Disclaimer: All characters or part thereof are property of George Lucas, Timothy Zahn and
Lucasfilm. Don't sue me cos I ain't making any money from this. It's written for the
pure joy of writing. I do not own One Last Breath by Creed.

Don't know why I did this, must be cos of the boredom on this godforsaken country. I hate Singapore. Anyways enjoy the fic.

The Vong attack the Galatic Republic capitol world of Mon Calamari, their first target, the Jedi refuge building. Set to Creed's, One Last Breath. ____________________________________________________________________________ _

Jacen smiled lightly at the sight of Danni Quee making dinner in the kitchen. Ever since the night where he had slept in her room to comfort her during a thunderstorm, he had moved into her room. Although, they slept in the same room and on the same bed, they never had a night of passion or kissed each other's lips, much to the amusement of Kyp and Jaina. He had encountered a night where he heard moans coming from their room during his late night snacks. He had promised himself to not even think of engaging in intimate contact with Danni until she was ready and asked him.

Jacen sensed, however, that she was hiding something from him despite their closeness. She seemed to hug Jacen more often now, like as if there was no tomorrow, not that he was complaining. It just seemed to disturb him. Standing over the stove and stir frying some vegetables, he regarded her with a look of concern.

She felt his concern and without looking at him said, "I'm fine Jacen".

He grinned and hugged her from behind, kissing her neck while she put down the pan, which was emitting a rather wonderful smell. He remembered a time weeks ago when she had slapped him for hugging her. He grinned at the memory and kissed Danni's neck a bit more.

"Stop that! It tickles," she complained. Her hand came up to caress his chin but she pulled back when she felt Jacen's beard.

"Don't like the beard? It hasn't even grown properly," he said to her when she turned around a small tugging at the corners of her mouth. She folded her hands across her breasts and tried to look angry and failing miserably as both of them engaged in peals of laughter.

"Well, that beard has definitely got to go Jacen Solo," she said, putting her hands on her hips.

"Nah. I think I'll keep it. Makes me look for manly," he said, flashing the lopsided smile.

"I think you're manly enough without the beard. I definitely been experiencing your manliness on the bed," she said seductively running her hands across his shirt.

"Naughty, naughty," he replied taking her hands and kissing her palm. She began laughing again and he found it very infectious as he joined in her laughter.

"It's funny. We haven't even kissed each others lips and we're acting like a married couple," she said in between the fits of laughter. Jacen took that sentence as his cue and he wrapped one arm around her waist. She saw the look in his eyes and stopped laughing.

"Too bad a certain Jedi Master keeps interrupting huh?" she said as she leaned in closer.

"Well he's not here now is he?" he replied. Using the fingers from his free hand, he traced the outline of her warm, soft lips while she closed her eyes in anticipation, holding on to his shoulders.

He never even made it to her lips when something interrupted them. It was not his Uncle Luke again but a shrill ringing for what passed as planetary emergency on Mon Calamari.

Both Jacen and Danni rushed out of the kitchen and were met with Jaina and Kyp rushing out of their bedroom.

"What's happening?" Kyp asked putting a shirt over his bare upper body.

"I don't know," he replied. The words died suddenly when he felt the gut-wrenching feeling of people dying through the Force. Looking at Kyp, Jaina and Danni, it was no doubt they felt the same as him since he saw the look pain on their faces. They rushed out of their apartment and Danni gasped at the sight.

Jacen's eyes narrowed when he looked up to the sky and saw capital ship turbolaser flashes, the night sky easily illuminating them. His eyes narrowed even further when he saw the all too familiar plasma streaks.

The Yuuzhan Vong had come.

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"Kyp, you, Jaina and Danni get the other Jedi to safety. I'll try to hold em back for as long as I can. I can project an image of people still running around. This is your only chance, so take it," he ordered Kyp.

"You don't tell me what to do Solo. You'd be nuts to think I'll let you fight here by yourself," he argued.

"I'm not telling you what to do, Durron. I'm ordering you. Uncle Luke left me in charge for the safety of the other students and I'm not going to let him down. Take Danni and Jaina with you. You can use the Lambda shuttles on the roof, it should accommodate all the students," he told the older Jedi.

"And just how will you escape?" he asked. Jacen looked at Kyp and winked. Then, he noticed that Danni and Jaina were listening to the two of them. Both women had tears rolling down their cheeks but Danni was trembling violently.

*Take care of Jaina for me. And if I don't make it back, tell Danni that I'm sorry and I love her* he sent to Kyp, making sure that neither women picked up on his thoughts. Kyp looked like he was about to argue but instead, he put his hand on Jacen's shoulder and gave it a gentle squeeze.

"Go," Jacen whispered as Kyp and Jaina put out a telephatic call for the other students to head to the roof.

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Luke Skywalker was manning the upper pod of the quad lasers on the Millennium Falcon with Corran Horn taking the lower gunnery pod. His wife was in the cockpit along with Leia and Han looking out for enemy coralskippers as Han made a mad plummet to the Jedi refuge building.

