"Fraser, what do you mean you are going off to war? Already?" Satine asks me in a concerned tone.
"Yes, the Republic is going to retake Geonosis from the Separatists, in a planet wide invasion. So I just wanted to let you know how I feel about you". I say.
"Yes".
I stand up and I shake my left leg to get some feeling back into it.
"What?" I ask sounding confused.
"Yes, I'll marry you. On one condition, no one can know of us. I know it will be difficult but we will get through this".
I walk over to Satine and hug her and I lift her up and spin her around. I put her down and kiss her on the lips. I take out the ring and put it on her left hand. I kiss her hand.
"When do you leave? For Geonosis?" Satine asks me.
"Tomorrow at 0700, why?"
"Let's get married now then". Satine kisses me and hugs me.
We both head out of my office together, clone troopers are walking the halls. They salute me as I pass, I return the salute. We finally get out of the military offices and head down to the church, we stop outside,
"Wait do we not need witnesses?" I ask.
"Yes, we do but who?"
"If I remember correctly it's only 2 witnesses that we need, why not Padme and one of your personal team". I say.
"Fraser, remember no one can know". Satine says.
"Right give me 5 minutes".
I walk into the church, and I speak to the woman at the desk and I ask for a minister. The woman gives me Minister Nera. The lady from the desk shows me into a office. I see a young woman is sitting at a desk.
"Minster Nera, I have a visitor for you. Mr?"
"Broadfoot, Fraser Broadfoot".
"Thank you Nina, Mr Broadfoot come in".
I walk into her office and sit on a chair in front of her desk, she is a young woman with short brown hair, a slender figure and blue eyes.
"So Mr Broadfoot what can I do for you today, do you wish to pray for the war to end or pray to bring someone home safe? Or is it something else?" Says Minster Nera.
"Minster, see if let's just say someone wanted to have a secret wedding, you know this is just a question. Would there need to be witnesses?"
"Yes, there would need to be only 2 witnesses. If you don't have 2 witnesses then the church would be happy to provide witnesses and wouldn't tell a soul. Does that answer your question if someone wanted to get secretly married?" Minister Nera says.
"So the church would provide the witnesses and they wouldn't tell a soul?"
"No they won't Mr Broadfoot, they are bound by oath to speak about nothing that happens in the church. That I can gurantee".
"So if someone wanted to get married now, I mean right now in the next 5 minutes could that happen?" I ask, I start sweating a bit but I wipe the sweat off of my brow.
"Yes I am free for 2 hours, so if this someone wanted to bring in their partner and get married now then I would be happy too, Mr Broadfoot". Minister Nera says.
"Thank you, would you excuse me for a moment". I stand up and bow. I leave the room and exit the church. I can't find Satine anywhere, I start looking around to try and spot her but to no avail. I sit on a wall, looking defeated.
I sit on the wall and look at my watch it 3:30 in the afternoon, and the streets are starting to build with it's population. People come up to me and say it's an honor to see an Republic Officer among the people and not in the offices, I get asked the question of how is the war?. To which I respond,
"Yes we are taking down more and more Separatists everyday".
The crowd cheer at my response, I see a woman in a hooded cloak looking at me and telling me to come over. The crowd gather around me and ask me for any war stories I may have. But the woman keeps on ushering me to come over,
"Ladies and gentlemen would you excuse me. Duty calls". I say and I start making my way through the crowd towards the woman. The woman starts walking away, I quicken my pace in order to keep up with her, she turns into an alley way. As I walk into the alleyway someone pulls me into a small confined space and kisses me. I push the woman away immediately, and I pull down the woman's hood. It's Satine.
"Where were you?" I ask.
"Fraser if we are going to get married we are going to need rings, so I went and bought two rings that where I was because you were taking forever in the church. What did the church say anyway?".
"Right I have a minister who will wed us but we will need 2 witnesses, but the church says they can provide the witnesses and they will never speak of it. It's in their oath or something not to speak about the things that go on in the church. So, shall we?" I say
"Okay, let's go and get married. You walk in first then I'll follow you so we aren't seen together". Satine says.
"Really is that really necessary?"
"Yes Fraser it is".
I peck Satine on the cheek before I start to head for the church. I start walking through the crowd, I turn to see Satine has put her hood up again and is walking through the crowd as well. I stand outside of the church and take a breath before walking inside. Once I'm inside, I ask to see Minister Nera, the lady directs me to the minister's office, I turn and notice Satine has entered the church as well and starts making her way towards me when she is stopped by the lady who directed me to Nera's office.
"Ah, Mr Broadfoot. How are you?" Asks Minister Nera.
Satine starts speaking to the woman and is trying to get around her but the lady isn't giving up,
"I'm sorry miss you are going to have to leave".
That's all I hear when Minister Nera comes out of her office she notices my face, I'm about to walk over but the minister stops me. I look at her,
"Not to worry Sister, the lady is with me. She has made an appointment that I forgot to tell you about"
"Of course, Minister".
The sister walks away from Satine allowing her to walk up to me. Once Satine has reached me that's when the minister speaks,
"Please come in my dear"
We both go and sit in Minister Nera's office.
"So, Miss, Mr Broadfoot was telling me that someone wants to get secretly married today, is that right?"
"Yes Minister. This someone and their partner want to get married today, but we don't have any witnesses however, this someone told his partner that the church would provide witnesses and that they wouldn't tell a soul. I must inform you that no one can know of this marriage due to the jobs that they both have" Says Satine.
"Hm. Well I can you droids as witnesses and then we can wipe their memory of the wedding, if that is what you are looking for?"
Satine and I both look at each other, we give each other a nod and agree to the droids to be our witnesses. The minister leads us down a long hallway into a small room,
"This is perfect. I'll go and get the witnesses the now for you".
