Note: Remember, ----- means memories. Enjoy! Oh, and i believe i messed up on Adi Gallia's name sometime in the previous chapter. I put something like Adi Dui. Don't ask my mistake. Ok, here you go!
Ch. 14 Nothing Left to Have
"Is that your son?"
Obi-Wan whispered softly. he nodded without looking at him and pulled back further behind the corner and let the door close jamming it. he didn't know what to do."We can still get him back." Qui-Gon said.Jesi looked at him with only her eyes.
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One shot, two.Falling, falling, water, ice, snow, frozen earth.Jesi's breathing was rasp and filled with tears.They had done what they had set out for.They had broken her.They had taken everything important to her.Her eyes began to close.It would be so easy to let go and slip away from this all.'A promise is a life..a life is a way.' The words sounded through her mind and her eyes opened again.She'd avenge them.She avenge her family by killing them one by one, by one.
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"Jesiana?"
Obi-Wan shook her a little.She blinked.
"I'm getting him back, come with me or go I will judge you no less.This is not your fight."
Jesi opened the door glancing about the area, no one in sight. She looked to the two Jedi. "We'll help you as you have helped us."
Qui-Gon said. She nodded saying,
"Thank you."
Then led them out and up to the passage of the second level. An open breezeway type passage.
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"Stick close Falcons..a separated group is a dead group."
He said into the com as they made their way in their planet fighters over the white-snow blown plains of Kishir II. He had nearly 45 craft under his command. 90 pilots and gunners as many. He looked at the time. One hour till dawn.One hour and ten minutes till true war.
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Obi-Wan wasn't sure what she was planning to do but she certainly looked determinded. Jesi was eyeing the group below them with the eyes of a predator to prey. Obi-Wan could feel the Force whispering to him frantically but he had yet to grasp his full Force. And vision for that matter. His eyes still held the dark mist but he could see what was going on around him.He wasn't blind.
Jesi was about to tell the Jedi what she had in mind when she noticed the hissing sound. The hissing sound of whispers bringing her eyes down to her son. He sat perfectly next to Colings. It was then when she noticed just what it was he was wearing.He wore a trainee uniform. He was being trained by Colings. He was being raised by Colings. Jesi was nearly sick with the thought.
"Stay here."
She ordered.The two Jedi looked at her questioningly. She didn't give them the second of a glance instead made her way, lowly, toward the stairs.
"What is she doing?!"
Obi-Wan whispered.
"I don't know, but I don't think she's thinking logically."
Qui-Gon replied. They stayed where they were watching as Jesiana walked heavily down the stairs.
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"I was wondering when you'd come out."
Colings said. His officers left him.
"What in the Force have you done to him?"
"Done?"
Colings smiled looking at the seven year old in a petty officers uniform.
"I've raised him. Isn't that right son?"
"Yes sir."
Kyle replied smiling.
"Don't you ever call him son!"
Jesi raised the blaster.
"Now Jesi,you're son is watching.You don't want him to witness a murder do you?"
Colings smiled.
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"Can't we do something?"
Obi-Wan asked.
"First we have to find something to do Padawan."
Qui-Gon replied. Obi-Wan sighed thinking as his master was. His master.It was as if weights had been lifted from his shoulders when he was told about Castoes. How could he of really thought that about his master? None the less the little voice in the back of his mind kept repeating
'Trust is only there to break'.
It just wouldn't leave him be.
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"You're one sick soul you know that?"
Jesi said between clenched teeth.
"So I've been told many times Jesi...I believe Raiy told me that a few times."
Jesi fired and the shot made a hole in the chair right above Colings's head.
"Been practicing?"
Colings asked brushing off the fabric that landed on his shoulders.
"I've had a lot of experience."
Jesi replied.
"Don't tempt me again."
Colings smiled.
"Do you really think that you're doing this on your own.I could have had you shot when you walked down those stairs."
"But you didn't and now that's your problem."
Jesi said taking up aim again.
"Not really...it's theirs."
He glanced up at where Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan were.
Both the Jedi looked up as the guards came storming from both sides.With no sabers and only one blaster not to mention being outnumbered 20 to 2, the odds were not in their favor and the two Jedi knew it .They allowed the guards to bring them down to the first level.
"Now, don't we have quite the pridecuim? Escaped but captured again..isn't that always the story?"
Colings sneered standing.
"But, this time you can save them from the trouble they've gotten into Jesi."
Jesi glanced at the Jedi then back to Colings still with blaster aimmed.
" *You* can let them live and we'll let them go or you can sentence them to death and take your son with you and be free with him."
Jesi shook her head. This was a joke. Perhaps a nightmare.
Obi-Wan looked at his master then back to Jesi and Colings.
"And how do I know that you won't just kill us all?"
Jesi asked.
"Well that would take all the fun out of it my dear.You see if you let them go you and your son will be killed, or better yet you'll be killed and I'll raise your son as my own. Quick memory lapse injection and he's good to go.On the other hand your could sentence the Jedi to death and go on with your son, who by the way has been taught everything I would know and pretty much only knows you as Stafferi when he does target practice. Right son?"
"Right sir."