"How long before we enter the atmosphere?" Luke asked over the comm.

"Ten minutes," came the reply as Luke blasted another pursuing coralskipper into dust. He surveyed the Yuuzhan Vong attack fleet and grimaced. The Galactic Republic navy had not been caught off guard since Supreme Commander Sovv had put them on full battle readiness but the size of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet was huge. Judging from the size of it, Luke imagined that this was all the Yuuzhan Vong had left.

Luke had no doubt that this was the final battle and that the Galactic Republic would win but the battle would take its toll on the navy. Luke winced when he saw and felt another corvette explode. Already, the navy had lost two corvettes and a frigate despite the substantial damage to the Yuuzhan Vong fleet.

"On your right Luke!" Mara's voice came over the comm as he saw another coralskipper come into his sights. It took one volley and the coralskipper was reduced to a pile of melting rock.

He had received the warning made by Sovv that there was three landing craft full of Yuuzhan Vong warriors headed towards the Jedi refuge building.

*Hang on Jacen* he thought as two more coralskippers appeared.

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The Lambda shuttle, with Kyp as pilot, was already halfway through the atmosphere when Kyp had an uneasy feeling that someone was missing. All the Jedi students had been evacuated but he really felt someone was missing.

"Call it in Jaina," he requested over the comm.

"All accounted for, wait a minute, someone's missing!" she replied.

"Who?" he asked as he scanned everyone on the shuttle trying to search for who was missing. He had a good idea who the missing person was and his fears were confirmed when he felt her presence still on the planet's surface.

"Danni!" both he and Jaina said together.

Cursing, he turned the ship around and headed for the planet's surface.

"I'm sorry Jacen but I couldn't live with myself if I let her die," he muttered softly.

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(Please come now, I think I'm falling and I'm holding on to all I think is safe. It seems I found the road to nowhere and I'm trying to escape. I yelled back when I heard thunder but I'm down to one last breath and with it let me say, let me say.)

Jacen was waiting for the Yuuzhan Vong patiently in his now vacant apartment when he felt her approach in the Force. He jerked up from his seat and his eyes narrowed when the door flew open and her saw her standing in the doorway hands clenched.

Danni Quee.

He was about to scream at her for being so stupid as to remain with him instead of feeling when he saw the vulnerability in her eye.

"What are you doing here Danni? You're important to me Danni. I don't want to lose you," he asked softly when he felt the Yuuzhan Vong approaching. He had been able to sense the Vong in the Force ever since his experience with Vergere on the seedship.

She was panting and her sentence came out it stammers. "Shavit Jacen! I care for you two and that's why I came back! Do you think I'm going to let you die here? Don't be a fool Jacen!"

"Danni please go back," he pleaded.

"I'm staying right here and if you don't like it then that's too bad," she replied angrily.

He pulled her in and shut the door while she struggled against his rock hard grip. He was thinking of hiding Danni in the kitchen when the door blew open again, revealing a Yuuzhan Vong warrior and several others behind him.

"Get behind me," he said to Danni as she stepped behind him.

(I'm looking down now that it's over, reflecting on all of my mistakes. I thought I found the road to somewhere, somewhere in His grace. I cried out heaven save me but I'm down to one last breath and with it let me say, let me say.)

"The only dark side you need fear, Jacen Solo, is the one in your own heart," he recited remembering Vergere's words. There were too many Vong warriors to fight with his lightsaber, he would be killed within seconds and so would Danni.

"The Force doesn't even have sides," he recited once again remembering Vergere's words. Very well then, he gritted his teeth and gathered the Force making sure that he was looking at all the Vong warriors arrayed around him.

He had a lot of bad mistakes in the past and it was easy to remember them but he could not afford to remember them now. His life and Danni's were at stake.

"Force Deadly Sight," he spit out as some of the Vong warriors collapsed and others melted into swirling mass. Force Deadly Sight was a power that superheated anything in the user's sight, melting it and very useful when faced with huge odds.

The Force power he was using, was a dark side power and it took a lot out of him to remember not to kill in bloodlust or anger. Also, the power required tremendous amounts of the Force to keep it sustained.

Danni froze in place behind Jacen, her dream or rather her vision, was playing out. Jacen was using the Dark side. Strangely, Jacen's presence still felt clean and pure and even though most of the warriors were dead, she would not risk being turned to the Dark side.

"Jacen no!" she screamed out and froze, suddenly remembering the rest of her vision and sure enough, Jacen turned his eyes on her and also the amphistaff of a Yuuzhan Vong warrior heading straight for his stomach. In her vision, both she and Jacen had died but maybe she could change all that.

She gathered the Force and pounced upon Jacen, bringing both their bodies away from the amphistaff. Still, she was not fast enough and she could feel warm liquid on her back, before being accompanied by a searing pain.

Blood.

