Let's Take a Trip to Nowhere (Invite/Ask)

[Tanith Alde]

Lizzy pouted lightly at that. Her finely attuned sense, Feline, Female and Jedi, picked up on the man's somber internal mood "Well, allright. What if I told a story?" She suddenly suggested, perking up at the thought of that.

Lizzy was going to avoid the obviously bad parts, focusing on all the fun she had had travelling the universe since her childhood. Neglected were the abuses and humilliation she suffered at the hands of less than accepting humans more than once

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin smiled at the kitty on his chest, even with the little pout she gave him. But now, he was going to get to hear one of her stories instead of telling a horrible one of his own. That was probably a good thing. He very slowly pulled Lizzy down into his arms. Cuddles and storytime. What could be better? His hand was running over the end of her tail a little bit, just for fun.

"Alright, Lizzy. Tell me a story."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Lizzy paused for a few seconds as she got settled in, and began to tell her story. Of growing up on Coruscan'ts undercity, of stealing and conning her way to another scrap of bread. Of her first love, and never seeing her again as she stowed away on a shuttle to escape the city. Of her adventures picking through old ruins and climbing the tallest towers of cities. Of the meals she had eaten, the many people she had met. Of how the jedi had found her, had clothed, fed and washed her, and let her go again.

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Despite his lazy petting, Gavin was listening intently. Lizzy's story made him a little sad for her, but it didn't seem like a good idea to say that. He just smiled at her when the story was over, petting her as comfortingly as he could. Not that it was much different from normal.

"So... after all that, you didn't want to stay with the Jedi?"

He had his own reasons to feel extremely leery of the Order, but he figured most people couldn't be killed by overzealous Jedi more than once.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

"Not really I...I don't like being in one place for long" She admitted. She tended to get anxious, paranoid, staying in one place for long, a habit left over from her 'childhood' on coruscant.

"I mean...they are fine and good but...I just cou;dn't stay. That just isn't me"

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin smirked a little bit. After spending his short life running around everywhere, Axxila had started to pale for him. He had a great place on the planet, but here he was, looking for an inoperative ship to live on. He gently tapped Lizzy's nose with a finger.

"I know exactly what you mean. A soft bed is nothing compared to wandering around... That's the point of this old ship we're taking. A soft bed and wandering around."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Lizzy instinctively nipped at the finger poking her. Pinning the hand it was connected to with her own she began to nibble on it hungrily, having run out of candy by this point

"Like the sound of that..." She purred

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

"And you can still be my fuzzy captain kitty cat."

Gavin laughed as he watched Lizzy play with his hand like a toy. There was one point where she bit just a little too hard, and left a visible cut on his finger... until the skin almost seemed to crawl over his finger to close the wound. As he watched it, the hand that was petting her back stopped. That was the thing that usually scared people off - the regeneration.

"Um... sorry. That happens when I get hurt."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Kitty looked at the hand she had bitten quite thoughtfully, consdering. "Don't worry about it" She smiled, petting his fuzzy blonde hair "Does that mean I can eat you?" She asked, "Just out of curiosity..not that I would" The carnivore kitty that could devour humans nearly in one bite in her true form said. Not that she was hungry for flesh, in the slightest.

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

"I mean... you'd have to bite my head off, first. Otherwise everything would just grow back."

Gavin smiled a little wanly, enjoying the feeling of Lizzy's fingers in his hair. Talking about this stuff made him think of the story he hadn't wanted to tell, involving his deaths, his ex-wife, his son, and the whole Sithspawn bit. He finally let out a sigh and looked into his fuzzy captain's face.

"I think I'll tell you a story, now. It's a real weird one."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Kitty settled down and stopped gnawing on him, settling down to listen

"Then tell it, im sure it cant be too weird"

She gave him a little smile as she waited for him to begin

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

So, Gavin told Lizzy about all of it. Being hired by the Republic, getting hunted down by their Jedi for being a Sithspawn, marrying one of them, how she had him killed when she found out she was pregnant, waking up in a new body, setting out again only to die to the same Knight again... and then the poison that'd killed him the third time. There was a lot. He even mentioned that he was only twelve years old, and what the accelerated growth had felt like. All the while, he just talked and pet his captain's ears.

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Lizzy gave him a sad look and nuzzled her head against his "Poor thing...thank you...for telling me. Theres a little to my story...that I didn't mention..." gathering up a small breath she began to speak. "I was born on a coruscant street....and those loving republic feet, they walked over me. And every night my dad would come home tight, and work his anger out on me...." Kitty's voice was trying not to waver "And then...well you know the next bit....I escaped off world finally...and this woman took me captive....She did things to me, bad things....and left me tied up in her home...till I got out. She forgot to tie up my tail" At the last bit she tries to sound cheery....Her voice trails off as she consideres how to tell the rest of her story

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin didn’t say anything for a few moments. Poor kitty. Stories like that made him want to go mad and hit things until he forgot why he was angry. Not now, though. He'd have to find a more useful target for that aggression later. Like a really huge wild animal or something. He didn't know whether to feel grateful that Lizzy was telling thre rest of the story, or to stop her and just hug her until she stopped him. Neither thing happened. He scratched her cheek with his fingers, almost expressionlessly.

"It'll be fine, now. Everything will. Nowhere will be our home."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

She nodded her head and sat up, a wistful expression on her face as she looked out of the freightor's window, out into the vast nothingness of space. How often she wished she could simply disappear into them, never to be found again. Maybe then she could have a nice life. Free from trouble, from pain. Alone, and happy.

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin sighed a little as he stared out into space, too. Hyperspace wasn't much to stare at, really. Too many bright white lines. After a couple of minutes of that, he stood up and stretched until the pins and needles in his legs died down. A quick look through the door to the cockpit told him that there was still an hour or two left to their trip. He leaned on the holoprojector and stared at Lizzy, instead.

"I never thought about it, but how do you swim with only two lungs? Not a lot of breath to hold, there."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Lizzy shivvered in reply and shook her head " -I- Don't swim, so I really couldn't tell you. Why would you bring up swimming with -me- of all people?" she asked looking incredoubsly at him. Truly, the galaxy dispaired at that moment. "I think i'm going to finish fixing that engine of hours, you wanna watch?" She offered bouncing to her feet

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

"Well, who else am I gonna ask? People usually stab me or blow me up by now."

Gavin just shrugged hopelessly and gestured towards the engine room as he kicked open a side panel and pulled a toolbox out. He tossed the metal box in the air, then caught the handle again.

"I'll watch. Wouldn't want to mess anything up."

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]

 

[Tanith Alde]

Bouncing along happily to the engine room Kitty hummed to herself.

Nimbly she collected the dools and pounced on the engines, everywhere at once, in the engine, on the engine, near the engine, under the engine, lizzy began to slowly coax it to it's full potentiol, ignoring the grease, dust and dirt that collected on her

[member="Gavin XIII"]

 

[Gavin XIII]

Gavin watched, totally awed again by the way Lizzy beat up the engine and put it back together better than before. It made him feel a little useless to be sitting there, but he knew his limits with certain things. Weapons were his thing, engines happened to be hers. He could deal with that.

"So... how'd a stray kitty learn how to do all this?"

[member="Elizabeth Verdan"]