Ask Two Sith In A Kitchen

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As moments and movements and music unfolded, all of it organic, if some of it random, there was a problem, as distinct and heavy as a kiss on the lips, as their breathing. That problem was the fact that they were at an impasse, a deadlock, a stalemate, as surely as Cheriss’ legs wrapped around Drane’s waist.

It was a kind of silent disagreement. A situation of recognition as to action, as to how and when to progress from here, no matter emotion, no matter fear. They leaned into each other, standing or sitting, on floor or counter. He kissed, she kissed, touched one another all over, soft flesh, hard muscle, smooth skin, dark-skinned, light-skinned, man, woman.

That much was in unison. No conflict in this except the violence beneath the surface; that burning passion to burn one another, to set this kitchen on fire, frozen in time, and bleed into each other’s heat.

So where was their disagreement? Maybe it was how Cheriss thought those leggings of hers were doing anything but teasing. He had already seen how they toned her shapely legs, hugging them amid the curve of her thighs, and their fabric was driving Drane absolutely insane, maddening him that moment as a hand squeezed her thigh.

Cheriss believed that her bra was born in modesty, but in reality it was a haunting thing, and as red as a bloody fire. She was under the mistaken impression that those garments she had left on her person, keeping her from being naked, from her sneakers to her bra, her leggings and whatever colored panties beneath, were important, were warranted, were permitted. They weren’t.

So, as that fire whispered within his core, as that whisper welled and became a roar, Drane broke his kiss on her lips simply to trap her lower lip between his, as if it was bitten, and the next moment he didn’t care about permission, whether his action was bidden. He just did it.

His hands hugged her thighs, thighs that squeezed him and teased him inside, fingers sliding upward to her hips again, drumming her waist and lower back the way one drums fingers on a tabletop, as if offering a second of taunting, a taste of what’s to come.

It lasted only an instant before his thumbs dipped into her black fabric, the front and back of her leggings, and shifted. He had to be quick for this, harsh and cruel, because of her position, the way she was seated. That and, granted, that passion had maddened him.

So Drane gripped her pants and tugged them down, ripped them away from her backside, exposed her lower body, her panties, the skin around those wavy hips, those flexible thighs, rubbing one with his thumb.

His other hand slipped to her hip again, at the crook between thigh and backside, and he kissed her again, as his fire burned, like this universe burned where it no longer existed to him in their shared kitchen.

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Cheriss felt Drane’s grip on her become tighter. His squeezes became harder, his kisses more desperate. Her heart raced faster. Her lower lip stuck between his, she tried to pull back, to take a moment to process, but she felt his hands seize her thighs and move up to her hips. That was when she figured out what he was doing. Oh, kriff. Her hands dropped down from his head, gripping the edges of the counter instead.

“Drane—” she tried to tell him as his fingers drummed her waist, her voice muffled by his lips, but he had already done it. He’d yanked off her leggings in one quick, violent motion, and interrupted her with another kiss. Barely holding on to the edge of the counter, Cheriss didn’t know what to do but to kiss him back, her heart pounding and her vision as red as both her undergarments.

She hadn’t noticed the conflict within her before. The first hurdle had been allowing him to touch her in the first place. This one was different. She felt exposed, naked, even if she wasn’t. Not fully, at least, and not yet. On one hand she wanted him to see her, to touch her, and to love her. But on the other she felt those words come back again, like a barrier to whatever was coming next.

I can’t, she’d whispered that first time.
Focus on the moment, he’d said. On me. On what burns. The little things. Her god.

Taking a breath, she gave into him once more, sending her sneakers, socks, and leggings dropping down to the floor with the Force. The small pile of embers inside her chest roared back into a passionate flame. Left with only her bra and panties, Cheriss pressed herself against him, lips brushing his ear as she’d done before.

“Do it,” she breathed so quietly that even then it would be difficult to hear, “do it before I regret this.” Then she kissed him again.

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Finally, just like that, by the cast of her hand, Cheriss had surrendered herself of her exterior, of the first layer of her shell, leaving her man standing and staring at what few garments remained, red as the blood that pumped in his veins.

Clothing strewn aside like wild embers flying wide. Eyes like firelight in the night, glowing like fireflies, burning into hers, flaying alive the soul inside, leaving her naked, only at the mercy of Drane. If ever the Thyrsian was this Human’s enemy, like back on that ship, or on an unspoken occasion in between, he wasn’t at this moment.

He did not want to lay hands on Cheriss. His glass princess. Except to caress her, to show her how it was the universe that didn’t matter, that could burn, that it owed her a favor simply for permitting it to exist, come hell or high water.

