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Ch 3 To heal or not to heal
I awoke in annoyance this morning to find big yellow and cranky standing over my bed. He was staring at me his yellow eyes fixed to me in a fashion that was eerily similar to the expression a snake wears when it is about to strike its prey. There was no discernible emotion yet it was still raw. I sat up my green eyes locked with his as I glared back at him.
The blankets fell down from my upper body and revealed that somehow during my time asleep I had fought my way out of my shirt. This left my bare upper body open to the cool air of the cabin and also inadvertently gave Savage a free show. I took a deep breath as we glared into each others red rimmed eyes. Neither of us spoke or looked away it was a cat and mouse situation where we were both aware that any sign of weakness would surely be our down fall.
My eyes narrowed as his every breath seemed to make him invade my space. I mean I know this is their (stolen) ship but still there are certain places that I cannot and will not accept this kind of behavior. I grind my teeth baring them slightly as my eyes narrow into deadly slits. I was already angry and as his eyes flicked down to my breasts his smirk pissed me off and I jumped out of the bed and launched myself at him.
"What the fuck are you doing in my room you god damn perv!?" I yelled knocking him into the closed door behind him.
He let out a grunt as his surprised look turned dark and he reach out wrapping his hand around my neck. I growled through bared teeth as my hand shot out and I dug my clawed fingers into his chest. I raked big bloody scratches down his chest and abdomen. His yell of pain fell into a startled sound as the door opened and we both tumbled into the hall way.
Sedona jumped out of the way and watched us in a state of confusion as I hopped up and kicked him swiftly in the groin. I grunted as he force pushed me into the wall and the ship faltered slightly from the force of the blow.
Savage stood up and closed his hands as he force choked the air out of my lungs. He moved to where we were face to face with mere millimeters separating us. I frowned as he dropped me and I fell to my knees.
"You will not attack me like this again Jelana." His voice drew my attention upwards as a dark look filled my eyes.
"My name is not Jelana, Savage." I grabbed one of his sabers and sprang up in an arcing flip over his head. "And what will you do if I do attack you again?"
I ignited the saber in my hand and slowly circled him as he clicked the other blade to life. "I will be forced to…"
"What kill me? Don't make me laugh Savage." I spoke calmly as I spun the saber to block his assault. The sound of the sabers colliding filled the air as I spiraled out of his reach and started my own barrage of attacks. "I thought you were more intelligent than that old friend. You have already bore witness to the fact that stabbing or cutting me with a saber is very ineffective." Our sabers met again as I parried his attack. "When it comes to killing me there are very few ways for me to die and cutting me with a saber is just a good way to piss me off."
"My how the sith have fallen you know you seem rather weak." I taunted him and spiraled out of the way laughing at his enraged shriek as his saber pierced the wall.
"Would you two stop it If you are not careful you are going to tear the bloody ship apart." Sedona yelled and force pushed us apart.
We both glared at her and in a simultaneous blast yelled. "Stay out of this!" We both got to our feet and charged at each other. I jumped to the side running on the wall to avoid his saber as my saber sliced through his cybernetic arm. I smirked darkly as it dropped to the floor useless.
"Damn it insolent bitch!" He yelled as he charged forward and lowered his head. His horns drove deep into my abdomen and pain wracked my body as he shook his head like an animal. I brought my knee up and kneed him in the face this only drove his horns deeper into my flesh and made me scream in rage and pain as I dropped the saber which bounced on the floor and clicked off rolling down the hall a little. Blood splatter covered the walls and neither of us noticed that Sedona had disappeared.
I fought to free myself from Savage kicking and growling like an animal I clawed his back and thrashed spraying more blood and ignoring the dizzying effect that the blood loss had on me. I groaned and shoved him hard enough to make his horns tear from my flesh. We collapsed to the floor in a bloody heap. Savage caught himself with his arm making him look as if he were doing a one armed push up. Moving his head slightly his horns slid from the holes he made in my body with a sickening suctioning sound.
His blood dripped onto my chest and mixed with my own as I stared up at him. Due to my blood loss I was too tired to continue fighting. We both took deep shuddering breaths as we stared at each other. Our eyes were now again staring at each other as we both tried to recover from the situation.
I muttered a spell under my breath and reached up slapping my hand over where his arm used to be. A magical seal stopped the bleeding and Savage relaxed his forehead rested against mine he was off center enough that his nose rested next to mind and his lips were all but touching mine. Our eyes locked as I found myself unable to move. The hungry look in his eyes made my body feel odd as I fought to move, to do anything. His look held me captive and the seconds seemed like hours as we stared at each other.
"What do you want?" I finally ask.
"What makes you think I want something?" He asked moving to sit back as the sound of a door opening drew his attention.
I look at him my eyes narrow and I cock my head. "I don't know maybe it is because you were standing over me while I was sleeping like some fucking creeper." I growled as he knelt between my feet. "So if you didn't want something then why were you standing in my room?"
"I wanted you to check on my brother and tell me how he was doing but…" He looked over his shoulder as he heard Sedona walking down the hall towards them.
"What?" I asked sitting up and groaning slightly as I looked at the less than amused look on Sedona's face.
