Hello! I am here again to leave you guys with another update. This chapter will cover what happened to Klara after her fall. So a couple things:

1. Klara Skywalker? Whatttt? Did you see that coming?

2. Poe is amazing

3. Threepio can talk a lot lol

4. I'm deciding to add another OC. Male. Ben Barnes will be playing as him. I'm unsure what I want to do with him but I kinda have a feeling I want him to be competition for Poe.

5. I post this story on wattpad as well and with that, photos for description. Scarlet_Knight15 is my user


Chapter 6: What happened?


Location: D'Qar

"Busy?!" Leia exclaimed in disbelief. Klara shrunk at her gaze knowing full well she should have answered differently, but she sputtered the answer without a second thought. Klara cursed herself. Even to this day, she was still very much afraid of an enraged Leia. Force give her strength because she would need it all to come out alive.

"Well-." Klara started.

"I thought you were dead. We all thought you were dead, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that Ben…" Leia trailed off, grief flashing before her eyes, catching Klara's attention. Shaking her head, Leia stepped forward and pulled Klara into a tight embrace. Klara returned the gesture, resting her head on Leia's shoulder and sighed with content. "Now," Leia said pulling away glancing at Klara's injured shoulder, "as much as I would love to hear your explanation right now, you need that shoulder looked at and perhaps a shower would also do you some good."

"Are you trying to say I smell?" Klara grinned playfully.

Leia gave her a sideways glance and smirked, "Yes, and not to mention the new style you're wearing." She gestured to Klara's disheveled dirtied clothing. Klara simply laughed, agreeing internally as Leia rounded her desk and sat down. "I'll have Threepio take you to the infirmary and from there, a vacant room we have. If you plan to stay, that will be your quarters. The rooms are meant to house two, but for the time being you will remain alone in the room until I know of your permanency. Which I do hope you stay." Leia said with hope. Klara simply nodded as Leia motioned for Threepio to escort Klara.

Klara simply regarded Threepio as she waited for him to take the lead, with his golden being trotting along. She didn't miss the fact that the droid's left arm was red, no doubt the part under collaboration elsewhere.

"Oh, and Klara," Klara halted in her stride to glance towards Leia, "It was good to see you again, you rascal." This earned a small smile to form across Klara's dirtied face as she finally exited the office.

"This way, Miss Skywalker." Threepio ushered and she followed suit.

As they walked, Threepio started ranting about all she missed, but if she was honest, she was too tired to listen to the droid. She paid him no head in which the droid at some point in their slow strides, stopped talking all together. It wasn't until they rounded a corner when Klara started to realize the eyes on her as they walked. She didn't doubt they were weary of her. She was new, and not to mention, was cuffed earlier. She wondered if Poe started telling everyone who she is. She wouldn't blame him. Jedi were almost a myth- a legend- at this time and not to mention, she was the daughter of a war hero, which people looked up to. So, it wouldn't surprise her if he would be buzzing with excitement, but this also made Klara feel like she might disappoint.

She had always worried, since she was a child, about living up to her father's reputation. The Luke Skywalker. So, she trained harder, learned faster, and pushed to be what others expected of her. What her father might have expected of her. Though he never said it, Klara couldn't help but to be like her father: a hero. Not for fame or for glory, but for the simple satisfaction knowing that she was helping others in need. She wasn't the only one that felt that there were a lot of expectations of her.

Ben, her cousin, also felt that there were a lot of expectations around him, but he took it a little differently than how Klara did. She always got the feeling that he took it as a vexation, that he didn't like being compared to his father or his mother; both war heroes. It made sense to Klara though. Ben Solo wanted to be his own person. Perhaps that may have been another factor that led him to the dark side. They had always been close, almost like siblings, so when he had doubts, she was always there to reassure him. Now Klara felt like her reassurances were never enough to begin with.

"Ah," Threepio halted in front of an opened room, "here we are Miss Skywalker."

Klara glanced inside. This room held a Bacta Tank in the far corner, a machine that supplies extensive exposure to Bacta which increases the healing production. On the other side, held a medical bed for examination. There beside the counters, stood a man facing the wall. He wore dark brown pants and a fitted light shaded grey jacket; one of the themes Klara caught on with the resistance. The man turned around when he heard the arrival of the two, shoving away the datapad he had previously been preoccupied with on the counter.

"What can I do-." He had started but registered Klara's visible injury. "Ah, I see." His eyes flashed at her and he gave a simple smile as he gestured for her to take a seat on the medical bed while he returned to the counter to gather whatever supplies he needed. Klara brushed her tainted shirt off to the side of her shoulder, allowing her injury to be accessible. He returned and feathered his gloved fingers on the injury to inspect it after taking off her poor attempts to bandage it herself. "A Blaster to the shoulder huh?" He asked Klara.

