Two Crazies, One Room

[Kaane]

This was utterly foreign for Slars. He'd spent most of his life trusting his own judgment above anyone else's. This was a side of him he'd shoved down deep inside under thick layers of anger, paranoia, distrust, and fear. He was a Trandoshan, a hunter, some kind of bestial freak to half the galaxy, and to his supporters an alpha male with utter disregard for petty emotional concerns. Destroying the Force was what he cared about, a quest of vengeance that, now, he realized, was perhaps just as fueled by anger as any Sith. It'd never left him whole...just scared. Though he was in his 30's, he'd never truly grown up.

He found himself on the edge of tears again even as she lay there. He hadn't had this insight in years...and he hadn't felt compassionate about anything since childhood.

But before he burst out in them again, there was something more he had to say.

"That is...if you'll have me, mate...I lost it, I just kriffing lost it...kind of in the genes I guess...but it won't happen again, I promise. I know it sounds stupid and all, I know you're thinking I'm just some, some monster...but...I'm sorry, Bria..."

 

[Outlander]

Bria was silent. She was silent longer than she should have been. They'd fought. They'd done their best to kill each other. But... but that wasn't who they where. Slars wasn't that predator she'd battled. And she wasn't... whatever it was she'd been. No, she understood him better now. She was starting to get who he was, really, behind that facade he kept up. It wasn't pretty, but it was real.

"I forgive you." She said, looking at the Trandoshan fully for the first time since he'd come in the room. "And I want you beside me. I need someone here who... understands. Really understands what we're fighting for."

Yes, she understood him better. And, maybe, she was beginning to like him. Just a bit.

@Kaane

 

[Kaane]

He felt a drop or two of tears escape his eyes, wiping them away with the sleeve of his free hand as he smiled.

"Thanks mate...and we're gonna see this through to the end, I promise. This galaxy's gonna be free again. And everyone you fight for...I'm gonna fight for them too. Mark my words. And if there's anything you need, I've got it covered. I'll...I'll keep the Force stuff to GLN too."

The door to the medbay opened suddenly, as the guards apparently saw Slars' hand on Bria's back as a massive threat to her safety, considering what happened but a week or so earlier. Immediately he was taken from the chair, arms locked underneath his, as he kicked and yelled.

"Oi, I'm bloody vindicated you sons of bitches, lemme go, lemme go! I didn't do nothin', it's over with! And I'm prolly old enough to be one of your fathers' already, and I prolly am you inconceivably insensitive louts! Respect your bloody elders!"

 

[Outlander]

Bria cracked a small smile as Slars was dragged, kicking and screaming, from the room. Slars would be loyal to her, and she'd try to do right my him in return. But... That didn't mean she couldnt leave him locked up one more light. She chuckled internally, turning back the side. The techs were right that she needed rest, and she wanted to be back on her feet as soon as possible.

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