She had been slashed deeply on her back by the amphistaff. The Vong warrior was now advancing on both her and Jacen. She heard Jacen mutter "Force Lightning" and a bright flash of light originating from his fingers before the Yuuzhan Vong warrior fell, dead.

(Sad eyes follow me, but I still believe there's something left for me. So please come stay with me, cause I still believe there's something left for you and me. For you and me.)

"Danni? Get up, Danni!" she heard Jacen's cry of concern.

"Jacen?" she asked.

"Hang in there Danni. I'll get you to a medcenter. Don't give up on me Danni!" he said. She felt herself being lifted up. Her nose crinkled when she smelled the acid blood of Yuuzhan Vong warriors everywhere. Whatever power Jacen had used, it had been effective in killing the Vong.

Jacen ran towards the general direction of the turbolifts but he did not take his eyes off Danni's body every step of the way. Her blood was staining his hands but he could not care less. All he knew was to get Danni to safety, one way or another.

He cursed when he reached the turbolifts. They had been ravaged and destroyed by the Vong warriors. He had no choice but to take the stairs when he felt a tremor. He peered over the glass viewport and saw a Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper firing its plasma cannons at the building, coming onto a collision course.

"Suicide bomber!" he cried out. He was baffled, not knowing what to do next. He either had to jump from the tenth floor or go down the stairs. He could probably jump from the tenth floor and survive, using the Force to cushion his fall but after using so much power defeating the Vong warriors, he might be too exhausted to do it.

Well, it was jump or take the stairs. The latter would get him and Danni killed for sure but the former choice might reduce his chances of getting killed. "Choose and act". He remembered yet another of Vergere's teachings.

"Hang in there Danni. I-I-I-I love you Danni. I love you. Be strong," he told Danni. She had lost a lot of blood and he did not know whether he heard. The coralskipper was inching closer and closer and Jacen estimated it would impact in ten seconds or less.

Taking three steps back, he ran forward and jumped through the glass view port, gripping Danni's body tightly. The viewport was on the left side of the building and Jacen was lucky that the coralskipper was slamming into the right side of the building.

He was plummeting towards the ground and weak as he was, he gathered whatever amount of the Force he could and used it to slow his plummet. Behind him, the building imploded as the coralskipper finished its sick, suicidal mission.

(Hold me now. I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking that maybe six feet, ain't so far down.)

Jacen's feet touched the ground lightly. He was surprised that he had been able to pull off a stunt like that, especially in his weakened condition. He lay Danni gently on the ground. She was still bleeding and her presence in the Force was fading fast.

"Please Danni, I love you. Don't die," he said. He put his palm to her head and hugging it to his chest. His eyes filled with tears and they dropped onto her face one by one.

"Jacen.......," he heard. He looked down and saw Danni had opened her eyes. Her pupils had dilated to slits and the green in her eyes had dulled. He was pained to see her in that condition and his tears fell freely.

"Don't cry for me," she said lifting a weak finger to brush his tears away. Her hand fell away as her body convulsed and stiffened.

"Don't talk, you'll lose your strength," he said.

"There's no time left for me Jacen. I'm sorry. I....love..". She did not finish her sentence as her body convulsed one last time. Her hand fell away from his face and her eyes closed as she went limp in Jacen's arms, her presence in the Force in the force, gone.

"Don't do this to me Danni! Please!" he shouted. He could feel his own despair as he screamed out the words. She shook her body violently, hoping that she would wake up but she did not respond.

Danni Quee was lost to Jacen Solo, for eternity.

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Author Notes: Ok I think I should do this section this time. For all of you who think Danni is dead, well you're right. She is dead but for those of you, who read Champions of the Force, remember the part where Luke wakes up? Well I'm planning on doing something like that. So those of you who want to kill me for killing Danni, just relax.

Acknowledgements(much due)

Kaz: Thanks for reviewing every single one of my chapters and for the moral support though I don't think I could be a good writer as you. Thanks also for the help you gave me on the dinner scene in Chapter 6. It was very invaluable to me. I look forward to your third chapter of Scarlet Shadows. Don't chase me around with a lightsaber for killing Danni here, it's not over yet. :)

Smeagol's preciousss: Thanks for the reviews. I also they would be more Kyp/Jaina fics as well. They're one of my favorite pairings. I really hate the Jaina/Jag pairing cause I believe their relationship is established more on awe instead of mutual affection because of that scene in Ruin I think.

Firey: Thanks for your words of support. I hope you like the next chapter :)

Sky: Thanks for you kind words. I'll do my best to keep you happy with this fic of mine and I'll try to keep up the romance you love so much.

Magick: I'm glad you like the OCC.

Renee: I know. Danni was pretty stupid to run her mouth wasn't she? Well look out for the next chapters.

MaraJade: I think anyone would be flattered to listen to Jacen's first dream. I'm not sure about the second one though.

ComaWhite: It was very confusing to do the first person thing as well. Well I hoped you enjoyed the other chapters. :)

Movielover3: It will be an R in a later chapter.

Till next time. See you later.