1 Family of the Light: Chapter Four
By Jayde Star
Twenty-five minutes later and Jayde had been waiting on the roof for nearly ten minutes for David. He finally arrived.
"Jay, sorry. It took me longer to get up here than I thought it would." David said.
Jayde was standing near the edge of the roof, looking out at the night. Even in the middle of the night, Corucant was still an extremely busy place. Jayde didn't turn around when David spoke. She didn't even move when he came to stand next to her. She just stood there, with her arms holding her coat tightly around her to hold out the night cold. Her hair was blown wildly by the wind.
David waited in silence, hoping that Jayde would speak when she was ready. After a few minutes, though, he eventually got impatient. "Jay, why did you get me up in the middle of the night, get me to come up to this cold roof and then not say anything? You said you wanted to talk, so talk."
After another moment or two Jayde finally spoke. "Why did you kiss me earlier? I was beginning to put what had happened between us behind me. Then you kiss me and it not only brings up old feelings, but old nightmares as well."
"Nightmares? Not the ones Ben mentioned you having after….." David trailed off.
"Yeah, the ones Ben mentioned me having after…." Jayde whispered.
David moved as if he was going to hug Jayde, but she moved away from him. "Why did you kiss me?" She repeated.
David wasn't sure what to say at first. Eventually he said, "I don't know. I didn't plan to kiss you at first, it just sort of happened. It was an accident."
"Like 'oops, your lips slipped'?"
David gave a lopsided smile at Jayde's attempt at a joke. "Something like that. I had only planned to talk to you. You ran off that night and I haven't had a chance to talk to you since, and I think we need to."
"I agree. We do need to talk. What happened between us was a huge mistake." Jayde finally turned to look at David. "It never should have happened."
"Are you so sure it was a mistake?" David asked in a hurt voice.
"Yes I am. Maybe if you had known from the start who I was, and then it had happened, then it might not have been a mistake. But, would you have really wanted to be with me if you had known who I was?"
David moved closer to Jayde. "Yes, yes I would have." He said so quietly that Jayde almost didn't hear, but when she realised what he had said she looked at him in shock as he added, "I still do want you."
David brushed Jayde's face with his hand and she placed her hand over his. "Oh, Dave…." Was all she had time to say before they were interrupted.
"So, I guess Ben was wrong when he told me my girlfriend saying some other guy's name in her sleep was nothing to worry about. Guess he doesn't know his sister as well as he thought." Steve came walking over to the both of them.
"Steve?" Jayde gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I couldn't sleep without you, so I thought a breath of fresh air would do me some good. I guess I'm not the only one who thought so." Steve glared at David, "I guess I'm not the only one who thought it was a good idea."
"Steve, let me explain, this isn't how it looks."
"You mean you're not really here with some other guy, looking very intimate."
"Steve, at least give me a chance."
"Fine, it had better be a good explanation."
"The dream I had was about Dave. In fact it was more of a nightmare than a dream. I finally stopped having that same dream only a year ago, seeing Dave again brought it all back." Jayde was speaking as quickly as she possibly could. "I was abducted about three years ago, and because of that Dave was in an accident, one I could have prevented. That was what my dream was about."
"That doesn't explain why you're here on the roof with him in the middle of the night."
"No, I guess it doesn't." Jayde sighed; she was going to have to say more to Steve than she had ever planned to. "You see, at the same time as I was abducted, Dave and I were sort of involved, I got pregnant, but I lost the baby. I never really dealt with the feelings, and we never talked about what happened. I hoped that talking to Dave might help stop the nightmares for good."
Steve looked sceptical at this explanation. "Did you really have to see him in the middle of the night though?"
Jayde looked down at her feet. "I guess not, but I wanted to do it while I had the strength to do so. I was worried that I might not have been brave enough in the morning."
Steve just looked at Jayde for a moment, as if deciding whether or not to believe her. "So, when you say you never dealt with your feelings in the past, does that include any you may have had for David?"
Jayde didn't answer for a moment, but she finally looked up, tears falling silently down her cheeks, and she looked Steve in the eye for a moment before finally nodding her head.
"And, what exactly were the feelings."
Jayde looked terrified by the question, "I loved him, I think I still do."
Steve looked disgusted and brought his hand up as if he was going to hit Jayde, but he stopped himself in time. "To think I wasted an entire year with you. I could have had so many other girls in that time, but I thought you would be a good choice for me."
