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It was after long days that Officer Coulter just wanted a day to relax. Dumb kids spraying their graffiti all over local buildings and sobbing when getting caught, strung out twitchy drug users that claimed they were a Sith brother or something. Kark, an old body could only take so much from the stink of the galaxy before she needed to air out.

She couldn't smoke anymore. Regulation orders. A stick of gum was pried out from its' foil wrapper, the smell of wintergreen meant to mask over the small packet of the price of her addiction. She frowned, popping it into her mouth and chewing with all the passion of a dewback on its' last sand legs. Kark, but she hated these things. They did nothing for keeping her hands busy. So there was only one thing the Ranger could do to unwind.

Hit the greasiest noodle shop this side of the packed planet and pray to whatever gods were listening they had something spicy enough to melt her entrails for a week. She took her glasses off, squinting in the neon brightness to glare at the menu, finally spotting something that might actually do the trick.


"One Mustafar Meltdown noodles," she rasped out, pointing, and the 'chef' nodded when she laid down a credit chip, then stalked to the outdoor seating.

She may not have liked the general populace, but hell, people-watching could be interesting. She picked up the packet of disposable chopsticks, tapping them on the surface as she panned her gaze. Who knew.

Perhaps she would see something interesting.


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Coruscant wasn't exactly Max's usual haunt.

But sometimes he needed to come in from the cold as it were and engaged with the regular population of the Galaxy. If the people of Coruscant could even count as 'regular' since they were a taste of wild all their own. The Wookiees of Kashyyyk were more civilized than half of this planet before they had their first sip of caf - and friendlier than the entirety of the population regardless of the time of day or the amount of caf.

He had come to do some shopping, mostly, having taken his allowance from the Temple when it had started to build up from lack of regular use. They had been making noises about him amassing wealth so he had taken the majority of it to go out and spend it so they would get off his back about it.

Helped that things on Coruscant were a lot more expensive than they were anywhere else really. So he was laden down slightly with purchased goods when he found himself in need of some food. Part of him wanted to go back to his ship (We have food at home) but he couldn't lie to himself and say that he had anything particularly good to eat back at the ship.

Slumping into the noodle bar, he sat at the bar itself and set down his credit chit with a long sigh, running a hand over his face.

"One savory noodles, keep the supply of the easy beer and... you do Tatooine Tandoori?"
he waved a hand, "Basket of that as well."

He wasn't very good with people these days it seemed.


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Oh hey, someone mentioned beer.

Her ears proverbially perked up at that thought. She could no doubt use a beer too, all things considered. It was a night off after all, not often enough she could get some time off for herself.
"Yeah, hey, kid, can I also have beer--" she was about to order, turning around, when she froze.

That face. But no, the beard was all wrong. Police academy, and suddenly she was eighteen years old all over again, looking at a boy in blue and feeling her first crush. Before getting crushed. Her jaw snapped shut, and she could feel a faint red tinging her vision as she looked at the man.


It was impossible. He left the force. Or died?

Kark, she thought the guy was dead. If it was even him... well.

She squinted at him a moment, suppressing the urge to scowl openly. Well, if it was him, he sure looked like he got the hell beaten out of him. And what was with the hair? No doubt if it was him, he had some sweet little piece of a wife and kid. At the time, he seemed the type. She snapped her gaze away, finishing the order and rising to lay down and cover the new balance.


"An' some fried sweet bites, thanks," she muttered gruffly, shuffling away from Max to sit back in her own seat, trying as hard as she could not to stare, much less even glance, his way.

Her arms crossed, and she leaned back, attempting to slip back into staring into the crowd. But she couldn't focus.

Some past hurts just didn't really stop stinging. But then again, it could've been someone else that just looked like him. But the voice... maybe?

