"Thicker then water" (Invite, Myself, T.J, arm514ve )

[Thecomicbookbroad]

Evie laid an arm on Shawn, leaning against him and exhaling noisily.

“thanks.” she said, her eyes shut in release.

"I know I'm a mess." She said

"But its good to know you don't think I'm garbage."




Meanwhile Mullen swore under his breath while a fellow vendor collected the credits he had won fair and square on a bet.

‘”Should have known..” He groaned, brooding as the pair departed from the ally.

 

[T.J]

An atmospheric modifier hummed loudly as Eeicia sat next to it. She hugged her legs in a slightly fetile position in the shadow of the large mechanical box. Dark streaks ran down her cheeks, the aftermath of her quiet sobs. Inside Eeicia was disgusted with herself, she was so willing to kill her own flesh and blood only days ago. Being so ready to do what her sister was only accused of. The realization that she had sunk so low had taken a toll on her small frame, it shuddered and shook as she sat in her shame.

'Cmon Eeicia. Your better than this. All that combat training and you break down over a little family feuding?' The ex-CSF officer thought as a large transport speeder flew lazily overhead. She wallowed in her guilt for what felt like days, but in reality it was only a couple hours. Eeicia finally decided that she would seek retribution instead of vengeance. She stood, whipping her face as she walked back towards the place that she reunited with her lost sibling.

Eeicia canvased the alley, which was now totally deserted. She found a data pad, quickly grabbing it. She fumbled in her excitement and almost dropped it. Quickly reading through some of the main files a smile came across her face. She started walking back towards the space ports, blending into crowds and sticking to the back streets.

 

[Arm514ve]

"So whats our next course of action the way I see it we have two choices head to my ship and come up with a new course of action or head back to the Jericho and start back at square one." Shawn said as they walked towareds the port where his ship was.
"But if I know Eecia she aint done and would come back looking for you, and I left a clue for her if she decieds to back track and look for a lead so we can set a trap if we have to."

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

“Your ship,” Evie muttered.

“She knew where I came from already…I don’t want to embarrass myself in front of the guild.”

Evie’s felt ill at the word, it would be the only time she consented to boarding a vessel.

She felt haunted by her sister’s presence and sought to rid herself of the awful underground and all its happenings.

"A trap-! I can't belive this..." She said softly, laying her palm on her forehead.

"hunting my own sisters down for what I- What was I thinking? I'm such a fool..."

She distanced herself from her new partner's body weighing the on coming sickness of the awaiting ship and her deplorable actions.

 

[Arm514ve]

"A trap maybe not the best way of putting it but mostly a situation where you and her can talk and not worry about either of you killing each other." Shawn said as they turned a cornner, Shawn stayed quiet for a while till they saw his ship in view landed on its pad. "If you whant you can use one of the spare quarters on the ship to rest befor we head back out, to look for her and give you time to sort everything out." Shawn said as he contimplated his next form of advice but it was up to her to accept it or not. "Though this may sound heartless, and cruel but try detaching you'r self from this mission I know shes you're sister but if you stay in the state you're in it could get you killed in hunts to come if you let things become personal." Shawn finished saying as they arrived at the ship and Shawn punched in the bording doors code to let them in. "Like I said feel free to use any one of the spare rooms for a rest we will continue latter, you can find them at the port side of the ship."

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

Evie flopped onto a spare cot, laying her forearm over her eyes and contemplating her next move.

“Shawn.” She said.

“I haven’t seen her look like that since she was discharged from the military…”

What ever had happened during her service had altered Eeicia and Stasha had to know what exactly had happened on the battlefield; Shawn was her only window.

She had inflicted enough damage on her twin for her to revert and something in her core felt left in the dark.

 

[Arm514ve]

"Alright but keep in mind I can't tell you where the operation was or tell you how we got out but I can tell you what happened that day, during the mission."

Shawn took a breath to collect his composer.

