I wave at the camera, saying, "Hi, you're watching 'Question Corner' and I'm your host, Kale." while wearing a green, wooly sweater, I approach the middle of the stage and continue, "Today is possibly our last day for 'Question Corner' until next year, but you never know." I winked, "We thank you guys for giving us your Christmas hat ideas and sharing with us your special family traditions. They were incredible, I loved each and every one of them. And now, for our good old friend Jesse!"

I point to the side of the stage where a man in blue, highlighted armor walks on stage. He gives the crowd a kind wave and a warm smile before we meet halfway and I shake his hand. I end up slipping up by not matching his strength with my own, because of Senator Chuchi's light grip, and now my hand hurts. I wanted to yelp, but reframed from doing so and just squeaked for him to take a seat.

"Thank you for coming on 'Question Corner' again, Jesse." I say, fingering the rim of my soft sweater.

Jesse laid his ankle on his knee as he briskly nodding, "Well, I didn't get any high adventures like the others, so I'm determined to go back to base with some kind of hard-core tale to tell."

I chuckled at his remark, replying, "Um, I don't know, Jesse. You're so well loved," I look at the audience and ask, "Does anyone have a grenade to throw today?" the crowd, almost in sync, shake their heads and a tiny girl stands up and asks, "Would he like us to, Miss Kale?"

Everyone breaks out laughing and I say to Jesse, "I'm sorry, but really, it's your own fault for being so loveable."

"It must be." He laughed, leaning his head against his hand.

I grab the deck of cards with the name 'Question Corner' branded on the back and say, "Well, let me tell you now, this is going to be a very interesting show tonight."

"How so?"

"My cat broke my mirror in the bathroom before I came on set today and I think that can only mean bad luck for me, huh?"

He replied, "Either that, or you'll come home to a dead cat," and the audience chuckled.

"Well, then it's a good thing for my cat Molly that I don't believe in any of that." I laughed, when suddenly, one of the sand bags above comes crashing down and lands a mere five feet from my chair. After I was threw with being scared half to death, I leaned back in my chair to get a good look back stage before yelling, "Greg! John!" the two guys stood there snickering, but walked away twinkling their fingers like magic.

"Uh," I rolled my eyes, "I thought Greg was suppose to do his job and protect me, not throw a bag of sand on my head." I have a sudden idea and look at wide-eyed Jesse, "Hey, would you and another one of your brothers like a job?"

He shakes his head and laughs, "No, I think we're good."

"Ah, worth a shot. I'll just have to get payback from them some other way." I turn around in my chair and pull our Jesse's Christmas hat as I explain, "you see, all our viewers gave such good hat suggestions that we couldn't just pick one, so we had an idea." I give Jesse elf ears and then call a certain group of my crew in, "If Ashley, Mini, Greg, and John would come on stage, please, that would be great."

There's a long silence and a couple of awkward moments, but eventually they all come on stage and stand around me looking quite puzzled. I grab four hats and hand them each other to their rightful individual.

Ashley got a top hat, I get a fez hat, Mini got a Santa hat, Greg got a multicolored Christmas lit dome, and John got the bunny ears which made Jesse feel a little better about his hat. Both the men groaned in despair since I forced them to wear the hats. But, John kind of got left off the hook a little since Mini really wanted to wear the bunny ears and traded him her hat for his, and meanwhile, Greg still looked like a miserable lit up Christmas dome.

The crowd giggled at the two men and as they all walked off stage, while Mini and Ashley waved goodbye and said their thanks for the hats. "Okay, okay, I adore multitasking! The girls got new hats to wear on set and I get revenge on the guys ," I lean towards Jesse as I place on my fez hat, "This is off to a pretty good start, so are you ready to start with a couple of questions?"

"Go ahead," Jesse chuckled, fiddling with his elf ears.

"Great," I pick up the first card, "Oh, but before I begin, 'AaylaKitofNiflheim' has no questions to ask this week so she's decided to stay in the audience and teach people how to prepare for the apocalypse," I wave to the one girl in the crowd who's wearing another fez hat, holding onto Thor's hammer, and has the One Ring from Lord of the Rings at the end of her necklace. She eagerly smiles and waves back to me.

