Last time: Cien defeated Selina and made it back to the ship.

Now: Cien goes to see her husband.

Chapter 14- We Did It

Kelce finished his rounds in the medical wing and was on his way to check on Kyr one more time before going to grab a bite to eat. Now that Kyr's injuries were seen to and he was finally resting comfortably, there seemed to be a relaxed air around the ship knowing the Colonel was safe. But just to be sure he was out of the woods, Kelce still made sure that he was under constant watch. Right now he had one of his other medics with him as Kelce had sent Sasha away to rest after the long battle and rescue, telling her that Kyr would be fine for the few hours she was away to get some sleep.

As he approached the recovery room Kyr was currently occupying alone, Kelce noticed Cien was sitting in the waiting area with a data pad in her hands. He noted that her armor was nice and clean, unlike the last time he had seen it in the middle of the battle.

"Good morning, Cien," Kelce greeted her as he came to a stop. "I assume you are here to see the Colonel?" He asked with a friendly smile.

"Yes." Cien answered, looking up at him.

"Excellent," Kelce said before continuing towards the door. "Come with me. I'll take you to him."

She nodded and stood, following him. Kelce led her into the recovery room and over to Kyr's bedside. He was occupying the bed furthest from the door with a curtain drawn around it. At the foot of bed, looking over his charts, was another medic.

"I've got him from here," Kelce informed the medic as they approached.

The medic looked up at him and nodded. As he passed by, he handed off the data pad that had Kyr's charts on it. Kelce thanked him with a nod before walking over and drawing the curtain back slightly to reveal Kyr to Cien.

Cien stopped short, seeing him laying there. Out of his armor, out of his flight suit, just in a simple hospital gown, laying in the bed unconscious. He looked so gaunt. This wasn't what Kyr was supposed to be like. She swallowed looking at him. Kyr wasn't supposed to be fragile like this. She stepped forward, clutching her datapad as she sat on the stool at his side and carefully grabbed his hand.

"Will he be okay?" She asked Kelce quietly, looking back up at him.

"Yes," Kelce said with a nod. "His injuries may take some time to heal, but the medication and bacta we have given him is already fighting off the infection. We've also got him on an IV to help get some nutrients back. But the Colonel will be back on his feet in no time."

"Thank you." She said quietly and gratefully.

"Of course," Kelce said, smiling gently at her before looking down at the data pad he had been given. After a quick scan of it with his eyes, he placed it back at the foot of the bed in its holder before looking back to Cien. "I'll give you two a moment. Just flag down a medic if you need anything." He added as he pulled the curtain back to give them some privacy before leaving her alone with Kyr.

Cien sat on the stool and settled herself more comfortably since she would be sitting here for quite some time, and she gripped his hand, squeezing it gently. She realized she was still wearing the heavy gloves of her armor, and she took them off, hooking them to her belt, and took ahold of his hand again.

"I'm here cyar'riduur. You are not alone." She said quietly.

After a few hours of rest, Sasha felt refreshed. After the rescue mission, she was physically and mentally exhausted. She didn't help with that as she remained by Kyr's side the whole time he was in surgery and even a little bit after just to make sure he would be okay. And if he woke up to see that they weren't dead. That they were alive. But according to Kelce it was going to be awhile before he would wake up.

Grabbing a quick bite to eat, Sasha was now headed back to the medical wing to see what help she could provide or at least to check on Kyr. When she got there, she headed straight for the room Kyr was set up in. Entering into the room, she walked over to the drawn curtain on the far side. Sasha walked up and pulled it back slightly as it wrapped around the bed area. She stopped short when she noticed Cien was sitting there by his side. It took her a second, but a small smile pulled at her lips as she was glad to finally see them reunited. Sasha stood there for another moment before slowly approaching, allowing the curtain to fall closed behind her.

"Hey," Sasha said quietly.

"Hello." Cien said, looking up from her datapad from when the curtain pulled aside approaching. Cien smiled lightly seeing Sasha.

"How's he doing?" Sasha asked as she came over to the side of the bed, opposite of Cien.

"Good." Cien said, "Kelce said he is doing well, at least." Cien used the Force to pull a stool over near her. "Want to sit?" She invited.

Sasha smiled at that and nodded. She came over and sat down on the stool. "What about you?" She asked once she was sitting. "How are you doing? We haven't really seen each other since you took off after Selina."

