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"Master ?"

"Yes Koplan ?"

He paused, his lips slightly open, ready to speak. Never did he thinks he would be in this situation. In his bed, his Master beside him with no dirty meaning behind it. He slept back to back with whom he considers to be his mother, still feeling like a little child who had crumble in her bed in the middle of the night. It's been a week now, a week since he discovered Anakin's secret. He didn't mean to but after the battle of Geonosis, he help Anakin getting use to his prosthetic arm, and another vision strike him while touching it. Senator Padmé Amidala... Who would guess ? He let a sad chuckle at his reflexion as he remembers what he saw after their kiss.

"Padawan ? Are you okay ?" Master Hoebe turn to face him.

"Master... Have you ever loved ?"

Woh, she was expecting everything but that ! She frowned, looking at the zabrak lying on his back. Every time she looks at him, she saw the little kid who cried when he didn't success a school project, who cuddle with her after a nightmare or laugh with Anakin when paying at hide and seek in the Temple. How he had grown. Now a man, in and out, taller than her, wiser, smarter and mature. Some day she wishes he'll become this little boy again, with his eyes filled with innocence.

"Excuse me ?" she said with wide eyes.

"It's not about me. But I always wonder... Do Jedi love ?"

"Attachement is forbidden Padawan. Love at his purest is forbidden. But that doesn't mean we are not living being. It is in our nature to love, what make us Jedi is what we decided to do about it."

"I understand." he muttered. "Master ?"

"Mhmh ?"

He turns to his side, face to her. He could sense his eyes burning, reliving each of his nightmare... day and night. At first he tried to fight it, but it turns to be more painful for him than ever. Now he just accepted his fate, letting the Force show him what it wants him to see, pain or not. What he didn't tell her, was the recent vision of his presume torture then death which haunted his thoughts.

"I love you..." He looked at her, feeling suddenly so young. Anakin never tells him but he knew that Anakin's mother died in his arms, and it destroyed him. Well, Koplan never knew his biological mother, a Nighsister surely. Master Hoebe was all he has even if he felt guilty about it, he loves her. But Jedi can't love right ? They don't form attachments. They don't have family. They are selfless. Right ? "I know I shouldn't but-... "

"Oh Koplan." she wraps her arms around his head and brought his forehead against her shoulder. He responded with his hand behind her back, leaning over her like a scared little boy. He felt tears filling his eyes as the vision play again and again in his mind.

"Koplan, what is it ? Is it another vision ?" she asked as she wipes his tears off with her hand. He shook his head, unable to look at her knowing what would happen in the future. "Koplan. Remember the promise we made to each other ? No secrets, we tell each other everything."

With a sigh, he let go of her, resting again on his back as he began his story.

"I saw... no, I felt myself being torture. In a dark room, surrender by droid parts, I was chain with force-inibhitor. I-I... I tried not to collapse, I tried to stay awa-awake." His breath quicken as his muscles contract by the ghost pain that run in his body. "Master, I don't want to die... "

A powerful flow of fear and sadness passed over their bond making Master Hoebe tremble. "Padawan, remember your teaching, there is no death, there is the Force." Her own voice didn't sound quite convincing but it was her role to guide him in the Jedi way, even if she didn't belive in it herself. He didn't respond, sobbing silently against her shoulder. After a moment, she took the courage to ask.

"How old were you in your dream ?"

"Too close." was his only answered. Too close... Too close to the present, maybe in some years, months or even days. Closing his eyes, he could still feel the fire behind his globes. It's always the same and it never as been more powerful than the last night, when he saw his own death. "I can't take the pain anymore, it burns !"

"Shhh, shh. We'll find something. There has to be something to stop these dreams." She carefully pose her hand on top of his head, between his horns and send comforting flow through their bond.

"I saw what love can do Master."

"What do you mean ?" she realase him, letting him sat up with cross-legs before her.

"I saw what a friend did when he found out someone he loves died. He's a good man but... He couldn't help himself. I don't want you to live this too."

"By « a friend » you mean Anakin ?"

"I swear he is a good man but... I wasn't with him when his Mom died, I just reach the moment by the echo in the Force. I wish I could help him but he doesn't even know that I know." He sighs heavely. "Well, I don't want you to feel the same way he did."

"You should tell him. He'll need a friend by his side."

