Maya-202!

A Star Wars-Inspired Story

Episode I

The Two Prince War

Chapter XXIII

Becoming Alive

AN: Hi everyone. Hope you enjoy this chapter. WARNING: Before this chapter begins, I want to say that there is an eventual smut scene in this, so if that offends you, then I'd either move on or click off. Also, this is my first attempt at writing a Het smut scene, so apologies if it's poorly written. I'm not great at writing these types of scenes anyway aha sorry. It's smut with feelings too, so there's quite a bit of conversation in between. Technically, the characters are underage, even though they are born fully-grown adults (if that makes sense), but this is another warning if that makes you uncomfortable. I do not condone underage sex in real life, just to make it clear. THIS IS PURELY A WORK OF FICTION, AND AS I SAID, THE CHARACTERS ARE TECHNICALLY ADULTS ANYWAY. Sorry, I really just wanted to make that clear. Anyway, reader discretion is advised. So, without further ado, I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Infirmary Wing, Prince Onasius' Mansion, Iryx

The strip lights buzzed loudly above the bed that Aren was lying on. A mournful droid sat on a soft, blue chair next to him, watching, hoping that he would miraculously wake up from the coma he'd been placed under by the brutality of General Grievous. Droids weren't supposed to have feelings at all, let alone ones as intense as these. But as RT-EX1 stared at his friend who was covered in bandages, soaked in crimson blood from the stream that had emerged from his open left arm socket, he felt immensely saddened, not to mention anxious that he would never wake up again.
"Bionic arms are easily produced in this time," Dr. Chris-921 announced, entering the ward from behind the droid. Artex stayed quiet.

"He's right, you know," someone else said. Artex turned around to find out who it was, and saw a Jedi. Prince Onasius. He pulled up another chair from the nearby waiting area and positioned it next to the battle droid. Artex looked back at his friend, saying nothing. Onasius started to speak again. "Correct me if I'm wrong here, but… I feel like I can sense your worry about Aren. I don't know how – I didn't even think-"

"-That droids could be worried? Neither did I, until yesterday," Artex inputted. "God, it's incredible that just two days ago, I was merely a lifeless exhibit in a museum, with the most boring existence possible: to stand deadly still and have tourists just look at me. But then I met Aren, he… he treated me like a living being, not simply an object to be stared at and ridiculed and thrown out like garbage," he continued, recalling several times that he, along with a whole herd of other units, was bossed around by Separatist leaders like Nute Gunray, was abused by those he was meant to obey like General Grievous, had had his ideas brushed aside because he was 'just a pathetic battle droid' who wasn't important. "…Sorry. I was totally rambling on about 'my past' and all that – I'll stop now," the droid said, thinking he'd been going on about himself for too long. Onasius chuckled.

"You needn't be sorry," the prince comforted. "I don't really know what you've been through together. I mean, I've heard the story, but I haven't lived it, so I can't pretend like I can explain it. But I can tell you what I think: I think you've made a friend, and you're not used to it because you're programming never let you be. And now, that friend is injured, and so, naturally, like anyone, you're worried about him. And that's a good thing – not good about him being down, but good that it makes you feel something," he explained.

"Why?" Artex inquired. Onasius put a hand on his shoulder with a consoling smile.

"Because… because it means you've become alive."

Maya-202 & Leo-78's Dorm, Prince Onasius' Mansion, Iryx

"You... You love me?" Maya stuttered. Leo was looking down at his feet which sunk into the plush, light brown carpet when his friend said this.

"…Y-yeah," he said. The whole room went silent again, and the two soldiers froze in place for a second, until Leo's nerves decided to speak up. "OK. I get it, I'll leave. I'm… I'm really sorry, Maya. But you needed to know," he said, and began to head for the door again. However, before he could get to it, he was stopped by a plastoid-gloved hand that reached out and clasped his arm.

"Leo, wait!" Maya said softly, pulling his arm ever-so-slightly to turn him back around so he faced her. "I… thank you…" she said, gazing into the man's gentle, hazel irises. "I love you too," she smiled. A wave of exhilaration, relief, and hope washed through Leo, lighting his face up with excitement, his top lip raising, revealing his teeth, and forming that overall grin of his that Maya found a genuine delight.

"R-really?" he asked with an air of amazement in his voice. Maya nodded her head steadily, her smile getting ever brighter by the minute. And then… Leo put his hand on her back and leaned into her, aiming to place his lips on hers with a loving kiss. Maya wanted to lean into it, to let him do so – but she couldn't.

"N… no…" she said, pulling away from him. "I can't. I'm sorry," she sighed. Leo's grin fell instantly. "Not because of you!" Maya insisted upon seeing his look.

