I thought y'all might want the next bit because that last part was awfully
short so here you go.
Thanks for the reviews I would sure LOVE to hear from anyone else who likes it (
Oh, and sorry the last bit was so spaced apart, I'm trying to fix it, I just hope this one doesn't turn out spacey like that or so scrunched together cuz I just hate that.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*************************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After the agreement to share the bed neither Luke nor Mara said a word to each other for the rest of the night. Mara did grumble about Luke not keeping the pact and stealing all the blankets, which in turn brought a snort of denial from Luke and more grumbling, but other than that they lay in a comfortable silence. This new turn of events surprisingly didn't bother Mara at all for she fell into a deep sleep almost right away.
Luke on the other hand was not as lucky and stayed up most of the night tossing and turning. Mara, it would seem found him irritating in sleep as well as awake and snuggled into his side in order to cease his movements.
Now as the sunlight from the dawn began to sneak through the curtains Luke never wanted to let her out of his embrace. He tried to contemplate ways for Mara to admit that what they had was worth trying for, but with Mara so close, thinking in general was a hard feat. Instead Luke decided to watch her serene face.
It's amazing how a person's face can change so much in sleep. No longer was there a trace of the glare or stubbornness that always seemed to cover any smile or laugh that scarcely graces her face. No, now Luke saw what he had always seen when he looked at her.
He slowly turned and rose up on one elbow to get a better look. She is beautiful and somewhere deep inside him he knew he had known that fact since the first time they met. There was no way she could disguise herself from him, there's no way she can hide her natural ability to be beautiful from him. The sunshine danced across her smooth brow and Luke couldn't resist bringing his hand up to trace her strong jaw.
Luke rubbed his thumb gently over her bottom lip and smiled. If only she was really his and they were really married his life would be perfect. He must've forgotten to block his thoughts because she subconsciously turned more into his embrace and murmured, "We can't get married.we're in the past or somethin'."
Luke let out a small laugh and wrapped both arms around her once again in a tight embrace. Now laying on his side he faced her and watched as Mara's eyes fluttered open slightly and her soft green eyes studied him with a bit of wariness.
"Hey," he breathed out and she tilted her head in confusion and smiled slightly. Right now, with his hair disheveled from sleep, and his blue eyes brighter than normal he looked like the little farmboy she always claimed him to be.
"I love," he started and she held her breath, "What you do to me," he continued and Mara breathed again.
"What?" She asked in a soft murmur unlike her normal tone she used with him and lifted her hand to feather her fingers across his face in a tender caress.
"You make me carefree and young again Mar, like nothing could go wrong," he explained and reached up to take her hand in his. His warm breath feathered across her lips and Mara felt light headed.
"Luke please." she started biting her lip. Was it dire to want your best friend to kiss you? Not if he already had before, she reasoned and lifted her face slightly in offering and waiting.
"Please what Mara, finish what you were going to say."
Her resistance from before no longer existed but the only thing left was her pride. "You know what."
"Say it I want to hear the words, we had a pact." he trailed off his gaze colliding with hers. As soon as he looked into her eyes he didn't care anymore of this silly pact of theirs, but something held him back and he waited for her.
Mara curled her fingers with his once again. She felt frustrated by his insistence, confused by her feelings and unsure of his affection for her. The only thing that she was certain of was that she wanted to feel as she did yesterday, that same combination of security and tenderness.
"Kiss me," she finally breathed out and a soft smile broke free as he leaned down to comply.
The door slid open, of course it slid open, Luke thought with an audible sigh and he let Mara jump out of his arms. He was happy to sense reluctance on her part and knew then that if anyone other than Jaina waltzed through that door Mara would have stayed by his side.
Jaina was oblivious to anything and everything as she announced breakfast was ready and Padmè said that for lunch they could go on a picnic. Mara kneeled down to eye level with the little girl and gave her a glare.
"Did you lock us in here?" She growled out and Jaina was smart enough to realize that answer, denial or innocence, could cause harm so she shrugged and glanced at her uncle. He laughed and walked over to them.
