Author's Note: Hi guys! Welcome back today's will be structured a bit differently and tell me if you like this better! I will not do what I did for the first two because I feel like I was being lazy. And Ps I don't own Star Wars! Now anyway drumroll, please! *drumroll* On. With. The. Fic!
(Lux's Pov)
"Be good now Lux. And I know your fears about the Jedi but try to have fun." My mother said as Padme entered the room.
"But not too much fun," Padme added with a smirk. Crap she knows!
"There you are, Padme. Shall we go?" She asked, opening the door.
"Yes we shall," Padme said, walking out and my mother following her.
I walk in the dining room as the staff prepares for the meal. Everything is being placed. One of the staff members (A girl around my age. With lighter skin, red hair, and green eyes. Phoebe is her name) comes up to me.
"Lord Bonteri." She said with a bow. I roll my eyes and tilt my head.
"Bea, I told you a thousand times already when my mother is not around; you can call me Lux."
"Sorry, Lux. I just am so used to your mother being around that I keep on forgetting that little agreement." She smiled and laughed to herself.
"Why are they preparing for a banquet? It's just me and the Jedi." Her face went white like a ghost.
"A Jedi? Lux, no offense, but your mother has lost it."
"Bea, let's go outside."
I lead her to the porch.
"Lux, why is a Jedi here? He could kill us all in seconds! And he is probably evil!" She said yelling at me. I put my hand on her shoulder and rub my thumb to calm her down.
"We will be fine. She is one of the funniest and most interesting people I know!" I remove my hand. Bea raises her eyebrow then smirks.
"She's hot?"
"Smoking." She laughs and rubs her neck.
"Do you wanna kiss her?" She asked looking at the landscape of my family's garden
"I… I have," I said, not looking at her. Her whole demeanor changed into shock and happiness and she started to shake me.
"You kissed a Jedi!"
"Don't scream for the whole galaxy to hear! But yes we did."
"So, give me the details, you rebel." She said punching my arm.
"Why do you want to know so badly?"
"It was your first kiss! Was it weird, gross, or addictive?" She asked, looking so curious.
"Addictive and so much more! It made me feel alive," I smirked to myself.
"Wow! What is the lucky girl's name?"
"Ahsoka, Ahsoka Tano." Her face went cold again staring at me.
"Ahsoka Tano?!"
"Uhhh yeah. Why?"
"Lux, her Master is Anakin Skywalker! 'The hero with no fear'."
My face was as white as hers. No! Not Anakin Skywalker! He is the evilest one of all the Jedi! He kills people for fun, I hear. And he has an affair with a senator… well, that's what the press says. She can't be that monster's padawan, right?
"Bea tell me that that was a joke."
"Lux, I am being serious. She is the apprentice to the man who started the war."
Someone comes behind us, a cook.
"Lord Bonteri, your meal is ready."
"Thank you, Boz."
"Phoebe, go home it's late," Boz said looking at his daughter.
"But, father-" He gave her a stern look, "yes, sir. Bye, Lux." She hugged me goodbye.
"Night, Bea-Bea." She lets go and walks away into the dark night.
I walk into the bottom of the staircase waiting for Ahsoka. I hear someone come down slowly. It must be her! Then I see her…She is so beautiful! My face turns bright red and I think I am just staring at her at this point. She goes down the last step, I put my arm in a 'v' shape so she could put her arm through it. She put her arm through the gap and I led her to the dining room. I pull out her chair and she looks up at me.
"Lux, I know this is how you were raised, but I can pull out my chair." She said getting into the seat and putting it back in with the force. My face turned red.
"I am sorry. I am just used to doing that."
"It's fine, and I know you didn't do it to make me uncomfortable." She looked at me and saw I was going to my chair so she used the force to pull it out for me. "Now, we are even." She laughed and I started to as I got into my seat. We ate there and there was not really a conversation happening, just some small talk. I flirted a bit then I remembered the conversation with Bea.
"Ahsoka?"
"Yes, Lux?"
"Who is your Master?"
"What?"
"You know your teacher, the one that trains you until you are a Knight."
