Moving Day

[Ishana Pavanos]

"I'm not saying I don't love the Blue Star, but I'm saying we're gonna need something a little more permanent than our mobile love shack." Ishana remarked and hadn't realized where they were at the moment, "by the way, where are we? Babe?" The Balmorran wasn't entirely sure where her wife went to but she shrugged and headed back to the Blue Star. All she knew was that they flew into Sith Empire space and that Ishana could probably get work as a pilot either with their TIE Corps or just as a regular freighter captain. She had options that much she knew, and it wasn't like she was missing much with the First Order.

Stepping back up into the Blue Star she took a seat at the edge of their bed. Ishana by now had learned the true nature of her wife's work but didn't pry any further, Sith and the like gave her the creeps. She didn't want to think of her wife as one of them and was learning to reconcile it. And to be honest, every time she saw that smile it became a little bit easier. Black and purple sheets were dishelved, with their pillows strewn about and clothes on the floor but the Balmorran didn't quite care for being tidy at least not in the moment. The term honeymoon phase still applied to them, and as she laid back on the bed, she sent a message out to her wife letting her know where she was going to be.

[member="Kaalia Voldaren"]

 

[Kaalia Pavanos]

"We can do that right now? That's perfect. We will be there within the hour. Mhm, thank you so much for being so quick. Okay, we will see you there." Kaalia ended the holocall with the real estate agent with good news. The apartment that she and Ishana had been eying was still available and they were able to inspect the place for themselves right now, so perhaps the two would have a place to call home sooner than expected. Revealing she was a Sith Lady of the Empire had likely sped up the process even further, but it would have likely come paired with a lot of formality, the very thing she looked to avoid whenever she wasn't acting in office as Sith. Not a single record in any system connected Kaalia Pavanos-Voldaren and Darth Avacyn, something that was very much done on purpose and took a lot of effort on the woman's part.

The redhead was about to pocket her holodevice before seeing Ishana had messaged her. The nod that followed after reading the message was directed towards no one in particular, and as the device was put away she started walking back towards the Blue Star. The ship had been their home for a while now, but it definitely didn't have the the ideal living circumstances for a married couple. As much as she had come to love the thing it was time to find a place with a bit more space, and that was the first order of business today.

The walk back was fairly short, and as Kaalia made her way back inside the Blue Star she immediately called out to the Balmorran. "Miala, good news! That place we were looking at is still available, and we can check it out right now to see if it is as good as the pictures claim." Weaving around the clothes and pillows on the floor she made a small leap next to Ishana onto the bed and leaned over to give her a kiss. "I promised we would be leaving right away, you ready to go?"

[member="Ishana Pavanos"]​

 

[Ishana Pavanos]

"Mhmm?" Ishana droaned somewhat half asleep on the bed, she had heard Kaalia and before she could react or say much of anything in response. Her wife was there already beside her, a small bit of air traveled from the spot where Kaal landed to where the Balmorran laid. She smiled and returned the redhead's kiss with one of her own, "oh?" She sat up in the bed and ran her hand through her hair to get it sorted out. She still wasn't sure what planet they were on, and to be honest she almost didn't care.

The pair had been traveling from planet to planet in search of their perfect home.

"Great, yeah, let's go wait it's here on this planet right? Or are we going to another one?" She asked just to be sure if she needed to power up the Blue Star again or not. Married, moving into a new apartment, and no job. Well no job as of yet, although Ishana was weighing her options. Although a thought ran in her mind to turn down either 'legit' opportunities and just go into smuggling on her own. At least it'd provide some adventure and she wouldn't be bored working a nine to five. She eased down to the edge of the bed as she fetched something from the floor and put it on the bed, "habibti."

She began waited as her mind caught up with her, "do you, would you... be opposed."

Was she really asking permission to go smuggling? Not that she'd do it, but she'd like the option.

"Would you be opposed to my partaking in some, not so..." How do you pose this kind of question to your wife, let alone your wife who happens to be a dark lord for her actual job. "So what I'm trying to ask."

Her hand moved in motion as she now got to her feet and stood up, moving so that she could saddle herself on her wife's lap. "If you wouldn't mind my using the Blue Star or some other ship, to uh, procure certain goods and move them." Either that or lend your piloting service to the nearest crew who needed them. She slipped her hands into Kaalia's and moved to pin them above the Kro Varian's head against the bed.

[member="Kaalia Voldaren"]​

 

[Kaalia Pavanos]

Kaalia had to chuckle for a moment in response to Ishana's grogginess, amused by the fact she didn't fully seem to remember where they even had been looking for a place to live. "Mhm, right here. Not even an hour away if we were to go by foot." It was something she found oddly charming about her wife, although she could not exactly pinpoint why. "The guy can wait for a moment, now that I think about it." Excuses to have a little more quality time with the brunette were always easily found. They had been held up by traffic, she decided. "If he asks why it took us so long, I'll give him an excuse," she said as she watched Ishana lay something from the floor onto the bed.

