A/N: All right, my lovies! Instead of the much anticipated next chapter to KotOR my way, I present you with these songfics. I can't remember the order in which I wrote them a few weeks back, but I hope you enjoy them. They were quite fun to write! Please read them and review!
Revan, why couldn't you have stayed calm for once, instead of flying off the handle?
Revan turned from her suitcase to find Bastila standing in the doorway of their shared room. She smiled ruefully.
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy now.
I hope you're happy how
You've hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever.
Bastila's face had an uncharacteristic ugliness to it as she spoke. "You've done no one any favors, you know. They offered you a position on the council! If you'd just taken it, you might have won them over in the end. Then the Republic would have the whole order fighting for them, instead of a ragtag team of renegade jedi." She spat the last bit as if it were poison. "But you had to have it all your own way."
Revan's eyes narrowed.
I hope You're happy
I hope you're happy too
I hope you're Proud how you
Would grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition
"Basti, you know what they're trying to do is wrong. You've admitted it! You're too stuck on being the perfect little jedi princess, the protégé that can do no wrong. They never would have come around. You know that as well as I. I did what was right. I don't know about you, but I like to be able to sleep at night. I can do that, because I didn't turn my back on billions of people who are being killed while the council sits on its ass!" If looks could kill, Revan's glare would have turned the whole planet to dust.
So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy
Right now
They sang in unison, each trying to outsing the other, to fight it out with their voices. Bastila slumped.
Rev
Just…
Say you're sorry
You can still be on the council
What you've worked and waited for.
You can have all you ever wanted
Bastila's eyes were pleading as she said it
I know
Revan said, regret in her every action,
But I don't want it
No
I can't want it
Anymore
Revan sighed. "Things change. Dreams change. People change. This is more important now."
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game
Too late for second guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap…
Revan smiled wearily. "Don't you get it? I can't be what I used to dream of. It's not who I am. I HAVE to do this. All my life, I've ignored what my heart told me, and it's never done me any good. I know what I have to do, and I'm going to do it."
It's time to try
defying gravity
I think I'll try
defying gravity
And you can't pull me down
Bastila frowned.
Can't I make you understand
You're having delusions of grandeur?
"This won't work, Revan. It can't. A jedi can't survive giving their heart more heed than her mind. That's the path of the dark side. Listen to me. This is not the right thing to do!"
Revan ignored her
I'm through accepting limits
'Cause someone says they're so
Bastila gave her a look
Some things you cannot change
Revan shook her head
But till I try I'll never know
Too long I've been afraid of
Finding love
For fear I'd fall
No longer though
It comes at much too high a cost!
Revan's eyes were alight, and she seemed genuinely happy. Bastila, however merely continued to frown. Revan didn't pay that any mind, determined to convince her.
I'd sooner buy
defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down
Bastila was yet unmoved, and it was Revan's turn to beg. "Bastila. Please. Think of it. You could still come with me. We'd be unstoppable, you and I. There's no way we could lose."
Bastila looked uncertain
Basti
Come with me
Think of what we could do
Together
Unlimited
Together we're
Unlimited
Together we'll be
The greatest team
There's ever been
Basti
"Please." Revan looked desperate. She held out her hands and Bastila took them reluctantly. Revan's face lit up in spite of the tears now present on both women's faces
Dreams
The way we planned 'em
Bastila smiled at Revan's lapse into her childhood speech, but she still looked unsure
If
We work in tandem
Revan was triumphant, thinking she had convinced her. Bastila spoke with her, having decided, but not willing to do otherwise.
There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I
Defying gravity
With you and I
Defying gravity
Revan let go of Bastila and grabbed her bag.
They'll never bring us down
Bastila stayed where she was, looking uncertainly at the bag on her own bed.
Revan turned to Bastila with a questioning look in her eyes.
Well?
Are you coming?
Bastila shook her head. "I-I can't." she said, "I just can't turn my back on everything I've ever worked for. Try to understand. I wish you the best of luck, but I just can't." She smiled wryly. "I'll put in a good word on the council for you at your return." Both of them knew Bastila would be placed in Revan's spot on the council in her stead. Bastila didn't want to admit what Revan already knew. She wouldn't be coming back.
I hope you're happy
Now that you're choosing this.
Revan nodded. "I understand. You still have your dreams. Make the best of them." She sighed. "And I'm sorry. That it has to be this way."
You too
I hope it brings you bliss
The two friends hugged each other fiercely.
I really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it.
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy
My…
Friend
Revan let go, picked up her bag and headed out the door, the short distance to her ship. The rest of the Jedi with her had already left.
And so if you care to find me
Look to the western sky
As someone told me lately
Everyone deserves a chance to fly.
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who'd ground me
Take a message back
From me
Tell them how I'm
Defying gravity
I'm flying high
Defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in reknown
And nobody
In all the Rim
No Jedi that has ever been
Is ever gonna bring
Me
Down!