Keira's Point Of View
To all those who have kept up with this story. Thank you for all your support and keeping up with this even though It has taken me so long to finish this story. It has been a long time in coming and I am glad to have finally finished this story. To all of you thank you for everything you have done and said about this story. You are the best part of this story.
Thank you.
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I felt as if I was drifting as if I was out of sync with my body. I knew all that had happened and could tell you all the facts. Yet I felt as if I was mission something. Nothing about today had gone right as a matter of fact nothing about this mission had been right. We were in positions I am quite sure will go down in Jedi history. As I am quite sure no Jedi had ever been placed in situations even close to this.
I went to get up but before I could I was pulled to my feet by Obi Wan. He said nothing to me not that he would have. He would wait till we were back to the ship and alone before he would say anything. I let him guide me and together we moved along the twists and turns of the halls.
I felt sick to my stomach and my whole arm and shoulder felt like it was on fire. I had not realized we were on the ship till I felt the softness of the sleep couch behind me.
"Keira." Obi Wan called to me, but for the life of me I could not respond. "Keira" He said once more to me. Try as I might I could not speak the words I wanted to. I felt the soft touch of his hand against my face and I looked up into his eyes. "That's it." He said. "Come on Keira focus." I closed my eyes and let my body relax.
"It hurts." My words were soft and my voice sounded strange, but the words had finally come out.
"I am quite sure it does." He said to me. "I'll get the med kit." He stood and quickly grabbed the med kit from the fresher. He cleaned my wound, stitched it up and then helped me into the fresher. "I think you should get cleaned up. Do you need any help?"
"No I think I can do it."
"Ok if you need anything call out" He said with the same look in his eyes he had the night he hit me.
I gave a nod and watched him walk away and out of the fresher. I stood their looking at my reflection in the mirror. I looked the same as I had in the start of this mission, yet I was not. I felt different, felt as if I had the knowledge of something I did not know. It hurt to remover the vest I had on. It hurt like hell to lower it past my arm. Once I had it off it was easier to get undressed. I turned on the water and slowly slipped in. I was glad Obi Wan had dressed the bite in water prof wrappings or I would have been taking a sonic shower right now. And trust me the hot water felt good. I stood their letting it run down my back and across my body.
I felt myself relaxing and could feel the tension leaving my body, well some of it left. I had a feeling with in me I did not understand. Was it from all the stress of this mission? Or from the feeling I had tonight when Obi Wan had, you know touched me.
I know I had been under the influence of the drug and that my mind had been clouded. I know my presumption of things was not exactly right, and that the drug heightens the feeling. I know all that and more but I still had a feeling with in the moment I felt his touch that said it was not wrong to feel this way.
I closed my eyes and felt myself drift away. I was standing on the same cliff as before when suddenly the vision changed. I was no longer on the cliff, I was in a room and I was cold and alone. I was chained to a wall and a man whose face I could not see stood over me. A second man came up behind the first and I felt a sudden sense of fear wash over me. Then just like it had come, the vision was gone.
I heard a knock at the door and the door open.
"Keira are you ok?" Obi Wan asked me.
"Yes." I answered. "I am all right, a bit sore; but I think I will be ok."
He gave a small laugh and then said. "I have some sleep clothes for you; I'll leave them on the edge of the sink."
"Ok." I said.
Moments later the door closed, I slipped out of the shower wrapping a towel around me. I stood there for several minutes looking at my reflection. My vision what had it meant? Visions were something to be careful of. What we see may not be what we see. Vision have many meanings all of which we may not fully understand. The future is always changing and so can a vision.
I picked up the clothing and started to dress myself. I was almost done when I realized it was harder to pull a shirt over my head then I thought. I sighed wonderful I thought to myself. I stood there and tried several different ways to put it on. None of it worked. I took my towel and wrapped it around myself walking out the door.
Obi Wan was sitting at the comm unit and paused in whatever it was he was doing and looked up. He shut off the comm unit and slowly stood walking towards me.
"Problems?" He asked.
"Yes I can't get my shirt on." He gave a nod.
