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Chapter 9- A Snug Little Cave…

The trip to Dagobah was quiet…awkwardly so. Lorelei didn't know why, but Luke seemed so jumpy around her. But then, remembering the prophecy, she figured that anyone in that position would be jumpy.

Finally, after hours in hyperspace, Lorelei ventured to break the silence.

"So, Leia made mention that you had been to Dagobah a couple of times before. May I ask why?" she said.

They were sitting in the back of the Falcon, relaxing on what appeared to be a booth seat. Luke leaned back and smiled.

"Yes. One of my Jedi Masters lived there. Yoda," he said.

Lorelei suddenly recalled that Luke had told her once, a year ago, of Master Yoda's death. Is this what Luke felt when he brought up my parents? she thought, looking away.

Apparently so, because Luke gave a knowing laugh. He leaned forward and shook his head.

"It's alright. He's at One with the Force," he said.

Lorelei nodded. At this, a conversation about Luke's beliefs about the Force ensued. They had had one of these conversations earlier, but it seemed as if she couldn't learn enough about this strange…religion…way of life? Whatever one would call it, it was fascinating to her.

Finally, Luke seemed to look her up and down. Lorelei gave the impression of curling up in her seat.

"What?" she asked.

"I'm sorry," Luke said, blinking. "I was just wondering, for awhile now actually…you see, I can't feel your presence in the Force. I've never been able to. Usually, I can tell when someone is close to me or something like that. I've never been able to do that with you."

Lorelei laughed. "You know, Dumbledore actually mentioned this. He said that it has something to do with…I don't know…Midi-Chlorians…A Witch's and a Wizard's Midi-Chlorians are different than that of every other being in the Universe. I don't know why, and neither did Dumbledore."

Luke nodded. "That would do it."

Suddenly a faint beeping from the cockpit sounded. Luke stood and stretched.

"We're there," he said, leaving to begin the landing cycle.

Lorelei sighed and leaned back against her seat. She was already worried about Harry. She wondered, vaguely, what he was doing now.

…………………

It was night on Coruscant. All was quiet. Anakin had left Harry a few minutes ago at Harry's apartment. Now, the Boy-Who-Lived was sound asleep.

But his sleep was far from peaceful. It seemed as though he had no sooner closed his eyes that a disturbing, slightly blurred dream came to him.

It was of Lorelei, only she wasn't with Luke, like she was supposed to be. Instead, Harry could clearly see that she was being held against her will on a ship with destination unknown. She was screaming at someone…obscenities it sounded like.

"Let me go! You'll pay for this, Malfoy! Luke will come for me!" she said, over and over again until finally Harry could see Lucius Malfoy come into the picture.

He slapped her soundly across her right cheek and said, "Shut up! This ride is horrible as it is. I don't need to hear some Mudblood screaming at me to make it any worse."

Harry bolted upright in his sleep. He was sure that this dream had meant something. Throwing on some clothes, he darted out of his rooms and over to Anakin's rooms, two floors above. Once there, he had no idea how he was supposed to announce his presence. Was there a doorbell? Instead, Harry decided just to pound on the door until someone answered.

Anakin answered soon enough. He stood, looking down at Harry, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's Lorelei. I had a dream. I think it was a premonition. We have to get to Dagobah!"

…………………

Lorelei and Luke had now unloaded all their supplies into a very large cave. For the first two trips back and forth from the Falcon to the cave, Lorelei had been in denial about Luke hiding her there. But, by the third trip, it became painfully obvious that this cave was going to be their chosen home, as it were.

"Um…why don't we just stay in Master Yoda's old home?" Lorelei asked as Luke began setting up some lamps.

He laughed. "You wouldn't want to do that."

"Why not? Was it demolished or something?"

"No. Yoda was about this tall," Luke said, holding his hand at his knee.

"Oh."

He sat down across from her and made the announcement that they should eat. Taking advantage of the moment, he asked Lorelei to make a fire for them. She smiled, muttered a word, and purple flames formed a small circle on the ground between them.

"Wizarding parties must be a hoot," Luke said as he started to cook the food.

She laughed. "Some of them are. Like with Muggles, it depends who's throwing them."

Once they had eaten, another awkward silence fell. In fact, it was so awkward that Luke wouldn't even look at Lorelei. Instead, he stared out the cave entrance, where the sun had not fully set yet. Finally, he seemed to try to venture to say something to her.

"Lorelei, I…I mean…the…" was all he got out. Lorelei's mouth upturned at the corners.

