this is the chapter where we all say 'Soniee, you're drunk, go home!' let the flirting continue!

Soniee stepped out of the ladies' 'fresher, with the padawan costume now stuffed into the helmet she carried in her right hand. Her left hand smoothed down the new top and skirt that 1K0 had altered for her. They were a perfect fit. She was definitely going to have to do something nice for the droid. And although she was plenty covered up, the glances that she was getting from some of the bar's patrons made her aware that she looked pretty good in the new outfit. As she looked around however she didn't see the one person who's opinion mattered to her at the moment.

Plenty of them looked similar to him, some might even say identical, with a little variation on hair cut or color, tattoos, differently painted armor, or fatigues. She knew without even looking, though, that none of them was Fox. Funny that she had spent so little time with him and already his force signature felt so familiar.

It was loud in the bar, exactly the kind of loud she needed right now. The music and the voices and the chink of glasses and bottles numbed her mind to the thoughts and feelings. Still she wished she could find him or that he would find her.

She crossed to the bar and climbed up onto a stool. From there she hoped that she could see over the top of some of the heads and she supposed she could go ahead and get a drink. That was why she was here, right? She set her helmet on the counter and it made a dull clunk.

It drew the attention of the bartender who made his way to her with a low whistle, "Kandosii buy'ce!"

"Gar jorhaa'ir Mando'a?" she asked happily.

He was a clone like the others but his bald head was almost completely covered in tattoos. "Elek, I speak a lot of things. What'll you have?"

"I really don't know." Soniee shrugged helplessly.

"Hmm." He put a small glass on the bar in front of her and then reached back for a bottle and filled the glass almost to the brim. "We'll start you off with this." He didn't seem at all concerned with her age. But then she supposed that if the clones' growth were accelerated most of his customers might be younger than she was. He might even be.

She looked uncertainly at the gold colored liquid in the glass and then hesitantly lifted it and took a small sip. She made a face and the bartender laughed but not unkindly.

"No, no." He said and he mimed drinking from an invisible cup. "You got to swallow the whole thing in one go."

"'Lek?" yeah? she asked and he nodded with a grin. Soniee shrugged, "K'oyacyi!" and then downed the contents of the glass. It burned going down her throat but then she immediately began to feel a warm, pleasant tingling in all her joints. "Kan-" she coughed once as she set down the glass. "Kandosii!"

"Soniee?"

She turned on the barstool at the sound of her name.

Fox looked her up and down taking in the new outfit and her cheeks flushed with the alcohol. "Almost didn't recognize my Mando-girl," he grinned and took the stool next to her.

"Ner al'verde, mar'e!" She glanced at the bartender knowing that he understood her even if Fox didn't. He winked.

They had gathered a bit of an audience but Fox didn't seem to care. "Talk Mando'a to me, baby."

He was distracted a moment by someone calling his name and Soniee said to the barkeep, "Ori'pakod!" Too easy!

"Oya!" he grinned.

When Fox turned back to her she gave him what he asked for, "Ori'buyce, kih'kovid." All helmet, no head. "Jate verd ori'shya beskar'gam."Good thing a warrior is more than his armor. She ran a finger down the center of his chest plate as she said it and raised her eyebrows suggestively.

The bartender laughed aloud.

Fox started to look a little concerned but then Soniee caressed his face as she crooned, "Gar mirsh solus." Your brain cells are lonely . Then she ran her fingers through his short hair "Mir'osik." Dung for brains.

"Hey!" he growled mock angrily and grabbed her hand. "I know that word." but he was smiling knowing that she was teasing him.

Soniee giggled.

"One sure way to get her to shut up!" Someone yelled.

She was halfway through telling him Don't mess with Mandolorians ! " Ke nu'jurkadir sha Mando -" When he took the advice and kissed her. The crowd cheered.

Soniee stiffened for a moment in shock but then as if she had drunk another shot of whatever it was that was in that glass a warm feeling rushed through her and she melted into the kiss.

When they broke apart she was breathless. "Dance... we should." She put a hand to her forehead and laughed. "Now I sound like Master Yoda."

"Come on." Fox grinned and led her to the dance floor.

The music wasn't really like anything she had ever danced to before and when she looked at the other couples they seemed to be mostly grinding against one another. She blushed as Fox took her in his arms and they began to sway, not knowing how far she could or wanted to let this go.

"You're really going to have to teach me some Mando'a so I don't make a fool of myself again," he said close to her ear so she could hear him over the music.

"Well you seem to know osik already." She smirked at him.

"I also know mesh'la." He twirled her away from him and then back into his arms.

"Thank you." She smiled, taking it as the complement she knew it to be.

"And I know..." his hand slid down her back and grabbed her ass, "shebs."

She gave a little jump and a squeak and he chuckled.

"That's... correct." she told him.

Then he put his hands on her hips and thrust his own against her. "And... krif..."

She gasped. "That is the basic idea." she tried to breathe normally. "Do you know what it is that I call you?"

"Ner al'verde?" he remembered.

"Yeah."

He frowned, thinking while he continued to sway with her to the music. "Ner is 'my' like, ner vod, my brother."

She knew he liked the fact that she called him 'my' anything. "That's right."

"And al'verde?" he asked.

She smiled. "Commander."

He laughed, having had no idea it was so obvious. "Well at least we've got the chain of command down, right?"

"Fox?" She sobered a little and she could tell he was listening intently to what she would say next. "You know I would never dream of ordering you to do anything but... if I asked you to slow down or... or to stop..."

He let go of her so suddenly that she almost lost her balance and held up his hands as if in surrender. "I would never force you to do anything, Soniee."

And she knew it was true. He would do anything to protect her and he wouldn't ask for anything in return. She was just moving back to take up where they left off in the dance when another arm reached out and twirled her around.

"Cutting in!" said one of Fox's brothers. It was one of the troopers from the firing range she was sure, maybe the one who had let her borrow the bowcaster. She looked back at Fox and shrugged helplessly as she was led away.

And after that it was a whorl of dancing and drinks and more drinks and dancing. She thought she might have danced with one of the Twi-lek girls once and she had the vague recollection of trying on pieces of someone's armor, but she always seemed to end up back in Fox's arms. It was during one of these times when she looked up into his eyes and growled lustily, "Commander Fox, take me to bed or lose me forever." She giggled. "Heard that in a holo, always wanted to say it."

He gazed at her making her heart beat faster. "Yes, but do you mean it?"

"I - I don't know. Do I?"

Soniee and Lagos watched 'Top Gun' like a thousand times. haha
aaaaand you're gonna have to wait to find out what happens *maniacal laugh*