"Mileena, in the name of all that is good and holy, wake up!"

My vision cleared and Atton held me awkwardly in his arms, waiting for me to wake up. The intensity of the flashback knocked me out. Kreia was hunched over almost unnoticeably, an indication that she saw what I saw. I felt bad until Atton grabbed my attention again.

"What the hell happened to you? I asked if you remembered your mother and you blacked out!"

My mother…

I shook the whirring of vibroblades from my thoughts and shakily stood up.

"Let's just work on getting that droid." I whispered, making my way to the docking station.

Atton and Kreia followed behind, now alert and ready should I black out again. I spoke to the Ithorian at the door and he nodded, opening the airlock for me. We walked inside and I opened the inner door, walking inside to where a TSF soldier fidgeted nervously and kept his finger on the trigger of his rifle, and the droid who simply looked around, taking in his environment.

"Thank goodness you're here. I was the only soldier the TSF could spare, and frankly, I don't have a very good feeling about this." The soldier said shakily.

I nodded, and was about to tell him not to worry when a pack of thugs walked in, prattling on about how they were going to kill me and claim the bounty and so on and so forth.

"Lay down your weapons and make this easy for me." The leader growled.

"You want them," I growled right back, "Then come and get them."

They all fired and I charged ahead, getting minor burns from the occasional stray shot and easily cut down three. Kreia soon joined me, and with Atton's excellent aim, it wasn't long before we killed everyone. What surprised me was the pistol the leader was carrying. I picked it up and studied it carefully, noticing many illegal modifications. I made a mental note to talk to Grenn about this and I told the droid to follow me to the Ithorian compound.

"Of course master." He replied politely and followed me.

The only thing I could stand calling me 'master' was HK-47. I loved him so much, it's a damn shame he's deactivated. Hopefully I'll be able to put him together and he'll be as good as new with his 'meat bag' this and 'may I eviscerate this meat bag now master?' talk. We arrived at the compound and Chodo prattled about thankful he was and all that nonsense. I yawned and told him I'd have to take up his offer for another favor tomorrow as I was extremely tired now.

"Oh yes, of course. You go to sleep and come back in the morning."

"Will do." I called over my shoulder and left the compound.

"Will you tell me what happened before now?"

"What?"

"Don't play dumb, tell me what happened."

"I'll tell you when we get to the apartment, fair enough?"

Atton grumbled, so I took that as a 'yes'. We arrived at the apartment, only to find that one bed was completely obliterated.

"What the hell happened?" I laughed.

"It looks like this bed is destroyed. That means one of us will have to sleep with someone else."

Somehow, I think Atton had something to do with this 'bed obliteration'.

"Okay, you can sleep with Kreia tonight."

Atton made the most inhuman cry of disgust I have ever heard, which sent me into a fit of laughter.

"I'm only kidding Atton," I said between chuckles, "We'll share a bed tonight."

He sighed in relief, then proceeded to pester me about earlier again, which wiped the smile off my face. He was very persistent, I had to give him that.

"I did promise you, didn't I?"

"Well, you didn't promise anything, but it would be nice to know."

I sighed and took a deep breath, explaining my story about my mother whispering for me

to close my eyes and don't look. Atton's face was pure disgust.

"I can't believe anyone would do something like that," He gasped, then asked, "What did she look like? Your mother that is."

"Well, I remember her having straight red hair and fiery orange eyes, like mine."

"That's an odd color for eyes." Atton pointed out.

"I know. No one in the Jedi Council believed me that they were natural, and instead they merely said the fires of war still burned inside me and exiled me. Except for one person."

"Who would that be?"

"That would be Master Kavar, the first master I remember. I'm sure I've had others, but I don't remember them right now."

Atton nodded and went back to the topic of my background and family life.

"So do you remember your father?" He asked.

"Hardly. All I remember is my mother talking to herself about how much of a bastard he was. I guess he left after I was born."

"Did you have any siblings?"

"I don't know, why are you asking all these questions?"

"I'm just curious, if you want to ask questions about my family life, I'll answer them."

"Okay, do you have any siblings? Do you remember your parents?"

"I had one brother named Zak, who apparently died a long time ago, and my mother was a sweet lady 'till my father killed her."

"Did you kill your father?" I gasped.

"Yeah. It was only fair."

I chuckled at how nonchalant Atton talked about this.

"Do you know for sure if Zak is dead?"

"No, but that's what my father told me a long time ago."

"Then he might still be alive."

"Maybe. For now, let's just go to sleep."

I nodded and awkwardly climbed into bed with Atton, who wrapped his arm around my hips so I wouldn't fall.

"Just so you know Mileena.."

"Yes Atton?"

"I destroyed my bed."

I laughed and fell into a dark, dreamless sleep.