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He got the order and he got the drink as well - though it seemed he inspired someone else to order beer. Did they not realize that the only way cheap noodle joints like this actually made credits was by selling the cheapest, nastiest, beer to literally anyone? No one ever asked for your age at a noodle bar after all. Though, he supposed, no one was going to ask himself or the woman for their ID given they probably had more grey hairs between them than the establishment had years in operation.

As he raised his drink to his mouth he paused for a moment, sensing a spike in emotions from the woman who had come up to the counter. He wasn't exactly subtle with how he glanced at her if only because it was hard for a one-eyed man to look like he wasn't looking... he kind of had to tilt his whole head these days.

Still, the emotions through the Force were rather confusing. Recognition, some old... longing and... more recent and older annoyance? Frustration?

What?

He watched her as she retreated back to her table with a frown. Perhaps he should have left it alone but he had never gotten by on doing what he should have done. Instead of doing the smart thing he picked himself up with his beer and wandered over to her table. When he approached, he frowned slightly.

There was something there... a hint of familiarity.

"Hi this may seem strange but - do I know you? I don't know but your face seems familiar."



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She had her drink, and she knew it to be gnarly as kark-all, but sometimes a gal needed to drink something to make her second-guess her life's choices. She ate, lived, and breathed being in the Ranger task force, but every now and then there was a flicker of doubt. Having that drink, though?

That chased the doubt right out of her head, into instant regret. Classic dodge for feelings she didn't want to dwell on. Regret she could deal with. It compartmentalized into the 'never touch again' box, and that kriff was locked down tight.

Then she had a prickle of awareness tickle down the nape of her neck. Eyes. Or... an eye, at least. She could almost feel him coming her way, and for a moment she blanked on any greeting.


Hey, hi, how ya doin'. Don't mind me, you just look like the guy I liked as a kid, never mind that I hated his guts for a few years afterwards.

Her shoulders stiffened ever so slightly, eyes narrowed into his face. Age, a bit of grey... it could be him. Could've been, if it weren't for that damned report that said he went MIA. MIA for the Hutts usually meant dead, after all. Meant you didn't have to pay any family members until they were absolutely, totally confirmed dead.

Only one way to find out, she thought lazily to herself, tilting her head to gaze at him in speculation.
"Get that a lot," she answered, squinting her eyes as though to place him. Add in another eye, take off a good twenty years of stress... aw kriff. He might definitely be.

"Don't know a lot of one-eyed guys myself,"
she answered, nodding to the patch, "but if you're from anywhere near where giant slugs and their 'legal' thugs are... might know ya," she finally replied, feigning nonchalance. She swallowed her gum to take a sip of beer, and the awful taste didn't even register. If he looked close enough, he could see the edge of a Ranger badge on her shirt.

Close to her heart, just how she liked to live the law. If it wasn't him, well... the table wasn't strictly her domain. He could sit wherever he damn well liked, she just wanted her food. But if it was?


Nah, not even gonna poke at that one yet.

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He could have sworn he knew her.

There was something about the set of her jaw when she was annoyed (which she kind of was) that spoke to him of someone he might have known once before. It would have had to have been years ago though. Decades ago at least for his memory to have grown so spotty.

He narrowed his eye slightly as he tried to place her even as her voice seemed familiar. The voice though he was sure he recognized - because it's accent was the one he used to have.

"Eye's a recent subtraction."
he joked back, his old accent creeping in as he took a seat at the booth, "Don't mind if I sit do ya?"

He set himself down with his beer and his food as he tried his best not to just blankly stare at her and hope he remembered her. Shaking his head a little bit, he snorted in amusement.

"Near? Tion crawled with them."
he shot back with a scowl, "Made everyone they touched just as slimy as they were. You look like you got out."


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She shook her head at him as she got her own food, the smell of spice and sweet just as addicting as it always was; she wasn't a sucker for much, but for the small pleasures like this it made an awful day a bit more bearable. Hearing his snort, and then it really hit home hard. The accent, now that was a near dead-ringer.

