Three days before schedule, Sidious called them and wanted both to return as soon as possible.

"Did he seem surprised to see both of us?" Trin asked as they made their way back to Corusant. The last couple days had been nice; she and Maul had talked little, trained some, and 'exercised' a lot.

"Perhaps. He seemed very curious about you, he may have expected one of us to kill the other." Maul had noticed the brief surprise as well, and it had bothered him more than he would have liked.

"Well, at least I've started getting back my memories." In fact the bizarre headaches had been hitting her with an annoying consistency. But afterward, Maul was there to make her forget the pain.

"Now we just need you to remember something useful." Maul said gloomily. Trin just smiled and shook her head.

"I have a special job for you Maul," Sidious stood in front of both of them. "I am going to invite that Jedi brat Obi-Wan here for a political meeting. The Supreme Chancellor is very interested in privately meeting the man who defeated a Sith." Sidious looked over at Maul as he growled softly. "So you're still sore about that, my apprentice?" Maul looked up at his master; his yellow eyes filled with hate toward the newly titled Jedi Knight. "You will get your chance, Lord Maul, never fear."

"I do not, my Master." Maul answered. Maul looked over at Trin and smiled maniacally. It would be frightening to anyone else, but she couldn't help but smile back at him.

"As for you, my dear." Sidious turned his attention to Trin.

"Yes, Master Sidious?" Trin asked respectfully.

"You will act as the servant for everyone. I want Kenobi at ease so we will be having dinner. Make something nice." Sidious purred. Trin got most perplexing feelings from him, but for now she chose to ignore them and consider what to serve. She should have paid more attention to what she felt.

"Kenobi will be here soon. Sidious wishes to know what you have prepared." Maul came up behind Trin as she stood in front of a table cutting vegetables. Her hand slipped at his sudden approach.

"You know, it's actually getting harder to tell when you're near." Trin told him as she applied pressure to the cut. Maul turned her around and sucked at the cut. Trin's eyes glazed for a minute then she snatched her hand back and playfully glared at him. "I need to finish the meal first, and YOU seem to need to kill this Jedi kid."

"At least you could tell I was near." Maul said mockingly.

"Out! Get out of my kitchen!" Trin pushed and shooed him out the door while he laughed.

"Greetings Mr. Kenobi." Trin stood at the door of Palpatine's mansion. She had answered the door as she was instructed. "I am Trinitaia. Please follow me." She turned and started walking away, listening to tell if he followed her.

Maul watched through a crack in one of the dinning room doors as Trin led in Kenobi and Palpatine greeted him. Maul couldn't hear them, but he wasn't really trying to. Seeing Kenobi made his blood boil and he automatically reached for his lightsaber. Only through extreme self-control did he not ignite it and burst into the room to hack the kid into pieces. Sidious had been quit clear as to how the evening was to go.

Doesn't mean I have to like it. He thought bitterly. His dislike of Sidious had been growing rather drastically. Maul noticed, albeit discreetly, the way he looked at Trin. Now the only question about my attitude is if I'm being protective or possessive.

Possessive, definitely. Trin's voice echoed with amusement in his head. Maul looked over to her standing at the other end of the room. She smiled at him and disappeared out the door into the kitchen. I remembered more, important things, but I'll tell you later.

Finally the signal from Sidious came. Maul burst through the door and stood smiling at Kenobi in a way to freeze blood. Kenobi jumped to his feet and faced Maul, igniting his lightsaber. Palpatine, feigning fear, stood and retreated to the back of the room as the two enemies clashed in an almost uncontrolled amount of hatred on both sides.

Obi-Wan had been training. He met every attack Maul sent at him. Now, Maul did only have one end ignited, but Maul didn't want to kill him yet. He wanted to make him suffer and bleed. He enjoyed feeling the waves of hatred from the boy; he was obviously still mourning his Masters death.

"Tell me boy." Maul growled at him, "Was the old man dead when you got to him, or was he alive enough to say what a disappointment he had been?"

"Monster!" Obi-Wan yelled. He had thought for sure that the Sith Lord had been killed. No one could survive being cut in two! Kenobi used the Force to throw Maul backward into the table where he and the Chancellor had eaten. The Chancellor! Why else would the Sith be here? "I won't let you kill him Sith! As a Jedi Knight I will protect the Chancellor with my life!" Kenobi lunged at Maul and they stood face to face for a moment, angry eyes to hate-filled burning ones.

