A/N: Before you guys get confused, yes, a random Grievous wandering around the base is weird, but just go with me here! :D He's a prisoner of war under house-arrest in the base. Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the following characters, as much as I wish and hope and pray and desire and want and ask and fight and kick and scream...
"You wanna know something, cousin?"
"Tell me something, cousin."
Stass Ali and Adi Gallia leaned nonchalantly against the doorway to one of the Jedi Temple's many meeting chambers. Both women absently sipped coffee, observing the clones and Jedi who meandered the hallways in the late afternoon. The cousins weren't bored, despite the expressions on their faces. They were merely people watching. And gossiping. Jedi love to gossip.
"I think," Stass sipped some more coffee, "That Grievous has a mega crush on Shaak Ti."
Gallia spat out a mouthful of liquid all over a passing Ki-Adi-Mundi. "What in the Red Rock River Valley makes you think that?"
"Oh, I don't know, just…things!"
Gallia stared at her for a moment before launching into a rant, waving wildly with her cup. "Cousin, look! Grievous is a cyborg. Evil! No good! He's cold, cruel, calculating, merciless, and manipulative! Shaak Ti, on the other hand, is wise, beautiful, smart, charming, and compassionate. They're total opposite ends of the spectrum!"
"Which is precisely what makes them so cute!"
"And another thing!" Adi tossed her empty coffee cup into a nearby trashcan, having spilled the contents in her ecstatic gesticulations. "Show me a single scrap of evidence that you have that Grievous likes Shaak Ti anymore than he likes you or me."
At that moment, guess who happened to be walking down the hall?
Shaak Ti, arms loaded in data pads as the poor thing had drawn the short straw in who had to reorganize the Jedi library, was stumbling down the hall, arms full to bursting. Grievous, as forbidding as ever, strode with malice in the opposite direction, heading straight towards one another.
Suddenly, just as they were passing, Shaak Ti dropped a stylus.
Before it even hit the floor, Grievous lunged, swooped, and caught the escaping writing utensil, and passed it back to the Togruta with a curt nod.
In return, Shaak Ti apparently blessed him with the most luminous smile the cousins had ever seen, and almost knocked Grievous off his feet. "Thank you, General."
Accepting her stylus, the Togruta strode onwards, humming to herself. Grievous stood still a moment, before shaking his head, appearing to smile to himself, and continuing on his way as well, with a definite spring in his step that had heretofore been absent.
Shooting her cousin a pointed glance, Stass Ali flicked a pen from her pocket directly into Grievous' path.
He stepped over it and rounded the corner.
Stass sighed, rolled her eyes with a little smile, and went to retrieve her own pen. "See, I told you." But when she looked back up, she found, much to her surprise, that her cousin had disappeared.
Adi Gallia was already halfway to the cafeteria to inform Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Ahsoka of this rather juicy tidbit of news.
Oh, how Jedi relish gossip!
FIN.
A/N: Yep! TOTALLY silly, but fun to write! :D Poor Grievous really needs to just come right out and admit he likes her, already, sheesh! Review, please! Reviewers get a Fig Newton!