OK so I only just wrote this, I guess it is quite short but then it makes reading a little easier, and I can break it down into chunks.
And also I was itching to upload!
"Carth?" Her voice was quiet but yet it reverberated around the large bedroom, Carth turned around and spotted Revan at the door, the soft glow from the living room lamp silhouetting her perfectly in the doorway and casting her shadow down the room, he sat up, pushing the covers off and reaching for his dressing gown,
"What's wrong beautiful?"
"I need to talk to you." The urgency in her voice was so unnerving that he had stood up and crossed the room without a second thought, clutching her in his arms. He hadn't been able to sleep anyway, the fact that she hadn't wanted to come to bed had bothered him, but she had told him to sleep without her and that had bothered him more. He kissed her neck, running his fingers through her soft hair, but she pushed him away and brushed passed, sitting down on the bed,
"What's, this about babe?" He asked, his voice filled with concern as he sat down next to her, noticing how the light from the moon outside their top floor apartment lit up one half of her face, making it look ghostly white,
"Carth, I can't stay here any longer..." She didn't look at him as she said this, instead she turned to the large, floor-to-ceiling window, gazing out, lost in thought,
"If you want to move, we can, this is only temporary anyway, you shouldn't be worried abou..."
"No, it's not about the flat... Its... its beautiful, a place any girl would dream of..."
"Then what is it you want?" He asked, confused by her answer, she turned to face him,
"I have to leave, I have to go. There's something... Something I have to do..."
"Babe, anywhere you want to go, anywhere at all, you just let me know and I'll fly us there... Just say the word..."
"No."
"No?"
"No, this time I go alone, I have to." Carth's eyes opened wide,
"But, you, you can't, loads of the Sith are still out there looking for you, they know what you've done, they know you deserted them, they will stop at nothing to kill you." Carth knew this was true, but he also knew that this wasn't entirely the reason why he didn't want her to leave alone, he knew she could handle herself, but he just couldn't imagine being alone again.
"The Sith don't worry me anymore Carth, without Malik they are crippled." She faced him and he knew she was right, she knew the Sith better than anyone else in the whole republic, "I know how the Sith work and they must have a leader, they don't believe in equals, they will be fighting each other to become the new leader for some time now."
"Look, I swore to protect you, no matter what," he said kindly, placing a hand on her shoulder, "and I will willingly follow you into battle against whatever enemy you have and I know there will be a lot out there, but how can I forfill that if you don't let me?"
"Carth, It's not that I don't appreciate what you do for me, but there's something, something I did before, and now I have to face it, I have to put it right. I have unleashed something upon this world and now... It's up to me to stop it,"
"But we're a team now Revan, you can't just abandon us, I know it's a noble thing you want to do but you can't be serious, you can't seriously think that we're not good enough to face whatever it is you unleashed."
"No, I know you're all capable, it's just, you'll be needed at the right time, do you understand what I mean?" Her voice pleaded with him to understand,
"Revan?" Carth said, looking her deep into her eyes, "Please, I know it hurts but I need to know, what did you unleash?"
"I...I... I don't know," the strong spirited woman that the admiral had grown to know and love, turned away her voice cracking, then she faced him again, her voice becoming determined, "but you must trust me, you and our friend's time will all come, but I sense that it will not be with me, not... not yet. The Republic needs you, it needs you more than I do." Carth's heart sank but he tried to smile, he had noticed that he was shaking slightly, finally he had found something, something to hold, to love, finally he had believed that truly, truly he could continue with life how it was meant to happen. But just as destiny had brought them together, it was tearing them apart, it had teased him with what it could be like, but that was all it had been, just a glimmer, just a temptation, and in the end all dreams must come to an end... "If... If anything happens to you, I will never be able to forgive myself!" He muttered. Suddenly Revan threw her arms around him, her head landing upon his chest in a flurry of feathery hair,
"I'll be back, I promise," she whispered into his ear, "will you'll wait for me? No matter what?" He brought himself to smile as he held her close, but inside his heart was screaming,
"You know I will beautiful."
Five years...
