Fluffy February Day 19: Loop
Fandom: SWTOR
TIme: Intro to the Smuggler story (landing on Coruscant)
Pairing: None (gen fic)
Words: ~700
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Eva Corolastor glared up at the public transport listing at Coruscant spaceport.
Corso watched the pilot as she got more annoyed at the constant delays. He’d only known Eva for a few days, but he knew she had a temper on her. Granted, some guy had just stolen her ship, ditched her on Ord Mantell, and nearly got her cat killed when the critter abandoned ship to go to his master.
Hylo the Cat sat on his haunches, also glaring up at the public transport listings. Unacceptable.
Eva seemed to reach the same conclusion. Eva turned to Corso abruptly. “You got a speeder license?”
“Yeah, been drivin’ farm vehicles since I was … ten? Got it all official the day I –”
“Great! You got a criminal record yet?” Eva startled him with her enthusiasm as well as the follow-up question.
“Uh…no?” Corso barely had enough time to reply before Eva grabbed his arm and dragged him over to the speeder rental booth.
“Viidu had a deadman’s switch, so I got some credits from him – bet you did too,” Eva said. “And I’d rather spend it on actually getting somewhere in this city rather than waiting around for some old converted garbage scow.”
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“Move over.” Eva motioned to Corso. As if to add emphasis, Hylo jumped on the dashboard, right in front of the steering yoke.
“Seriously?” Corso said, not moving out of the driver’s seat yet. “I’m the legal driver of this here vehicle – you didn’t want to get your chaincode scanned –” Then something struck him. “Hey, you didn’t get scanned at the port authority – you had Hylo snatch that guard’s lunch and then the pair of you chased him all over the port –"
“--I’m the better driver,” Eva cut him off as she opened the speeder door on the driver’s side.
Corso looked at her as if she was crazy. “Now how do I know that?”
Eva gestured to herself with open hands. “Did I not dodge that separatist blockade? Did I not land under fire?”
Corso shook a finger at her. “Now hang on here – that’s a starship, this is a speeder –”
“If I’m good at the big stuff, don’t you think I’d be even better at the small craft?” Eva squared up to him, hands on her hips. “Or is this a ‘the man should drive’ situation, because that’s sooooo last century and is an expression of your latent insecurities.”
Corso worked his jaw a couple of times. “Ain’t got nothing to be insecure about! The swoop’s in my name and I’m responsible for it –”
“And don’t we have a meeting with that Darmas? Isn’t he busy?” Eva pointedly looked at her chrono on her wrist. “Don’t want to miss the opportunity to catch Skavak.”
Corso squeezed the steering wheel in his hands. Then he made a disgusted noise. “Just don’t total it.” Then he moved over to sit on the passenger side.
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“AAAAAAAAAAAAAY VVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Corso stared ahead at the oncoming freighter, howling the entire time.
Eva let out a whoop as she pulled back on the yoke and weaved back into the correct lane of traffic. “Kriff, the exit to that sector is back up there.” Her eyes bounced between the lane in front of her and the review mirror, where the exit sign now was.
Then she reached to pat Hylo. “You might wanna hold on tight.’
With a mreep, Hylo jumped off the dash and sank his claws into the carseat.
“Ah, come on, you two, the speeder is in my NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME ---”
Eva had executed a loop in order to get herself into the upper lane going into the opposite direction.
Except now they were flying upside down.
And that’s exactly how they entered into the speeder port, with Eva flipping them back over at the absolute last second.
Eva and Hylo jumped out of the speeder as if it was no big deal.
Corso remained hunched over in the passenger seat for a few minutes. “Eva,” he finally said as he sat up. He let his hand hang over the side of the speeder door and motioned for her to come over.
Eva meandered over, some smug expression on her face.
“Give me the keys, woman. We ain’t doin’ that again.”
....but they absolutely did it again. A lot of times.
And Corso missed it when they didn’t.
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mreep
oh.. what crechur is theis.....
this is what your profile picture looks like to me
oh man i spelled mreep wrong
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"It's finally Caturday! You know what that means, haha~!!" *kaito's plops onto the ground and starts lounging with the kitties, eve grumbling at him while snow starts hopping around!*
"It's when kitties all over the world are at their most powerful, right? Amazing! However, you better not go overboard with your powers today~!"
"Mreep!! ♪" Smoker joins the trio excitedly, climbing on top of Kaito's stomach and walking up his body towards his face! "Mrr~?" An innocent little head tilt in regards to not going overboard with his powers, he instead decides to 'bless' Kaito with his powers, via giving his nose a small lap~! He'll try to make sure not to accidentally cause a heavy rain fall, but at least make the weather cooler with a light rain!
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