"Right...anyway you could go on and be free with him but have the blood of two Jedi who only wanted to help."
Colings was walking in a circle around Jesi as he talked. Jesi was still holding up the blaster aimmed at nothing as she looked at her son. Obi -Wan and Qui-Gon looked at eachother. They didn't care if they died really. No Jedi should fear death but it was just that they didn't know if they were to or not.
Jesi looked at Kyle. Or rather the appearnce of him. The boy didn't have a look of expression at all. The young boy she knew and loved always smiled. Always over exhausted things. Never boring..never military.
'Raiy forgive me.'
She thought closing her eyes and releasing her hold on the blaster letting it hang on her trigger finger.
"You have insisted on ending my life since the day you saw me..so finish the job you started 3 years ago."
She said not opening her eyes till the last word. Colings laughed loudly taking the blaster from her hand.
"Jesiana no! You can still change him! You can bring him back."
Obi-Wan blurted out as he and his master were being led away.
"She knows better boy..nothing can bring the child she knew back."
It was Wess who had him by the arm bringing him away.
He looked back when a blaster shot rang out. Jesi flinched when the shot was fired. Realizing she was looking at a small figure on the desk she knew she was still alive. How,...no.Her eyes shot to her son's body. He was limp and lifeless in the chair he was sitting in. To see her own son there with no life shook her beyound her mind. She knew he wasn't the boy he once was but still...that was her son.
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The door closed and Obi-Wan was left starring at the door itself.The air was cold around him and he realized they were outside.Snow covered the ground around them.
"You better go now Jedi, before he changes his mind."
Wess told the two.
"Where are we supposed to go?"
Qui-Gon asked looking around.Nothing but white forever it seemed.
"I don't know.Follow whatever you call it, the Force."
Wess said turning and going back inside the wall.Obi-Wan looked at Qui-Gon and he did the same.
"We have to get to the other side of the camp, that's where the land transport hanger should be. Jesiana said that we had to come back to one side so we have to go back to the other side."
Qui-Gon said looking as the night sky was lightening.
"I think we could just follow the wall to the other side."
Obi-Wan said.It sounded logical but too simple. Qui-Gon nodded. He'd feel so much better if he had his lightsaber but they turned walking along the wall.
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"You know what?"
Jesi asked Colings still looking at Kyle.No tears came. Not now, not yet.
"What?"
Colings asked amused.
"Not only are you a sick son of a bitch, your a dumb one too."
Reaching to her belt she pulled off a vibro blade that she took from one of the guards earlier. Activating it she stepped towards Colings thrusting it out. There was pure surprise on his face. Course he probably had the right to have it.Last time he'd seen her she was 29 years old lost and depressed with nothing left to live for.
"You should have killed me when you had the chance."
She muttered jerking the blade upward into his ribcage.He gasped a little and she pulled the blade out watching as he sank to his knees before her. She heard the guards coming now but she didn't care instead she walked to where her son's body was and knelt down so she could see his eyes.
"I'm sorry Kyle...tell your daddy I love him and take care of your sister.I love you honey."
She put her hand on his cheek kissed him on the forehead and closed his eyes standing. Strange, she thought, still no tears. Not even the urge.Had she turned that cold over the years? She didn't have time to think about it as guards rounded the corner.Jesi in turn took up what she did often. She ran.
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"Do yo hear that?"
Obi-Wan asked as the snow crunched under their feet.Qui-Gon paused.
"Hear what?"
He asked. The humming sound came again.
"That."
Now Qui-Gon heard it.
"Yes, I hear it."
"What do you think it is?"
Obi-Wan asked as they continued walking. Dawn was near now.
"Sounds like aircraft."
Qui-Gon said."
A lot of aircraft.Small engine ones.
" He added with more thought.
"You mean like land fighters?"
Obi -Wan asked realizing his own point.Both looked at eachother suddenly.
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Half behind her, half ahead. Jesi ran across the 2nd level breezeway. She couldn't believe how much faster this was. Course just shooting whoever got in your way and taking their weapons at a dead out run usually did cut time down rather then having to be quiet and no one seeing you.
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Qui-Gon and Billy nearly crashed right into eachother when they came to the enterance/exit to the camp.
"Master Jedi!"
Billy exclaimed.
"Where's Jesi?"
He asked glancing at Obi-Wan while Pierce and Lynn came up from behind.
"I don't think that-"
Qui-Gon started but suddenly there was a small wave in the Force and he took a step back as Jesiana would of landed on him from her jump from the wall itself.
"Sorry I'm late."
She said out of breath.
"Let's..-go."
She added ducking from a blaster shot.
"Right."
Billy replied turning towards the forest nearby.
"Don't we have speeders?"
Jesi called as they ran hearing the land speeders hum from behind them.
"Yeah, Vinkins put them..uhh..there I think."
Pierce replied pointing towards thick brush.Billy and Qui-Gon ripped off the branches hiding the latest and quickest one person speeders.They were a new model painted white known as Speeder Bikes.The only draw back was that they were so new that they were designed only for one person.
"Pierce! There's only *5* bikes!"
Tbc....
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~Elli