Taking out some chopsticks from the packet, she nodded along to his statement, lips twitching. Looks like he was still trying to place a name to a face.
"Nothing like the Cluster," she replied in a deadpan drawl, taking a bite of noodles. Humming in appreciation to the spicy taste, as well as the savory, she offered him a mock two-finger salute, swallowing before responding.

"Officer Coulter. Got out near two decades ago. You don't seem like you got out in too tough a shape... not slimy yourself. Unless the eye thing is some cult entrance thing."

She took another bite of noodles, waiting to see if the name registered. If not... well, he was best left in the past. She was too old now to start sighing for 'the good old days' when they weren't even that good. Hell, she wasted those early years of her life doing something she thought was for the better, in Tion and more, and was still paying for it. Every damn night. But she was making amends now, and that was the best she could do for the time being.

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He didn't hold himself back, tucking into the meal he'd gotten for himself as well. They didn't seem to be having the kind of high intensity conversation that would mean he needed to be on guard after all. It was slightly maddening to not be able to place a name to the face he was increasingly becoming aware that he knew. With the voice as well, it was clear that he knew something about her and had known her at some point.

But he just couldn't place it.

"Tion hasn't changed any."
he remarked quietly, "It's still just as I left it - and I can't stand that."

He stiffened at the name.

Ah... suddenly things slotted into place a little more.

Max shifted slightly in his seat before setting his chopsticks down and pushing his food away to one side. He would return to it but this part... this part deserved to be something more seriously observed. This would be the first time he had interacted with someone from his old life, the life he had left behind years ago without looking back. The Jedi had taught him to let go of the obsessive and possessive nature of attachment but he still hadn't been able to go back, not with how he got out.

"I had to fake my own death to leave."
he admitted quietly, "I left friends and family behind because those in power were too corrupt and too vengeful for me to risk it. Joined the Jedi... decades passed me by and my memory apparently got spotty..."

He looked up at her with his lone eye and a small, sad, smile.

"It's been awhile Vera - how are your brothers?"



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Damn, she needed cigaras.

She pushed aside her bowl, appetite temporarily forgotten. Instead, she tapped the foil packet for her gum against the table, listening. One of the first lessons of police academy;
the guilty with a conscious always spill their guts first. Sit back, shut up and listen. So she did, blue eyes calm, irritation still flaring to life, but she held it back in her chest, bit back any words that were just aching to be said.

"I know."

The two words were spoken, with such a hard bitterness they practically salted the air. Her jaw was still tight, and she swallowed once, looking at the table. "That damn captain held a service for MIA," she finally managed out, eyes no longer on him but the packet in her hands, turning it over and over. Over and over, it caught the lights of the dancing neons, and she stared at it as though they held all the answers. "You owed me a date, fly boy," she finally replied, sighing and pocketing the packet once more, then sliding her bowl over.

"So you joined a cult? Figures, you were too good for the academy anyways." She eyed him, and though her words were hard... the faintest glint of dry humor flickered to life. "Deckers and Reilly are dead; Mi'tav settled down, got himself a nice Kaleesh bride." He asked about her brothers... and she sighed, rubbing a hand over her face. "Older brother Jenson's alright; owns a string of cantinas now, if you can believe it."

She leaned in, picking up her chopsticks and forcing herself to take another bite. "Younger brother, Canto, still works the dockyards, now at Corellia," she finally managed, the spicy aroma just right for what she needed to snap back to the present. So many ties to the past, so many questions. A Jedi. No longer a boy in blue. A friggin' Force User.

"He's got a wife, two kids. Helped raise my girl for a time," she finally forced out, but took another long bite of noodles, looking up at him. "What about you? Got any little rug rats to brag about, in all that adoptive weirdness?" She glanced around his features. Yeah... there were changes, but it was still him.

Max. His last name was on the tip of her tongue, but it was the name of a dead man. A name that, even two decades later, made her feel like punching a wall. Some things never changed.