"Were you going to come to town with me?" he asked and Mara stood peeved she was being ignored but raising a brow in his direction.
"I want to come," Mara stated matter-of-factly and now Luke's attention was solely on her.
"Sorry Mar, but you can't."
Mara's jaw just about dropped as the words tumbled from his lips. He was telling her what to do?!? Luke laughed reached up to move a curl of red hair from her face to behind her ear. Mara just continued to stare at him in bewilderment. He was a brave soul right now she had to give him that.
"It's a surprise," he whispered with a grin and she narrowed her eyes in suspicion.
"Padmè says hurry before it gets cold.of course I don't know how it can get cold cuz' it's supposed to be cold but that's what she said and if I were you Auntie Mara I wouldn't want to make her angry for being late on account of if she marries Anakin like Uncle Lukie said than that would mean she's your mamma-in-law and." Jaina continued to babble on and on but what she was saying affected Mara greatly. For some strange reason the fact that her and Luke aren't really married ever crossed her mind, and she took the kid's advice and went to breakfast with Jaina at her heels.
"Ah. good morning Mara!" Padmè called out from her sitting position at the dining table. Mara muttered a soft morning and sat down next to Jaina at the little girls insistence.
"Did you sleep well?" the senator continued ignoring the fact that Mara didn't look like she wanted to make polite conversation. Mara nodded anyways than narrowed her eyes accusingly.
"Actually someone locked me in." The fiery tempered women glared at Jaina and she gulped and smiled innocently. Mara growled knowing the girl got off too easy.
Padmè's smile increased and she gave a little laugh. Mara focused all her attention on cutting into her breakfast. She decided then and there that she didn't like whatever it was they were having for breakfast. She couldn't even cut through it with her knife, how was she supposed to eat it if she can't even cut it?
Once again the object of Mara's frustration slipped out from under her knifes penetration and she growled and slammed the utensil down. Everyone looked up at her curiously and Jaina giggled. Mara shot her a look and watched as the little girl cut her food smoothly.
What the sith?! Mara thought in anger and ignored her plate pushing it forward in disgust. With a sigh of defeat she opted for a peace of fruit from the basket in the center of the table to serve as breakfast. Jaina smiled and levitated Mara's piece of whatever it was on her own plate.
"Mmm." Mara chooses to ignore her too and picked up the knife once again, glaring at it, she began to peel the fruit.
"Where," Padmè began "is Luke anyway?"
"OW!"
Everyone once again turned to Mara's direction "Are you ok?" Anakin asked taking a sip of kaff in order to hide his smirk.
"I cut my thumb!" Mara grimaced
"I've told you." Jaina started "at least a Million Bazillion times."
"A million bazillion?" Anakin said with a grin.
"Three times than" Jaina continued while shooting Anakin an annoyed look. "Uhh.to be careful while using those things!" At that moment the little girl seemed to sound like a mother scolding her child.
"You've never said such a thing!" Mara argued sounding the part of the young child.
Jaina raised her eyebrows as if she knew all and gave her a smug smile. "Well at least I am not going to endanger my life." She told the ex assassin matter-of-factly.
"Your life.?" Anakin asked with arched brows once again with doubt lacing his voice.
"My finger than" Jaina answered shooting him another glare that could match Mara's in intensity.
"No one answered my question," Padmè announced interrupting the arguments. "Where is Luke?"
"I haven't seen him in forever." Jaina answered and Anakin chuckled. "It's only been 20 minutes, he's probably in bed still," the young apprentice defended the Jedi.
"Ow!"
"Do you need help?" Padmè asked not hiding her amusement.
"No, I'm not usually this clumsy." Mara muttered.
Anakin and Padmè laughed and Mara gritted her teeth and finished peeling the annoying piece of fruit. She couldn't help it if her mind always seemed to wander to Luke. She still couldn't believe what happened earlier. She, Mara Jade, had actually asked Luke Skywalker to kiss her, and he almost did too.
Where would she have been then, huh? Her and Luke couldn't get involved right now. It was good he didn't kiss her; good that Jaina interrupted them. good. Mara couldn't decide weather she was relived at her reasoning or crushed. Or both.
