#murder clowder

[rooksunday]

maul and quinlan trying their best (competitive) leaving-dead-rats type of courtship with fox - both of them gutting (figuratively and literally) the coruscant underworld, swooping after guard patrols in increasingly flamboyant rescues, and seeking the finest caf in the system

fox: *sipping the caf that magically appeared on his desk* idk what’s happening here but i’m not complaining

thorn: *gestures towards the window, where maul is AGAIN delivering a monologue about his motivations re: fox’s virtue* do you just not look outside?

fox: last time i looked outside, quinlan vos was deadlifting a black sun operative. right in front of my window.

thorn: *makes a kettle noise*

these efforts ultimately results in a truce (much to the relief of the single remaining smuggler on coruscant) where they agree to mutually deliver each other to fox

thorn stumbles over the gift-wrapped muppets at the doorstep of CGHQ at oh-neon-thirty and shakes his head as he steps over them; they’re pretty cute, curled into each other like that as they sleep. but they’re missing something.

hm.

thorn goes and snatches fox from his bunk, and drops him into the middle of the snoring pile. fox squeaks and flails but is almost immediately subsumed into the murder clowder.

thorn sends holos to the group chat

[rooksunday]

MAUL walks with his hands tucked behind his back

FOX walks with his hands tucked behind his back

[rooksunday]

okay OKAY the murder clowder (fox, maul, quinlan) end up on some world together where fox was accompanying a senator and is separated from his squad, maul is there because surprise! sith temple, and quinlan is tracking sus connections of the senator

quinlan finds maul first, and they bristle at each other, flirt fight, and then like. literally fall over a piece of familiar coruscant guard armour.

it is immediately (silently) agreed that recovering fox takes precedent

maul: it’s strategic and will be to my gain >) i can demand a favour >)

quinlan: also it’s the right thing to do?

maul: i’ve heard it both ways

after a montage sequence, they find fox! he is spoogling how to survive in the wilderness on his comm and not getting any signal, and is yelling at a sprabbit about seeing a manager immediately or there’ll be hell to pay

quinlan rushes over to tend to fox’s head injury

there is no head injury

after clomping across the world together, fox alternately sneering at and scampering from the horrors of nature and maul killing increasingly larger animals to show off his hunting prowess (then cooking them to display his spousal qualities), quinlan starts wondering if a concussion would be that bad really

he’ll start with himself

[rooksunday]

*barrels in through the window*

SPYBOT MEETING HONK!

maul and fox arrange a play date with their droids/security consultants. it is carnage. they are both so proud.

(quinlan doesn’t really know why he’s attending, given that he doesn’t have a droid buddy, but apparently he is absolutely necessary to the process.)

(he is providing the alibi.)

[rooksunday]

what if… one of the murder clowder… got deaged??

*starts chewing on their shirt collar with delight*