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And tomorrow who knows where we'll be
From here I can hardly see a thing
But I will follow anyone who brings me to you
For now, forever, for on and on and on

Every Thug Needs a Lady, Alkaline Trio

Dathomir

The Ebon Hawk landed on Dathomir a week and a half after it departed from Courscant. It was a swampy world, inhabited by Rancors and Sith Witches. It basked in the dark side. Brianna could feel it tugging at her insides as she stepped of the ship with Caleb, Bastila, Canderous, and Bao Dur. It felt like something horrible was tugging at the pit of her stomach as she walked through the marshy swap.

Bastila could sense Revan through their bond. His presence got stronger with every step she took towards him. Nothing would stand in her way now. Not a swamp, not the dark side, not even the terrible things Revan had been fighting for so long. She admitted she was scared, something that didn't happen often, but had been happening often lately. Bastila Shan had been more scared in the past five years than she had been in her entire life.

As Caleb walked beside Brianna, he could feel her fighting the dark side within herself. She was visibly shivering so he got closer to her side and wrapped one arm around her shoulders. She looked at him gratefully and said, "The dark side is strong here, and I can feel it inside me."

"I know, don't give in no matter what," the concern he held for her evident in his voice. "I know you can fight it. If you need help let me help you, we can fight it together."

Caleb removed his arm from her should as he felt her confidence boost. Instead he took her hand in his as they followed Bastila through the mud. Just ahead they could hear screams of pain and the sound of light sabers crashing. Bastila's heart leapt for in the clearing were what appeared to be two large Sith Assassins and the love of her life, Revan Vandersex. His dark brown robes were tattered and dirty. His normally short black hair looked like it hadn't been cut since she last saw him and lay around his shoulders and he had grown a wild beard. His green eyes were unchanged but the scar that ran along side his right eye looked lager than the last time she saw him. He was also a lot more muscular.

She watched as he fought of the dark assassins and wondered if this is how he lived every day. He had nothing but what he carried on him. He started to falter and she decided now was the time. She let out a battle cry and ignited her saber rushing at the assassins. Caleb and Brianna ignited their sabers and force jumped to Revan who had noticed Bastila's force presence when she landed on the planet. The others ran after Bastila and began to attack. The assassins were dead by the time the others got there after Bastila, Caleb, and Brianna had gotten to them.

Revan stood there with his blue double bladed light saber blazing, his chest heaving. He looked up at Bastila and she looked at him. They both deactivated their sabers and continued to stare dumbly at each other as Caleb said, "Um, well just head back to the ship and leave you too alone. Com us if you need anything," he took Brianna's hand and walked back to the ship with the rest of the crew.

"When everyone had gone, Bastila said, "Revan," so softly he could barely hear her and she jumped on him. He almost fell over when she wrapped her arms around him.

"Hey Princess," he said hugging her back.

Bastila slapped Revan saying, "That is for leaving me!" she slapped him again. "That is for leaving me in the night without saying good bye!" Then she passionately kissed him before he could say anything. "That is for keeping yourself alive and coming back to me."

"I'm so sorry Bastila, my visions were wrong! All my nightmares are wrong! There is a terrible war coming but I cannot fight it alone!" he saw she had tears in her eyes and was hugging him desperately to herself.

"I love you," she said through her tears as Revan held her to him, not caring that her tears were soaking through his robes. "So much."

"I love you too, but we have to get out of here!" he said as he held her hands in his. "It isn't safe here. These Sith are hard to destroy. They are true Sith! If you hadn't come for me I may have died. I have been fighting almost every day for five years. There is nothing I wanted more than to hold you and cry bitterly at my mistakes of my past. But I couldn't be with you."

"I am here now Revan, and I'll be damned if I'm going anywhere without you again!" she threw her arms around him again and noticed how he winced when she did. "Revan, you are hurt!"

"I'll show you when we get back to the ship." Bastila nodded and took his hand and lead him back to the ship. They could hear the terrible sounds of the swamp as they ran through the mud back to safety.

Ebon Hawk, main hold

Bastila helped Revan walk into the main hold and take a seat. She had told him they were headed to Dantooine and also what waited them there if he was ready. He had told her he was if she was there with him and she agreed. "Atton, Carth get us out of here, set course for Dantooine!" she yelled as she entered the ship.

"Aye, aye captain, said Atton.

Every one with the exception of Revan, Bastila, Brianna, and Caleb left the room. Bastila was leaning against Revan as he held her to his chest. "So Revan, how was the Outer Rim?" asked Caleb of his best friend.

"Oh you know, just delightful. Lots of sun, tanning, the beach, lovely vacation spot you know, you should go there some time." Revan said sarcastically. Bastila could care less of what Revan said and just held him. She was afraid it was all a dream and that she would wake up. "Bastila, are you all right?" he thought to her through their bond.

