All Those Things You Did

[Lina Ovmar]

Mia went rigid for a moment, anger flashing across her grey eyes. "Just because you're a cripple doesn't mean I won't kick you across this kitchen, Ordo. Careful making comment about something you don't understand."

She rose to her feet, and began hunting through draws, failing to find a datapad. "Ori'vod." she called. A hologram, appeared, having chosen the appearance of Mia's father its eyes settled on its maker. "Yes?"

"Are you recording?"

"Negative. Would you like me to?"

"Please."

It nodded, eyes flicking to settle upon the broken man at the kitchen table. Still and silent it remained, Mia sat back down and poured herself another drink, quiet for a moment, realization dawning about what he had said. "What do you mean you're working on it?"

[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ordo]

[member="Mia Monroe"]

"Just because I'm a cripple doesn't mean I don't know pretty damn clearly what it's like to have someone elses toughts in your head!" he said not able to keep himself cold at the comment, "you think pretty shabla high of your righteous indignation Mia but that bull headed pride and "I won't bend" osik got you killed while I could have handed you the Whole damn pack of saber jockeys in damn bow of you could have just used all that damn knowledge for more than a fall back Ret'lini karking plan."

Either he got angry enough to move or his body did it of it's own accord but the force flowed in and a big hand came down on the table top hard enough to break it....a lot.

"Now beat me, shoot me, or just kick me out but don't you damn keep thinking that you know so damn much you can't think." his chest rose and fell rapidly showing more anger than he had let out even with the sith, "and I mean Velok isn't dead. He just pulled a Karking Zaiden."

 

[Lina Ovmar]

Mia remained where she sat, whisky glass in her hand and a foul taste in her mouth. She didn't give the wreckage of her table more than a glance. "I couldn't think." she said softly "In the beginning thinking was out of the question. If I had been capable of thinking, I would never had led our fleet to attack the Mon Cal shipyards. Why the hell do you think I left? There were days when I woke up and I had no idea who I was, or what had happened the day before because the memories were all tied together. I got through it, I came back out of the shadows but only when I was capable of thinking. Only when I had boxed some of the knowledge away so it didn't send me insane."

She was calm, much calmer than she should have been. She should have been on her feet screaming back at him, but she stayed where she was. "I have, however always had full and complete control of my mind and body. I was not possessed. I was just used as his personal storage device. A back up plan. If I had been possessed, I would have taken a bullet to my head the first opportunity I got. You," she pointed a finger at him "you had that opportunity and you didn't take it. Instead you behaved like a selfish, stupid schutta and went and cloned me! Fat lotta good that did you. You stayed. Why? Because you thought that you could bring our people and the Sith together? Because you thought you could bring them down from the inside? Well, you failed. And now you're in the shid."

She got to her feet and moved away to stand at a window, her back to him. "And for the record, Zaiden pulled a Velok, not the other way round. Besides which, he's incapable of body hopping in his full power. The Jedi made sure of that when they trapped his soul in a crystal." So what? How was he alive?

Children of the Empire. She snorted and shook her head. "Clever bastard."

[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ordo]

[member="Mia Monroe"]

He sat quietly, his eyes hard as he thought of the things he wanted to say, but he he swallowed hard and clenched his jaw for a moment. He looked at the A.I. and knew the face. It was buir, not his but hers. Did he tell her he had her memories in his selfish head? Did he tell her about Velok's memories that he knew too well?

"You're right." he said, "I was selfish."

He looked away.

"I missed you and I love Mya like my own even now. Guess you can take what you want when you're ready and I can go back to singing on the street until Rianna finds me."

 

[Lina Ovmar]

"Wayii, Ordo!" she said turning round "What the hell is wrong with you? She shot you in the beck of the head for surrendering. Girl is a fething nutcase! Never mind the fact that she is one of them." She regarded him from the window, leaning back to perch on the sill. There was something in his face that made her question what was coming out of his mouth.

"I need to know two things. Where's my box? And whose face is Velok wearing? The rest you can give to me when you're ready. I'm not in the habit of sucking information out of the only family I have. Even if he is a total di'kut."

[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ordo]

[member="Mia Monroe"]

Ordo shrugged.

"Not everyone can throw people away, Mia. The way she is just what you can look forward to. The only difference is she doesn't have Bard and you do. "

He couldn't help but y think Mia would have done the same thing to him on coruscant the day she died and claim righteousness in his death.

"The box is in a sealed cave on Okyaab VI. I have it guarded by my pet from Yavin. As far as Velok, you can g o with out knowing since you think you can learn from a sith and think you're not one yourself."

