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6 ~ c a l y p s o

Chapter Six Calypso

Calypso watches as a slight blush creeps up upon Piper's face, as she shakes his hand, her eyes boring into his.

Jason clears his throat pointedly.

Piper drops his hand.

Luke smiles at her placidly, then reaches out to shake all their hands in turn.

“This is my nephew,” Owen Lars informs us, “Luke, what were you doing just now?” He raises a brow.

His cheeks flushes pink, "I was working on that holographic message in that droid, R2D2,... with Noemi,"

Calypso spies Piper's eyebrow furrow as she asks, "Who's Noemi?"

Jason cast a sidelong glance at her through narrowed eyes. Calypso bites her lip, feeling weak. Spectating from the low bed seems pretty fun, except for the fact that she's injured...

Luke cleared his throat, "My friend... her ship crashed from Naboo a few days ago. I met her at the square, trying to repair her ship with her brother and uh looking for a place to stay,"

Piper's relaxed a bit and nodded, hastily reaching out to grab Jason's hand.

Leo cleared his throat from beside Calypso, "Um Mr. Lars... could we have something to treat Calypso's... burn. Ouh it looks poisonous..." he trails off.

Owen kneels down next to Calypso, peering with a concerned frown at the greenish patch of skin on her back.

Brushing out her fiery hair from her eyes, Calypso moans weakly, the colour fading from her cheeks quickly.

Leo scoots closer to her, grabbing her hand, entwining them together, squeezing tightly, "Honey hang on," his voice cracks, "Mr. Lars? Please... help her. I can't lose her. She needs medical attention like... now,"

Owen pushes past Luke, who stands, squinting at Calpyso. He heads to a small cabinet in the corner. He yanks it open, rummaging inside for a few seconds, before pulling out a small corked bottle. He shakes his head and puts it inside.

"I'm afraid I don't have any treatments for that... wound," he announces.

Jason runs his hands through his hair, "We could really use the Apollo cabin right now,"

Piper purses her lips, "I wish Will was here... and Nico...."

The three of them nod their heads, eyes on Calpyso while being watched by Owen and Luke.

Luke steps forward, "Hey... my friend Noemi... she was the handmaiden to the senator of Naboo and is skilled in first-aid. Would you like me to fetch her?"

They all nod desperately.

Luke hurriedly runs down the flight of stairs, kicking up a mini cloud of sand as he did so.

A few seconds later, he returns with a teenage girl that looks like a daughter of Apollo or Aphrodite herself- her mellowness and brightness was contagious. She had long caramel brown hair, eyes that shifted from a beautiful hazel to a darker, warm brown. She's tall, willowy and slender.

She smiled, pearly teeth glistening as she managed a wave, "Hello, heard you need a medic!" Her voice is melodic, pretty soft and delicate.

"Yeah yeah, my girlfriends injured, she needs help. Like *now*," Leo fretts, wringing his hands.

Her pale skin went impossibly another shade lighter when she saw Calpyso.

She rushes to her side, kneels down and examines the burn while muttering something.

Calypso looks up to see her bending over her, so close that she could see the light dusting if freckles across her nose.

At that moment, Calpyso felt the poison sinking through her veins, and making her brain fuzzy. She knew she was going insane because she could hear strange whistles and beeps.

She sits up suddenly, spinning around, "Where's my luggage?"

Luke speedwalks to the corner, grabbing a big blue bag and a duffel style white beaded bag, holding them up in a questioning manner.

"The white one," she says.

Luke hands it to her, and she seizes it immediately, pulling out a tiny bottle.

She stooped down again and gingerly applied it to Calpyso.

Just then, the whistles became louder, and out of nowhere, a little blue astromech droid came zooming into the room, abruptly stopping a hairsbreadth away from Noemi's bent body.

It started projecting a pretty girl with dark brown hair and a scared look on her face she glances around and said, "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi,  you're my only hope,"

Then the projection flickers and starts to repeat. Luke groans, as Noemi turns round with pursed lips.

"I really wish we could extract the full message," Noemi says wistfully, while Luke guides the astromech back where it came from.

Leo clears his throat, "Ahem.. not to be rude .. but are you done here with Calypso?"

Noemi shot him an irritated glance and went back to rubbing various ointments onto her patient.

"I'm not just a helpless medic you can boss around okay?" She snaps after being somehwat rudely urged on by Leo a few seconds later, "At least be grateful I'm helping her," she gets up, dusts her hands and does a jazz hands at Calypso, "All fixed, your girlfriends good to go,"

She grabs her bags, sets them back in the corner and makes to storm off from where Luke disappeared.

"Thank you," Calypso managed, her weak but recovering voice carrying across the room- which rests in stunned silence at her mini outburst.

Noemi turned, her features softening, making her pretty again, "You're welcome," Then she heads down with lighter footsteps then earlier, but not before she flashes Leo another vexed look.

Leo puts his hands up in a surrendering pose, "Look, I just care about my girlfriend okay?"

Piper rolled her eyes in annoyance, "Leo, we could at least be grateful to have some help here in this... foreign," she pauses, "planet..."

Leo didn't listen.

From the corner of Calypsos eye, she spied Piper and Jason exchange a few words, then hesitantly walking down the steps that Luke and Noemi disappeared down to, leaving Leo and Calypso alone with Owen Lars.