I want to thank TheLightIsMine for giving me a way to start this. If it weren't for her ingenious ideas I would have never gotten this fic down. (Applause for her) I hope you all enjoy this, and that it is up to Rep Com standards. I do not own anything, and I apologize for any kind of error. Thank you and God Bless!
Skirata Bastion: One month After Order 66
Everyone was still haunted by the horrors of that night. Some nights she could hear one of the Nulls waking up screaming. Even Omega; with Atin shifting fearlessly beside her in cold sweat. Even he would wake up beside her screaming. She knew it would take a while for everybody to move past that night, but eventually they would.
The wind blew, causing Laseema's jacket to flap against her shoulder. Kad's small, but heavy, dark head rested on her other shoulder. Thumb in mouth, and his stuffed nerf tucked against his chest. Laseema chuckled at him.
One day she hoped that she may be standing here, and instead of Kad laying on her shoulder it would be her and Atin's little one. For now though she was happy with just her and Atin, and Kad.
Kad shifted on her shoulder and then in an instant he was awake. Instead of grinning though like he usually did he broke out crying. Laseema bounced him a little bit which usually worked, but this time it was of no avail. Laseema knew he wasn't hungry, he had just eaten, and his diaper had been changed just afterward. Maybe he was cold. Laseema started toward the hut, but that seemed to have made him even more upset. So, she stood and kept trying to bounce him.
Suddenly, a speeder pulled up. Laseema recognized it as one of their own. One figure in black beskar'gam, with an orange mythosaur skull painted on the helmet, jumped out and started toward Laseema and Kad. Kad began to shift on her shoulder, trying to wiggle toward the figure, nearly making Laseema drop him. The figure was now right in front of her, and as soon as he saw Kad he held out his arms to take the baby. Laseema smiled and handed Kad right to him and stepped back.
Kad had stopped crying as soon as he was in the man's arms. He stared, transfixed at the t-shaped visor of the helmet. Then he placed a hand on the cheek of the helmet and grinned. "Da da!" He said. The man chuckled and bounced Kad making him giggle.
"Hi Kad'ika!" Darman told his son.
Laseema watched the whole scene with a full heart. She had been watching, along with everybody else had been watching Darman interact with Kad ever since Etain had told him. To her, it seemed that Dar had accepted that Kad was his son, and he loved him. There was no doubt in anybody's mind about that.
Another figure caught Laseema's eye. Clad fully in black beskar'gam. Her Atin. Laseema smiled and moved toward her man, who opened his arms as soon as he saw her. Laseema laid her head on Atin's chest plate, but then lifted it to plant a kiss on his helmet. "Good day in Keldabe?" She asked.
"Yep. Wish you could of been there though."
Laseema chuckled. "Well somebody has to keep those Nulls' bellies full." She heard Atin chuckle and laid her head back on his chestplate.
Darman listened as his son babbled on, and ran his small little hand over the helm of his buy'ce. Dar chuckled at him, which got his attention. "Da da." He said again.
"That's right Kad'ika." He saw Kad's eyes wander to behind him. Looking behind he saw what would forever become etched in his mind. Etain, his wife, grinning madly with her hair braided at the back, walking toward him and their son.
They had enjoyed a nice day in Keldabe. Under the urging of Kal'buir they had taken some time just to themselves. Not really walking into any kind of shop, but just strolling about. Talking, and basking in the warmth of each other's presence.
"Mama." Kad said.
Etain chuckled as she reached them. "Hi sweetie!" She kissed Kad's plump little cheek. Kad grinned and stretched out his nerf to her, making Dar and Etain laugh. "Thank you." Etain accepted the toy. "Where you good for aunt Laseema?"
Kad shifted his gaze to Laseema and Atin. "La La!" He pointed, making his parents laugh.
"I guess that means yes." Darman said. "But when is he ever not a good boy?"
Darman bounced Kad again, and turned as he felt Etain's hand on his buy'ce.
Order 66 had scarred them. The fact that they had almost lost one another had scarred them deeply, for life he feared. Sometimes he woke up after terrifying nightmares about her dying. Then again even she woke up screaming. The whole family had their fair share of nightmares. But he and Etain had their own little family to lean on, along with the rest of heir extended family. Kad was their centerpiece. They all would get over it eventually, and be able to move past it. As long as they had each other, and the rest of their family everything would turn into the life the had craved over a month ago.
A little short I know, but I really like how it came out. One acknowledgment, I know Karen Travis said in the books Atin and Laseema would not be able to have kids, that is actually incorrect. Twi-leks and humans can in fact produce hybrid offspring. I'm not criticizing KT at all, it's just that looking it up on Wookieepedia it is said that they can in fact have children. With that being said, I hope you all enjoyed it! Leave good feedback! Thank you and God Bless!
