Just a quick note: These next couple of chapters are going to go back in time to when Kes was a kid.

"Come on Kes, keep up." John yelled to his stepbrother.

"I'm trying." Kes replied. "Man, this kid runs fast and he's only six!" Kes thought to himself. "It's like he's in one place, but then he suddenly in another."

"Your father is going to kill us if we're not home in ten minutes." John reminded Kes. "So keep up!"

"He has a point." Kes thought. His father would kill him, then John, then him again if they weren't home by curfew. Then all the sudden Kes and John were surrounded by the older kids who tried to act like thugs, the kids who thought they owned the whole neighbor.

The oldest looking kid laughed "Little Kes Dameron." He said.

Kes instinctively stepped in front of John, only six months of living with the kid and he already developed the big brother instincts. "What do you want sleemo?" Kes asked

"Oh, look who's trying to act all tough." The older kid laughed again. "I've got into some trouble, and you are going provide me with the funds to make it go away."

"I don't have any money."

"You think I'm going to believe that?"

"He said he didn't have any money." John piped up.

"And who might you be?" The kid asked.

"Don't answer him." Kes told his stepbrother,

"Shut up, Dameron!" The oldest kid yelled while kicking Kes in the stomach.

As John watched Kes being kicked to the ground, he felt anger swelling inside of him, not just any anger. The anger that gave him power. John made a gesture with his hand and all the sudden the guy who was harassing Kes was gasping for air. John saw Kes look at him fearfully. Suddenly John was aware of what he was doing, so he released his grip. All the kids ran in terror.

"John what was that?" Kes asked him.

"I… I don't know." John answered. "When I get really angry I lose control, I hurt people."

"John it's alright." Kes said trying to comfort him.

"No, it isn't, I hurt my father, that's why he left. He was afraid of me."

"I'm not afraid of you."

"You're not?"

"No I'll never be afraid of you, I promise."

Just a quick note: I know that was short, I've been suffering writer's block. Writing about Kes and John's past seemed like the best option. I'm also trying to come up with John's Sith name, I'm open to suggestions.