rae yelped, jolting upright in her bed before yawning and flopping back down and falling asleep. The rest of the night, her dreams were filled with wire tricks and one too-detailed vision of her yanking Padme away from an exploding ship with wire.
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Rae's mind was still full of ninjas and wire and wire wielding ninjas in the morning. It was getting rather distracting, to be honest. "FINE! I'll find myself some friggin' ninja wire!" she finally snapped.
The swirling thoughts of ninjas and wire died down.
"Are you... ?"
"Just fine, Dex. Your burgers are about to start burning." Rae smirked at her boss' exclamations and mild flailing as he moved to save the nerfburgers on the grill. He was already curious about her special abilities, no need to add that the Force seems to enjoy 'talking' to her. Though... this was one of the more insistent instances.
(The fact it had nagged her into calling Jango Fett under the guise of Shiva twice already was studiously ignored.)
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Eric J'ones hadn't expected to see the strange human girl again. "Ah, welcome back. What can I do for you today, miss?" he asked with a cordial smile.
"Odd request, I know, but... do you by any chance carry wire?" the young woman asked.
"I think I have just the thing," Eric said, retreating to his store room. A great deal of shuffling and searching later, he emerged with two spools of high tensile wire and a wrist mounted launcher for it. As soon as the girl's eyes landed on the items she winced and her hand was pulling out her wallet.
"Yep. That's it. How much?" she asked.
"For the lot? Hundred and twenty credits." She stared at him, open mouthed.
"You're joking," she breathed, obviously shocked by her good fortune.
"Nope~! I make a decent profit without jacking my prices up. Two spools of wire and the launcher, a hundred and twenty credits," Eric told her.
"SOLD!" she cheered, slamming the credits on the counter and swiping the items off the counter. "I may be stopping by intermittently to buy more wire. Who knows how fast I'm going to go through this," she said as she walked out. Eric could have sworn she muttered something about pushy Forces and ninjas as the door swooshed shut. He shook his head and ordered more wire. Sooner or later, that woman would be back for more.
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A/N: Okay. Not as amusing as I wanted but... eh. She needed a push to get that wire. Because when is it not helpful to have ninja wire?