"Ok. Give me the shirt." I did and he placed a hand on me turning me away from him. "I will help you get it on, but you're going to have to let go of the towel. I promise I'll close my eyes."
"I did not know I was such a horrible sight to look upon." Why I had said that to him I did not know.
"I do not recall saying that to you." He said. "But it would be improper for me to watch you dress and I am trying to be a gentleman."
I laughed and shook my head. "I don't think there is anything proper about this mission."
"No there is not much proper about this mission Keira but I am still trying to resist certain urges." I gave a nod and let go of the towel. Before I could even breathe a moment of relief my shirt was on and he had stepped from behind me to in front of me. "Better." He asked.
"Yes." I said giving him a smile. He gave a nod and smiled at me.
"Why don't you lie down while I shower?" I gave a nod and walked over to the sleep couch and flopped down on it. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
It was not long before I felt him next to me. I opened my eyes to see him looking down at me.
"Better." I asked.
"A little." He said to me. "Though I am not sure that anything about this day is better."
"No I suppose it is not." I said slowly sitting up and turning to face him. "Are you ok?" I asked him looking into his eyes.
"Should I not be asking you that question?" He said to me.
"Perhaps but you were placed into a position tonight that I know was hard on you." He smiled and slowly reached his hand out touching my face.
"Yes I was. It was not an easy thing to have to do to you. Not that the idea of such a thing is bad, but under the circumstances it was not how I wanted it."
"It felt good." I bit my bottom lip as I said those words to him.
"That was the effects of the drugs."
"No they had a role to play, but you know it only intensified the feeling."
"Still your mind was clouded and your judgment impaired. So the actual feeling you never felt."
"Then give me that feeling." I said. He said noting to me, he just sat there looking at me. "My mind is no longer clouded and my judgment is no longer impaired."
"No it is not." He said. Placing one of his hands on mine and the other on my hip. "To act on these urges is wrong."
"Maybe not acting on them is wrong." I placed my hand on his face and watched as he close his eyes. I could tell he was trying to fight this, but ever so slowly he stopped fighting and let himself go. His hand moved from my hip to my back pulling me closer to him. I closed my eyes as I felt his lips touch mine.
His kiss was brief before he pulled away from me cupping my face with in his hands.
"To take advantage of this situation would be more wrong then the act itself." He said to me. "That is not something I can do to you or myself" Why did he always have to be so Jedi master like.
I knew it was very selfish of me, but I wanted this moment no matter how wrong it is. Why I really do not know, but I wanted it badly. I closed my eyes and tried to regain control of my desires. I knew right from wrong, but this one time I wanted the wrong to be right.
He knew my desires and knew my struggles he knew the desires I faced. He gently placed his hand on my face.
"I know this is hard. You have no idea how hard it is for me not to act on what it is I feel and knowing what you feel. Regardless of those feelings I know it would be better not to act then to." He smiled at me and then pulled me into his arms and held me there. "Though I think that perhaps holding you would be right."
I sat there in his embrace knowing his words were true and hating the truth behind them. I could feel my eyes growing heavy and soon I felt him lower me down. I could fell the strength that I had left leave me; and knew the darkness of sleep was taking over.
Several Hours Later
Obi-Wans Point Of View
I had watched Keira fall asleep and sat there for some time pondering all that had happened. She and I had been placed in situations you can never truly train for. This was a mission you learned from as you went, and trust me it has been a learning experience for me; as well as Keira. Tonight was by far the most learning experience one could ever receive. I could not help but feel as I did towards her. What man could not feel this way? Not even my training as a Jedi could stop that. Despite that I knew better then to act on these feeling and knew where it would lead her and me.
I lay next to her and pulled her close to me closing my eyes. I had not lay there long before one of the sensors I had set went off jolting me upright and startling the hell out of Keira. I was up and on my feet and in a split second and knew what was wrong. We had been boarded and we were in trouble. Not even a second after that several figures entered the sleeping quarters and that is when all hell broke loose.
