Chapter 11

I'm a Jedi

Hey, I'm back. I know that it took me a while and I'm sorry about that…I was studying for those terrible exams. The last two are set for tomorrow, so normally I'll have some more time soon. Okay, as usual I first want to thank my friend, cdaye8184, for controlling this chapter and adding pieces to it to make it look better. Of course I also want to thank all of you!
About Crazy's question…in my country we have an autumn break (in October), which lasts for a week. They have another few days to go before school starts again…Halloween has yet to come first…

And now something completely different…I made a Facebook account for my FanFiction work. If you want you can send me an invitation and then I'll happily accept your request. I'll put spoilers, drawings and other stuff on it, but it also the ideal place to let me know what you think of it, or to have a nice chat.
This is the name of the account: "Moonwolflove Fanfiction". My profile photo is a wolf.
Okay, that was it, I guess…Have fun reading!

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The next morning, after breakfast, Esther was sitting at the table and threw a revealing look in the direction of Ahsoka, who captured it and motioned to the others that they had to stay where they were.

Dawn frowned suspiciously and only nodded. It wasn't Ahsoka's job to explain everything...only Esther could do the task...she had to tell them the truth...and it was a tough truth to tell...she could read it all over Esther's face.

The latter gave her a look. A look full of doubt...doubt whether she wanted to destroy this perfect image...if she really wanted to change Dawns life forever.

Ahsoka tried to answer her through her eyes. She tried to make it clear that it was for the best and Esther seemed to understand that. She nervously folded her hands in and out, like a small child that had done something wrong and had to confess it to his parents.

"Dawn, I got to tell you something...something important," she begun, but her voice sounded hoarse.

"Come on, just tell it," Ahsoka thought. "You can do it."

"You already know who your father is...and who I truly am...but I've omitted a small detail. Not because I'm selfish, not because I don't want to, but out of selflessness and to give you, especially you, a better life."

Dawns eyebrow curled up when she tried to understand what Esther-in Force name- tried to tell her. Ahsoka waited for the words, the words that would give Dawn's life a whole new twist.

But they didn't seem to come.

"I...," Esther took a deep breath.

"Mom, what's on your mind?" What is it that you need to tell me that's so hard to do so?" Dawn asked when she saw her mother's faltering attitude.

"Dawn...you're a Jedi."

Dawns p.o.v

Dawn wasn't sure if she had heard Esther's words correctly. She blinked and her eyes darted between her and Aidan and then to Ahsoka, as if she thought to find a sign in their faces...a sign that would tell her she had dreamed the words.

"Just kidding...right?" She asked with a crazy smile, but her voice was shaking.

Esther desperately looked at Ahsoka, who nodded at Dawn and who jerked her out of her own little world. She hadn't dreamed. She was really something.

"I...I'm a Jedi?" she asked in a disbelieving tone. The words sounded so ridiculous when she pushed them over her lips. So unreal...so alien.

"Yes, Dawn," Esther said. "And I'm sorry that I've kept it hidden from you all this time. If it depended on me, I would have never told you. What was the point of you knowing it if you lived on Earth? I wanted to keep you from all those worries. But then Ahsoka came...and I realized that I can't evade the will of the Force...

I can't hide you from who you are...and that's what Ahsoka made me realize."

Dawn slumped back in her chair, pulling a hand through her damp hair. She noticed how her fingers were trembling with excitement...or disbelief.

She looked at her twin brother, who had remained fairly calm under the whole situation.

"And he? Why me and not him? We are nota bene twins," Dawn said as she pointed towards Aidan.

Her eyes flew back to Ahsoka, in the hope that she would be able to answer that question.

But Ahsoka only shrugged her shoulders and said: "I don't know. It's indeed strange. But apparently it sometimes happens."

"It chose the inferior twin," Dawn muttered under her breath as she lowered her head. A single tear rolled down her cheek.

"Don't dare to say that, Dawn. Don't you dare," Aidan warned her. "That it has chosen you is an honour. Don't doubt it and accept the fact that it's fated. I mean...You're a Jedi, for God's sake. Don't you know how cool that is?" He paused for a moment and then continued with soft, encouraging voice. "And I bet you'll be a great master. You'll be better than all the other masters together."

Dawn let out a short laugh through her tears and fell upon her brother's neck. Aidan wrapped her arms around her and she felt like there was no safer place in the whole world.

How crazy was it that she was to be the Jedi, while he had always been the protective one and not vice versa. Every time she was afraid, every time she had felt lonely, he had been there to comfort her or to make her laugh. Or just to be there when she needed it. He may not always act that way, but he was really protective.

"Thank you," she whispered.

"You're welcome, sis," he said while gently patting her back. She released him, wiped her tears from her cheek and said: "Aidan is right. I should be happy with such an honour. It's just...it's so incredible and so hard to grasp. I mean...I'm just Dawn."

"And you'll always be Dawn," Ahsoka said with a reassuring smile. "You'll just learn a few new cool tricks. And I'd be delighted to be your teacher. Look, I know things are difficult now, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm here for you. You helped me, Dawn...and now I want to help you."

Dawn had her utmost to restrain her tears, as they viciously stung in her eyes.

"Did I already tell you that you're my best friend?" Dawn asked sweetly.

"Nope, but there's a first time for everything, I think," Ahsoka grinned. Dawn jumped from her chair and hugged her tightly.