"A good choice? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, you didn't think I was staying with you because you were anything special did you? But, dating – and maybe marrying – someone with your family background and connections would have been a good career move. You made me wait six months before you would sleep with me. Did you honestly think that any guy would stay with a girl for that long if there wasn't some other good reason?" Steve said with a sneer.
"I thought you loved me." Jayde said with a whisper, hurt evident in her voice.
"Love? It had nothing to do with love." Steve suddenly felt something slam into his face.
As soon as Steve had arrived, David had kept out of the way; he figured that it was up to Jayde and Steve to work out. He would be there for Jayde afterwards if she needed him. But once Steve had started hurting Jayde, David hadn't been able to stop himself; he had punched Steve fair in the face.
Steve didn't stay down for long though, he launched himself at David and they ended up in a full-blown fight.
"Dave! Steve! Stop it!" Jayde screamed at them, but they didn't listen. Jayde grabbed her commlink, glad that she had thought to grab on her way out. Quickly she called Ben.
"Skywalker?" He answered sleepily.
"Ben? It's Jayde, sorry to wake you up, but can you come up to the roof?"
"Why?" Ben asked, fully waking up as he could sense his sister's worry.
"Steve and David are fighting and I don't think anything short of an explosion will stop them at the moment." Jayde was getting desperate.
"I'll be there as soon as I can, I'll bring dad." Ben signed off and Jayde wondered if there was anything she could do. She knew she couldn't use her light, she didn't think she would be able to control where each of them landed and they were close enough to the edge that it was a major worry.
Ben and her parents (in waking up Luke, Ben had also awoken Mara and there was no way she wasn't going) got there so quickly Jayde almost thought they had slept in their clothes, she was sure it was less than five minutes since they had called.
Ben grabbed Steve, while Luke grabbed David and they pulled them of each other. Mara went to Jayde to see if she was okay.
"What happened?" Luke asked, still holding on to David.
"I wanted to talk to Dave, Steve found us and got the wrong idea, Steve said he didn't love and was only with me because I am a Skywalker, then David hit him." Jayde quickly explained.
Luke let go of David, "You hit him? Why?"
David rubbed an aching jaw with his hand before speaking, "Didn't you listen to what Jayde said he said. The bastard deserved it."
Luke tried to look stern, though inside he did agree in a way, "Is that really a good enough reason for hitting him?"
"It is in my books. Would you rather I had let him continue hurting Jay?" David was talking to Luke, but looking directly at Jayde, who was returning his gaze.
Luke sighed, he had a feeling he knew what was happening that wasn't being said, but he though Steve deserved a chance to explain his side. "Well?" He asked turning to him.
"Well, what?" Steve asked sullenly.
"Are you going to tell us your side of the story or not?"
"My girlfriend was cheating on me, what else is there to say." Steve was glad Luke was there with his calming presence, because at that point both David and Ben looked like they could have easily hurt Steve.
"I never cheated on you, I could never cheat on anyone." Jayde defended herself. "You just interpreted what you saw wrong."
"You know what, Jayde? I'm not even going to discuss this any more." And with that Steve turned and left the roof and Jayde's life for good.
Mara looked at her daughter. "Are you okay?" Jayde just nodded. "Are you coming back to our place?"
"No, I don't think so." Jayde said after a moment. "I think I need my own bed for now. You guys go back to bed, I'll head down in a minute. Ben, tell Cassie I'm sorry for dragging you out of bed for the second time tonight."
"That's okay." Ben hugged his sister, as did Luke and Mara and they all headed back down to bed, reluctantly leaving Jayde on the roof.
David was the only one left with her. They merely looked at each other for a while before either spoke. David was the one to break the silence, "So, you love me do you?" He asked almost shyly.
Jayde shrugged, "I don't know, maybe. I have a lot of things to think about."
David moved closer to Jayde, put his arms around her waist and looked down into her eyes. "That's better than a no, I guess. Promise me something, though. Give us a chance, please? What we feel is too strong to not be given one."
Jayde stared up in to his eyes, mesmerised by them, before answering with a nod. "Okay, I promise. But, only if we can take it slowly."
"Deal." David said, "But only if you grant me one last thing."
"What's that?" Jayde asked with a small smile, she had a feeling she knew what he wanted.
"This." He whispered as he brought he head down to kiss her lightly on the lips.
tbc
He he he. Took me long enough to get here, didn't it? But, do you like me now? Let me know what you think of this chapter, especially since I think it's the longest one I've ever written. I just couldn't stop, I really enjoyed writing this chapter. Anyway, I digress, I expect lots of reviews for this long chapter, otherwise I'll make the other one really short and I'll make it one you wouldn't like. *Insert evil laugh here*.
