I'm back! Sorta.

My computer's going through it's own stages of the apocalypse, either corrupting all of my documents or randomly deleting them. I will find the problem once I figure out what the hell I'm doing. In the meantime, I have one small file that survived. I shall protect and preserve it from the zombie files that invaded my computer and probably write several more one-shots in it until it explodes.

Anyway, I'm gonna post this little short to start off my new set of KotOR I/II one-shots. Don't worry, there will be more, I promise. This time, it won't take me seven months to post something.

Maybe.

Gone

by the Jedi Knight of Geekdom

It began again. The dream that horrified Carth Onasi almost every night.

He stood on one of the dunes of Tatooine in the dead of night. An odd darkness, much thicker than that of midnight, hung over the dunes, like a black fog. Arden Morn stood about three yards in front of him, facing the eternal sand sprawling away from them. She was dressed once more in the dark, intimidating robes of Darth Revan.

"Arden," He said for what felt like the thousandth time. He lifted his hand towards her, like he could reach her...but she was just barely out of reach.

She sighed and turned to him. This seemed odd to him; she never turned to him. He expected her, like every time this scene played, to simply stand, her back to him.

"Carth," She breathed, her ghostly pale visage contrasting with the dark robes and her black hair. "Carth, let me go."

"Go?"

"Please." Her eyes were sorrowful, as though she knew how much this hurt him.

"You can't leave me." He gestured to the barren dunes. "There's nothing out there!"

She smiled pityingly. "You can't see it. You can't feel it."

"Feel what?"

"I can feel it. Carth, it keeps saying something, but you can't hear it."

This was maddening. She wasn't making any sense whatsoever! "What is it?"

"What you mustn't hear."

"What?"

She walked up to him and put a gentle hand on his shoulder. "I must find it. It's out there, Carth, but I can't let it come here. I can't let you hear it, I can't let you see it, and I can't let it touch you."

He stayed silent. Her vivid green eyes, filled with pain, looked into his for a long moment. Then she turned, away from him, away from the clear, star-filled skies, and walked out into the velvet darkness.

He tried to cry out, to call to her, but his voice was gone. No sound was coming out, and as he struggled to speak he also struggled to breath. The darkness was solidifying into a wall around him, one that was suffocating him, one that kept Arden out...

Carth awoke suddenly, his breathing and heart erratic. The sheets around him were drenched with sweat.

"Oh, Force," He sighed, running a hand through his unkempt hair. He shook his head and looked beside him to see if he had awoken Arden...and realized with a wave of horror that she was gone.

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