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Chapter 3

Jory slowly opened her eyes and took in her surroundings. She was in a silver patterned bedroom. The only thing in the room was a huge, round bed covered in silver sheets and small, round, silver pillows. There was a glass bureau towards the left of the bed and next to it was a huge clothes, made of glass. She got up out of the bed and went towards the closet and looked through the glass. She saw hundreds of beautiful dresses hanging in there, some dress pants and blouses, and dozens of shoes of all colors. She opened up the bureau and it was her clothes from her house.

She closed the bureau and went across the room to a round glass table. On it was a single vase with pink roses sitting in them.

She opened the door to the bedroom and stepped out. The bedroom was attached to a huge sitting room, done in an all white pattern. It had one large white couch, and three smaller sitting chairs, also in white. There was a holovid screen (television) and the chairs were positioned in front of it. On the other side of the room sat a glass desk with a holo (telephone) and a compu (computer). With the desk was another white chair. The room was also decorated with paintings and some pictures hung on the wall that were in her house. Across from the desk was a glass bookshelf containing several books, some of them were copies she owned. She figured it must be the same books from her house since other items from her house were now in this large suite.

At the end of the sitting area stood a door which was where the bathroom was and next to the door stood her fish tank with all of her fish swimming happily.

Although the place was beautiful, something out of a fairy tale, she still had no idea where she was or why she was here. All she remembered was some scary men breaking into her house and then that man in the black had spoken to her, although she couldn't remember the conversation. As she thought back, she wondered if the door that exited the sitting room was a door to another room or was it a door that led someone else; somewhere that could give her some clue as to where she was.

As if someone was reading her mind, there was a knock at her door. She stood there for a moment, debating whether to open it or not. Another knock sounded and she went to the door and opened it. In the doorway stood the man in black.

Again, she began to tremble when she seen him.

After looking at each other for a moment, he finally spoke, "May I come in?"

Stunned that he was being so polite, she stood aside and let him in.

The man in black came inside and turned to face her, "I hope you like your new living quarters. I tried to make it as homely as possible, but added more beautiful things that you did not have. Do you like it?"

Not being able to verbalize anything, she just gave a slight, "Hmm" and walked past him, towards the couch. The man in black turned around and watched her sit down on the couch.

"Well," he started, "You probably have some questions. Now is a good time to ask them, my dear". The man in black sat down on one of the smaller chairs and looked at her. Although she couldn't see his eyes through the dark helmet, she knew he was looking at her expectantly.

She finally got up the courage to speak. She cleared her throat and said, "Uh, yes, I do. Who are you?"

"I am Darth Vader, Sith Lord. You may call me Vader if you like."

Jory's eyes widened as she heard his name. She had heard stories about a Sith named Vader who was a terrible man, torturing and terrorizing anyone who got in his way.

"Do not think like that, Jory. I wouldn't harm you" said Vader.

Jory didn't know how to respond to that so she just continued with her next question, "Where am I?"

"You are aboard my star ship, the Ganzer" (I know, I made that up).

"Where are we going?"

"Nowhere in particular."

Jory's face scrunched up in confusion. "I don't understand".

"I live on this ship. It's my home and at the moment, we are not using it as a means for transportation".

"Oh".

After a moment, Jory began to speak again, "When can I go home?"

Although Vader breathed heavily, it appeared as if he let out a sigh, "This is your home now, Jory."

Tears sprang to Jory's eyes, "What?! I don't want to be here! I want to go home!"

"This is your home. Your every need will be catered to. You'll never have to work again. Everything you ever wanted and anything that you'll ever need will be yours. Just say the word, and you'll have it. The Universe is yours."

Jory wiped at her eyes and said, "I don't want that. I just want to go home."

"I told you that this is your home now."

"No! I just want to go home. I have family and friends. I want to be with them."

"You may still keep in contact with them. You have a holo, and you may use it anytime you like to talk to your family and friends. Whatever you want, it's yours."

"Well, if I can have whatever I want, then you'll let me go home because that's what I want."

"No, Jory, you cannot have that. You must stay here."

Jory started to cry out loud now and between the sniffles, she said some incoherent sentences. After a few minutes, Jory got up off of the couch, knelt in front of Darth Vader and said, "Please, my Lord, let me go. I want to go home. I miss my mom and dad. Please, sir. I beg of you. Let me go."

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Darth Vader sat and watched Jory kneeling and crying in front of him. He watched her beg him to free her and he felt sick to his stomach. He didn't plan on this happening. He didn't want to hurt her. He knew that she would be upset being taken away from her family and friends, but he had no idea she would be like this. He thought maybe she would cry, realize what he was offering her and then feel better. Once she realized how much he could give her, she would give her heart to him and they could finally be together like he had planned all this time.

"Please, Jory, stop crying. Get up off of the floor."

When Jory did not attempt to move, Vader stood up and helped her to her feet and then he sat her down on the couch that he was sitting on moments ago.

"Jory, I did not mean to upset you, but….."

Jory snapped out at him, anger filling her eyes now, "Didn't mean to upset me? Didn't mean to upset me?! What the Hell did you think would happen? You tore me away from the only home I've ever had. You took me away from my family, my friends, from my job! You took everything away from me and you didn't 'mean to upset' me?!"

Vader was surprised by her outburst and he became angry himself. "Look, little girl, you do not know who you are dealing with! I am trying to be nice, but you are making it impossible. You are mine now and you will stay here for as long as I please! Understand me?!"

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Jory shook with fear when Vader yelled at her. She had flashbacks of all the stories she heard about him; how he was heartless, how he would hurt anybody, even his own mother if it suited him, and she knew it was a mistake to yell at him.

She shook her head yes and said, "I understand. I'm sorry, sir".

Vader stopped lingering over her and headed toward the door. He said, "I will let you get use to your new surroundings. You may explore the ship as much as you want and I'll send a droid in to help you settle yourself."

Jory just sat there. Vader opened the door to her room and she called out to him, "Darth Vader?"

"Yes?"

"Why am I here?"

"Because I love you and in time, you'll love me too".

With that, he left her room.

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