"Thank you for teaching us safety, AaylaKitofNiflheim," I laughed, and upon looking over I see Jesse's almost toppled over at the sight, along with everyone else in the crowd. AaylakitNiflheim smirks; knowing that her job is officially accomplished.

"Okay, okay." I shake my head, "Now, onto the questions. 'JediChick101' asks, 'What do you think of Ahsoka Tano?"

He ponders for a moment, "I have to say, she's become an excellent leader." There's a long pause and upon seeing me stare blankly at him, he adds, "I've never actually spoken with the Commander personally, but I respect her battle strategies."

"Alright, then," I turn to another card, "From 'Celtice and Dukakis 2016', 'How long were you trained before you got to go into battle?"

"About ten years," He answered, "and givin' the best flash training out there, too."

"It shows," I muse.

Jesse chuckles, "I'm not that old, Miss Kale." the audience laughs and I feel the need to explain, "Well, I mean your skills and all."

"Yeah, sure." He winks to the crowd.

I glare, "Anyway, from 'captainrexbest35', 'Would you have kicked Krell if you could?"

He waved off the question, "Oh, of course. We all would of, actually. Just hand-cuff him to a post and spend time punching him and kicking him," He throws punches into the air, "That would be some Christmas cheer right there." he stops for a moment and looks up at me, "What is Christmas cheer, anyway? I mean, I get cheer, but what's your Christmas cheer?"

"That reminds me." I grabbed a separate deck of green cards and added, "We asked the audience what their favorite Christmas traditions were and, so, we thought we'd read them to you."

Jesse agrees and leans forward to listen.

I clear my to say "weathergirl17248 says her favorite Christmas tradition is going to her grandpa's house, from her mother's side, on Christmas Eve. She gets to see all 21 of her cousins, and everyone's under the age of 20, so there is lot of people her age to hang out with."

"Hey," Jesse laughed, "We have a lot in common then, I've got a lot of brothers my age, too." the crowd chuckles.

I then read, "AngelAxexinf says her favorite way is spending the day in her pajamas and eating candy."

"Relaxing," Jesse nodded.

"captainrexbest35 says her favorite Christmas traditions are exchanging of gifts, having Christmas dinner, or even just playing domino's with her family."

"Sounds fun,"

I add, "It does," and go to another card, "Celtice and Dukakis 2016 says his Christmas is going to his Grandma's house and eating a turkey, with stuffing and mash potatoes and also opening presents."

Jesse shrugged, "Food can be fun."

"Very. Now, AaylaKitofNiflheim says her favorite is opening Christmas crackers. You know, those thinks that you pop at Christmas time and they contain paper crowns and small gifts." I look up from the card and say, "I love that part too, except when you get the horrible gift and you're scrambling to trade it with someone." Jesse and I chuckled.

"ahsoktano191 likes going to the beach or having Christmas lunch and dinner." I lay the card on the coffee table and comment, "The beach is great,"

Jesse says in mid-thought, "I believe I was in a battle on a beach once." and the crowd goes quiet for a long and then starts laughing.

"Okay," I chuckled, "Gamergirl052 says she loves it when every year on Christmas day, her entire family-aunts,
uncles, cousins, grandparents EVERYONE-goes over to her grandparent's house to have brunch and open presents."

"That's nice,"

"And our last Christmas tradition is from Sithlord8665 and they say their favorite is just having a great time at each family's house and opening presents." I bobbed my head, confident as I placed the last card back on the table, "Well, I've determined everyone's going to have a pretty good time, this coming Christmas. You guys are excellent, thank you!"

"That was great," Jesse nodded, "I liked it."

"Now, we'll ask a few more questions and then move onto the presents."

He raised his brow, "Presents?"

I sheepishly smiled, and instantly grabbed my original deck of 'Question Corner' cards to read, "Ahsokatano191' asks, 'Do you think the Republic is corrupted?"

He leaned back into his chair and shook his head, "No, and I don't know why everyone keeps saying that."

"Alright, alright," I sighed as well, "Forget the question. From 'weathergirl17248', 'What was it like to fly the Umbaran ships?"

"Great!" Jesse exclaimed, "I loved being in those things, and those Umbarans didn't even know what hit them."