By Jayde Star
Twenty-five minutes later and Jayde had been waiting on the roof for nearly ten minutes for David. He finally arrived.
"Jay, sorry. It took me longer to get up here than I thought it would." David said.
Jayde was standing near the edge of the roof, looking out at the night. Even in the middle of the night, Corucant was still an extremely busy place. Jayde didn't turn around when David spoke. She didn't even move when he came to stand next to her. She just stood there, with her arms holding her coat tightly around her to hold out the night cold. Her hair was blown wildly by the wind.
David waited in silence, hoping that Jayde would speak when she was ready. After a few minutes, though, he eventually got impatient. "Jay, why did you get me up in the middle of the night, get me to come up to this cold roof and then not say anything? You said you wanted to talk, so talk."
After another moment or two Jayde finally spoke. "Why did you kiss me earlier? I was beginning to put what had happened between us behind me. Then you kiss me and it not only brings up old feelings, but old nightmares as well."
"Nightmares? Not the ones Ben mentioned you having after….." David trailed off.
"Yeah, the ones Ben mentioned me having after…." Jayde whispered.
David moved as if he was going to hug Jayde, but she moved away from him. "Why did you kiss me?" She repeated.
David wasn't sure what to say at first. Eventually he said, "I don't know. I didn't plan to kiss you at first, it just sort of happened. It was an accident."
"Like 'oops, your lips slipped'?"
David gave a lopsided smile at Jayde's attempt at a joke. "Something like that. I had only planned to talk to you. You ran off that night and I haven't had a chance to talk to you since, and I think we need to."
"I agree. We do need to talk. What happened between us was a huge mistake." Jayde finally turned to look at David. "It never should have happened."
"Are you so sure it was a mistake?" David asked in a hurt voice.
"Yes I am. Maybe if you had known from the start who I was, and then it had happened, then it might not have been a mistake. But, would you have really wanted to be with me if you had known who I was?"
David moved closer to Jayde. "Yes, yes I would have." He said so quietly that Jayde almost didn't hear, but when she realised what he had said she looked at him in shock as he added, "I still do want you."
David brushed Jayde's face with his hand and she placed her hand over his. "Oh, Dave…." Was all she had time to say before they were interrupted.
"So, I guess Ben was wrong when he told me my girlfriend saying some other guy's name in her sleep was nothing to worry about. Guess he doesn't know his sister as well as he thought." Steve came walking over to the both of them.
"Steve?" Jayde gasped. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I couldn't sleep without you, so I thought a breath of fresh air would do me some good. I guess I'm not the only one who thought so." Steve glared at David, "I guess I'm not the only one who thought it was a good idea."
"Steve, let me explain, this isn't how it looks."
"You mean you're not really here with some other guy, looking very intimate."
"Steve, at least give me a chance."
"Fine, it had better be a good explanation."
"The dream I had was about Dave. In fact it was more of a nightmare than a dream. I finally stopped having that same dream only a year ago, seeing Dave again brought it all back." Jayde was speaking as quickly as she possibly could. "I was abducted about three years ago, and because of that Dave was in an accident, one I could have prevented. That was what my dream was about."
"That doesn't explain why you're here on the roof with him in the middle of the night."
"No, I guess it doesn't." Jayde sighed; she was going to have to say more to Steve than she had ever planned to. "You see, at the same time as I was abducted, Dave and I were sort of involved, I got pregnant, but I lost the baby. I never really dealt with the feelings, and we never talked about what happened. I hoped that talking to Dave might help stop the nightmares for good."
Steve looked sceptical at this explanation. "Did you really have to see him in the middle of the night though?"
Jayde looked down at her feet. "I guess not, but I wanted to do it while I had the strength to do so. I was worried that I might not have been brave enough in the morning."
Steve just looked at Jayde for a moment, as if deciding whether or not to believe her. "So, when you say you never dealt with your feelings in the past, does that include any you may have had for David?"
Jayde didn't answer for a moment, but she finally looked up, tears falling silently down her cheeks, and she looked Steve in the eye for a moment before finally nodding her head.
"And, what exactly were the feelings."
Jayde looked terrified by the question, "I loved him, I think I still do."
Steve looked disgusted and brought his hand up as if he was going to hit Jayde, but he stopped himself in time. "To think I wasted an entire year with you. I could have had so many other girls in that time, but I thought you would be a good choice for me."
"A good choice? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, you didn't think I was staying with you because you were anything special did you? But, dating – and maybe marrying – someone with your family background and connections would have been a good career move. You made me wait six months before you would sleep with me. Did you honestly think that any guy would stay with a girl for that long if there wasn't some other good reason?" Steve said with a sneer.