Do it, she beckoned. She didn’t need to tell this man twice. He was already hungry, thirsty, burning, itching, dying to push his ravenous passion inside her, to take her and drain her over and over.

To let dawn turn to dusk and dusk turn to dawn then do it all over again. To sweat and wake up as lazy as each other, thirsty for a cup of coffee that tastes amazing after a night of riding. Silliness aside, this Sith woman had already taken his breath. No regrets.

Pinching her chin, thumb grazing it, Drane lifted it to Cheriss’ lip, opened both like the buds of a tulip. Only they both knew those weren’t the lips that he was yearning to open. His other hand shifted to his pants, unbuttoned, unzipped, and she needed only to read his own lips to know what he was going to do the next moment.

That damned crimson fabric, these tiny flimsy panties that denied him entry, didn’t mean anything. All it takes is a few fingers to shift them without even needing to rip them away. Then, as if fate breaks the ice on a glass princess, two Sith in a kitchen will have been convinced that the real reason they came here wasn’t to bake a kriffing cake.

“Sorry, matey!”

A voice suddenly came from the kitchen’s doorway.

“I uh…just came to check on how that cake’s going…”

The tall fat man in denim overalls looked their way.

“You did see the recipe, right? There on page eight..?”


Drane looked left, looked right, looked up and down.

"Upside Down Cake? You know, that circle so round?"

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Cheriss let Drane’s hand touch her lips, and she kissed his thumb as he opened them. As she saw his other going down to his pants, she felt the passion within her burn even higher. There was nothing in their way now except for her panties, and in the heat of the moment she moved one hand down to remove them. The other gripped Drane’s shoulder, pulling him close and beckoning him in.

That was when she heard a voice at the door, and where there had been fire in her before it instantly turned to ice. The rug of fantasy was pulled out from under them, and Cheriss both hit the cold, hard floor of reality with more force than she could have ever possibly imagined.

A man apologized, spoke of the cake, of the recipe, the upside down, the circle so round, which both of them had all but forgotten. Cheriss wasn’t even listening. Drane would feel the hand on his shoulder grow so tight that it was a wonder she didn’t break anything before she turned to face the man at the door.

Cheriss trembled, her legs still dangling off the counter and on either side of Drane, and extended her free hand at the man at the door. She yanked him over with the Force so hard that when his body slammed against the counter there was an audible crack. She threw him against a cabinet after that, breaking something else. She pulled him toward her again without missing a beat. He was wheezing now.

“I’m, I’m sorr—” She wouldn’t let him finish before she curled her fingers. The Force pulled him up by the neck, his legs kicking from underneath him, and Cheriss wasted no time before crushing his windpipe. He dropped to the floor after that, crumpling up like a piece of paper. Shaking, shivering, and maybe starting to cry again, Cheriss tried to look back at Drane. Only she couldn’t meet his gaze.

“I… I…” She couldn’t speak either. “He…” Her breaths grew shorter and faster, her vision blurred, and she was certainly crying now as her hand went to cover her face.

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That man’s body had positively popped like popcorn courtesy of the Sith Champion and her abilities with the Force. Drane wasn’t in any way shocked or appalled by what he saw. It had just happened so fast that he didn’t know how to react.

Who, even, was that man?

No time to worry about that. The last man standing had a woman of darkness in his dark arms, with tears in her eyes and fears behind her eyes. Whoever that man had been he couldn’t get in their way anymore. Even if his body was less than romantic on the floor. Or was it even more?

“Whether he wanted to
join us, he interrupted us. That was forbidden. As forbidden as this. Or is it, Cheriss? Where do Sith even draw the line? Parasites? Where do a man and a woman find common ground? I would offer you one of my eyes, become the one-eyed man, bereft of gold with a crow's eye, if it meant not seeing you cry.”

Fingers on her chin, Drane lifted her head, leveling his gaze as much as looking down, their eyes ultimately drowning in the same cold, cruel sea.

“I am exposed to you, Cheriss. A naked man has few secrets. Upside down. Circle so round. We bake our own cake.” He lifted her lips to his, pressed into the gentlest kiss, sweeter than those strawberries, before breaking away. “We shape our own recipe. This isn’t his kitchen. This is our kitchen. And we are Sith. Two Sith in a kitchen. Our peak of power where the world can hear us roar. Just a man and a woman, alive in a hive, trying to survive in this sick universe where poison is the cure."

Apparently the radio really was generating random station selections as if shuffling a playlist. This current song was...odd...like nobody's business. Chaos. That's what it was. Chaos. Madness. Nemesis. Games. Dark wings, dark words. Strange tidings.