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He snorted in amusement.

The idea that the corrupt captain had bothered to hold a vigil for him was just amusing to him. That being the same person who had wanted him dead for not taking the dirty credits. He sniffed and shook his head slightly. It was another reminder that he had left behind an entire life.

"Damned karking bugger was half the reason I had to."
he sneered before his expression fell slightly, softening, "Vera I... it's too late to say that I'm sorry isn't it?"

Joined a cult? He laughed at her wording despite himself and took a drink of her beer.

"Yeah I guess you could call it that - turned into a damned warrior monk."
he shrugged, grimacing slightly, "... not even a Kaleesh bride deserves Mi'tav."

He could still joke around... he grimaced a little bit.

"I hope he's not cooking. Jenson's cooking tasted like arse."
he complained good-naturedly before nodding, "Good to hear about Canto though. He was a good kid I remember."

At the mention of kids he paused, his actions halting entirely for a second before he forced himself to keep moving like normal. He coughed slightly and shook his head.

"None that are still alive."


He did want to be honest after all.


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She snorted at his comment of their former Captain, taking another bite of noodles. Kark, but the stuff hit the right buttons. She could already feel sweat prickling at the back of her neck. At his comment of being too late to say sorry, she cocked her head at him, giving a bemused stare. "I believe the statute of apologies is twenty years, Cip," she quoted blithely back, then paused, the noodles halfway to her mouth.

"Aw hell. You don't go by that anymore, then. Can't exactly just call you Max, can I?"
she pulled a face, rubbing a hand over her face and sighing. She lightly swatted at him, though, taking her beer, and swiped it back, giving a playful scowl in retaliation. She snorted again, then gave a low, throaty chuckle at his comment of Mi'Tav. "Bless the bastard," she replied, still holding the chopsticks. "Nah, he can afford cooks now. You just have no taste," came the dry response. But at least the frigidness seemed to ease from her stare.

Hearing his comment, though, she could feel her stomach sink. Had. She wasn't some damned special case Force user, but even she could tell it was a sore spot. She could believe it. For a moment, she didn't say anything, but chewed her noodles in silence, mulling over the words.

"I have one."

It was a simple statement, but she shifted in her seat, running a hand through her hair with a sigh.
"About twenty two now. Her name's Liann. Takes after me in looks and stubbornness." She couldn't help but brag; it felt like if she didn't speak of the living, the weight of the dead would hover over the table. "Gonna be a cop, she says. I'm trying to talk her down."

She gnawed on her bottom lip, features hardening.

"I can't stop trying to protect her... I've failed in so many ways, Max. I can't fail now." Blinking at the sudden, heartfelt words, she scowled and took another bite of noodles. Trying to forget what she'd done before, with food, light booze and something sweet.

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Force but he wanted a cigara.

He hadn't smoked in years now but this was a time for meeting the past face-first wasn't it? It kind of felt right to have a cigara but he made no move to ask for one or otherwise get one. Instead he just nursed his beer a little bit as he listened to her talk about her brothers and, then, her daughter.

It made him feel awkward just thinking about a daughter.

"I'm sure you've taught her well enough - now all you gotta do is let her go out into the Galaxy and make her own mistakes."
he joked lightly, "It's what our parents did to us and it's all we can hope for. Gotta trust that if she makes a kark-up that she can pull herself up and out of it."

His 'daughter' had not been able to.

"Just don't let her join the Jedi."
he teased her gently, looking away as he did so, "Police work is much safer. She might get stuck in IA for a career."

Probably worse than being on the front-lines to a 'real' cop of course. He paused for a moment and made a few sums and calculations in his head for a second.

"Wait... twenty two..."
he wiggled his eyebrows, "This the part you tell me I have a daughter?"

... he really hoped it wasn't.