The control panel bleeped in front of him, warning the pilot that they were getting close to their target, Carth Onasi opened his eyes, waking from his recurring dream, more a memory then anything. She seemed further away than ever now as he sat in front of the controls in the cockpit of the rouge ship. He glanced over at the co- pilot's chair, aware of the empty hole that had filled the space Revan had left behind. She should be at his side, and his hers, he had just wanted to make her happy, and if that meant putting her mind at ease then he would do it for her, no matter the pain it caused underneath.
He had thought that over time the pain would cease, like it had with his wife, but it was still there, stronger than ever, and every night Revan had haunted his dreams, for five years... And now it had been confirmed, she had come to harm and there was nothing he could do but sit back and wait, it was the ultimate test of character and strength of mind and he knew he couldn't fail her, he had to be strong...
Suddenly something came into view in the distance, a great shape loomed out of the darkness and as it drew closer he recognised it,
Why was the ship heading to Mannan?
He didn't wait to find out, he leapt out of his seat and dashed to the central chamber, hitting the comlink button with an urgency that had been welling up inside him for days now. He waiting, holding his breath in anticipation, finally the green light lit up and the large hologram of Mannan appeared, hovering in the middle of the circular control panel. Carth sighed in relief, he knew just who to call... As he punched in her code he hoped that this teen hadn't got a new communicator, something told him she wasn't the kind to care about that sort of thing.
"Well hey there Carth, what happened to you, you look so old!" Mission laughed,
"Hey... look here Mission, I don't need this right now, besides I don't look as different as you do since we last met up!" he was right, when they had said goodbye to the plucky Twi'lek she had only been 14, now however, five years had really changed her.
At 19 Mission no longer looked like a little girl, her body had really filled out properly and she had grown taller as well, although Carth noticed she didn't seem to be one for fancy clothes as she was still wearing the black bands around her head-tails, and he could see her distinctive rouge outfit through the hologram that had appeared, although this time it was slightly more figure hugging.
"Yeah, I guess you haven't changed as much as me, you always did look old... I'm just kidding ya!" she said defensively as he frowned, "what is ya want? Have you and Revan finally come to visit me and Big Z?" There was a faint hurt tone to her last words, inside her heart had ached, longing to see her friend again, it had been years and there hadn't even been a message, she would've marched straight into the nearest spaceship and flown right over to their door, demanding an explanation if it hadn't been for the friendly Wookie,
"If she wants to see you she will let you know," he had growled, "she's found love Mission, and perhaps she wants to settle down, start afresh..." Now as she watched Carth with a growing suspicion, anger rose inside of her again. He scratched the back of his neck uncomfortably, Mission could see a moment of pain cross his face,
"I guess my messages didn't get through... Mission... Revan's gone..."
The Twi'lek felt taken aback,
"You mean you've split up... or... worse..."
"No Mission don't be stupid, she left to sort out... something from her past, she didn't say what it was but she wouldn't rest until it was taken care of, and, she said it was important that she did it alone... That was five years ago, I tried to contact you but things are different now I'm admiral, there's, there's hardly time for anything and obviously there has been a break in the link we set up..."
"But yet you still have time to go gallivanting around the universe in that old spaceship? Surely the Republic didn't send you off in that old thing you know?"
"No Mission, this isn't what it looks like, I have no control over this thing, someone brought it to my fleet and I couldn't resist looking inside again after all these years, and then... You're not going to believe this but it... It kidnapped me!" Mission snorted,
"You're telling me that a ship kidnapped you? Aren't you meant to be the best pilot in the galaxy or something? Surely you can control that thing? Or have you gone barmy with old age?"
"Look Mission, would you stop with the insults and trust me," he growled, getting more and more frustrated,
"That's rich of you to ask someone else to trust you when you spent the whole of our mission having a go at Revan, don't try and deny it, I was there half the time remember?"
"Mission please don't dredge up the past! This is important, I'm not trying to say that I'm proud of what I said, but try and take this seriously, this ship is about to land, I'm not sure where but once I get the coordinates I'll send them to you via this comlink, I'll meat you and Zalbar, if he can spare some time, by the ship."
"Fine, but you have a lot of explaining to do when I see you!" Mission's face faded into nothing, Carth hadn't expected such a frosty reception, but then again, it was Revan they had followed, it was Revan they had all loved, and she had been the one who had kept them all together. As Carth strapped himself into the pilot's chair, preparing for the landing, he hoped that he would be able to manage to reunite everyone without her help this time.