"Really?" Leo murmured.

"I promise," Maya tried to smile again briefly. "But it's as you said: I need to make a choice. If I ever do end up getting trained as a Jedi, this can't happen," she told him.

"You mean it's not supposed to happen. Doesn't mean can't," Leo pointed out. Maya sighed.

"Look, Leo, I'd like to, honestly. I'll admit that I've thought about this for a long time, now. You're my best friend. And you're attractive, and clever, and really, really kind once you get past all your joking," Maya admitted, causing Leo to giggle half-heartedly. "But I've also thought about…" Maya said, trailing off.

"Thought about what?" Leo questioned after she went silent.

"Being… more…" she confessed.

"More? More what?" Leo pushed.

"More than just a solider…" Maya raised her voice, looking directly at him. Leo seemed offended.

"Oh. I see. More than one of us? Is that what you meant?" he said, a snappy infliction towards the end of his sentence.

"No! I didn't mean it like that, I-"

"No, no. I get what you meant. You got your big break. You're gonna be a Jedi!" Leo yelled with mock excitement. "We're all so happy for you! You don't have to be just another trooper. You're special, Maya!" he carried on. "But the rest of us aren't so lucky, are we? The rest of us have to continue doing the same old, same old. Day in, day out."

"Leo, please! It's not like that!" Maya begged.

"No, I think it is like that," he retorted. Maya's temper was starting to rise now. She folded her arms.

"OK. I'll acknowledge that it is a little like that," she said. "But don't pretend like you haven't thought about it before, either! I mean, you must've, at least once, thought about a life other than this."

"I have. But in that life, I'm not a Jedi, or a politician, or anyone else! I'm me. That life is the future. And in that future, I'm with you. And I'm living… somehere – maybe here still, maybe in an apartment on Naboo, or, force, even a sandhut on Fortralin! And I'm a normal person. Not a 'special', or anything. Just a soldier, that once fought in the Two-Prince War, and is now living happily ever after. Call it cliché if you want, but it's what I hope for," Leo confided. Everything went hushed again. The two had never, ever, had an argument like this before. Leo cut the silence.

"Aw, look, Maya, I'm sorry. I know if you want to be a Jedi you can't do this. It's just… unfair, for lack of a better word. I really do like you…" he said regretfully.

"No, I'm sorry. You were right. I was being selfish," Maya murmured.

"Hey, no, that's not what I said!" Leo urged.

"It's true, though! I've been so wrapped up in myself recently that I haven't really thought about everyone else, if I'm being honest. And that makes me a terrible person…"

"No, Maya, stop it!" Leo ordered. Maya sat down on the cosy pink sheets of her bed, pressing her hands down on the bouncy mattress underneath like a child would. She covered her face with her long hair remorsefully, ashamed of herself for not seeing that her behaviour was a little problematic sooner. Leo strolled over and joined her, plopping himself down next to her and putting his hands on her shoulders. He brushed her hair that hid her expression out of the way. She tried to wipe her teary eyes, then realised that plastoid armour wasn't the best material for absorbing water.

"Uh, shab," she tittered, then sniffed loudly. "Oh force, I'm a mess. How attracted to me are you now?" she quipped, looking at Leo.

"Who's doing all the joking now?" Leo responded, referencing her earlier comment, and raising his fair brown eyebrows teasingly. Maya laughed again. It was a rather bittersweet resolution for the fight they'd just been having. Leo moved closer to Maya, and she put her head on his shoulders and wrapped her arms around him, cuddling him.

"Thank you…" Maya whispered.

"No, thank you…" Leo said with a purr to his tone – he admitted to himself that was getting quite horny, even from just cuddling Maya. Maya cocked her head up at him, and then she understood what was going on.

"Leo!" she exclaimed cutely, lifting herself off of him. "From a hug?"

"Well, it was more of a full-fledged cuddle!" Leo objected.

"I wasn't… unhappy about it…" Maya confessed, the trace of a sly smirk presenting itself under that endearing little nose of hers.

"Maya!" Leo yelped, mimicking her tone from earlier jokingly. "From a hug?!"

She laughed again. "Stop it, you! I thought you wanted this to happen…" she said.

"I do. But does this mean that… you do?" Leo queried. Maybe the argument had made Maya's mind say 'F*ck it' internally, because she was now going to do a full U-turn on her previous decision. She poised her mouth so it was just next to Leo's ear.

"Yes. I do…" she whispered, and planted a careful kiss on his earlobe.