Drane

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It seemed that wherever she went, there was no way for Cheriss to escape reality. Cheriss the Champion always came back one way or another, and today was no different. The man had made the mistake of ruining the moment, of intruding on her fantasy. So she’d killed him. Monster. No… it was reality. It was who she was, and it was because of people like him that there was no other way in this horrid galaxy.

Drane, though, still tried to comfort her in his own way. His fingers tilted her chin up as he spoke to her. Would he give up an eye just to not see her cry? She doubted it. No sane being would. Fortunately, no one would have to, because no one would see her cry ever again. She wiped her tears away furiously with her hand, sent them scattering down at that man.

Drane was right that naked men had no secrets. Neither did dead men. They were rather good at keeping secrets, though, she thought as she glanced down at the body at their side. For a brief, crazed moment in time, she thought of whether Drane had planned all this. He wouldn’t, one part of her whispered. He wanted it as much as you did, said another. She wanted to believe herself. Maybe she did in the moment that he kissed her again, oh so gently. She breathed in his scent again before he pulled away.

“Our kitchen,” she agreed once he was finished. “No one but ours.” She clenched her fist again, relishing the sound as even more of the dead man’s bones were crushed into a fine powder. Just like those graham crackers, but this was more delicious.

“If you’re exposed…” Cheriss tilted her head. She put that same hand that had just killed the other man behind Drane’s head, pulling him close so that they were eye to eye. “Show me. Show me your secrets like I showed you mine.” The fingers of her other hand drummed on his shoulder.

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Would he give up an eye just to not see her cry?
That was a question for another space and time.
Whatever Drane was in this moment, he existed.
Even if he sees Cheriss as his long lost girlfriend.

His woman. His Thyrsian. His sun and his stars.

But she left him in darkness, and though he knows this is Cheriss, it isn’t his woman, not her, not his, his heart and his flesh still burn. For her. For her.

Maybe, as memories continue to bleed, as this kitchen enters a new dimension, Cheriss Ktrame will have replaced Drane T’keen’s own pain, his own heartache, dried his own tears, drowned by the fears of others to keep them down.

An eye for an eye. A Sith lived by this. One eye. Two eyes. One guy.
And a one-eyed man.

He wanted it. She wants it. It’s nonsense to be honest. Drane’s heartless. Darkness in his veins. Twisted in his own way. Hardened. Scarlet rain. Sadistic? He isn’t Kayden. Wait. How did Drane know about that man anyway? Few did even amid the Sith.

A man plays a game with a woman though she doesn’t know it. Like the game she’s in doesn’t even exist and never existed to begin with. Like her reality hasn’t been fabricated into a fallacy and everything around this kitchen and in between exists in a town and a fantasy like in VandaVision.

Drane was right. Wasn't a big fan of TV or HV but he knew the truth: a naked men has few secrets; a flayed man, none. Only as long as Drane wasn’t naked then, honestly, who could believe him and anything he may say? That would have to change now that Cheriss had gotten that damned man out of the way.

Our kitchen. No one but ours.

That
was strength. That was power.

“Show me your secrets...”
“As you wish, Cheriss…”
Drane did tell the Sith.
Indicated what’s hidden.
What lingers under his surface.

An empty room. No not true. Two Sith in it. Two Sith in a kitchen. Cheriss beckoned Drane back her way, hand on the back of his head, and that hand had just slain a man. Eye to eye. Eyes into eyes. Fingers thudding shoulders, drumming them beneath new music as Drane had done to Cheriss with his fingers on her hips.

Back to them then. She holds him close, holds him high. His hands go low, from her hips to her thighs. Slide. Sly but she likes it. He knows Cheriss won’t mind it. Teasing. Taunting. Taut lip. Tickling her skin with his fingers, tracing her curves, snaking up the maze to her hips.

She had already attempted to do what he was about to.

“Cheriss…”
Drane kissed her lips as if to kiss in between them all over again but didn’t. “Just...listen…” He whispered, planting a kiss on her cheek. “To me.” He beckoned. No, commanded. He was hers but she was his first. He would take her over and over again and she would let him. She had already let him in. He brought her a gift but he needed to push it in.

Drane kissed her other cheek, held her cheeks in his hands, gazed into her pretty pink face. “This won’t be over so quickly,” he promised; a promise of flaying, not her skin, but her eyes with his golden irises, to reach inside her with his fire, peel her tears and fears…and drain her dry.

“But if you scream…” He kissed her on the top of her head, the scent of her hair enticing him higher than any perfume could ever do. “...If you cry…” He slid his feathery fingers over her hips, slipped them beneath her panties, those thin crimson strips, and kissed her chin. “...It’s only because you love it.” He promised. And ripped. Fabric -snapped!-

Slipped both hands to her back but below and grabbed her backside, fingers clawing her flesh and skin as he felt her thighs tighten right around him.

