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[rogue_wraith]

He's wasting his time here. He's managed to get into Iella's apartment without attracting undue attention, but it seems all his efforts are for naught. She won't break ranks for him, even after he gave her his best argument. She sympathizes, of course - just because Iella Wessiri doesn't think much of him personally anymore doesn't mean she's a

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[nodistresshere]

Iella doesn't know what to say. The military is Wedge's life; his family, his friends--

Even as she stares at him, absolutely stunned with her mouth hanging open, there is a part of her that is fiercely proud of him for doing what's right.

[rogue_wraith]

It's almost freeing, summing it up like this. No more amorphous 'what if' situations - here's how it's all going down. If only it wasn't so bleak.

"When I do that, that's my whole life, packaged up and fired out a missile port. I have to start over from the ground up: new career, new friends, maybe even a new name." Alright, he'll admit that hurts, and more than a little. Unlike some rebels who have changed their names often during the war to throw off bounty hunters, he never did. Giving up everything, including his name... it's like giving up his past as well, including a gas refueling station that hung in the Corellia system.
"Since I'm on the verge of losing everything I have let, I need, I really need, to find out how I lost something earlier. So I don't do it again with anyone else. I need to know how I lost your regard." He's pleading, and he knows it, but he doesn't bother to stop. He has to know this - he can't stand making this mistake ever again. Once was too many times.

[nodistresshere]

--Is he serious? He really thinks that she doesn't care? She cares too much; that's the problem.

"Wedge, you never lost my regard," she tells him, astounded that he would think otherwise. "You never lost my respect."

[rogue_wraith]

If the urge to beat sense into her head was strong when he ran into in Milliways, it's nearly overwhelming now. How can she continue to put him off? He's about to lose everything, because there's no way Hobbie and Wes can get to Coruscant and back before the orders come down. Even if she hates him, surely she'd give him just this one thing.
"Then how did I lose your friendship?" He asks, desperately, trying to sneak under her shield of intelligence gibberish. "Where did it go, how did I chase it off?" Pain tears at his voice, making it rough and strange to his own ears.