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hey just thought i’d say hey since i can’t stop by this week. i’m headed to coruscant with my brother. he thinks he knows where some of his friends are from the war. i’m gonna be gone for at least a week. you’re probably pretty happy about that. but trust me there’ll be plenty of stuff to fix when i get back. tracyn’s gonna break everything. well don’t miss me too much. well anyway bye.
It was late and she was closing the door to the shop, and he stood on unsteady feet far enough away that he couldn’t be noticed. But when she turned, she saw him. “Jatne?”
“Yeah, hey.” She seemed uneasy and she should have been, so he looked away, shook his head. “Sorry, Teroch and I were…” his words were slurred and slow and trailed off, forgotten.
“What are you doing here?”
The answer was somewhere in the tangles of his mind. Tonight marked one year since the death of his father. He couldn’t stand to be at home. Teroch was supposed to take him out. But Teroch had to leave. Left to his own devices, Jatne got what he needed and he made the world dull around him and things seemed better but not perfect. So he found himself looking for Parja. Jatne shook his head, a bitter laugh escaped him.
“I’m really shab‘la high right now.”
“First a Twi’lek Senator, then an Imperial, and now a married Mandalorian. Jat’ika, are you dumb or just stupid?”
Jatne scraped his nail against the surface of the lacquered wood table and stared at the carbonation in his drink. Teroch’s point was made. Jatne did seem to set himself up for failure.
“Fine, just tell me about her if it’ll keep you from pouting.”
“Opposites attract,” Teroch said.
“Shut up.” He drank. “She’s got these blue eyes, and this way of… she makes me be myself around her.”
Teroch arched a brow. “You’re putting a lot of thought into this. Is she hot?”
“She’s a Weequay—of course she’s hot. She’s the entire package. Which is why she’s married. But you should hear her talk. It’s like no one’s ever said anything nice to her in her whole life. I don’t get it. She’s so pretty and when people say she’s the best engineer in Keldabe, they aren’t lying. And she put stitches in my head.”
Teroch let out a sigh. “You’re playing with fire, vod.”
“I just think she deserves better.”
It took some doing, but finally Tracyn left to accompany Aunt Verda into Keldabe. From the minute Parja arrived on the ranch until then, Tracyn had been following her around and hanging on every word the older girl said, asking her every question that popped into her head, and making a nuisance of herself.
Jatne brought Parja to the barn. He made some remarks about their out of date machinery, then he pointed over at some tools leaning against the wall. “There’s the shovel I broke my head on.”
“You didn’t get rid of it?” Parja asked with a smirk.
“Nah. It’s a good shovel. Besides, no harm no foul.” Jatne pointed to the side of his head where Parja had stitched him up. “Healed up real fast thanks to you.”
“You’re lucky you came to me when you did. The next time your mother says you need stitches, you should listen.”
“Now that I know who to go to, I will.”
Parja’s eyes locked with his. “Self-inflicted injuries are going to cost you more.”
Jatne grinned. “I don’t care. Any excuse to see you.”
“You’re going to get yourself killed.”
“I won’t hurt myself too badly.”
Parja looked down. “That’s not what I meant.”
Jatne gently lifted her chin with his hand. He didn’t know what she meant, only what was in her eyes. That look of some distant worry. He hated it. Searching her, he leaned forward, and pressed his lips to hers.
She pulled away. “Jatne.”
“I’m sorry.” He let go of her, a sickness rising within him. “I’m sorry.”
☑ - (this is crack for the sake of Jatne’s well-being)
Jatne awoke to morning sunlight and the immediate feeling of being in someone else’s bed.
He rose quickly, the scent of Parja’s hair and his own sweat still lingering in his senses, and he swung out of the bed and stared around the room. Not his room. Her room. Their room.
He turned around and saw her stirring and his heart began to race. He started picking up his clothes. Some here, some there. When he rose, she was sitting up in bed. She blinked and pulled the sheet up.
Parja reached down and picked up the under shirt Jatne was frantically searching for. “Here.”
“Sorry I can’t stay for breakfast.” He was trying to get dressed and keep himself from having a heart attack all at once.
“He’s really not planetside, right?”
“I feel too damn good to die today.”