"I can't. It felt like I invaded his life's privacy and he wouldn't like it. He's my only friend."

"You'll find the right word, I'm sure of it. »

She rubs his arm in comfort. He leaned on his side, his mind racing with all the possibilities of the future conversation.

"Whatch out !"

He dodges the blade, only a centimeter away from his throat. He rolls back while deflecting two blaster shot coming before him. The whole mission was a pur mess. They lost half their ground from the beginning and one quarter of their men. Who is the kriffing stupid Jedi who felt like sending four padawan into a massive battle without General was a good idea ?! Sure, all the Jedi were taking in mission all across the galaxie and the Council was too far preoccupied to pay attention at the morality of their act, but still.

"Thio get back here !" Anakin screamed above the sound of a near explosion.

"I got this !" Like always, he just run forward, slicing whatever come in his way without looking at the all.

"THIO ! Don't go solo !" Koplan add while working on an LA-AT system.

Followed by a commando of clonetrooper, Anakin was in the front, defending their base while Serra was shooting at the back. Thio was supposed to pass behind the enemy's rank to surprise them, but his stubbornness took the better of him. Why not pass by the front ? He asked. Well, because they will soon be overwhelmed by the number of droid and they'll get captured... or worst. Koplan was in charge of uploading data from a LA-AT which transported two Republic's prisoner before it crash on Geonosis with a very precious disc inside of it.

The plan seems simple at first. Land on Geonosis, locate the ship, upload data and then escape. One takes the front, another the back and the last use distraction while the last hacked the system. That was until their ship got assault by a tourelle as they approached the atmosphere. Their ship got multiple shot and Anakin took the control to at least trying to crash in safety. A loud explosion didn't help them as, rapidly, a horde of droid run to them.

As expected, Thio got completely overwhelmed. Without a second though, Serra run to his rescue. The two of them got lost in the wave of the enemy's reinforcement.

"SERRA DON'T !" Koplan froze for a second, thinking about joining her- them.

"Koplan hurry up !" shoot Anakin, retreating backward with his squadron beside him. Serra and Thio were nowhere in sight and they still had a mission to complete.

"Kriff..." he muttered to himself. "I'm trying !" he yelled. 96%... Just a bit more and... and... That it ! "I got it ! Let's get out of he-...! » But when he jolts upright, a powerful flow of ash and sand knock him out against the ship's carcass.

Here he was again. The darkness surrounding him. His eyes start burning, his ears ringing against his head. Why ? Why did this keep coming back ?

Chain to a wall behind him, he heard the same voice, asking the same thing.

"Who are you ?"

Who is he ? His lower lips tremble, searching for an answer. The pain kept growing as tears start falling on his cheeks. Suddenly, a large hand hit him hard against these same tears, mixing them with blood and sweat.

"How could you have escaped ? A brat with no honor, unworthy of his own species ?!"

Another hit in his guts, cutting his breath. He was about to pass out again, but the man took his face between his hand and forces his eyes open. Koplan scream at the sudden wave of pain. He could feel the blood get out of his globe while a ghost fire penetrates through his retina. All he could saw was a red shape above him and two luminous yellow circles starring at him.

"No no no, not now. I still need to talk to you."

He tried to break his chains, forcing his wrist against the cold steel. The man presses his hand harder against his face, crushing his jawbone slowly.

"You could stop all of it. You could redeem yourself. All you need to do... is to let go." A laugh echo in the room.

His body begun convulsing, his voice lowering to just a painful moan. And then nothing, no pain, no relief, no Force. Empty Universe.

This could be during hours, month, even years, he didn't know. He didn't want to know. He spotted a distant light through the void. Focusing on it, he discovered something really familiar... He knew this light, didn't he ? It was like... like warmth coming from it.

"K—an !"

Who ?

"-plan !"

The light grew bigger, stronger, enveloping him. It was so bright, blinding ! But he couldn't think of something else. He reaches for it, trying to be one with it and just as he though he would touch it, a voice woke him up to his unconsciousness.

"KOPLAN ! Th-thank the Force your alive ...!"

Strong arms hugged him, the blur light dispersing into colors and shapes.

"A-Anakin ..? What... What happen ?"

Skywalker lift his head, showing red and buffy eyes from hours of crying. His hair was a mess. His Jedi robe were ripped apart at some place, durt and blood covering half his body.

"You-... You were gone..."