A/N: Hi everyone! Sorry for the long wait between two updates, the website refused to upload my chapters for the longest time, it got frustrating... Anyway, to make up for it, there are two chapters up for you today! :D Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars or any of its characters. I only own my OCs Cas Andé, Tani Kenobi, Niobé Skywalker and Sehr, as well as the plot surrounding them.

5. Disobedience

Demoted?

Poe was being demoted?

Cas was staring at Leia in awe. She had already been quite shocked when the General had slapped Poe across the face, but now that she was demoting him to Captain and taking all his privileges away from him, she was totally stunned.

Not that she could not comprehend. Once she and the handsome pilot had gone back to the deck and she had heard just how many losses they had sustained during Poe's stunt, she could understand how big a blow his disobedience had actually dealt the Resistance. She herself would have probably done the same thing as him, and faced the consequences.

So now Poe was being chastised like a kid in front of the whole chain of command, and despite everything he could say, Leia did not bulge. He had a point though: the Dreadnought had been a threat too big not to deal with. But the General had a bigger point yet: the Resistance was weak enough without the heavy losses of that day.

"Padawan Andé," Cas snapped off her daze and stared at Leia, "escort Captain Dameron back to his cabin if you please. And don't linger." At that little addition Cas raised a brow, but the toughened General had already turned away from the scene.

They were in a tight spot for sure. They had had to flee D'Qar in a hurry, meaning the Raddus and other ships weren't fuelled up to their maximum capacity; and they had had to get out of hyperspace early to make sure they didn't burn too much fuel. From this point on, who knew what was going to happen…

Cas had gently taken Poe's arm to lead him away when there suddenly was a tug at the back of her mind. Danger!

She whirled around, eyes widening and searching for the source of her unease, when one, then two First Order destroyers appeared close to them, followed by a much bigger ship, black as night and threatening in a whole new level.

"That's Snoke's ship!" Poe exclaimed, and Leia seemed at a loss.

Cas then felt it, through the Force, the sudden and certain pulse of something powerful and just plainly dark in the ship she was seeing. A force she had never felt before. It scared her.

"Cas," Leia called, "we might need your hand. Can you fire out cannons?" Her brown eyes were wide with fear, and Cas knew she was mirroring the look on her own face.

She nodded. "I can."

"Then go," Leia said, and Cas left the deck without a look back.

She had no idea what was going to happen, but it didn't feel right. She had overheard the officers on deck saying that they didn't have enough fuel for another jump at lightspeed, and even then, she knew something was wrong.

The First Order had followed them through hyperspace! That was supposed to be impossible, and yet they had done it!

Before reaching her destination, Cas watched through one of the ship's windows just as the three destroyers fired barrage shots on them, forcing the Raddus to retreat further away to avoid the TIE fighters' attacks.

She was placing all her hope in Poe's piloting, knowing that he'd save them somehow, but just as she was about to enter the main cannoning room, the whole ship was shaken by an explosion that sent her flying.

Cas saw the floor come at her at great speed, and instinctively, she held out a hand. She yelped both in pain and in surprise when her fall stopped merely inches from the floor, and she hovered there until she released the power she hadn't known she had been gathering.

Sitting up, she stared at her hand as if seeing it for the first time. She had no idea what she had just been doing, but she had undeniably used the Force.

When she raised her gaze, she then realised something else. Part of the ship was on fire.

The hangar.

Cas could not remember running as fast as she was currently doing, but when she finally reached the corridor that'd lead her to the destroyed hangar, she stopped, sighing in relief when she saw Poe being helped up by Finn, BB-8 bleeping in fear next to them. At least he was in one piece.

Danger!

Another tremor through the Force took her when she saw a single fighter fly by, of a different design than the usual TIE.

She hissed when she realised what she had been feeling. Or who she had been feeling, more like.

Kylo Ren was there! He was attacking them. And he had killed his father in cold blood.

Leia!

Cas left Poe and Finn behind, knowing them to be safe, whereas the General was all but.

She reached the deck, and went to slide the door open…

And the deck was blasted into oblivion. Cas watched, powerless, as the huge windows were blasted off and all people present were sucked into deep space, freezing and dying in the process. She watched as Leia closed her eyes and let herself be taken, and she screamed at the top of her lungs.

She may have hated the woman first time she met her, angry as she was that her mother had not told her everything about her past; but Leia had always been trusting her and helping her, and thanks to her teachings, she was already stronger with the Force.

Cas didn't think, didn't think that Leia would already be dead. She just couldn't leave her to hover in the void forever.

So she slid the door open and braced herself, looping her arm through the door's emergency handle. She screamed as space tried to take her, and screamed even louder when she outstretched her hand and called to the Force to give her Leia back.

She screamed and screamed and screamed until there was only the sound of her own pain and the ache shaking through her entire body. Slowly, she saw a small figure far from her get closer, quicker and quicker, and Leia's blue-clad form hovered to her, arm outstretched as if she too, unconsciously, was reaching.

Cas screamed one last time as she caught Leia's hand, and the door slid back closed just as she fell back, and fainted.

There was a gentle caress on Cas' cheek, or what she thought was her cheek.

She could not see anything apart from a big white room, or what looked like a room, and a blurry figure next to her that soon appeared to be…

"Ma!"

Tani's smile eclipsed Cas' fears, and the young woman let herself bask in the feeling of having her mother with her once more.

"Are you really here?" she asked.

Tani smiled wider. "We are communicating, yes. You are still unconscious, so I could summon an image of myself in your dreams." Her smile turned sad. "You were reckless today, Cas."

"I had to save her." It was a certainty, not a possibility.

"And you did, but to great cost. You severely depleted your own energy by doing that untrained. It could have killed you."

"I didn't know what else to do. It was-"

"Instinctive, I know. You are still learning things with the Force, Cas. Some part of you is still locked away, and if you try to use that part of you, you will tire yourself out. Please promise you won't do anything like that ever again."

Cas closed her eyes. "I promise." Then she opened them again, and her purple orbs were full of tears. "Did it make a difference? What I did?"

"It did," Tani smiled once more. "Leia is alive, but unconscious just like you. Her Force-sensitivity saved her from the void, but only just. The Raddus is safe for now, but they are going to need you." She caressed Cas' hair once again. "You have to wake up, darling."

"Will we talk again soon?"

"Yes, we will. I promise." Tani leaned down and kissed Cas' brow…

And Cas woke up.