"I thought you loved me." Jayde said with a whisper, hurt evident in her voice.
"Love? It had nothing to do with love." Steve suddenly felt something slam into his face.
As soon as Steve had arrived, David had kept out of the way; he figured that it was up to Jayde and Steve to work out. He would be there for Jayde afterwards if she needed him. But once Steve had started hurting Jayde, David hadn't been able to stop himself; he had punched Steve fair in the face.
Steve didn't stay down for long though, he launched himself at David and they ended up in a full-blown fight.
"Dave! Steve! Stop it!" Jayde screamed at them, but they didn't listen. Jayde grabbed her commlink, glad that she had thought to grab on her way out. Quickly she called Ben.
"Skywalker?" He answered sleepily.
"Ben? It's Jayde, sorry to wake you up, but can you come up to the roof?"
"Why?" Ben asked, fully waking up as he could sense his sister's worry.
"Steve and David are fighting and I don't think anything short of an explosion will stop them at the moment." Jayde was getting desperate.
"I'll be there as soon as I can, I'll bring dad." Ben signed off and Jayde wondered if there was anything she could do. She knew she couldn't use her light, she didn't think she would be able to control where each of them landed and they were close enough to the edge that it was a major worry.
Ben and her parents (in waking up Luke, Ben had also awoken Mara and there was no way she wasn't going) got there so quickly Jayde almost thought they had slept in their clothes, she was sure it was less than five minutes since they had called.
Ben grabbed Steve, while Luke grabbed David and they pulled them of each other. Mara went to Jayde to see if she was okay.
"What happened?" Luke asked, still holding on to David.
"I wanted to talk to Dave, Steve found us and got the wrong idea, Steve said he didn't love and was only with me because I am a Skywalker, then David hit him." Jayde quickly explained.
Luke let go of David, "You hit him? Why?"
David rubbed an aching jaw with his hand before speaking, "Didn't you listen to what Jayde said he said. The bastard deserved it."
Luke tried to look stern, though inside he did agree in a way, "Is that really a good enough reason for hitting him?"
"It is in my books. Would you rather I had let him continue hurting Jay?" David was talking to Luke, but looking directly at Jayde, who was returning his gaze.
Luke sighed, he had a feeling he knew what was happening that wasn't being said, but he though Steve deserved a chance to explain his side. "Well?" He asked turning to him.
"Well, what?" Steve asked sullenly.
"Are you going to tell us your side of the story or not?"
"My girlfriend was cheating on me, what else is there to say." Steve was glad Luke was there with his calming presence, because at that point both David and Ben looked like they could have easily hurt Steve.
"I never cheated on you, I could never cheat on anyone." Jayde defended herself. "You just interpreted what you saw wrong."
"You know what, Jayde? I'm not even going to discuss this any more." And with that Steve turned and left the roof and Jayde's life for good.
Mara looked at her daughter. "Are you okay?" Jayde just nodded. "Are you coming back to our place?"
"No, I don't think so." Jayde said after a moment. "I think I need my own bed for now. You guys go back to bed, I'll head down in a minute. Ben, tell Cassie I'm sorry for dragging you out of bed for the second time tonight."
"That's okay." Ben hugged his sister, as did Luke and Mara and they all headed back down to bed, reluctantly leaving Jayde on the roof.
David was the only one left with her. They merely looked at each other for a while before either spoke. David was the one to break the silence, "So, you love me do you?" He asked almost shyly.
Jayde shrugged, "I don't know, maybe. I have a lot of things to think about."
David moved closer to Jayde, put his arms around her waist and looked down into her eyes. "That's better than a no, I guess. Promise me something, though. Give us a chance, please? What we feel is too strong to not be given one."
Jayde stared up in to his eyes, mesmerised by them, before answering with a nod. "Okay, I promise. But, only if we can take it slowly."
"Deal." David said, "But only if you grant me one last thing."
"What's that?" Jayde asked with a small smile, she had a feeling she knew what he wanted.
"This." He whispered as he brought he head down to kiss her lightly on the lips.
tbc
He he he. Took me long enough to get here, didn't it? But, do you like me now? Let me know what you think of this chapter, especially since I think it's the longest one I've ever written. I just couldn't stop, I really enjoyed writing this chapter. Anyway, I digress, I expect lots of reviews for this long chapter, otherwise I'll make the other one really short and I'll make it one you wouldn't like. *Insert evil laugh here*.