I knew our cover had been blown and knew we were in trouble. I twisted out of the way of one of the attackers and held my hand out calling my lightsabor to my hand from where I had placed it. There was no time to think, it was time to react. I took the man down and blocked a blaster bolt from another man. Fighting in close quarters was not something easily done with a lightsabor and it was extremely tight in here at the moment.
I deactivated my lightsabor and went hand to hand with my second attacker. As to how many men were in the room I could not tell at this time. I had lost sight of Keira and had no clue as to where she was. I could hear fighting in the hallway and my guess is she had taken the fight out there. The man and I were now at full blows with each other. For every hit I got on him, he got one on me, and now there were two more joining in the fight. It was three to one, and these odds were not really in my favor. These men were skilled fighters and knew what they were doing. I grabbed one of them and pulled him in front of me as a blaster was fired at me. The shot was meant to take me down not kill me, but for the man I grabbed it became a death shot. He let out a horrible gasp and I dropped him. He hit the floor and I leaped over him. The other two lunged at me and I managed to avoid one but not the other. We hit the floor and I managed to flip him over me. He was ready for that and he pulled me with him. I went over him and hit the floor barely rolling out of his way.
I got to my feet only to be knocked back down again. I hit the ground and took with me the man who tossed me. I tossed him into the wall and when he hit the floor he did not move. The other man stopped and stood still for a fraction of a second. That was long enough for me to call the man on the floors blaster to my hand and deliver a fetal shot to him.
I turned to only find Sin standing behind me with a blade to Keira's throat. She had a blank expression on her face and a look in her eyes I could not place.
"Think long a hard on this Kenobi" He said to me with a glint in his eye. "Think long and hard on whether or not you think I will end her."
I said nothing to him because saying something would do no good. I stood their looking at him and knowing even at my fastest I could not stop him from killing Keira. I knew the type of man Sin was and knew her life and mine were nothing to him, but I also knew he wanted me to surrender. That in its self was worth her life. He wanted to say he was the one who brought me down and that glory he wanted for himself. I dropped the blaster to the floor and held my hands up. Keira's eyes went wide
I knew by her expression she was shocked that I would do such a thing. She however did not for see what I did; I knew both our lives were on the line here. I also knew we had one shot at bringing them down, if we both died here; there was no way anyone would ever find them after this. I had a choice and this was the only one.
"On your knees" Sin said to me and I gave a nod to him as I slowly did as he requested. He gave a small smile and I saw the gleam in his eye. "How it is you're supposed to be this unstoppable Jedi I will never know. All it took for me to stop you was a simple woman. I guess even the mighty Jedi have their price, and I guess yours is her." I still said nothing to him and I was hoping Keira would remain quiet as well. "Bind them both and put those collars the informant gave us on them, it will keep them from using whatever powers these Jedi have.
I saw the look in Keira's eyes and I saw the fear too. To have a Force suppression collar placed around any Jedi's neck was a horrible and frightening thing. I took all feeling away from us and left you with an empty feeling, a horribly empty feeling. I watched as one was placed around Keira's neck and saw the fear and sadness in her eyes.
Sin wanted her to be first he wanted me to see the fear and defeat in Keira's eyes. This was part of his game, his power over us. He was clever and crafty and that is what made Sin so deadly. Keira's look became one I knew I am not soon to forget, and I am glad Sin could not see it. He eyes became vacant and it was if her very soul had been taken from her.
Sin just smiled as he watched whoever places a collar around my neck. I felt a sudden emptiness wash over me, gone was my connection to the Force. I felt my stomach turn and a sickness arise. I looked at Keira and it was as if she was not there. Was she feeling the same? I heard movement behind me and saw a smile across Sin's face. I saw Keira's eyes widen in an expression of utter fear and disbelief. I felt the blow to the back of my head and then I felt nothing more…..
The first thing I felt was the horrible throbbing in my head, the second was the aching in my wrists which were bund behind my back. I slowly opened my eyes trying to adjust to the bright lights shining in my face. There was a huge roar of cheering and in an instant I knew where I was, and I was in a bad place. Keira was my first thought and I forced my eyes open and took a look around. Keira was nowhere to be found, my guess had been right; I was in the arena.
