Get it? cause they're waiting for Obi-wan to show up in the Twilight? har har
Building up to the tragedy we all know is coming :(

It didn't make much sense for Korkie to be taken to the Academy's Med center. There was no matron working there anymore, the cots were small, and Soniee who refused to leave his side till he woke, would have had to sit up in one of the uncomfortable visitor chairs. She convinced the Night Owls that it would be better just to bring him to her/their room and lay him in her bed.

The Med center then became the morgue. The bodies of Amis and the two other warriors who had lost their lives in the battle on their side of the fighting were laid out and prepared to be sent home honorably to their clans. Soniee could hear the sound of chanting. It was a song for fallen comrades and she knew the words. Every child raised in a Mandalorian home knew the songs sung to honor the dead.

Soniee didn't feel very Mandalorian at the moment though. She didn't know what she was. As she pulled off her wrist guards and headband and boots, she thought back to the hanger when the Night Owls who came after the battle was over, saw her handiwork. They looked at the crumpled body of the Deathwatch soldier... no not deathwatch, Bo-Katan had corrected her. They weren't Deathwatch anymore but Shadow Collective, with their armor painted in the red and black of the Zabrak Sith, some of them had even adopted his horns on their helmets.

"You're telling me an explosion did this?" one of the Night Owls asked Bo, looking at the unnaturally twisted corpse that Soniee had force thrown against the wall.

"Yes," she had answered them simply and then she had handed Soniee her fallen blaster and told her to get on the swoop and fly back to the Academy, covering the transport that held Korkie.

He was still alive, only unconscious. Soniee checked the bacta patch on his temple that was swiftly repairing the damage from the blow to his head. Then she climbed into the bed beside him, still fully dressed in her armor plated jumpsuit.

She told herself that she would only close her eyes for a moment, that she would stay awake until she knew he was well and she could tell him what happened, but it was probably a couple of hours later when she sensed him stirring and she too woke from a deep sleep.

"Soniee," Korkie breathed her name groggily and reached out her. "What happened?"

For a moment she couldn't answer she was just so glad to hear his voice and feel his arms around her. "Your mother," She began. "She was able to get the message out, we think."

"That's wonderful," he said waking up a little more. "Well then where..."

"They recaptured her." She answered quickly.

"We broke her out of prison once and now that the Jedi know, surely they'll be on their way here."

Soniee nodded. She didn't tell him about Bo-Katan's theory that Maul allowed Satine to contact the Jedi so that he could bait Kenobi. There were tears on her cheeks, however.

"What is it?" Korkie asked, his voice full of concern. "Did something go wrong?"

"It - it's Amis. He..." She swallowed back a sob and tried to finish. "He's..."

Korkie pulled her into a tight hug. "Oh no. No."

She cried silently into his chest for a long while until he tipped her head up and began to kiss away her tears. When his lips finally found hers she could taste the salt. From there, the kisses only became more urgent, more desperate, and then she heard him as clearly as if he had said the words aloud, but he couldn't have because his lips were too busy stringing a line of kisses along her jaw. 'I want to make love to you...'

That word 'want' felt an awful lot like 'need', because she felt it too, the need to feel alive after so much death, the need to feel that there was still light in her after she had called on the darkness. So she whispered in his ear, "Alright."

He didn't question the fact that she had answered his unspoken request. He only pushed her back far enough to look into her eyes and repeated, "Alright? You mean you want to?"

Soniee nodded. "Just ... give me a moment?"

"Of course, whatever you need." He let her go reluctantly and she slipped out of the bed.

She backed away slowly with a nervous smile playing around the corners of her mouth, as if she didn't want to take her eyes off him. When she bumped into the 'fresher door she sighed and said, "I won't be long."

She slipped inside the little room and closed the door behind her only then realizing that she was trembling. She took a deep breath to calm herself but then she was hit with a wave of emotion from Korkie. He wanted her yes but he worried that this was the wrong time or that he was pushing her into something she wasn't truly ready for. She wanted to reassure him.

Soniee closed her eyes for a moment and when she opened them again she looked at herself in the full length mirror on the back of the 'fresher door. She willed him to see what she was seeing and then she began to undress. She wasn't sure if it would work, if she could actually project her thoughts to him. She removed the armored pieces that covered her chest and belly and back and then with a tremor of nervous shyness began to peal off the skin tight body glove that she had been wearing underneath.

"Krif." She heard his muffled swear from the main room, and then she heard a scuffling that was sure meant that he was also hurrying to remove his clothing before she returned.

Her confidence bolstered, not only by the fact that her little mind trick had worked but also by his reaction to it, Soniee smiled and continued her mental strip tease. That is until she heard a loud 'thump' and peeked her head out the door to see what had happened.

