Chapter 10: The Kiss

Alex explained to Ahsoka the encounter that he had with the Trickster, he told her of how the Trickster knew who he was and how he would be an important figure in the Avatar's future. Alex was surprised that Ahsoka was listening so intently, when Alex stopped talking she looked at him with a nervous expression on her face.

"What is it?" Alex said noticing the look on her face, "what's on your mind?" nothing was said for a few minutes, when Ahsoka did speak this surprised him.

"You can't take what he said to heart" Alex looked at her stunned, Ahsoka was giving him advice? Since when did that happen? After all he barely knew her, and yet they were talking like best friends. After nothing was said after a few minutes Alex spoke to break the awkward silence.

"I just think it was all a scare tactic" Alex said to which Ahsoka replied

"It probably was" then she hesitated like she was going to say more, but then she took Alex's hand again and smiled. When she did that Alex felt a strange jolt of energy burst inside him. That was weird he thought, as Ahsoka let go of his hand the energy dissapeared and he felt back to normal.

As Ahsoka noticed the change in Alex's facial expression she asked him "are you Ok? To which Alex replied hesitantly.

"I'm fine" then suddenly he felt that same burst of energy and imagined those same visions of him holding Ahsoka's body in his arms and then something even stranger occurred.

Out of nowhere even more visions appeared in his mind, with what appeared to be visions of the future, but unlike the previous depressing visions he had had, these were more happy.

He pictured himself older and more wiser with an older Ahsoka standing next to him, she still looked beautiful, however something had quite changed about her. Her emotions were more heightened and Alex could sense the emotion of Love. The bond was strong between the two.

And Alex wondered what this all meant for him and Ahsoka. As the vision faded he looked at Ahsoka and laughed.

"What?" Ahsoka asked curious she took his hand again and Alex enjoyed it, although not experiencing the strange burst of energy he felt before. "What is it?" She asked again all the more curious "You zoned out for a second"

"It's nothing" Alex laughed knowing that something positive might come out with his friendship with Ahsoka. "Honestly it's nothing" and then almost completly without knowing it, he took Ahsoka by surprise by kissing her on her lips.

Ahsoka was completly shocked when Alex did this but she didn't complain, after all she knew Alex had had a crush on her. After all when they first met in the cantina Ahsoka began to develop feelings for him as well.

The kiss went on for five minutes until they were interrupted by a hologram call from Sky. Alex ignored it and let the kiss go on for a few more seconds until the noise became impatient and he had to brake away from Ahsoka.

Which kind of dissapointed him "Go on" Ahsoka said as she noticed the hologram beeping she didn't seam the least bit disappointed "answer it"

As Alex did so he felt a sense of relief at seeing his brother, however he wasn't going to like the news. He pressed the answer button and a shimmering blue image of Sky appeared with a worried expression on his face.

"There you are" Sky said "Thank god" Alex wondered what Sky could possibly mean as he knew where his brother was.

"I'm fine Sky" Alex assured him but something in Sky's tone made him nervous, almost nothing could make Sky nervous.

"Have you seen the holonet?"

"No I've been kind of busy"

"You may want to turn it on" and then the image of Sky disappeared as the hologram turned off. Wondering what Sky meant Alex turned to Ahsoka and asked

"You haven't got the Holonet news have you?" She nodded and pointed towards a remote on the side of the couch.

"What's wrong?" She asked nervously, at this Alex hesitated and wondered if it was a good idea to actually turn on the holonet.

"No idea" and then Alex switched on the holonet to which he absolutely regretted. The Holonet news was the main news report for Coruscant and it was reporting that a major explosion had happened in the downtown area of Coruscant.

The area was close to where Ahsoka lived, and by the looks of it Alex had narrowly avoided the explosion, no casualties were reported but there were several injuries.

"Oh my god" Alex and Ahsoka exclaimed together, and then they rushed to the windows to see the damage caused by the explosion.

Nearly all of downtown Corascaunt was a mess. Debris was everywhere, wanting to not look at the damage anymore Alex turned to Ahsoka and said

"I've got to go" at this Ahsoka nodded and then Alex assured her "I'll come back" at this Ahsoka smiled and said

"You'd better" at this Alex smiled as well and rushed outside to find his brother.