Circumstance

Barriss Offee was many things, not all of them good. She was fast, she was cunning, she was sly, she was a traitor. All of these things were what made her who she was, but they were also what made Slick who he was. She had never imagined a universe where a random clone traitor would become the only man she could trust, well, trust wasn't the word she was looking for. She had faith in him, more than anything else, just as he had faith in her.

She never forgot the day they met. The hidden wing of Coruscant's maximum security facility, the day she revealed herself and her true intentions. There was no trail, no judge, no jury, just a wave of the chancellor's hand with those three words that plagued her mind.

"Take her away."

She was to be discarded, forgotten, just like him.

She didn't say a word for the first day, he didn't say anything back. Undoubtedly, he was unsure of what to make of her. To say that former Sergeant Slick was not a fan of the Jedi would be an understatement, he saw them as oppressors, slavers, no better than the zygerians. He saw no point in the war, he wants to be able to choose what he was made for, not what some kaminoan scientist decided for him, not to be some toy soldier for Republic politicians. This young girl may have been a Jedi, but the fact of the matter was that she was in here, with the likes of him. He had to know why.

"So… What're you in for, kid?"


Gonna do something different now, something shorter, something manageable that I won't be able to let the project slip away from me as it did for The Far Outsiders or The Unknown War or whatever I called it. I do plan on finishing that one in the future, but I lost my inspiration for that story for now. Hope you'll enjoy this slightly different adventure of my two favourite traitors