Escort

Chapter 6

The Prisoner
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As Mando landed the ship into a space station hangar, I looked at him as he got up out of the pilot seat. "Okay,so you got a com from an old time friends after years of not seeing them and now we're here to help them with? Doesn't this seem a little bit suspicious? Why now? After everything going on-"

He paused to look at me. "You love when I tell you,I like it better when you don't speak. Don't yah?" He asked and I sighed, looking away.

"Come on." He said and I got up, following behind him. The child was in the closed area asleep and away from prying eyes. Once we were out of the ship, I followed mando closely as we got stares from workers walking by.

"Mando." Someone called out, catching our attention. "Is that you under that bucket?" An old man asked as we made our way over to him.

He held his hand out to Mando who didn't hesitate to shake it. "Ran." Mando responded."I didn't really know if I'd ever see you in these parts again. Good to see you. Oh and who's this fine Lady? Finally found a wife eh? Never took you as the type to." He said.

I smiled at him slightly. "Nice to meet you, I am-"

"Crystal." Mando cut in and I looked at him slightly confused as to why he said my Bb8's name. "Her name's crystal. She's-"

"I'm his fiance." I said and we both looked at each other. I was shocked at just blurting that out but what about him? Was he shocked?

"Well then. That's hard to believe since mando here only cares about his, you know. Hunting. Anywho."

As the two of them held a conversation about work and Mando's job, I followed behind them, listening in from time to time.

Sometimes my attention would wonder off, watching the sparks fly from a machine being built and the workers doing their jobs.

"Hey, Mayfeld." Ran said as we walked over to a man who had alot of weapons strapped to him.

When Ran got his attention, the man turned around to look at him before giving him a 'yeah'

"This is Mando, the guy I was tellin' you about. We use to do jobs way back when." Ran said as the one named Mayfeld walked towards us. "This is the guy?"

"Yeah we were all going, trying to make a name for ourselves. Yeah, but runnin' with a Mandalorian, that was...that brought us some reputation."

I looked up at Mando who was quiet as they spoke. It made me feel quite uneasy. You could never tell what he was thinking.

"Oh yeah? What do you get out of it?" Mayfeld ask.

"I asked him that one time. You remember what you said, Mando?" Ran asked. "Target practice." Ran laughed at the joke but I stared at him blankly before looking over to Mayfeld.

"Who's the lady?" He asked, looking at me. "Ah, a beauty isn't she? Mando's fiance. Crystal." Ran said introducing me to the guy.

"Fiance hm? Why do I find that hard to believe? She seems way out of your league, yuh know?" Mayfeld said. "And you aren't?" Mando responded.

Mayfeld stared at Mando blankly and I couldn't already feel the tension between the two.

"Alright well, I don't go out anymore. You understand? So, uh, Mayfeld, he's gonna run point of this job. If he says it, it's like it's comin' from me. You good with that?" Ran said to Mando.

"You tell me." He responded, looking over to Mando.

Ran laughed slightly. "You haven't changed one bit." He said.