Summary: Read the Title...

Disclaimer: The wonderful Mara is not owned by me T_T. mores the
pity. all other characters owned by the bearded flanel wearing
genius...

Mara's Naughtiness

Mara watched the door close with a huge sigh of relief. She turned to
the grinning figure standing in front of her.

"Quite a change from traveling as a smuggler, huh?"

"Oh yeah, a change." She said sarcastically.

"What did you expect. You're married to the former most eligible man
in the galaxy." Korad Mir said as he sauntered to the drinks area of
the penthouse allocated to them. He poured himself a liberal amount
of whiskey and asked if she would like some.

She declined and walked forward. "I didn't realize that." She
said dryly. "Fortunately, Karrde's in the planet at the moment. So
you'll be able to report to him in person."

"Yes, it's such a lucky coincidence that we were attacked just
outside the system, isn't it?"

"Lucky? I call it stupid."

Korad nodded. He watched Mara walk towards the holo station in the
center of the room. She really is a most outstanding specimen of a
human female. From her fierce beauty to her sarcastic attitude. As a
Twi'lek male he was used to the pleasing aesthetics and gracefulness
of the famed Twi'lek females as well as their gentle temperaments and
submissive natures, but as the hours passed cooped in the ship with
Mara, he came to appreciate her complex and somewhat difficult
personality as well as her natural beauty. In his jaundiced opinion
Skywalker is a very lucky man. But he knew too well that this kind of
woman, are also burdened by a difficult past. Well it wasn't his
business. He wasn't her husband or her keeper.

He walked to inspect the suite more closely, still holding his drink
in one hand. He turned around after a few minutes of contemplations
when he heard her voice.

"I got Torve. We can drop by early tomorrow morning."

"Good. Meanwhile, I'll go get some rest. See you tomorrow morning
then." He said, settling the glass down and turning towards on of the
smaller rooms.

Mara waived airily. "Uh-uh."

Mara heard the door close. She walked back to the drinks area and
quietly prepared a mug of hot chocolate. Really, Luke's starting to
rub on her. But after a stressing day, there's much comfort to be had
in a hot sweet drink. But damn if she's letting anyone know that,
especially the farmboy. Speaking of which, she sat down again in
front of the holo station, gingerly sipping the hot chocolate.

She got an answer the first try. "Hi farmboy." She couldn't stop a
smile from spreading on her face, all tiredness forgotten.

Luke also had a glad smile on his face. The smile that reached his
sparkling blue eyes and said in unspoken terms how much he loved and
missed her. He said it anyway. "Hi Mara, where are you now? I miss
you."

Mara leaned forward, resting her chin on her palm, her eyes soft,
laughter in their emerald depths. "Have you now."

"What? No I miss you too? No I love you? No reassurance that you'll
be home soon?" he said trying to sound horrified.

Mara laughed. "Farmboy, you're getting too soft."

"What if I am? Gonna whip me up to shape?"

"Mmmm. I might just do that, Master." She said provocatively.

Luke grinned. "So how's the `graceful disengagement' going?"

"Oh the usual, took care of business as planned, picked up a
passenger on the way, got ambushed and made an emergency landing, on
a planet which luckily enough was our destination anyway. So how was
your day?" She said matter of factly.

"What?! I know I should have come with you." He said, alarmed.

"And have me look like a clinging wife to Karrde and the
organization? I took care of them on my own. I'm not completely
helpless without my own personal Jedi Master you know." she snorted.

"Your teasing me aren't you?" he said suspicion bright in his eyes.

"What if I am?" she said echoing his earlier words. "You seriously
need to lighten up. So how's the academy? Tionne keeping you busy
with the accounts? Or has Kyp blown up a planet yet? Visited the
bacta tank lately?"

"That's not funny, Jade. Everything's fine here. Bit busy with all
the changes I want to implement to the Academy. But that much would
soon settle..." he stopped as he felt a soothing and loving touch on
his mind.

Mara smiled and sipped her warm drink. /I love you too, sweetheart/.
Luke sent.

"You've been practicing." Luke said.

/A bit/.

/That's great. And at this distance too/.

"Listen, Luke, I'm in the Harana system at the moment. It's a pit
stop. I'll probably be here for another 4 days. Care to join me?" she
said suggestively.

