I read the new Essential Guide to Characters and discovered that Boba Fett would be 41 yrs old (only?! WOW!@!) at the time of Dark Empire, and that time also marked the end of his partnership with Dengar. I don't know that much about Fett, I was just in need of some recreation at the time. And this seemed like a perfect idea... *evil cackle*
Hmm, let’s see about that other character...
name: (sigh... ok... ideas...?) Onrel D’Lana, Moyla Rokancen, Lenma
Shiien, Verta Oorilka, Moya Tolen (YAY!!! A winner!)
age during story (you know when!): 37
occupation: aide to Hutt senator (yea, HUTT senator! I love this...)
desc: quiet, lonely, yet stubborn, pale complexion, shifting gold hair,
clear grey eyes, short (as Leia I guess), delicate
And the Hutt:
name: Gurbac
age during story: 114
occupation: Senator of the New Republic, planet controlled by hutts
(and also a scumbag criminal)
desc: ugly
HERE GOES!!!:
Story: SOMEHOW (I know not by u-no-wut) Moya gets pregnant. The child
is Boba Fett’s. Somehow he arranged it, because he does want kids (Don’t
ask. I’ll think up an explanation later). She doesn’t know who is the father,
she’s just always wanted a child, but no one would have her, and she is
getting a little old. So she offers herself as a mother. (It’s a project
to repopulate some planet.) Fett is a little surprised when the... doctor?
chooses her. (YAY I figured that part out!) Because she is in a... somewhat
precarious job (giveaway: Hutt) and he doesn’t want his child in danger
(HA HA!!! Ahem... yes. My wierdness. But...?). He takes it upon himself
to watch out for Moya when he can. And... sure enough, she lets something
slip to the Hutt she’s working for (doesn’t like her job, etc...) and the
slug sends his goons to pester her. Fett follows them to a dark corner
and picks up Moya (who’s never met him before *gasp!*), rescuing her. Of
course, she’s surprised and afraid of the bounty hunter. He just tells
her to be careful and disappears, after bringing her to a doctor to take
care of her wounds. Fett continues with his work (well, with that kind
of a rep, he’d be in demand!), content for the moment that Moya will be
fine. After awhile he checks up on her, and since he’s got no bounties
worth his time, sticks around to see what’s going on more fully. Over the
course of ... uh... a couple months?, they have more run-ins with Moya’s
old enemies. Moya begins to suspect something is up with Fett, but hasn’t
come up with any ideas. She begins to keep an eye open herself, and every
time Fett pops up (HEEHEE!!! wierd images there...) she can sense it (no,
she isn’t Jedi potential. Get over it). She finally gets enough courage
to walk right up to him and ask him who sent him to protect her. Of course
he responds with somthing like “I’m not at liberty to say.” then tells
her not to let out that he IS protecting her from harm. Then says as he
leaves once again (d’you think he could be a little sarcastic?), “You picked
a fine time to have a child with that job you’re in!” Moya is more surprised
than ever. She runs after him “WAIT! How did you know?! No one is supposed
to know besides it’s father!” Fett stays quiet and leaves. Moya is now
confused... perhaps the father hired Fett? She wished she knew more about
the man... only a picture of his face taken at the hospital, taken, she
thought, with reluctance. But... he wasn’t even supposed to know who she
was either... so how could he know? she never made appearances in public
without at least a concealing hood, sometimes a scarf.
Moya pondered this a long time, also wondering what her child would
be like. She decides to confront the doctor to ask him (would interrogate
be a better term?), and finds the the doctor, at least, told no one. A
little time later, the Hutt slug(names... names... *twiddles fingers*)
she was working for gave her an assignment: go to Nal Hutta as a messenger.
There, despite her best diplomatic skills, a rival Hutt family to... (URGH!
NAMES!) you know what slug keeps her as a prisoner, intent on torturing
her for information. Gurbac (YES!!!) finds this out, and decides that the
time has come to dispose of his aide before she gives anything up to her
captors. So he tries to hire (Guess who?!!!) Boba Fett to kill her. He
gives him a name. Moya Tolen. 130,000 credits if he does the job. Fett
accepts, not knowing who Moya is. (Whoo-hoo! Getting interesting...)
I believe I’ll leave you hanging! Isn’t Moya an idiot? Or has she just
come into some BAD luck? Can you see Fett doing this? I’m trying to make
it somewhat ok. How’m I doing?
