Sorry for the delay, but here's the next chapter! Yay, I finally made one longer! Please enjoy!
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After the bounty hunters woke up and ate, they went down to the throne room. Smart people didn't test a Hutt's patients levels. They entered the room, which was a lot calmer than the night crowd. Jabba looked up as they entered the room.
"What do you think he wants?" Latts whispered.
"To throw us in the rancor pit." Dengar said back to her, stifling a laugh.
"No, probably for another bounty." Sugi stated, shooting Dengar a glare for his sick humor. Embo just shrugged.
"I see you have finally aroused." Jabba said in Huttese (which all the bounty hunters understood). "For a while I though you weren't interested."
"We are." Embo stated.
"Good. I have a proposition for you all. I have been in need of some extra security recently. I though you four would be perfect." Jabba explained.
"Sounds easy enough." Dengar said.
"You will be paid weekly, depending on what you have done." Jabba continued.
"Sure." Sugi agreed. Latts gave her a wide-eyed what-did-you-just-do look.
"Then it's settled. Fortuna will take you to my private meeting room to discuss the details." Jabba ordered. All four bounty hunters bowed their heads, then followed Bib down the hall to the meeting room.
"What the heck?" Latts stage whispered to Sugi.
"Did you want to say no to an offer from Jabba the Hutt to see what would happen?" Sugi asked her.
"We'll be fine, doll." Dengar said to her.
"Don't you go 'doll'-ing me!" Latts stated, imitating Dengar's accent.
"Well, you don't have to be rude." Dengar defended.
"Just shut up you two." Embo stated to Latts and Dengar.
"Alright, here's the contract." Bib said, once they were all in the meeting room. He handed Sugi the piece of flimsi. She read over it. There was no small print that was visible, but knowing Hutts, Jabba probably slipped something in it. The others were reading over her shoulders.
"Now you all sign it." Bib said with a grin, holding out a writing stylus. Sugi looked at the other their approval. Embo and Dengar gave her a nod, while Latts' was more reluctant. Sugi then put the flimsi on the table and signed her name. Then Embo, Dengar, and Latts all signed their names after her.
"Thank you. You can start right away." Bib said.
"With what?" Latts asked.
"With patrolling around and guarding Jabba." Bib stated. Latts gave Sugi an angry look. She, in turn, gave Latts an apologetic look.
Latts strode down the halls accompanied by Dengar. She was trying not to loose it and completely flip out at him. He seemed to take enjoyment from annoying the crap out of her.
"So a Jawa walks into a bar and the bartender says, 'You want some ale?' and the Jawa says, 'No. a Martini.'" Dengar laughed, continuing his marathon of utterly stupid jokes.
"Oh I got a good one." Latts said.
"Yeah, what?"
"Shut up." She stated, annoyed.
"That wasn't a very nice thing to say to your bounty partner." Dengar stated, smirking.
"Well, I'm sorry if I'm a bit on edge, but I didn't exactly want this job." Latts said.
"Well, you did sign up for it." Dengar reminded her. "Oh, did you hear the one about the Rodian grave digger?"
Latts growled, realizing this was gonna be a long week.
"Why so eager to sign up for this job?" Embo asked his partner. They were standing off to the side in Jabba's throne room.
"I figured it would pay well. Latts seemed ticked though." She mused.
"We're bounty hunters, not security. Jabba could hire some thugs or more Gamorreans for that." Embo stated.
"Maybe they weren't solving the problem." Sugi shot back, with a smirk.
"Doesn't mean we can solve the problem." Embo stated.
"We can try." Sugi quipped. Embo shook his head slowly, taking out one of his knives ad wiping it down.
"Listen Sugi, we can easily get jobs that are far more interesting than this." Embo explained.
"We'll see how this goes first. Besides, it could be interesting." She responded.
"Then he says, 'I Think I would like the purple one instead.'" Dengar said, continuing his bad jokes marathon.
"OK, can you at least stop for a minute?" Latts asked, trying to be polite.
"Fine. So why don't you want this job?" He asked her.
"It is gonna be so boring." Latts stated.
"Is that it?" Dengar asked, astonished.
"Well, I'm a bounty hunter, not a security officer." Latts added.
"So do you think that guy who attacked you last night was a test?" Dengar asked. Latts though about it. Now that he mentioned it, it made perfect sense. Jabba sent a guy to try to break in to see how they would react, if at all. Then when the guy didn't come back, he sent Bib Fortuna to hire them for the job.
"That's a valid point." She mused.
"I make plenty of valid points, you just don't pay attention to them." He smirked.
"Oh I do." Latts said with a jokingly sarcastic tone.
"No. But you pay attention to stuff like this." Dengar said, throwing a punch at her. She instinctively ducked.
"Very funny." She smirked, knowing he had just been fooling around with her.
"Just keeping you on your game." Dengar said.
They walked on for several more minutes without talking. Soon they came to a corner and were about to round it when they heard something.
"If you won't tell me, then you are no longer useful to me." A gruff make voice growled. Then they heard the dying squeal of one of Jabba's Gamorrean guards. Latts looked to Dengar who already had his blaster drawn. Latts smirked and pulled out her own blaster mouthing 'This is where the fun begins.'
"I wonder how Latts and Dengar are doing." Sugi said.
"Probably bickering with each other." Embo laughed.
"It's getting late and nothing has happened yet." She stated.
"Don't complain. You signed us up for this gig." Embo reminded her, gesturing his knife in her direction.
"I'm not complaining. It's just strange." She explained.
"Whatever you say Sugi. Guarding isn't exactly my strongest point." Embo said, putting his knife back in its holder on his back.
"One thing's for certain." Sugi said, narrowing her eyes.
"What?" He asked.
"Bib Fortuna's getting a talk tonight."
Latts and Dengar ran around the corner to find a rugged looking man standing over the body of the Gamorrean. He was holding a knife in his hand and various weapons on his person. He was middle-aged but definitely older than Latts and Dengar. He had dark brown, matted hair and fairly weathered armor on his chest.
"Drop the knife Mr. Creep." Latts said. Had this been any other occasion, Dengar would have laughed.
"Heh, not on your life showgirl." The man said, using a Theelin stereotype. To anyone who didn't know Latts, she looked fine. To Dengar, he could tell she was offended.
"Put down the knife slowly and place you hands where we can see them." Dengar ordered.
"Whatever you say." The man smiled, showing off some gaps where teeth should have been. Suddenly he threw a smoke grenade down and ran down the hall. There had been only two exits, the one behind Latts and Dengar and one to the man's right. The bounty hunters knew where he had ran, so his smoke grenade had only really been a distraction.
"Now this is interesting!" Latts said to Dengar as they raced after the man.
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