In his hurry to get out of his own jumpsuit, Korkie had fallen out of the bed and onto the floor.

"Are you alright?" She smiled at him.

"I think I'm about to be a whole lot better."

"Not long now." Soniee gave his bared chest an appraising glance before she shut the door again. She didn't bother with the mind trick now she was in too big of a hurry and she knew soon enough he would see the real thing. That thought made her a little shy again so after she was completely undressed, as an afterthought she grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her body. Then just before she opened the door she remembered that box in the med cabinet. How could she forget? She blushed when she remembered all of the other boxes Lagos and Amis had supplied them with. She grabbed one of the strips out of the box and applied it to her upper arm.

Soniee was sure that had it not been for the Force surrounding and connecting them, her first time would not have been nearly so pleasant. They were both awkward and clumsy in their inexperience.

After it was over however, he held her close and whispered sleepily against her hair, "I love you, Soniee Ordo."

She had been wondering who she was. She was loved by Korkie Kryze and for tonight that was enough.

Soniee's eyes snapped open. Someone was coming. She glanced over at Korkie who still seemed to be sleeping but as soon as she started to get up she could hear his thoughts whispering to her to stay in bed with him.

"Bo and Lagos are coming." She stood and began to look for something she could throw on quickly to wear. She found a pair of his pajamas and began to pull the top on over hear head. She emerged blushing, having witnessed a stream of images and feelings from his mind; a selection of things he would like to do to and for her if she would only lock the door and ignore the interruption.

"Korkie!" She threw the matching pajama pants at him. "I wish you wouldn't think quite so loud."

He gave a satisfied laugh that he had managed to have that effect on her. "Do you really?"

"When I need to have a serious discussion with your aunt, yes." She marched to the door trying to compose herself and opened it a second before Lagos arrived with Bo-Katan a few paces behind her.

Lagos looked slightly startled but then glanced over the state of her friend and gave her a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes.

"Are you alright?" Soniee asked her seriously.

"I will be." Lagos nodded. "At least I've got something to do about it." She gestured to her new Night Owl uniform and showed off her new helmet. "What about you?" The blond raised an eyebrow at her friend's attire or lack there of. "Please tell me you remembered..."

Soniee raised her sleeve to reveal the patch that was still adhered to her skin.

"Well I should hope so, considering you've got every box in the Academy in there."

A flash of her last conversation with Amis, came to Soniee's mind. She wondered if that meant...

Bo-Katan joined them then, "I guess he's awake, and you told him about..."

"I told him that the Duchess was able to send her message and that she was recaptured." She glanced back into the room and lowered her voice. "I didn't say anything about Maul using her as bait or about what - I did." Then her eyes grew wide and she blushed. "Korkie! Please!" She called back over her shoulder.

"He didn't say anything." Bo-Katan raised an eyebrow.

"He was," Soniee swallowed. "Thinking."

They heard his laugh come from within the room.

Lagos frowned. "You can't read everyone's thoughts like that, can you?"

"No. Feelings sometimes but Korkie is different. I think it might be because his dad is a..." Soniee glanced at Bo-Katan who seemed to be studying her.

"This is exactly why I think the two of you should sit out our next mission." The Night Owl leader informed her. "Lagos has been telling me about when you all tangled with Almec. If he used Korkie against the Duchess before I'm sure he wouldn't hesitate to do it again. And," She frowned. "As much as I wouldn't mind having a force user on our side, you're too unpredictable at this point to be of any good to us."

Soniee nodded. She knew it was the truth. She didn't even trust herself. She whispered, "Please don't tell Korkie that's why..."

He walked up behind her then, clad in the matching bottoms to her top, and wrapped his arms around her. "Talking about me?"

Bo-Katan gave Soniee an almost imperceptible wink. "Just lamenting your timing, nephew. I can't take my best pilot on our next mission because somebody popped her cherry and now she can't sit astride a speederbike."

Lagos burst out laughing and Soniee blushed crimson. Well, that was one excuse.

Korkie hugged her tighter, protectively. "You don't have to be crass about it! What we've done was..."

"Please, spare me." Bo-Katan rolled her eyes. "You were supposed to be recovering from a concussion."

"What is this mission?" He asked, changing the subject.

"Bo thinks Kenobi might show up soon." Lagos was still smiling. "We're going to watch the space port and see if any unfamiliar ships come in."

"But surely that wouldn't be too strenuous." Korkie complained.

"You two are staying here," Bo-Katan said it as if it were final.

Lagos patted Soniee on her arm where the patch hidden under her sleeve. "Besides this thing should be good for what, another 18 hours or so?"

Korkie broke into a grin.

"Ugg," Bo-Katan turned and strode off down the hall. "Don't give them any ideas."

"Have fun!" Lagos skipped off after her new leader, ready to prove herself.