Just as Meena was about to try and weave another web of lies to get them out of trouble, Drak shot three shots towards a female Wookie, missing all of them. She couldn't believe what he had just done and in fact she didn't have much time either. Before she knew it, Drak had been knocked unconscious and her hands were grabbed by two pirates. "What is it you want?" Meena snarled at the captain. "Come on, name your price and I'll pay it."<br/><br/>Captain Avoyos considered this for a moment and then smiled triumphantly. "I'll give you a choice." He spoke to her. "He is clearly not a criminal and the way you protect him tells me that he could be of value to me. If you tell me willingly what your business with him is, I'll let you go." When there was no answer from Meena, who had sworn to keep her mouth shut for the sake of money, the captain sighed and shook his head. "I'll give you four hours to consider it. My crew and I have all the time in the world, but my curiosity is without boundaries. If after four hours you still refuse to speak, I'll have to employ harsher methods on you."<br/><br/>"Will you let us both go if I tell you the truth?" Meena asked, trying to free herself from the pirates' grip.<br/><br/>"Only you."<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>Three and a half hours later, Meena was leaning against the wall of their cell, completely sober again and her anger boiling inside her veins. Chained to Drak while imprisoned to pirates, there was no other situation she could think of that could be worse than the one she was currently in. Her mind was mostly on her ship, the cargo and Vul. She tried not to think of what could happen to her dearest Furion, but with each passing minute she was getting more anxious and worried. What if she would never get her ship back again? No, no, no... Who was she to panic? She had been to Kessel and mentally prepared herself to stay there for the rest of her life. And yet she had survived, she was still walking on her two feet, she had a ship and she had a wonderful astromech droid Vul who kept her company when she was bored. Speaking of her droid, it was trapped outside their cell, having also been caught by the pirates. Judging from its beeps, it had been damaged in the process.<br/><br/>When Drak woke up, Meena blinked her eyes and glanced over to him. He looked terrible in his hangover. It only took five seconds for him to anger her once again. "Me?!" She shrieked at him when his first words were aimed to blame her for their misfortune. "I tried to get us out of this situation! It was your miserable lies that got us exposed! Don't you roll all of this on my shoulders, because right now your fate is in my hands." Ahh, true. She hadn't really considered things from that point of view. Back in Coruscant she had been planning on abandoning Drak to Nar Shaddaa, without a ship or any money. Captain Avoyos had made her an offer to turn Drak in and walk out alone, leaving the security officer in the hands of pirates. In fact, Drak would undoubtedly prove useful to them since he was an investigator. Either they'd make him pay for what he had done up until now or blackmail him in the future to save themselves from investigation. There were many possibilities and the captain would surely see them all if Meena decided to speak.<br/><br/>She rolled her eyes when Drak asked her about her cover story. "You know, I can tell when a man wants to get physical with me." Meena spoke dryly. "I'm a con artist after all; I pick up on those things easily. Men are so easy to read about those things, and the captain was not any different. Criminal men just never take a 'no' as an answer. That's why I made up that cover story." Now, obviously, she could have told a different lie and maybe got away with it better, but Meena wasn't perfect either. At the time it had felt like the most solid story, but unfortunately it hadn't been solid enough. "Perhaps next time we should take turns in drinking." She suggested. "We were both drunk when this happened."<br/><br/>Meena shot him a glare when he suggested that she seduced the captain. "No way. Besides, he knows now that something's up with our cover story, so he definitely won't trust me." She shook her head. "I find trust easy to earn initially but difficult to earn back once it's lost." The datapad she had attempted to steal had been her only possible access to Avoyos' bank account. Now that it was gone, she had no interest in trying to seduce him, especially since he could see right through her and figure out that she wasn't genuinely interested in him. "After your most impressive shooting stunt, and that's sarcasm in case you couldn't figure it out, the captain told me he would release me if I told him who you are exactly." She spoke and looked over to Drak. "He knows you're not a criminal and since it's been over three hours and I haven't spoken, he also knows you could potentially be valuable to him. They're coming in fifteen minutes and I have a choice to make."<br/><br/>Normally it wouldn't have been a tough choice. Drak was still very much the man who had ruined her life and she was far from forgiving him. Most importantly, he would never apologize for what he had done because he so naively believed it was the right thing to do. She had no reason to keep her part of the deal, unless she really cared about Cyn and her baby, which she did. But the temptation was there and it was undeniable that she wanted to teach him a lesson. He would have willingly kept her behind the bars the rest of her life, so why should she show mercy to him?<br/><br/>Outside their cell, Vul was begging Meena to just leave Drak behind so they could both be released and leave the damned ship. She glanced at Drak, not sure of her choice. Before long, she heard footsteps outside and their cell door was opened by two pirates who focused their eyes on Meena. "Alright, time to talk." One of them announced and grabbed her arm to pull her up on her feet forcefully, pulling Drak in the process as well. Just as she was about to say something, the entire ship moved, throwing both Meena and Drak against the wall of their cell. Vul shrieked in Binary from further away and the pirates seemed equally terrified. As the ship became stable again, he contacted the cockpit with his commlink.<br/><br/>"What was that?! What's going on?"<br/><br/>And just as Meena thought things couldn't get any worse, her insides turned upside down when hearing a response from the ship's cockpit:<br/><br/>"Imperial Security."