“It was just supposed to be a simple take the area and hold for reinforcements. Except they never came and we were ambushed by three enemy platoons, armor and air support to our platoon and armor, over kill is the word that came to mind, even though we were out numbered we could have possibly held them off if reinforced and if they didn’t have air support, we were sitting ducks I think the first instances that Eecia was starting to show signs of going over the edge from the trauma of the surprise and seeing her fellow soldiers die all around her, and being helpless we all were we tried our hardest to survive but we were out numbered and out gunned, I ordered her and two other troopers to scout out a cave in the nearby hills where we were going to take cover in, when an armor shell or a photon bomb I don’t know blew the mouth of the cave killing the two troops and giving Eecia minor burns, and cuts throwing her a few feet away from the blast unconscious I got a medic to look after her before I headed back to the front just to whiteness all of them get killed by a carpet bomb strike, and getting knocked out. Eecia saved me from getting killed by a enemy soldier looking for survivors, but wanted to keep fighting with the few surviving members of our platoon, she almost killed me when questioning my orders when I tried getting us an evac shuttle but she stood down and let me try to get us to safety, the enemy must have been listening cause I no sooner got off the comms we were hit again by a squad that was looking for stragglers, we took cover in the nearby forest but as we approached a clearing, and I think this was the last blow to her psyche an artillery shell landed right as we came to the clearing my self and the medic were spared to much of the injury since him and I were in the rear do to my wounds slowing us down Eecia was a few feet ahead of us and the others were a little farther ahead they got hit by the shell and Eecia was sent flying with even worse burns and shrapnel wounds and the medic and I were thrown back from the shock wave, we took cover in a hidden cave till rescue needles to say those men ahead of Eecia were vaped as soon as that shell hit.”

“Well I'm going to go get some caff and take a break you want anything?” Shawn said as he got up to leave the room

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

Evie sat with her mouth cracked open; she was in awe of Shawn ability to relate a tale of such violence and trauma and follow up with:

‘want some Caff?'

It nearly made her laugh.

Nearly.


“N-no.” she waved. “please.”

“I never really asked her what happened…” She said, tucking an auburn lock behind her ear and shutting her eyes exhausted.

Figuratively speaking they were open wide. The new revelation of her sister’s life in the military- the glimpse of her tragedies pulled at her heart strings and shed new light on the situation and how it should be dealt.

“She talked about You, you know…Told me about you before.

I wonder what she would think, seeing you again..."

 

[Arm514ve]

"Really didn't think she would she wasn't really happy with me trying to save who was left instead of fighting, and besides she probably be more suprised to see me alive I'm listed as dead on this planet. Anyways I'll let you rest I'll talk to you in the morning." Shawn said as he headed towareds his quarters near the cockpit, stoping half way there and headed back out side of the ship just to walk around.

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

The second Shawn departed Evie bowed her head in solemn reflection.

No amount of credits was worth her sister’s life.

No matter how she tried to detach herself from the mission it was ball and chain at her ankle.

It was she who was wanted and she who was doing the hunting. She couldn’t let her own flesh and blood be falsely convicted again but CorSec wanted one of them. Stasha stood at the threshold of a new life, an honorable, honest work, but the stain of her sibling’s abandonment would forever leave her haunted.

For a split second she thought of turning herself in- her pride intervened.

‘If I can just capture her, We’ll work something out …I can explain, I can atone with my hunting and maybe they'll take her back…’

 

[T.J]

Low and high pitch humming came from the skylanes far above the deck of the particular docking bay that the Alliance was being kept. It melded with all the other sounds and that filled the air of the mid-level of the planet-wide city that was Coruscant. Vendor's yelling above one another to try and get passerby's to buy, idle conversation of millions of sentients, the rumbling of heavy machinery working deep below their feet, it all comingled into a sort of song. Or course Eeicia wasnt even paying attention to it.