I was on my knees and I knew beyond a shadow of doubt what the cheering was for. There was to be another fight and I was to be in it. Nothing could be more of a fight then a Jedi in it and I knew exactly who was to be my opponent.
"She is not here." I heard Sin's voice. I had already known that one. "She's gone Kenobi." He said nothing more just smiled, but I could tell by that smile she was not dead. "It's a funny thing, your supposed be this great Jedi a hero of the war. Yet here you are on your knees hands bound behind your back. I find the stories of whom you are rather funny, for someone who was so unstoppable; you were stopped so easily." I said nothing to him. Would there be any reason to say anything to him? After all he was looking for something and if I said nothing to him he would have to keep looking. Besides not saying anything would anger him, and once angered he would make a mistake.
He snorted and said nothing to me as he stood their looking at me and then around the arena floor and to the crowd. He smiled a winning smile, in his mind he had already won. "See even the mighty Jedi cannot stand against us. We are unstoppable and we will strike fear into the heart of those who oppose us. The mighty Obi Wan Kenobi has been brought to his knees. His companion is in chains and been given to a proper master." I had no clue as to what his words meant or if it was just to see a reaction from me. Either way I would not give him what he wanted. He leaned down and whispered to me. "I am quite sure he will treat her well." He said as he slowly stood and walked away.
My mind raced with several thoughts none of which were good. Sin's twisted mind could come up with several things that could boast no good for Keira. The crowd went wild and the doors at the far end opened and I knew what was about to come through. As if on cue the Krayt dragon entered the arena. It looked around and then looked at me and let out a shriek, it stood still as stone watching me. I had no way of fighting it off, but if I could stay out of it way I might be able to hold my own for a while.
It took a step towards me and then paused before it full out lunged towards me. I rolled out of its way springing to my feet just in time. I spun around just as it turned its self around coming at me again. This time I barely got out of its way. In the mad scramble to get out of its way I stumbled and hit the ground. This time it stopped dead and turned to face me. It lunged and I rolled out of its way, I leaped up only to get caught by its tail. I hit the ground hard knocking the wind out of me. I shook my head trying to catch my breath. It turned and twisted its body around swinging its tail at me once more. I guess it wanted to play with its food. I tried my best to get out of the way, but failed horribly. I was hit and the power behind its hit tossed me at least ten feet.
I had no time to react it charged towards me and charged fast. It was within five feet of me when Anakin leaped down in front of me causing the beast to stop dead in its tracks. Anakin lunged in and at the last second dropped to his knees sliding under the beast. He ignited his lightsabor and sliced the beasts under belly open. In seconds the beast dropped down and moved no more.
"Must I always be saving you ass?" He said to me holding out his hand and using the Force to take the collar off my neck.
"This is neither the time nor place for this conversation." I snapped turning slightly so he could remove the restraints on my hands. "They have Keira we need to find her." I said holding out my hand to receive the spare lightsabor Anakin tossed me.
By now the floor of the arena was full of 501st and a battle was on between us and the people who worked for Sin and the others. Of course Sin and his comrades were nowhere to be seen.
"Rex." Anakin shouted. "Cover us they have Keira."
Tougher we leaped out of the arena and ran towards the doors. All around us people were running and trying to get away from being rounded up by Clone Troupers. The orders were clear round up each and every person. We got to the doors of the room I knew they just might be in and did not hastate using the Force to open the door. It flung open and Anakin and I rushed in. I had been right in my guess there was Sin and his cohorts.
"Well, well, well look what we have here." Sin said "It's the hero, she is not here Kenobi." I looked at Sin's cohorts and they looked stunned and they stood silent. I could tell by their expressions they knew the game was over.
"Where is she Sin?" Anakin snapped not waiting for me to ask.
"Not here boy." Anakin looked at him and was about to say something but I cut him off.
"Sin it's over the 501st has taken this entire station and rounded up all your minions. You can corporate with us or not. Either way at some point we will find out what you did to her." He laughed at us and shook his head.
