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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ankh-Morpork Guard" data-source="post: 2789925" data-attributes="member: 10079">Chapter 310: Fun“Stop your whining, you’re not dead!” Shadow growled.    There was a yelp from Jyren and, of course, a giggle from Tobias who was up on his ‘perch’ on the control console in Loki’s cockpit. Jyren cursed a few times and slumped back down in his chair, “If you keep doing that I will be!”    Shadow sighed, rolled her eyes, and went back to brushing his tail fur straight, “Then stop fidgeting! You’re worse than Toby!” after a few more moments, she grumbled, “If you’d have run faster this wouldn’t be a problem.”    Jyren looked over his shoulder at her and glared sharply enough to prove he’d learned a thing or two from her, “They were shooting at us! Shooting with disrupters! I think I even saw some slugthrowers before we got back to Loki! I ran as fast as I could!”    “Obviously not as fast enough...” Shadow said quietly, this time forcing back a grin.    Looking back the other direction and sighing, Jyren grumble under his breath, “Sometimes I think you enjoy watching me nearly get shot.”    “Only sometimes?” she finished with his tail, patted his shoulder and leaned in to whisper in his ear, “Guess I should do a better job, hm?”    “That’s not funny,” Jyren said quietly to himself.    Perfectly time, Tobias giggled again. Shadow leaned back in her chair and laughed, “I don’t know, I think we’ve got you outnumbered here. Right, Loki?”    [What...?] the ship was currently distracted with getting the exit from hyperspace perfectly timed so they were just far enough out from the spot they needed to be at to go undetected when the convoy arrived. [Oh, yes. Right. Ha-ha. Funny.]    “Three to one,” Shadow grinned, “We win. Its funny.”    Jyren turned to sit back in his seat, too, and sent a glare towards Tobias, “Traitor.”    Of course, all that did was get Toby to giggle more. After a few moments, though, the little Alraxian laughed out loud and bounded off his spot at Jyren, who caught him and shook his head, “That’s not going to work, this time.”    Tobias grinned broadly, reached down and poked Jyren’s nose gently. The child said nothing, but just stared with a smile on his face. It didn’t take long for Jyren to sigh, set Toby down in his lap, and start scratching his ear gently, “You’re still a traitor, little guy.”    Loud, happy purring was the only response.    The silence, as usual, did not last very long. Jyren seemed to have a habit of breaking silence every chance he got. This time, he turned to Shadow and asked, “Any ideas on how we steal the cargo ship yet?”    Shadow glanced over his direction, the slightest hint of a smile tugging at her lips, “Possibly.”    That got a worried look from him, “I don’t like the sound of that...”    “Oh, come now,” Shadow grinned again, this time turning to face him completely, “It won’t be anything you haven’t done before.”    “Now I really don’t like the sound of this,” Jyren said more quietly, but noting how Shadow felt through the link, knew he’d have to press to get her to stop playing her little game, “Fine. Fine. What is it?”    Shadow shifted in her chair and nodded back towards the corridor behind them, “Does you X-Wing have an EV-suit, by any chance?”    She didn’t need to say anything more. In fact, even that had been a bit much. It was enough, though, to trigger a memory. A very, very vivid one. Also one that Jyren had thought was buried well enough that Shadow couldn’t have found it. Obviously, he’d been wrong. Right away, he was shaking his head, “No. No. No way. No.”    “Awww...its not that hard,” Shadow’s grin was growing, “Besides, you did such a good job last time you tried it, there’s no way you’ll forget to check the oxygen levels this time!”    “No!”    “You won’t even be stuck out in space!” Shadow laughed, reaching over to pat his shoulder, “Just a simple jump to an airlock.”    “Why do I have to do it?!” Jyren growled, “You’d be better suited for it!”    “I can’t fly a heavy freighter,” Shadow noted with a shrug, “But I can fly an X-Wing. Loki, how long until the convoy arrives?”    There was a short pause as Loki checked the data. [Fifteen standard hours.]    “Thank you,” she then turned back to look at Jyren, “So, if you’d like me to have the fun instead of you, you’ve got fifteen hours to teach me to fly one of those things.”    Jyren glared at her, “You’re a very evil person, you know that?”    Shadow shrugged and motioned towards the hangar, “You still have fifteen hours to teach me to fly those big things. Its not my fault if you don’t. Besides, I don’t see why you’re complaining, you get to do the fun part.”    “Fun?!” Jyren nearly yelled, but kept his voice down. Then, suddenly, something struck him, “There is no way you’d let me go and do that unless you had something else even more...more...’fun’ planned for yourself.”    The smile returned to Shadow’s face, “And I’m not telling you what it is. You’ll just have to keep your eyes open and hope you don’t miss it.”</blockquote>

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