This is something I wrote like six years ago. If you hate it, I don't care. I don't own Star Wars. Only Lana, Michael, and this storyline.

Kara Metallium

Part 8

asked Lana. Michael had gone to bed. Lana said again, Why did you have to be his son? Why did you bring me here? Why do you even bother with me? What do you see in me that's worth while? Why?

said Luke walking to her. I see a beautiful person inside you, that doesn't seem to know that she is there. I see a wonderful prospect for you and Michael to both become Jedi Knights.

she exploded, anger coursed through her,You brought me here with my son, so you could train us to be Jedi? You may train Michael to be Jedi, but I will not turn. I will never bend to your will.

Lana, you said that to your father, and look where that got you. You have so much potential-

Luke, if that's why you brought me here, forget it. I'm leaving tomorrow, with or without Michael.

Don't leave, he said walking to her. As he got to her she slapped him, hard. She immediately felt sorry, but, ignoring her instincts, she ran toward the balcony and jumped over it.

She landed ten feet down, on another balcony reaching out farther. Luckily, no one was home so she left the apartment and raced toward the turbolift. She took it to the scum ridden bowels of Coruscant and she drowned her sorrows in a local bar.

***

Luke stood stunned that Lana had hit him. He saw here race toward the balcony and leap over it. He ran to the balcony, just in time to see her enter an apartment below.

He was heartbroken. Why?' he asked himself, why does this keep happening to me?'

***

Despite her tear streaked face and the fact that her hair was a mess. About all the males in the place had offered to by her a drink.

Lana told all of them that she had broken up with her boyfriend. Most of them, not surprising, invited her back to their place. Hoping intentionally to get lucky.' Everyone she refused. Finally she got fed up and headed back to her apartment.

***

After he saw Lana land on the balcony, Luke sat down in one chair and cried. He did not shed tears of grief, but of pain. He cried for his unfair luck with women. Gariel had married Pter Thanas and then died onboard a starship. Callista had disappeared into the far reaches of space. The Mistyl girl, finally finding her real home. Only for him to be rejected by her community. Why did this happen to him? Why? Why? Why? It was so unfair.

He heard the door slide open and soft padding of feet. He looked up, just as Lana entered the room. They looked at each other's tear stricken face.

***

Lana had never seen a man cry before. Seeing Luke Skywalker, the great Jedi Master, with tears on his face, made her forget her own sorrows. As she walked to him, he stood up. She put her arms around him in a comforting hug. He hugged her back fiercely, crying softly.

she murmured,I'm so sorry. There, she had said it, there was nothing left to say. It felt strange, she admitted to herself, to comfort a great Jedi Master. They hugged each other, until the heavings in his chest became fewer and finally stopped. This time, it was Luke that broke their embrace.

He did not say anything, but instead walked to the balcony. She followed him. Upon reaching his side, he turned to her.

I love you, he blurted out. Though she had known it, she looked at him startled.

she said,

Your potential-

she said sharply,Name other reasons, my force potential has nothing to do with this.

He began again,Your smart, beautiful, funnyWhat else is there to say?

How about,Kiss me already!'? He smiled and bent his head down and kissed her. As he drew away, she had a funny look on her face.

Was that it? she asked,I am pretty disappointed if that was it.

He smiled and kissed her again. As he was slowly pulled away, she put her arms around his neck to keep him from doing so. He slipped his arms around her waist.

In the moonlight, stood two figures entwined together.