Mara let out a long sigh shaking her head taking a bite of the juicy fruit.
"Did you say something Mara?" Padmè asked with a smirk.
Mara focused all her attention on her very sore thumb and shook her head "No," She muttered.
"Where is he?" Padmè said motherly irritation present in her voice. For the first time since she sat at the table Mara gave a bright grin.
"Would you leave him alone, maybe he wasn't hungry!" Anakin defended once again, the tension of the table thickening.
Padmè shot him a look "Isn't he always hungry?"
"Who?" Luke's deep voice came from the doorway.
"Uncle Lukie! We were just talking about you!" Jaina announced smiling. Luke looked pointedly at Mara "Where you?"
"I wasn't" Mara muttered not even looking up at him. Luke just smiled and took his place on the other side of her.
"So Jaina says your going into town." Padmè asked and watched Luke easily cut into his meal. Mara stared at it as if it might bite her and Luke looked confused. He offered her a piece but she waved it away wanting to have nothing to do with it.
Jaina giggled again and Mara's gaze was once again focused on the little girl. Finally it hit her! The little Sith had been force moving her food on purpose!
"I'm going to go check on R2," Jaina jumped down from her chair and left.
"Yeah I need to get something" Luke alluded ignoring Jaina all together. He took another bite and sipped his juice down quickly and stood up to leave. "I'll be back for the picnic," he reassured them.
"Wait I'm coming" Mara announced standing up as well. Luke gave her a look
"I already said you couldn't come." Green eyes immediately focused on Luke's blue, anger evident. "What are you getting?" she snapped.
"If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise." He said with a smile not worrying about her fury in the slightest.
"Just give me a hint."
"Ok" Luke said and Mara smiled thinking she won.
Luke leaned down and captured her lips in a soft but quick kiss. Before she could stop him it was over and he had walked away. Mara bit back the many curses she wanted to yell at him and shot a glare at the ceiling before rolling her eyes and sitting back down. Almost subconsciously her fingers rose to her lips and she smiled lightly.
Thanks for the reviews I would sure LOVE to hear from anyone else who likes it (
Oh, and sorry the last bit was so spaced apart, I'm trying to fix it, I just hope this one doesn't turn out spacey like that or so scrunched together cuz I just hate that.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*************************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After the agreement to share the bed neither Luke nor Mara said a word to each other for the rest of the night. Mara did grumble about Luke not keeping the pact and stealing all the blankets, which in turn brought a snort of denial from Luke and more grumbling, but other than that they lay in a comfortable silence. This new turn of events surprisingly didn't bother Mara at all for she fell into a deep sleep almost right away.
Luke on the other hand was not as lucky and stayed up most of the night tossing and turning. Mara, it would seem found him irritating in sleep as well as awake and snuggled into his side in order to cease his movements.
Now as the sunlight from the dawn began to sneak through the curtains Luke never wanted to let her out of his embrace. He tried to contemplate ways for Mara to admit that what they had was worth trying for, but with Mara so close, thinking in general was a hard feat. Instead Luke decided to watch her serene face.
It's amazing how a person's face can change so much in sleep. No longer was there a trace of the glare or stubbornness that always seemed to cover any smile or laugh that scarcely graces her face. No, now Luke saw what he had always seen when he looked at her.
He slowly turned and rose up on one elbow to get a better look. She is beautiful and somewhere deep inside him he knew he had known that fact since the first time they met. There was no way she could disguise herself from him, there's no way she can hide her natural ability to be beautiful from him. The sunshine danced across her smooth brow and Luke couldn't resist bringing his hand up to trace her strong jaw.
Luke rubbed his thumb gently over her bottom lip and smiled. If only she was really his and they were really married his life would be perfect. He must've forgotten to block his thoughts because she subconsciously turned more into his embrace and murmured, "We can't get married.we're in the past or somethin'."
Luke let out a small laugh and wrapped both arms around her once again in a tight embrace. Now laying on his side he faced her and watched as Mara's eyes fluttered open slightly and her soft green eyes studied him with a bit of wariness.
