#interstellar heartbeats

"Saachi, I need to talk to you."

"About what?" Saachi continued cataloging the medical supplies from the stolen shuttle.

"No, not here," Hunter said, his voice becoming more urgent, "Somewhere private."

Saachi put down her datapad and turned to face him, "I think this is as private as we're gonna get."

"Well, that's not exactly what I-" Hunter paused, glancing around the Archium, "Well, alright."

He held out her mother's ring.

"Saachi Gunder, will you marry me?"

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Oh my gosh hi!!!! I'm so glad that you enjoy it. I'm working on the next chapter right now and it's a doozy so it's taking a little bit longer than I would like, but it's messages like this that make it all worth it. Can I ask what scene has been your favorite or most memorable for you so far??

The second kiss was just as good as the first, if not better. Saachi’s legs grew weak, and she wrapped her arms around his neck to keep her balance.

“You alright there?” Hunter murmured.

“Fine,” Saachi said, but her answer was swallowed up by another kiss. She put more of her weight on Hunter, trying to stretch her sore toes as much as she could.

Hunter lifted her up, simply placing his hands under her knees and lifting her off the ground, as easily as he had done on the Venator not too long ago. Saachi’s head went dizzy, and if Hunter hadn’t been holding her, she knew she would have fainted.

“May I?” He asked, sitting in the seat Saachi had vacated.

“You may,” she gasped breathlessly. She threaded her fingers into his hair. It was slightly greasy, but still incredibly soft. Hunter hummed pleasantly, and Saachi pulled him in for another kiss.

Hunter’s hands slid up her back, gently drawing shapes in the fabric of her jacket as Saachi continued to kiss him.

They didn’t notice the others had returned until it was too late.

“Hit the sack, boys, I got first wa-”

Wrecker froze. From outside the ship, you couldn’t quite see the co-pilot’s chair. But as soon as Wrecker got to the top of the ramp, he had a clear view of Saachi, sitting on his brother’s lap.

Interstellar Heartbeats Chapter 22: I'm Just Getting Color Back

I just got my commission from @catdoesarts of my precious babies and I-

I've written at least three versions of Hunter and Saachi's first kiss (Most of them involved getting caught by Wrecker), and this is the one that came out on top.

I adore Cat's work, she is always a delight to work with. The way she draws Hunter is just 🤌🤌🤌🤌 *chef's kiss* and she's always done Saachi justice.

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Nobody Cares At All

Saachi’s jaw dropped, “You want to leave her?”

“We don’t have any room for-”

“So we’re just going to abandon her? We can’t just leave her alone, she needs her parents!”

“Well, we didn’t have any, and we turned out fine,” Wrecker pointed out unhelpfully.

Saachi glared at him.

“What do you want me to do?” Hunter snapped. Saachi took a step back, and Hunter paused before continuing, his voice tense, but tempered.

“You want us to invade an Imperial Base? take Omega back to Tipica City? Take on Crosshair, who knows our every move? Remember Bracca? I came up with half of our battle strategies with him, he knows my next move before I do.”

“I-I’ll pay you double!” Hera tried to bargain.

Hunter shook his head. “All the money in the world won’t matter if we’re dead."

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Interstellar Heartbeats Chapter 27: Where Did She Go?

“Oh, it's so wonderful to meet you in person! After all these years, Rolf, oh Rolf!” Yulia’s mother called into the house, and a pink Twi’lek with a large forehead came out of the kitchen with a mug of tea.

“Rolf, it's Saachi!” Seru said with little preamble. 

“Saachi!” Rolf Secura hugged Saachi, greeting her like an old friend.

Saachi was a bit surprised by the displays of emotion, but at least she knew where Yulia got it from.

“It is so nice to meet the both of you. Is Yulia here? I wanted to talk to her.”

Rolf’s face fell, and so did his wife’s.

“You mean…”

“She’s not with you?” They asked.

Saachi inhaled sharply.

“Where’s Yulia?”

Wrecker groaned, “First the bounty hunter on Pantora and now this guy? Why are they all after the kid?”

“Because she is more valuable than we realized,” Tech said, “I further analyzed Omega’s genetic profile and discovered she has pure, first-generation DNA.”

“Like Jango Fett’s? You mean, unaltered?” Saachi asked.

“Precisely.” Saachi took the datapad from Tech, only for her headache to make a piercing reappearance, as she stared into the glowing blue light. She forced it away, comparing the information that Tech had on Omega’s DNA and that of Jango Fett’s.

“Wait, w-what does that mean?” Wrecker asked.

“While our genetic structure was modified for growth acceleration and obedience, Omega is a pure, genetic replication.”

“How many clones like that exist?” Hunter asked, looking over Saachi’s shoulder at the datapad. Saachi handed it to him.

“To my knowledge, there’s only one other– a male clone code-named ‘Alpha’, later referred to as ‘Boba’.”

“Since he disappeared at the start of the war, that makes Omega the sole living source of Fett’s raw genetic material.” Saachi said. She rubbed her temples, trying to make her headache go away.

“If she’s vital to the Kaminoans’ cloning operation, they must have put the bounty on her!” Echo realized.

“So, how do we find this bounty hunter?” Wrecker asked, fists clenched.

Hunter started giving orders. “Tech, check with Cid, see if her contacts know anything. We’ll keep monitoring comms.”

“You know,” Saachi started loudly, “If the Kaminoans want her, there’s only one place she’ll end up–-back on Kamino.” Where the Empire had a firm grip.

“Bane won’t go there. He attempted to kidnap Palpatine during the war,” Echo reasoned.

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"It hur- it hurts, Hunter it hurts!" Saachi whimpered, gasping for air.

"I know, I know," Hunter whispered. Saachi could see a similar bruise peeking over the top of his collar.

"Can I take a look?" He asked, one hand on her shoulder, and the other cradling her head so it didn't have to rest on the hull of the ship..

Saachi nodded and took several deep breaths.

"Can you calm your breathing? You'll agitate your throat if you struggle too much," His thumb traced along the jaw until it met her throat, and gently massaged the spot beneath her ear.

Saachi coughed on nothing, "You-you've done this before."

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The lights flickered on overhead, and Tech called Omega up to assist him on the command deck. Saachi searched for anything interesting as she mulled over Echo’s remark to Hunter. She wasn’t an expert on weapons like the boys would be, and she wondered if that was a good thing. Certainly, the Batch’s knowledge of fighting came in handy for the missions that Cid sent them on, but they hardly had a chance to learn anything outside of battle strategy and blasters.

Saachi thought back to what Rafa Martez had told her on Corellia. She was extremely lucky to have had the control over her own life that she did, but it hadn’t come easy. She needed to show Hunter and Echo how to take control over their own lives.

She caught up with Hunter and Echo, who were entertaining a terse silence.

“Even soldiers have to go home sometimes,” She said.

Echo looked at her, confused. Saachi continued.

“They can’t keep fighting forever. My grandfather always told me that the whole purpose of being a soldier was being able to come home.”

“But what about those who can’t go home?” Echo pointed out, “Who helps them?”

That was a good point, but before Saachi could think about it for too long, Tech spoke out over the comms.

“Hunter, we’ve got company.”

“Is it more scrappers?”