Title: A Day in the Life

 Author: Angel
 E-mail: valarltd@hotmail.com
 URL: http://www.oocities.org/lady_aethelynde

 Rating: PG
 Summary: Zora and Talla meet katte's challenge
 Type: Semi-AU, takes place well after "What Says the Wind?"
 Archive: Sure
 Disclaimer: This is George Lucas's Sandbox.  I'm just playing with the sand
 that fell out.
 Warnings: Slash, implied.  Sapphic kiss.  Original characters.  Homophobia.
 Silliness.  Header longer than the fic.

 Notes:
The challenge:
Write a fic that includes:
 1. a song from lion king
 2. jedi/sith slang
 3. Smog (yes the dragon)  (Er, that's "Smaug")
 4. a beauty contest for men
 5. the line "who's your jedi master?" in the "who's your daddy"  context
 6. a corny romance novel
 7. a sex magazine fitting for the sw world (preferably if the person
 reading it is in the toilet)
 8. a classic shot of coca cola
 9. an anime moment
 10. a ty beanie baby

"Cheelooda" is a Huttese vulgarity for a male that takes a receptive
role during sex.

 Also, the Rebel Whore and Flyboy Magazines are found here:
 http://www.shabbyblue.net

 Scylla belongs to Vic Coopers, I'm just borrowing her.

 Feedback: I crave it. It's my favorite high.

 ****
 A Day in the Life
 2002 Angelia Sparrow

 *****
 

 Zora tipped the brim of her hat up and glanced over at the holo.  Same old,
 same old.  Imperial programming had been boring enough, but the New Republic
 didn't seem to do much better.  Always cash strapped, the Republic had
 introduced the idea of commercials.  And here on the Rim, programmers
 weren't picky about their sponsors.

 "Now downloadable from Stellnet!  The soaring new romance novel by Scylla!
 Yearn with Elanthia Stardust for the Imperial Admiral who spared her life.
 Thrill to her endless quest for him.  Rejoice at their reunion.   Download
 _Grey Man of my Dreams_ today!"

 "Hey partner.  Your flameout.  So, whaddaya think?  Should we take the
 bootleg holo run or that one with the cute bean-stuffed critters with the
 heart tags on their ears?"  She downed her shot of coke.

 "Critters.  Legal."

 "Right right.  Like we never did anything unethical.  Hey, check that!"

 The holo boomed: "Coming soon to a world near you!  Open to all male
 sentients, the first annual Galactic Man competition!  Finalists get an
 all-expense paid trip to Coruscant, and compete for the coveted title of
 Galactic Man!  The paragon of maleness to whom the whole galaxy looks for
 inspiration."  The Galactic Man logo beamed bright and glittery against a
 set background.

 "Yeah!  I gotta sign me up right away!" yelled a plug-ugly at the bar.

 Another man carried an imaginary scepter and minced down a runway, lisping,
 "Oh, Oh, I'm tho thrilled to be this year's Galactic Man, paragon of
 maleness.  Come over here honey and let me show you."  He rubbed up against
 the plug-ugly making kissy-faces.  The bar roared.

 An announcer came out and Zora gasped.  "Calrissian."  The former gambler
 looked incredibly handsome, as he sat down and began explaining the contest.

 "Nah, can't be.  He's a general or something.  Why would he be hosting
 something like this? Unless its a scam.  But if it was a scam..."  Talla
 blasphemed three gods in four languages.  "Solo!"

 "Cheelooda," added Zora, seeing the face of the blond man on her former
 boss' arm.

 "And here are two of our judges right now," Lando continued.  "These men
 need no introduction."

 Han and Luke sat down uncomfortably, looking as if they'd rather be anywhere
 in the galaxy than in front of their good friend's holo cameras.

 Someone in the bar noticed their linked hands and, as the holo cut to a
 tight close-up of Solo, hooted, "Yeah!  Who's your Jedi Master, huh?  Who's
 your Jedi Master!"  Grunting and much hilarity followed this statement.

 "Circle of life and all that, I guess." Talla continued, draining her
 coca-cola.  Zora couldn't stand the stuff, it made her giggly and
 light-headed.  "Let's load those critters, shall we?  I'm glad we picked
 them, they're really cute.  And where we're going, they cost 50 credits
 each.  Lessee, fifty credits times a hundred critters per crate, and a
 hundred crates, and we get a thirty percent commission--"

 "Hundred-seventy thousand." Zora cut off her calculations.  She fired up a
 red smokestick.  Unlike the green odor-killer, this one was laced with
 adrenalin and testosterone.    She liked these far too well, and used them
 sparingly.  But moving and stowing a hundred crates was going to take more
 than she had in her at the moment.

 The women shuffled the crates aboard the Snowstar without delay, and Zora
 programmed the jump.

 "So they're alive and well.  Solo never found out we nicked the petty cash.
 Glad of that.  We could repay him, but he probably decided to let us keep it
 in lieu of pay.  Luke grew up pretty nicely, huh?  Jedi Master."  Talla
 whistled under her breath.  "And they're still together, that's sweet.
 Here, catch,"

 She tossed Zora one of their cargo, a red and gold dragon.  Zora snagged it
 easily in mid air, and turned it over in her hand.  She opened the tag.

 "Smaug.  Cute."

 "Keep it.  It's a bonus from Ty, the guy who makes them."

 "Mascot."  Zora sat the small dragon atop the navi'puter.  She yawned and
 stretched, before leaning over to kiss her partner invasively.

 "Zora!  Lay off the red ones," Talla protested.  "I have to take watch.
 There's a Rebel Whore mag back in the ‘fresher."

 "Leia pictoral?"

 "Yep.  The Bespin one.  And a copy of Rebelz.  Special all Skywalker
 Edition.  If you're in a cheelooda mood.  Got a pictoral of him doing Leia.
 There may be a couple of Flyboyz as well."

 "Mmm, Princess..."  Zora swaggered off to the fresher, and the naked
 Alderaani being abused by the Lord Vader.

 "One of these days I am so going to make that Sithwitch quit with that red
 smoke," Talla said to the little dragon.

*end*