Klara briefly took in his features. He was attractive, that much she knew for sure. Her eyes trailed from his medium length styled brown hair down to the light creases in his forehead. Radiant brown eyes greeted her that held a hint of exhaust in them. His lips were thin yet full at the same time and were held in by the short stubbles of his beard growing back in. It wasn't until she felt a slight sting from her shoulder that she hadn't replied to the man. He probably thought her shy.

"Sorry." He said. "Unfortunately, I have to ensure it won't get infected before I apply a bandage." He gave her another smile, but this time it seemed to rise to his eyes. Most likely to reassure her.

"I've had my fair share of injuries to understand the pain that comes to treating them." Klara gave him a soft smile.

He looked at her like he wanted to ask something but decided otherwise as he continued to dab at her injury. "May I ask how you obtained the injury?" He asked. "Out of pure curiosity that is. You do not need to feel inclined to answer."

She gazed at him as he was focusing on applying the bandage. "I was fighting a group of Stormtroopers."

He paused to look at her, raising an eyebrow. "By yourself?"

Klara gave him a playful smile. "What? Do you not think a woman capable of dealing with Stormtroopers?"

A soft chuckle rumbled through his body. He stood up after he finished applying the bandage. "You must believe me when I say women are more than capable to handle themselves in a fight." A dark look crossed his features. "However, Stormtroopers are well known for their aggression, especially in larger groups."

Klara let go of her shirt and let it fall back into place before standing up. "Well, I suppose you are right. Yet, here I am. I'm most certain it was they whom faced a more aggressive opponent. Or rather, someone who perhaps outwitted them?"

The man let out another laugh as he removed his gloves and washed his hands. "So, it may seem." He dried off his hands before offering it to her. "My name is Gar. Gar Berene. Will I have the honor of knowing yours?"

Klara smiled and took his hand. "Klara." She paused. "Klara Skywalker."

A Shocked expression crossed Gar's face as they finished shaking hands. "Skywalker? As in Luke Skywalker?"

"The very same. He's my father."

Klara noticed a change in his demeanor. Was that hope she saw in his eyes? "It's a pleasure to meet you. Will you be joining the war?"

Klara hadn't given it much thought when she arrived here at the base. These people needed her, and she couldn't help but think that the Force was telling her that something was awaiting her here with the Resistance. Klara glanced at Gar's awaiting eyes. It was the Jedi's purpose to protect life and keep peace, never to attack or lead an attack. Simply to defend. But those were times of the past and things were different now. There was no Jedi Order and quite frankly, Klara didn't feel like there will ever be one again. At least not in the eyes of the old ways.

"Yes." She said, determination radiating in her eyes. "I'm here to help wherever I can."


Once she showered after having Threepio show her to the room she was staying in, she was surprised to find her belongings resting on her bed. The belongings she had left in her aircraft. Klara smiled to herself knowing full well who brought them. How considerate. Klara ruffled into her bag for a clean shirt and pants. She was lucky she had bought two pairs of the same clothing. For moments like these, it truly helped to have a backup. She glanced inside her bag at her former attire she wore back when she was training at the Jedi Temple. She hadn't worn it since she first changed out of it after her fall. To her, it reminded her of her failure. Klara was unsure why she brought it.

Sighing, Klara braided her hair and exited her room. Threepio had left her to attend to whatever the golden droid needed to do leaving her on her own to go back to Leia. Klara had to admit she wasn't entirely ready to talk but she knew she had some explaining to do. If she were being honest, it might even release some built-up stress she had been feeling.

Klara was surprised she was able to find her way around the halls of this base. It didn't look like much from outside, but the inside, she felt, could easily get confusing. She simply worked her way back from the direction she initially had come from, reworking her steps. Metal doors greeted her once she stood dead center at Leia's office doors. Giving out a shaky breath, she knocked.

"Enter." Leia's voice sounded through the doors.

Once she entered, she noticed again that Leia was working on something and didn't look to acknowledge her until she got closer. Leia pushed her work aside and gave Klara her full attention as Klara took a seat in front of Leia's desk.

"So…" Klara started, unsure.

"Where to start?" Leia finished for her.

Taking in a deep breath, Klara started. "After Ben…threw me off a cliff-." She was interrupted by a small gasp from Leia. She gave Leia a look before continuing. "I fell into the rushing water below me, which in the end, was what saved my life. A couple traveling to gather water discovered me washed up. They had presumed me dead and wanted to give me a proper burial until they discovered that I was indeed still very much alive." Klara pulled her braid forward to start playing with it. "They nursed me back to health, but I didn't wake for weeks. Most likely due to head trauma. When I woke up though, I wasn't entirely myself."

