A/N: Here's chapter 6- I hope you enjoy!

- LukeyPie

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After meditation with her uncle, Jaina stood up and gloated. "I beat you at the run, the speeder bikes, and at the hoverboards. The teacher is undermined by the student! How do you like that? Now you're the kid! Hey, where's my present?" She started.

"You'll get it in the morning. It's nearly sunset, and I'm aching," He complained.

"We just meditated!" She exclaimed."You're getting old,"she banterred.

"No, your just jealous," He argued.

"What do I have to be jealous about, besides your being a Jedi Knight, you old coot," She defended.

"Hey, don't get too cocky like your dad, Kydd," He playfully chastised.

That just made her remember. "Hey, Uncle Luke, it's almost dusk. Let's go see him."

When they got to one of the temple's main rooms, they saw Han passionately embracing Leia.

Hmmm, mmm, Luke cleared his throat. "Are we interrupting anything" He teased.

"Yeah, get a room!" Jaina added obnoxiously.

Han Solo smiled. "Yes, actually, you were. A very important, uh, conversation I've missed having for all the two months I've been gone getting supplies. Hey Kyddo! How's my life-day girl been? Phew! You need a shower!" Han teased as he hugged his daughter.

"Hey, Han, your daughter here bested me today. And not just at one contest, either, but at three," Luke explained.

"Is that so? Well, we may need to start calling you 'The Intimidator', Kyddo. No one need underestimate you from now on." Han sounded pleased with his daughter.

After dinner with her family and letting her parents get back to their conversation, It was nearly sunset. She decided to see if Zam was at the stream.

"How's it?" she asked.

"Pretty okay. Thanks again for breakfast." He said.

"Don't mention it," She replied.

"How were the exercises with your uncle today?" Zam questioned.

"Great! I bested him today at three different contests. Though he didn't want to admit it, I did." She explained. "We had a run four times harder than the 13-14 range stuff. Then we had a lightsaber duel, though he beat me at that. After that, we raced speeder bikes, then hoverboards. He told me if I'd survived today, he'd get me an early life-day gift. I never got it today, but instead, he told me to be patient. I mean, hasn't he known me long enough to know I'm never patient?"

"Gee, sounds like you had a nice day," He said.

"Absolutely swell!" She said sarcastically.

Zam smiled. "You smell like you had one, too," He joked.

"Hey, you don't smell too good, either," She laughed.

After quite awhile of joking and talking while watching the sunset, listening to the rainforest noises, and looking at the stars, they were getting to know each other fairly quickly. Besides all of the above, Jaina caught herself daydreaming about him as he spoke. She thought about his eyes, his looks, his personality, his zaneyness, his voice...everything. She thought he was just perfect. He was a lot like the 'old' Jaina.

Jaina yawned as she ran her hand across the cool water in the stream. She saw the reflection of the twinkling sky in the rippling water.

"Are you ready to sleep?" Zam asked.

"I think so, yes," Jaina replied.

"I'll walk you to your chambers," He offered.

Zam and Jaina trailed through the empty corridors of the acadamy. They had just missed rush hour. They spoke as Zam walked Jaina to her room. When they were both at her door, they stopped and the tension started. Both of their hearts were racing faster than that of an approaching army's horses.

"I had a nice night," Jaina said politely as the butterflies in her stomach flittered around faster.

"Yeah, me too," Zam said. He was suffering from the three S's- sweating, shaking, and stammering."Well...good night, I guess." He said nevously.

"Yeah, good night," She repeated.

They both chickened out. Jaina walked into her room and wondered why they didn't both lean in for a good-night kiss. Even a slight peck on the cheek would have been nice. Here she was, a fierce warrior, yet one almost negligent thing, she could not do. She stopped pondering ang turned in for the night.

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Jaina woke in the middle of the night with someone gently knocking on her door. She slipped on an over-robe and quietly answered the door. She was surprised to see Zam standing in her doorway with a single, short-stemmed Hibiscus wit him to give to her.

He started right away. "I couldn't stop thinking about you and I standing here earlier. I forgot to give you some things." He handed the tropical blue flower to Jaina, but he didn't stop there. "You are really nice and more beautiful than the angels on the moons of Lemure. I have even seen them in person and their beauty is indescribable. Your are also the best female jedi fighter I have ever seen in my days. Well, maybe exept for your your mother and Mara- Jade Skywalker. Believe me, Jaina Solo, you are in every way perfect. Okay, I didn't just come here to compliment you and give you a pretty flower. So let me just ask this: Will you sneak out with me to the gardens and have a lightsaber duel? Let's say, a little blue on orange?" He finally stopped after this, expecting an answer.

Jaina was absolutely shocked. What did he want to have a lightsaber duel for? Was this looney way of doing something dramatically romantic? Was there a hidden message in there somewhere? Then again, she liked the concept of defeating an equal. "Of course," She finally answered.

When they got to the gardens lit by the moonlight alone, they nodded and drew thier neon lightsabers. As they grew nearer, a fierce look on each face, they took thier battle stances. Then, each of them made the first strike simultaneously, thier lightsabers humming as they swayed wildly tthrough the air, and with each contact they made, crackling through the night. They swung every which way, ready to make a clean cut. Although they were going easy on one another, the tension was very real. Jaina saw that Zam had come in for a final hit, but she blocked it right before his blade dissevered her head. "Oh come on, don't go easy on me, now," He said.

"Don't?" She questioned as she raised one eyebrow. "Okay, if you die, don't blame me," She said. "Give me your toughest." She swung her weapon from right to left, and down, and left again, deflecting and blocking all of Zam's hits. She defected one with all her might and made Zam stumble. "You woke me from a sound sleep for this?" She asked. He quiickly gained his footing and almost made Jaina lose hers. Then they just started swinging, not watching where thier lightsabers were striking, and relyingonlyon the force to fight. Thier sabers struck again and again, and finally they were ready for the battle to end. They took thier final battle stances, ready to come in for the ever-dramatic final strike. They quickly looked over each other. Jaina, with her blue saber to the side, just inches from Zam's orange one, above her head. They lowered their arms and dropped their sabers. They embraced each other freely, locked in a passionate kiss.

The next morning when Jaina awoke, she was surprised to see a note on her bedside table. Her face was filled with absolute stun as she read it. It read:

Jaina,

Your duel with Zam last night was quite impressive. I've finally got your gift and it is: Happy life-day, my newly appointed padawan. Surprise me with your padawan's braid at breakfast.

P.S. Don't tell anyone until after I do, but, your aunt Mara Jade is going to have a baby.

Surprise, surprise,

Uncle Luke

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A/N:ooo, surprise, surprise! very shocking. And just for the record,I'mabsolutely noo good at battle scenes. I could definetely use some assistance in later scenes (we're talkin ch 11, though)cya L8terz,

-lUKE sKYwALKERKydd