A few minutes later, plastoid armour was scattered across all different parts of the floor, as Maya and Leo crawled underneath the sheets of her comfy bed.

"Are you… sure you really wanna do this?" Leo questioned. Maya chuckled.

"Leo! I already told you. Yes," she sighed happily. She'd never done this before. But she just knew that if it were to happen, she'd always wanted it to be with her best friend, Leo-78.

"Good, I'm glad. Truly," Leo smirked, as Maya slid her right hand through his silky, dark brown hair that coated the top of his head perfectly. Leo pulled the pink duvet cover over them as he clambered on top of Maya – it was like it was just those two, in a world of their own; right now, no one else could come between them. Leo removed his underwear, revealing his big, hard member that had gotten excited at a single touch from Maya. Maya unhooked her bra and took off her underwear, displaying her incredibly-formed breasts. "Those Monaran droids did a very good job with that," Leo commented, biting his lip as his face turned red looking at Maya's exquisite figure.

"They didn't do too badly with that, either," Maya stated, her eyes gesturing to Leo's penis that was already dripping with precum. Leo chuckled, smiling to himself.

"Thanks," he said.

"No, thank you," Maya smirked, grabbing her friend's dick and beginning to rub it slowly and carefully, getting some of the precum on the tip of her fingers. Leo moaned under his breath at the feeling. "Is that… good?" Maya asked, concerned, and hoping the moan was one out of pleasure.

"Oh, yeah," Leo replied, grinning happily. Whilst she continued to rub his cock, he lowered his head so that their noses were close, but not quite, touching, and kissed her lips passionately; Maya could feel the fire in his heart that burned with the once secret desire that he had kept hidden under lock and key from her for so long. Maya pushed her head against Leo's gently, her lips repeatedly touching his energetically. She wanted this. Needed this. Badly. She enjoyed it. But she knew she couldn't have her cake and it eat it too – and deep down, whilst all this rousing activity was going on, she felt a… guilt, of some sort, mixed with a longing sadness. Guilty because she knew what her decision would have to be, and it might break Leo's heart. Sadness, because she knew she might lose Leo; her closest friend, the one who'd been there with her through her entire existence. These feelings invaded her thoughts as she kissed Leo, and it showed in her behaviour, as she slowed down the kissing until she completely stopped, and pulled away from him.

"M-Maya? Did I do something wrong?" he wondered nervously. Maya sighed. He was too sweet for his own good – she hated that she didn't really want to give up on the idea of being a Jedi for him.

"No. You never could," she said, half-heartedly laughing. "I'm really sorry. I'm the one that's something wrong. I… I just don't know if we should do this. I don't think I'll be able to bear the memory of how good this is, and if we go all the way and are never able to do it again… it'll be heartbreaking. For both of us," she explained, frowning. She had that desperate look of a stray, young strill in her eyes. Leo paused and considered what she was saying seriously, his hands still touching her frame.

"I'm not gonna lie and say it's not gonna be difficult later if we do go through with this. And I'm not just telling you this to get into your pants, either, if that's what you think – which I'm hoping you're not, anyway," he assured her, but she didn't need that assurance anyway. She knew Leo was in it for emotional reasons, not purely physical ones. "But I do want to just throw something out there. One time is better than none, right? One time experiencing ecstasy with you is better, to me, than having always been left wondering how we could've been. And so – if you are – I'm willing to put up with the struggle afterwards, if we can have tonight," he said. Maya had to attempt to hold back her tears again – it was strange, she'd faced a battle, a huge giant machine that could've crushed the pair of them with one swift stomp, and her master being attacked all in a matter of days, yet this was what really pulled at her feelings and plagued her mind. She didn't know what to say, or do, now. But Leo did. He caressed her blushing cheek that was hot from the blood rushing to the surface of her skin there. "There, there," he mumbled with care. "Do you still want to do this?" he asked. Maya thought for a second and concluded that he was right. One time was better none.

"Y…yes…" she mouthed, before taking his right hand's index finger and kissing it.

Leo had found a condom in the health kit bag next to a sack of bacta patches that he possessed, which he took on the troopers' adventures just in case of injury. It seemed a rather strange place to keep them, but once Leo had found out about 'the birds and the bees', he'd decided to pack them, should a woman he met when on another planet… desire him. It was rather ironic that he was, instead of with a stranger, going to be using one for the first time with his best friend Maya, on his home planet. He slipped it onto his erect member, being careful not to break it, and fumbled back over to Maya, who was waiting in the bed.

"You ready for this?" he queried.

"Oh, I'm ready," Maya smirked, and Leo began brushing his lips against hers again. This time, he really went for it. He moved his left hand to Maya's left breast and cupped it sensually.

