Normal POV
A few days later on earth
The ship with femke and zaheer landed and the hatch opened, before the two parents opened the door to their new home, maul was sitting on femke's arm and was screaming his lungs out as femke carried him inside, closing the door behind them, before she put maul on his new metal behind on the floor.
"here we are…. This is were we live…" femke smiled as she went to hang her jacket up at the coat rack, followed by zaheer, who smiled as he rubbed the freshly washed sith lord over his head, who stopped screaming now and looked around thinking this place was a lot brighter then his old lair… a lot of buttons as well… he reached up to one of them and clicked it over, flinching away when it made the room even brighter then it had already been.
"that's a light switch… see " femke smiled as she pushed it as well turning the light off as she did so. "light on, light off, light on, light off" Femke smiled as she turned the light on and off as few times, which made maul look up with a shocked look.
"yeah, and if you don't quit doing that light breaks" zaheer smirked "and I'm not going to get the small stairs again to change the lightbulp… "
"I know dear… yet he needed to understand it wasn't going to bite him… I'm not sure why he thought that do" the brunette stated as she watched maul tried to get to his feet and failed utterly.
"Kenobi…." maul growled as he looked at his new metal legs with an angry look, before he got on all four and crawled to the door off the living room, peeking in for a moment then deciding he didn't wanted to go there because it was to cozy for his liking, then crawled on to the kitchen were he sat down again and looked around at the many tools with a not understanding look on his face.
"you like our place maul? This is our home…" femke smiled as she sat down next to maul and looked at the insane sith lord with a smile on her face.
"kenobiiiii" the insane sith lord snorted as he tried to get up again, which failed utterly and made he fell over femke's lap, who smiled and gently sat him up.
"it's okay, kenobi can't find you here… your safe…" femke smiled, holding maul close, while zaheer went to the fridge to fetch himself a drink.
"yeah, and your welcome to stay here for as long as you like… we don't mind company…" zaheer said as he took a sip from his drink, eying the insane sith lord in femke's lap, who looked around still with a look of pure disgust.
"kenobiiii… kenobiiii…. " maul growled, again trying to get to his feet, but femke held him down this time, knowing his legs were to weak to carry him yet… he first needed some propper food and rest before he would be able to use those.
"he doesn't seems to be able to…. Speak…. Other then the name of his enemy… " femke said, looking from maul to her husband with a worried look. "he did before do…we know that…"
"yeah, maybe he just needs some time to re-learn that…. I heard insane people can regress back to the time they couldn't speak … " zaheer said as he watched femke get up and scoop up maul.
"yeah, and he also needs to re-learn to walk… since he isn't used to his metal legs…. Wait… how is he gonna…. You know… relieve himself?" femke asked, suddenly realizing the metal legs they had forged him had no opening for relieving himself when he needed to…
"eeeehm…. Well…." zaheer said as he looked at his girlfriend with a red face. "I did think of putting it in but… i'm not sure in how far he'll remember how to control it…" he said, looking at maul who seemed to look back at him just as sternly.
"well…. We will see about that soon enough….how about i'll try and see if he wants to lie down for a while to get some rest..." femke smiled as she carried the insane sith lord to the stairs.
"Good idea... he seems to have build up a gigantic sleeplack over the time he was on that trash planet" zaheer smiled, looking maul straight in the eye, who did thesame... snorting a little as he did so.
"Sleep tight maul..." zaheer smiled as he stroke maul over his head, at wich the sith lord replied with more snorting and an attempt to bite zaheer in his hand, at which zaheer chuckled lightly.
"little snappy are we?" he smiled " if your hungry you could also just say so" zaheer commanded at which femke chuckled as well and used her magic to make some breads with chocolate spread, which she held before maul smiling.
"here you go dear… foood" femke smiled as she handed him the breads, at which maul looked with a stunned look before he bite in them hungrily, looking at fhe brunette with widen eyes of realization before he started to hungrily chew down five peaces of bread.
"Seems someone was quite hungry..." zaheer smiled as he cleaned the sith lords mouth with a napkin, who fussed a lot because he didn't liked to be cleaned up...not with water ore with a cloth...
"Yeah... i think that was his first propper meal in ages... " femke commanded with a smile as she bounched the insane man on her arm a little, who was light as a feather. Maul snorted in return, grumbeling something under his breath before a long yawn escaped his mouth.
"Time for beth... seems you need sleep..." femke smiled as she gently sat down on the bench and rocked maul a little in her arms, who let out another yawn, before his eyes shut themselves.
"Out like a light..." zaheer smiled as he stroke the insane sith lord over his head, who was breathing softly now as he was dreaming about the time deenine hurt him by accident, after which they became sort off friends...
"Lets bring him to beth... he needs al the rest he can get to recover..." femke whispered as she gently got up, holding maul close as she walked up the stairs to the smalest room in the house were they made a room for maul for now... "also... we should see if we can put him up by the woodvillages school... both to learn him the ways off the earth life and to get him mental help..."