Ok, back! You ready? OKAY! Fett flies to Nal Hutta (I forget... does
he have Slave 1 again by this time?) and gets into the Hutt family stronghold
with... well I would say ease but if you or I tried it it would be a horrible
experience, I think! Anyway, he makes his way to a prison complex. In the
dank darkness (oo, words!) He comes upon Moya’s cell. But to make sure
he has the right one, he says quietly (btw, Moya is chained to a wall,
has her head bowed down, and her hair is falling over her face. She’s hardly
recognisable like that, especially with all the blood and grime.) “Moya
Tolen”. She lifts her head weakly, recognising his voice. “Fett?” she asks,
and as she lifts her head, he’s startled at her identity and hesitates.
Moya noticed the blaster pointed in her direction and puts some pieces
together. She looks up at him an says “So... Gurbac put a bounty on my
head after all.” and smirks. “I suppose my death is worth more than my
life, huh?” She shifts slightly on the wall (is this getting more detailed
as we go?) “Not to mention my baby’s life.” she mournfully mutters (more
words!) Fett reached his deciscion at the thought of killing his own offspring.
He lowered his blaster and stepped forward, shaking his head and undoing
one of her shackles. “No.” He said. Moya frowned up at him. Yes. Definately
sent by her baby’s father. But... there was still something fishy about
Fett himself. As Fett began to free her other hand, she reached over with
her already free one and grabbed her rescuer’s gloved hand. Fett looked
at her through his faceplate. Moya’s eyes seemed to be piercing through
his helmet. He pried off her hand and continued, looking away. This was
making him uncomfortable. (ACK! I’m writing the story! This always happens
when I try to write summaries. *pries herself back to outline-painfully*)
He rescues her and takes her to Slave 1 with only a few minor... incidents
to slow him down, then sets a thermal detonator in her cell. Then Fett
takes off the the detonator explodes. He then begins to head for Coruscant,
but with several small hyperspace jumps in a random pattern (he suspects
he might be followed, but by who he doesn’t know) and places Moya a cell
in Slave 1 (yeah, let's say he's got Slave 1 even tho it may not be true),
and begins to take care of her wounds. On the way through hyperspace, Moya
recovers, and as it’s a long way (takes a couple weeks! Very Long Way.),
she somehow gets more information about Fett than anyone ever did. Y’know,
something about him makes her urgently curious. Our favorite bounty hunter
is irritated about all her snooping around (she also was able to open the
door? to the cell much to Boba’s chagrin). But she hadn’t found anything
important. And he doesn’t think she will. Just stupid little things she
suspects: like, he seems to like green. And, he does have a sense of humor!
(Yeah... too detailed again.) She doesn’t see him around much (always in
the cockpit/?). Then one day she takes it pon herself to clean up one area
of Slave 1 (let’s just say for the moment?). By this time Fett is looking
for anything to keep her occupied with anything but snooping, so he let’s
her. Moya can take a hint, and doesn’t try to do anything she knows she
isn’t supposed to. So she busies herself, and suddenly she rubs too hard
on some dirty paint, and accidentally presses a button. A compartment opens,
and something falls on her. Fett is watching all this through cameras,
he hadn’t expected this to happen, it couldn’t! He quickly exits the cockpit
to stop her. Moya tries to put everything back, when something catches
her eye. A faded picture of a man and a very young boy. They look familiar...
before she can dwell on it too much, Fett surprises her and rips the picture
out of her grasp and quickly locks it back in it’s place. “You really are
too much!” he says and takes her arm and brings her back to her cell. Moya
looks up at him and begins to wonder: what does his face look like? Something
about that picture. As Fett closes the door and force field, intuition
strikes her. She turns back to him and shouts through the door: “You! You
were the little boy weren’t you!” Fett grimaces. What has he gotten himself
into?!
That night (er, well, they go by Coruscant time), as he brings Moya
her meal (thinks... thinks...) she’s sitting calmly on her bunk, looking
out into space (figuritout:no windows). Then as he turns to leave she flashes
him a smile and says: “You really were cute when you were little!” No answer.