"Than you'll lose it!" Maul hissed at him. They separated and the lightsabers met again in a frenzy of attack and counterattack.

Trin watched Maul and Kenobi attack each other without reserve. Each was as determined as the other to kill was. In the corner, Sidious/Palpatine was watching the fight with an amused look on his face. He didn't look the least bit concerned for his apprentice. Trin focused her thoughts on him, trying to see past the barrier that he had erected to keep out unwanted intruders. He began looking around and saw her as she got through to his thoughts. He intends to kill Maul! He smiled at her and wagged his finger at her in a naughty, naughty manner. Sidious raised one hand and a metal spike that had looked like an odd piece of art floated up and pointed directly at her heart. With a wave of his hand, it flew forward.

Maul noticed movement out of the corner of his eye, and turned slightly to see the metal spike rise in the air. It wasn't pointed at him or Kenobi. Following its trajectory, he saw it pointed at Trin in the corner of the room with a stricken look on her face. Knocking Kenobi back with a Force hit, he turned and saw as Sidious waved his hand, sending the spike toward her. Without even thinking, Maul jumped in the way and felt the spike slice through his heart, stopping as it hit the rib bones. He looked down at the metal protruding from his chest in utter disbelief, then collapsed on the ground, the last thing he heard a scream of remorse that went through the veil of death itself to reach his ears. Then nothing.

Trin saw the spike come at her, then saw Maul jump in the way. The impact knocked him back half a step, and he stood there for a moment before collapsing. A scream of grief tore itself from her throat and a shock wave of pure Force emanated from her, knocking Kenobi and Sidious unconscious. Trin ran toward Maul's prone form, tears running down her face. She brushed her fingers along the side of his face, and remembered all of her past in a rush. She suddenly smiled and set to work.

Maul felt a weight on his chest. Wait, I'm dead, I shouldn't feel anything.

Do you wish to live, my love? A voice, Trin's sounded all around him.

Yes! With that one word, the weight lifted and Maul breathed in. He opened his eyes as sensation returned and looked up into the concerned eyes of Trin. Her blue eyes glowed with an inner light and she helped him sit up. Lying next to him was the spike, blood all along its length. He felt the area where it had penetrated and found nothing but unbroken skin.

"How? I didn't know you bring people back from the dead?" His voice sounded a little different to him, and he felt different too. Probably a side effect of dying.

"No. I can't bring people back to life, not as they were." Maul looked at her quizzically. "You're like me now Maul, immortal." Maul looked more than a little shocked. "Let me explain. First of all, I have all my memories back. I'm over six hundred years old. I was in a ship when it crashed on Naboo, and while I survived, the impact erased my memory. I wasn't ever planning to make anyone like me, except the man I loved, and that's you. I love you Maul." She looked into his now glowing gold eyes and hoped she hadn't made a mistake.

Maul smiled, seeming to read her mind. "Call me Khameir, it was my name once, it can be again." He traced a finger down her jaw, amazed at the new sensations he felt. Something had changed in him, but he didn't care about that currently. "So what now?"

"We leave, disappear for all purposes. We have the universe to explore, and all eternity to do it." Trin said. They heard Sidious groan, the first to wake up. They both stood and turned toward him. He was shocked to see Maul, now Khameir, standing before him, then afraid when Khameir called his lightsaber to his hand and ignighted one end. He took a step forward, but Trin stopped him.

"No. We leave him too." Trin said.

"Why? After what I did, what makes you think I won't hunt you down?" Sidious said as he stood to glare at them.

"Because, dear Chancellor," Trin began, "I have seen into the future, your future to be precise. You will come close to your goal, even see it in reach, but in the end, the one person you least suspect will be your undoing. You will die, ugly, alone, with none loyal to you there to save you." With these words she turned away from him and walked over to Kenobi. She placed her hand on his head and whispered words of forgetfulness. She then turned to Khameir and held out her hand, which he took, clipping his lightsaber to his belt. "Let's leave here." She turned to Sidious briefly. "Chancellor SLEEP!" Sidious slumped to the floor unconscious.

"So now I'm immortal, can't be killed?" It was more a statement than a question.

"Could be worse things." Trin said with a smile. They began walking away.

"Do we take my ship, or my Ex-Masters?" Khameir said jokingly.

"I think Sidious can provide, let's take the cruise ship." Their mingled laughter could be heard throughout the palace, even after they left.

The End.