One by one the disgruntled Ho's streamed into the bar for their first meeting, Ky had called the emergency meeting when she noticed the grrls quickly falling under the spell of the General once more. Jen had stumbled upon the General early one morning and they had disappeared in the maze, Ellie had run across him later while running errands for Darry and needless to say, those errands were quickly forgotten when she and the General tumbled into the nearest empty classroom. That only left three, Ky, Kendra and Brenda to the mad as hell list, the numbers were dwindling fast.

"Has anybody seen Kendra?" Kymira asked in agitation, her knitting needles sitting on the brand new bar as Judy polished it to a magnificent shine.

Ellie took a sip of her beer and was getting ready to place it on the bar when she nearly fell off her barstool at hearing Judy.

"Coaster! Did your mother raise you in a barn?" Judy loudly stated as she slapped a coaster onto her new mahogany bar top. And another thing, you need to keep your pet away from my new bar, or else I won't be responsible for what happens." She added as she went back to polishing and Ellie just gingerly sat her bottle on the coaster and grunted.

"I heard that!" Judy replied as she looked at her reflection in the bar top.

Seconds later Kendra came scurrying into the bar, towel wrapped around her bathing suit and was getting ready to sit down when she was stopped by a stern look from Judy, so she chose to stand, dripping water on the floor.

"Great, not you too!" Kymira groaned loudly as Kendra just looked at her in confusion. "Don´t tell me the General got to you too?"

"What makes you say that?" Kendra asked with hesitation as she watched the puddle around her feet grow as the water dripped from her body. "I was just taking a dip…"

"Yeah right! With the top of your suit on inside out!" Ellie snorted as JenJen laughed and Kymira stood up and stomped her foot.

"Well...you see...I was just minding my own business...and...he was wet...it was the pool...Kymira don't look at me like that!" The Ho stammered as she hung her head in shame.

"What about all this crap about he doesn't love me, he never even missed us, I'm looking for a new Jedi to love me, I hate his guts.." Kymira exclaimed.

Well, I meant it, I did mean it, I do mean it...and I never said I hated his guts, that was Jen," Kendra floundered as Kymira began to pace.

"Do you guys realize what you're doing, you are weakening our ranks, we need to show the General a united front, tell him our grievances with the treatment we received, give him a list of demands." Kymira spouted as all the Ho's watched her stride back and forth hands clasped behind her back. "If we're going to win this battle we can't be boinkin the General it will make us lose our objective...and as I've told you before I will not be defeated!"

"She's been watching old war movies again, hasn't she?" Brenda whispered as all heads nodded.

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"You know, this golfing isn't too bad." The General grinned as he and Laure strolled into the Admin building.

"So you see the benefits of a few hours out on the greens," the mediator smiled wickedly before the General kissed her cheek and pulled a blade of grass from her hair.

"Definitely see the benefits," he agreed as they parted ways, Laure to her office and the General to his.

"Here's your mail," Deb said as she noticed the General walk by her desk and with a killer smile and a quick nod of thanks he headed to his office, leaving Deb to smack the side of the computer with her stapler. "Damn screensaver, can't even turn the computer off," she moaned before throwing a jacket over the monitor to hide the nekkid images of Cal.

"Deblei, could you please call the local florist and order flowers for all the girls," the General asked as he leaned out his door seconds later, "just use my credit card....oh and order yourself what ever you wish also." And with that he ducked back into the inner sanctum and sighed, things were slowly returning to normal, most of the grrls were on speaking terms, and the gloom was lifting he thought to himself as he stood at his window.

The General began sifting through his mail as he occasionally glanced outside watching the campus when he spotted some of the grrls trying to push what looked like a rather large boat on its trailer behind the garages. Odd, but normal he sighed before Deb knocked on the door with a worried look.

"Ah..General, they rejected your credit card," Deb cautiously said as he ran a hand across his cheek.

"That's impossible, I haven't used it in ages, " He protested as he noticed the Galactic Express statement in his hand and quickly opened it and looked in disbelief at the figures. Then as if to make sure he was reading it correctly grabbed his glasses and checked again. "West's Boat and Water Sports? Beds R Us, Bar Imports? What the hell?" It was then the General caught the glint of the boat slowly disappearing behind the building and a group of exhausted Ho's stumbling back to the main campus as Deb glanced outside also and noticed the twitch in the General's jaw.

"I'll go get them," Deb suddenly said as she raced to her office, "and I want you to know, I had nothing to do with this...whatever it is!" She shouted as she headed for the campus loud speaker and called the wayward Ho's to the General's office.

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"Told you we shouldn't have moved the boat till night," Ellie whispered as the Ho's filed into the
General's office and stood rather impatiently as he still faced the window.

