CHAPTER TWELVE: MEMORIES
The pounding inside his head worsened and his breathing was blocked by something.
He knew he was getting conscious again, and he heard voices, he just couldn't figure out what had happened to him, all he saw was black with a faint red glow.
"Anakin!, he's getting conscious!" Anakin?, I know that name…
"Finally, Padmé, I guess you're a good medic after all," Padmé? I know that name too…
Suven could now feel his mouth and limbs, they all pained, what happened to me?
"Relax, you've been released only a couple of hours ago, and your wounds are still bad," you can hear me? He thought startled.
"Yes, in case you didn't know, you were talking out loud," a male voice said grinning.
"Anakin!" a woman's voice warned "He's just been released, he's been in there for twenty years, you'd better give him some time," Suven groaned, every part of his body was sore, he tried to open his eyes, stic, can't open my eyes, he thought pained.
"Actually, they're already open…" what? He groaned again and tried to move, and to his surprise he could and sat up.
"Must be the hibernation sickness, you should rest Suven, you'll be able to see soon enough," the woman pushed him back on the soft bed he was lying on.
"Whe… where am I?" he stuttered confused and feeling the relative peaceful environment around him, the answer took a while, then the man started talking, "You are with me, Anakin Skywalker, and her, Padmé Skywalker, my wife-" Suven suspected Anakin had pointed at someone but he had no idea where "He can't see, remember?".
Anakin swallowed embarrassed and continued "You're at our retreat on Naboo, your friends brought you in frozen in carbonite and-" wait, what? , I was frozen in carbonite? This time he was sure it was a thought and he hadn't said it out loud.
"You're probably really confused now, judging at your facial expression, but don't worry, you are safe here," the woman's, Padmé's voice calmed him down and he sunk back in the pillow.
"Thank you…" he had absolutely no idea what had happened but it didn't feel like these people were going to hurt him so he relaxed.
"You're welcome," the two left him.
The following week he slowly regains his eye-sight, but he still has no idea what had happened, and neither Anakin or Padmé know the whole story, they only know the last part.
The part where some people named Santi and Asyr brought him to Naboo after they had saved him from the Imperials, who had been releasing all the prisoners from carbonite, he, apparently, was a very important person and a good friend of them, but Suven couldn't remember them at all.
I can see! Was the first thought that morning.
The building, the windows, the doors, the light, the details in the columns around him, the architecture, he could see it all, not blurry silhouettes, but clear images, Suven smiled.
The surrounding was beautiful, when he looked outside the window, he saw a lake surrounded by mountains and a waterfall creating a rainbow above the water, it was like a fairytale, only for one thing, it was real.
The room itself was beautiful, the sand-brown walls and the red carpeting, the pillars in the corners and the detailing, it was all perfect.
He stood up and walked around, at long last he didn't need any help to prevent bumping into walls and other.
"I'm free…" the whisper didn't echo, but he could hear himself talking, the door opened and Padmé came into the room.
"Good morning!".
"Good morning, I can see again," "That's great, how are you liking the surroundings?" Suven smiled.
"It's beautiful," he looked at himself and immediately saw the bandages "What happened to me?" Padmé looked at him for a while.
"I… I think I heard your ship had crashed and you were still in it when it hit the ground…" she looked down and sighed "Anakin said you've been healing yourself in the carbonite, so I guess you'll be all right, there is nothing I or the medics can do-" she saw his face and quickly added "-when Santi and Asyr return I bet they can tell you what happened, don't worry, take a stroll through the place, it'll do you good, oh, if you visit Anakin, he's working on repairing your astromech droid, he's in the hangar I think," Suven smiled and left.
"Thank you!".
He wandered through a long hallway with a high ceiling, the red carpet spread on the floor reminded him of something, though he couldn't remember what it was exactly.
A sound took his attention, the door next to him had opened and one of the handmaiden came out.
"Oh, hello, can I help you?" she said politely.
"Huh?, oh, no, not necessary," "All right, if you need help, just give a shout and one of us will come running," the handmaiden bowed and left.
Suven continued along the hall, he reached the door and closed his eyes.
Suven felt the troopers intention, hurt …, and he lost control for a second, then something else came up in his mind Anakin Skywalker had once failed to understand, and it would've ended badly if not for him.
Would he get caught up in punishing those troopers, all he'd end up doing was hurt Fay himself.
The smoke cleared and he remembered what had happened, a boarding ship had pierced right through the hall.
He stood up and blinked a few times, his eyes were tearing from the heat, but Suven didn't really care and started cutting down the stormtroopers leaving the ship and starting to shoot at him, but no bolt could-right now- possibly have any chance of hitting anything but the wall or the blue glowing beam of plasma.
Suven gasped for breath and threw his eyes as wide open as he could, what in the Force's name had he just seen?
Was it from his past or something, it did feel familiar to him, and who had he been so desperately trying to reach?