Back again! I’m thinking of rethinking that bit. All I know is that... I’ll let you hang! Back to story: Fett is disturbed by Moya, and has a feeling it would be wise to... disintigrate her, given what she’s found out. I mean, he doesn’t confirm her findings, but she obviously believes them, and yeah they are true. But he just can’t do it. Not with the matter of his unborn kid. And to tell the truth he’s also beginning to grow fond of Moya herself (tho he won’t admit it!). A couple days later they arrive back at Coruscant and they have a run-in with their pursuer. (Ya mean it actually followed them all the way? HOW! could be going thru Boba’s mind.) Of course we know who gets disintigrated. He drops Moya off someplace where he’s sure she’ll be safe, and decides to somehow put a tracking device somewhere on her body. (hmm.. I’m gonna havta think about thisone...) So he somehow manages it without her knowing (think... think...). After all it wouldn’t be too good if she knew any more than she did (grumble grumble). Then Fett goes off again because a really expensive bounty was offered. And also to collect his bounty for Moya. He’s gone for quite awhile having some “fun” for a change. Meanwhile, Moya is living out a new life, quiet and actually somewhat happy. She has a feeling that something or someone is missing in her life, though... Anyway, Moya nearing the end of her term, Boba Fett hears rumor that Gurbac has found out about Moya being alive and is looking to kill her with a bunch of mercenaries. Boba knows exactly where she is (DUH!) and goes over. He stays outside her door for a minute (unsure? or looking around), but then she walks out. Boba is hidden from sight, but Moya frowns slightly and turns to see him. damn! Boba thinks. Doesn’t she ever- But, her face is good to see. To his surprise Moya smiles, seemingly overjoyed. “Boba Fett!” she exclaims. Boba raises a single finger to his helmet, signalling for her to be silent. She does, but walks up to him still smiling then takes him in, helmet, battered armor and all, while Boba does the same, unaware that his lips have curved upward into a small smile. (Awww.... this is starting to get sweet! Now how to get Boba to take off his helmet and reveal his identity to Moya...) After a moment of silence, Moya laughs and jumps forward, flinging her arms about the hapless bounty hunter. Shocked and yet a bit happy -uhoh what am I thinking? are his thoughts-, he awkwardly takes her arms off his shoulders and shakes his head. No, he tries to tell her silently. Don’t make me start to like you! She ignores him and whispers: “I never thought I’d be happy to see a bounty hunter outside my door.” Boba is not sure how to respond. She seems to trust him wholeheartedly. He just nods and says stiffly: “You are doing well?” Moya nods enthusiastically. Fett is disturbed once again - she’s treating him like he was an old friend! (Aw, poor baby!) “Yes, m-hm, I’ve uh, made a couple of friends, my job is treating me okay. Our b- Wait!” shakes her head wondering at herself for that mistake. “MY... child is due anyday now.” Boba finds himself blushing as much as Moya. Eh-heh, he knows what that mixup was. “Course you probably knew that... how’re you doing?” She glanced up. Boba asks “Have you seen anything following you?” Moya frowns. “I don’t know if it was or not... quite awhile ago. Over 6 weeks now. It was a droid, a small tracking droid. I could see it sometimes just a little bit away, around the corner. Then the person who I shared living quarters with was walking to her speeder, and I saw the droid follow the speeder. The woman was reported shot by a tracker droid and the droid was destroyed.” She shakes her head and turns her strangely piercing eyes to his faceplate. “It might’ve been after me. But I don’t think so.” She hesitantly bites her lip, hands resting on her belly. “Would... you like to go inside? I... still don’t know why you’re always around to keep me from harm, but perhaps you can tell me now?” She looks hopeful. It’s too much mush, Boba decides, and shakes his head slightly and begins to walk away. I need to go back to Slave 1, he thinks, there I’ll feel more like myself. I can to much more there.(uhoh, DETAILs! Um, can you tell I’m making this up as it goes along?) I’ll see ya tomorrow!!!
Oh boy, starting to get really wierd (well... starting is not quite
the word... heheh)! I haven’t figured everything out for this next piece.
All I know is that somehow I’ve gotta get Boba to reveal his face (DAMN
boy! Take that helmet OFF!)
Moya is disappointed that Boba is leaving so soon (feelings for that
bounty hunter has she, hm? *Yoda, quit popping up in humor!*), but then
her water breaks. No one else is around. So she calls to Fett: “Um... FETT!!!
Speaking of any day now...” Boba whirls around at her cry, fearing there’d
be someone there trying to kill her again. He rushes over to her side.
As he goes over to Moya, she says: “Please... no one else is around. I
need to get to a doctor. Can you help me please?” She doesn’t even have
to finish her lil speech (what’s that WORD!?) before Boba picks her up.
