The Rising

The Hunt

Hunter rubbed his temples annoyed at the Data in front of him. He had spent hours upon hours trying to unravel just how Skywalker was avoiding everyone's radar and what his next move was.

He had spent hours if not days here in his new room on his new ship. The assignment to track down the sith lord was in no way fun, and it was begining to show. Wreaker and Tech had repeatedly asked hunter through out the last couple of days if he needed a break or if he had needed any help. 

His responce each and every single time was. 

"no"

Though now it seemed to be a rather poor decision. 

He ran a hand threw his hair before he ripped off his signature bandana and threw it across the room angrily. 

"you ok?" came a soft and familiar voice from the doorway of the cabin. 

"FOR THE LAST TIME I-" Hunter yelled as he turned around but he stopped mid secntince when he saw just who was standing in the door. 

Damali was standing there holding a tray of food with her left hand and his bandana with her right. 

"Damali! im so sorry" Hunter babbled springing from his seat as if it was on fire and dashing across the room quickly. 

Damali shook her head at him and handed his bandana back to him, "I assume that this belongs to you?" 

Hunter chuckled nervously before he noticed his hand was still holding hers gently, he blushed hard before he caught the small smile on her face. 

"wreaker and tech have been hanging out with the twins today and they told me that you where in here and i thought......i mean if your hungry......because you need fuel......i can leave if you want" Damali muttered nervously her smile disappearing almost as fast as it appeared. 

"No! I mean thank you..please stay....." Hunter fumbled as he quickly took the tray from her grasp and motioned her to take his vacated seat at the desk.

He smiled softly as she took his seat, she sat sweetly with her hands folded gracefully on her lap. "I hope you don't mind the intrusion" hunter smiled even bigger now.

"What intrusion?" Hunter replied taking a bite of his meal before almost spitting it back out.

"The protein processor is down, some of the other clones tried to replicate it" Damali muttered as she began to fiddle with a stray ribbon from her shirt.

Hunter shook his head at the tray, "Forgot clankers they should be locked up or at least banded from the kitchens.

"Actually I cooked that......I'm sorry"

Hunter blushed bright red as he realized just how badly he screwed up.

"I'm sorry.... I didn't mean to.....it's actually not that bad."

Damali blushed hard and looked down at her lap, "I'm not much of a cook, I'm sorry,"

Hunter smiled slightly as he set the tray down on his desk and took a knee in front of her, he reached up gently and lifted her chin so he could meet her face. Though she was blind Hunter knew full well that her species could use a small amount of the course to see, though he doubted her ability to read him as well as she could read his brothers.

"It's fine, besides I have a person in front of me that I'd rather be talking to.....I also have some supply bars stashed here just in case you get hungry." Hunter joked as his hand gently touched her cheek. Damali leaned into his touch slightly before he grinned like a fool.

They stayed like that for a moment before Damali muttered under her breath.

"I um have an idea on how to track the sith that your looking for"