Right about now they are both feeling the violence, animalistic, that need to feed and drink. Feeling the lightning, that flash of electricity from head to feet. The thunder, blood pumping, skin begging to just slide and sweat against each other, eyes melting like molten gold in a sea of sweet chocolate.

This Sith was honest. He would offer her an ocean of wonder to make her shiver and squeeze him. He would fill her, feel her, fulfill her. Make her squeal and squirm around with her ass on that counter in utter pleasure.

“There’s a fire beneath me, Cheriss…” His thumbs grazed, cupping her rear, before finally dipping out from beneath, breathing near. “The fire of the red sun…of a Thyrsian…” Having gotten his taste, Drane slid his hands up and away, along her body, having since caught that his woman had already taken care of the bra.

“A passion…a flame…something I cannot currently contain...”

His hands found mounds, rested, waited, then his hands took her hands and he traced her fingers over his chest, down his abdomen, to his hips, fingers interlocked as surely as Cheriss’ legs locked around Drane’s waist, determined not to release him until those legs and what was between them had their way with him.

“I’m going to breathe that fire deep inside you, Cheriss…”
Like the tongue of a dragon but, no, this man was no dragon, he was a son of the red sun. Thyrsian.

A Sith, yes, but even a Sith could be honest.

“And we will cry… Cry each other’s name...”


He slid her hands left and right, to his own backside for her to get a grip, to return the favor of what he had just done to her, having since had his pants slip from his hips as it were.

"And let this whole fucking universe burn..."

Heart threatening to explode, adrenaline rushing through him, hot as a bloody fire, Drane T’keen just took a moment to hold her, to feel her against him, to savor the moment, if also to tease Cheriss Ktrame.

For what was about to happen, for two Sith in a kitchen filled with more than Force, they would need to hold on, to not let go, to enjoy every moment of a man and woman being…joined.

“Hello!” Spoke the voice of a droid from the doorway. “I am U-2XE, Human-Thyrsian relations. How may I be of assistance?” He waved at Cheriss and Drane.

“Kriff…”

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“As you wish, Cheriss…”

She smiled. The fire in her burned cold. So did her chest, for one brief moment, as she unhooked her bra. Dropped it on that dead man underneath. One last gift to him, the Sith presumed. He had seen what was forbidden and so paid the price for it.

Cheriss was naked, but not so vulnerable. Not anymore as Drane shared with her the secret she was owed.

The champion let him feel her, tickle her, tease and taunt her, because he was Drane. This was their kitchen, and this was their moment. Despite being Sith, who with all intents and purposes were seen as subversions to the natural order of things, the laws of nature were all they followed at the moment. She leaned into the kiss on her cheek.

As he did, he asked her to listen to him. Of course, my dear Drane. She gazed into his eyes as he held her cheeks, smiled at his promise. She could make the same one back, but she’d already agreed to listen. Not to speak. As for other things… Cheriss was satisfied that he’d left those options open. His lips felt good in her hair. So did her hands on his chest.

His hands, now below her waist, did make her legs wrap tighter around him. She was his, and he was hers. They had established that already— the rules of the game. The game that didn’t exist in this reality, yet they played anyway.

His hands went to her chest now, and Cheriss pressed forward into him. A passion, a flame, he spoke for both of them. But the Sith was getting impatient.

“Then breathe it, Drane,” she said. Then he took her hands, slid them left, right, up, and down. With him as a guide, she traced the outline of his figure, feeling him, squeezing him. Again she saw red. When he let go and held her in an embrace, it was all she could do to not pull him inside her right then and there.

It was good that she hadn’t, because they were interrupted yet again.

This time, unwilling to break her gaze, she was not so abrupt when pulling away. Instead, Cheriss the Champion kept her eyes on Drane’s the whole time as she reached across the room with the Force, crushed the droid’s head, and slammed the door shut. Click. Locked from the inside. The droid was infinitely more useful as another obstacle in front of the door than whatever it was going to offer before.

“There’s no one to stop us now,”
she whispered, curling her fingers in Drane’s hair. “It’s just us. In our kitchen.” With a flame that burned cold, she kissed him gently on the forehead.

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Swords. Force. He was a swordsman before he was a Sith. He honed his weapons in combat. He had killed in the field. He searched for that challenge, as the son searches for his purpose, and the sun searches for its palace.

He was a warrior. He had a fire. His burned for war. For conflict. He relished in battle. Celebrated with women. He liked his meat bloody. You could not sway Drane T'keen with cattle. He wanted the boar. The gore.