“I’ll get you there.” is spoken without any hint of emotion and he quickly
brings her to the speeder around on the other end of the building. But
as he rounds the corner, some swoop riders pop up from nowhere and begin
firing at them. They zoom around whooping and shooting like idiots. “Haha,
appears I get the bounty after all!” is shouted. Fett is standing halfway
in front of Moya who is crouched down next to the building, and blasts
them to oblivion. When he coolly turns back to Moya, he sees she’s been
hit by 2 stray bolts. One to each side of her chest. He starts to pick
her up again and she screams in pain. Boba ignores her outcries, although
they worry him. She is set on the passenger side of the speeder and as
Boba drives it off she’s mumbling to herself “Please don’t let my baby
die! Please don’t let it die!”. Boba reaches over to touch her shoulder.
“I’ll get you there.” is repeated - softer this time. Well (I’m getting
too detailed again! *pries mind away from bog of sickening details*) they
get to a nearby doctor where Boba drags the practitioner over and makes
him (what species? how bout... Bith?) aware of Moya’s injuries and her
condition. He lies that he found her lying on the street. The Bith calls
his assistant and they get to work trying to heal her body and at the same
time deliver her child. Boba is on guard, but his thoughts are in a whirl
as some very unfamiliar emotions surface and break upon his mind like a
wave. After what seems like the longest time to the usually patient bounty
hunter, the Bith comes outside to get a breath of air. Boba grabs him and
asks about Moya. The now worn out doctor tells him that she gave birth
to a little boy, but Moya herself is in bad shape. Boba is relieved to
hear about the boy, and a little earlier that day he would’ve never dreamed
of it, but now all his worries and attention turns to Moya. He tells the
bith to take very good care of Moya - says that she’s worth very much to
him. The bith reassures boba that his assistant can watch over both Moya
and the baby. He’s not needed there. Boba goes inside and silently walks
thru the hospital until he sees a small room with two beds. On one he can
see protruding from a blanket the top of a small head. On the other lies
Moya, tubes, cables and bacta patches all jumbled together around her.
Boba goes inside, the door swishing open and closed. The lights are turned
down so that only the sillouettes of the three people inside are visible
to the naked eye. He first goes over to the baby, knowing it wouldn’t be
a good time to wake Moya. After staring at the head, covered in a thin
dark fuzz of hair, he quietly reaches a hand over and gently lifts the
blanket up and moves it down. At the sight of the tiny boy -his son!- Boba’s
heart melts completely. He returns the blanket to the top half of the baby
and hears: “Who’s there?!” turns, and sees Moya has turned her head to
him. It is clear by the way her eyes move she can’t see very well in the
dark. So Boba just says: “You’re safe.” Moya sighs and relaxes. “Oh it’s
just you.” she whispers, then noticed that Boba is standing over her boy.
She smiles weakly. “He’s beautiful isn’t he?” Then she decides that now
would be the perfect time to confront him once more. “Who hired you?” No
answer. “Did his father hire you to protect me till his son was born?”
No answer (ohh, the king of silence! Boba... TELL HER!). “Well, then, I
think I’ll take that as a yes and say I’ve figured it out. You’ve done
your job. Now you can finish another one, can’t you? I know that Gurbac
has posted another bounty on me... oh, I heard it around. You’re not stupid,
and I know you frequently do business with that Hutt. So go on. It’s better
to get it on with.” Boba is still silent, but he was listening. Moya sighs
aggravatedly. Then with one of her arms she weakly and painfully reaches
over and takes something out of the pocket in her robe. Boba sees that
it is a picture, and startled, as it catches the one ray of light, that
it is one of his face. That slimy doctor did it! Even as Boba had protested!
He’d get that no good-
Moya stared at it. “Here he is. Recognise him? He doesn’t care
one wink about me. Well, why should he? We’ve never met.” All is silent,
and Boba has a feeling he knows what to do. “No one sent me.” He says,
and Moya frowns and looks in his general direction. Boba steps forward
and unlatched his helmet under his chin. How long has it been since I’ve
taken this thing off? he thinks. He lifts it up over his head (Moya can
just make out his outline in the light.) and takes it off, kneeling by
her bed. “And he cares much more than a wink about you.” Boba says as he
takes her hand and the light hits his face. Moya’s eyes widen a bit. “Boba?”
she whispers uncertainly (HA! She said just his first name!!!). “I... I
can’t believe it’s you!” Boba nods. Yes, it would be hard. But as he’s
looking at her she begins to smile. “You look almost as cute as you did
when you were a little boy!” Boba couldn’t keep his grin in check any longer.
So she remembered! He chuckled, and searched his mind for a long-forgotten
expression. That’s it. He hesitantly leaned over her and gently kissed
Moya’s forehead. She raised her face up so her nose touched his chin, by
way of acceptance. Boba closed his eyes and sighed. “Heal, Moya.” were
his words.