We stand there alone together, we stand in silence.
"You nervous?" Satine asks me
"No, just excited to marry the woman I love. Why are you nervous?" I say, when in fact I'm really nervous.
"No, I'm just excited to marry you". She says as she pecks me on the cheek.
"Do you know that's the last peck before we are married. How does that sound?" I say.
"Well I better get a few more in then". She says.
I laugh at the comment, she kisses me on the lips, she moans in the kiss as my hands find her waist and I start massaging her hips. She pulls away from the kiss,
"We'll save that for tonight". Satine whispers the word tonight to me, I start blushing just as the minister comes in.
"Are we all ready?"
"Yes". We both say.
I start walking down to the altar with the Minister and Satine walks behind us. We get into position with the witnesses being on the left hand side of us. The minister takes out her book and starts the wedding,
"Do you Fraser Broadfoot, take Satine Kryze to be your lawful wedded wife?"
"I do". I slips the ring onto Satine's left hand.
"And do you Satine Kryze, take Fraser Broadfoot to be your lawful wedded husband?"
"I do". Then Satine slips the ring onto my left hand.
"I hereby say that you are now husband and wife you may kiss the bride".
I kiss Satine and then hug her. We thank, Minister Nera and we watch as the droids' memory is wiped. We start to head out of the room. Before we do, we kiss each other and I leave the room first and Satine follows.
I led her up the street and into an apartment building, I take the stairs instead of the lift so she can still see me, I reach the thrid floor and then I'm at my front door I stop to see where she is but she is walking towards me, I open the door for her, I'm about to walk in but she pulls me into my apartment. She starts kissing me, I kick the front door shut not wanting to break the kiss, I lift her up and she wraps her legs around my waist, I move away from her mouth and move to her neck she moans as I nibble and kiss her neck. I take off her cloak and throw it away. I manage to find the bedroom and lay her down on the bed, I run and close the door. Then I sprint back to her, I start kissing her again and again she starts taking off my uniform.
I'm on my back with Satine cuddling into my chest,
"Wow, that was amazing". I say as I kiss the top of Satine's head. She lifts up her head and looks me in the eyes.
"I know, I could do that again and again".
"Well if the lady commands it". I say and I get on top of her. I start kiss her neck. Satine looks at the time and notices it's 4am.
"Fraser, it's 4 in the morning".
I stop kissing her neck and I just rest my head into Satine's shoulder. I peck her shoulder and I try to find my boxers, Satine turns the light on and all of our clothes are scattered across the room.
"Um yeah, this is going to be fun. Satine, where are my boxers? Satine?" I say. I turn around to see that she is sleeping, "Great" I think, I manage to find my boxers, I put them on and I start cleaning up the mess we made. Once all of the clothes are off the floor I take out my suitcase and start packing what I need, I start packing my uniform, underwear and shampoo and shower gel.
Once I'm finished, I jump into the refresher, I take a quick shower. Once I'm finished in the shower I wrap a towel round me and head out to the bedroom. I walk to my wardrobe and pull out some boxers, I put them on and then I start putting on my uniform. I put my trousers on and I'm about to put on my shirt when Satine turns me around and starts helping me,
""Why thank you, my lady". I say as I bow my head.
Satine laughs at this and once she has buttoned my shirt, she then helps me put on my jacket. I pull, Satine into a hug and I notice she is wearing my dressing gown.
"Hm. I don't think you'll be needing that". As I start un-tying the knot, I manage to get the knot undone.
Satine clears her throat, "I wouldn't want you to be late". As she is saying this she ties the knot again.
"Ugh, I guess i better get going". I peck Satine on the lips, as I walk away I turn around and run and passionately kiss Satine.
I look at my watch and notice it's 6:30am,
"Right, I better go. I'll see you when I get back. I love you".
"I love you too".
I get to the Docking station within 5 minutes of departure. A clone trooper comes up to me and salutes me, I salute back,
"General, I'm CT- 7523, Captain, Rock. Sir".
"Pleasure to meet you Rock, I'm General Fraser Broadfoot". I hold out my hand and Rock shakes it.
"The Adrimal is waiting for you on the bridge sir, if you would like to follow me".
I start walking and I notice something on my left hand, it's my ring. I try and take my ring off without anybody noticing but it's taking too long so I just yank my ring off and Rock notices.
"Sir, is something wrong?"
"Oh, no no no everything is fine just em, cracking my finger".
I put my ring in my pocket in order to hide it. It's a short journey to the bridge when we get to the bridge Rock shouts,
"General on deck". All of the men come to attention.
"At ease men. Let's get this mission underway".
"Not so fast General". I hear a male voice say.
I turn around and notice that it's Admiral Sharpe, an esteemed Republic Admiral. He is wearing is military uniform but he's got a brown mustache and brown short hair with blue eyes.
"Sir, it's an honor to serve along side you. I-"
"General Broadfoot is it? You came onto this ship 5 minutes before the departure of the vessel, you walk in here thinking you own the ship. Well General this is my ship. I expect the men on this ship to be here at least 45 minutes before departure. Am I understood".
"Yes, sir". I say.
"Take us into lightspeed now". The ship begins to move and we shoot into lightspeed.
"General Broadfoot, we are already late now for the meeting. I hate being late".
"Well thank goodness your not a Jedi. Eh?" I chuckle at my joke, trying to lighten the mood. I just get a glare from the admerial. We both walk into the chamber where the meeting is taking place. We are put into the meeting by Rock.
"Ah, General Broadfoot. How are you?" Asks the chancellor.
"I'm fine your excellence, have you discuessed the space battle yet sir?" I ask.
"About that my boy we have something we need to discuss".