"Hey," he breathed out and she tilted her head in confusion and smiled slightly. Right now, with his hair disheveled from sleep, and his blue eyes brighter than normal he looked like the little farmboy she always claimed him to be.
"I love," he started and she held her breath, "What you do to me," he continued and Mara breathed again.
"What?" She asked in a soft murmur unlike her normal tone she used with him and lifted her hand to feather her fingers across his face in a tender caress.
"You make me carefree and young again Mar, like nothing could go wrong," he explained and reached up to take her hand in his. His warm breath feathered across her lips and Mara felt light headed.
"Luke please." she started biting her lip. Was it dire to want your best friend to kiss you? Not if he already had before, she reasoned and lifted her face slightly in offering and waiting.
"Please what Mara, finish what you were going to say."
Her resistance from before no longer existed but the only thing left was her pride. "You know what."
"Say it I want to hear the words, we had a pact." he trailed off his gaze colliding with hers. As soon as he looked into her eyes he didn't care anymore of this silly pact of theirs, but something held him back and he waited for her.
Mara curled her fingers with his once again. She felt frustrated by his insistence, confused by her feelings and unsure of his affection for her. The only thing that she was certain of was that she wanted to feel as she did yesterday, that same combination of security and tenderness.
"Kiss me," she finally breathed out and a soft smile broke free as he leaned down to comply.
The door slid open, of course it slid open, Luke thought with an audible sigh and he let Mara jump out of his arms. He was happy to sense reluctance on her part and knew then that if anyone other than Jaina waltzed through that door Mara would have stayed by his side.
Jaina was oblivious to anything and everything as she announced breakfast was ready and Padmè said that for lunch they could go on a picnic. Mara kneeled down to eye level with the little girl and gave her a glare.
"Did you lock us in here?" She growled out and Jaina was smart enough to realize that answer, denial or innocence, could cause harm so she shrugged and glanced at her uncle. He laughed and walked over to them.
"Were you going to come to town with me?" he asked and Mara stood peeved she was being ignored but raising a brow in his direction.
"I want to come," Mara stated matter-of-factly and now Luke's attention was solely on her.
"Sorry Mar, but you can't."
Mara's jaw just about dropped as the words tumbled from his lips. He was telling her what to do?!? Luke laughed reached up to move a curl of red hair from her face to behind her ear. Mara just continued to stare at him in bewilderment. He was a brave soul right now she had to give him that.
"It's a surprise," he whispered with a grin and she narrowed her eyes in suspicion.
"Padmè says hurry before it gets cold.of course I don't know how it can get cold cuz' it's supposed to be cold but that's what she said and if I were you Auntie Mara I wouldn't want to make her angry for being late on account of if she marries Anakin like Uncle Lukie said than that would mean she's your mamma-in-law and." Jaina continued to babble on and on but what she was saying affected Mara greatly. For some strange reason the fact that her and Luke aren't really married ever crossed her mind, and she took the kid's advice and went to breakfast with Jaina at her heels.
"Ah. good morning Mara!" Padmè called out from her sitting position at the dining table. Mara muttered a soft morning and sat down next to Jaina at the little girls insistence.
"Did you sleep well?" the senator continued ignoring the fact that Mara didn't look like she wanted to make polite conversation. Mara nodded anyways than narrowed her eyes accusingly.
"Actually someone locked me in." The fiery tempered women glared at Jaina and she gulped and smiled innocently. Mara growled knowing the girl got off too easy.
Padmè's smile increased and she gave a little laugh. Mara focused all her attention on cutting into her breakfast. She decided then and there that she didn't like whatever it was they were having for breakfast. She couldn't even cut through it with her knife, how was she supposed to eat it if she can't even cut it?
Once again the object of Mara's frustration slipped out from under her knifes penetration and she growled and slammed the utensil down. Everyone looked up at her curiously and Jaina giggled. Mara shot her a look and watched as the little girl cut her food smoothly.
