In the cockpit of the seemingly colossal Firefly Transport, sat Lance Corporal Brightstar of Jester Squad in the Vast Empire Army. Though currently she was just Bright, and a few months before she was just Rain. That is a story best left for a different time.

The red headed woman sat back and sighed, as the star feild before her stretched into the white lines of hyperspace. She took her crash webbing off and stretched in her seat, her arms reaching above her head. Bright let her hands fall behind her head as she looked over at her companion.

Her violet eyes took in his well muscled and lithe form. He was taller than she was and she found that distractingly attractive. He had a strong jaw, chiseled features and eyes that blew her mind away. Sure one of those vividly green eyes was cybernetic but for a woman in love that made little to know difference at all. His hair was cut close and a little shaggy, it was a reddish-brown at the moment but in the past it was known to be as red as her own. She could feel the fingers in her biological had twitch with a longing to run her fingers through that mess of hair.

Jellybean looked up at her and gave his best smile. The one that always made her forget where she was and what she was doing. It was almost as if he knew that she was watching him. Bright could have given outward signs as to her thoughts if she had wanted him to know that she had been caught with her hand in the candy jar, but she was too good for that.

"Like what you see?" Jelly asked in a light tone.

"You have no idea." Bright said flirting. In a more serious tone she asked, "So where are we headed?" Bright had allowed Jelly to input the coordinates into the Nav Computer, but she was unable to see what they were. Somehow though she knew she wouldn't like the answer that he would give. If he gave it at all. Sometimes Jelly could be just as secretive as she herself could be.

Brightstar stared at the growing dot in the viewport. Suddenly her good mood had vanished and her suspicions were confirmed. Mygeeto. Bright gave an involuntary shudder but she couldn't tear her eyes away from the planet looming ever closer. She gripped her seat with her cybernetic hand and clenched her teeth together with such force that her jaw hurt. Her breath became short and somehow ragged and she could feel the cold iron fist of fear take hold of her insides.

Ironic, really. Bright thought tightly. I'd gotten so used to striking fear in the hearts of others that I had forgotten what it was like to fear. It was hard for the warrior woman to admit even to herself that she was afraid of landing on Mygeeto but she saw no point in deceiving herself anymore than what she already had. She still didn't like this turn of events. What was it that had made Jelly choose Mygeeto?

Bright could feel sweat begin to prickle down her spine and goose bumps popped up on her arms. She had avoided this place for a year, passing off bounties to Sira and Riko when she knew that she would have to cross into the space surrounding Mygeeto. It never really struck her as odd that she would avoid the planet where she was attacked, but then again she had been trying to bury that hurt so deep down that even she would have problems finding it.

She still dreamt of it though. The doctors back on Tadath had diagnosed her with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and Repressed Memories. They had given her medication for it but she hated taking drugs of any kind unless she absolutely had to. She was sure that if Jelly had known of the medication he would have spaced the things by now. The truth was Bright wasn't sure if she needed them or not.

They were close enough to see the control platforms now and she heard Jelly que the comms. She just concentrated on flying. She was glad now that she had insisted on changing the transponder code that the Eclipse gave off, to a much more benign one. Mygeeto control knew the Dathomiri Eclipse's code.

"Mygeeto control, this is The Shadow requesting permission to land, do you read?" Jelly said confidently.

"This is Mygeeto Control, please transponder code now." A voice sounded from the comm station. By the sound it was a woman.

"Sending the information now MC." Jelly responded sending the modified signal to the tower that would decode it and find it to be a friendly ship with a couple only seeking a vacation.

"You are free to land in docking bay 1913, Mygeeto Control out." The woman said.

Bright guided her ship to the specified landing zone her hands clutched so tight her knuckles were white. By the time that the landing procedures were finished, Bright had composed herself enough not to look like a fool in public.

She looked over at Jellybean silently. She wasn't angry with him she just thought that she would have more warning than what she got. Inside she still shook.

"I hope you know what you are doing, JB." She said in a slightly shaking voice. "Because I have no clue why I'm here. And to be quite honest with you, I would give anything to be on another planet as far from Mygeeto as possible." He eyes caught and held his. She was searching she realized. For what she wasn't sure just yet but it seemed to her that he was doing some searching of his own in her eyes.

Was she ready to face the past? Bright would only be able to hang on for the ride and she had a feeling it was going to be a rough one. "I get the proverbial bad feeling about this." She muttered as she stood and adjusted her belt so that her blaster would be easier to reach. She hoped that she wouldn't need it.

Despite her hatred of Jelly's plan, Bright found that she was able to stifle the urge to just run back to her ship and take off. She had her gear slung over her shoulder and her Annihilator was clipped around her waist so it was within easy reach. Her violet eyes darted from side to side alert for any sign of an ambush.

"Would you relax a bit." It wasn't a question and it was even less of a request. Jelly put his arm around her shoulders and gave her a quick and reassuring squeeze.

Bright smiled up at him and took a deep breath then let it out slowly. She closed her eyes to gather her calm and then opened them again. "Sorry." She murmured to herself.

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Hours later the two of them had not only made arrangements for a room at a mid-city hotel, but they had also gathered enough information that would lead them to the exact spot where Bright had been ambushed.

Some rumors that they gleaned from nearby Catina's said that the 'Imp' that had been attacked still haunts the Silver Peak regions. Those that had attacked, well those that still lived, were no longer on Mygeeto because of the so called haunting of the victim. Jelly and Bright had gotten a good laugh at that.

Both of them were surprised however, to learn that the attack of whom the locals now affectionately call Red-Mane, had created sympathy for the VE.

"What do you mean by that?" Bright asked a bartender casually.

The bartender leaned in closer to her. "Word has it that Red-Mane didn' do nothin' te provoke the attack." He whispered low. "Word has it that she'd only been here to follow the trail of her adoptive father's killer."

That sent an icy jolt through Bright's heart. Her adoptive father had been one of the kindest men she had ever known. Now she knew why her calls were not returned. On the outside she only showed a professional mask of mild interest. "Did she manage to find him?" She asked furrowing her brows.

"Some say she did and some say she didn't. No one knows really." The bartender stood straight again. "She stayed over at Drowerd's Inn before she was killt. Might ask around a bit. Ol' Drowerd is still there and his wife says he still holds that room special. Ye see he don' think that Red-Mane is really passed on."

Jelly nodded at Bright's look. He flipped the bartender a generous tip and took Bright's arm. "You have that look." He said as they headed out the door.

Bright chewed on her bottom lip. "What look?" She asked distantly. Her mind was reeling. She finally knew why she had come here, she had been tracking her adoptive father's killer. For now that was enough to take her mind off of the fact that she was on Mygeeto.

"The one you always get when you've caught the scent." Jelly replied with a smile.