"Well now that you two are finished…" She looked at Savage her eyes focused on his shoulder where his arm used to connect with his body. "Hell now we have even more work." She looked at me and shook her head. "Savage come with me and I will clean your wounds, Naia I will be back in a few minutes for you heal you."
I smiled and started to chuckle as I looked at the bloody chaos which filled the metal hall. "I will heal myself Sedona." I felt a strange sense of relief as Savage stood up and walked away. My mind turned back to the look he had in his eyes before I attacked him. I had seen it before but where? I placed my hand over my stomach and started to focus on healing myself. I closed my eyes as I felt the tingle of my flesh knitting itself back together and then it hit me. I had seen that look many times from the men who would visit Jabba the Hutt in search of sexy slaves. I shuddered and shook my head the last man who had looked at me like that died.
45 minutes later
I walked out of my room with the blood cleaned from my body and my corset and black cloak in place. I walked towards the cockpit I needed to see where we were so that I could rout us to a specific planet for herb collecting reasons. My heeled boots made noise as I walked down the hall and stopped in front of the door. The door opened and I stepped through I stared at the stars as we moved through the darkness of space. We were still on the outer rim and with where we were it would be easy for us to reach the planet where I needed to go.
I suppose if I did not know Sedona's healing abilities it would surprise me that Savage enter the room behind me. I walked forward and looked at the radar, this earned me a strange look as Savage moved to sit down in the seat. "I need to gather supplies which mean I need to go to the planet at these coordinates" I said writing down the coordinates of the planet. I did not know the planet's name but there were herbs and minerals that I needed to make a salve which blocked pain.
He looked at me then at the coordinates he sighed and motioned to a key pad on the console. "Enter the coordinates into the auto pilot." He spoke calmly as if nothing had happened.
I entered the coordinates and looked at the screen it gave an E.T.A. of 2 standard days if we were in hyper drive. I looked at Savage. "With hyper drive we can be there in 2 standard days."
He nodded and touched something on the control panel engaging the hyper drive. The initial rush of the ship jumping into hyper drive gave me butterflies in my stomach. I turned and moved to where the copilot seat was . I felt so awkward around Savage right now that I could not find anything to say. Even though I practically grew up with him it was almost like we were complete strangers. There were so many things I wanted to ask him but I could not bring myself to ask.
I sat down and stared out at the star streaks watching the colors move as we moved at warp speed towards our destination. My lips tingled as I remember the last time I got to see him before I was left for dead by Dooku.
**** My Memory *****
I walked down the dust road; I had to tell my mother and friends of the good news. I had been chosen by my master to go train off planet. It was hot and my clothes were scant as all I wore was a short skirt like wrap around my waist and a simple handmade bra. The wind blew and I was grateful for the air circulation.
I walked up to my mother's simple home. I walked in the door and looked around the mud bricked house.
"Mother?" I walked into the room which had functioned as our room. My green eyes scanned the walls. The mud as firm and dry now showing sighs that it had been repaired since the last time I visited.
I looked at my mother's bed it was neat and orderly like she usually left it. This bed was not made of straw like most of the simple folks were, this bed had been taken out of a ship which had crash landed not too far away.
I walked back into the main room and looked around. The furniture consisted of chairs which had also been taken from the ship. My favorite piece of furniture was a grey over stuffed arm chair. It sat in the corner in its usual position. "Maybe she went to go see Uncle Wilde." I said to myself as I walked out the door. I walked around the building looking at the earthen house we had built the house ourselves by hand when I was a child after we had left the witches of the mist. I turned and looked at a little picture which was crudely carved into the sun baked mud.
I smiled as I looked at the child drawn image. It had been there a long time this attested to just how little rain our area got. The river which ran through the area was run off from a mountain and that is where we all went to get our water. I smiled and placed my hand over the image which consisted of three little crudely drawn children. I drew it with my best friends Savage and Feral and that had been at least 6 years ago when I was but 8 years old.
I was so focused on the picture that I did not realize I was being watched. I had no clue that anyone was around till I heard a few quick foot falls and found myself pressed against the wall. My hands were held above my head as a warm body pressed into my back.
"I wondered when you were going to show up." A familiar voice spoke and I turned my head to look over my shoulder my body was tense till I saw the familiar face of Savage. His cocky smirk made me laugh a little. "Hello Jelana." He said as I jerked my hands free and turned quickly throwing my hands around his body in a hug.
Even though I was training with a Sith I could not help but feel a sense of joy when I saw him. I knew that if my master saw this he would disapprove and punish me but right now I did not care. I lay my head against his chest listening to his hearts as his arms wrapped around me. "Hi Savage how are you?"
"I am doing well." His voice was so deep now that it made me giggle it had been two years since I had seen him in fact when I last saw him we were the same height now he was tall enough to lay his chin on my head.
"You got tall." I said looking up into his eyes. "I have missed you." I said my brilliant green eyes met his yellow eyes. His markings always made him look upset but I could see his smile and the way it lite up his eyes made my hearts skip beat and fall out of sync. My eyes were now rimmed with red the more I worked with the dark side the more they changed.
