Shadows from the Past part 3
Hey guys been awhile, sorry about that. To make it up I`m updated two chaps right now to make up for last weeks missed update. Also I kinda of lied about the timeline line the story is actually a year and a half til "The Phantom Menace" sorry not monthes; but there is a reason for that just hold on. This chap is gonna be long like the others, but the time line is going to be moving pretty quick; just to let yopu know so one gets confused. Also a shout out to Lux`s sister thank you for your reveiws they mean alot. Now relax and enjoy the story.
P.S I do not own Starwars or the characters just my my OC`s Ronin, Lela, Kayla, and Mirah so far.
Part3:
Ronin`s P.O.V.
I woke up to Naboo`s sun shining in my closed eyes telling me to get up; minutes later I obeyed and sat up to see it was only 0645 military hours or for civilians 6:45am. Which to me was wierd but I was awake now so instead of going back to bed like a sane person I jumped out of bed and walked into living room.
Suprisingly no one was there considering us jedi wake up at ungodly hours, in fact I could hear Obiwan sleep mumble (he does that alot) and dad`s snoring (an annoying habit of his; but in all fairness he satyed up til probably until 2355 hours.)
Deciding instead of waking them up like I normaly would just to get on their nerves (It`s awesome though seeing their faces scared as heck when I do it) I would make them breakfast to make up for not only being late yesturday though it wasn`t my fault and probably making us off schedule. But I had to go and buy some stuff since the kitchen was empty, I took a reasonable amount ofcredits the council gave us and left a note in case they woke up before I got back.
I then headed off to the marketplace from yesturday, the place wasn`t as bussy as it was (considering it was the break of dawn) but the vendors for food were open. Not really having the chance the day before to actually look at them so I took the time to do just that. As walked I saw a little store thatsold books now before for you say ANYTHING I do like reading as long as I choose what I`m reading like stories and not those study discs they made me and obiwan use when we were younglings. But no really when I`m not training, on the battlefeild, with Obiwan or dad do whatever I`ll be on our couch sipping anything but tea (I hate that stuff) reading a good book. This may sound dorky but when I`m really into a book I almost feel like I`m apart of it which I really love.
So back to before; I went inside the clerk greeted me with a cheerful good morning in which I returned right back to her,
to be honest I could`ve been in there for hours just looking but I had to get what I came to the market for and return home,
just as I was about to so one book in particular caught my eye.
It had a grey spine and cover with almost a snowy dust of white with a what i belived was a girl`s closed eye and tiny snow-
flakes on her eyelash on the back was a beautiful whitish gold pocket watch. On the cover in purple lettering the title was Between Shades of Grey. At first I mistakened it for Shades of Grey until I read the back and released a sign of relief it wasn`t that what`s a way to call it? A little too grown up. Anyways it was a about a girl who lived in a place called Lithuania (I`ve never heard of it, must be made up) during what her planet would call World War 2 and she`s taken away from her home with her mother and brother and goes through the brutal horrors that some USSR secret police put them through.
Very interested I decided to buy the book with my own credits that Qui gon gave me in case I ever needed to go some where, which nine times out of ten I didn`t but he gave it to me anyway and it started to pile up so I just used them for this. "You picked a good one, my daughter loves that book; I hope you enjoy it." The clerk said with a smile when I went to pay for it,
I gave her a thankful smile and left.
After that I got some things for breakfast from the vendors who were just down the to begin reading my new treasure opened to the first page and began to read,
"They took me in my nightgown-"
That as far as I got before slaming into something or someone we or probably me fell to the ground; dropping my book and the groc -eries. "Oops I`m so sorry sir, I didn`t mean to-" A voice said, once I recovered and my eyes could see only one of everything I saw who had knocked me down and let`s just say I was blown away. It was that pretty Torgruta from the cafe across from me, she too was on the ground (she most liikey got knocked down as well) her face showed confusion as if she was studing me then realization seemed to have flooded her face.
"You`re the boy from yesturday right the one who was sitting at the counter with another boy with a small braid?" She asked curiously pointing her finger a little. Well feels good to know she remembers me considering she was running around taking other people`s orders and spent like what a total of three minutes really with me and Obiwan; not that I would hold it against her.
"Yeah you the waitress who was helping me and my brother, right?" I asked playing stupid, of course it was her stupid you spent most of that time looking at her like some sort of love stricken creep. She didn`t notice but she did laugh alittle nevously.
"Yup that was me." She confirmed looking away from me, I must have been duliousal from hitting my head on the concrete because,
I swore I saw alittle bit of a pinkness rising on her perfectly orange cheeks. Then when she did look back at me she saw the spillage of food and my book around me, embarrassment was as bright as day on her face.
