"I'll try not to hurt you" I tease winking at her as she smirks.
"I think I'll be fine. You worry about yourself" She chuckles as I stand pointing my staff at her gripping it tightly. I lift the staff up to strike but she jabs the top end of her staff into my stomach. "Don't immediately go for a downward strike. Try again" I take a deep breath standing back with my staff pointing at her. I jab my staff forward but Qi'ra immediately hits the top of my staff down causing me to stab the floor. I lift it back up but before I can do anything she swings at me hitting my arm. I attempt to do copy what she did but then she hits my staff away. She spins around twirling the staff behind her back then hits my arm knocking me down on my butt.
"Holy shit" I hold on to my arm where she smacked me, looking up at her.
"Told you I'd be fine" She gives me a smug smile as she holds her hand out to me.
I grab her hand rolling my eyes as she pulls helping me up to my feet. "Where'd you learn to do that?" I ask, bending down picking up my staff from the ground.
"I've picked up a thing or two when I was Darth Mauls apprentice" She sighs while I dust myself off.
"You should use that staff for missions. You're good with it" I chuckle. I notice she's distracted so I take my staff and softly hit the side of her thigh.
"Hey!" She then takes her staff and hits my thigh making me laugh. "But I'll stick with a blaster. You can use the staffs" She lightly bonks the top of my head with her staff. "Now let's get back to training. You're not going to get better by standing here chatting."
"Can you actually train me instead of beating me with the damn thing then?" I ask putting my free hand on my hip.
She rolls her eyes chuckling lightly. "Fine. Let's start with defense using your staff. I'll start attacking slow and slowly begin speeding up. Is that ok whiny?"
"That's fine" I roll my eyes.
"Good" She smirks lifting up her staff and slamming it against mine. "Let's start then" So she begins slowly attacking me with her staff. She swings left, right, up and down, I start to feel like I'm doing good. Until she starts speeding up, hitting slightly harder as well. She then swings down but I hold my staff up blocking her smack. Then she smacks up near my hands, disarming me.
"Hey we didn't say anything about disarming me" I glare at her as she chuckles.
"You have to expect the unexpected!" She laughs walking over to me. She bends down pick up my staff handing it back to me. I take the staff from her then she grabs onto my shirt. She pulls me to her kissing me, "Let's continue." She smirks before I feel her push me back with her staff. "Don't get distracted either" She winks at me taking a few steps back.
"Wait, is that what that was? A dist-" Before I can finish she swings her staff down to the right at me. I quickly lift my staff up blocking her attack. "Hey wait I-" Then she swings again down to the left so I bring my staff to the left slamming her staff into mine. She takes a step forward starting to speed up her attacks. Which then causes me to start taking steps back as she walks toward. She swings at my legs knocking me back down on my butt again. I look up at her as she points the butt end of her staff at my face. "You're enjoying knocking me on my ass aren't you?"
"Maybe a little" Qi'ra laughs as I scoff getting back up on my feet. "Come on let's keep going"
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A few hours pass, now I'm sweaty and sitting down on my butt out of breath. Qi'ra stands over me dropping her staff down next to her. "Done for the day?" She asks me, slightly out of breathe.
"Yea.. I think I'm done getting my ass kicked for the day." I chuckle exhausted as I lay back on my on the dirt.
Qi'ra laughs lightly and sits down next to me. "You're doing pretty good for a first time staff wielder" I look over at her to see her smiling softly down at me.
"Thank you. Better than my blaster skills?" I query sitting back up.
"You're getting there" She hums in amusement as she runs her hand through my hair fixing the mess it has become. "We can train again tomorrow if you want"
"I'd like that. Aside from you knocking me on my ass constantly, I enjoyed training with you" She chuckles lightly as she takes her hand away from me and rests it on her lap.
"And I've enjoyed knocking you on your ass" She hums in amusement running her hand through my hair once again.
"If you keep running your hand through my hair like that you're going to put me to sleep" I chuckle bumping my shoulder playfully into hers. She hums leaning forward to kiss me when someone clears their throat.
I look past her as she quickly turns away from me and we see Kyly standing with her dad. "You two done with your training?" Gil smiles, he seems amused.
"Yea. I'm done getting my ass kicked for the day" I laugh standing up to my feet.
"She really got you good!" RJ speaks for the first time in hours. I grab onto Qi'ra's hand hoisting her up to her feet.
"Why don't you come over here and I'll knock you on your little tin butt" I grumble as Qi'ra laughs patting her hand on my chest.
"I'm not made out of Tin! And I can probably knock you on your butt!" He beeps while walking over to us.
"I'd like to see you try RJ" I chuckle brushing the dirt off my shirt as he stomps over to us.
"Aw look you got him all mad Leo" Qi'ra teases picking RJ up.
"He started it" I scoff rolling my eyes at her.
"What are you 5?" She holds RJ up to me having him kick me in the side of the head.
"Ow! Why do you two like to abuse me?" I whine rubbing my head where RJ kicked me.
"Hey why don't you three stay for dinner?" Gil offers, interrupting our banter. I look over at him then at Kyly who seems uncomfortable.
"That sounds nice. What do you say Leo?" Qi'ra grabs my arm still holding RJ with her other arm.
"Please Leo?" RJ beeps sadly.
"Ok we can stay for dinner"
"Yay!" RJ exclaims as Qi'ra puts her hand behind my head. She brings me closer to her kissing me lovingly.
"Great! We haven't had guests in a long time. I'll get everything ready" Gil cheers before walking into the house.
"Talk to her.." Qi'ra whispers. She kisses me gently then walks inside with RJ in her arms.
"Kyly."
"I'm leaving"
"Wait!"
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Never Tell Me The Odds
FanfictionLeo Bridger and his little droid friend RJ seek help from notorious smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca, for a mission on his home planet of Jakku. Once the mission is over, and they've bought themselves a new ship they went their separate ways. That...
