Evie looked around the place as if trying to distinguish where she and Aidia were going to stay. Luke and Mara and everyone else had been so nice to Evie when she had come to them in search of her sister, and now that she had found Aidia, she wondered if she should impose on the rest of the group and ask them if both could stay with them. Evie wondered if there was going to be enough space at the academy for both her and Aidia to move in.   It was true that both Evie and Aidia were confused, both about what was going on around them, and about what they felt that they would find out soon enough about what really happened to their mother and father.

Aidia turned to Evie.   "I don't want to impose on these nice people, maybe we should go off on our own and try to discover our past," Aidia said. Evie nodded.

"Well, the best thing for us to do right now is to wait and see what happens with the rest of the group. Right now, they seem pretty busy. I know that if we ask them now if they'd like to help us, nobody will be able to," Evie said.   Both Evie and Aidia could feel a sense of calm emanate from Luke...

No one moved... it seemed forever as Luke told everyone it would be good to clean the place up a bit, "Come on people, it would do us all good. As always you know you are all welcome to stay for as long as you like..." Evie was glad that they would be able to stay as long as they would like. Both she and Aidia had long since finished their portion of the cleaning, and Evie had lead Aidia out to that crashed ship that Luke had showed her not so long ago. Evie just had to know
what Aidia thought of that ship, and also to ask her if that ship had been the one that she had been taken aboard so long ago.   As they approached the ship, Aidia reached out and put her hands on it, but suddenly she drew them back, as if she could sense the terror and confusion of its long dead crew...

Aidia frowned. "No, this is not the ship that I was on. It's something much worse..." Aidia could feel so much pain and terror emanating from the ship. It was as if something had crossed the path of time and had left the emotional imprint on this ship...  

"What?" Evie said as she reached up to touch the ship. When she felt made her shiver. It was an overwhelming sadness... So much sadness that made her want to squash something or hurt somebody... Her eyes widened in horror as she withdrew her hand. Why hadn't she felt this before when she and Luke had actually wandered around inside the ship? Maybe both her and Aidia being here had triggered some sort of release in the ship... Something evil... Evadne walked into the crashed ship, followed closely by Aidia. Aidia was a little weary about
boarding the ship, but she felt a little safer with her sister, who was a trained Jedi, there at her side. She quietly studied the lightsaber at Evadne's side. She wondered how the both of them could lead so separate lives and yet be related.  

"I don't know what it is about this ship, but it's making me feel sick." Aidia declared as soon as they reached the spot where the emblem
of their family was etched into a wall of the ship.  

"It's alright Aidia... I've been in here before and no harm came to me..." Evie's voice cracked. She could sense Aidia's fear...

"Maybe we should tell that friend of yours. The one you call Luke..." Aidia said uncertainly...

"I don't know what he can do. This ship has something to do with our past, and I want to find out what it is... I want to find out what evil is in our past." Evie said... Evie and Aidia had camped out by the ship. They had a strange feeling that they shouldn't leave it... This feeling scared both of them, and they wondered how long it would take for anyone to notice that they were not with the rest of the group.   "Aidia?" Evie called from her spot on the ground where she had slept. "How much do you remember from the day that Mom died?" Evie asked.   Aidia rolled over to face her sister.

"Well, I was with you when we heard the scream. I didn't tell you earlier, I had heard mom and some strange man fighting. They were talking about us. The man was saying that he was going to kill mom if she didn't let him have us." Aidia explained.  

"What did he look like?" Evie asked.   "We both have seen him before. I thought that he was one of the servants of the house. But now, I don't know." Aidia said.  "I think that he was more than that... But what his relation to us is, I'm not certain.... This ship may
contain something to tell us about our dark past."

A STARKILLER SHIP LOOMS OVER THE PLANET

The ship loomed over Yavin 4 in a most precarious way. Mara
worried about the planet and the students still here on it. Looking at Luke's worried face, she said, "I am going to gather up Evie, Aidia, and the others. We may need to evacuate the planet." Luke nodded his approval.
    Heading back to the temple, she suddenly stopped. Turning to look at Luke, "What will you be doing Luke?" She worried that he might try something foolish.  She saw Jada come running out and motioned for her to join her. "Jada, go find Evie and Aidia. Get them to my ship fast. There won't be much time before that," pointing up to the ship that looked like it would come raining down in huge pieces on them soon, "comes down here." She watched as Jada ran to go get the young ladies.

Jada ran as fast as she could down the hall looking for Evie.     "Evie! Evie!" She called.  She stopped running and looked around. She then closed her eyes, stretching out with the Force. She searched for Evie's location, and ran toward it...

Evie could sense someone coming to find her before she heard Jada's voice screaming for her. Evie looked over at Aidia in surprise. They had been camping out by the ship, trying to make minor repairs to it to see if they could get its data bank up and running so that it could tell them the reason for the crash.  Both women were totally oblivious to what was going on around them or back at the temple. 

"Hey Jada... Settle down and tell us what's up." Evie
asked.

"The planet is being attacked. We have to get to Master Luke and Mara quick..."She said, out of breath...

"Attacked? Are you sure?" Aidia asked as she looked from Evie to Jada. "Did I miss something?"

"I think we both did." Evie said as she studied Jada for a second...   Aidia suddenly ran inside the ship. Evie not knowing why, followed her.

"Evie, we don't have time for that! We have to go now, or we may be killed!" She yelled... Evie and Aidia dove for the smuggling compartments inside the ship as they felt the reverberating boom of the crashing ship hitting the planet's surface. They covered their heads and ears so that they would be protected from the flying debris. Evie silently wondered if Jada had taken shelter.

"Evie... What's happening?" Aidia asked. Evie did not hear her over the banging and creaking noises of the Bespinian ship as it folded itself around them...