"Oh- I`m ssooo sorry I didn`t mean for you to drop all that, here let me help you." The girl stutered alittle getting on her knees frantcaly trying to clean up the mess.
"It`s quit alright, it was an acident; nothing to be sorry for." I said joining her in picking up everything and putting them in the brown bag.
"Well if I would been been looking as to where I was going I wouldn`t have bumped into you." She said as she placed an apple in the paper bag, just as I was putting vanilla in causing our hands to touch. Immediatley we both snapped our hands away from the bag as if it was trying to bite us.
Turned my head away so she would see my burning cheeks and that they could calm down. Nice job idiot my mind told me; not helping I said, is weird to have conversations in your head or does everyone do that. When I felt my face was back to it`s normal skin tone I looked back to the young Torgruta before me, she seemed busy gathering the notebook, pencil, and pen she dropped.
Then I noticed the book wasn`t in hand so I stood up in order to look as to where it went. The girl looked up at me curious as to what I was looking for.
"Are you alright?" She asked standing up so that she could sort pof be at eye level with me given she was two maybe three inches shorter than me.
"Yeah I`m looking for a grey-paper-backed book." I responded; she turned around looking as well when she walked alittle bent down picked something up and walked back to me.
" I sthis it?" She asked, in her hand was the book; undamaged thankfuly I gentaly took it from her hand, once again our hands touching I felt her flinch alittle but relaxed her hand was soft and smooth against my rough- war shapened ones. "Thanks this is just it." I smiled to her, her cheeks then darkened alittle.
"NO problem, sorry again for you know- almost running you over; I`m Kayla by the way-wasn`t sure if I told you yesturday." She bash-
fuly hold her hand out for a handshake in which I obliged to and returned the gesture, now I could feel my cheeks burning again Kayla pretended not to notice.
"Like I said before it was only a accident- I would totaly rather have a pretty girl run into me than some strange dude." When I realized what had just come from my mouth I wanted to die right there on the spot.
"I mean...I`m Ronin by the way if you`re telling me yours, it`s only fair I do the same." I said rubbing the back my neck I was blushing even more now, I hope she bought that. Her response came with soft giggles that made my heart go rapid in my chest.
"I`m sorry I`m not laughing at you; it`s just a cute boy has never called me pretty before." She said when she had calmed down. Cute? she thinks I`m cute and she seemed so honest about it.
"So Ronin? Are you from around here, I`ve never seen you here before." Kayla asked as she began to walk in the same direction I was before we collided, I got the idea she wanted me to follow her for how slow she was going how the look in her eyes as she said it.
"No; my dad, brother, and I just moved here yesturday." I half lied slashed told the truth.
"Oh well welcome." She greeted in general "How long are you going to be here?" She asked looking at me.
"Well I don`t really know we`ve never really talked about how long we would be here, but as of right now I still live here." I said throwing bag behind my back and carring it like i did with my duffle bag, hopefuly it doesn`t rip. She smiled at me before turning her head to the trail.
"what about you how long have you lived here?" I asked her gently nudging her alittle as if we already were friends.
"I`ve lived here since I was fifeteen so about three years." She said then she stopped in her tracks and turned to me her face showed as if she was deciding to tell me something. "You said you just moved here right?" She asked.
"Yeah?" I confirmed sort of in a queston trying to see where she was going with this.
"Since you`ve only been here for a day why don`t I show you around the town, your family could come if they like I would love to meet them."
Kayla said kindly, wait she wants to show me around like as in to spend time with me my heart was telling me to accept while brain said it could be a bad idea; but to be honest how many times do I listen to my brain? Exactly!
"I would be honored; this place seems so nice I can`t wait to explore it, what beeter than someone who oblivously loves this place." I replied her smile widened alittle man, she seemed to have me fall more under her spell the longer I was around her.
"Great so Naboo looks best at night so I could show after work, if that`s alright?" She asked.
"Fine with me you`re the tour guide." I lamely joked, she laughed anyway again I couldn`t seem to help blushing alittle.
"Alrighty; I`ve got to run but we could meet by the fountain at let`s say 8?"
"Sounds good to me"
"Great see you then"
"You too." She then turned around toward the cafe; my eyes followed her until she disappeared only then did I let a breath of relief out. Well Ronin seems like you got the pretty Torgruta to not only notice you but actually talk to you and she called you cute. 2000 hours I meet her tonight remember that and try not to screw this up I told myself as I walked back to the apartment thinking about what had just happened.
~OBIWAN`S P.O.V.~
I woke up to the smell of bacon on the skillet, immediately I got up to see what dad was making for breakfast and if he needed help. On the way I walked past Ronin`s room and peeked in to see him not in his room like he usually was at this time, that`s strange.
