Stacy heard the silence of space but also the subtle noises of the computer and engines. They had awoken her, and she felt warm, and content for once. She almost forgot what had all happened to her and where she was. She was awake but she didn't wish to get up. She rolled onto her side and felt a small ache in her lower left leg. She was finally beginning to doze off into another blissful sleep when she felt something rub her cheek lightly. She squeezed her eyes shut so they wouldn't open and buried her face in her arm and quietly moaned. Stacy heard someone whispering her name. It was most definitely a male's voice. Stacy couldn't place the voice with a face but she remembered a voice that she heard once before in the past. In her half sleep she grumbled, "No Zane… let me sleep. I'll practice tomorrow," she let a small yawn escape, "I… promise…"

"Stacy… Who's Zane?"

Before all her memories came flooding back she sat up wide awake and blinked a few times. She was on the Stardust but how? When she looked to her side she saw Jeck with his helmet off. She felt the blood rush to her face, "I'm sorry Jeck… I must've been dreaming again…" She examined her bandaged leg. "Did you do that?"

"Yeah I did, I carried you onto the ship too. Who is Zane, Stacy?"

She looked at him and tilted her head. "Not you…" she slid off the cot and tried standing on the leg. It wasn't going to be easy but she could try.

"Well obviously!"

"Jeck… You shouldn't have done this…"

"Done what?"

"Putting me on the ship and fixing me up… Not what after I did to you!" Stacy had a regretful face as she remembered dragging the blade across his flesh.

"You had no choice." Jeck reassured while placing a hand on her shoulder.

She turned to face him and smiled weakly. When she looked away she was drawn by the window. From the window streaks of every color of light flashed by into her eyes. The light that reflected left her eyes white with nothing but her pupils to show for them. Jeck could never get enough of those eyes. "Space is so cold yet… this ship is so warm. Everything is almost worry free, and inviting. Blissful compared to home."

"If it's too warm Stacy, I could change the environmental system to make it cooler."

She snapped around. "Oh no! It's fine, it's very comfortable, thank you. Not unless you need the temperature cooler in here?"

"No! I'm fine…" They stood there in silence for a while and no one moved. It was just wondering gazes and feet shuffling.

"So… Heading back to the resolute, going to meet a real Jedi?"

"Yeah… Probably be asked a lot of questions. 'Where have you been?' 'How did you survive?' and then perhaps 'How did you escape the Separatist base alive?' That'll be fun…"

"Yeah… won't it just?" Stacy looked down and started to paw at the ground with her foot.

"Is anything the matter Stacy?"

"I'm just not looking forward to staying in a cell on board a Republic ship… but it'll probably be fair though won't it?"

"Not exactly… No one will be planning to get you out until you have trial on Coruscant. Unless you're proven innocent you'll end up a prisoner for a long while Stacy…"

"Humph, that's sure comforting now isn't it?"

"I'm sorry Stacy, really I am."

"No, please don't be. Really Jeck I'll be fine… Bring on the politics!" As she finished the sentence they came out of hyper space and in front of them were three giant Republic cruisers.

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On deck of one of the Cruisers

"Sir, the ship we were tracking just came out of hyperspace!"

"Good, what is the ship's status then?"

"Sir, none of its weapons are engaged, no shields, no targeting systems are active, detecting two lifeforms. However they are requesting permission to land in our hangar."

"What is their identification?"

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Back on the Stardust

"Stacy, they're asking for identification. What about you?"

"… Tell them I am a Separatist lackey…"

"But Stacy..." Jeck began to protest but Stacy shot him a look that told him to not. "Yes ma'am, Separatist lackey it is…" Jeck spoke into the microphone piece to confirm him as a clone trooper from the scouting squad stationed at the planet Trynn, and a "Separatist apprentice voluntarily turning herself in." Stacy didn't like that but permission was granted after a few moments. They came in slow and steady and landed far from other ships. "We're here…"

"Yeah…"

"Should we go?"

"Yes… I'll go first Jeck…" Stacy walked away and exited the ship just as two Jedi and more than three dozen troopers surrounded the ship. She got down on her knees and placed her hands on the back of her head.

"Where is the trooper that asked for permission you scum?" One of the Jedi with a dark outfit had asked with no mercy.

"He is inside. He should be coming out about now" and like he was cued he came down the ramp with his helmet off to prove he was in fact one of his brothers. "You see? Almost no harm done…"

Blasters we aimed harder and the one Jedi came awfully close when the other finally intervened. "Anakin! If they… she turned herself in voluntarily don't you think it is worth a listen?"

"Obi-Wan, this is another Sith! Can't you feel that?"

"Yes I do, but something else can be felt too!" They began arguing with each other.

Stacy made a face and Jeck hung his head. "Um, excuse me?"

They both snapped around and shouted in sync "What?"

"Umm well, if you want to move on to the next step… The appropriate thing would be to search me… Confirm that I am not carrying any weapons… Oh hang on!" She reached into her holster and pulled out her blaster, slowly placed in onto the floor and slid it over to the Jedi. "There you go, now what was I saying? Oh right! Confirm I am unarmed then take me to a cell and then try and interrogate me. Correct?"

Everyone looked at each other unsure of what to think. Finally Obi-Wan spoke, "That would be… what we would do."

"Will you carry it out then General Kenobi?"

"Well at least we know she knows you master."

