Obi-Wan Kenobi sat in the laboratory, waiting for Anakin to arrive. Ten minutes past elven twenty-seven, Anakin, Damani, and Emmie came through the portal. Anakin looked from Obi-Wan to the professor. Obi-Wan stood and walked over to Anakin.

"I told you not to tell him!" yelled Anakin, "I trusted you!"

"Calm down Anakin," said Obi-Wan soothingly, "I figured it out on my own. You were not in the training room, nor did you come to annoy me at lunch," Anakin blinked, but said nothing. Emmie took a seat at a small round table and he followed her.

"We need to talk," said a British voice. Damani leaned on the table and faced Anakin. "Now. Outside, let's go," Anakin looked around at Obi-Wan and Emmeline. He stood and walked out the door with Damani. Anakin was waiting for her to talk to him, or yell, when she pulled out her lightsaber.

"You kept it," he said peering at the silver hilt, "I didn't think they would let you-"

"Let me keep it?" said Damani, raising her voice slightly, "They didn't. I hid it, for the fear I might never see it again. It was my pride and joy back then,"

"Yeah I guess it was-" Anakin heard the lightsaber ignite.

"You left me!" she yelled, "You never came looking, or tried to find me! You were happy there in your little galaxy where you didn't have to worry about me!"

"Damani, I tried-"

"Oh! Tried very hard did you now? Did you even care?!" she ran forward and swung her blade at his head. He blocked and jumped back as she hit his blade with a lot of force. "Did you?!" Anakin was almost running backwards to keep her from knocking into him. She jumped, flipped in the air, and hit him on the chest with the heel of her sneaker. He landed on the ground and she took another swing at his head. He blocked in a twist motion, but she twisted her blade around his and then hit in with such force it was knocked away from his grasp.

He called it back to his hand, but she swung her blade and hit his. It bounced off and just flew farther from Anakin's hand. He cursed under his breath, and then saw Damani slowly walking towards him.

"Did you even care?" she asked again.

"Damani-"

"Did you?!"

"I tried to get to you, but Obi-Wan-"

"ANSWER ME!" she screamed at him, a moment passed. "Do you love me?" her words hit Anakin like a blaster bolt, pain searing through his heart. He didn't know if he loved her or if he hated her. A piece of gravel was digging into his arm. He felt as though that little piece of gravel, him, and Damani were the only things in the universe that really mattered.

"I do," he said quietly.

"What?"

"I do."

"What do you mean?"

"I DO!"

"DO WHAT?"

"I do love you," he said standing up, "and I always will. We can be together, all our lives. And when we leave the living Force, I won't stop loving you," he reached forward and kissed her, just as he had kissed her on Earth, but with much stronger feeling. They let go and faced each other. Anakin reached into his belt and pulled out a small box.

"Wait, what?" asked Damani as he gave it to her.

"Take this," he said. Damani hesitated, her hand lingering in the air for a moment, then took it from his hand, and opened it. A shining blue crystal with ridges and perfect lines sat in the middle of the small cushion.

"A lightsaber crystal?" she said, "Why?"

"The traditional gift to ones love," said Anakin smiling, "I got you a blue one, to match your eyes and your blade. You are a Jedi Guardian; blue is your color,"

"It's also your color," she said.

"I chipped that little piece off mine," Anakin called his lightsaber to his hand, caught it, and dropped it onto his belt lock. "So you can always have a piece of me with you," Damani reached for her lightsaber and let it open. It floated in mid-air as the bright blue crystal came out. She turned her hand a little and a small piece came off. Anakin caught it as it fell, taking out his saber and letting it twist and come apart. He let the piece float and touch his crystal; Damani did the same with his.

They closed and twisted back into place. The lightsabers glowed blue, the power wanting to surge from the blade point. They took the sabers and held them high into the air. Igniting them, the blades shot from the point and crackled with energy, sending bright blue lightning into the sky. Then the blades shot back down and the hilt stopped glowing.

"We are forever bonded," said Anakin.

"We are forever bonded," said Damani.