Chapter 9

A/N: I cannot think of a title, plus let's see if I've fixed the page limitation problem.

Kalkan remained by Jaesa for several moments, she was crying softly at his side, the darkness that once acted as her shield from her grief now faded. There was unfortunately one other person who demanded his attention.

"I think I'll like to be alone" she said in almost a whisper, he felt her sincerity both in her voice and through the force. The room stank of hopelessness and doom, the corpses of the Wrath and Darth Nox symbolised the doomed nature of the Sith, and the ascension of the Galactic Republic over every threat that hide within unknown space. Lana herself was kneeling over the Wrath, the blood had stopped trickling from his skull. The blood itself was dried. Lana herself seemed unsure of what to do, her hands fumbled around her blade.

Kalkan slowly walked to her, she was afraid not of what anything he'd do to her physically but of the other sort. The force proved stronger than her grip as Kalkan summoned her blade into his hand leaving her defenceless. She attempted to send force lightning at Kalkan but he responded with his own force fire. She unlike Darth Nox was ready for it yet she lacked the power or will to match Kalkan and was thus knocked into the Gravestone's wall.

She clambered to her needs, she herself didn't know if she wanted to fight anymore, but Kalkan knew for her. Kneeling down he saw that she was holding back tears, he held out her lightsaber in his fist and broke it. She barely reacted, so he continued out of the pieces he found the crystal and shattered it with his boot, reaching into his own robes/ battle armour he pulled out a blue crystal. He then used the force to rebuild her lightsaber only with the now blue crystal.

She was shocked and surprised as Kalkan now handed back her lightsaber.

"You expect me to?" she said unable to find the words of what had just happened.

"Yes, because you will never find sense in a world where you and Theron talk on any level other than as equals" he said simply.

"But to forgive me after everything I've done?" she asked disbelief, "after betraying you?"

"This wasn't a betrayal, this was a desperate attempt to save your people, but we can save them just through mercy and not through beating the Republic" begged Kalkan "The Jedi will always listen, and the Republic will listen to them. And I don't believe for an instance you never wondered why the Republic didn't do the purging or the genocides"

She was silent, but through the force Kalkan felt her hesitation. "Come now, I won't bite" said Kalkan. Slowly her hand rose and grasped the lightsaber, and Kalkan knew she found it more comfortable.

"What are we going to do about the Gravestone" she asked tentatively.

Kalkan hesitated before answering "Not sure, probably give it to t-"

"CREEEEK" came a noise from elsewhere in the ship. They both turned around to face the noise, Jaesa stood at the doorway but she too had also turned her head to the noise, and Kalkan knew she didn't do it.

"KABOOOM" came the sound of an explosion.

"What happened" asked Kalkan.

Jaesa ran over to a console "We lost something"

"What was it?"

"The Engine" she replied, deadpan.

"Stupid piece of junk" complained Kalkan kicking the console.

"CREEEK-KABOOOOM" came another noise.

"and now we've lost the omnicannon" she said, and Kalkan could feel her laughter, it was good to see that humour come back.

Kalkan himself just started laughing, it felt a month of pressures of being released of his chest. A hundred battles against the greatest fleet in history, and this was how it fell.

"If you want the Gravestone Lana, you can have it" Kalkan laughed, she too was smiling.

"You can keep it" she replied "it might blow up with you in it"

Considering that Kalkan thought it probably wasn't a good idea to stick around and the three of them decided to run for the nearest exit.

"I'll meet you two back at the command center?" asked Kalkan. A hint of sadness entered his voice "I need to start packing"