"I am much better now." She said, glancing to Kyr. "Thank you for staying with Kyr when I went to go take care of her."

"Of course," Sasha said as she glanced up to him. "After everything he has gone through, I wanted to make sure he was okay and that he wasn't alone. At least until you would get back to him. Plus I'm his sister. It's part of my job to help take care of him." She chuckled lightly at that.

"Yes, you are a very good little sister, vod'ika." Cien said lightly.

Sasha chuckled at that. "That was crazy." She said after a quiet moment between them. "Seeing them all in there. I still can't believe that was real."

"It had to be real, right?" Cien asked, unsure. "That was really them?" She asked quietly.

"Yeah, I think so," Sasha said, nodding slowly. "It felt too real to be a construct or a dream. Plus how do you explain Kyr's mind being able to create a construct of our own parents when I never even knew what mine looked like and I have no idea if you ever described yours to him?" She asked.

Cien spoke softly. "I don't know. I keep thinking about it, and I was wondering if something might have leaked over from us to let his mind make those images. But I can't really reconcile it. I did describe them to him once, but vaguely. Not enough for an image like that. They looked exactly as I remembered them."

"I guess," she said with a shrug. She then looked down at her hands. "But I don't remember what my parents looked like. All I was told was that they died in a fire on Coruscant when I was one and that the Jedi took me in after saving me. That was it." She went quiet for a moment. "I never got a chance to remember them. So seeing them there… It was unreal."

Cien reached across and took her hand. "It's nice to know they are out there." She said quietly.

"Yeah, It was nice to see them. All of them," Sasha said as she looked up to Cien, squeezing her hand.

"Anna was just like how I might have pictured her." Cien said with a smile.

"Definitely," Sasha agreed with a smirk. "And their Mo… I mean Mom is just how I pictured her too."

"Yeah." Cien said quietly. "What do we tell Kyr and Op about it? They should know what… Who we encountered."

"I have no idea," Sasha admitted. "I honestly don't think either would believe us at first, but we know what we saw in there. Or who we saw. But I think we need to tell them no matter what. They deserve to know. It is their family after all."

"Definitely." Cien agreed. "And it feels like they did so much to confirm who they were, knowing about my dream, the crystals, what she said to you. It felt too real to not have been them."

"Yeah," Sasha agreed with a nod. She went silent for a moment before looking to Kyr. "Did you expect their father to look so much like them?" She asked.

"I'd never thought of it. But it makes sense." Cien answered quietly. "They never even got to meet him, apparently. Only Anna might have remembered him but she would have been very young."

Sasha nodded as a frown appeared. "Op never got to meet any of them," she said quietly. "I guess that is one of the downsides to being a Jedi. You never truly get to know who your family was before joining the order. I'm just glad he has Kyr." She then smiled softly. "And us and Lana now."

"Yes." Cien smiled lightly. "I wonder if we should look up your extended family, or look into Viran's." She mused.

"I guess we could," Sasha said with a shrug. "I never really considered it all that much. But now, I'm actually curious to see who might still be out there after all this time." She then looked to Cien. "But even if I do find mine or Viran's, you guys will always be our family."

Cien just nodded, and smirked lightly. "So what was the surprise Anna mentioned I shouldn't be mean to you about?"

Sasha chuckled. "You'll find out soon. Don't you worry," she said with a wink. "But what I can say is that Kyr will love it."

Cien looked at her confused and then looked away. "Fine, keep your secrets." She said in mock anger.

Sasha laughed at that, but quietly enough so that she didn't wake Kyr. After a moment and once the laughing died down, she looked over to Cien. "May I ask, what exactly happened at the end of that memory? The one you have with your parents?" She asked, carefully.

Cien swallowed and looked away. "I told Kyr about the start of that memory one time, so he could know I hadn't always been a monster. It's a memory I have of my parents, we were at a lake shore on a beautiful day and I guess we were having a picnic by the shore. And you saw the dress…" She stopped, and looked up at Sasha as a stray thought went through her mind before she dismissed it, "and I remember we had a whole basket of zherries, and playing with my dad. I don't know if it was part of that memory or not, or if I conflated it with some other memory, but I remember Sith ships coming in over the lake towards the town we lived in, when they came and found me, and took me." She swallowed again and looked down at her hands, "and you saw how young my parents were, how they looked exactly like they did that day." She said. "I didn't realize they were probably…" She paused, and restarted, "that when the Sith took me they…" She swallowed, and guessed it was apparent to Sasha what she was trying to say, "until years after, when I was old enough to learn more about how they found children like me."

