This is what would have happened if Chief Impaiter hadn't come that night to the Death Watch camp to demand they leave...
Chapter One
Pre Vizsla gave Lux and Ahsoka their own tent to stay in. Lux was greatful, but Ahsoka was suspicious; she didn't know why the leader of a group of murderers would be so generous. Nonetheless, she didn't argue as she gently grasped onto Lux's arm and moved closer to him, like she always did since they came to be on Carlac, allowing him to lead her into the tent. After all, she was supposed to be his betrothed, ableit she wasn't.
Ahsoka took off her thick dress-jacket and her boots and quickly crawled into the spare bed that was too small for two people, forcing Lux to sleep alone in the larger bed by himself. Lux sighed in slight disappointment, but he wasn't surprised; it wasnt like they were actually together or anything. They weren't a couple.
Apparently, the bigger bed had thicker covers because Lux could see Ahsoka shivering, and he could hear her teeth clattering together. Lux knew she was suffering from the cold, so he sat up in bed and called softly, "Ahsoka..." Ahsoka rolled over, and Lux inhaled sharply; her usual vibrant, flaming sun-kissed skin was now a pale orange, and her nose and eyes were both a little runny.
Holy Force! Why didn't she come get me and tell me she was cold?! Why didn't she put her jacket back on if she's so cold?! Lux thought when he saw her as Ahsoka's eyes met his and she questioned quietly, her chattering teeth making her stammer, "Y-Y-Ye...Y-Yeah...L-Lux?" Despite his thoughts, Lux wasn't going to miss this opportunity, albeit his main reason was for the fear and concern he felt seeing her like that as he grasped the edge of the blankets and lifted them up, leaving space for her to crawl into as he replied, "You're obviously freezing over there...Come lie with me...My bed's not cold, and our body heat should keep you warm..."
"B-But..." Ahsoka began to argue, but Lux silenced her by shaking his head and interrupting, "Ahsoka, I'm not just gonna lie here and watch you freeze to death. Either you come over here, or I join you in that small excuse for a bed, and I'm sure you wouldn't want me right on top of you." Ahsoka scowled and scoffed, but she sighed and sat up as she replied, "Fine...Move over..." Lux did as told and moved over to provide more room for her. Ahsoka scooped up her boots and dress-jacket and hurried over to the bed Lux was in, placing her things on the ground beside the bed as she quickly scrampled into the bed.
Ahsoka threw the blankets over her and buried herself into them as Lux smiled slightly and asked, "Better?" Ahsoka hated to admit it, but she did feel so much warmer as she turned her head to look at him and nodded. Lux's smile grew, and he reached out, gently touching her arm as he replied softly, "Good..." Ahsoka gasped at the warmth of his touch as she instantly and instinctively rolled towards him and moved closer to him, closer to his warmth. Lux looked down at her in surprise, but he could feel her trembling against him as he put an arm around her.
"Are you okay with this?" Lux asked quietly, and Ahsoka pressed her face into his chest as she replied, "Yes...You're just really warm..." Lux smiled and slipped his other arm underneath her, holding her close. Ahsoka sighed blissfully as she snuggled closer to him and mumbled, "Lux..."
"Yeah?"
"Thank you..."
"Of course, Ahsoka."
In the morning, before Ahsoka and Lux woke up, Pre Vizla and one of the other Death Watch members, a woman by the same of Bo Kataan peeked into Lux and Ahsoka's tent. Vizsla took off his helmet and looked down at the two teenagers snuggle together as Bo commented quietly, "Lux Bonteri will never reach his full, true potential in Death Watch with this girl of his here. She's too grounded."
"This is true. We'll have her meet with an accident," Vizla replied just as quietly as they slipped back out of the tent. "One where it looks like it truly was an accident."
"Got it, Boss. I'll come up with something."
"Lux," Ahsoka commented as she shook his shoulder, trying to wake him up. "Lux, come on. Wake up." Lux groaned and pulled her closer as he replied drowsily, "No..." Ahsoka sighed and tolled her eyes as she responded, "Yes, Lux. If you don't get up now, I'll make you get up."