"Oh, you have probably heard of him, his name is Anakin, Anakin Skywalker. He has a nickname from the press, 'The hero with no fear.' Why do you ask?" She looked at me, curiously. My face turned white like whiter than ever! "Lux, are you ok?"
"Yeah… yeah, I am fine. I have a question and don't get mad by it." She laughed.
"Ok, shoot." She said, still with a smile on her face.
"Didn't your Master start the war?" I asked, getting for yelling, her smile quickly changed into a frown, and then she looked to the other side.
"No. But he was in the Battle of Geonosis." She took a small pause then looked a bit sad, "That's where Dooku cut off his arm." She said quietly, still looking to the side.
"What?" Dooku cut off his arm mum never told me that. "Is that why he wears a glove, only one hand?"
"Yeah, he hates it. He feels like he is going to become more machine than man one day. It is sad when you think about it."
"Ahsoka?"
"Yeah, Lux?"
"How are you so chill?"
"What?" She looked at me like I was weird. "Lux, what are you talking about?"
"Well, I just asked if your master started a war. I just was not thinking what I was saying but you reacted so calmly." She smiled, "You really are perfect." I said under my breath but I think she heard it.
"What did you say?" She looked at me, her Lekku darkening. Think Bonteri! Think!
"Do you want to go by the pond?"
"You have a pond?" She looked at me shocked, I nodded. "Gosh, you must be rich!"
"Well, my mother has a lot of credits, so yeah I guess I am. Well, what do you say? A stroll by the pond under the night sky?"
"Sure… Bonteri."
We walked in the moonlight, and kept on talking.
"Wait, if you're not allowed to be with someone how can there be more Jedi? You say it is in your blood, right?" I ask, feeling weird about the information she gave me.
"Yeah."
"Did the Jedi not get 'the talk', or what?" She stared at me blankly and tilted her head.
"What talk?" She scrunched her markings above her eyes like eyebrows. My face turned bright red as I rubbed my neck. What the heck do I say now uh… uh… THINK BONTERI!
"Well, uh, you know, the killspikes and the geonosians (the birds and the bees). When a man-"
Then she starts to roll out laughing. She is almost crying, because of how hard she is laughing. She wipes the tears and then looks at me with a big smile trying to stop the laughing.
"Lux, I am kidding of course we know about that!" She laughs and punches my arm.
"Oh…" I looked at her and she had a smirk on her face.
"You are such a dork."
"How does that make me a dork?"
"Don't question me. Just accepted the fact you're a dork."
"I can live with that." She stops walking and looks at me then smiles, moving closer to her then I stop walking when I was right in front of her. The universe slowed down once again. Then she shivers all of a sudden, She must be cold.
"Here take this." I take off my jacket and put it over her shoulders, she looks down when I put it on her, then looks up when both of my hands are on her shoulders, we like an inch from touching lips and she starts trembling."Ahsoka-" I put my hand on her face. "You're trembling."
"I am not trembling, I'm just cold."
"I am too…" We both closed our eyes about to kiss once again but then I heard a buzzing noise then a song turned on: "Oh don't you dare look back. Just keep your eyes on-" She turned it off as fast as she could as her lekku darkened. Well, she helped me earlier, guess I gotta return the gesture. I got the music player out and got the instrumental version of the song, Ahsoka was stunned and then smiled. "Oh don't you dare look back. Just keep your eyes on me, Oh don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me. I said your holding back, She said-"
"Shut up and dance with me!"
"This woman is my destiny, She said-"
"Oh oh oh, Shut up and dance with me!" Ahsoka took my arm and started to dance with me (Swing dancing) How is she so good at this?
"We were victims of the night, The chemical, physical, kryptonite!"
"Helpless to the bass and faded light, Oh we were born to get together, Born to get together!" Ahsoka sang as I swung her.
"She took my arm, I don't know how it happened. We took the floor and she said!"
"Oh don't you dare look back, Just keep your eyes on me. I said your holding back, She said-"
"Shut up and dance with me!"
"This woman is my destiny, She said!"
"Oh oh oh, Shut up and dance with me!" She smiled as we danced. She is very flexible! I hope I don't mess this dance up!
