Scut: Chapter 3
Over the next few months, as the school year drew to a close, Scut and Leniad's friendship had deepened. They were practically inseparable in the hallways as they idly chatted about new things in their lives. During this time, Krant and most of his True Victory friends were expelled from school for their anti-Yuuzhan Vong tirades, which almost always took place during classes. And while there were a few True Victory Bothans still attending the school, they were fairly quiet, kept their heads down, and did what they were told; clearly, they learned from the mistakes of their expelled compatriots in the True Victory Party.
By the end of the school year, Scut, Leniad, and most of their fellow students graduated from eighth grade, and they were headed for high school.
At the graduation party, Scut received embraces from his mother, father, and his adoptive siblings for the achievement of getting out of middle school. He also finally met up with Leniad amidst the crowd of people and managed to once again see his mother, Miss Lukra, and her partner, who was a female, green-skinned Twi'lek. Scut was mildly surprised at this, but he took the time to speak a few words with the Twi'lek, Miss Cerac, and shake hands with her. She was a pleasant woman, and she spoke briefly about how she raised Leniad with Miss Lukra.
"Hey, uh, Viull, can I speak to you privately for a few moments?" Leniad asked from behind Scut.
"Uh, sure," Scut replied after looking briefly behind himself at his best friend.
"Is it okay with you, Mom? Mom?" Leniad asked Miss Lukra and Miss Cerac in turn.
"I don't see why not," Miss Cerac said.
"Go right ahead, kid," Miss Lukra backed up.
"Great," Leniad replied before he took Scut's hand and steered him to the exit of the building.
Along the way, the two boys came alongside Scut's parents. "Hey, Mom, Dad, is it all right if I step outside with Leniad briefly?" Scut asked his mother and father.
"Sure," his mom said.
"Have fun," Mulus Cheems said.
With that, Scut and Leniad made it outside and stood alongside the wall adjacent to the doors.
"So, Leniad, what was it you wanted to talk to me about?" Scut asked.
Instead of answering verbally, Leniad simply grabbed both sides of Scut's face and pulled him in for a lingering kiss. When Leniad pulled back, both of them fell into an awkward silence.
"Okay," Scut said finally. "I guess that explains a lot."
After silence permeated the moment again, Leniad said, "Sorry."
"No, no, no, it's fine," Scut said with a grin. "I actually kind of enjoyed it." Then he pulled Leniad in for another kiss.
When that was done, he said, "Well, if that was your secret, boy howdie have I got one for you, Leniad."
"Oh, yeah? What's that?"
Scut then looked about him and Leniad. They were out in the open on a levelled platform on Coruscant, one of the most populated, if not the most populated, planets in the whole galaxy. Revealing his own secret to Leniad, right here, right now, would be a bad idea.
"Come with me to the refresher, and I'll show you," Scut said.
Leniad's eyes widened at what he thought Scut meant, but he didn't fight back as the disguised Yuuzhan Vong grabbed him by the wrist and led him back inside the building. Scut guided him into the boy's refresher, and Scut then locked him inside a stall so they could have some privacy.
Before Leniad could open his mouth to remark about their new circumstance, Scut didn't hesitate as he grabbed at the side of his nose and pinched. Soon, the ooglith masquer that hid his true features fell away to reveal what was truly underneath. Leniad stared back at this new visage with shock.
"You're... a... Yuuzhan... Vong?!" Leniad said, still in shock.
Scut nodded with a blank expression; he hoped he wasn't making a mistake doing this.
"I thought you were all supposed to be on Zonama Sekot," Leniad followed up.
"My dad adopted me during the war," Scut said. "We've been living with this secret ever since."
Leniad just stood in silence instead of replying.
"Leniad, I love you, so please tell me I didn't make a mistake doing this."
The human boy opened his mouth to reply.
44 ABY: Coruscant
Scut, with his neoglith masquer donned to protect his true features, took an airbus back to his apartment. He had said his farewells to his fellow Wraiths back at the diner where they had their celebratory meal for cracking the Stavin Thaal case. Now there was nothing to do but head home and enjoy the downtime that he could afford before Face Loran gave him and the other Wraiths a new job, which Scut no doubt figured would be soon.
The airbus stopped alongside a levelled platform that would lead into his apartment, and he and a few other beings stepped off to head back home. He joined them to the turbolift that would take them to certain levels of the complex, and by the time the turbolift reached his level, he was the very last one off. He strolled down the corridor before he reached his door. He unlocked it and headed inside. There, he took off his neoglith masquer.
And he received a surprise hug and a follow-up kiss from Leniad.
"Hey, Scut," the human said with a sensual smile. "Welcome home."
"You sure know how to make someone feel welcome," Scut replied.
Scut pulled his lover in for another kiss, and they kept that going even as they began tearing off each other's clothes on the way to the bedroom.
Later, after a couple of hours of amorous, orgasm-inducing activities on their bed, Scut and Leniad lay back on the mattress, blanket covering them, completely exhausted but satisfied.
"So how did the mission go?" Leniad eventually asked him.
"Well, we lost one of our own," Scut said in a somber tone, reflecting on Bhindi Drayson's death back on Vandor-3. "But we gained a few new friends along the way. And we succeeded at least. I even made a new friends who started out hating me. And you'll never believe who it was."
"Who was it?" Leniad asked.
"It was a member of the original Wraith Squadron," Scut said happily. "Voort saBinring, a.k.a. Piggy. He was one of the members who saved my dad. He really didn't like me at first because of who I was, you know, and quite frankly, I didn't like him, because he kind of let me down. But in the end, he turned out an okay guy. Other than that, I can't tell you anything more. Top secret and all."
"I'll settle for that," Leniad said before he kissed Scut. "Night, honey."
"Night," Scut said to his already-sleeping lover. With that, he, too, fell asleep, content with all that's happened in his life so far.