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i can't tell you how many times i watched the episode Lawless to try to get the sequence of events right for these chapters. i've written in Lagos as one of the Night Owls who was with Bo-Katan when she sees the Twilight arrive.

It was funny how Soniee felt safe here, under 2 tons of metal with a questionable repulsor lift. She had spent the rest of the morning with Korkie and then convinced him after the mid-day meal that they really should be doing something beneficial to the cause. They hadn't heard anything back yet from the small group Bo-Katan had led to watch the space docks.

Soniee had taken it upon herself to make sure that any transports that they needed would be ready when the time came. She started with the two swoops, both of which were now purring like Loth kittens. Then she had turned her attention to the speeder which had been damaged in the escape attempt. It had been towed back here to the garage and was proving to be more of a challenge.

It was a challenge she welcomed, however. Along with the music thrumming in her headphones, the job was a great distraction. She tipped down her faithful old visor on which she had pulled up the speeder's schematics, and then took another look at the machine's innards. It was not such a distraction that she didn't notice the footsteps of someone entering the garage. She smiled at Korkie's quiet approach but pretended not to notice and kept working.

Once he found her, or rather her legs which were the only part of her not buried under the speeder, he just sat on the ground and watched for a while. She liked this, working, listening to her songs, and having him close to her. One of her feet tapped in time to the rhythm of the music but this must have been too great a temptation to him.

His hand reached out to caress the calf of her left leg. She stopped tapping, her toes curling slightly inside her boot and she turned down her music. Inching slowly higher, his fingers traced lazy patterns through the fabric of her coveralls up to her knee.

"Korkie," she tried to admonish him but it came out has half a gasp so he just chuckled.

"I was getting bored, thought I'd come and find you."

She slid out from under the speeder but stayed laying on her back looking up at him. "I got the bikes tuned up and I'm almost done here."

"Glad one of us had something to do to keep busy. I've just been thinking."

"Oh, that could be dangerous," Soniee teased. "What were you thinking about?"

"Well." He took a deep breath and looked more serious than she had expected. "My dad is on his way to rescue my mother. And we've already been reunited with my aunt. It seems like maybe we might get to be like a real family."

Soniee bit her lip. She wasn't sure if that would ever be possible. There were secrets that had been kept so long. And they still had powerful enemies...

"I just," he continued. "I want you to be part of that, Soniee." He took her hand in his.

"Of course, we'll be..."

He looked directly, intensely into her eyes, making her forget what she was going to say. "Marry me."

"What?" She sat up quickly unbalancing the repulsor cart and plopping down on the hard floor next to him. "Wait. What are you saying?"

"I'm saying." he cleared his throat and as he continued he became more confident. "That I love you and you love me." He smiled charmingly. "And I don't want to make the same mistakes my parent's made."

"No?" she squeaked, getting up to her feet. "I'm sure we'll make far stupider ones."

He stood also and placed his hands on her shoulders. "You remember the looks on their faces from that old holo when they had to be separated from each other. And they've spent all these years lonely and apart. I don't want that to be us."

Of course she remembered that holo. She remembered wondering if a boy would ever look at her like... well like Korkie was looking at her now. "Korkie, I'm not going anywhere. I - but - married? We haven't even graduated."

"Who knows if we ever will, with the Academy being closed."

"I'm not even sure if we could legally. We're not old enough. We'd have to get Clan Ordo's permission and..."

He grinned at her.

"What?" she asked.

"If you're calculating the logistics, you're considering the possibility."

Soniee sighed and tried to look anywhere but at his face. Growing up as orphans, the idea of having a real family had always excited both of them.

"Now what are you thinking about?" Korkie asked her.

"I." She reached out and touched his throat gently. "I'm remembering the time Prime Minister Almec put a shock collar around your neck to try to get your mother to sign a confession."

He took her hand in his and kissed her palm.

"There's a reason that your mother hid you away." She continued. "She knew your connection to her put you in danger. If we..." She swallowed. "If our enemies knew... They could use us against each other."

Korkie put a finger to her lips. "I would never let anything happen to you."

Soniee closed her eyes, remembering the lengths she had gone to just the day before when she thought his life was in danger. Even at the thought of it, the air seemed to crackle with electricity around them. She could feel that dark energy pulsing in her veins. Then he was kissing her and she was passionately kissing him back with a surge of fear at the thought of losing him.

Then there was a sound of Jetpacks approaching and Soniee realized just in time who it was before she broke away from the kiss and blasted them out of the sky. She was panting and trembling with the pent up energy when Bo and Lagos and the other Night Owl landed a few meters away.

"Looks like they're still at it." Lagos removed her helmet. "Thought you two would have gotten at least some of it out of your system before we got back."

Soniee couldn't speak. She stepped a few paces away and tried to calm the roaring inside of herself. Korkie turned to follow her, worried, but she waved him away. Instead he looked at Bo-Katan and asked, "Is he here? Did he get the message?"

She took off her helmet and nodded. "Don't know what he was thinking about coming in that ship but, yeah he's here."

It must have been her imagination, Soniee thought as she kept her back to the others and watched her own hands. Sparks seemed to be dancing between her fingertips. She tried to keep her voice level as she asked, "What's wrong with his ship?"

"What's not wrong with it would be a much shorter list." Lagos chuckled darkly.

Bo-Katan agreed, "It's amazing he made it here from Coruscant in the thing."

"But he did. He's here. You're sure it was him?" Korkie asked excitedly.

"It was Kenobi alright. He knocked out one of those Shadow Collective idiots and stole his armor. He'll probably have an easier time getting up to Satine's cell than we did."

Soniee took another deep breath calming breath and then turned to face the others. She kept her hands behind her back. "What about the ship though? Do you think he has an exit strategy?"

Bo nodded at her. "I'd like to have one of our Kom'rk-class fighters ready to go in case they need a fast way offworld."

Hopeful that her hands were no longer sparking, Soniee stepped back into the circle and took Korkie's hand in hers. "Sounds like a way I could make myself useful?"

"Exactly what I was thinking." Bo-Katan clapped her on the shoulder. "And we should head out to the hanger fairly soon."

"Alright, I just need to tighten a few bolts on the speeder here and then I'll be ready to go."

Korkie followed her back toward her project while Bo and Lagos headed into the Academy building. "Now I just wish I could find a way to be useful," he mumbled.

"You're useful to me." Soniee kissed him on the cheek before she lowered herself back down to the hovercart and slid under the speeder.

He shook his head. "Well that's something I suppose." His hand resumed massaging her calf. "I'll miss you though."

Soniee laughed. "I'm just going to get the ship ready. They probably won't even need it. It's not like I'm going off world or anything."

"Just promise me you'll be thinking about what I said."

She slid out from under the speeder once more so she could smile at him. "Of course I will."