He moved on, still startled by the vision and went to the hangar.
The footsteps were silent and heavy, like the person making the sound had just been attacked, Anakin looked up and saw Suven "Wow, you look like you've sensed a disturbance in the Force coming from the death of a galaxy," he laughed at his own joke "No, seriously, is something wrong?".
He stood up and walked to Suven, who's eyes immediately starred.
Suven smiled, Padmé and Anakin were with their children, a boy and a girl, Luke and Leia, it was a happy sight to see the family together.
Oh, seriously! Suven wiped a lost tear from his cheek and shook his head, why do I cry every time I see a family, has my bond, as Yoda keeps calling it, gone that far? He squeezed his eyes together to prevent the always overwhelming picture of her, beautiful her, making him cry, I call the bond love Yoda, love…
He looked at the children and chuckled as Luke was holding onto Anakin's finger that powerful it hurt him "Au, Luke, stop it!" he tried, but it didn't help.
Laughing Padmé decided to go help her husband and took baby Luke over from Anakin, Luke immediately calmed down "Guess he likes me better," Padmé said grinning happily "Who wouldn't?" Anakin took the other baby, Leia.
It was then that Padmé noticed Suven, she walked to him "You miss her, don't you?" Suven nodded, the baby had woken up and laughed happily to him, a smile appeared on Suven's face "He's wonderful, they're both wonderful," Padmé presented the baby to him "Do you want to hold him?" what? Me? He couldn't object, the baby was already lying in his arms.
He calmed immediately and looked at the baby "Hey, how are you?" the baby made a funny noise and suddenly dropped his happy face, eh?, Luke started to cry, what did I do?
"Oh," Padmé took the baby again "He's hungry, I'm sorry," she walked away and disappeared in a room near Anakin.
"Wonderful are they, hmm?" Suven startled, he hadn't seen Yoda coming or that he was standing next to him "Huh, yes, they sure are," the Jedi put up a smile "Distracted you are, miss Fay you do, hmm?" is anything safe against that guy? He nodded.
"I miss her every day, but you know that, am I right?" "Very strong your shields are, making it difficult for me you are," Suven laughed, He was making it difficult for him
"Okay, what the hell just happened?" Suven yelled at himself more than Anakin "I think you had a vision, what did you see?".
Suven run his hand through his hair and remembered "You, Padmé, your kids, and then Yoda, I remember him, and he said something about Fay, I missed her a lot," Anakin looked at him like he was testing him "And you don't anymore?".
"I do now, I know she was very important to me, I just don't remember her, how she looks, nothing, like I wanted not to remember her, it's weird," it certainly was, Anakin would never not want to remember Padmé, not in a million decades.
Suven turned around and took the area in slowly, he saw a red ship, and a silver-black astromech coming down the boarding ramp "Hey!" "What?".
"Sev?" Suven called out with surprise as he saw the blue-and-black astromech droid controlling the ship, he got a series of enthusiastic beeps and whistles in return, Fay looked at the droid and to Suven "Seven , as in Ar Seven, aren't those experimental?" she said as they were far away from the prison, pretty much blown by what had happened and not realizing she was finally free.
Suven looked at her "This is R7-X7, or Sev as I call him, but eh, maybe you should sit down, you're really pale…".
"You're Sev?" he asked the droid after the vision ended, the droid whistled and beeped affirmative.
"Yep, I just finished repairing him, if you're lucky, he still has his memory, I'm going to leave you two alone for a while," Anakin left the hangar.
Suven watched the droid and smiled "Do you have any recollection of what happened twenty years ago?" he said, remembering Padmé had told him he'd been frozen in carbonite that long ago.
The droid whistled happy, he recognized Suven well and was happy to see him again.
"You do?, can you show em?" "Good,".
"Fay!" Suven yelled across the hall "Guys, leave, now!" the two men with him and the complied.
He started running and reached her, their fingertips just touched each other and then the ship broke in two.
The two screamed the other's name and tried to get a better grip.
Then, in a flash the fire consumed Suven, Fay's hands slipped through his fingers and he could only see the expression on her face and the cloaked Sith jumping up behind her.
He was on the falling part of the Tranquility, and he had nearly no chance of survival, no ships, no focus, no Fay.
Suven stopped the last recording in Sev's memory banks and sighed, it was late afternoon, but he now knew what had happened to him, though he could not remember it, it felt familiar.
He caressed the droid's dome and sighed again "Thank you Sev, at least you didn't forget everything," Sev beeped encouraging.
"You think I'll get my memory back soon, good to know you have faith in me, you're a good pal," he stated.
These words unlocked something in Sev and he opened a storage in his body.
Two shining metal cylinders were shown.
AN: well, I hope you like it, it was actually surprisingly tough to take the right parts for the visions, enjoy and subscribe, really, you should.
