Hi, part 12 in the house! This chapter has one of my favorite songs by U2 in it, 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own'. I thought it fit nicely. So…I think you know this by now, but, I do not own the characters or the game, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic that this is based on. Read, Review, and Enjoy!

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"No."

"Are we there yet?"

"Yes."

"Really?"

"No."

"Carth, that wasn't funny." Mission spun on her heel and walked out of the cockpit.

Carth looked over at me for a second and saw the look I was giving him. "What? She was asking for it." I smiled and turned away. We were closing in on the Star Forge now, but I could see it would be hard to land anywhere.

"Carth?"

"Oak, if you even think of asking if we are there yet, so help me,"

"Relax. I was just wondering what the plan was."

"You're in charge. You tell me."

"Alright," I searched the Star Forge for some sort of ledge to land on. "You need to land the ship."

"Yes ma'am."

"Carth?"

"Yeah?"

"Are we there yet?"

"Oak! What did I just say?"

"I'll be going now. When we land, I'll be in the port dorm. I have a data pad to inspect." I got up and started walking to the door.

"Wait." I turned back to him. "Guess what?"

"I don't like this game."

"That's not it, guess again." He laughed.

"I hate this game."

"Wrong again."

"I love you?"

"Correct, and vise versa, but not what we were looking for. I found a good place to land. You have 5 minutes to 'inspect your data pad'."

"Great." I smiled and walked out of the room, skipping off to where I had left the data pad.

15 minutes later

"Carth, what happened to 5 minutes?" I came back into the cockpit.

"I'm sorry, but I am having a little bit of trouble getting up there. People don't seem to realize we have the Ex-Darth Revan onboard. If they knew, they might get out of my-" He pounded his fist into the controls. "Jerk. Oak, did you see that? That little speeder just cut me off! He's going down. I can remember the code on the back that identifies the speeders. That guy is so fired!"

"Whoa, calm down." I laughed at him. "Focus. Just go straight ahead. It's a clear path."

"That path just formed. People recognize your presence now, All-Mighty One."

"Carth, do you like have 10 fingers?"

"Yeah, I guess."

"Then don't call me All-Mighty One." I leaned towards him, but, do to my nature, I tripped. Do to my good luck; I landed on Carth's lap.

"Santa, I want a gizka, and a cookie, and peace throughout the galaxy." I smiled at him.

"Well, I can get you a cookie, but gizka's are pests that you good friend Carth don't like, and the only way to get peace in the galaxy is if you stop falling on Santa while he is trying to land the ship." He helped push me up and I sat in the co-pilots seat.

"Man, Santa is mean."

"Or really nice because he doesn't want your head to go crashing through the front window."

"Or he's mean."

Carth chuckled as he quickly landed the ship. After a few minutes of getting the ship settled he stood.

"Carth! Are we there yet?" Mission yelled to Carth from somewhere in the ship.

"Yes!"

"I don't believe you!"

"You earned that Carth." I laughed as we made our way to the main hold. "Guess what everybody."

"Oak, we don't like this game." Canderous looked up from the blaster rifle he was polishing.

"Told you nobody liked guessing." I smiled at Carth. "We have landed. I need Juhani and Canderous to get suited up and be ready to leave in 5 minutes."

"Carth 5 minutes, or normal 5 minutes?" Mission looked at him and Zaalbar let out a low laugh.

"Normal." I watched as they dispersed.

"Oak." Carth pulled my sleeve.

"Yes?"

"Canderous shouldn't go with you. I don't trust him. He doesn't trust you. You shouldn't trust him." His voice was low and his eyes darted to Canderous, who sat behind me.

"You know Carth, that kind of crack logic is one of those things that make me thing you either drank a whole lot of juma, or you are Sith. And I know you are not Sith, so it must be the juma."

"Fine." He walked back to the cockpit without saying anything else.

When we finally were ready to leave, I called to everyone. "Alright, we're leaving." After a few moments of everyone coming except Carth, I yelled out again. "We're leaving to go get Malak!" Nothing. "Malak, Sith Lord of the Galaxy. We could die!"

"Oak, can we just go? Carth doesn't want to say good-bye, he's mad at you, just forget it." Canderous pushed me down the ramp and I was forced to leave.

We walked down long, dark corridors. We were almost killed many times by the Sith troopers and Dark Jedi that kept throwing themselves at us. Each time we were almost killed, the fear inside me grew. If we couldn't handle this correctly, what were we going to do about Malak? Not only that, but I can't stop thinking about Carth. Isn't he worried? Doesn't he feel bad about our last conversation being a fight that wasn't even that big? I was kidding! We finally came upon a high ceiling room.

"It should be hard to hit your head on this ceiling, right?" Juhani mumbled behind me and I chuckled. The word chuckled makes me think of Carth. "Oak, everything will be fine. You'll see him in a few hours, just relax."

"What?"

"I read your mind, now pay attention!" Juhani pointed ahead of us, where Bastila stood, watching us walk towards her.

"Revan, we met again." Bastila waved her hand and Juhani and Canderous froze and a purple haze enclosed around them.

"Bastila, things don't have to be this way."

"Revan, yes they do. It needs to be like this. You know what it is like, the Sith power."

"I wish hadn't done what I did, but I can't do anything about it. Please, turn away from the dark, you have a choice."

"No." I smiled as she spoke. "Why are you happy? You are about to be killed."

"We are two of a kind." I thought back to how Juhani had made me feel wanted yesterday when she said we were both 'fallen crying Jedi'.

"What are you babbling about?" She was impatience as always.

"We are both fallen, stubborn Jedi. Face it Bast, we are almost the same soul."

We fight all the time

You and I…that's alright

We're the same soul

"Do not call me Bast Revan. We are nothing alike."

"Bastila, you are like my sister. I trust you. I know you. I have a bond with you. You'll pull through."

"Me? A sister? What about her?" Bastila's eyes flickered to Juhani before returning to me.

"I can't do this on my own, and you weren't there to help."

Sometimes you can't make it on your own

Sometimes you can't make it,

Best you can do is to fake it.

"Are you truly saying that had I not turned to Malak, you would have taken me with you to stop Malak?"

"Yes. You are my family." I looked into her eyes and she stared at me. When our eyes broke apart, I could feel a difference in our bond.

"Oak, go through that door there. I'll get Canderous and Juhani back to the ship. You have to do this alone." She smiled at me.

"Bastila, thank you." I whispered as she and I hugged. When she turned to walk from the room, I called her back. "Tell Carth I love him, alright?"

"What?" She gave me an slight grin. "Does he already know this, or will it come to his as a shock?"

"I already told him, but we had a fight before I left the ship and I didn't get to say good-bye before coming here."

"I'll tell him, but you are going to have to tell him again when you get back." She smiled and gave me another hug.

"Sounds good. I'll see you in a bit." We both turned and walked away from each other. I went towards the door she had shown me, and she went towards the Hawk.