"I'm afraid I am going to wake up and you will be gone again," she thought back hugging him tighter.

"I can assure you that will not happen," he said kissing her head. "Not again." Revan looked over at Caleb and the young woman sitting next to him. She looked so familiar. White hair, blue eyes, short, and she looked Echani to him. But her face, it looked so familiar, his memories were back now and he should remember. Now that he thought about it, she looked a lot like Master Kae; she did have a daughter to an Echani general. "So Caleb who's your lady friend?" oh well, it didn't hurt to ask.

"Do you remember Master Kae?"

"Why wouldn't I? Well apart from having my memories eradicated and locked away inside my own mind maybe. She was my first master."

"Because I am her daughter, Brianna Kae," she said looking up at Revan. His face paled in color and he took in a sharp breath. He remembered so many years ago when he watched the young woman's mother die. She had told him so much about the daughter she never got to see. She wanted nothing more than to be with her, but Revan needed her as well as the Jedi. As she lay dying, she gave him a holocron, her holocron. She told him to find her daughter and give it to her. Being to busy at the time, he never got the chance and then he turned to the dark side and lost his memories. He had kept that holocron with him for nearly ten years.

"Then I have something for you. As your mother lay dying, she told me to give you this someday," Revan reached into the tattered bag he carried with him and pulled out a small black object. "This is your mother's holocron, after ten years I can finally give it to you," he handed her the holocron and she just stared at him in shock.

"I…I don't know what to say. Thank you, Revan."

"She was my master and most trusted confidant, I feel honored to finally meet the daughter she talked about every day," he said with a large smile.

Latter that night, Ebon Hawk cargo hold

Brianna needed to be alone. In her hand was Arren Kae's holocron. She could finally see the mother she never really got to know. Caleb, Revan, and Bastila were in the main hold talking. She had asked some time alone in the cargo hold and Caleb had told her if she needed anything she knew where he was or just talk to him over their bond. Brianna was glad that he understood and had left the reunion.

Taking a deep breath, she activated the holocron and a picture of a brown haired, green-eyed woman appeared. The same woman she had seen in her dream. It then spoke, "Brianna, my little girl, by the time you receive this, I will already have died, and you grown up. I wish we could have spent more time together, and that I never would have had to leave you, but the Jedi needed me. We were on the verge of war with the Sith and they claimed to have needed my battle meditation. Now as we are emerged in another war with the Mandalorians, I fear my time is quickly at an end. I am asking my former padawan learner, Revan, to send you this message. I hope that you can understand and know that I love you and that your Father loves you as well. I made a mistake; we both did and had forsaken our oaths for each other. You came from that breach of oaths and I can never regret that. I love you too much as a mother loves any of her children regardless of how she came to be their mother. Never let hate guild you my child, it is a terrible thing to follow and only leads to suffering. Also, always follow your heart; don't let foolish oaths stand in the way of true love. Just be careful and wait, don't do what I did. I must go and I know that this isn't nearly enough time for us to be together if you can even call it that, but I love you and I am sorry for leaving you behind."

Brianna slumped against the wall and stared at the holocron. She didn't even realize she was crying until the hot tears fell onto her hand. Brianna shut her eyes and reminisced on what she now had left of her parents.

Back in the main hold

Revan, Caleb, and Bastila where still talking about life and where it had taken them. Bastila was sitting on Revan's lap as he told Caleb about the Past five years and his travels on the outer rim. Bastila noticed that every once and awhile Revan would grimace when he inhaled. She then realized he never got that injury looked at. "Revan, you are still hurt. Changing the subject isn't going to change that."

"Yes, dear," Revan defectively stood up with a considerable amount of pain. Bastila supported his weight with her body and helped him to her quarters.

Caleb just laughed and shook his head at the two. He decided it would be best to check on Brianna, she had been in the cargo hold for nearly two hours and he could feel something was very wrong over their bond, but she had asked for some time alone. It couldn't hurt to check on her, he thought to himself.

When he opened the door he found the love of his life curled up against the wall crying with her head in her knees. She had a holocron with a holo of her mother in it sitting on the floor beside her. Caleb moved over to where she was and simply held her close. Brianna just laid her head on his chest and continued to sob with out saying anything to him.

Bastila's quarters

Revan was lying on their bed with his shirt off while Bastila went to get some kolto. He hadn't been with her in five years and couldn't get enough of just hearing her voice and seeing her face. As she came back into the room he said, "I missed you," she sighed and walked over to him and sat on the bed near him.

"I missed you too," she began to prepare the kolto as she said, "and I love you, very much so." Bastila looked at his wound on his side that looked like large claw marks and asked, "How did you get this anyways?"