"Is that an invitation for an illicit vacation for two, Mara?" he
looked severe. Like a parent admonishing a naughty child.

Instead of answering, she sent him mental pictures. Luke gasped. She
really was in a naughty mood.

"So can you? I also need to talk to you about something."

"Well if you put it that way. I'll be there tomorrow midday."

"Ok."

"Mara, I love you. See you tomorrow."

"Love you, too. Better not be late farmboy. Or else..."

Luke laughed. "Yep, or else." He turned his head for a moment as if
listening, "Artoo says hi too."

" So that bucket of bolts still twittering is he?"

It was another five minutes before Mara got up to go to bed. Saying
goodbye even in the holo at this early stage of their marriage was
hard. Mara sighed. She really do miss her farmboy when they weren't
together. She had gotten used to snuggling up to Luke at night and
three weeks without it makes her miss him more.

Mara walked towards the main bedroom. There she hid her weapons and
proceeded to take a shower. The freezing water revived some of her
energy. There's a lot that she had to do come morning.

..........................................................................................

When Korad exited his room, Mara had already breakfasted and was
sitting in front of the holo station talking to someone. She pointed
to the covered dishes on the table. By the time they headed out the
hotel was only starting to buzz with activity, with Korad holding his
possessions in a bag, they walked out to the street to head to
Karrde's temporary offices. Mara and Korad walked unnoticed through
the busy marketplace. Korad was wearing dull grey robes and Mara was
wearing her usual black jumpsuit with her bright hair covered. They
arrived at Karrde's HQ unmolested. Mara said goodbye to Korad when he
was jumped by an old acquaintance. She then proceeded to Karrde's
office, certain that he had no visitor at this time in the morning.
She lightly tapped the door and barged in.

"Hey, Karrde."

"Bit late, aren't you?" Karrde said from behind the desk, completely
unsurprised by her sudden appearance.

"Only fashionably late. Ran into trouble just outside the system. Or
I'd have come before you settled down with your teddy." She said
dryly.

Karrde rubbed his beard thoughtfully. "Yeah, I heard. What kind of
trouble?"

"Oh the bounty hunter kind" she said as she sat down in front of
him. "a band of them actually. The kind that comes with Interdictor
Cruisers. I delivered your package safe and sound. He's just outside."

"Good. An Interdictor, huh? I'll get right on it. You got their ID's?"

She handed the datacard over. "Wasn't hard. What with Ghent's program
and all. "

"This will make it easier."

"By the way can you draw up all you can on this man?" she handed
another datacard. "Only from the last 19 years. I need it
immediately."

"Zev Senesca. Hmm. I think the organisation's done quite a bit
dealing with this man. I'll have this done by tonight. Anyone
important?" he said interestedly.

"Hmm." She left it at that.

"Heard Luke would be coming in today. Would you two mind having
dinner with me and Shada. I'd like you to talk to her about
something. Or would you just rather wait `til tomorrow evening?"

Mara was unsurprised to know that Karrde already knew of the
Skywalker's private plans, he did have the best intelligence network
in the galaxy, and that includes the NR. She smiled knowingly. "Can I
take you up for tomorrow?"

"Sure."

"What's it about anyway?"

"I'll tell you later. So what about the latest trip. Got it sorted
out?"

"Here's all the details. But I have to say that Mirkhak is
untrustworthy....."

It was 3 hours of intensive talks and sharing of ideas, in which half
way through, Shada, Karrde's current second in command, came in, that
Mara realized what time it was.

"I'd better get going..." she said, just in time for her comm. to
sound.

She said her goodbyes and walked directly to Dock 4, cautiously
covering her bright head of hair when she realized she was attracting
the attention of two young giggling girls.

....................................................................................

Dock 4 was buzzing with activity when Mara finally arrived. She had
walked a considerable distance as she hadn't gone around hiring a
transport yet. Besides she appreciated the time spent walking. More
time to think plus the chance to scope down the surroundings.

