Cad Bane - The Concept of Trust

It comes back to bite you: Part IV / VI

She was standing in front of Bane's cell, feeling more than uneasy. The Duros was still sedated, lying on the metal bunk, all his gear taken off except clothes. Both hands and legs were cuffed, a cable connecting them together, restraining his movement. She had the medisensor in Her hands, and by using a small device She short-circuited it, causing the screen to go blank. Just in case... Then, She stepped into the cell, a pneumatic dispenser loaded with a revival ampul in hand. After glancing over Her shoulder, and verifying no one was coming, She injected the stim-shot. Bane groaned when resuscitating. She put Her hand over his mouth to cover it. Bane's eyes snapped open, and the Duros was having a hateful gleam in his monochromatic eyes for a second, trying to get up as an immediate reaction. She felt the gaze ripping Her apart a little inside, but then just slammed Bane back down, maybe even too hard, and gestured him to be silent, pinning him down.

"Stay down, shut up, and listen. There's not much time. There are five mercs left, me included, and one almost dead in the medbay. You are to be taken to Aman Roosh, who is the mid-contact that hired us. She is just a middleman. I do not know who is behind this." She put a key for the cuffs in Bane's pocket, and a small stunner underneath his belt. "Don't open those yet. The stunner has one charge." She was about to continue when they heard closing footsteps.

She glanced over her shoulder taking her blaster out. "Druk! Now, grab it and shoot me."

Bane's eyes narrowed into questioning slits. "What?"

"Excuse and diversion, but also gives me a way out of tonight's ...plans."

She knew that whoever was coming was going to be in line of sight in a second.

"Now!" She hissed, shoved the blaster in Bane's hand, turning the barrel on herself, and pulled the trigger the same time as Nevar stepped into the room. She yelled as the bolt pierced Her side, and grasped the blaster from Bane's hand, stumbling out of the cell, falling to the floor, holding Her side.

Nevar saw Her getting shot at, glanced at Bane, and slammed the cell door shut. His eyes were blazing when he turned his attention on her, and shouted to others to come down. He was holding her, kneeled down, and examined the wound.

"How did this happen? What is going on!?" He demanded to know, glaring at Bane as he was holding Her.

"I was taking Bane's readings as I should. The scanner... It's malfunctioning. It showed he had no life signs, so I went in to check if he was breathing, but he was just pretending to be unconscious, and was able to surprise me. Grabbed my weapon, and I got shot when getting it back."

Bane watched the whole ordeal curiously, trying to figure out what the hell was going on. He saw how the man crouched over Her, caressing Her neck when checking Her wound, then lifting Her up, and heading out of the room, ordering one of the mercs to stay there to watch Bane.

Oh... Bane thought he now understood what She had meant, as She was staring at Bane, when being carried out.

Nevar carried Her to med bay, and took out the medkits.

"Where is the bacta?" he asked, going through several of the kits.

"I think we used what we had on him." She glanced towards the merc lying on there, sleeping, and heavily sedated on one of the tables. She knew there had been a couple of ampuls left, but She had hidden those just in case, and now was happy about it. Bacta would heal her too soon.

"I think we have to use the stapler." She was holding Her side when sitting on the table. Blaster wounds burned their way through and bled less, so She wasn't too worried about it. She could wait some time before getting healed properly.