The Unbroken Bond || The Mandalorian

Chapter 31

"Talking"

"Thought"

Regular Text

3rd POV

A few hours later Peli had to go do something as Althea was under the aircraft doing some fixing as she tells the small droid shining the light, "Higher, please." The droid does so as she nods, "Yeah. Just a little. No, a little higher." She chuckles a bit as the droid keeps on moving to look at her for confirmation as she says, "Yeah, you were doing just fine, but I'm gonna need you to stay still for me." Din watching from the side then asks, "How do you have patients with them." "That's just how I am." She looks at the droid seeing that he was still at the spot where she needed the light, "Thank you."

Peli then comes back with another part as she announces, "Great news! I found you a turbonic venturi power assimilator." Althea rolls out smiling going to see the part as Peli continues, "You're gonna be the fastest ship on the Outer Rim." Mando and Althea takes a look at the part as she smiles, "This is perfect." Mando asks, "Where did you get this?" "It's brand-new. Well, Jawa new." Althea then says amused, "The Jawas had venturi assimilator from a Galactic Republic-era starfighter?" "Well, they didn't have it. They got it." Din then asks, "From where?" "Tatooine is a garden of many bounties." "I don't understand." "I gave 'em her list." She points at Althea as Din asks, "Of parts." Peli nods, "Yeah." "And they find them for you?" "I don't ask. They don't tell. They give me what I ask for. In exchange I let 'em pick through my dumpster." "Can we meet them?"

Peli nods, "Yeah, sure." She turns to one of her droids and shouts, "R5! See if the Jawas are still out back." She turns back to them, "Dadted a Jawa for a while. They're quite furry. Very furry." Althea chuckles as she then teases as well, "As you notice I only date those that wear armor." Peli laughs as Din looks at her blushing a bit but smirks. The Jawas arrived as Peli says, "Oh, here they are." They then say to us in Jawa what we wanted. I then smile as I speak back in Jawa, "Would you be able to get me some more parts?" 

Din then asks, "What did they say?" "They said to make a wishlist and they'll see what's available." She then turns back to the Jawas, "Thank you. I'm looking for mostly a bolt-on aftermarket speed mods. We may need some vinatge hyperware. But anything close to it would work, I'm sure Peli and I could make it work." Peli smiles adding in Jawa, "Of course we can. I dated a Jawa." Althea nods as the Jawa then says if Peli wanted to go out with him. Peli then says in English, "Oh, that's okay. I'm working on me right now. Just go find the parts." They leave as Peli looked at the two, "Furry."

The three begin working again as they had Din buffer the metal as Peli worked on the top of the ship while Althea works from underneath the ship. Din was going over the whole ship as he works right by Althea as he looks down watching getting distracted mostly the bottom half of herself as she could sense him looking at her as she then lightly kicks his leg getting his attention as she tells him, "You're going to overdo it with the metal of the ship if you keep on getting distracted. Eyes up Mando." He blushes looking back at his work as he says, "I'm not sure what you're talking about." "You're a bad liar Mando." Peli and Althea then work under the wing with smelting mask as sparks emanate when attaching the parts to the bottom of the wing.

Peli is talking to her droids about a certain part as they show her different parts that could be used for the ship as she says, 'No, bigger. Uh-uh. Smaller. No. It's the one with the hole on the end that curves this way. I think I saw it once before over there in that pile near the circulators." It seemed one of the droids found one as she says, "There you go. I always knew you were the smart one." The three droids begin fighting as she then says, "Ah! Don't be jealous." They are then looking at different parts inside a box as she tells the two, "I don't know why you're always in such a hurry. 'Build me a ship. Fix my blaster holes.' You know, I never went anywhere and look how good I got it. You know, I've never even been off world. That's all right. I'm a local gal." Althea listens nodding as she then sees Din holding a part as she smiles, "Could I see that?" He nods passing it to her as she smiles, "That's what I was looking for. Thanks." She goes back to the ship to attach it.