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She paused for a moment, mid-bite when he asked about Liann being his kid. And then, a hard snort came out of her, and a hard, hearty laugh, enough to make the cook pause and stare at her. She coughed over some of the lingering spice, face reddened, but continued laughing hoarsely, snagging her beer and trying to pause the wheezing, burning snickers long enough to take a drink. A few gulps helped, but she was still cackling hard, shoulders shaking as she wiped away tears with the other hand.

"Your kid? Kark," she uttered hoarsely, grinning widely. "I liked you, but we never did anything. You were always too good for me anyways; nah," she sighed, but an occasional grin and faint huff of derision still parted from her lips. "Nah, hookup with Reilly, just before his death." Her features sobered, the flush fading as fast as the smile. "He was a good kid. Smart too, another too-good rookie with too much of a taste for duty."

She stared at him levelly when she said it, finishing off the last of her beer with a sigh.
"Tried giving her to a good family on Corellia; figured she wouldn't want a mom like me." Her smile bittered once more, the chopsticks lowering. "Wanted to do the right thing, y'know? But the kid was smart. She found me when I was grabbing a target near Nar Shaddaa. Followed me all that way..." she shook her head, then sighing in defeat.

"She keeps me straight, Max. I've gotta admit, after losing you and a few other guys on the force, kinda fell apart."


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Ah the hard snort of rejection might have been like a dagger to the heart for some men but for him it was the sound of a blaster bolt flying overhead rather than finding it's mark. He was a Jedi - he dreaded to think about how he would have had to pay the backlog of child support with the allowance the Jedi allowed him. He'd have been in rags within a month!

He rolled his eye.

"Well does the eye-loss mean I'm more in your league now?"
he teased before nodding, his expression softening, "Sounds like he was a good man."

Taking a drink, he eyed the woman for a long moment.

"I can see that she means a lot to you. Keep her close Vera - I might be a warrior space monk with only one working eyes but even I can see that you've cracked."
he tapped the rim of his beer bottle, "And someone put you back together again. If she's that someone then you better make sure you're around as much as you can be."

He smiled.

"Because if the time ever comes that she needs you and you're not there? Take it from me, Vee, it'll break you all over again."



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She smirked at his comment, tapping her chopsticks on the edge of her bowl at his sassy comment. "Easy there, Max," she chuckled wryly, blue-grey eyes glinting with dry humor. "Else I'd think you're coming on to me. I don't peg your way of life to be so... broad in vision."

Smirking from her own joke and the easier turn in conversation, the smile dimmed at that face he made. It may have been a few decades, but she knew that face. He had more than a few boulders on his shoulders back in the day, and like before he always tried to be Atlas. It was honestly one of the few things that pissed her off sometimes, actually.

"Still crackin'," she deadpanned, but shrugged once. "Eh, well. That's why I took this job, the killer health insurance." Another dry attempt at sarcastic humor, a little bit of self depreciation. "This is why I want her out of the family biz. Keep her occupied playing good guy in something a little less liable to dying a horrible death. We've lost too many kids to good deeds already, Max," she spoke plainly, but the look in her eyes was bleak.

Guilt. Missing out on the prison, on Outpost Blue, Corellia. She wasn't there, and it sometimes ate her alive at night. It shouldn't be a bunch of fresh faces feeling the weight of the galaxy and the badge. It should've been her.


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Max laughed a little bit and took a swig of his beer. It was funny to see how people viewed the Jedi Order and it's members from an entirely outside point of view. He knew that Vera would be unfiltered in her opinions and he could trust her to not sugarcoat it to what she thought he would like to hear.

"I'm a Jedi, Vera, not dead from the waist down."
he replied with an exaggerated wink, "We don't have to swear off fun like the old school ones used to."

The exaggerated wink was purely because, with one eye, it was hard to tell when he was winking at someone or if he was just blinking. It was a problem he hadn't really encountered before but it was one that, rather than making her sad, honestly made him want to laugh a little bit. That being unable to properly wink was among the worst of his dealings with having a single eye... he had gotten off lightly if that was the only thing he really 'angsted' about.

