The last chapter about Fox and Soniee was mostly from his point of view so this digs a little more into what she's dealing with while the two of them are alone together in Enceri.

The battle played out before her mind's eye. Shadow Collective, in their red and black Mando armor, were a disgrace to everything Momma Ordo had ever taught her, bowing to their aruetii lord. Bo-Katan's Night Owls, in blue and silver beskar'gam fought bravely against them even though some of them had been on the same side a few months ago.

Soniee saw the explosion and the flying shrapnel and both of the Night Owls who were in the path of the projectiles. She could only manage to save one. She chose her friend. Did the other soldier have a husband and a son to go home to? Soniee didn't know. Was it her right to make that choice? She didn't know. But she had done it. She threw up a barrier that could stretch no further than Lagos and she let the other woman die. She felt that woman die and she screamed as she roused again from the meditative trance.

She registered another cry over the pounding in her own head. She knew what that was. Her scream had woken the baby who Fox had just managed to get to sleep.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." Soniee rubbed at the stabbing pain above her right eye. The headache was nearly blinding and made her want to throw up but she was sorry that she had undone all the work Fox had accomplished calming the infant who had done nothing but cry for his mother for the past hour.

"What's wrong?" He hurried out of the bedroom with the crying baby in his arms. Her scream had obviously also shaken him, too. Fox searched her face, dreading the possibilities of what she may have seen.

She couldn't meet his gaze but she said softly. "It wasn't Lagos... another Night Owl... explosion." Soniee sprinted for the 'fresher making it just in time to heave the meager contents of her stomach into the toilet. She sat on the floor. The pain in her head eased a bit but it was still throbbing.

"Are you okay?" Fox asked as she re-emerged from the 'fresher after cleaning up.

She sat back on the couch and looked at her shaking hands. They did look swollen, he was right, but she said, "Just a headache."

"Gonna get you a hypo for the pain." He announced, headed for the med cabinet. Doctor Gilamar had left behind instructions for how much was okay for her to take if for some reason she needed it.

"Probably should save those for our troops when they get back." She tried to make light of it.

Fox would brook no argument. He set down Tracen, pushed back Soniee's sleeve, and injected the medication. "Our troops need you in fighting form so they can get back."

She knew he was right and she was thankful as the stim started to take effect. "I'm sorry I woke him," she took Tracen's hand in hers as Fox sat down next to her on the couch with the baby. Little fingers curled around one of her own swollen digits.

Trace was calming down but his whimpering and lingering hiccups tugged at her heart. How could she have not saved his mother?

"Come here, ad'ika." Soniee reached for him and he came to her and cuddled against her chest. "Maybe your buir will read us a story."

"Umm..." Fox searched around but the only thing close was a datapad. "Don't suppose he'd mind if it's not one of his picture holos. I'll I've got on here is Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care."

"Sounds good to me and I think just hearing your voice will help this little guy." She said softly.

The baby already had his fist in his mouth again and his eyelids were getting heavy.

So Fox began to read and Soniee kept half her mind on that and the rest of her consciousness on the battles going on in Sundari.

"I saw this." Soniee whispered eyes still closed.

Fox had assumed she was asleep and it startled him when she spoke. "What's that?" he asked.

"You and I together, holding a baby." she answered wearily. "Back when I was on Coruscant. I assumed it meant that you and I would end up together. I thought I was being disloyal to Korkie. I could have never guessed..." She attempted to move Tracen to a more comfortable position. Oron was pressing on her spine making her sciatic nerve ache.

"I can go put him in his bed." Fox offered and she could tell from his voice that he was smiling.

She shook her head and then laid it back on his shoulder. "If he wakes I'm afraid we'll never get him back to sleep."

"'Try to sleep when they sleep'. Isn't that what the holo said?"

"I appreciate your reading aloud to me." The parenting holo held a lot of great information for both of them.

"I can pick up where I left off if you want me to."

"No, thanks." She snuggled back against him as Oron rolled over easing the pain shooting down her leg. "You're right. We should both get some sleep while Trace is out and things are quiet in the capitol."

Fox was silent for a few minutes. Maybe he thought she had gone back to sleep before he whispered, "I saw this, too."

"Hmm?"

"You and I, holding a baby. It's what you... projected to me..."

Soniee was stunned. "I - I had no idea."

"Somehow I knew though," He continued. "I knew it wasn't ours. Maybe it was his blond little head." She could hear the smile in his voice as he gently smoothed the downy fuz on Tracen's head with his hand. "I wanted it to be, back then. Now though... I'm glad. I think things worked out for the best."

"It made Korkie pretty happy that you and Lagos said your vows before he left me in your care." Then whether it was to be perfectly clear where her loyalty lay or just because it was true she said, "I miss him."

"It's the first night you've been apart since Coruscant?" Fox guessed.

"Since my graduation, actually." She remembered.

"Your graduation?" Then he realized. "You and he argued. He was jealous of the way you and Lux..."

"No, Korkie was never jealous of Lux. He knew it was never Lux I had feelings for..."

They were both silent again as the meaning of that sunk in.

"Do you remember," she continued after a while. "What role I told you I needed filled when we first met?"

Of course he remembered. He had perfect recall. "Ori'vod, to stand in for the big brother you lost."

"You've fulfilled that duty in more ways then one. Of course you could never... replace Amis, but... well, you were wrong."

"Wrong?" he asked.

She turned her head enough to look up at him. "When you said the baby in the vision wasn't ours. Well, Trace is obviously not mine, but he is yours, now."

He smiled. "Funny isn't it, that it was Lagos's comm to tell you about him that stopped us from..."

"It was, wasn't it. I hadn't thought of that. Your son kept us from making a terrible mistake." She mused.

"So I guess we have him to thank." Fox stroked the boy's head again. "Now I've got him and Lagos and you've got Korkie and Oron on the way. And you're going to be a great buir, Soniee. I may not have the Force but I can see that."

"I hope so."