Yep I don't own Star Wars and that's about it. Oh and if you haven't readout 'Bound Flight' you should.

A Love to Last Forever Across the Stars

By Nisha A. Hailm

Chapter I

The Stranger

Jedi Padawan Lorana Jinzler walked slowly to Dexter Jettster diner Master Jorus C'baoth had been hard on her in lessons again and she found that she really just needed to cool off and take a break and was there a better place than Dex's diner? Lorana didn't think so.

She wasn't too surprised to see a gang of people surrounding someone that was a common enough in this level of Coruscant's, however the person they were picking on this time was an unusual sight. The man they had cornered this time had blue skin black hair and glowing red eyes. Now the hair and skin was kind of normal for a near human the eyes she had never seen. In fact Lorana found herself at a loss to identify his specie at all.

"You blue skinned, red eyed creep" one of the swoopie spat out at the man.

"Yeah," one of his friends added "Why don't you go on back to your rimming planet before me and my friends grease you."

Lorana was horrified they were going to grease him? She couldn't let them kill him.

"Leave him alone" she tried to not let nervous get the best of her. "I said leave him alone" she repeated more clearly.

"What do you fizzing want, a piece of us too?"

"No I asked you to leave this man alone. What has he done to you?" she asked knowing full well that the man most likely had not done a thing, because being different wasn't doing something.

"Unless you want a part of this too little lady I recommend that you go find someone less dangerous to pick on. Maybe someone closer to your size my dear" the third swoopie put in the only one she hadn't heard from was the one who looked like he could really hurt her.

"I asked you what this man had done to earn your enmity?"

"And I told you to get lost girl."

The forth one stepped forward menacingly. Lorana reached instinctively for her lightsaber. He stopped his eyes widening in fear.

"Blast! She's a Jedi. You can count me out now."

The first one swoopie spoke up again, "You gullipud! What are you afraid of? She's only a Padawan."

"I don't care what rank she has, a Jedi is a Jedi." with that he left running.

Lorana noticed that with the swoopie's no longer looking at him the man had seemed to disappear into thin air. Of course she didn't let them know that.

The second and third swoopie's were by now mostly dragging the first one away while he tried to get at her. They must really be his friends; most gangs she had seen would not have stopped him, lucky young man.

After the swoopie's had run off, Lorana looked around for the man they had been picking on and claimed they were going kill. Where was he? Lorana jumped in surprise at seeing him right next to her.

"Are you alright?"

She felt his confusion more than saw it; his red eyes were very hard for her to discern. She thought back on what one of the swoopie's had said earlier, the remark about going back to his rimming planet. Just maybe he really did come from the outer rim and well this much was for sure he didn't seem to understand basic at all.

"Are you alright?" she repeated in Taarja, then again in Meese Caulf. He was still looking at her in a studious manner as if he was trying to understand her. Finally she gave up and tried Sy Bisti a language she hadn't really mastered yet.

"Do you understand Sy Bisti?" she questioned in that language hoping that he did. She really couldn't think of any other language that he might know.

"I do. What were you asking earlier?"

He had the niece's accent she had ever heard what ever his home language was it must be a simply lovely one. Lorana Jinzler had always loved the different sounds of the many languages of the Republic. And had tried in her spare time at the temple to learn as many as she possibly could not that she really had much time since Master C'baoth had taken her as a Padawan when she was ten, but still she tried.

"I asked if you where alright?"

"I am fine, thank you for your help. What is your name?

"I am Jedi Padawan Jinzler."

A smile pulled at his mouth. "I asked for your name Jedi Padawan Jinzler not what you are."

"My first name is Lorana."

"Thank you." he looked around. "What is this place called?"

"You're on Coruscant on main planet of the Republic. You really didn't know where you where?"

"No. Thank you for the information, Lorana."

"What is your name?"

"Th'ras'safis, hopefully soon to be Mitth'ras'safis."

"Why Mitth'ras'safis?"

"That would be information, Lorana."

"I know."

"If I answer it you will have to answer a few of mine in exchange. Do we have a deal?"

She nodded "If this exchange is going to take long we should find some where else to do it."

"I agree, Lorana."

"I was just headed to Dex's diner would that work?"

"If you think it will."

"It's a noisy little diner. It should work fine."

"Shall we go then?" he held out his arm for her to take in escort position.

It was a good thing the Temple taught etiquette or else she would have had no idea what he was doing. She hadn't yet been in that many diplomatic situations, was this one?

I am just reposting this so I don't know when the next chapter will be up. But you might be waiting for a month or two.