"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

-Oscar Wilde

For almost 3 days, Grievous would knock on the door to his own room, protesting to Eve to open the door and let him. Occasionally his anger would get him to try to cut the door open with his lightsabers but he only found himself in the range of Eve's gun. He tried all the lovey stuff that was in the records but none of them worked. Sidious was especially impatient upon hearing that the General failed to acquire the blueprints to her weapon but not even Sidious' force abuse could hurt Grievous as much as Eve's words.

Every time he tried to apologize, explain what happened or make it up to her, she would always angrily yell out something towards him, mostly something that made him sound like a horrible monster. He could never look at his own face in the mirror from these comments, she called him a horrible lying and treacherous beast and he felt his metallic face reflected that. He couldn't take off the metallic face, which hurt him on an even deeper level. But he knew Eve was even more hurt than he was.

Yes, he engaged in a fake relationship with her all for the purpose of acquiring her weapon yet there were so many things that came up that he never intended to occur. First, he never intended that he would fall for her and he never intended to make love to her, okay well he figured that would be inevitable but he secretly dreaded that thought of doing so before. Yes, he admitted that a lot of the things he said were only to gain her trust and make her like him even more.

Although he was a master planner, even he had to admit, he had ruined his own original plan.

It was another day, all the droids were staying far away from the General who had never left his spot in front of the door to his own room for that amount of time; any messages from Lord Sidious had to be delivered to him personally. Eventually, on the fourth day, Sidious declared that the Eve probe was no longer Grievous main concern. He ordered that he get on a transport ship and head to a planet to have a discussion with the Separatist leaders who were lost without Dooku's leadership. Grievous made no arguments against his orders. He stood up but before he left, he tapped on the door to his room again.

"Eve…" he said calmly but with sadness in his voice.

"Leave me alone General…" she called out, sounding exhausted after crying for all those days.

"Eve, I know, I lied to you and I betrayed your trust but believe me, I- cough* cough* cough* I'm sorry. I truly and most honestly am."

"How do I know you're not just saying that just to make me come out? How can I believe anything you say anymore? You didn't JUST betray me Grievous, you hurt me…you've broken me…I can't trust anything you say to me anymore, just go away…"

"sigh* All right…if you want me to go away…cough* cough* cough* I will…" he put his forehead against the door for a moment and sighed again, he sadly turned and finally left the hallway a few droids that were standing guard were surprised to see him leave as he lumbered away.

Eve laid there in the bed, expecting that Grievous was just keeping quiet to make her come out but she didn't hear his wheezing or his coughing for all that time so she presumed he must have left. She sat up in the bed, brushed her arm against her screen as though she was wiping away tears.

"How could he do this to me?" she said quietly. She was very angry at him; no she was beyond angry at him. She recalled the time she had the chance to kill him and she desperately wished she did so instead of letting him live so he could ruin her like this.

Well, she was gonna have the last laugh in this.

She got off the bed and hovered to the door, she knocked on it, calling Grievous' name quietly.

No answer.

She opened the doors and peaked out.

No sign of him near the door.

She poked her head out and looked left and she looked right and she looked up (since she had learned before Grievous was known to pop out of nowhere by crawling on the ceiling).

He was nowhere in sight.

She silently hovered out and went to the hallway as she carefully looked out.

No droids and no Grievous. Well correction, there were some Super Battle Droids down the hall but they were looking another direction.

She silently and stealthily hovered out and went out through the battle ship to locate the room she wanted…

She dropped the arm of the Super Battle Droid as she carefully peaked out the room to see if anybody heard the commotion. Luckily, there wasn't a soul or any sign of a mechanical droid nearby. She poked her head back inside as she hovered up to the main computer she was looking for. She took a transfer cord she kept for times like this in case she found any information to transfer for a spare memory drive she kept in her storage. She pulled it out as she attached the cord to the computer and activated the computer. It took time but she managed to hack the server's memory as she read the Confederacy's plans for another wave attack on this planet called 'Kamino', the description said it was a cloning facility where the Republic got its soldiers to fight in the war. She was about to download this information onto the memory drive stick but before she could, the doors opened as three battle droids walked in, one tripped on the body of the Super Battle Droid and it fell over, causing the other two to fall on top of him in an amusing manner as they all began arguing amongst themselves. Eventually they all noticed Eve who had frozen still staring at them.

"Miss Probe?" spoke one of them; she recognized the voice and the droids already.

"You three again?" she said, indeed, it was the Droid Trio, OH, YA and RLY. They all got up as they saw the cord in the computer that she held the other end with one hand while the memory stick was held in her other hand.

"Uhm, what are you doing ma'am?" said YA.

"I- I'm downloading this information to give to the Republic…" she said, the droids gasped in unison.

"But- But that would cause us all to fall! You can't do this!" said RLY.

"I am! Grievous ruined my life! I- I thought I meant something to him but I was just another part of his plans!" she yelled at them.

"Rust! That's right! I almost forgot!" said OH as she turned YA around and yanked something out of his back container and he held in front of EVE but she pulled her gun out on them, causing them to panic and freeze.

"What is that?" she said, still keeping the gun on them.