She looked around for any sign of Luke's arrival. She had forgotten
to ask what kind of ship Luke would be using. His trusty X-wing had
been left in Niruaun and was unlikely to be recovered. No sign of a
Lambda shuttle either. When she didn't find any sign of Luke, she
stretched her force sense outward. But even before she started, she
felt a very familiar arm wrap around her waist from behind. Then the
feel of his warm breath near in her nape where it was exposed unknown
to her. Mara's breath hitched and her heart beat quickened but she
carefully kept a neutral expression and force sense. Luke was
snuggling her from behind, every part of his hard, well-toned body,
pressed intimately on her behind. He was pressing kisses on her hair
( A week into the engagement, Luke had finally admitted that he had a
thing about her hair, a huge thing, so now Mara tended to leave her
hair loose) with a smile on his lips.

"Trying to be sneaky, are you now, farmboy?"

"Am I succeeding?"

"Depends."

"On what?"

"On whether you did surprise me." She turned within his arms to face
him. "On whether you want to follow though what's running through
your little mind right this minute, right here in the middle of a
space port." She wrapped her arms around his neck.

He was caressing her hips, clearly defined by the clinging jumpsuit,
with both hands. He was looking deep into her emerald eyes, blue orbs
amused and passionate. Mara broke eye contact briefly to glance
around, no one seemed to be paying them any particular attention,
must be Skywalker using the force again. She smiled. Evilly. She
looked at Luke again. "Naughty Jedi, what did I say about unnecessary
use of the Force?"

Luke out on his best `innocent farmboy' look. "What? I didn't do
anything!" he contradicted that by putting both his hands firmly on
her butt.

Mara gasped and felt a tide of red rise to her face. She took her
hands of his neck and swatted the offenders away. Luke laughed but
held her still closer. She again wrapped her hands around his neck
and brought her face nearer to his, so their noses touch.

"Did you miss me?" Luke asked and proceeded to rub noses with her.

"Never!" she exclaimed vehemently.

"Your lying."

Mara snorted as she brought her lips even closer, their lips almost
touching. Her eyes became slumberous, teasing, flirtatious.

Luke groaned loudly and lowered his head hungrily, eager for the
contact he had been without for three weeks. Mara responded in kind.
Their first kiss in three weeks was frantic, passion-filled and
erotic, added to the clash of their minds, a perfect harmony of their
senses made it even more so. They almost consumed each other with
their fire. Their tongues dueled, Mara clutched Luke's blond hair
tighter, she moaned. When they eventually came up for air, no one
still paid any attention to them. Hmmm.

"I missed you so much." She said passionately as she rubbed her nose
to his, and looked at him behind her lashes.

He in turn brought one of his hands to caress her cheeks then her
hair. He combed the silky red strands wonderingly while he settled
his forehead on hers. He wondered again what he did in his life to
deserve such love and commitment from this wonderful woman. What he
did to be so lucky as to be able to share such close and loving bond
with someone special at a time when he had already resigned his life
being alone. He gave a contented sigh. "Your troubled." He stated.

"Let's talk about that later." She quipped evasively. Then she smiled
teasingly at him again. "Hey, Jedi, we haven't seen each other in
three weeks. Was that all the welcome I'm gonna get?"

"Uh, can we take it someplace else, like, say your rooms?" he said
with an earnest grin. Even without using the force, he knew Mara
enough to suspect something.

"Is the little Jedi afraid now?" it was a challenge, pure and simple.

Luke was willing to be baited, what could it hurt anyway? And with a
hungry groan, he swooped down and captured her lips again. He lent
her body backwards with the force of his kiss, one of his hands
around her waist and the other wrapped on her silky hair. Mara
groaned as he slid one leg between her thighs. He was driving her to
distraction. She regained a bit of her sanity as they drew a
fortifying breaths before launching into another session of torrid
kissing. Luke gasped as he felt both of Mara's hand latch firmly on
his behind (which she had remarked to be the cutest part of him next
to his chin cleft.), he lost it then, his concentration and even his
force sense.

Slowly they surfaced, breathing deeply, Luke had a goofy grin on his
face as well as a very intense look on his eye. When he finally
registered that Mara was looking at him with a smirk, alarm bells
rang in his head. What had she been up to? Then he remembered.