"A backless dress and some beat up sneaks, My discotheque Juliet teenage dream.
I felt it in my chest as she looked at me. "
"I knew we were born to be together, Born to be together!"
"She took my arm, I don't know how it happened. We took the floor and she said!"
"Oh don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me."
"This woman is my destiny, She said oh oh oh"
"Shut up and dance with me."
"Oh come on girl!" She swung around me so fast and gracefully. "Deep in her eyes, I think I see the future. Oh don't you dare look back Just keep your eyes on me.
I said you're holding back, She said shut up and dance with me! This woman is my destiny. She said-"
"Oh oh oh, Shut up and dance! Oh don't you dare look back, Just keep your eyes on me."
"I said you're holding back, she said!"
"This woman is my destiny, She said oh oh oh!"
Ki"Shut up and dance with me!"
"Oh oh oh shut up dance with me! Oh oh oh shut up dance with me!" We sang together and when for the last move, for me to hold all of her body weight in one arm. After all the moves we did this will be easy, I mean I did hold her. She leaned to let go but I accidentally dropped her before she could let go… Kriff! Kriff! She is going to hate me!
"Are you ok?" I asked quickly and pulled out my hand to help her get up.
"I am fine." She laughed then took my hand. "You are quite the dancer, Eros." She laughed.
"Don't call me by my middle name, Cassiopeia." She rolled her eyes at her middle name.
"I told you not to call me that, Eros!"
"Well, I won't if you stop calling me that, Cassiopeia."
"Ok Eros, guess I have to get used to you calling me that."
"Please say you're joking."
"Yes, you're safe for now." She said, smirking.
"And what do you mean by that?" I ask coyly.
"Well- I meant that you're safe from me calling you Eros and me beating you up and-"
"Shut up and dance with me." I looked at her and she smiled and put on a slow song that changed the mood to romantic quickly. We started to slow dance, I put my right hand on her hip when doing so she put her left hand on my shoulder, as our other hands joined together.
"It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart
Without saying a word, you can light up the dark,
Try as I may I could never explain."
I twirled her around then did a long motion? What the heck is that called? I should look it up, before anyone reads this… Note to self: Look up what the arms out motion is! Then I roll her back in my arms. She looked up and I think she realized how close we were and started to do the slow dance thing we were doing before.
"What I hear when you don't say a thing
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall"
Ahsoka must have been too caught up in the dance because we went for a spin she must have tripped over her own feet because she fell. I quickly caught her but in a way you only really see in holo films. I caught her in mid-air with one hand on the back of her head and the other lower back. Time stood still, Ahsoka was in shock and I was too, then she laughed.
"Hello there." She said in a fake accent probably stealing a popularly and very memey quote from a friend.
"Hi…" I said, I looked at her the song continued to play in the background:
"You say it best, when you say nothing at all
All day long I can hear people talking out loud
But when you hold me near, you drown out the crowd
Old Mr. Webster could never define"
Ahsoka put her hand on my face and moved closer than she already was. She was so close I could feel her heart-beat, her fast heart-beat. Ahsoka closed her eyes. I did the same. She was so close I could feel her breath.
"What's being said between your heart and mine
The smile on your face lets me know that you need me
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me
The touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall"
Then I felt Ahsoka open her eyes right before we locked lips. I opened my eyes and pulled her up where she could stand. But I mean after us almost kissing I had to pull her closer to me to position myself and her so that she could stand up… It was awkward to say the very least. Ahsoka turned off the song and looked at me like she was nervous.
"Good night, Lux." Is all she said as she turned around and disappeared into the night.
"Night, Ahsoka." I whispered knowing well she could not hear me.
Author's Note: Hey guys! So… thanks for reading this! The music belongs to 'Walk the Moon' and Alison Krauss. And I wanna thank everyone who has followed and voted or favorited I love and appreciate all of you guys! You guys keep me going! I never thought (Even though I am not big) I would have even a person like this! I am not kidding! I thought people would think I am just copying every other story! But you guys gave me the love and showed me that you did really like this and I am overwhelmed that you guys like the crap I write! Thank you so much may God be with you! And for all the Jedi out there… the force will be with you, always!