"What?" she asked, a bit of mirth in her voice.

This didn't seem to help. He seemed to get even more flustered.

"We…I…um…the situation…I have…"

Lorelei allowed him to ramble on for a little bit longer as she tugged some at the end of the dress Leia had loaned her. A white dress, she thought vaguely, a bad choice for this planet. At last, when Luke had mumbled enough words for Lorelei to get the gist and when she thought he needed to take a breath, she smiled at him.

"Are you trying to tell me something about the Prophecy?" she asked.

Taking a deep breath, Luke replied, "Yes, sort of. Actually…" He shrugged. Then, after a moment, he added, "What do you think about it?"

She leaned back. It was now her turn to be flustered. She sighed. Then, looking up to find a strange unidentifiable look in the Jedi's eye, she said, "I don't know what to think. I feel forced into this, no pun intended. Of course, I guess that's the way I've always felt about my life. I was forced away from my parents, I felt obligated to take on the mission when Voldemort went into space, and now this. I don't know. Life's been good to me, on the whole. I just…I want to fall in love. I want to meet someone, fall madly, hopelessly in love with them, and marry them. Then, I planned to…well, you know. Oh, this sounds silly, doesn't it?"

"No," Luke said, rather quietly. "Not at all. I completely understand. It's just…Lorelei, I must tell you something."

"What?"

He scooted around the fire to come to a halt at her side. She stared at him, feeling the flush in her face. He took a deep breath, like one you would take before diving underwater, and said, "I don't want to be blunt. But it's hard to put into words…I, well…"--he paused, then smiled--"Maybe this will get the point across."

And he did the last thing she would've ever expected him to. He leaned over and kissed her. A long, slow romantic kiss. However, when he pulled away, he got a very unorthodox reaction from her.

Lorelei slapped him soundly across the face. She then leapt to her feet, glared down at him, and said, "How dare you! After I said all that…aarrrgggh!"

And she stomped out of the cave. Luke jumped to his feet.

"Lorelei, wait! You don't understand!" he shouted as he ran to catch up with her.

"What's not to understand!" she yelled over her shoulder at him. "You want to fulfill that prophecy, don't you!"

"It's not like that! Let me explain!"

"There's no need to expllllaaaaiiinnn--aaaahhhhh!" Lorelei cried as she disappeared from Luke's view.

"Lorelei!" he shouted, coming to a halt at the edge of a large mud hole.

There were no creatures in it, save for the one in the white-and-mud dress, sitting and fuming on the ground. Luke smiled lightly at her. He put his hands on his knees, staring down at her, as she stood. The hole was small enough that it would be easy for a full grown human to climb out of, but tall enough that it still came several inches over Lorelei's head.

"Are you all right?" he asked.

"Just fine," she said sweetly up at him. Then, grabbing his ankle and pulling him into the hole, she added, "What about you!"

"Aaaahhhh!" Luke cried as he and Lorelei both hit the muddy ground again.

"What were you thinking!" she screeched, scooping up a large amount of mud and lobbing it at Luke.

"I kissed you! It's not like I violated you in any way!" Luke yelled back, returning the favor after scraping some of the sickeningly wet mud off his face. His projectile hit her squarely in the chest, splattering the already dirty-white dress with even more mud.

"Yeah! Right after I opened up to you! I tell you what I want from a partner and all you can think about is fulfilling the prophecy!" she screamed, throwing more mud.

"You idiot! I love you! Don't you get that! I've loved you, possibly, from the very first moment we spoke to each other. I wanted to tell you earlier, but then this damn prophecy business cropped up, and I was afraid you would act exactly as you are acting now!" he yelled, flinging at least three more handfuls of mud at her.

She had just pulled back her arm to toss some more back at him when he finished his last sentence. She then let it fall back to the earth behind her. Luke and she were still on their knees, facing one another. She narrowed her eyes at him.

"You love me? Really?" she asked.

He sighed heavily. "Why do you think I kissed you?"

She searched his eyes for a moment. "You really mean that, don't you?"

He nodded, now shaking mud from his hands. She gasped, her eyes growing wide.

"And I slapped you! Oh, Merlin! My God…I can't believe…and you were right, how could I've been so stupid!" she began to ramble.

Luke fell back to rest comfortably on the ground. "No, Lorelei, really…I understand…" he said, despairingly.

She stopped. Then, flinging herself across the short distance that separated them, she kissed him just as he had done to her.

End Notes: How was that? I hope you liked it. Please R & R! Thanks!