"They looked fun," I commented.

"Captainrexbest35', 'How did you feel when Hardcase died? Because when I heard I was so sad I was crying and hugging this stuffed doll of Hardcase I have."

"I was...sad. It's hard when you lose a brother like Hardcase, but the only thing I can think of is how ironic it all is."

"What do you mean?"

"Hardcase loved killing droids, he lived and breathed battle, so leave it to Hardcase to die and take millions of battle droids with him."

"Then, there's no denying it; he died happy." I sighed, fingering the edge of the card between my fingers, "Alright, next question is from 'Celtice and Dukakis 2016', 'How many Clones are sent to a particular battle?"

"I don't know," He shrugged, "Couple thousand, usually."

I went to another card, "From 'captainrexbest35', 'Who's your best friend?"

"Um..." He scratched the back of his neck, "I don't know. Fives and I got to know each other pretty well after the execution incident, so Fives? I don't know, we've always determined that we're equals when we call each other brothers, so best friends is a little new to me."

"Ah, that's understandable." I wave him off, "Now, for the presents," I set the cards down and look to the audience, "Will, JediChick101, weathergirl17248, and captainrexbest35 come on stage, please?" Four girls stand and come down stage, the rest of the audience cheering with excitement, while each of them carrying their own personal presents for Jesse as the poor soldier boy sits there utterly dumbstruck.

When they all come on stage, I have each of them take a seat near Jesse and let weathergirl17248 go ahead and give her gift first. She nods at me and hands him a small silver, wrapped box with ribbons gushing out at the top. He thanks her and carefully opens the lid before pulling out a snow globe. Looking inside, you can see a snowman inside.

"I know you're a soldier and all, but hey, it's Christmas." She shrugged.

Jesse smiled at the gift and leaned forward to give her a hug, "Thank you." he smiled.

"Now," I point to JediChick101, "it's your turn."

She hands him a shiny, green box and when he thanks her. Upon, opening it, he pulls out a long chain and at the end of it is the Republic symbol. "Wow," He gazed at the item, "Thank you."

"It's for luck," She chirped, "That is, if you believe in luck."

He gave her a hug and thanked her once more.

"Now you," I pointed to captainrexbest35 and she pulled out a green and red box from the side of her feet and gave it to Jesse, grinning from ear to ear. I watch in sheer amusement as he opens it and out comes a pair of kitty slippers.

"Uh..." he stares at the slippers in disbelief, "It's what I've always wanted," he says, trying to put as much truth into it as possible, but his face gave it all away. He looks down and plucks out a doll that looks like Hardcase by the arm, "Umm."

"Oh!" She gushed, "I didn't mean to put that in there." there's a long pause when she finally says, "Oh, you can keep it."

Jesse hands captainrexbest35 back her Hardcase doll and shakes his head, "No, you should keep it." and points to the kitty slippers, "I think I've got enough to explain back at base already."

Everyone laughs and I gesture for Jesse and the girls to stand up before saying, "Now for the requests,"

captainrexbest35 squeals, "I know what I want!" and wrapped her arms around Jesse's waist before releasing him and running up beside me.

"Alright, alright." I shake my head, "Let me speak first before you start fulfilling requests," I rack my knuckles over her head and then go up to the crowd and say, "Will the birthday girl, AngelAxeinf come to the stage please?" A girl stands and walks down the middle of the stage with her hands behind her back. When she reaches the edge of the stage I grab her hand and lead her towards the group.

Weathergirl17248 waved at her and said, "Happy birthday."

"Thank you," she blushed.

JediChick101 said, "She can go first."

"That's a good idea," I nodded, and pulled AngelAxexinf over to the shocked soldier, "Jesse," I begin, "This is AngelAxexinf, it's her birthday."

"Happy lifeday." He offers a faint wave.

"Yes, and she has a special request." I nudged the girl towards him and said, "Go ahead, Angel."

She stood before Jesse for a mere two seconds and then leaped up to give him a tiny, peck of a kiss on his cheek before hugging him and then running back beside me. He stood there wide-eyed, and so JediChick101 and weathergirl17248 decided to take the operturnaty to give him big hugs.