 

[Lina Ovmar]

Mia's hand dropped to her holster. "I swear, by manda, if you bring the Bard into this conversation again there won't be any of you left for your ridurr to find."

"Oh, wow. Does that make you feel better? Calling me a sith after what you've been doing? Bring everyone else down to your level and it won't be so hard to deal with."

She moved forward slowly "I died, Ordo. I sat on the otherside of this life and I watched everything. When you're not so absorbed by a living need to seek vengeance you start seeing things a little different. The sith are powerful, we keep throwing ourselves at them and we keep dying. Three times I've lost to sith. Twice, you and our brothers had to pull me out of a dark hole. The last time they carried a corpse away instead of a mental mess."

Her hands dropped to the arms of his chair again so she almost nose to nose with him. "I never said I was learning from a sith. I'm learning from his memories. I'm learning from someone who would love to wipe these bastards off the map as much as we do. We are not strong enough, so forgive me for, what was it you said...using all that damn knowledge for more than a fallback plan."

[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ordo]

[member="Mia Monroe"]

"I kept Bard out of it Monroe!" He said, his eyes glistening, "And no saying you're acting like a Sith doesn't make me feel better, because I want my gods damn sister not some Sith schutta! Can't you pull your heads out of your shebs long enough to know I don't want to watch you turn into what I was!?"

He reached up and grabbed ahold of her collar with both big meaty hands.

"I died too damn it." he said his voice suddenly soft, his eyes holding an edge like they had done when he had been hunting for his former lover, "I'm going to say this one time, Velok runs Silk Holdings, but when he runs out of Sith to screw over, you know damn well he'll come for us next."

He let go of her shirt and waited for the punch he knew she was considering throwing.

"I met with him, there's a recording on my beskar'gam's datapad, ret'lini." he said calmly. "There is also a darksider in the One Sith that hates them as much as anyone can, but he's a high risk case. However, if you need something done or a way in to sith locations he can help you or Velok."

 

[Lina Ovmar]

"I am NOT and nor will I ever become one of them." She yelled at him. Tears glistened her eyes as her anger shattered into pain. How could he think she'd become a sith?

She'd questioned everything since returning, every move she'd made. Every move she wanted to make. She'd spent hours recalling conversation with an echo. And time and time again she came to the same conclusion.

She could not fall. Her family, her love, relied on her not to.

She sank to her knees, breaths coming in rapid bursts as she tried to calm herself, sobs threatening to rip her chest in two. "Damn it, Ordo." She said after a while. "Do you not think, after everything. That if I was ever going to become a sith, I would have done so already?" She looked up at him, still kneeling on the floor before him. "The Bard keeps me on the right path, and if I ever slip, he has the only way to stop the fall."

She pushed herself to her feet, wiping her face as she did. "Ori'vod."

"Yes?" The hologram peered at her with the same expression it had worn throughout; mild curiosity. "Contact Rhianna, let her know her husband is here. Then start finding me everything you can on Silk Holdings."

With a nod, it blinked out of sight. She turned back to her brother, running a hand through her hair. " I know Velok, and I know he will come for us, but its a risk worth taking. Besides, I"d like to use the schutta before I kill him again. That and every one of his children. Who's the other sith?"

[member="Ordo"]

 

[Ordo]

[member="Mia Monroe"]

Ordo looked at her for a long time, he hated seeing her hurt but the last thing he wanted was her in the same ship he had been in. He looked down at his hands and back up to the A.I.

"The other sith is named Ket Vistas, he met me beyond shadows while Rianna pulled me back into my body after Teta. He has been keeping information and tabs on them since before they came out of hiding. He's not hard to find, but he's dangerous, and unpredictable. Velok wants to meet him too evidently."

He looked at her again, remembering her earlier question about her box.

"A terentetek is the guard. If you go there let me know so I can get it out of the way first."

 

[Lina Ovmar]

Mia remained quiet for some time, eyes distant as she lost herself in thought. There was a great long list of things to do forming in her head, the first and foremost? Destroying the box before it fell into the wrong hands. After that? The choices were endless, careful planning was required, resources needed to be gathered, contingencies made, allies to meet. And that was after she caught up with her old friends. As she recalled, [member="Jorus Merrill"] was a founder of Silk Holdings. What was the odds he knew Velok was there?

She opted for pretty high, Jorus wasn't a fool and he'd worked with Velok before. She let out a sigh "I think," she said, eyes refocussing on her brother "we're done here. For now. I'm going for the box now, I don't need it and its a valuable prize in the wrong hands."

She paused again, searching his face for a moment, wondering where the proud man had gone. "I could use your help with some new armor, when you're up to the task."

[member="Ordo"]