To my suprise instead of seeing master Quigon in the kitchen it was Ronin dear Lord cover us from what ever Ronin makes we won`t die from it.
Not to be mean, but Ronin is as bad at cooking as he is being on time. Literally he decided to make breakfast for Father`s day and let`s just say I got food poisoning for a good week so dad and Ronin. Be it was nice to see him try, we haven`t let him so much as touch a spatula since then.
"Hey" Ronin called bringing me out of the awful memories. "How sleeping beauty doing this morning?" He joked as I rolled my eyes in response.
"So what are you up to?" I asked still not sure if he really was cooking or just making a new expirement; he never liked going by the recipes Ronin said he`d rather figure it out himself than listen to a book another reason why he lost cooking priveliges.
"What does it look like? I`m making food." He said sarcastcaly as he flipped a pancake "And before you so much as think it, I did follow the recipe so chill." Ronin commented before I could ask, he must have probed me.
"Good morning boys." Dad said as he entered the room, he did a double take when he saw Ronin making breakfast his face was priceless when he looked to me as if he was living a nightmare I only shrugged my shoulders in agreement.
"Ronin..." He started before getting cut off by a irritated sigh coming from my friend.
"Seriously you two?" He glared at us- mostly me."It`s our second day on Naboo or at least itis for me, now what makes you think I would want to be in the hospital rather than looking around and studing the planet for our mission." He had a point; how we organized things like this was Ronin would analyse the area deciding which places were good or bad, people to be around or stay away from.
In all honesty he`s best at that which was one thing I admired since neither me nor dad were too good well at least not as good as him.
Then with the info given to us I would pull maps up of areas or building, info everyone of their jobs that dad would assign to everyone and well there much to it but I don't feel like going into depth about it.
"Ok breakfast is ready," Ronin announced turning the stove off and placing hot food in front of us."The menu for this morning is eggs, French toast, and my favorite bacon, enjoy." He molde in a lousy acsent and bowed.
Me and Master Quigon looked at each other with surprise; the food actually looked edable and smelled devious. Taking my chances and saying a silent prayer to the lord above I took a piece of food and before I knew it my plate was empty and so were the others.
"Ok Ronin who really made this?" I eyed him suspiously he then raised his hands in a offended surrender.
"Seriously I did it my self you even saw me!" He said "but I will say this actually reading a recipe book does wonders to food." He commented I only rolled my eyes yes genius that's what they're there for.
"Well I'll speak for both of us that was really, surprisingly good." Dad said, but we both knew he was only trying to keep from an argument occurring."Thank you Ronin" he continued my brother nodded and well I said my thanks too.
"So down to buissness how long do I have to come up with an analysis?" Ronin asked ready to get started, I'm not surprised we both love Naboo and I just know it's killing him right to be inside instead of out there.
"You have three days in the mean time I will once again be meeting with the queen and her council, Obiwan would you like to accompany me, you don't have to be in the meeting her highness suggested for you to look for maps and tacks on how the Seperatists function since theyre fairly new and we only know they're trying to reconstruct the old Republic into a tyranny.(A/N I made that up don't really know what they planned to do if they won the war) also Ronin please be descrete about it find someone who is willing to show you around."
Ronin's ears seemed to have perked up at the sound of this.
"Actually when I was out I ran into a young lady who wanted to show me around Naboo since I told we were fairly new." He explained, for some reason I couldn't help but wonder who this young lady was and why she was so eager to help a stranger out.
"Alright but do please be careful," Dad asked in concern he didn't seem too sure about this either now at the thought he was going to be alone with a girl I'm sure he meant for Ronin to ask an actual tour guide.
"I will"
"Very well we will see you in three, may the force be with you my young padawan." Our master then stood up signaled me to do as well and we walked out of the apartment.
May the force be with all of us.
I hope you guys enjoyed the chap so just so I can clarify somethings the book Ronin bought is a real book called Bewtween Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepytus (I probably spelled her last name wrong sorry) as said before it's a WW2 book from the perspective of a girl named Lina from the country Lithuania (yes I know it's a real country Ronin didn't since he never heard of Earth) but yeah she taken by the USSR in the middle of the night along with her brother and mother.
This was something the Russians actually did to people who seemed to be a possible threat to the USSR based on how smart they were or skills they had or of their father or husband was a military officer, things like that. And in the story she's faced with the horrors of war being in labor camps and seeing death come face to face with her at times.
It may seem like a sad story but it isn't too bad really it's a very inspiring story to read from the perspective of someone other than a Jew or American during this time. It's one of my favorite books next to the "The Book Theif" another WW2 story and "The Outsiders."
Hold right in a couple of hours I'm going to post this weeks update.
Please receiw and thank you again to those that do. See you in a couple hours
~Hope
