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Authors note: finally after i'm guessing for more then a year a new part up, that is if you don't count the one from yesterday.
I don't know how frequently I'm going to update but just bare with me, i'm writting when I want and have fun during it...
I don't want to be at it 24/7. ^_^ Got any comments? Then please review. I'm also currently busy rewritting My Bad Boy...

Don't know when it'll be finished I just want it to be good, not like before, all messy and stuff. I read some of the stuff back and was like HUH!
Hahahah lol, I didn't even understand what I had meant to say during its first chapter.

Chapter 10
Making a run for it, or not

I waited for a good 30 minutes before I finally dared to take a peek outside. I was afraid you would be waiting for me as soon as I stepped out the door, but when I did you were nowhere in sight. Apparently you hadn't foreseen my plans. Ok, perhaps 'plans' is a too big a word for it but I was defiantly trying something. In other words I was going to take my chances.
Can't win if you never try, ey?

When that fact finally had sunken in I knew what I had to do, though I was greeted by one of the most challenging landscapes I had ever seen. In front of me, large dunes of sand laid spread out, they reached as far as the eye could see, probably even further. It was a desert, or as I liked to call it; one large dickey for the cat. The only difference, its immense heat. I had only been outside for 2 minutes and already I could feel my shirt starting to cling to my back.
I could only imagine how an hour of this 'fun' would make me feel.

Nevertheless I didn't let that sight put me down. At least not so much. I was shaken of course, not expecting something like this. But it couldn't be as worse as this on the other side of the house, now couldn't it?
Right?!

No, what put a dumper on the whole escaping thing was the fact that the landscape behind me didn't provide me with anything better. But instead of sand there were rocks, and lots and lots of canyons, that wound their way criss-cross through the landscape. It was one giant canyon of red colored rocks. It was one large wasteland, not a single soul was insight, not even you?
Now where could you be hiding in a place like this? Where would you go? Where would you even want to go!

And then I saw you. No, I sensed you. You were sitting on one of the larger red boulders , and by the looks of it you were meditating. You were out of your Jedi robes, and instead you were wearing a set of white once. A hood mostly covered your face, though I knew that as soon as I stepped outside your eyes had opened and had fixed themselves upon me. How I knew?
My skin was tingling all over.

So much for a quiet escape which would go unnoticed, I thought. In those seconds our eyes met, I was sure you could read my mind. In a minute you would stand up and walk my way, trying to prevent me from escaping. But you didn't, you just sat there staring down at me. Like you didn't really see me, but someone else. Someone from long ago.

Well if you weren't going to come to me, I wasn't planning on sticking around any longer either.
The hell with this place!

So I ran straight into the place I had the worst possible chance of surviving in. The sand dunes.
I ran straight up the nearest dune, my calves already protesting as I heaved myself to the top of it. I totally had overestimated the looseness of the sand. This was going to take me forever, and the amount of energy it would cost me, it would kill me eventually . That is if the sun didn't roast me first.

This was Tatooine alright.
One giant planet filled with sand, whatever did you see in this place?! I couldn't being to comprehend. I hadn't been here that often, just once with my Sith Master and we only stayed briefly. I just couldn't find a reason why people would stay here willingly, there was nothing, which eventually would drive any person insane. From what I'd seen before, all the slaves wanted to get out of this place. The only ones who stayed willingly were hiding, running away from something.
Which one were you? The running or the hiding one?
Or perhaps both.
I concluded that you didn't make any sense to me. Not from what my Master taught me about Jedi's.

But as I glanced backwards, and spotted you standing there upon the rock, looking at me, it gave me renewed strength and hope. What confused me though, was that you were not following me. You probably knew I would not stand a chance against the harshness of the desert. You didn't need to follow, I would come back on my own.

Well then you didn't know me! The thought alone refilled me with new energy.

My feet sunk deep into the loss sand as I started my descent from the dune. Instantly filling my shoes with more of its tiny grains. I didn't hurry, I just kept still for a few moments before taking my next move. I didn't want to trip and get all the sand to follow me down, only to bury me a few seconds later. That would be a huge mistake. If only I still could have used the Force, this would have been a lot easier.
When I had reached the top of the second dune, I once again turned to glance behind me. It appeared you were now slowly starting your own descent, and were coming straight for me. Hope sprang inside my chest that I might did have a chance to escape you, if you saw fit to do something to prevent me from walking out on you. Anyway, it was time to throw caution to the wind and make a run for it.

I don't really remember much of anything, only that my muscles and lungs never had burned so bad as during that day. Later on you told me that even after my body had given up, my stubbornness and determination had kept me going for at least a little while longer. I had earned some of your respect during that moment, though I'm pretty sure I couldn't possibly sink any lower.

Even with the use of the Force the landscape was hard to tackle, though you were an expert on this terrain. It didn't take long for you to close the distance between us. And so we found ourselves on top of a dune completely isolated from civilization. With only a few meters between us I noticed how much effect this climate was having on you. And for a moment I thought I had a chance of getting away from you.

"Don't be so daft Valerie. Where would you go?" Ben's voice, breaking the silence, sounded strange, and alien to me. I followed his hands as they motioned to our surroundings, pointing out to me what I already knew. There was nothing, no where I could run. But I couldn't admit that could I, admitting I was failing. Failing was out of the question, my Master always had told me.
"You'll die out there"

"Like you care. All you've done is kidnap, humiliate and abandon me here on this stinking planet. I never asked to be brought here." I half yelled, not able to hide my emotions anymore. Sure my Sith Master wasn't that great but at least I knew what I could expect from him. I crossed my arms as I took a step backwards away from you. "You don't care about me at all"

For a moment you looked at me as if I had done something out of the ordinary. I later realized that my display of emotions was what had caused that look. I wasn't perfect like my Sith Master always told me, emotions ruled me too much. "You remind me so much of him"

I felt my brows knit together, as I took in the words you had just spoken. Ok, perhaps 'spoken' was a too big a word for your lips had barely moved. They had been but a mere whisper, yet carried by the wind, they had managed to reach me.
They raised even more questions, but I kept myself from asking you. It just didn't feel right in that moment. It was at the same time that I notice a certain change in you, in front of me no longer stood a confident and quiet person.
Someone else had taken his place, a broken man perhaps? No, but scarred yes. I saw it in your eyes.

I blinked again not sure I wasn't seeing things because of the heat. And just like that it was gone.
"So uncivilized..." I heard you mutter.

"Shut up!"

"Listen girl, what are you going to do? I'm your only way out. This desert will kill you, and if it doesn't its inhabitants will"

you took a few seconds so you're words could sink inbefore you continued "But you must do what you feel is right, of course."
My eyes darted from him, to his out stretched hand and behind him, were a vast desert lay.

In my heart I knew he was right. I wasn't stupid, just stubborn. A lot. And as I felt my defenses crumble and I swallowed my pride once more, three words rolled from my lips.
"Tell me why" I didn't know if you understood that I was asking you for the reason why you brought me here, but you seen to..."I did what I had to do" you answered . "Now come back with me, and let me explain."