Never Tell Me The Odds

Chapter 16

We successfully make it back to the ship and I stop, watching RJ walk in through the hatch. But I stand outside the ship thinking about what Han had said to me before. "The second she gets the chance she'll leave you like she did to me."

"Son of a bitch!" I groan in frustration as I realize why she wanted me to go ahead of her. "RJ you stay with the ship! I need to go get Qi'ra!"

"What? But she said she was coming with us?" He turns to me confused.

"I think she lied. I need to go get her so stay here!" I turn away to start walking but he stops me.

"Wait what if someone sees you!"

"I'll take care of it. Just stay here ok?" I look back at him giving him a stern look before making my way back to the meeting room. I hear talking so I quickly hide behind a wall until they pass. Finally, they walk past so I go to walk away when I feel a hand tap my shoulder.

I turn around to see a guy in uniform standing behind me. "Hey aren't you-"

Before he could finish I smack my the back end of my blaster against his head knocking him out. I grab him by the collar of his uniform and drag him off with me to the meeting room. Then I see a hall closet next to the room. So I go in and quickly change into the uniform the guy was wearing. I then wrap my clothes up in a ball and carry them out of the room. I open the door to see her standing at the communication panel ready to call someone. I pull out my blaster and shoot the console destroying it before she can make a call. "What the hell!?" She exclaims and looks over at me. "Leo it's not what it looks like"

"What the hell is this then!? Who were you about to call!?" I yell walking towards her with my blaster still in my hand.

"No one!"

"Don't lie to me Qi'ra! I'm not stupid" I scoff shooting the other side of the console destroying it. "Now" I shove my blaster back in its holster. "What the hell were you doing?"

"I'm in too deep Leo. There's no way this will work ok? You should get out of here while you can" She grabs onto my arms pushing me backwards.

"No I'm not leaving without you!" I push her hands off of me. "I know you don't want to be in this anymore. You're just scared to leave"

"No this is where I belong" She shakes her head No as she turns away from me.

"That's a load of shit and you know it" I grab her arm spinning her back to face me. "Come with me. We can be together, go on missions, have fun together. We can be free, together." I grab onto her other arm pulling her closer to me.

"I'm not good for you Leo. This won't work out!" She tries pushing off of me but I tighten my grip slightly pulling her towards me more.

"You don't know that. Screw that, it will work. I'll make sure it works. I'm no saint Qi'ra, I've done messed up shit too. You don't belong here, you belong with me. Out there where we can be free" I explain clenching my jaw tightly.

"Even if you aren't a saint, it doesn't matter" She sighs pushing my hands off of her. "When you find out what I've done.. you'll look at me differently then you do now.."

"That's bull! Nothing you do or did will make me look at you differently. I don't care what you've done in the past. It was in the past.." I explain taking her hands in mine.

"You should be with someone else, why do you want to be with me anyway? You've known me for a few days! I'll just end up hurting you like I did Han" She quickly takes her hands away and leans over on the broken console.

I look at the desk where the ticking time bomb is at then look back at her. "Qi'ra.." I then grab her arms again and pull her to me, resting my forehead on hers. "The only one in the galaxy I want is you... I know that just from spending a few days with you." I pause taking a deep breath then continue. "I haven't felt this way about anyone.. not even my first love. You're the one I want... So please will you-" Before I can finish she wraps her arms around my neck tightly, smashing her lips onto mine. I wrap my arms around her waist tightly as she tangles her hands in my hair.

"I'll come with you.." She breathes against my lips before kissing me again. "I want to be with you too.. I'm just scared."

"It's ok, I won't let anything happen to you for coming with me. Now, we should leave so we're alive long enough to be together. It's going to be hard when we're blown to bits" I joke as she pulls back chuckling.

"You're right.. shit the bomb! We need to get back to the ship" She let's go of me and starts towards the door. I walk over to the broken table as stops and turns to me confused, "What are you doing?"

"Grabbing this Beskar. I'm not letting all this go to waste" I quickly grab the bag, shove my clothes in it and put the bag on my back. I run over to Qi'ra grabbing her hand and quickly leave the room.

"Why are you wearing that by the way?" She queries looking me up and down as we walk.

"That's the question you want to ask, really?" I look over at her laughing. "Someone saw me, I knocked them out and decided to wear their uniform as a disguise." Just then I hear footsteps approaching, so I stop in my tracks putting my arm out stopping her as well. They get closer so I softly push her behind me over to the wall hiding her. I step out from behind the wall as the footsteps grow closer.

"Hey what are you doing over there?" One of the two men say stopping in front of me.

"Oh uh I was making sure that guy and his droid left" I take a deep breath watching the men closely.

"Well? Did he leave then?" The other chimes in looking me up and down.

"Yes he did leave" I nod trying not to look over at Qi'ra who is still hiding.

"We should go see Darth Maul" The first guy says immediately making me nervous.

"No! Uh" I clear my throat and chuckle awkwardly. "I was given specific orders to not bother him. He is in a meeting with Qi'ra right now and doesn't want to be disturbed" Oh god please believe me. I'm so dead. We're so dead.

"Oh. That makes sense" The first guy looks over at the second guy nodding.

"He doesn't usually like when we interrupt his meetings unless it's important" The second guy chimes in as I breathe a sigh of relief.

"Thanks for telling us. We'll be on our way then" He nods back at me and then the two walk away.

I watch them walk away then turn to Qi'ra grabbing her hand. "We gotta go NOW. That bomb is gonna blow up any second!" I whisper yell to her.

"Right let's hurry!" We both hurry off to the ship hangar where I see the ship has already been started up.

We quickly run on to the ship and into the cockpit as RJ shuts the hatch door. "What happened?? I thought you two weren't gonna come back!" RJ exclaims.

I quickly sit in the pilot seat starting to take off, "I told you RJ, I always come back. Now hold on, we're getting the hell off this ship" Qi'ra and RJ both sit down as I quickly fly up off the ship. Once we are a good distance away I turn us around to see if it's going to explode. A few seconds after turning to face the ship, a big explosion happens blowing up half the ship.

"We did it!" RJ cheers. "Are we going home now?"

"No not yet. We should wait a few days just in case" I sigh watching the ship burn.

"We should turn this Beskar into armor" Qi'ra suggests.

"That's a great idea Qi'ra. Let's get out of here then"