Chapter 2

Love of a Sith

"What?" Mala asked stunned as he headed for the front door.

"We are leaving come now let's go," Jaek said walking toward the front door again.

"No! I'm not going anywhere with a Sith!" Mala yelled at him.

"Mala, please come with me. You said you loved me but now you don't? All because I'm a Sith? Well I'll just leave your things and go then," Jaek said setting down her bags and walking out the front door. He didn't get more than a few steeps before he felt a tap on his shoulder, as he turned he noticed Mala's golden hair as she stood on tip toe to kiss him. Their lips met and they stood locked together for nearly two minutes. When they finally pulled away Mala looked Jaek in the eyes and said.

"Your right, I love you. And I'll keep loving you no matter what."

"I'm glad to hear it now let's go," Jaek said, picking up her bags and taking them to his ship. The small Teltian cargo vessel rumbled into space. "Computer set course to Hoth."

"Hoth isn't that the planet where the Rebels hid from the Empire after destroying the Death Star?" Mala asked after Jaek set the ships course.

"Yes, it's ironic how a Rebel stronghold has now become the Empire's last haven," Jaek told her.

"Yes I suppose," she whispered trying to hide the fact that the only reason she is with Jaek is because she loved him not to learn the ways of the Sith.

"After you meet with the Empyreal staff we will have to go to Adega so that you my construct your own lightsaber, and stop using mine," Jaek laughed.

"Yes, I love you," Mala cooed in Jaek's ear.

"As I love you," Jaek said before turning his head and kissing her cheek. They sat in the cockpit for a little while longer before proceeding to the back of the ship and began to play a game called Jinko (A game much like Japanese game Shoji). The two had played it many times before each time Jaek had won but sence then the battles had become increasingly tough. This time after hours of intense battle (if you can call game board battles intense) Mala had finally beaten him.

"Good work my apprentice you are ready for your next challenge," Jaek told her. He had all kinds of games and simulations to help her home her mental skills but there was one she had always wanted to try it was a simulation in which the galaxy was divided between the players and the computer. Each planet you controlled could make you money, build military facilities, and of course buy you seats in the galactic senate. Each of the players received a certain amount of credits and a certain number of ships. After playing for nearly 12 hours Mala was clearly wining she had the upper hand in the senate and thus controlled the Republic's grand military. She had more than 800 billion credits compared to the 500,000 she started with. Jaek on the other hand was losing badly he controlled only 4 planets in a small corner of the galaxy. His small tattered navy was all that stood between Mala and complete domination of the galaxy.

"Do you give up master?" Mala asked as she ordered her ships into a strike pattern over his first planet.

"No I'll fight you to the last man," he said quietly moving all his ships and as many people as he could to his last planet.

"Master? You would sacrifice so many lives just to keep your dignity?" Mala asked now having taken this planet by force and moving all but a few ships to the next planet.

"Your right Mala your Republic is grand and because it is under your control it might as well be an Empire," Jaek told her.

"Thank you Master I would hate to end the lives of so many people," Mala said as her massive fleet dropped out of hyperspace over the next planet.

"You beet me, my lovely little angel," Jaek said standing and walking over to Mala. She then stood and lifted up on her tiptoes to kiss him.

"Love you Jaek," Mala whispered as she pulled away.

"Love you Mala," Jake said nuzzling his nose to hers. The two truly did love each other there was no doubt about it. Though they were different races and had different cultures the two seemed a perfect match. That night Mala and Jaek slept in the same bed for the first time. When Mala prepared to enter the bed she was dressed in only a robe and her underwear, which for her culture was very skimpy to be wearing for the first time sleeping with some one. Mala slept on her stomach and as soon as she was in bed she had flipped on to her belly. After only a few minutes she felt Jaek's warm lips on her neck, she pretended to be asleep as he slowly lowered his kissing soon he was kissing down her arm as he removed her robe's sleeves. Her lover's lips continued down her arm and back to the top of her back where he stopped and went back down her arm. Chills traveled up and down her body following the movement of his lips. She suddenly felt his fingers grasping around the neck of her robe and found that would be a good time to wake up. As Jaek felt Mala stir he quickly covered her body and lied down next to her. When she finily opened her eyes he was lying next to her playing with her hair.

"I love you," she whispered to him.

"And I love you Mala," Jaek said kissing her.