He wanted, not to listen to screams, but to see the utter terror in his opponent’s eyes when they realize he is about to take their own life. Because he had bested them in a fight.

That's what he wanted then. That's what he wanted now. The fight. The thrill. The burn. But if Cheriss opened those lips, not to kiss but to resist, and he listened then it might be the end of this.

That was one conflict he knew he would lose like a drop on a pond, a moment in an ocean with two Sith in a kitchen. They both wanted it. But did they really want the consequences?

Sith. Nature. What was nature to a red sun in moonlight? On the nature of daylight, his ashen skin and black jacket in defiance, his golden irises reflecting sunlight back at the welkin.

The red sun had chosen Drane T’keen for its warrior, this black swordsman, and it would not be disappointed for it, as he had chosen Cheriss at this moment, and just wanted her voiceless. No. For her voice to moan with his own.

Their kitchen. Their nature. They were Sith. They were Thyrsian. They were Human. They were just a man and a woman who became one at that moment.

Only to be interrupted yet again. An opportunity to stop this nonsense, to quit, to only make pastry in this twisted kitchen, and it would honestly be no less delicious than watching the Force as its corpses coil upon the floor.

No more droid. No more door. Locked. The outside cut off just like that. No one to stop what was about to happen. What might that door have offered? The Sith no longer wondered.

Breathing in the scent of Cheriss, of the sweat he could already taste on her skin, he just didn’t care about anything but her, about anything but the burn.

“There’s no one to stop us now.”

"There never was, Cheriss. We're Sith."

Her fingers grazed through his mane, made him tilt his head like a gazelle in sunlight, golden eyes sunlit bright, if black as midnight. Drane looked away, decided to taste her, like the stupid pastries they never even made.

His lips pinched her skin at the crook of her neck as his fingers took her hip and breast in his grip. He kissed her, lazily sucking on her throat as if the bloody fire behind it moaned his name and Drane was just some kind of wild vampire.

“It’s just us. In our kitchen.”

"Damn right, Cheriss."


You bitch.

Say it again, Drane…

Said a voice.
Say…my…name…
Aine…My…Aine…

Dead in a void.

But Drane T’keen isn’t listening.

“Cheriss…”


He lifted his lips, just conscious of having shifted his hips given what had surfaced beneath his stomach, how tightly she gripped him with her thighs, how it made him bite his lip, her lower legs coiling around him like his voice in the void when he was Joined.

He couldn’t finish the sentence.

What if you got her pregnant?

-KNOCK-KNOCK!-


“Housekeeping! The door is locked! Let me just open it quick!”

"Shit."

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Cheriss craned her head as she felt his touch, letting Drane claim her throat, her breast, her hip. Her legs wrapped possessively around his hips as her arms did around his neck, pulling him in closer from the back of his neck. Right now they belonged to no one but each other.

“Drane…” She couldn’t finish her sentence either. What if he got you pregnant? That was a question for another space and time. Cheriss leaned in to kiss him again, but once more they were interrupted. Exhaling with a sigh, she was more disappointed than angry as she pulled away again.

“Next time, do find somewhere quieter to apologize.” She traced her fingers lightly down Drane’s cheek before she gently pushed him forward with her other palm resting at the top of his chest. With that, she slid off the counter and got back onto her feet, standing mere centimeters in front of her man.

Looking up at her Thyrsian, Cheriss would get onto her toes to kiss his lips one more time before the voice interrupted them again.

“Housekeeping!” By the Force, his voice was irritating. Breaking away from Drane, the champion would instead pick up the nearest item of clothing, which just happened to be the white button-up shirt of her companion. Cheriss knew he wouldn’t mind if she borrowed it for now. She buttoned one in the middle, placing a hand on his shoulder.

“After we go through him…” She looked into those fiery golden eyes of his, the barest hint of a smile on her lips. “...I say we kill all of these bastards until there’s no one left in this place but me and you.”

He had been right earlier. There had never been anyone to stop them before because they were Sith. The only reason they had been disturbed was because both had let them. Cheriss was just as guilty of it as he was. That could be taken care of. And once they were done…

They could watch themselves, this building, and the whole galaxy burn.

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“Drane…”

I came to slay.

The universe can burn.
Those were his words.
Were her words too.
No poem or haiku.

The Force circles.
Curves like words.
Scarlet. Not purple.
Around their world.

Two Sith of no mercy.
Together if in between.
On that circle so round.
Their order upside down.

Maybe, however, it is a man’s mind that bends, like that spoon on this counter, or like how that dead man’s bones had been broken by the hands of a Sith.

Maybe Drane had long since gone insane, his realities and his fantasies in the same space. At the same time. Of the same mind.