"We had to, he couldn't find it until I could sell it," Kendra snapped back, "besides who says that's why we're here?"

"Oh that's one reason why you are here," The General replied as he still kept his back to the Ho's.

"It's Kendra's fault, she did it," Jen spoke up as the others quickly pointed to the guilty Ho.

"The boat, the Jet Ski, the entertainment center, the bar counter," Ellie began to spill.

"You forgot to mention the waterbed," Brenda quickly added as Kendra just groaned and wished for lightning to strike her down.

"I'm sorry, at the time I thought it would help me forget...I'm trying to return everything, well the bar top I don't think I could pry it away from Judy but I'll pay you back...I swear," Kendra stammered as the General still kept his gaze to the window. "We thought you didn't care..."

"Exactly, that's why Brenda torched your bike," Jen quickly added as Brenda now groaned.

"I mean you just left us here as if we didn't mean anything, no good-bye, nothing..." Kendra added.

"This may be pushing things, but maybe we could have helped or something," Ellie interjected, "but you.."

"I never gave you the option," the General said as he fought a smile. "Don't ever think I don't care because I do and maybe you are right, I should have told you what was going on and I didn't, and possibly you are right about helping..." he sighed as he still kept his back to them.
"Truth is I acted on instinct, I wanted to protect all my grrls and in doing so I caused a problem, and giving you room when I returned may not have been the best choice either..." He sighed as he ran a hand through his hair. "If there is a next time, which I'm sure there will be, lets all do things a little differently? Agreed?"

"Agreed," the Ho's answered in unison.

"Go on, get out of here..." He said with a sigh as he finally turned to face them and he fought the grin which threatened to ruin the lecture as the grrls filed out of the office. "Kendra," the General called, stopping the Ho in her tracks as she hesitantly turned to face him. "Everything goes back...except the bar top."

"Exactly...I'm sorry about all that," the Ho softly said before he nodded for her to leave.

"Two more things, I'll think about keeping the boat for the school, and you can keep the waterbed, on one condition," the General edged before he grinned madly, "we give the waterbed a trial run later today, is that agreeable?"

"Definitely," Kendra smiled before turning to leave, "Ah, there is one more problem..."

"I know, Kymira's still upset with me," he sighed, "I'm going to speak to her next."

"A word of warning, she's really, really mad and has taken to knitting...you should see her work, its really excellent..but what I was going to say is, those knitting needles can be deadly, so watch yourself." The Ho warned before the General just groaned then scooted the Ho out of his office before he couldn't help but chuckle at the way things changed but somehow remained the same.

The General headed toward the dorms after waiting a preset amount of time after sending the Ho's away. He knew exactly how long it took to get there from his office. He wasn't a Jedi for nothing.

As he approached Kymira and JenJen's room and was about to rap on the door, it opened.

"Oh, General. I was just going out to check the mail. I'm expecting the new Pink Banana catalog any day now," Jen said slyly and gave him a wink.

"That's nice, Jen, you let me know when it arrives. I need to speak with Kymira now though." Obi-Wan placed a kiss on the Ho's forehead and sent her on her way with a light pat on the butt.

Obi-Wan approached the angry Ho warily as she sat on the sofa, knitting rapidly, mumbling to herself. He could tell she was aware of his presence but she remained absorbed in her activity.

"Kymira, my dear, may I speak to you?"

She didn't respond, but inside, she felt a flutter as he lilted her name and called her 'my dear'. She held strong, though.

Scooting a few inches away from him on the sofa, she still didn't speak, only mumbled something under her breath.

She chanced a look up at him and was greeted with the Look, but to the General's surprise, it did not achieve the effect he was looking for.

"Ky, my sweet, you must forgive me. I had no intentions of hurting you..." Obi-Wan's voice drifted off and it was clear that he was upset with himself for hurting one of his grrls.

Finally, Ky managed a word. "Well, General, it's just that..."

Obi-Wan silenced her with a crushing kiss filled with all the passion and urge that had been missing since he'd left. Ky let herself fall into it for a moment, then remembered that stormy night alone, when he hadn't thought anything of her.

Pushing herself away from his yearning lips, Ky stared at his beautiful face for a moment.

Then she slapped him, with all her might.

"Don't think you'll get off that easy, bub. Forgiveness doesn't come with one little kiss."

"But, Kymira..." The General protested as she rose, gathering her knitting.

She silenced him with her raised hand.

"Out." Kymira instructed him sternly. She headed to the solitude of her bedroom. "But you may come back this evening and see how I'm feeling then," she added over her shoulder, with just a hint of a grin. She would make him pay, and she would enjoy it.