Disclaimer: Don't own any of this, characters, planets, etc. etc. etc. If i did, would I really be writing fanfiction?
A/N: Now that that's over with, hello everyone! This is my first fic, so if you review, try to be nice. The prologue isn't really all that interesting, so I've posted chapter 1, too. The entire thing is already written, I'll be posting a new chapter once a week. Caeli is pronounced like Kaylee. If you have any other pronunciation questions (some of my names are a bit weird) just ask. Happy reading!
Prologue
I sighed heavily as I contemplated my life. If you could even call it a life. I was bored out of my mind, and I couldn't think of a single thing that would change that. My brother was off working at summer camp, my best friend Kayleigh had just left to go back home to Missouri, and I was stuck in my house without even my laptop, seeing as our school confiscated them at the end of every year (I suppose it was really the school's, not mine, but I still thought of it that way). Add to that the fact that it was two o'clock in the morning, you might as well call me crazy. I probably shouldn't have been awake, but I wasn't in the mood for sleeping.
I decided to take the risk I'd been debating in my mind for about an hour and a half. I got quietly out of bed, picked up the Star Wars: Best of PC box that was sitting on top of my dresser, and sneaked across the upstairs landing to our office room, the room with the desktop. I decided to start my next KotOR playthrough. Except this time, I would create a character, rather than powering through as I usually did. She would have personality, reasons for doing certain things. And yes, the personality was a bit limited by the dialogue options, but I would do whatever I could. I'd tried once before, but that had been mostly my 'try things out that I'm curious about' playthrough. I'd settled on my Revan this time though. And that wasn't going to change.
I booted up the desktop (thankfully my parents trusted me enough to leave it logged on, because I didn't have the password and asking them would probably not be the best idea at 2 in the morning) and inserted the disc, plugging my headphones into the computer. I really did not want to take any crap from my parents right now. Had I only known that was the least of my problems, maybe I would have reconsidered.
As it was, I loaded the game, preparing my character as I had done the last time I'd played. I was a female scout, my portrait had French-braided red hair with gray eyes, and her name was Caeli Jayde. I began playing through the Endar Spire, annoyed with Trask, as usual, relieved as always when he finally decided to run pointlessly into the room with Darth Bandon in it. No losses there.
It was when Carth said "Bastila's escape pod's already gone" that strange things started happening. Unfortunately for me, the strange things weren't anything good. My computer started to make odd noises. At first, I brushed it off as normal static. Then a bolt of electricity shot out of the computer itself and hit the chair next to my knee, leaving a singed hole in the fabric of the cushion. Another singed my shoulder. I decided it was in my best interest to leave the room. Don't get me wrong. I was in no way thinking straight enough to have such a good vocabulary at the time. My thoughts were more like I am so screwed I'd better get out of here before I fucking die.
All the same, when I tried to lift my hands from the keyboard and push my chair as far away from the desk as it would go, I discovered I couldn't move. Not the paralyzed-with-fear kind of not move, the literal type of paralysis. I was incapable of moving a single muscle. Only my eyes could dart back and forth in terror. That's when I looked down.
A string of electricity was emitting from the computer, and it had already wrapped around my left foot and was circling around my calf. The strange thing was, it didn't hurt. Or maybe I was just too freaked out to notice the pain. Either way, all I could do was watch as it twisted around my entire body, binding me with what seemed to be shimmering thread, arcing down my arms and surrounding my fingers, lifting them imperceptibly so it wouldn't touch the keyboard. Then it got to my neck, and I started to feel a tingling sensation in the rest of my body, almost the sensation I got when my foot fell asleep, just… my entire body.
Then it started circling around my head, and then the light was over my eyes, and it was blinding white, and that was when I felt the pain. Pain everywhere for what must have been less than two seconds but felt more like two hours. And then nothing. Absolute, undeniable nothing.