Jedi and The Knight

Comfortable Silence

Hello everyone! Im very excited to share this work in progress with you all. This has been an idea I've had for a while now and I decided to write it down. This is a head cannon so some things are different from the show. I'd love to know what you all think. I also hope you like the little word play I added to the title lol :). The Original story is from my Ao3 account: Kib2374 but I decided to also post it on Wattpad.

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Mando's POV

Stepping out of his ship on the volcanic planet of Nevarro in his shiny glinting armour Mando strides toward the town cantina, followed by a closed floating metal pod. Not only catching the sun's aggressive glare but reflecting it towards the wandering eyes of passerbys.

He can hear the rowdy ambience of the cantina even before the abrupt noise of the doors opening rudley cuts it off and causes the tenants to turn towards him. A woman mumbles under her breath apologetically as she scoots past Mando and leisurely walks out of the cantina. Usually if someone were to leave a room they step to the side and would wait for him to walk by. This woman did not, insinuating that she was not a regular and obviously wasn't intimidated by him. A first.

Mando turned to catch her face in case he may recognise her but the last thing he could catch with his eyes was her long robe flowing around the corner. "MANDO!" a booming voice says, snapping him back to what he was doing. He makes his way over as the livelihood of the room starts up again. "Mando! A pleasure as always to see you," Mando could tell something was off, a bead of sweat rolled down his face as he continued on. "You always arrive on schedule don't you, that's why I like you, you know." Mando sits down and crosses his arms

"Here." He places his tracking fobs on the cantina table. Greef Karga knows Mando enough to know he never has time for chit chat. Gets his money, his next job and leaves and comes back later to do it again. Karga knows Mando knows something is up.

"Fantastic. Here is your pay." Karga tosses the bag of credits on the table, same as what Mando did with the fobs. Mando pockets the credits and does nothing, waiting for Karga to do what he usually does next and present him with his next assignment. Karga laughs nervously as the chrome visor stares blankly at him. "So Mando can I get you a drink? How about this new drink on the-"

"I want my next job." Plain and clear, straight to the point. But Karga acts as if he had just spoken Rodian to him. "What's going on?" The silence lingers on until finally Karga drops the act. And takes a deep breath.

"You usually aren't here when she is."

"Who?"

"That woman who walked by you. Don't know her name but every few months she comes in, and takes all of the bounties." Mando turns around to the entrance to see if she for some reason would still be there. He turns back, and it's as if Karga could tell Mando was thinking, Are you fucking serious!? Karga throws up his hands in defense. "She couldn't be convinced to leave some for the rest a couple years ago and I'm not going to try now. She gets the job done, doesn't ask any questions, and just comes back whenever." Mando brings his hands up to the back of his neck and rests them there. "She's a lot like you, you know. Doesn't talk much, keeps to herself." Mando huffs, stands up, and makes his way out the cantina. "COME BACK LATER!" Karga yells as Mando trudged out.

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Her POV

Going into hiding would be easy, but Mars would still need to earn a living if she wanted to keep her ship intact. So, obviously the last thing you'd expect a Jedi to be would be a Bounty Hunter in Nevarro. It's got her this far, and it's fun anyway. You can't ask questions and no one wants to, it's perfect! But, she's grown quite a reputation in the guild for taking all the bounty's then fucking off for a couple months. They even call her "The Hooded Magpie" Maggie for short. Everytime she walks into the cantina she hears various versions of "Maggie's here." She finds it funny, the effect she has on people just by walking into a room. They haven't even seen her full face and they can tell it's her just by her robe. It gets herself into trouble sometimes, but it's nothing she can't handle.