She one hundred percent believed that Ahsoka could help her in becoming a good Jedi. At least, that's what she was hoping, because with all the stories she had heard about the dark side, she had been frightened ..big deal. She didn't want to fall...she wanted to be like Ahsoka.

She let her friend go, went to Esther and also hugged her. The latter was slightly shocked and asked in a surprised tone.

"Aren't you mad at me?" Esther asked uneasily.

"Of course not, Mom," Dawn said softly as she watched her mother in the eye. "I know you kept it hidden out of good intentions...and I'm grateful that despite you being against it, you told me."

Esther smiled and replied in the same soft tone "That's my daughter."

"Okay, we got to do something about the drama of this situation," Aidan said. "It begins to look like those clichés in girls movies."

"Yeah, you're right," Ahsoka said.

"Like you've ever seen a girl movie," Aidan grinned.

"That's so true," Ahsoka laughed.

Everyone burst out into laughing at that weird comment and Dawn suddenly felt much more confident. She wasn't alone. She had friends and family who would help her get through. They would help her where it was needed, accompany her when she was struggling to find her way and being her lights in dark times.

"Sorry, but I think I still have to add some drama," Esther said, as she got up." Stay here...and don't run away."

Dawn watched her mother walk out of the room as she became more and more curious. What else could she possibly be able to tell them after this? She looked at Ahsoka, who shrugged and apparently neither of them knew where Esther had gone too.

Esther came back a minute later, with an elongated wooden box in her hands. She carefully set it down on the table and put a small silver key in the lock. Dawn remembered that box…and she had the feeling that she knew what was inside of it…but unfortunately for her she couldn't put a finger on it. Her memories had been clouded throughout the years. Oh well, it didn't really matter…

The lid opened and revealed two lightsabers, lying on red velvet bed. Esther pulled one out and pressed it into her daughter's hand.

"This is one of your father's lightsabers,"she said. "He had them here in the hope that I would ever tell you the truth. And since that has happened, I think they'll be useful to you."

Dawn looked at the weapon in her hand. It was elegant, narrow and made for a type of metal that she didn't know.

The color was dark gray with a ring in the middle of which the half was colored black. The top of the lightsaber was shrouded with a tin metal piece, that went all the way to the ring in the middle. The other side of the weapon was covered in black ripples and at the end, there was a small, half sphere...it made her think of Ahsoka's lightsabers.

"There are two of them," Dawn remarked, as if she had only seen the other for the first time.

"Your father probably was a practitioner of Jar'kai or Ataru," Ahsoka said thoughtfully. "Just like me."

"I don't want two of them," Dawn said and everyone looked at her in a strange way. "I only want one lightsaber...can I?"

"Of course. Most of the Jedi only have one light-saber," Esther said, who still didn't seem to understand of what was going on in her daughter's head.

Even the daughter herself didn't seem to understand it. But something deep down told her that one lightsaber suited her better than two. And for now, she was going to stay true to her feelings. "Okay, then I use this one," she said. Then she reached for the second lightsaber." And I want Aidan to have this one." She shoved the weapon into her brother's hand, who stared at her with his big, ice-blue eyes.

"Why?" He asked, as he throw a glimpse at the weapon. "I can't use it."

"These are the only two things that are left of our father...and there are two of them. We've shared so much as twins...we can also share these weapons. Even though you can't use it, I guess it has something of value."

Aidan understood what she meant, smiled and said: "Thanks, sis."

She hugged him for a second time and then turned her gaze towards Ahsoka, who had watched the scene...smiling.

It was so strange...she was strange...they simply lived in a strange world. And it was even stranger that they had never noticed that strangeness before. Okay, that was a lot of strange in the same row.

"So...what now?" These words were addressed to Ahsoka, who didn't have to think twice about the answer.

"What now? That seems obvious to me...we make sure that you get a decent training. That is...if that's what you want."

Dawn looked at her hand. She had never really thought about it. She had never thought about living a life like Ahsoka's. She hadn't had that in mind...no...it had always been: school...work...home...kids...but now, everything seemed messed up. Not in a really bad way...but yet pretty messed up.

Okay, now she knew that she was a Jedi-even though it sounded impossible- but it didn't end there, right?

She could still remember vividly how she had told Ahsoka that the Jedi rules were stupid...and now she was about to follow those rules and regulations. The questions was, did she really want that? Did she really want to stay alone for the rest of her life...did she really never want to love someone in a romantic way?

"Is there...what if I ever fall in love? Can I step out of it? Out of the order?" She asked softly.

Ahsoka was obviously a little surprised by the question and Dawn completely understood it...she had probably never met a person who had asked her that question before.

But yet, she needed the answer before she made this life-changing choice...just to lift her doubt.

"It's unusual," Ahsoka then said. "But it does happen."

Dawn felt how a wave of relief flow through her heart. If she agreed, she wouldn't be necessarily stuck for the rest of her life...she would give herself freedom again when needed...she would get the chance to fall in love. And now she knew that, she saw no reason why she wouldn't take the chance to become a Jedi. There were so many pro's and only one con that she had thought of, and now that wasn't even a con any more. She'd take the opportunity with open arms and embrace what she'd inherited from her parents.

"Okay, where do we start?" She resumed with enthusiasm.

So…how did you like it? Did you expect Aidan's reaction? And Dawn…I think her reaction was…understandable. Curious to know what's going to happen next? I'll try to update soon, but normally that shouldn't be much of a problem…
Anyway, if you wonder how those two lightsabers look, then you should pay a visit to my Facebook account (which I mentioned before). I'll put a drawing of them up there.