Where Our Hearts Yearns to be

Chapter 4

"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares." - Sir Peter Ustinov

Mar Sara

A woman hums softly as she stood by the kitchen sink, washing dishes. Her red hair fell gently about her face. As she checks the oven for the fruits of her labor, her cookies, she smiled to herself for the feat that she has accomplished. When she took the tray out of the oven, two strong hands wrapped around her waist and pulled the beauty into his body.

"hmmm… are these the cookies that you promised me? Darling." Jim spoke as he breath in the scent of her hair.. God he loves the way she smelt.. an intoxicating aroma of cinnamon and cherry that made him crave for her.

Sarah Kerrigan wiggled herself around her captor and turned to face him.

"Yea, they are cookies" Sarah placed her index finger to her lips. "but who said they are for you?"

"Oh? Who else would they be for?" Jim tries to reach for the cookies but Sarah used her psionic powers to levitate the cookies out of his reaches. She wiggle a bit more out of the strong man's reaches and poked her delicate long fingers at his chest.

"you, Mister! Are late again" pouted Sarah to her soul mate.

Jim knew she got him and sighed in defeat as he buried his head into her neck, kissing her softly on her shoulders.

"I came home as quickly as I can, but the settlement needed my help to oversee some petty dispute" Jim whispered as his trail of kiss slowly inched toward her earlobe.

"Jim…" moaned Sarah.. he loved the way his name rolls off her tongue as she lifted her arm to brush away strands of her hair, granting Jim access to more exposed skin under her red locks.

"I brought you flowers…" Jim murmured as he focused on his delicate assault on the neck of the goddess in his arms.

He could feel her heart beat skip, he had gotten her favorite, red tulips. She quickly slipped out of his arms and head straight for the flowers, with the intent to neatly put them into the vase. As she moved towards the flower, Jim slapped her butt and made her jump a little, followed by a faint blush on her cheeks.

"you pig" Sarah sung happily with her tongue struck out at him.. How did a deadbeat like me get so lucky? Jim thought to himself.

"Because you tricked me!" laughed Sarah as she read his thoughts

"you know… this pig could use some exercise, darlin" Jim churned suggestively while lusty images fill his head

"Jimmy… you know it's not good for the baby…" Sarah blushed at Jim's thought as she placed each flower into the vase with care.

"I know" Jim sighed in defeat " I was just joking anyways.. what's for dinner?" Jim now with his hands on the cookies.

"your cooking still needs some work.. but your cookies are delicious! not bad… for a ghost" teased Jim

Silence..

"Sarah?" questioned Jim as he walked to the living room where she was … No body…

"Sarah? Darlin? Where are you?" Jim walked to their bedroom..

Jim's heart felt cold as he heard her scream from outside of the house and he ran as quickly as possible the the door.

Outside an enormous dark figure held his Sarah off the ground by her hands.

"Let her go!" Jim was furious, the figure brought Sarah close to him and covered her for one second before she changed into the Queen of Blades.

Jim was shocked, but she is still his Sarah! He made a mad dash towards the figure but was repelled by an invisible force field and fell onto the ground.

"Jim….Raynor… You must choose…the queen of blades… or … the fate of the universe…. "

"No…. " Jim fell to his knees..

The dark figure created a psi-blade in his arm and pulled back.. ready to plunge it into the love of his life….

Jim watched… painfully…..hopelessly… as the pis-blade plunged into Kerrigan's back and out of her chest..

End of Dream~

"SARAH!" Jim yelled as he shot up from his bed, drenched in cold sweat and tears… It was all just a dream…a bittersweet smile appeared on Jim's face… before the dark figure appeared… that's how life should have been for him and Sarah…they were going to be happy… he was going to restore the humanity that was lost in Sarah….they were going to heal... together….

He noticed a slim figure curled up into a little ball by the door. It was Nova, he smiled at the young ghost operative.

She must have dragged my drunk-ass home from Joeyrays.

Jim quietly lifted the sleeping blonde and placed her gently on the bed. His face was inches from hers when he heard her groan…. "Jim…..?"

"shh…. Go back to sleep, I am just going for a quick smoke" Jim reassured her. The blonde nodded her head and went back to sleep.

Nova needed the sleep. She had not been feeling herself lately. She had become sloppy in her missions and she couldn't quite understand why. She is the deadliest ghost in the dominion, but time and time again she ran into trouble and needed Jim Raynor to save her. Ever since the decommission of the ghost academy on Korhal, fragments of her erased memories kept on resurfacing.. Images of her life flashes before her eyes, and it's been happening at all the wrong times. Intruding her mind when she was least prepared to deal with them…. She had put on the psi-screen before this mission in hopes to block out her abilities to read people's thoughts so that she may focus on understanding the images that had been appearing in her head. But she may have left it on for too long. She turned off the psi-screen and shifted her head on the pillow.

It smelt like him.. as Nova breathed into the pillow and hugged it close to her. What are these feelings that she had been experiencing… as her mind reaches out to Jim's thoughts… she could feel the pain that he was in… she could feel that he is clutching onto Sarah Kerrigan for dear life… and he would give up everything in this world for her… I wonder….. how it would feel like to be loved like that…

Nova felt a new sensation wash over her…. Jealousy… and she knew it.

Argghhhh… get it together Nova! You are here on an important mission! She groaned into the pillow wanting to scream for the feelings that she is experiencing.

As her mind starts to wander again to a certain ex-marine outside, she could sense him, leaning against a tree with the wind blowing gently across his battle hardened face… his hands.. those strong, rough yet gentle hands.. I wish I could feel them on my shoulders again…. Nova blushed at the thought

where the hell did that come from?

Suddenly.. she felt another presence… someone else is probing Jim's mind…This dark powerful essence… but its not physically here in Mar Sara… it's at least ten light years away…Nova could feel the rage and the monstrosity of its powers… it could devour planets…. However.. whoever this presence is… its gently probing Jim as if he's delicate and precious to it… Nova can sense the care and the emotions of this essence…. Then…. She realized who it was …

The Queen of Blades…..

Sarah Kerrigan….

Author's Disclaimer: I do not own starcraft. This story is just a version of how I wanted the Starcraft universe to be after heart of the swarm. Please don't sue me! And please review and let me know how I am doing! Thanks for Reading.

A/N: thank you for all those who had reviewed my story thus far, I am really appreciative of your comments. It might take a little longer for me to update in the next little while because I have to study for my GMAT :'( but do not worry for a second that this story will be dropped. I have every intention of finishing it. Thanks and please keep reviewing! It will motivate me more to write faster! :P