Obsession

On the edge.

Maul woke up that morning feeling like shit. His body still ached and the night no matter how long it lasted, was too short to Maul. He wanted to stay in bed away from the women and especially away from Hondo. No matter what that Weequay said women or men weren't going to fix him. Hondo thought he could be slick by sending some dude to Maul's room in the middle of the night. Maul didn't want to deal with this, midnight visits from strangers, while his dreams kept him awake wishing they were true.
Although, if relaxing meant him dreaming than he didn't want to relax, he rather come up with a back up plan in case if Mother Talzin's plan decides to back fire. He hated thinking against his mother, but he couldn't help it. He got up and put the lightsabers in his pocket. As he stood he heard a creak in the floor board, he kneeled down and inspected the floor. With some work he was able to pry the board up, there was a good space between the boards and the true ground of the planet. He kept it in mind that it was be a good place to hide something down there in case if something happened. He replaced the board and stood up, walking to the door. He unlocked his door and as he was opening it he saw Hondo there about to knock on his door.
"Ah my friend! I was about to see if you wanted to talk." Hondo says as he steps aside to let Maul out of his room.
"Hmm, yes I wanted to talk to you as well Hondo." Maul said walking out of his room with Hondo shutting the door behind him.
"Before we get into anything too important, I must say something." Hondo said as other pirates gather around them.
"Some of my men think that you're a laser sword wielder and they refuse to do any work and threaten to leave if I don't get to the bottom of this." Hondo explains sighing as if he was disappointed.
"I don't like to do this to friends, but these are my men and I want them to be as comfortable as they possibly can be and I certainly do not want anyone of them to go to the Empire and say I've been harboring a laser sword wielder!" Hondo goes on and it put Maul straight onto the edge.
"If you will allow us to look through your room and things we won't be much of a problem." Hondo concluded
"There will be no problem at all my friend. Your men have nothing to fear from me." Maul said escorting the pirates into his room.
"As I said before I was just a bounty hunter," Maul said walking over to his bed and kneeling down pulling out his bag from underneath his bed. As he blocked part of the Pirates sight with the bag, Maul quickly put his lightsaber under the floorboards. Maul had acted like he was readjusting the position of his mechanical leg, but he took Obi-wan's lightsaber from his pocket and tucked it up his sleeve. Once his leg was in a better position, Maul started to unzip his bag and once he unzipped the bag enough he let the lightsaber fall into the bag as if it had always been in there.
"I understand the trust you have with your men. I was never trained with a lightsaber, but as you know Kenobi was a Jedi." Maul kept his voice soft and saddened as he spoke to Hondo and ignoring the other pirates.
"I was there with him the clones struck him down and I was only able to get his lightsaber from him before we were bombarded by more clones." Maul said taking out Obi-wan's lightsaber showing it to Hondo.
"Spark that thing up, why don't ya?" A pirate asked and Hondo cut him off.
"Da-da-da-da, there's no need for that! I know Kenobi's lightsaber anywhere, I've seen him use it plenty of times to recognize it." Hondo said to his friends and he turned to them.
"You see? If he was a real laser swords wielder he would have his own laser sword, not just a memoir of a loved one." Hondo went on and one of his men still looked unsure.
"I don't know Hondo, I still think he's hiding something. Hand over that lightsaber." One of the pirates demanded from Maul and Maul just held onto the saber hilt tightly and growled at the pirate.
"There's only one way this lightsaber is leaving my side and that's from my cold dead hands." Maul growled and Hondo quickly stepped between them not wanting any conflict.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! There is no reason to fight! We're all friends here! Any more commotion here would attract the attention of the Empire and we all are here to be away from the Empire!" Hondo said between them.
"Just make sure you keep him as far away from me as possible and I might not cause anything." The pirate said and Maul hissed at him.
"Is that a threat?" Maul snapped at him and stood up towering over him. Maul was ready to fight, but he knew Hondo was right. Too much fight would catch the Empire's attention and things weren't ready, his plan wasn't finished yet.
"Alright! That is enough! All of you out of Maul's room!" Hondo snapped at his men and the slowly left watching Maul.
"You can do everything and they won't trust you. Do not worry about them, I'll make sure they are put far from here." Hondo continues and watched Maul's legs as the Zabrak knelt back down to place the lightsaber back in the bag. He heard some clanks and clicks.
"Well your legs don't sound like they'll last much longer. We should go out and get you new ones!" Hondo offered
"No, my legs will be just fine." Maul said standing back up and one of his legs getting jammed. How in the world could this happen? Mother Talzin's magiks normal kept things like this from happening. He banged a hand on his leg and used the force to temporarily fix the problem without Hondo noticing. He stood up and moved his leg around a bit.
"Hmmm perhaps your right, perhaps it's time to get some new legs." Maul thought out loud.
"Perfect! I know the perfect man for the job! Except there only one thing: he's not here on Florrum, he's on Mandalore." Hondo pointed out and Maul questioned in his mind if Hondo was lying or not, but he could see he was no longer welcomed by some of the pirates.
"Well we should get going." Maul said pulling his bag back out from underneath his bed. The quick decision surprised Hondo.
"I don't want to risk encountering the Empire with faulty legs. The soon I get my legs fixed the better we all will be." Maul said putting his bag on his back as he stood up and followed Hondo as he listened to the pirate talk happy about how Mandalore, even in it's pacifist way, were able to fight off the Empire in the beginning. Maul couldn't help, but rub his chest as it tightened up. He shook his head sadly as he concluded that it was just his mind still trying to grasp the reality of Obi-wan being dead.