"I gave her to the man that told us who you were." Sin said with no emotion in his voice. After I took you down." He said with a smile. "He left with her and where he went I do not know." He looked at me and smiled as he said the last part.
"His name." Anakin hissed.
"I don't know he is an informant and he gives us information and we pay him." Sin said. He was being quite corruptive for a man who loved a fight."
I studied him and the others in the room, opening my mind completely to the force and into their open thoughts. Sin knew very well how to clos his mind off to a Jedi. As well as Zack, booth men were quite good at doing so. Cora on the other hand was an open book and by the look on Anakin's face I knew he was reading her too.
I could sort through her thoughts so easily. She was so open it was not funny, and given her state that was truly not saying much.
"Crane" I said out loud. "Laster Crane Prime minster of Zagat 9." Anakin laughed and looked at Sin.
"And I thought you did not know his name." Anakin said with a smile on his face." Like Obi-Wan said we can find out. Your sister is like an open book…" Anakin paused for a moment. "Literally an open book." She gasped as stared at us wide eyed and horrified. She knew in an instant what we had done. More so she knew what we knew and that we probably knew much more than his name. Sin and Zack turned and looked at her and she looked so small in that moment. She wanted to run but there was nowhere for her to go.
At that moment several of the 501st walked in including Rex. All eyes were on Sin, Zack, and Cora. The three stood there and did not move. Sin looked at me and I could tell he wanted nothing more than a fight. Why he or Zack had not jumped at the chance to do so was beyond me. Cora stood silent and unmoving and she knew I knew where Keira was.
"Captain." I said turning to Rex.
"Yes." General he said to me.
"Make sure you place shock collars on all three of them and bind their hands behind their backs if they try to escape kill them." I said turning along with Anakin to leave. "Oh, and thank you Cora for the information on where my Student is and where Crane is."
She gasped and with nothing more to say Anakin and I left to rescue Keira.
Keira was still on the station at least that had been in Cora's thoughts. Crane was staying the night on the station and in the morning would leave for parts unknown, at least unknown to Cora.
We moved quickly between the floors and to the place we had seen in her mind. There was no sound or movement within the chambers, but they were in there. You could feel them with in the room.
I held out my hand and using the Force I opened the door and in walked Anakin and I. We walked in to Keira lying on the floor unmoving but still alive. I could tell from the position she was in she had been rendered unconscious. In the other room was Crane and Anakin and I stood unmoving with in the shadows as he emerged from the other room.
He walked over to her and was about to kneel down when we both stepped out of the shadows.
"I wouldn't if I were you." I said. Crane froze and took several steps back. He looked shocked in seeing me as if I should be a ghost or something else.
"You should be dead." He snapped
"Maybe I am and I have come back to haunt you for your entire wrong doings Prime minster." He said nothing and turned to make a break for the door but Anakin stopped him tossing him into the far wall. Crane slid down the wall and dropped to the floor like a doll. Anakin moved over pulling him up and forced him towards the door. I knelt down a carefully picked up Keira into my arms. Following Anakin out the door.
Several Weeks Later
In a darkened corner of the Jedi temple stood two lone figures. The day long over and night well into its darkest hour. They stood close to each other as if they were one person. They choose this corner because they knew it was where no one would see them.
"You changed my life in ways you cannot even guess. You made me see something that I knew was there and would not want to admit it. Yet because of this like before I know the path it leads down and it is not one I want to follow." Obi-wan said as he sighed standing there in the darkened hallway.
"I know." Came the reply from the woman standing next to him. She smiled at him. "I would not change anything that has happened but I too know that this path will lead us both to darkness and it is not a path I wish to take." She smiled at him and in return he smiled at her. He gave a nod and slowly they parted ways each taking a different path to leave never seeing each other again.
Not long after that the Jedi fell and the Empire rained. Ten thousand Jedi were murdered and countless others forced into hiding. Everything that was once bad became good and all that was once good was now bad. Fear and chaos ruled once more.
Obi wan went into hiding watching over the hope for us all. Keira was believed to have fallen when Anakin and the 501st attacked the Jedi temple, though her body was never found.
But that is another story.
