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Of the many things that Ahsoka was finding less than surprising about the last few days, that the mess was doing double duty as a medbay was one of them, though she questioned the wisdom of storing bacta next to ration packs. Which wasn't exactly a new thing when it came to Hondo, really.

Still, it could have been worse. She gingerly peeled off the makeshift field dressing off her biceps and started applying a bacta patch to the blaster burn there one handed. She might have had to do this in the ship's fresher. There was barely enough room to swing a tooka in there.

[Still NFB because spaaaace.]

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hondo_yes

Obvious to any judgements Ahsoka might have been casting on him, Hondo came into the messbay and retrieved a bottle from the cooler. "What did I tell you?" he asked, toasting her with the bottle. "That was a perfect plan."

Yeah, guess who hadn't gotten shot during the execution of this perfect plan?

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snipsnspecks

Ahsoka didn't bother glaring at him because clearly that would never work, instead focusing on trying to remember what Kix had told her about applying these kind of patches.

"I suppose you meant for there to be an entire garrison there," she said dryly.

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hondo_yes

"Well, no." Why'd you have to try to harsh his buzz, Ahsoka? "But I knew you'd be able to handle it, and you did."

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snipsnspecks

There really wasn't any way Ahsoka could respond to that except with resounding judgemental silence.

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hondo_yes

Like that was going to have any effect on Hondo.

"And we got the crystals," he declared, gesturing expansively with the bottle. This was already working out better than last time! "So you should really cheer up, child."

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snipsnspecks

Maybe Ahsoka might have been more cheerful if she hadn't been kidnapped, shot (twice!), stuck in a containment field, and having the only people she'd interacted with over the last three days been either Hondo or the Imperials digging up the caves.

While she wasn't proud of pushing at Hondo's bottle with the Force so the contents tipped out over him, any reasonable person would have done the same at this point.

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hondo_yes

Odd, Hondo usually needed to be much more drunk to be that clumsy. Still, there was very little that could have ruined his mood right now.

He dragged a chair over to sit by Ahsoka. "Come, come, let's take a look at my crystals." After all the effort he'd put in, he was excited.

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snipsnspecks

All the effort he'd put in?

Putting this off wasn't likely to result in him being less Hondo about it, so with a sigh (and a wince, as she jostled her arm) she dug her hand into the inner pocket of her vest then held it out towards him, a pair of clear kyber crystals nestled in her palm, fingers half-curled over them protectively.

Edited Date: 2016-08-10 10:45 am (UTC)

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hondo_yes

Hey, it hadn't been easy carrying her dead weight from the park to his ship, especially since he didn't have minions to do the heavy lifting any more.

"Two! Two crystals!" That was twice as priceless as one!

Hondo paused and tilted his head thoughtfully. "They're rather dull looking, aren't they?" He remembered that Tholothian girl's, ah what was her name, Katooni, being rather more brilliant.

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snipsnspecks

Ahsoka resisted the urge to snatch her hand and the crystals away from Hondo. She wasn't so successful with resisting the urge to snap "Go looking for Corusca gems, then. We don't choose them for looks. Didn't."

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hondo_yes

"No, you used them for your laser-swords," Hondo said, far more seriously than most would've given him credit for, and while he hadn't mentioned it, he had noticed absence of Ahsoka's, not leat because it'd been half the reason he'd felt confident enough in 'recruiting' her.

He was a man who was very, very good at ignoring his conscience, which made the times he couldn't even more inconvenient. Sighing, he reached over to close Ahsoka's fingers fully over the crystals. "I doubt I could have found anyone who believed they were the real thing anyway." At least he was still capable of lying to himself.