"What can you do to me, Ahsoka?" Lux asked, slightly teasing, and a mischievous grin carved into Ahsoka's face as an idea popped into her head; she didn't know where the idea came from, but she was going to do it anyways, despite the risk. She rolled on top of him and whispered into his ear, "I can do this..." She landed her lips onto his and delved her tongue into his mouth, but she pulled back and jumped up before he could recover and respond back in kind. Lux was still in shock as Ahsoka slipped into her dress-jacket and put on her boots. Lux soon recovered, however, as he smiled and exclaimed, "Oh, you're mine now!" Ahsoka smiled and ran as Lux leapt out of bed and put on his own boots and snow hat. He ran after her and chased her around the tent. Ahsoka slowed down to a normal, non-Jedi pace so it was more fair for Lux as she bolted out of the tent with Lux right behind her.
Lux managed to grab Ahsoka's arm as he spun her around and commented with a smile, "Got you." Ahsoka couldn't help but smile and giggle as she kissed him briefly and replied, "So you did. So you did." Lux's smile grew, when someone called out his name, and both he and Ahsoka looked up to see Vizla and Bo, the female Death Watch member from before, walking towards them. Ahsoka and Lux released each other as Ahsoka gently grasped onto Lux's arm with both hands and stayed close to him.
Bo came up to Ahsoka and grabbed her by her arm as she commented sternly, "You're coming with me." Ahsoka jerked her arm free and glared at Bo as she stated, "I don't take orders from YOU."
"Ahsoka..." Lux murmured as he looked at her and placed an arm around her waist. "It's okay...I'll see you later..." Ahsoka's stormy blue eyes softened with affection as she nodded and replied, "All right..." Lux kissed her tenderly and responded softly, "Thank you..." Ahsoka stepped away from Lux as he released her and watched as Bo took Ahsoka to the tent where the servant women stayed before exiting with one of the servant women. Bo hopped into the driver's seat of a speeder, while Ahsoka got onto the back and said something to the servant woman. The woman hesitated, but she finally nodded as she reluctantly climbed into the passenger seat which was the only other seat in the speeder other than the driver's seat. The speeder took off, and Lux sighed quietly as he followed Vizla into one of the tents.
They were going really fast as the servant woman, Trila, the one Ahsoka was friends with looked up at Ahsoka in concern. Ahsoka knew what that meant; even Trila, a native and local, didn't know where they were going. A look of recognition suddenly flashed in Trila's eyes as well as a look of fear as she exclaimed, "We're approaching the-" Her cry was cut off though as the edge of a cliff suddenly loomed in front of them, and Bo whipped the speeder right at the edge of the cliff so suddenly that the speeder nearly flipped. Ahsoka, not being prepared or expecting the sudden whip, was sent flying off the speeder because she was only sitting on the back of it, not in a seat or anything as she flew over the edge of the cliff with a cry of surprise and went plummeting to the ground below.
"Ahsoka!" Trila wailed when she saw her friend go over the cliff edge. She tried to get up out of the speeder, but Bo grabbed her by her shoulder and forced her back down into the seat as she stated, "There's nothing we can do now. I admit, I should have known the cliff was there, but there's no way she survived that." Trila began to cry into her hands as Samala sped back to the Death Watch camp.
Lux could hear a speeder returning, and he immediately got up as he left the tent, expecting to be greeted by the Togruta padawan he had fallen in love with getting off the back of the speeder. However, Ahsoka wasn't getting off the back of the speeder; she wasn't getting off or out of anything at all. She wasn't there, and he could see the servant woman who had gone with them sitting in the passenger seat crying. Vizla and a few other Death Watch members came out of the tent after him as Lux ran up to Bo and demanded, "Where is she?! Where is Ahsoka?!" Vizla walked up to stand beside the boy as Bo looked at Vizla and informed more to him than to Lux, "She fell off a cliff. I didn't know the edge would be there, and I was going too fast to stop. I turned and just barely missed the edge, but...Ahsoka...wasn't in a seat or properly holding onto anything so she had nothing to keep her in or on the speeder. She went over the edge."
Lux's heart dropped into his stomach, and he swore the stomach acid was dissolving it as he froze. She couldn't be gone; she just couldn't be. He never got the chance to tell her how he truly felt about her, and by the way she kissed him, he knew she felt the same, but they never got to truly tell each other or do anything to show their love to each other. Fury suddenly consumed him as he demanded, "Did you even check to see if she was okay or even alive?!"