"I want to hug him again!" captainrexbest35 cheered as she ran over to the choas. I patted AngelAxexinf on the shoulder as we watched the three fan girls tackle the soldier for another hug.

"Happy birthday, AngelAxexinf." I say, sweetly.

She gives me a hug, "Thank you."

I look at the girls, scrambling to get as many hugs from the soldier as possible, and rolled my eyes and shook my head, "Okay, let's give Jesse a break for now and bring on 2-2-7." I gesture the girls to take their seats in the chairs next to Jesse as goes and AngelAxexinf sits next to me.

"So he's fixed?" weathergirl17248 inquired, as she sat next to JediChick101.

I nodded, "Yep! Michael came in today and fixed him right up, he's as good as new." I signal John to rise the curtains and everything goes quiet.

When the curtains do rise high, 2-2-7 is there yelling, "Hello! I think I've been very charitable this Christmas. How about you?" the audience cheers and yells 'yes' back, "Yeah, I've been so good, today a man knocked on my door and asked for a small donation towards the local swimming pool, so I gave him a glass of water!" everyone chuckles and then 2-2-7 began,

"Let's start out slow and go from there:

Mrs. Green lived in two story house together with an elderly widow. After not hearing from her for a few days, she got a bit nervous. "John", she called to her son "do me a favor and go find out how old Mrs. Robinson is." So six year old John went down the stairs and knocked on Mrs. Robinson's door. "So how is she?" asked Mrs. Green when John came back up. "How is she?" repeated John "I've never seen her so mad in my life, she said it's none of your business how old she is."

The crowd chuckled a little harder and 2-2-7 went on further,

"Just relax", the hospital staff kept telling Jim, but it was to no avail. Jim's wife was in labor and he was a nervous wreck. After what seemed like a week, to both Jim and the hospital staff, a nurse came out with the happy news, "it's a girl", she cried.

"Thank goodness! A girl" cried Jim, "at least she won't have to go through what I just went through!"

The crowd laughed harder, so 2-2-7 said his last joke,

"A zookeeper approaches three boys standing near the lion's cage and asks them their names and what they're up to.

The first boy says, "My name's Tommy and I was trying to feed peanuts to the lions."

The second boy says, "My name's Billy and I was trying to feed peanuts to the lions."

The third boy says, "My name is Peanuts."

The audience laughed hard and 2-2-7 yelled, "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!" as the curtains fell to the ground.

As the girls walk off stage, giving Jesse a couple of more hugs, I turn to Jesse and shake his hand. "There's one more thing I need to tell you."

"What's that?"

"A family who watches this show wants us to wish you a merry Christmas from them. I don't know their names, but I can tell they're very kind. Merry Christmas, Jesse." I give him a hug and when we let go and he walks away, I look at the camera and let out a deep sigh, "Wow, what a Christmas. We did a lot in this episode and I can only say that it's been fun. We'll see you next year! Merry Christmas!"

Ashley and Mini run out before the camera turns off and say in sync, "And God bless us! Everyone!" I shake my head and wrap my arms around them, upon saying, "Yes. May God bless us, indeed. Good night, everyone, you've been a blessing yourself!"

"But before we go!" Mini says, "Merry Christmas, Emerald.H, Rogue 2k8, Sithlord8665, AngelAxexinf, Dark Brother 16, jediclonecowgirl, Comrade, TripleThreat123, weathergirl17248, Dovahkiin154, Dogma23, Rexsgirl123, purplewillowtrees, NobelMeta, Kickincupcakebutts6, Guest, glabierules, Ahsokatano191, JediChick101, Shadowmaster77, Celtice and Dukakis 2016, AaylaKit, Bookreaderninja, Yaya The Elf, AaylaKitofNiflheim, Dogmatup23, Spikala, Shadowclanwarrior, Snip1212, Captainrexbest35, Rex133668, monsterhuntergod-Ratholas Mkl, Gamergirl052, Nat13cat, AaylaKit, Avalonyx, AL0LT0, just another fanfic author, Angel's anthem, Anakin Ahsoka, Azalea, Rose, Tessika 14, Queen, Thearistacats, Skywalker02, Onryo, KitFisto'sGirl, Alex Tsukino, lady gaga, lefty blondy, Ahsoka33, and TCTrent45!"