Ah but angst was still here all the same.

Reaching out with the Force he lightly tugged at the end of her ponytail with a raised eyebrow - the eyebrow over the missing eye actually but that didn't really matter.

"Hey. No angst."
he chided her with a wiggle of said eyebrow, "It'll make us oooooold..."


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She smirked at his comment of not exactly being able to say no, necessarily. At least his order isn't as keen to micromanage their people, she thought glumly, giving another bite of her noodles. "Good to know. If there's ever a next time, I wouldn't say no to having fun."

She felt a tugging on her ponytail and frowned, about to turn around to see who tugged it, when he spoke up.

Raising a blonde brow, she leaned back. A wry grin still cracked at the edge of her lips.
"Oh yeah, we can't be old, can we? But these young pups can make a middle-aged lady feel like it." Arms crossing beneath her bust, eyeing him with that grin still in place. "So. Shopping for any reason in particular?" she lowered her gaze to the bags he brought, then back up. "Or some lucky missus got you trained?"

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Ah had he meant to flirt with her? Max had to admit that he had fallen into a very old habit almost without thinking and right now he was actually rather intrigued with the idea as well. She had aged very well and she was a truly very attractive woman for their age and as fit as he was if not more.

So if he hadn't meant to flirt with her, he was at least not going to regret finding himself in that position now.

"Well Vera I am always up for a chance to renew old bonds."
he assured her with a smirk, "See if we can't... connect on a deeper level."

Yes he was aware that this was probably like watching your dad flirt but what did he care? No one else was around to watch them after all. What had he actually come here for again? It felt like so long ago purely because he had gotten so distracted by meeting such an old friend.

He shrugged.

"No woman or anything like that at the moment - I had back-pay building up so I had to spend it. Decided I'd get some stuff for the inside of my ship so that, you know, it's less boring on longer journeys."



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She smirked at him, at his earnest flirting. Oh yeah. He was hot shit then, but modest. Still seemed like it... but different. Perhaps age let him relax a little more. Lord knows it didn't for her in some ways. She smirked in return, cocking a brow. "Looks like we're on the same page then, Max," she replied, leaning back with her arms crossed. "You know what, I'm all for a little deeper connecting, if you're game."

Surprise, followed quickly by keen curiosity, then veiled by a play of continued, nonchalant flirting flickered in her gaze. It was true, when you would spend so many years working with minimal pay and maximum danger, you didn't really indulge in heavy spending, unless there were the few that fell for the gamblers' tables or the drinking. She nearly slipped down that slope herself, but she had something that made that habit lose its' pull.

Perhaps he did too.


"So are ya just gonna sit there nodding about old times, or do ya have the time for an old friend?" she winked at him in return, a cheeky grin still daring to lurk.

What? She was a woman with a pulse, he still looked good even with one eye.


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If the Jedi Council ever found out about this he was going to lose any hope in hell he had of ever joining them... but he didn't really care right now. He was a live-in-the-moment kind of Jedi, mindful of the living Force more than predictable futures.

Which meant he just focused on Life and Living it with the Force.

He reached out with the Force in the shape of a hand and squeezed her right thigh, warming the area and giving a taste of it's grip.

"There'll be new dimensions to our connection than before."
he warned her as he leaned across the table, "I'm not just a man, Vera, I'm a Jedi as well so that's going to be a part of this too."

Also with the Force he made another hand, this one reaching further up. Unlike the last one it's grip was only just noticeable as it lightly held her throat before moving up to caress her cheek, the thumb running along her bottom lip.

"My ship is docked close by if you're interested in... improving relations with the Jedi."


None of what he was doing was very powerful, enough for her to feel it and the promise of more but something she would be more than capable of breaking with little actual effort should she find it not to her tastes.


@Killa Ree
 
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