"Oh…" Maya moaned. "Leo…" she muttered between ecstatic breaths.

"You like that?" the male teased. Maya nodded her head rapidly.

"Yes! Yes, please do that again…" she begged, and he did, putting his right hand on her right breast this time, so he was touching, almost cuddling, them both.

"Ungh!" he groaned with gratification. Trying to collect her thoughts, Maya decided it was only fair that she touched him back. She put her hands on his back, and felt around, before trailing her left one to touch his ass. "Oh!" Leo yelped happily as she pinched his left cheek.

"Do you like that?" she repeated his question to him with a mischievous grin.

"You bet I do," he said, then kissed her neck multiple times, desperate to insert his penis inside Maya, to feel her, to experience her. She giggled in that adorable but sexy, adult way that made Leo's cock twitch with desire. "I'm gonna… y'know…" he informed her.

"Yes please…" she begged, and his smile grew larger and larger at the sight of his lover's thirst for him – mutual thirst he was about to quench. Then, he realised something.

"Shab. We don't have any… lubricant…" he alerted, suppressing an immature snicker at just the word 'lubricant'. However, in a very surprising move, Maya, very ashamed of herself, pulled her bedside drawer open and pulled out a bottle. Leo's eyes nearly inflated out of his head – it looked like he wasn't the only one who'd prepared themselves for sexual encounters. "Maya! You naughty girl…" he taunted.

"Shut up," she said in a light-hearted tone, rolling her eyes. Leo took the bottle and squirted some out, rubbing it on his cock. He handed it to Maya again, who placed some on her vagina. Now, it was time.

Leo smoothly slipped his length into Maya's p*ssy.

"L…Leo…" she stammered between pants as she felt his rock-solid penis break into her.

"Maya!" he grunted. He began to thrust himself deeper into her, grinding further and further against her body. "Is this good?"

"Yes, Leo! Yes!" she started to scream with delirium. Her hands fell down and clutched the mattress sheet, starting to pull it off little-by-little with every one of Leo's humps. "Oh!" she cried. Leo gradually increased the speed of his thrusts, eventually reaching the point where he was moving as fast as a ship in hyperspace.

"Uh! Ungh!" he timed his moans so that they were synchronic with Maya's, eliciting even more euphoric groans from her. It was as if this was uniting them, merging the two of them into one beautiful item. Maya lifted her right hand from the bedsheet and threw it onto Leo's butt again, giving his right cheek a squeeze. "Oh, Maya, that's it! Keep doing that to my bum, yeah," he encouraged her, coming very close to having an orgasm. She obeyed his orders, and gave it another nip, enticing an erotic howl from the man. He pressed his lips on hers again, this time rather messily and without precise direction, resulting in a wet, sloppy kiss on and around Maya's mouth. She pulled her other arm off the mattress and rubbed the back of Leo's now sweaty torso. In fact, the bed was getting stained from their perspiration, its covers absorbing the big droplets of sweat falling from them, forming many different wet patches that were splodged all over them. Leo put his left hand in her hair and grasped at it, shuffling it in between his fingers, hoping that it was immensely pleasurable, but not painful, for Maya. She seemed to like it, as she let out a small, "Ungh," sound, that had escaped her voice box unconsciously. In fact, she really must have enjoyed it, as she notified Leo that she was about to cum.

"Leo! I'm gonna-" Maya shrieked, unable to finish her sentence as she orgasmed, slamming her head onto the pillow, her shiny, auburn hair uncoiling from Leo's fingers and crashing against it. Leo wasn't far behind her at all. The sight of his partner, his best friend, experiencing utter bliss was all that he needed to send him over the edge as well.

"Ugh!" he grumbled loudly as a wind of rapture flushed through him, filling Maya with viscous, snow-white semen.

When they'd both settled down, Leo pulled out from Maya slowly, making sure not to break his condom. He removed it, unravelling it carefully, and dumped it in the mini wastebin that lay at the far right-hand corner of the room, next to a desk that was positioned there. Leo crawled back over to Maya's bed, and hopped in.

"That… was unbelievable…" Maya huffed. "I love you…" she whispered truthfully, even if inside she was already overflowing with guilt and dread from the fact she'd broken the Jedi code before she'd even started to train as one.

"I love you too, Maya…" Leo responded, giving her a gentle peck on the cheek. He was in heaven.

They fell asleep not long after that, holding each other tightly. Just before he shut his eyes, Leo was hit by the inevitable sadness - which he knew he would feel eventually - that he was never going to experience this euphoria with Maya again. But as he'd said, experiencing it once was better than not at all.