That may explain the vision that had just flashed behind his eyes the moment Cheriss spoke to him, her fingers pushing him from her and the counter.

“Next time, do find somewhere quieter to apologize.”

Time

What was time to a timeless beast of self-reliance, confidence and strength? Beasts like Thyrsians and Sith or Thyrsian Sith, maybe?

At that moment, a vision entered his head, only he couldn’t quite process it. It was like a spark, a shock he wasn’t prepared for unlike Sith lightning.

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It looked like the shadow of a black blade’s stroke, the outline of an anvil, but it came and went in an instant, and all Drane saw was Cheriss’ pretty face. Their eyes only inches away. Their lips already locked in an embrace.

Drane fell silent, suddenly compliant, alive as much as lifeless, as he listened as a slave might to his queen, to Cheriss Ktrame. His woman.

He glimpsed promise in her eyes, had tasted her lips, those lips beneath her nose cute as a button, and those lips between her legs, soft and tender as her skin, only warmer, softer, tighter, and definitely wet even in this moment, or because of it.

Drane lifted her chin, kissed her in a different way with just his grin.

“After we go through him…I say we kill all of these bastards until there’s no one left in this place but me and you.”

“You and me, Cheriss. You killed him,” he gestured to the corpse. “I will kill him." To the door. Him, the guards, the king of this fucking palace, the whole bloody lot of them until you and I are the only people left in this world.”

Drane promised, leaned back in, stole a kiss, savored his explosion of passion for the moment they had conducted and concluded other bloody business.

“And remind them that this is our kriffin’ kitchen.”

Mirroring her, he traced his fingers down a cheek then turned to face the exit, sword in hand, blade ignited, and stepped forward.

“Housekeeping!”

Door opened.

“Heeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny!”

-SHWING!-

The housekeeper didn’t even scream before his body was severed into entities, divided by righteous fury, the kind that only a Sith brings, that only the son of the red sun lives to bring.

Strange tidings?
Stranger things.

And, after cutting his first foe in half, Drane T’keen suddenly had that vision again, only it was clearer, and it was clearly a visor, a visor on a helmet, a black visor on a purple helmet.

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What the hett?

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Hearing Drane’s promise felt just as delightful as his next kiss. Cheriss smiled and closed her eyes for a brief moment, leaning into his finger as he traced it down her cheek. When he pulled away and she heard the sound of his saber coming to life and the slimy thunk as two halves of a body fell to the floor, she slid her leggings back on before she joined him. The people in this building wouldn’t be that lucky.

Although, she noticed that he’d paused right after he’d slain the man. Wordlessly, she put a hand on his shoulder and glanced into his eyes. What is it?

The moment wouldn’t last long, however, as they were interrupted yet again by a female server dressed in purple and black. Cheriss pulled her own lightsaber over with the Force, igniting it as she followed Drane out the doorway and into the hall. The server walked out of a room in front of them, looked up, saw the two Sith with their lightsabers, and screamed.

Cheriss lifted her saber hand, and the server wouldn’t have a windpipe to scream with within the next second. Her blood boiled. It made her terribly happy to see the woman get what she deserved for being here. It was their kitchen and she’d just learned her lesson the hard way.

Ahead of them, the champion saw a shadow disappear into the next hall. It was then that the regular lights switched off and the fire alarm began to blare. The flashing emergency lights, red and white, came on instead, lighting up the hallway as if it were a nightclub.

It might as well be one. Except her man seemed… distracted.

“Drane?” Cheriss looked over at him, her left hand still on his shoulder. “What’s wrong?”

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Shirtless on account of Cheriss wearing his shirt, Drane made sure to venture forth into the corridor with his pants intact. There was a nice cool breeze against his skin amid the heat beneath his surface.

Beneath the skin was flesh and blood and bone. Above the skin was armor. Amid the visor was metal. Armor. Black visor. Purple armor. Purple skirt. Black shirt. Purple black server.

Drane couldn’t do anything. Could only watch her. Didn’t stop Cheriss from doing anything either. Just watched her crush the server’s windpipe, heard her screams silenced in moments, fading away as echoes into the alarms that lit up in the darkness.

It was then, as her man seemed to be distracted, as she called his name, Drane looked away, realized these weren’t just alarms in a hallway going off. It was if the power in the building had also gone out and this was as much emergency lighting as emergency lights.

The question was…why?

“What’s wrong?”

“I—”

-SHING!-


It felt like a razor blade sliding back and forth behind his eyes.

It hurt Drane. Like a headache.

“Had—”

There was movement ahead. The shadow faded like the lights, but a Sith could sense, but this Sith’s senses were suddenly out of their element.

“A...vision...”

Too chaotic a vision to comprehend.

"An...image..."