What the sith?! Mara thought in anger and ignored her plate pushing it forward in disgust. With a sigh of defeat she opted for a peace of fruit from the basket in the center of the table to serve as breakfast. Jaina smiled and levitated Mara's piece of whatever it was on her own plate.
"Mmm." Mara chooses to ignore her too and picked up the knife once again, glaring at it, she began to peel the fruit.
"Where," Padmè began "is Luke anyway?"
"OW!"
Everyone once again turned to Mara's direction "Are you ok?" Anakin asked taking a sip of kaff in order to hide his smirk.
"I cut my thumb!" Mara grimaced
"I've told you." Jaina started "at least a Million Bazillion times."
"A million bazillion?" Anakin said with a grin.
"Three times than" Jaina continued while shooting Anakin an annoyed look. "Uhh.to be careful while using those things!" At that moment the little girl seemed to sound like a mother scolding her child.
"You've never said such a thing!" Mara argued sounding the part of the young child.
Jaina raised her eyebrows as if she knew all and gave her a smug smile. "Well at least I am not going to endanger my life." She told the ex assassin matter-of-factly.
"Your life.?" Anakin asked with arched brows once again with doubt lacing his voice.
"My finger than" Jaina answered shooting him another glare that could match Mara's in intensity.
"No one answered my question," Padmè announced interrupting the arguments. "Where is Luke?"
"I haven't seen him in forever." Jaina answered and Anakin chuckled. "It's only been 20 minutes, he's probably in bed still," the young apprentice defended the Jedi.
"Ow!"
"Do you need help?" Padmè asked not hiding her amusement.
"No, I'm not usually this clumsy." Mara muttered.
Anakin and Padmè laughed and Mara gritted her teeth and finished peeling the annoying piece of fruit. She couldn't help it if her mind always seemed to wander to Luke. She still couldn't believe what happened earlier. She, Mara Jade, had actually asked Luke Skywalker to kiss her, and he almost did too.
Where would she have been then, huh? Her and Luke couldn't get involved right now. It was good he didn't kiss her; good that Jaina interrupted them. good. Mara couldn't decide weather she was relived at her reasoning or crushed. Or both.
Mara let out a long sigh shaking her head taking a bite of the juicy fruit.
"Did you say something Mara?" Padmè asked with a smirk.
Mara focused all her attention on her very sore thumb and shook her head "No," She muttered.
"Where is he?" Padmè said motherly irritation present in her voice. For the first time since she sat at the table Mara gave a bright grin.
"Would you leave him alone, maybe he wasn't hungry!" Anakin defended once again, the tension of the table thickening.
Padmè shot him a look "Isn't he always hungry?"
"Who?" Luke's deep voice came from the doorway.
"Uncle Lukie! We were just talking about you!" Jaina announced smiling. Luke looked pointedly at Mara "Where you?"
"I wasn't" Mara muttered not even looking up at him. Luke just smiled and took his place on the other side of her.
"So Jaina says your going into town." Padmè asked and watched Luke easily cut into his meal. Mara stared at it as if it might bite her and Luke looked confused. He offered her a piece but she waved it away wanting to have nothing to do with it.
Jaina giggled again and Mara's gaze was once again focused on the little girl. Finally it hit her! The little Sith had been force moving her food on purpose!
"I'm going to go check on R2," Jaina jumped down from her chair and left.
"Yeah I need to get something" Luke alluded ignoring Jaina all together. He took another bite and sipped his juice down quickly and stood up to leave. "I'll be back for the picnic," he reassured them.
"Wait I'm coming" Mara announced standing up as well. Luke gave her a look
"I already said you couldn't come." Green eyes immediately focused on Luke's blue, anger evident. "What are you getting?" she snapped.
"If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise." He said with a smile not worrying about her fury in the slightest.
"Just give me a hint."
"Ok" Luke said and Mara smiled thinking she won.
Luke leaned down and captured her lips in a soft but quick kiss. Before she could stop him it was over and he had walked away. Mara bit back the many curses she wanted to yell at him and shot a glare at the ceiling before rolling her eyes and sitting back down. Almost subconsciously her fingers rose to her lips and she smiled lightly.