She lifted her head a little. "Actually I know a lot more than you are leading yourself to believe. It's all very basic knowledge to me though. You are Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker both Jedi Masters. Technically Obi-Wan is the one with official rank of a Jedi Master. Skywalker has a young Padawan named Ahsoka Tano and your commanding officers are known as Commander Cody to Obi-Wan and Captain Rex to Anakin." She pointed to the two clones she was referring to.

Anakin stepped forward still waving his light saber around. "Impressive," he said in a sarcastic tone. "You've done your homework."

Stacy stood up and leaned in towards Anakin's face. "I have a lot more dirt on you Skywalker."

He was glaring harder at her with each passing second. Obi-Wan finally stepped in and pulled Anakin back. "Alright you two, let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. We'll let some clones search and escort her to the prison blocks. Is that good enough for you Anakin?"Anakin didn't stop glaring but he grumbled a weak yes. "Good because you weren't going to have a choice."

Stacy leaned back on her heels with her hands behind her back. "I'll just stand here, yeah, no problem. Nope… just standing awaiting a tiny room…" She felt a shiver go down her spine. She watched Commander Cody instruct two of his brothers to search Stacy. They walked over hesitantly and started the search. Stacy jumped and turned around suddenly. "Oy! Watch, the hands!" Jeck watched as his brother took a step back and held up his hands to try and say he didn't mean it.

Jeck was lead into the medical wing while Stacy was cuffed and taken to the cells. He felt that he might actually miss her if he didn't get a chance to see her again. He just shrugged it off, he knew better than to care about a Separatist, especially a Sith… but she had told him that she didn't want to be a part of that. So with that in mind… what does he do? Try and fight for someone that he would probably make matters worse for, or forget everything? I'm a clone and the sooner I remember this, the sooner I can forget about her…

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In the prison block

"Your men are very good at what they do Commander Cody… You must be proud of them. Mind you though," she leaned in a little and lowered her voice to a whisper. "They can be a bit… How shall I say this; inappropriate?"

"He apologized I thought…"

"Oh, he did I'm just saying… The mind is a complex thing. No matter what you do it'll always have its own individual way of thinking. A friendly reminder should go a long way though… for future reference of course."

Cody tilted his head slightly before shrugging his shoulders and resuming his post. He was to wait there until Masters Kenobi and Skywalker appeared. Even though Stacy could not see his face he looked bored actually. Guard duty must've not been his favorite task. Despite the stories she'd heard, she was quite anxious to expose him as another guy, not a kiss up. Behind her little barricade of a door she examined things all around her, even the people. It was a smaller hallway for a part of the ship that only has five cells. Five "guards" were stationed around, two at the door of her cell and two at the archway to the main hall. Cody stood in the middle just waiting, no words were spoken, just silence, the hum of the ship, and waiting. Stacy watched carefully as Cody's shoulders slowly raised and fell. That was all the evidence that she needed to prove that he was bored. It was the occasional sigh of boredom that she knew all too well.

Stacy let out a long deep sigh. "It's too quiet… Don't you ever talk or are you guys always silent? You can't honestly look at me and tell me you're not bored."

Commander Cody turned half way to look at her. She tried so hard to find his eyes behind his visor. "I'm not bored…" Then he turned his back on her again.

Stacy leaned in as close as she could without touching the screen she was confined behind. "Commander… Wearing your helmet doesn't count. Therefore I can't believe you, henceforth you are bored."

He turned around completely and stepped forward. "You're nothing but an instigator, aren't you?"

She cracked a sly crooked smile. "That I am… and proud to be one. Why?"

He pulled his hands into loose fists. "Why would you be proud to be an instigator? Why do I ask? Because people don't like them, that's why."

"It gives me something to do, and what people Commander?" She tilted her head to appear clueless with her wide innocent eyes.

Cody's fists slowly drew tighter. "Something to do? Are you serious?" He shook his head and briefly looked down. "People… that don't like them, that's who."

"People like you commander? Are you getting annoyed? You have to admit it's better than standing around bored. Oh and yes… I am serious." She stood normal with her arms crossed and smiled.

Cody loosened his fists and started to stutter a little. "I- I told you… I wasn't bored before you started to talk."

"And I told you that I won't believe you wearing your helmet! So unless you want me to shut up take it off, look me in the eye and tell me you weren't bored! What is so hard about that! Guard duty sucks, I would know!" The other four clones began to look at one another at the small argument that was happening. Eventually they began to snicker quietly in hopes that their Commander wouldn't notice.

"Why do you want me to take my helmet off? Isn't my answer good enough for you?"

"No it isn't! Just do it and I'll shut up okay?"

Cody turned to the side throwing his arms up in the air briefly. "I'm not going to do it!" He faced her again. "I don't know why you are obsessed with me taking my helmet off but no! I won't do it! That's that!" He turned away from her.

"Hmph, you're so stubborn! I can't tell if you're lying or not that's why! And by the way, I know for a fact that you were bored. You can't hide it!" She turned her back to Cody and crossed her arms to pout. The four clones couldn't believe what they saw. Cody acting childish, or was it solely the girl?

They didn't have too much time to sit and debate before the two Jedi came walking into the prison block. It was Kenobi and Skywalker. They were obviously not in a sure mood as far as Stacy could tell. She didn't have to look at them to know what might be happening, but she would sure have some fun with their interrogation. As they addressed her name a grin spread as she turned around slowly. "Yes?"