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But he dare not share it with Cheriss just yet.

“Something’s…coming…”

He pointed ahead.

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Cheriss studied his eyes as he spoke. They weren’t the same as before, clear, bright, and burning with desire. They were glazed over, as if he were seeing something else. Something far away. A vision.

Before Cheriss could ask what it was, however, Drane pointed to something ahead of them. He’d seen it too, then. That shadow. Had it been fleeing or headed their way? She took her hand off his shoulder and gripped her blade tighter instead. Not out of fear, but out of precaution.

She moved forward carefully, looking around for signs of anyone nearby before she reached the end of the corridor. Looking left where the shadow had disappeared into, she saw no one. The fire alarm continued to blare and echo around them and the emergency lights swirled and twirled from the ceiling. How odd. It was as if everyone, including that shadow, had suddenly vanished.

Then, her head whipped back to her right when she heard what sounded like a metal bowl clattering to the floor in the distance. It had come from the kitchen. Their kitchen. Her frown deepening, Cheriss walked briskly back to where Drane was.

“You heard that?” Her voice was low, and she would only pause for a second to look at him before she peered inside the dark room.

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“You heard that?”

Heard that.

Heard.

Saw that.

Saw…

Drane T’keen heard Cheriss Ktrame but that wasn’t to say he listened. It wasn’t the same thing. They faced the same way but only she peered to take a peek inside the kitchen where they both heard what sounded like a metal bowl clattering to the floor in the distance.

Where she was stolen by the mystery of the kitchen beyond the doorway, Drane was taken in by a noise in the corridor, coming at his back from those shadows, coming toward them. Like Cheriss’ moans in her throat before the fire in her eyes, he heard it before he saw it.

Something's coming.

It screeches. He doesn’t scream. But he gasps, most definitely, as he turns to see…something.

He isn’t so terrified though. Fear grips him, once so suppressed, once so absent, erupting to his surface that moment. So maybe he's suddenly a chickenshit and this Black Swordsman just won’t kriffin' admit it.

There, from the darkness in the distance opposite the kitchen, came the squeak of metal wheels, three specifically, from a tricycle, that paused in the light where the dark did not hide.

With a puppet on it.

“Hello, Drane T’keen and Cheriss Ktrame,” it spoke.

Its voice was masculine. Its voice was modulated.

“I want to play a game.”

Amid its question, both Cheriss and Drane know that they see a puppet in front of them, but they still don’t know what exists in that kitchen that is now at their back.

On any other occasion, Drane would welcome the challenge, but he suddenly wasn't feeling it.

Maybe he needed Cheriss as much as she needed him in that kitchen. Maybe it was fate. Maybe it was nonsense.

Two there should be. No more, no less.

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Cheriss looked into the room. It was dark, and she didn’t see anything except for their mixing bowl, its contents, and the broken whisk on the floor. She didn’t sense anything, but she didn’t dare go in. Not when there was something else behind her. A gasp from Drane and the sound of squeaking wheels made her whirl around in an instant.

“Hello, Drane T’keen and Cheriss Ktrame. I want to play a game.”

A game? This was no time for games. She glanced briefly at Drane before looking back at the source of the voice.

Face to face with some kind of twisted puppet, Cheriss’ heart turned to ice. She didn’t know what it was, but something about this thing and the way it looked at her and Drane unnerved her in a way that nothing had been able to before. Not even Kayden.

She could tell, from the way that Drane was just standing there, that he felt the same way.

Her next action was compelled by something primal, something borne of fear, even if she didn’t want to admit it. What she could not subdue, she would destroy. So, just like she had killed that man, that woman, and that droid, Cheriss attempted to pull that puppet over with the Force so that she could slice it into pieces with her sword.

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Drane exchanged a glance with Cheriss. They were probably thinking the same thing. Destroy this thing and carve apart this entire environment. Punish everyone and everything within it for daring to disturb two Sith in a kitchen.

Except he didn’t. This Sith was gripped by something he couldn’t really explain. He had only felt fear like this a few times in his life, and maybe that’s why he relished it, got high off it, found it intoxicating, like a woman’s thighs, like Cheriss’ lips between them or the ones beneath her chocolate irises.

Maybe she didn't feel what he felt. Either the fire inside or the fear in his eyes. Yet he would kiss her again after this. That was a promise. Make her beg him, make him yearn for her, for their fire to burn inside each other, there in their kitchen.

Except it wasn’t. But the puppet wasn’t permitted its existence, as Cheriss had proven, her sword carving it apart in an instant. Only, the moment before that, even as it went flying forward, the puppet actually…laughed.

Before Drane could respond, there was talk behind his back, dialogue, and it came from the kitchen as he turned to discover…it.