"You have grown to." He released me and took a step back to look at made my hands slide down his body till they rested on his waist. I had breasts now, my body taking the shape of a woman with curves in the right places. My horns although developed now were small and hidden by my hair and the dark designs which marked my body were in their own way eloquent. I had black angular diamond shapes over my eyes with black lines running from the inner corner of my eyes like tear marks. These lines curved away from my nose till they met my cheek bones, from my cheek bones the run down my cheeks till they meet my jaw then they angle to my chin then angle up to the corners of my mouth. My lips were black and right now they were dry.
"Savage I came here to tell my mother that I am going to be going with my master to train off planet. Do you know where I can find her?" I asked looking at the now slightly sad look in his eyes.
"I don't know she left a few days ago." He grabbed my chin with his hand and without warning his partially parted lips pressed to mine. My eyes widened before I closed them. This action surprised me and I did not know how to respond as his tongue traced my lips. His hands wrapped around my body one hand sliding up into my hair till his fingers weaved around my small horns and his hand cupped my head. He squeezed my horns sending jolts through my body I opened my mouth and gasped and his tongue slid into my mouth.
One of my hands rested on his chest rubbing slow nervous circles as his tongue rubbed against mine. I moved my other hand sliding it up his body and around his neck till my fingers wrapped around his more defined horns. I squeezed his horns like he had done to mine; he groaned and pressed me into the building as his tongue writhed against mine. It took me a few seconds before I was kissing him back with just as much vigor. His other hand now moved to where it cupped one of my breasts. I shivered my body was so overwhelmed right now that I could hardly think.
I had kissed Savage before but the last time it was not like this. I did not know that a kiss could be like this. My body felt weird, it almost felt like I had been hit with lightning but it did not hurt. In fact it felt good but in a strange way it was also frustrating as shivers raced up and down my body. I moved my other hand to where my fingers rubbed over his left nipple.
He pulled back from the kiss and my eyes opened. We held each other staring into each others eyes. Neither of us spoke it was like we both knew that we would not see each other again for a very long time. I did not know whether to push him away and run or to stay put. I knew that if we were caught by any of the other night sisters that he could get in trouble. After all on Dathomir the women had for the most part enslaved the men. Because of the way my mother raised me I did not believe in this practice and I had always treated the males in my life as my equals.
The sound of something moving in the cabin caught my attention drawing me from my memory. I looked at the reflection in the glass and watched as Savage moved around behind me. I spun in the chair and looked at him. Could it be that in some strange way he had feelings for me? I shook my head at the thought now that would be crazy, we were friends at one point in time but now I had no clue what we were.
Savage turned and looked at me although his eyes were now red rimmed like my own he still had that beautiful yellow which reminded me of one of the moons from Dathomir.
"Savage?" I made his name almost a question and this made his head tilt.
"What?" He looked somewhat annoyed as he brought up his hand to cover where his arm once way.
"Do you remember the last time we saw each other on Dathomir?"
His eyes widened as he nodded. "Yes why?"
"Well I never got to ask you then so why did you kiss me?"
He was quiet so about a minute as he thought about it. "I don't know I was young and impulsive."
"You are still impulsive. I know there has to be a reason."
"I… ugh You said you were leaving Dathomir."
"Yes." I looked watching as he struggled with the answer.
"I knew that odds were that I would have gone through the trials before you got back."
"Ok and?"
"I wanted to make sure that I got to see you since I did not know if or when I would ever get to see you again. Feral and I were going to make sure that we got to see you one last time even if that meant chancing death to do it." His eyes were raw full of emotion as he stared at me. "I had been out to get water to carry for the trip when I saw you go into the house. It was just perfect and I knew that I would probably not have another chance so I made my way down to the house and waited for you to come out."
I was silent I did not know what to say I did get to see Feral that day but I did not know that I meant that much to them.
"It truly was an impulse you were so beautiful and I felt that once you said you were leaving that if I did not kiss you right there then I would never get the chance again."
"Oh." I did not know what to say. Part of me had been thrilled by that kiss the other part had been confused hell part of me was still confused. I stood up and walked over to Savage I was silent as I examined his arm. I touched my hand to his bandaged wound it had been a while since I felt bad about a wound I had inflicted. "After I collect the herbs and material I will help you regrow your arm to. Growing back a single limb takes a lot less time than growing someone's lower body so it should only take a few days."
I could tell by how tense his body was he was in pain. I reach into the pocket of my cloak and grabbed a jar which was full of a green salve. "Can I?" I motioned to the bandage which wrapped his chest to cover where his arm used to be.
"I suppose what is it?"
I started to un-wrap his bandages. "It is a salved for pain it can take away just about any pain." I said as I finished un-wrapping him. I looked at the wound and frowned. "SO how did you lose your real arm?" I opened the jar and took a gob out painting it gently onto his arm. I could tell by how he relaxed that his pain was rapidly receding.
"Well we still have some time to kill so I suppose I will tell you."
Savage spent the next 20 minutes explaining to me how he lost his arm which also led into telling me how Maul's cybernetic got damaged.