"It- It was something the General said to give to you if you ever came out. We waited and waited but thought you would never come out!" chirped RLY.

"But then a couple of lovely fem-bots passed by and so we went after them-"YA began to speak but OH nudged him in a hard manner.

"Shut up! She doesn't need to know about that!" OH said.

"What? You guys just HAD to get it on, didn't you?" Eve said in a sort of disappointed but also sarcastic tone.

"Actually we got burned." RLY said.

"Big time." Said OH. Eve chuckled at this but she nonetheless kept her gun on them.

"Okay, but what is it?" she demanded.

"We think it's a holo-projector but we're not entirely certain." OH spoke.

"Why should I watch it? You three should just turn around, leave this room and let me do what I have to do." She said in a demanding tone.

"We can't miss probe…Grievous gave us STRICT orders to give us this to you." Said YA.

"If we tell him we didn't and that you didn't watch it, he'll tear us apart and melt us down until we're just the chair to his command ship and we don't want that." Said RLY.

"Yes, we like living." OH said. Eve's eyes widened a bit when OH said 'living'. She looked at the holo-projector in OH's hand and then back at the computer and then back at the holo-projector. She wanted to get revenge at Grievous for betraying her but she also wanted to know what was so damn important that he threatened these three medal-awarded droids for it. Eventually, some part of her deep down that she still felt for Grievous told her to at least spend 5 minutes looking at it.

She eventually turned her arm back to normal as she let go of the cord attached to computer and she hovered over to the relieved droids and took the holo-projector out of OH's hand. She hovered over to a flat part of the large machinery attached to computer, placed it down and activated it. Out popped a see-through blue Grievous that was no bigger than half of Eve's size as she backed away but she still kept a look of disgust looking at his holographic image.

"Hello Eve…By the time you hear this message…I'll probably be in deep Bantha droppings with Lord Sidious, but I had to make this. Eve...I know you're mad at me, ("humph, you're damn right Grievous.") but you have to at least hear me...yes, I admit, Dooku originally planned for me to befriend you into sharing both our personal secrets until you said how your gun worked...but...but I never forgot what you did for me on Ossacip...so I convinced Dooku that I would engage myself in a relationship with you so he wouldn't take you and interrogate you in his own ways." Eve's angry attitude began to die down as she slowly turned to look at the holo Grievous. "when you were around on my ship and I began to get closer to you...I confess, I let my harsh attitude slip away and I began falling for you...but Sidious wanted to take you away from me...I could not let him do that by any means...I actually planned to give him your gun information but you and I would run away together...I was ready to put my title behind for you...I was ready to give up Galactic domination...all for you Eve...that's how much you meant to me..."

"Grievous..." Eve said quietly as she moved closer to the holo-image of Grievous.

"I have also predicted that you would try to get your revenge on me by attempting to download false information and give it to the Republic. If you do so, the Republic would focus their forces while we would make an attack on an important planet in trading. You would have been deemed a traitor and they would have torn you to pieces. I hope you haven't already left by the time you've seen this." Eve looked away sheepishly that Grievous could predict her attempt but she also felt relief that she decided to stay. "but, that's not important. Since you are near the computer, if I have predicted correctly, type in 174AYO071. That, will be my farewell gift for you..." she did as Grievous said as her eyes widened when she looked upon the screen. There was mapping information she sought for from the very beginning of her misadventures in loving Grievous.

"Gr-Grievous?..." she said quietly in disbelief as she looked back at the holo-image.

"yes Eve...you are no longer my prisoner...take these routes, fly far, far away...go back home...if you still hate me, you can forget me for the rest of your life..." Holo-Grievous looked down as Eve hovered he face closer to hear what he was trying to say.

"Eve...I love you..." he finally said as Eve stared at the holo-Grievous, her mind replayed those three words she never heard Grievous ever say, even when they made love days ago. The holo-image disappeared as Eve laid her head on the counter and sobbed, her broken heart now ached for the one who broke it.

"wow..." said RLY finally after the message ended. Eve finally looked back up at the three aroids as a thought came into her mind.

"You three! You have to help me! You know something that could split the Confederacy apart! Help me and I won't kill you, got it?" she said aloud to the droids who jumped at her yelling.

"Yes ma'am!" they all said in unison as she tore the cord out of the computer, she attached it to a component on her chest as she gave the droids instructions what to do.

After a good hour and a half, Eve and the Droid Trio managed to download the blueprint schematics of her weapon's firepower capabilities into the holo-projector. During this, the droids asked her all the questions about her and Grievous and she answered each one to best of her abilities. Once she was finally done, she wrapped it up as a gift with a bow. She placed it in her compartment as she turned and looked back at OH, YA, and RLY.

"do you happen to know where Grievous is? I HAVE to give this to him..." YA and OH shook their heads but RLY eventually spoke out.

"How much importance is it just to give him what it was he wanted? You could just give it to us and when he comes back, we'll give it to him ourselves. You could still run away if you give it to us, we'll be sure that he gets it."

"No, I- I have to see him one last time and apologize...I have to...please! I implore you! Where is he? What planet was he sent to?" Eve said with a look of desperation, RLY looked at his two comrades who nodded for him to tell her as he said, "Utapau.