"Good idea, i'll go talk to them at once... you can watch him for a moment i pressum" zaheer asked with a smile on his face as i gently tucked maul in, smiling a little when i saw the man that the man who had shocked her so match with his appearance in the phantom mance was now soundly asleep and looking quite less treathening then in the first scene he appeared in.
"he almost looks kinda cute when he is asleep.." femke thought with a smile on ger face as she made sure he was warm enough before she headed out and downstairs, were she started to knit, while zaheer went to the woodvillages to speak with them about allowing maul into their school, but not soon after femke and zaheer had put the young zabrak to beth, maul started to scream in his sleep, causing femke to dash upstairs to see what was going on… the young zabrak was still seemingly asleep, but he was suffering from a nightmare, which made him kick around and scream in horror.
"poor guy, he is most likely suffering from a nightmare about either what happened ore…. Before he got cut in half… " femke thought as she smiled and sat down, gently picking him up and cuddling him close as she started to sing the lullaby her mother used to sing for her as well when she had been a child.
When I saw you guys dancing in the sun, a shadow fell on my heart
You were the worst mistake she ever made
And she laughed too loud at your jokes, yes I know you were funny
But I couldn't laugh
Because I knew where it would lead
Now the anger has drowned out all the jokes
She doesn't laugh anymore
See the pain in her smile
And she's tried, yes she's tried to run away
But you would not let her go
You are her ball and her chain
Now I wish you were dancing in the sun
But the steps were all wrong
So release her from her chains now
With your jokes you imprisoned her heart
You never gave her a chance
She never knew you couldn't dance
Now the anger has drowned out all the jokes
She doesn't laugh anymore
See the pain in her smile
And she's tried, yes she's tried to run away
But you would not let her go
You are her ball and her chain
Now I wish you were dancing in the sun
But the steps were all wrong
So release her from her chains now
With your jokes you imprisoned her heart
You never gave her a chance
She never knew you couldn't dance
This took effect, because maul slowly stopped screaming, whimpering just a little before he fell back asleep.
"that's a boy…" femke smiled as she gently stroke him over his cheeck, looking up with a smile as zaheer came into the room as well, smiling a little when he saw femke was sitting on the side of the insane sith lords beth with the man in her lap, gently rocking him as she was seemingly trying to sooth him.
"Was he difficult?" Zaheer asked gently as he sat down with femke and maul, gently stroking the insane sith lord over his cheeck.
"No he just seemed to have a nightmare... most likely about what must have caused him to... you know... get cut in half and all..." femke said, half smiling as she said this, while zaheer gave her a pityfull look.
Femke's POV
"Poor guy, that must have hurt..." zaheer said as he looked at maul with a sad look as well.
"Yeah..." i said as i looked at the man in my arms with a sad look. "He seems mentally and visicly very unstable..."
"Thank goodness we asked the woodvillages for help... they will surely help him" zaheer smiled as he stroke maul over his horned head, which made me smile. He was a good father figure... better then sidious anyway... maybe together... zaheer and i could give him the love and care he has longed for his entire life... and with that... change his path for the better...
"Let's hope it... " i smiled as i hugged maul close gently. "For now he needs to rest...let's go to sleep as well..." i smiled as i gently placed maul down and tucked him in.
"Yeah, night big guy... sweet dreams" zaheer smiled as he bended down and gently gave maul a kiss on his forehead. Smiling i followed his example and gave him a kiss on his forehead before i left the room as well, intending to leave him to sleep. But in the middle of the night i heard soft thumbing close by, softly moaning because i was still very sleepy i raised up my head, holding in a scream as i saw two clear yellow lights right above me, looking at me curiously.
"Maul... go back to sleep darling..." i whispered as i reached out my hand towards him, pulling back quickly as he made a snappy sound towards me... meaning he didn't seemed to recall who i was, ore he couldn't see me and that sudden hand scared him...
"Ssst maul, it's okay... it's just me... " i whispered as i moved away a little and turned on the small light next to my beth, immidiatly illuminating the room, which made maul cock his head a little in confusion, before he crawled up to me and turned the light off again, clearly remembering what i had told him earlier...
"Yeah, on and off and off and onn" i smiled as i turned the light on and off as i spoke, which made maul nod a little... good... so he understood what i said...
"Aren't you sleepy maul?" I therefor dared to ask. Maul looked at me a bit suprised at first, before he shook his head a little.
"That's okay... i'm not that sleepy anymore either... " i smiled as i took a book from the shelve, opening it in my lap and looking at it smiling, which must have made maul interested, because he scooped close to get a closer look at my book as i started to read him the story of cinderella... all the way threw the story i noticed maul looked at the pictures with a cocked head, smiling as i pointed out things to him in the pictures key to the story.
"I fear the things writen down in "the wrath off darth maul true then... poor guy... he really doesn't knows the first thing about being a normal child..." i thought as i gently wrapped my arm around him, hugging him to my side as i read on... smiling as his eyelids slowly closed.
"He finally fell asleep... thank goodness..." i thought as i gently lied him down in between zaheer and me, gently making sure he was warm enough as i fell asleep as well...
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