Title: The Jedi's Bounty
Author: Rainbowstitches
Disclaimer: I don't own anything other than my Oc and any other Oc's I introduce in the future. I won't and never will profit from this. All rights are reserved to Lucas Films/Books/Arts and Disney.
Chapter 3: You wouldn't understand
Trapped in a bad memories cell where everywhere she looked only broke her heart, Bade lay on the bed hands covering her eyes as she tried to keep it together. If she turned her head she would see a carving Master Kolar had given her when she was an initiate. She turned roughly to find an old Tooka doll sat on a shelf next to three books made of real paper. It was a hell to be here everything she looked at made her feel worthless and guilty; she had walked the path of the dark side and fled away from all her teachings when she was thrown into that place with rough cruel hands.
Bade no longer belonged anywhere and this was her cell right at this moment. She was so locked in thought she never saw Obi-wan enter and step into her room.
"Do you forgive me?" a soft voice hovered to her position on the bed
"You only fill me with regret every time my eyes lay upon you Kenobi. There is nothing to forgive and there is nothing to forget" her voice was drained of emotion
"I couldn't have saved you from the start, Mace once said to me" Kenobi spoke as he went closer to her form and sat on a chair by her bedside "It's really like Qui-gon again except you lived"
"But with this guilt that once upon a time I could have helped every planet but now I will live through every planets rise and fall"
"Would you forgive me if I tried again to save you?" Obi-wan asked reaching out a hand to the woman as she laid there her eyes hostile to the smooth skin.
"I don't know" with this she rolled over now lying on her back revealing the silver scars that patterned her stomach; she turned her head as he began to speak only for him to reach deaf ears.
"Your silence makes it hard for me to breathe" he suddenly said as he stood up and began to leave his heels clicking on the cool ground as she sat perfectly up on the bed watching him turn and walk perfectly away from her room.
Sighing deeply Bade allowed her feet to drop onto the smooth floor and stood. Looking around her hands fell once again on items which had been long left locked away within this room. The reason for keeping her room like this would not be known to her or anyone maybe it was some lost hope of wanting her to return. A box sat on a high shelf away from eye contact; force pulling it to her she grasped the box in her hands and looked into its contents. It was filled with holopads, discs and some papers; each with the words 'from Caski'; each note was from the small contact the twins were allowed when she was an initiate only to be severed later on in life.
Standing up she fled to the other side of the small room where an old chair sat and began to read every word. Each letter held familiar love and hope but it seemed foreign as both twins grew cold and hostile to the world neither compassionate.
Outside the thick walls Mace Windu was walking down one of the halls with Masters Plo Koon and Yoda. A private conversation that was to be turned away from the ears of Master Kenobi; the trio walked down the halls of the masters wing away from all those who were curious. Each was unsettled by the matter at hand.
"We must know how we confront her and what happened to her" Plo Koon stated as he placed a hand on his mask in thought
"We are here because we were the ones she knew best growing up" Windu replied not giving a straight answer as he moved his hands behind his back
"See her we do not as once she was that is our problem" Yoda stated as they came to a stop
"She is not the compassionate soul I remember rescuing" Master Plo Koon announced
"Know we must what happened to her" Yoda hummed away as he moved forward once again
"How are we going to get this information out of her Master Yoda we do not have the power to make her speak" Windu inserted as he began is small strides
"Investigate we must" Yoda chuckled leaving the two taller masters stunned paces behind as they caught the glimmer.
The taller two made to follow as they prepared for a meeting on the war effort and any reports from Jedi that were thinly spread across the wide galaxy. The meetings seemed so often these days; that most of the masters couldn't really have Padawans for they were too busy. The war had forced change on unchangeable order forced into high ranking places in the military and having to fight. People were truly losing faith in the so called peacekeepers.
Bade was pulling on her now clean and fixed up clothing; slipping on a thick cloak over her coat she attached her weaponry to her side before making a beeline for the rooms door. She was going to leave quickly and without a trace maybe they would forget; Obi-wan didn't need her back and Mace would do without the unsavoury memory she uncovered with her appearance. Sneaking carefully down halls and halls leaving very little trace and avoiding all who were in the temple she nimbly moved away to the main entrance would wait for the right time. Passing through a rather open hall she looked around before quickly jogging down the stairs; she was halfway when she heard a voice chime her name.
"Eska Ask'ii is it really you?" the voice was male and held a fragment of an accent
"No it's a thief here to steal a holocron" Bade answered quickly stepping down one more step
"Don't lie to me I know it's you" the voice chuckled "Why are you leaving so soon?"
"Vos, when did I have to answer to you?" Bade spat back but softened quickly "I find it too much to stay"
"A credit for your thoughts and past" Quinlan asked hopefully stepping down next to her. Quinlan Vos had been a brother to her since they first met and at time like this how could she deny him the knowledge of knowing what happened to her.
"All right then I'll tell you what happened all those years ago" Bade agreed and guided him out into the open
Authors Note: As you know or don't I am trying to publish every weekend but I don't think I will be able to keep this up because school and having to keep life up and I'm too lazy.