Everyone was surprised by the raw emotion behind his words, but Bo quickly recovered as she shook her head and replied, "There was no need to see if she was alive. The cliff is too high for anyone to survive the fall." Lux didn't respond; he, instead, turned and went to the speeder as he jumped into the driver's seat.
"Where are you going?" Bo called, and Lux turned to look at her and the other Death Watch members as he started the speeder and replied, "To find my betrothed." Trila came over to him and asked softly, "Can I come with you? I'm Trila, and Ahsoka is a friend of mine." Lux nodded as Trila climbed into the passenger seat. Lux took off out of the Death Watch camp and went in search for the love of his life.
Trila told Lux where the cliff was and when to slow down as he stopped right at the cliff edge. Lux and Trila both got out of the speeder as Lux looked around and called, "Ahsoka!" Trila hesitantly chimed in as she started to call out for Ahsoka as well, and they went to look for her. Trila stayed at the top of the cliff while Lux climbed down to the bottom and called out for his lost love.
Lux searched and searched, but he had yet to find any sign of Ahsoka, and he thought that he had lost her forever as tears started to stream down his face. He yelled out her name one last time as loud as he could, and waited to hear if she responded. After a couple of seconds of no response, Lux finally broke as he cried. A sound suddenly got his attention, and through the thick, falling snow, he saw a figure slowly moving towards him in the distance. His heart soared when the figure got close enough for him to see the details, as he smiled widely and ran towards the form.
"Ahsoka!" He shouted as he ran to her. He noticed almost immediately, however, that she was limping, and there was a small trail behind her consisting of blood droplets on the snow. Fear and worry consumed him as he sped up and dashed to her side. Ahsoka smiled joyfully and wrapped her arms around his neck as she croaked happily, "Lux...you came...you came to find me..." Lux wrapped his arms around her and scooped her up into his arms as he couldn't help but spin her around in the air in pure joy. He put her down and kissed her, before he replied, "Of course I came, Ahsoka. I love you." Ahsoka looked up at him in surprise and asked, "Y-Y-You...You love me?"
Lux smiled and gently stroked her cheek with the tips of his fingers, softly cupping her cheek as he responded, "I do...more than anything...When I couldn't find you, I felt like I couldn't breathe...I don't know what I would've done if you had died...I probably would have killed myself, to be honest..." Ahsoka smiled lovingly and kissed him briefly, before she pulled back, their lips only inches apart as she kept her forehead pressed against his and replied quietly, "I love you too, Lux..."
Lux smiled and held her close as Ahsoka suddenly shivered and moved closer to him. She held onto him tightly and whimpered, "Lux, I'm cold, and there's something wrong with my leg...I can't feel it or move it..." Lux was surprised, but he knew he had to get her out of the snow and get her medical attention. He turned around and got onto one knee as he I stricter, "Ahsoka, get onto my back." Ahsoka did as told and wrapped her arms around his neck as she got onto his back. Lux boosted her up and grasped the underside of her knees, keeping her legs wrapped around him as he headed up the slope leading up the side of the cliff.
"You found her!" Trila exclaimed with joy as Lux approached the speeder and commented, "Trila, I'm going to need you to hold her while I drive back to camp." Trila nodded as she got into the passenger seat and gladly took Ahsoka when Lux turned around and put his love into the woman's arms. Ahsoka shifted, groaning softly in pain as she looked up at him with fearful, unsure eyes and murmured, "Lux..." Lux smiled reassuringly and leaned over, kissing her lips tenderly as he assured, "I'm right here, Ahsoka...Just hold on..." Ahsoka nodded weakly as Lux started up the speeder and took off back towards the camp.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Thanks for reading! I know I need to update Like Mater, Like Padawan, but I thought I should but this one up too! I have many more chapters for this story to come, but for now only this one is up. I don't think this is the revised version of my chapter one, but I'll go over it later! Thanks and dedication goes to Rex'sGirl for her encouragement and inspiration! But of course, I cannot forget my little sister! Thanks AhsokaTano141516! Reviews are like cookies and stickers! Can't get enough of them! Lol! Reviews are always welcome!