"Rancor, they are native to Dathomir and on decided to take a swipe out of me about a day ago."

"I don't know how you can even walk with this let alone fight. This is probably going to sting very badly," she told him before she began to rub the kolto on his wound.

"If it burns, it's healing," he said with a smile.

Bastila smiled back at him and began to gently rub the large wound with kolto. Revan hissed in pain and tensed up. "See, I told you it was going to hurt," she said as she removed her hand from his side. With her other hand she took his and gently gave it a reassuring squeeze and she began to administer the kolto once more. Every time she passed her hand over it he squeezed a little tighter. "Relax, my love. It won't hurt as bad. Just close your eyes and think about something else," she said soothingly. Revan took her advice and she could feel his grip loosen. She used the force to try to help heal his wounds. The whole process took the better part of an hour.

Revan grabbed her arms and pulled her down to him. He looked into her deep blue eyes as he held her to his chest. Bastila slowly moved to kiss him and when their lips meet it was like fire. She could feel his hands caress her skin and begin to take of her robes. As his hands trailed down her now bare back she allowed him to roll her over. Revan began to kiss her neck gently along her pulsing vein. Bastila moaned and brought his head back up to hers where she began to kiss his lips…

Cargo hold

Brianna found herself nestled in Caleb's warm, strong arms as she watched her mother's holocron with him. There were holos and more holovids on it. She had spent the past hour weeping over the family she never had, only to find a new family in Caleb. He loved her, and she loved him. She couldn't feel safer anywhere else than in his arms. She felt him hold her a little tighter as he saw pictures of her at a very young age with her mother. She looked at his face and noticed he was smiling. "You were a cute baby," he said with a grin.

Brianna just rolled her eyes and hugged him. "And you are cute now," she said, kissing him on his neck. Caleb could be an impossible man at times, impossible, yet adorable all at once.

Caleb felt Brianna's warm lips against his skin. She amazed him every day with something different. Brianna was quickly becoming a very powerful Jedi and very skilled with Battle Meditation. He also knew that she still had a few bad dreams about what happened. He knew how she woke up shivering in the night covered in a cold sweat. He knew how some nights she would pretend to sleep and just hope that resting in his arms could be enough. He was right, talking about it helped her, but the guilt she felt was something she would have to come to terms with on her own. It wasn't her fault that the dark side had tainted her half sisters. "I know that you haven't been sleeping," he said quietly. "You feel guilt that you need not to feel. It isn't your fault, the dark side's taint is hard to let go off and it infects like a deadly virus. Some people cannot be saved. If you didn't fight back, you would have died. Is it really your fault that you defended yourself?" he said with purpose, this couldn't go on forever she had to let go. "You tried to stop them, and they attacked you. What choice did you have? Tell me, please."

"I…I don't know," she said lowering her head. Caleb put his arms around her again and she only sighed. She was done crying over this; he was right she had no other choice. It was not her fault and she could not live like this forever. If she kept this up, it would surely drive her to insanity.

"Then let go," he said simply, kissing her cheek. Brianna collapsed against him and let his warmth give her purpose. It was time to let go of the past. "Just let go," he whispered into her hair. Inside, he let go of his own conflict that was festering since the wars. She had silenced the echo with her love and now he could return the favor.

Brianna noticed something had changed inside of him at that moment. He felt happier than she ever could remember. He also seemed to be much calmer. Over their bond she could sense something different in his force aura the echo had been silenced.

They sat together for a bit longer before Caleb said, "I'm going to bed, are you staying up a bit longer?"

"Yes, I just need to think for a bit, I'll be there soon."

"Take your time, everything is going to be okay." Caleb kissed her cheek and stood up. "Good night incase I'm asleep before you come to bed."

"Good night, my love," she said softly as he left the room with a smile. Time heals all things, and sometimes, time was all they had.

Port crew quarters

Caleb awoke to the sound of the door to his room sliding open and closing. A shadow was walking towards the bed. He reached under his pillow and grabbed his light saber. He was about to activate it when he felt a familiar, loving presence. "Well good evening to you too," said Brianna as he put away his light saber.

"Sorry, thought you were someone else."

"Who else would stalk into your bedroom at late hours of the night in their skivvies?" she said with a laugh. "Someone I should know about?"

Caleb groaned and said, "Just get in bed woman." He moved over so she could lie next to him. She got into bed and sighed with content. Caleb smiled as she moved closer to him and wrapped his arms around her. They could both finally sleep that night.

Their next destination was Dantooine, about a day away. Things were going to happen there that were going to change their lives and the lives of Revan and Bastila forever. Certain destiny was at hand.

TBC... 3