Hearing her wife call her habibti was something the redhead simply couldn't contain in words. It never failed to put a smile on her face and this time was no exception and it made her wonder if Ishana felt the same whenever she called her miala. "Hm?" she answered, curious to what she was about to ask. It took her a while to find the right words, which was a bit odd, but Kaalia didn't pay it much mind. When Ishana moved into her lap she softly ran a hand through the hair of the Balmorran, the scent of it prickling her senses. There was nothing quite like it and whenever Ishana left the bed, at which point she herself was still waking up most of the time, she would bury her face in her pillow just to get another whiff, almost like a junkie savoring a fix.

When the question finally came, Kaalia raised an eyebrow in response. Before she could answer however her arms were pinned above her to the bed, causing her to crack a smile as she looked upwards towards her wife's face. "Well, I would scold you for doing dangerous work..." She interrupted herself as she suddenly twisted, wrestling herself on top and now pinning her wife's arms to the bed in a similar way. "But I don't think I really have the right to do that." Leaning in for a kiss she shifted a small bit to be a bit more comfortable. "Just don't get caught, okay? I really don't want to have to bail you out."

[member="Ishana Pavanos"]

 

[Ishana Pavanos]

Ishana didn't object when their positions switched. "Getting caught is part of the job, but one must be clever enough to escape." She replied with a cheeky grin, as her body shifted against the bed, creases in their sheets also moved gravitating toward the pair. "But I will try not to get caught." She conceeded that much at least, although if their first meeting at the Jumping Rocket was of any indication that may not be possible. Not that she would not try, and then after another moment or two she wriggled her wrists free and cupped her wife's face with her hands and leaned up for a kiss.

Not too long after that she was decent enough to go with Kaalia and meet with their agent. Turns out Dantooine was not the backwater farmer's world she had once thought it was. No, now it was a quaint backwater famer's world. Still, it would suffice until they managed something better. True to the fact their journey to meet with the agent was not long. It was relatively quiet, as she held her wife's hand, and watched out of the window of their speeder as the land passed them by. Clouds were the same and bore no difference in her mind. If you had asked Ishana what she felt then, she would have said nerves. But in the moment, she could feel almost nothing. Mind and body nearly empty of feeling, she was lost in her own insecurities.

Thus why she would gently squeeze on Kaalia's hand, a reminder to herself that she was not alone. She would turn her gaze away from the transparisteel viewport to her wife. And she would give her wife a smile, and once more it was more for herself than her wife. She had accomplished something many in her family did not think she would accomplish. She was satisified with this knowledge surely, but as her gaze turned away she knew that it would not be too long before she found herself back out in the stars. Risking all that she had gained, and for what? For what she wondered, a small rush of adrenaline. "It looks like it did on the holo, on the outside at least."

[member="Kaalia Pavanos-Voldaren"]​

 

[Kaalia Pavanos]

When Ishana went to wriggle her hands free Kaalia offered little resistance and for a moment she expected another small wrestling bout, but it ended up with another kiss instead. She made sure this one lasted for a good while, savoring the moment with her eyes closed. Her wife just asked her if she was alright with her taking up smuggling jobs, and she just basically told her she had absolutely no objection to it. The Kaalia from the past would have slapped her in the face and asked her what the feth she was doing, but she simply couldn't say no to those pretty brown eyes and that cheeky smile. It may as well have been a law of nature, breaking it was impossible. Then she realized she didn't pay enough attention to enjoying the kiss, so she made sure to extend it by another quick second to make up for it.

Force, how she loved this woman.

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Dantooine definitely wasn't the planet the redhead expected to live on together with Ishana for the rest of their lives, but she was content with living here for the time being. It helped her settle down for a bit before they no doubt would move to a place more busy. She definitely preferred the more populated planets however, so Dantooine was definitely going to be a temporary place to live. Despite that it didn't prevent her from appreciating the view from the speeder as it cruised through, almost daydreaming as she watched everything pass by. It was a beautiful sight, something she had learned to appreciate from a young age.

Her attention shifted back to the inside of the speeder however as she felt her hand being squeezed, turning her head towards Ishana. Kaalia smiled back warmly, and although she often looked to not use the Force when around her wife without reason, this time it simply spoke to her without commanding it. She felt insecurity coming from the brunette, to which she would try to help her step over it as much as she could. "Have I told you I love you today? Because I do, every single bit of you." Not a word of it was untrue, it was from the heart. Whatever she struggled with, it would be her struggle too. That is what she had promised when they got married, and it was a promise she would keep.

"You're right, miala. It's nice, don't you think?" Kaalia would have little issue getting used to the area, and she hoped the same would apply to the actual apartment itself. The agent waited outside, and as they exited the speeder she gave him a small wave. "Sorry, it took a bit longer than expected. Hopefully it's not too much of a problem."

[member="Ishana Pavanos"]​