Hi guys! How are you doing? I realized like yesterday that Lekku is already plural, that one of them is called a lek (I checked that out on Wookiepedia), so now I won't make that mistake anymore! So, here we have a lot of Luxsoka fluff and there's going to be more of it because I just feel like they deserve it.

Starlight : Thank you! Yeah, if she sees Tass'lik again, he better run and fast.

EvanTGD : You mean the one shot about Lux and Ahsoka having sex? Soon, very soon, probably during that next week starting from today. I mean, I might do it in the next chapter, or the one after that, it all depends on how much satisfied my level of fluff will be at the time, but it's definitely coming soon. And the title will be "In the Gardens of the Bonteri Estate."

Lux's Sister : I don't know how the clowning happened. It just popped in my head when I was writing the chapter, I didn't plan it in the beginning but I really like how it turned out.

I hope you'll enjoy this new chapter guys and thanks for the review, you're the best!

TS

19 years before the Battle of Yavin / eight months after leaving the Jedi Order / five months on Nar Shaddaa / 20 days after Order 66

Lux had decided he wanted to make Ahsoka feel special on the twentieth day. Not that it wasn't already the case, but he had fallen for her. He had been attracted to her the first day they met and the more time they spent together, the stronger his feelings had become. He wasn't sure during the freeing of Onderon, he hesitated, torn between conflicting feelings towards both Ahsoka and Steela, until he realized Ahsoka was the one and it wasn't love he felt for Steela. No matter what his brain told him, his heart was turned towards the Togruta.

He deeply cared about her but he was yet too shy to tell her up front. He knew it was just a matter of time before she left again. She was like a wild flame, shining bright through the night, warm and beautiful, dancing on top of the coals. Only the strongest of winds could extinguish her and he had feared that might happen when Max brought her. But she had pulled through and he was so proud of her. He knew that if he got too close, he might get burnt but he couldn't help being drawn towards her like a moth. He also knew she couldn't stay put for too long, it wasn't in her nature and she needed to do her thing which was basically saving the universe.

But his heart belonged to her and her only. Now he knew it. He had fully realized it during the last two weeks. When he watched over her and later when she had finally woken up. During all their games of crawling and putting back to bed. Lux was pretty sure that as soon as she was able to fight, she'd be gone. She seemed to have developed strong ties with Jynna and even Nar Shaddaa as a whole but Lux wasn't jealous. He simply didn't want her to go away so quickly after he just found her again. He was fairly aware that it was probably a matter of weeks before she left and he knew he wouldn't be able to stop her. So he tried to spend as much time with her as possible and so that twentieth day, he had dressed better than usually, climbed his hair and pulled it back just the way he had when they first met. He stood outside her door with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, red tulips from the gardens. He simply stood there, shaking slightly, hesitating.

"Come on, Bonteri, you can do this!" he said to himself.

He took a few deep breaths and knocked on her door before entering. He didn't wait for her to invite him in because she had told him to enter without asking. But he froze in the entrance when he saw the bedroom was empty. He knew Ahsoka had been moving in her room, doing some stretching and other stuff, but she didn't leave. Not without him finding out. He came to her bed and found her nightdress strewn across the sheets, sheets that look like she had just gotten out of them. She couldn't be far, he told himself. All her other personal belongings were still there like her gloves.

That's when he noticed the open window and the satin curtains being blown inside by the wind. His heart skipped a bit and the flowers fell from his hands.

"Oh no…" he barely whispered.

The color was drained from his face as he made his way to the window, his weak legs threatening to give way under his weight. He almost didn't dare look through it. His hands were shaking when he put them on the edge of the window and he swallowed with difficulty before looking down, dreading what he could see. Instead of finding Ahsoka's broken body after the three floors fall, he saw nothing different from the usual bushes that decorated the grounds. He could make out some footprints in the earth though, two small boot prints. He immediately recognized them as Ahsoka's, even from three floors up.

He looked up at the gardens, he could see them clearly and a little bit to the side since they weren't exactly in front of the entrance. That's when he saw a small silhouette on the side, near the massive stairs that led to the belvedere. Actually, there was someone on the stairs and not near them. He immediately recognized Ahsoka's lithe figure. She was moving swiftly along the wide ramp of the stairs, the same one he had been sitting on the day they met and before they started to trust each other. She was jumping up and down, practicing some graceful movements while using the Force or simply her flexibility, he couldn't tell. But one thing was certain: he could spend his entire day watching her move.

He shook himself from that hypnosis and quickly went downstairs to meet her. He passed Floriana in the halls and the older Mirialan simply laughed at his hastiness as if she was remembering some time from her youth. That memory probably involved George. Lux was on the stone stairs in seconds.

"Ahsoka, what are you doing?"

He realized he didn't think about making some noise beforehand to let her know he was coming. He didn't want her to slip and break her neck on the concrete, but she somehow knew because she didn't acknowledge his presence at first, continuing jumping up and down like he wasn't even there. Sometimes she landed on her hands and used them to propel herself even higher but she always landed with grace and didn't lose her footing even once. Now that Lux was so close, he realized she was holding her two vibroblades. He cursed under his breath. He should have never let her keep them in her room.

"Practicing," she shrugged as if it was no big deal.

Lux crossed his arms on his chest and sat at the top of the stairs.

"Geez Ahsoka, you're going to give me a heart attack someday! I know you can't stand sitting in bed all day now that you're better, but you could have used the door instead of slipping through the window! What are you, a Kowakian monkey-lizard?"