“I want to play a game,” spoke the severed half of the puppet.

When it laughed its pitch...shifted.

"Ahahahahahahahahahaha."

“Sorry, matey!”

Said a voice.

“I uh…just came to check on how that cake’s going…”

Said a man as he came crawling past a broken droid.

“You did see the recipe, right? There on page eight..?”

Only he’s broken just like it, legs bent, arms splayed.

"Upside Down Cake? You know, that circle so round?"

Dragging a twisted neck, knee hanging by a thread.

“Sorry, mate! I uh…just” And an elbow upside down.

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The laugh before she cut the puppet unnerved her so much that it nearly made her lose control of where she was pulling it. Instead of the puppet’s two halves falling neatly to Cheriss’ side as she’d intended, only the upper half ended up flying past her while the bottom half hit her in the legs.

“Kriff!” She took a step back, only to hear something else sliding behind her in the kitchen.

“I want to play a game,” said one half of the puppet. But it wasn’t that. It was something else— something heavy, as if it were being dragged on the floor. Cheriss moved closer to Drane, and her eyes widened when she saw the first man who had interrupted them right in front of them. Twisted, mangled, yet still moving and talking.

How? “He’s supposed to be dead,” she whispered, half to herself and half to her companion. “I killed him.” Yet here he was.

Cheriss was no stranger to zombies, having worked with them for years at this point, but this was… different. Hers were quiet, submissive, but this one had retained its behavior from when it was still alive. Was it still alive? She stepped back so that she was standing next to Drane, not even noticing when her left hand instinctively gripped his arm.

“Get away,” she said as she took another step back, her blade pointing at the dead man’s head.

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It didn’t make any sense. Was this man dead? Undead? Alive to begin with? There he was, alive, dead or in between, as real in sight as Cheriss was at Drane’s side. They both stepped backward as Cheriss whispered.

“Cheriss…”


Drane suddenly wondered why he had only just now thought of it. His two eyes looked at that man dragging his mangled body. His third eye looked at Cheriss. She would feel the question as much as she had felt his skin.

“Get away.”

They both pointed their blades.

“Have you ever wondered…”

“Came to check on how that cake’s going…there on page eight?”

The man dragged his body for the doorway.

“How we ended up…”


Backward.

Closer.

“Sorry, mate!”

“In this…”

Closer.

Backward.

The man moved.

"Kitchen..."

The woman Drane had cut in half moved too.

“Housekeeping!”

“Here’s what happens if you lose…”

For a moment, eyes glued, eyes into eyes, it was all Drane could do to not look away from the puppet, from those red bloody irises, those black holes for pupils. Finally, fortunately, it looked away from Drane, past Cheriss, to the kitchen, its head shifting.

There, on the floor, the mutilated woman and the mangled man crawled toward one another

“Cake’s going…”

“Housekeeping!”

“—There on—”

“—Door is locked—”


Drane watched as the man and the woman reached each other, eyes into eyes, arms onto arms, crawled closer, spoke further, and bit into one another’s heads and necks, and began to eat, began to feast, began to tear upon each other’s flesh, still speaking.

“Wanna know what happens if ya win?”

The puppet grinned, shifting its neck again between both Sith, left, right, in between, again and again, faster and faster, laughing.

"Ahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha."

Head turning faster. Faster. Faster. Spinning and laughing rapidly, back and forth, left and right, in between. Laughing. Spinning.

"Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha."

"Shut. Up."

It didn't.

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Back. Back. BACK. Cheriss moved with Drane, her blade always held protectively in front of her as the man kept inching towards them. She soon saw that the woman that Drane had killed was coming too, and she gripped his arm even tighter.

“I…” She couldn’t answer his question. Instead, she looked at the puppet, whose red eyes as crimson as her blade shifted past them and toward the kitchen. Cheriss couldn’t believe what she was seeing. It was as if she was back on Deysum. But where was she now?

She hated that she didn’t know. It was like her mind had emptied. That this was all some sort of twisted dream. Unfortunately, what she did know was that it was not.

The puppet laughed, and Cheriss closed her eyes.

"Shut. Up." The laughter felt like it was continuing on for eternity. Feeling that it was about to drive her insane, Cheriss let go of Drane’s arm to grab the hilt of her lightsaber with both hands. Then, she walked forward, swinging her blade up and then down as she severed the spinning head off the puppet’s shoulders. Once it was off, she kicked it as far as she could into the kitchen before turning her blade off and rushing back to Drane. She grabbed his upper arms with both hands, looking up at him.

“Tell me this isn’t real, Drane,” she whispered desperately, searching his eyes. “Tell me this isn’t real.”

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