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Chapter 18: Taken Back
The morning after Anakin's funeral, Caylee went back to Eclipse with her father, grandfather, aunt and uncle.
During this time, Luke noticed several changes in his daughter. For starters, she seemed to be calmer. It felt to him like she had some how gained a better understanding of the Force over night. He had no idea how. But still there was the issue of the mind barrier. Caylee hadn't taken it down; it was as if she was hiding something from her father and everyone else. Luke decided that he had to confront her about it.
Caylee sat looking up at the stars as she and her father sat a little ways from the base on Eclipse. She was happy because they hadn't done that in a long time!
"Daddy are we ever going to go home?"
"Someday sweetheart."
"Promise?"
"I promise."
Caylee snuggled deeper into her father's embrace. That was when Luke knew something was wrong with her. "What is bugging you Caylee?"
"I'm not sure. Ever since I had that dream…"
She trailed off.
"The dream where you were in front of the Jedi council?"
Caylee nodded yes.
"What about the dream bugs you?"
"It's not the dream, but how I feel now. But I don't know what this feeling is. And it scares me."
"Scares you?"
"Yeah daddy."
"Is that why you have a block set up in your mind that no one can get through?"
The little girl nodded yes again.
"What are you so scared about that you won't let me feel it?" Luke gently asked.
"I'm sacred that I'm going to become like the scary black figure from my dreams. He was mean to everyone! I don't want to be like that daddy! I don't want to be mean!"
Caylee began to sob uncontrollably. Luke gently wrapped his arms around her and held her close to him. He now understood why she was acting this way. Caylee could already feel the Dark side taking over and she didn't know how to fight it. Anakin had told Luke that Caylee had been having dreams of the past and that is seemed that she as scared of Darth Vader.
"Sweetheart do you know who that scary black figure is in your dream?"
Caylee sniffled and shook her head no.
"His name was Darth Vader. And he was once a good man, but he let what you are feeling control him. But in the end he let go of that bad feeling and became good once again. Just like you and me right now."
"But grandpa told me he was dead. Is he still dead?"
Luke smiled gently. "That is hard to explain. Remember how I told you that your grandfather wanted me to join him on the bad side?"
She nodded yes gently.
"Well when he was on the bad side, he was Darth Vader. So when your grandpa came back to the good side, Darth Vader died."
"But why didn't he tell me that?"
"Maybe he didn't' want to scare you anymore then you already were at the moment."
Caylee didn't say anything.
"Now do you feel better?"
"A little daddy."
"Good. Now you have to promise me something."
Caylee looked up at her father, waiting for the request.
"Don't ever keep your emotions bottled up like that. Realize that you can always tell me or grandpa anything."
"Ok daddy," Caylee said hugging her father's neck tightly.
There was a soft knock at the front door of a little house on Naboo. Nakota Hendrix slowly opened the door. She was face to face with two figures that she vaguely remembers.
"Master Skywalker requests that you and your family come with us. And I promise that nothing is wrong with your daughter," Kam Solusar calmly said to her.
She simply nodded yes in response. "We'll be ready by day break."
"Why do both you and grandpa have to leave me?" Caylee asked a little hurt.
"We're not leaving you sweetheart. We're just going to fly a mission to win back a planet from the Yuuzhan Vong. And you'll be right above everything going on. You're going to stay here on the Errant Venture."
"But who is going to watch over me?"
"Turn around and look."
Caylee did as her father asked and her eyes got huge. Standing behind them were the Hendrixs and Kandra! She and Caitlin broke out into a run towards each other and embraced. Kyler soon joined their hug. After their hug ended, Caylee moved over and hugged Kandra.
"You've grown so much Caylee! Last time I saw you, you were so much smaller!" Kandra said looking Caylee over. The little girl smiled and hugged her nanny once again.
"So Kandra is going to watch over you while we're gone. And Caitlin and her family are going to stay here with you too. Now you have to be good." Luke said kneeling in front of his daughter.
"Ok daddy!" she said hugging his neck tightly. "Be careful and tell Artie to take good care of grandpa!"
"I will," Luke said gently kissing her forehead before leaving them.
Caylee, Caitlin and Kyler all stood and watched the ensuing battle below them.
"You know someday I'm going to fly in the Rouge Squadron!" Kyler said proudly. Caylee and Caitlin just giggled.
"What's so funny?" he demanded.
"Have you ever flown a star ship?" Caylee asked.
Kyler shook his head no. "Well neither have you," he said getting right up into Caylee's face. Caylee put her hands on her hips and stared him down.
"I have too flown a star ship! I've helped my uncle fly his! And I've also helped my daddy!"
"So what!" Kyler said starring her right back down.
Caylee scrunched up her nose at him. She was furious. She hated when Kyler was being too smart for his own good. She turned around and began to walk away, but turned around and hit him square in the nose.
Stunned for a second, Caylee stood there not knowing what to do. Then she recovered and took off running the other way. Caitlin cheered her on as Caylee continued running. Kyler eventually recovered and took off after her.
She ran as fast as she could through the decks and moving in and out of the other Jedi trainees there where there. And they all seemed to know what she did.
Eventually Caylee turned to look behind her to see if Kyler was behind here and when she turned around, she crashed right into someone. She feel to the ground and looked up at what she had ran into. It was Kam Solusar.
"Caylee you come back here! My nose hurts!" Kyler yelled catching up with her.
She quickly moved behind Kam's legs trying to avoid the wrath of Kyler Hendrix.
"Whoa calm down Kyler. What did Caylee do?" Kam calmly asked.
"She hit me in the nose!"
"He deserved it! He was being mean to me!"
Kam sighed. "Caylee you hit him?"
The little girl nodded yes.
"That wasn't the right thing to do. You don't hit people or any living being for that matter. Now say you're sorry."
Caylee looked down at the floor and mumbled sorry under her breath. Kyler accepted her apology.
"Why don't you go see Dr. Tobias about your nose, Kyler."
Caylee and Kam watched Kyler head back down the hall. "As for you young lady, wait until your father and grandfather find out what you did."
Caylee sighed. She didn't want to upset her daddy. He had too many other things to think about at the moment.
It had been a few days since the Wedge's forces had taken back control of Borleias from the Yuuzhan Vong. And in that time, Wedge had come up with a new idea about how to attack the Yuuzhan Vong. And there were only nine people that knew about it. The nine were Wedge, Tycho Celchu, Luke, Anakin, Lando Calrissian, Booster Terrik, Danni Quee, Gavin Darklighter, and Corran Horn. Sooner or later, Han and Leia would be integrated into the group, but that wasn't for now. Caylee had also been at the meeting, but she was too young to make any difference.
One afternoon, Luke and Caylee were both out walking in the forest, just outside of the new base of operations. Anakin wasn't that far away, patrolling the forest for still remaining Yuuzhan Vong.
Luke was about to talk to Caylee about her hitting Kyler and few days prior to that, when suddenly the area around him suddenly got dark. It seemed like he wasn't on Borleias anymore. But somewhere else. He knew that this wasn't real, but a vision. He noticed something in front of him – darkness. He began to run after it then eventually he emerged into sunlight surrounded by skyscrapers. Then the darkness was still in front of him. He tried to run after it, but everything began to swirl around him and he heard crying. Children crying.
"Daddy! Daddy!" Caylee said pleading with her father. Tears were steaming down her cheeks.
Anakin had heard his granddaughter's cries and came running towards them. He gently touched his son's shoulder, which brought Luke out of his vision.
"What is it son?"
"I think there is trouble on Courscant."