She grinned at that but didn't say a word, focused on her task. Sweat glistened on her orange skin that was as colorful and smooth as ever. Lux had no idea for how long she had been out there 'practicing'. The sun was probably to blame too because it was quite warm outside. Ahsoka was wearing the clothes she had when she came with Max, fresh and clean thanks to Floriana.

"I know you're mad, Lux, but I need to get back into shape. And sitting all day drives me crazy."

"I'm not mad, Ahsoka. I'm just worried."

She stopped jumping and even sheathed her blades in her boots. At this point, Lux was even ready to buy her sheaths for her belt, he just found it ridiculous that she carried her blades like that. She climbed down from the ramp and came closer to him, her breathing heavy from the effort.

"It's not that I don't like you or this place, but I need to get ready for what's out there," she said while motioning to all around her.

"What's out there?"

"The Empire, Lux. Now that all the Jedi have been marked for death, I can't let my true identity be revealed. I have to hide who I really am and what I can do."

She sat next to him so close he blushed but she didn't seem to have any problem with that, almost as if she wasn't aware of how close they were. He could touch her if he only slightly raised his hand.

"After I left the Order, I hid because I didn't want to have anything to do with my past. I wanted to see what I was able to achieve without the Force, without being a Jedi. It had its ups and downs but I was able to learn a few things about myself along the way. But now…"

She lowered her head and any trace of a previous smile disappeared from her soft lips.

"Now I can't go back. I can't go back to the Jedi Order because there is no Jedi Order anymore. I've lost so many people; some much has been taken from me. But now I must hide to survive. Nobody can discover my former affiliation. I can't sever my link to the Force but I can't show it in plain sight either."

There was a pause.

"Besides, I've got to go back to Nar Shaddaa. I can't hide here forever and I know you can't come with me. I won't ask you to give up on your life and everything you've achieved so far just so you could be with me."

She felt he was about to protest, that's why she put her finger on his lips, shushing him and blushing slightly in the process, her lekku strips darkening.

"Listen to me because I'm not sure I'll be able to repeat it. All of this is really new to me and I've heard so many times before that long distance relationships don't work, but I don't care. I want to try it anyway. I'm still a Force-user but I'm not part of the Order. I'm not bound by its rules anymore. Sure I still respect the Jedi code but my Master couldn't help himself and found love. I guess we could say like Master, like student…"

Lux didn't say anything.

Instead, he kissed her.

It was passionate but shy at the same time, as they were both kind of new at this. Technically, they had already kissed on Carlac, but now it was real and something else entirely. For instead, they both closed their eyes. Lux's hand reached Ahsoka's back and her hands flew to the back of his head, pulling him even closer. Ahsoka knew they would both make mistakes, that they were both new and clumsy with this whole romance thing. But she believed they'd get through it. After all, everything happened for a reason. After a while, they both pulled back, gasping for air. Somehow, Lux didn't feel the urge to reveal her his feelings anymore. Somehow he knew that she knew, that she had even known it all along.

"So, we're a thing now, hum?" he asked.

She playfully punched him before resting her head gently on his shoulder as he put his arm around her small frame.

"I guess Jynna was right. You are my boyfriend. She's going to be impossible to stand once she'll find out."

Lux then stood up and helped Ahsoka.

"Come on, let's get some breakfast before Floriana drags us to the mess hall."

Ahsoka couldn't help but laugh, the exhaustion from her training gone with that simple action, her heart and head light as feathers. She really enjoyed Floriana and George's company and understood their bond with the Bonteri family and especially Lux that they had known since he was a baby. But before they went back inside, Lux's gaze fell on the stairs.

"Although next time, try not to give me a heart attack if you decide to disappear again. Maybe you could do some meditation rather than rough physical training?"

Ahsoka could tell he was teasing her from the slight hint in his voice and she punched him again in the shoulder as they walked up the steps.

"I've been through worse, you know? Besides, meditation… I don't feel up to it. Yet. I need some time to process everything that's happened. It all had a huge influence in the Force and I can't just wonder through it now since I'm wanted as a Jedi."

Ahsoka didn't tell him, but she was afraid of fully connecting with the Force. First because she didn't want this Darth Vader or whoever he was to find her. Second because the Force wasn't the same now that all those voices had died. The Force signature of many Jedi like Master Plo or Shaak Ti, even Barriss, had left a void in the Force, a void she knew was filled by their essence that was now one with the Force, but Ahsoka wasn't ready to feel that yet. She needed some time to gather her thoughts and mental strength but meditation was definitely on her list of things to achieve in the next month. That and getting to know Mister Bonteri more.

She tried to focus on the positive things, like for instance the three sparks of hope she had felt and could still feel in different parts of the galaxy. She couldn't tell where they were coming from, but she knew they were not all on the same planet which was good. She hoped the Empire wouldn't find them. She was also fairly certain those sparks would later become Younglings and she promised herself, she'd do whatever she could to help them. She also felt other sparks scattered around the galaxy, but those were more distant and stronger, almost like a small flame already.

Lux brought her out of her thoughts when he took her hand. She was surprised to find she didn't mind and didn't pull it out. She owed him the world. For what they just started but also for saving her. More than that, he didn't simply save her life on a physical level. He was the one that gathered all her broken pieces and glued them back together. He and not Max. Lux was the one that fixed her when she was broken. She still was actually, although she was mending. Her mind wondered to Anakin. Of all the Jedi, she couldn't figure out what had happened to him. She had felt him disappear but not like the others and she could still feel a connection, like he wasn't dead. She wanted to see Obi-Wan and would try to do so at some point, asking the latter about her former Master would be a good idea.

As they were walking the steps she drove her fingers through his hair, undoing his hairdo.

"I like it better when it's wild. You look sexier."

He blushed as hard as she did.