Leia leaned forward on her seat. "What do you mean?"

Klara sighed. "Haven't you ever wondered why you couldn't feel me through the Force? Because you thought I was dead, in which my connection was severed. When I woke up, I had no recollection of who I was or where I was. Almost like a blank slate. So therefore, I had no connection to the Force. It took time and a lot of healing but eventually I did remember. Once I did, at first, I will admit I was fearful. Of Ben." She glanced at Leia. "I didn't know how to face him again if he ever found me. I couldn't help but feel like I failed him. One minute he was fine and the next, it was like the darkness in him escalated rapidly and without warning. I just don't know how it all went wrong."

Leia got up from her spot and walked over to Klara. She took a seat in the spot next to her and reached out for Klara's hand, gripping it reassuringly. "My dear, we all have blamed ourselves. You, me, Han, and no doubt Luke as well. At some point we must look beyond our pasts, without pointing fingers and move on." Leia pauses to brush Klara's cheek. "Sometimes the heaviest burdens we carry are the thoughts in our heads."

Leaning over, Klara goes to embrace Leia. All the feelings she felt, the remorse, sadness, loss, and hatred pour out of her that she had kept in all this time. She had truly missed Leia but couldn't bring herself to face her until she returned with Ben. She had no doubt that a mother losing a child didn't come easy, especially when that child was lost to the dark forces. Knowing he's alive and committing such acts that stood against the very morals you represented and led, had its consequences. Leia not only had to make choices as a mother, but as a General in the Resistance as well. Klara felt that she was battling a battle with more struggle than her own.

"I spent some time after with Maz. She was kind enough to provide me shelter if in return I helped her around. I was there for nearly a year, taking any leads from her that pointed in my father's direction. This led me to Lor San Tekka." A wave of grief flooded through Klara before she shook her head and continued, "That's when I met Poe."

Wiping away the stray tears she had shed, Klara pulled slightly away from Leia. "I saw him, Leia."

"What?" Leia sputtered.

"I saw him before I came here. Ben. I sensed confliction within him…perhaps enough to maybe get through to him."

Leia thought for a moment. "How did this happen?"

Klara shifted nervously. "Well…" She trailed off and averted Leia's eyes. "I snuck aboard the First Order's Finalizer and-."

"You did what?!" Leia yelled.

Klara continued to avoid Leia's gaze. "Well I had a pilot that needed saving that had valuable information I needed. Turns out he didn't need my help anyways."

Leia slightly calmed. "Poe?"

She snuck her gaze to Leia's now questioning eyes and nodded. "Though we didn't meet until after we were back on Jakku."

"And you risked your life…for his? A Man you barely met? To go that far…" Leia asked with surprise.

"As far as to my knowledge, he had the information on the map, and I couldn't let that get into the First Order's hands. It was a rash decision but if I hadn't, I wouldn't have seen Ben. We connected through the Force."

Several minutes passed by in silence, both in their own thoughts before anyone spoke.

"Will you be staying?" Leia asked and broke the silence. Her eyes lingered on Klara searching for a hopeful answer.

Klara gave Leia a lopsided grin, "Now why would I leave you here when I just arrived?"

Leia chuckled. "You remind me of your father sometimes."

Klara smiled sadly, "I hope that during my time here, we are able to find him." She paused. "I miss him."

"We both do, kiddo."

The beeping of a device startled the comfortable silence that ascended both. Leia sighed, squeezing Klara's hand in reassurance before getting up to sit back at her desk.

"I have to take this. Unfortunately, our reunion will have to be cut short. Feel free to look around the place. I'll be sure that your stay here is informed to the others. Don't be causing any trouble. If memory serves me right, I feel you are no better than Poe Dameron." Leia laughed to herself before answering the Com.

Once she answered, Klara decided to take her leave, giving Leia a smile before her departure. She was unsure of what to do. A part of her wanted to get in some much-needed rest but another part of her was curious to explore the base. Her thoughts won over with the thought of Poe. Klara slacked a little at the thought. Was he mad at her? She doesn't feel like he would, but he did decide to put trust in her. With a final decision, Klara started her journey to find Poe, with a nervous flutter swelling her stomach for an unknown reason.


How was it? Any confusions? Do you like Gar? I think I cant make some evil things happen with him bwahahaha. Also, please note that I don't have someone to edit my paper so there may be some mistakes. I always read it through twice but even I can miss something. This one was a tad short in terms of words but I really wanted to post something for you guys. Also, remember, I don't have a clear schedule as to when I will update but do know that I will ALWAYS update at some point.

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