In the midst of their passion, Luke's Force sense had collapsed and
the shield that he had been so careful to erect collapsed along with
it. They were now the cynosure of all eyes in the Dock. Luke looked
around horrified and noticed about 30 something sentient beings
looking at them with differing expressions, interest, curiosity,
amusement, fascination, a certain degree of glee (a group of humans,
obviously drunk, were hooting and shouting encouragements as loud as
they could, some of the words they used scandalized Luke as he had
only heard them a few times, and it was at parties with the Rogues.),
and some scandalized expressions as well. Luke started blushing
profusely. Mara meanwhile was hard trying not to laugh out loud. They
had been making a spectacle of themselves for the last five minutes,
and there was no doubt at everyone that the crowd had recognized
them.

Mara pointed at one being, he looked like a tourist, but what really
horrified him was that, the guy was holding a holo recorder and had
probably got the whole action on record. Mara couldn't resist it, she
laughed outright at the truly frozen look on Luke's face. She grabbed
Luke's limp hand and proceeded to drag him from the crowd. She then
extended her force sense to make them invisible to the crowd, when
she saw the rowdy group (the ones who were yelling crude
encouragements) start to follow them. She was laughing all the way to
the hotel, dragging a pole-axed Luke along with her.

........................................................................................

Mara woke up suddenly. It was barely morning. She was instantly
comforted when she felt Luke's arm around her waist, and his presence
mingling with hers. It was the middle of the night and they were both
in bed, lying in spoon fashion. They had finally fallen asleep after
several passionate encounters (Luke was determined to punish her
after her deliberate attempt to embarrass the Sith out of him, it had
taken all night but Luke finally pronounced she was forgiven.) Mara
sighed and quietly slipped out of bed, grabbed a silk robe, to get
something to drink. After gulping down some clear water, she then
proceeded to the comm. station to check out any messages. There were
2 from Karrde, she didn't manage to look at it last night, another
one was from the Academy, for Luke and the last one was from the
Solos. She opened the one from Karrde first. One was the data she
requested, the other one was a holographic message showing Karrde's
grinning face. The message went as follows.

"Hi Mara. I hope I'm not disturbing your, what? Third honeymoon?
Check out the holonet. I think you'll find something interesting."

She smiled, she knew pretty well what made Karrde grin that much.

She opened the one from the Academy. It was just Kyp saying that a
holo reporter had managed to land in Yavin 4 and was pestering the
students. He was asking Luke what to do to the reporter other than
the drastic measures running around his head. Mara snorted and filed
the message for later viewing.

She then opened the message from the Solos. Han's laughing face
filled the screen.

"Hey you two! You made front page in every holonews channel. You
really should keep those stuff in the bedroom, not to say we didn't
enjoy the show! Call us!"

She snorted yet again and swept the hair falling forward back behind
her shoulder. She got up and headed for the small kitchen unit of the
suite. Mara wanted to wake Luke up with breakfast in bed, and since
she was sure that ordering from the hotel restaurant would arouse
avid interest from the staff and would probably cause a small
commotion which would invariably wake up Luke, she had decided to
cook for him herself. Not that she was a good cook actually, she was
pretty bad. Luke was the kitchen person in the relationship, since as
Luke put it, her diet which consist of nutri-bars wont be tolerated
by his stomach. And he didn't plan to starve either.

By the time she had managed to grill dustcrepes and nausage for two
(they were burnt on the edges, an improvement, luckily Artoo wasn't
there to make scornful comments about her cooking skills, Luke had
left him in the Academy so they can have more privacy.) and made two
mugs of hot chocolate, Luke was still sleeping like a baby. She
settled the tray on the side table and looked down on the sleeping
Luke. He was sprawled on his back, naked except for the sheet barely
covering his unmentionables. He looked so peaceful that she was
loathed to wake him. Mara settled one knee beside him and leaned over
slowly to kiss him awake. He moaned and deepened the kiss. He blinked
one eye open.

"Mara..."he groaned.

"Wake up, Jedi. I made breakfast." She parted from the kiss and sat
down beside him, one of her hands rubbing his chest sensuously.

"Mmmm. Not that I don't appreciate it, but...come here." he leaned
forward and brought her tumbling down towards him on the bed.

"I'm hurt. I spent time on it Luke." She said purring. She was
sprawled on top of him.

"We'll eat it later. I have a different meal in mind at the moment."

"Sure you do, naughty Jedi."

"Mmmm."