"Oh Cien…" Sasha said as she squeezed her hand gently. "I'm so sorry."

"It's fine." Cien said. "There was nothing I could do about it, and I buried that memory deeply, and I never shared it with anyone. That was why I was so surprised when Anna mentioned the ships." She finished quietly. "The rest of it, Kyr knew so she could have still have been a construct. Maybe even what she said about the dress he might have inferred from something I said at some point and forgot. But I never, ever mentioned the ships to anyone. So it let me know that there was more going on."

Sasha nodded. "I promise to not tell anyone about that," she said quietly.

"It's not a secret, it's just something I never talk about. We're a family now, we should probably know things like this about each other." Cien replied quietly. "But thank you."

"Of course," Sasha said simply.

"Unlike some of us who keep secrets from each other." Cien said annoyedly, glaring at Sasha.

She laughed at that. "Okay fair, but some secrets need to be kept. At least until the right moment then I will tell you," Sasha said giggling. "Just bare with me a little bit longer, okay? I promise to tell you once we are home."

"Fine, Jedi." Cien said with good natured annoyance.

"By the way, something else I've been thinking about is what Anna said," Sasha said, changing the subject. "What do you think she meant when she referenced the crystals?"

"I am not sure." Cien said, unconsciously looking down to the pouch where she kept them wrapped in a small swatch of cloth. "I wasn't sure why she would have even brought them up."

"Yeah, I'm not sure either unless…" Sasha trailed off as she thought more on it. She then shook her head. "Nah, there's no way." She said more to herself than Cien.

"What?" Cien asked quizzically.

"Well…" Sasha started, trying to figure out how to phrase this. "What if they are meant for what Mom said. You know," she then whispered in a low voice, "the future grandkids."

Cien looked at her, slightly wide eyed, as she looked back down at the pouch then back up at Sasha. "Oh Jeeze." She finally said.

"It's the only thing that makes sense," Sasha said with a shrug. "Plus it wouldn't be the first time a ghost predicted someone in this family will have children one day."

"But I'm not ready to be a..." She trailed off, "wait, what?" Cien said, looking at her sharply. "What do you mean a ghost predicted that?"

"Remember when I said that I saw Oppie's Master at the end of my knight trials?" Sasha asked her as she got ready to explain.

Cien just nodded, looking at her quizzically.

"When I was talking with him, he mentioned that I would make a great Master someday if or well, when I get a padawan of my own," Sasha explained. "However, I realized later after talking with Viran as he had something similar at that end of his trial with the other Viran from the other time that both of them were referring to the fact that we were going to be having Lana soon. I say that because the other Viran said to enjoy what he never got the chance to enjoy, which was getting to see his child. So when I say it's not the first time this has happened, I mean it. But I could also be way off on this too." She then looked at Cien more seriously. "And besides, no one is ever really ready to become a parent until it happens."

"I've only been married for two weeks." Cien said in a small voice.

"And that's fine. You and Kyr don't need to jump on the kid train just yet," Sasha said. "When you two are ready, the time will come naturally. Right now, I suggest you two just enjoy being a married couple. Enjoy being together. There is no rush."

Cien nodded. "Okay." She squeaked.

Sasha smiled gently at her and wrapped an arm around Cien's shoulders. "In the meantime, you guys can continue to be a great Aunt and Uncle to Lana."

Cien sat there numbly for a while. "Maybe she was just teasing me." She said quietly. "She seems mean enough to do that." She said crossly as if Anna was in the room next to them.

"Knowing Kyr and Oppie, I seriously believe that to be genetic," Sasha said with a laugh.

There was a cold breeze through the room at that moment that felt unnatural, and very abnormal for the ultra-controlled climate of a ship. Cien looked up at that with wide eyes as the chill made her shiver a little and the curtain wafted slightly. Sasha had a similar expression before laughing nervously.

"We both agree that was creepy right?" Sasha asked uneasy.

"Yes." Cien said, also uneasy. "At least she clarified they give us some privacy when required." She said quietly. "But I might get some heavier curtains when we get home." She said in a small voice.

Sasha nodded at that.

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