The former CSF officer fell back on old tactics yet again, Sitting in a borrowed speeder in a dark alley way a distance away from a particular ship. She went unnoticed by all around her, her vehicles outside appearence looking like nothing more than a parked vehicle. She gingerly took a sip of caf she had recently purchased in an atempt to not burn the inside of her mouth with the hot liquid. She failed, cringing quietly as she set the cup back in its holder, a look of slight discomfort on her face. Eeicia had been watching the ship for a couple hours at that point, wanting to be sure it was the one she was looking for. She breifly thought about how her sister was able to procure such a vessel, deciding it was probably funds from her new guild.

She picked up her rangefinder off the passenger seat and watched the main hatch of the ship again. Truthfully she wanted it to be over with, being on the run wasnt exactly peacful.

 

[Arm514ve]

Shawn wandered the streets around the space port for a few minutes, ignoring death stick dealers, when ever they asked him if he wanted to buy one, and was wondering if he should get assistance from Ares or someone else from the guild do to the fact that this hunt was so personal for the two of them but decided to file it in the back of his mind as he headed back to his ship, realizing it was getting late and decided to pick things up in the morning.

He walked up to the ship entry ramp and keyed in the code and un-holstered his pistols and, walked inside closing the airlock behind him and put one of them with his other weapons on the ship and headed to his quarters and put the other pistol under his pillow before going to sleep.

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

The Zabrak woke with a deep exhale; It was dark.


For a moment she settled into the possibility the events of the day hadn't occurred at all- that they were simply a dream fabricated by her guilty conscience, grown weary.

She stood, dressed and leaned from her doorway, spying for her fellow bounty hunter.

She squinted, It was too dark to tell.


Feeling around blindly she tripped over her rifle and cursed as she fell to the floor, her head knocking the door to Shawn’s room with a "thump".

 

[T.J]

Eeicia spit what caf that was in her mouth on the windshield of her speeder when she saw who was entering it. She could hardly believe it, Shawn, her commanding officer that existed in her horrible blood soaked memories, was standing several hundred yards away. For a brief moment she conteplated leaving her hiding spot and confronting him, she was almost positive that he would help her, up until the point in which he entered the ship. It meant he was in contact with her sister, or he was working with her. Shawn would probably try and bring her in, possibly not aware of the fact that her sister was impersonating her.


She would wait till night fall, or even longer it took it. She wanted them to leave the ship again. To give her the chance she needed to make her move.

 

[Arm514ve]

Shawn woke up with a drawn weapon pointed at the door, 'jeeze, not even ten minutes of sleep.' Shawn then walked towards the door and opened it and switched on the internal lights and looked down, lowering his weapon. "jeeze it’s just you what are you doing on the floor," Shawn said holstering the pistol and scratched the back of his head with his other arm.

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

Lifting her face from the floor, Evie embraced her ribs in pain.

“Ouch! I fell you idiot! I can’t see a damn thing in here!”

The old wound on her back throbbed.

“Ooh…”

She was sight, her suit open to her naval and her face flushed from hurt pride more then body.

“help.”


She rolled onto her back and started to chuckle

 

[Arm514ve]

“Um ok” Shawn said puzzled by Stashas sudden chuckling as he helped her up, “so what’s got you up so early?”

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

"I wasn't even aware I'd fallen asleep until I woke up," Evie said, taking Shawn by the hand and getting to her feet.


" I can never sleep on ships..." She added, pulling her collar up.

A small spark of recognition shocked her skin. She looked at Shawn, studying his face with the fathomless depths of her eyes.

“You haven’t contacted the guild…have you?” she asked.

 

[Arm514ve]

"Not yet, I was thinking of contacting someone latter if this got out of hand why?" Shawn said as he walked past her towareds where he had his coat hung up, and put it on sleepishly.

 

[Thecomicbookbroad]

"I think you should contact my sister first." Evie said, pointing to Shawn's chest.

"I think, we could get her." She said, hitting her fist on her palm.

"We just need the element of surprise!"