I'm really sorry about not posting this earlier, and unless i get kicked off the computer in the next 5 mins, you'll have a second one to say thanks for waiting so long. Unless you forgot about the story.. oh well, I'll get over it.

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Chapter 25

Goodbye

"Kati, you have to say good bye. He's your best friend." Aaron paced the room. Gosh, she can be so frustrating.. Aaron glanced at her. She was sitting on one of the bunks, legs over the side, with her head in her hands, on her knees. She was back to wearing her Padawan uniform, but her other clothes where on the end of her bed.

Kati didn't say anything.

"Katianna!" Aaron exclaimed.

Kati shot her head up to glare at him, and revealed her red eyes, and tear-streaked cheeks.

"You think I want him to go without saying goodbye? I don't want him to go. Have you ever had someone you've loved like a brother literally been torn away from you?"

Aaron couldn't say anything. Mostly because he hadn't had anyone he loved, let alone had them being torn away.

"You have no idea what this means to either of us. I'm living his dream. This whole force thing should be the other way round. Sure, I have bigger problems at home than he does," She stood up, walked over to him, and touched his healing eye. "But he should have this life out here, not me. I was content with my made up world of dreams. I was surviving. I was fine! Then you had to come along and split us like this! I would be fine with him leaving his dream. Now he has to live with the fact that his best friend is living his every dream-"

"Kati, war is not a game! You shouldn't want it. You shouldn't dream it. War is terrible. It kills people that shouldn't be killed."

"And look at you! You're dragging me into this. Like you want me to die.." She accused quietly.

"I don't want you do die. We need to win this war, and the only way to do that is to find all the hidden force siblings."

"How do I know I'm on the right side?" Kati shot back, angry again. But she did mean it. How did she know?

"The Sith use dark force, we use light force. It shouldn't be that hard." Aaron said, stepping dangerously close.

"Maybe you guys are in the wrong, though."

"Yeah, if you're with the Sith, we would be, wouldn't we." Aaron accused, stepping closer to Kati, who was now pinned against the wall.

"You think I would trick you. That's why Than was in my room a few weeks ago, planning with me, and then you came in, and he had to pretend that he was there to kill me, is it?"

"I don't know. I wasn't there." Aaron growled coldly.

Kati tryed to take a step backwards, but failed as there was a wall between her and the next room.

"That's it, isn't it?" Aaron stepped closer, so they we almost touching. Faces so close, if either shifted they would be touching, but far enough away that they could look in both of the other persons eyes without them blurring.

Kati was now genuinely scared. There was something wrong, something very wrong. But what was happening was real. Aaron was really standing there glaring at her, and she was trying to hide.

She felt it. He was mad, yeah, why shouldn't he be? But there was something else. Fear, confusion, anger..

She reached up, and gently placed her hand on his cheek. Rubbing her thumb over it a few times, before shifting her eyes to look back in his after watching her hand for a moment.

"You saved me from them. How could I want to work with them after they kidnapped me? You fed me, gave me clean clothes, and cared, something they didn't do. You brought Kelly here even if it was just for a few days. I want to help you, but I want him to be happy."

"I know, Kati, I know." A tear worked its way down his cheek, but it wan't until he wiped away a tear on her cheek that she knew she was also crying.

The door opened, but neither heard or acknologed it.

After a bit, the door closed, and whoever was watching the two teens left. Rezso didn't know what happened, but he knew that something did, but that they'd come out soon.

Walking back into the loading bay, he checked that the ship he was taking down to earth was in proper order, that its fuel tanks were full, and everything else he had to check.

Kelly walked up the ramp a few minutes after Rezso, and proceided to look around, asking Rezso what the switches did, and what the buttons above the pilots head did. How to break and acerlerate, and where the hyperspace trigger was.

By the time the padawans came on bored, Kelly was pretty much ready to fly it himself.

When he realized Kati was behind him, he smiled so broardly at her, she felt her heartbreaking in two again. But she kept a strong face, and smiled with him. Aaron had his arm around her wasit again, and gave him a thumbs up.

Quickly, he gave Kati a tour of the ship, showing her where everything was, and only needing help with a few switches. Which surprized Kati heeps, that he could rememeber such things. She was amazed. He was about to go back to Earth, and here he was, learning all the different parts of the ship they were flying in.

By the time they took off, Kelly had memeorized the ships interior so well, Rezso joked that he should go for his pilots licence when he got back and that if it was up to him, he would be sent in just about all manned-spacecraft NASA sent out into orbit. Kelly resonded with the fact that you have to an adult to go up there.

"But you're up here now, arnt you?" Rezso puched him lightly, as Aaron took the controls.

"Yeah, but thats with you guys. They're really stict back in Earth, its almost scary. But the people that break those rules are ever scarier. Your lucky, Kati, you don't have to put up with them for the rest of your life."

Kati froze for a moment, before rightening herself, and grinning at Kelly. "No, I don't, do I? I get to put up with the guys out here."

Kelly laughed, and Kati shot Rezso a glare, clearly saying: What have you done with the real Kelly?

Rezso just shrugged, smiling also.

Shaking her head, she watched as Aaron brought the ship to rest just above Kelly's house.

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