Coruscant- Thursday

[notconflicted]

Sia woke up on Coruscant after a couple days in a bacta tank, and immediately she wanted to be caught up. She wanted numbers, she wanted to know how things looked, she wanted to know who made it and who didn't. They told her the Sith were gone from the galaxy, that Wredd had always hated the Sith and arranged all of this to exterminate them, which would leave only himself to be killed. Sia didn't entirely buy it. Thousands of years of intermittent fighting had proven that there were always Sith; this was just a break until they popped up again.

She'd take it, anyway.

Otherwise she mainly got to lay there. When you were one of the leaders of the galaxy and had just taken a cauterizing weapon to the chest they didn't seem to be in a rush to let her go from the hospital right away, and there wasn't much she could be done from here. So for now, she'd gotten the bed positioned so that she could sit up and breathe better, and the news was on as a distraction when it reality it only had her thinking more.


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[suitably_heroic]

Knock knock.

Knock.

Shut up, Atton hadn't immediately come here like a bat out of hell, what were you talking about.

[notconflicted]

Sia looked up, looking some mix of surprised and pleased to see him.

"Hi," she said. "You're here."

[suitably_heroic]

"I'm pretty sure this is not how this works," Atton drawled. "I'm the one who gets stabbed, you're the one who lurks in the doorway looking disapproving."

[notconflicted]

"Why should you get all the fun?" she asked. "You don't have to lurk, you know."

[suitably_heroic]

"What even happened here?" Atton said, slinking in.

[notconflicted]

"Well, what I've been told is that we won the battle, and then Darth Wredd decided that stabbing me was the way to commit suicide by Imperial Knight and end the Sith once and for all."

She was thrilled.

[suitably_heroic]

"How did we go from 'ugh, I don't want to go after Wredd' to him stabbing you, anyway?" Atton said.

[notconflicted]

"After enough problems I changed my mind and decided to ambush him while we had a chance. Technically he ambushed us back," she sighed. "And I never said 'ugh.'"

[suitably_heroic]

"You implied ugh," Atton said, coming to a stop by her bedside.

[notconflicted]

"It wasn't that I didn't want to, it was that I worried it would go as it did," she said. "Minus the stabbing."

[suitably_heroic]

"Could've gotten in the game sooner and cut it off at the pass," Atton said, shrugging lightly. "There still would've been stabbing."

A pause.

"How bad was it?"

[notconflicted]

"The battle or the stabbing?" she asked.

[suitably_heroic]

"Both?" Atton said. "I have time."

[craftyladyparts]

Jessica knew what it was like to survive a gaping hole in the chest. Sia’s was smaller and cleaner than the one Jess had picked up on Battleworld, but it was much easier for her to be concerned about. Partially because it happened to Sia. Mostly because she had been dead for a few days when it happened to her.

Since Sia hadn’t died, even temporarily, Jessica checked in periodically between doing work to see if she was back to being active yet.

“Sia? Are you awake yet?” she asked hopefully from the doorway.

[notconflicted]

"Apparently," she answered.

And maybe she was looking Jessica over to make sure she was okay.

[craftyladyparts]

"That's a good change of pace. How are you feeling?" Jessica asked as she walked in. There was some light bruising around her face. Nothing too bad and it was healing quickly.

[notconflicted]

"Like I had a hole burned into my chest," Sia admitted. "It's better than being deaf. How did things go for you?"

[craftyladyparts]

"Better than that," Jessica admitted. "It helped that my squad was supporting a group of Knights who were doing the bulk of the work, so there were fewer chances to get a lightsaber anywhere I shouldn't.'

[notconflicted]

"Good. At the very least only one of us should be in bacta at a time," Sia said, and added, "Thank you for your help."

[craftyladyparts]

"Any time. Just don't do this too often, okay?" Jessica requested. "Oh, and I did tell Atton. I tried not to worry him too much, but that was probably impossible."

[notconflicted]

"I figured. He was here already." And she wasn't any less surprised by that.

[craftyladyparts]

"Not a shock," Jessica said. "I figured he might end up here between my check ins. I've been bouncing up and back to file some reports, so you being alert is saving me some hassle right now."

[notconflicted]

"I'm happy to help. Unless these are reports I have to read that will give me something to do."

Help.

[craftyladyparts]

"Nope, these will never make it to your desk ever," Jessica lied obviously. "Are you caught up on everything that happened after you went down?"

[notconflicted]

"I've heard the ridiculous reasoning for why I had to be run through with a lightsaber," Sia said dryly.