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"Can you feel them in the Force?" Mara asked.

Luke nodded affirmatively, "But I only sense one."

Mara spoke up, "Who?"

"Jada," he paused, "but she's fading." Luke continued trailing off. " Turning his gaze towards the temple but a bit north of it he pointed, "This way."  Trudging through the rain the three set off to find Jada. It perplexed Luke because he couldn't get a read on Evie and Aidia. Something was blocking him. He would have felt if they had perished for sure.   

Evie awoke and looked around. Everything was pitch black inside the ship and the metal pushed up against Evie's legs. She carefully sat up and lifted a pile of sheet metal off of her right leg. She turned around to see if Aidia was ok, and found that Aidia was still passed out.  "Come on, Aidia... wake up." Evie crawled over to her sister and gently shook her.  There was no response. Evie gulped in a deep breath. The atmosphere surrounding them was very thin and it was hard to breath. She looked up and saw a light that seeped through a crack in the wall, so Evie quickly took out her lightsaber and cut a hole through it. The light let in revealed to Evie that Aidia was seriously wounded. Evie had to go find help... and fast... Aidia's time was running out...

Mara ran out of the Temple and as she was heading in the direction of where Evie and Aidia were. She came to the wreck of a ship that used to be the one Evie talked about. The opening was cut jaggedly as if someone was trying to get out. She pulled her saber out and cut a wide gap in it. Putting her saber back on her belt, she knelt down and moved the rest of the metal aside. "Evie, answer me will you? EVIE?" As she waited on an answer she saw a delicate hand protruding out of the wreckage. She prayed it wasn't Evie. But knew the person wasn't doing well for the pulse was faint.  The metal wouldn't budge so she had to gently cut it out of the way also. She reached down to grab the person out when someone grabbed her arm.

Evie took her bloody hand off of Mara's arm and stepped back. "I'm so glad that you are here. We have to get Aidia out of there. I have a feeling that not only is she in physical trouble, she may be in trouble through the Force." Evie said. She looked at Mara with pain in her eyes. She had already asked too much of Luke and Mara and the rest. She didn't know if she should tell them what she discovered inside of that ship.  

FLASHBACK TO EARLIER

"Look at this, Aidia." Evie said as she dusted off another symbol on the ship. It was nearly rusted off, but they could still make out what it was.   "Daddy?" Aidia asked. She knew that she had seen that symbol before, her mother had told her that it was evil. Someone else had told her that it was the symbol of their father. "That's the
symbol that mom warned us about." Aidia said. 

"Yeah, I know..." Evadne sighed. "What was Dad doing here?"  

"I don't know. I never understood why Dad kept disappearing. I always loved him, though mom told us that he didn't love us."

END FLASHBACK

Evie followed as Aidia was taken to the med bay. She could tell that the girl's life Force was fading quickly, and she wanted to be there to say goodbye if anything happened.   "Come on, Aidia..." Evie whispered in Aidia's ear. "Don't leave me to face him by myself." As Mara helped Evadne carry Aidia, who was severely wounded, into the Temple.  Evadne looked at her sister and watched as the wounded girl looked around. They had set her down on a makeshift bed, and were fetching medical supplies to tend to her wounds. "You're stronger than this..." Evie said softly to Aidia. She didn't want to cause the girl any stress that might only add to the effects of the wounds. "Aidia. Don't leave me alone to face him." Evie repeated. She took in a huge gulp of air, as if she had somehow forgotten to tell her body to breathe for the last few minutes. She slowly let it out, trying to calm herself...to tell herself that everything was going to be all right...  

"Evadne... You must find him... He grows stronger every day... And he KNOWS... he knows about us." Aidia's voice was weak and it quivered as it escaped her bleeding mouth... She choked on blood... 

"No! Aidia!" Evie rolled Aidia over onto her side so she wouldn't choke on her blood. "I can't do it without you..."   

"It's the only way... If I don't make it... You must stop him..." Aidia's sentences were short and to the point...as if she didn't want to waist the precious breath that she had... Evie looked her in the
eyes... tears were flowing down her own...  

"I won't let you die!" Evie said as she gathered her sister into her arms and sat and rocked with her in her lap...

FLASHBACK

...and again they were young...

"I won't let you leave." Evadne sat in the same fashion, cradling her five-year-old sister in her lap. "It's so unfair." Evie cried. She knew somehow that they would be separated within the hour... 

"Leave?" Aidia asked. She knew in her heart that they would not see each other for a long time after this day, but she didn't want to admit it. If she admitted it, then that meant that she had accepted it, and that was just untrue... She thought about the cake that they had just tried to make, and she smiled longingly... Longingly to be in a normal family... "Why don't we go into the refresher and do each other's hair." Aidia suggested...  

"Ok." Evie's choked voice said. They both walked into the refresher... Each seeing the reflection of the other... Each knowing that there was despair in the other's eyes

    THEN THE SHOT WAS FIRED....

"NO!" Evie screamed out.... "You can't leave me. I won't let you..." Evie screamed for help...anyone's help as she felt Aidia's pulse weaken... Aidia could sense that there was chaos and confusion going on around her before she even opened her eyes. The first sense that returned to her was her Force sense, the second sense was her hearing. She could hear Evie talking to her...or was Evie talking to
herself.. of that she was unsure...   The next to return was her sight... Everything was blindingly bright white for a little while, but suddenly she could see a tint of red as she felt something tickle her face... She felt something cool and wet fall onto her face...  

"Aidia? Can you hear me?" Evie returned to focus. The red that Aidia had seen had been Evadne's hair. Aidia nodded her head and raised her hand to feel her head. She was frightened at the sight of blood that was running down her arm.

END FLASHBACK