Chapter Five: The Date.
The serum had been successful in remove the venom from Conner's blood. He spent two days unconscious, everyone volunteered to check him, his vital signs had returned to normal, also his temperature was normal again, he was recovering his color and everyone was relived. The third day, Jolee informed that Conner was sleeping, he was fine. Although Conner had most of the crew checking him, the only person who never left his side was Bastila, she spent two days without sleeping. Everyone talked with her, they convinced her to go to rest, and if Conner awoke, they would tell her. Bastila went to her dormitory and fell asleep.
A few hours later, Conner woke up; he stood up and greeted everyone.
"Finally, you're awake buddy; we thought you're going to die." Carth said.
Conner chuckled and said "Yeah, I know, been at the edge of death it's not funny."
"Conner! I knew you would be fine!" This came from a very happy Mission, who hugged Conner.
"I'm glad to see you too, Mission." He answered.
"Statement: I'm glad that you are fully operational now master, I hope we can engage in some fight soon." HK said.
"Thanks HK." Conner said.
"You freaked us kid, we thought you were dead." Canderous said.
Conner smiled and drew his attention to Jolee. "Thanks for saving me Jolee, I owe you one." He said.
"Bah, save it kid, I only made the serum. But you should thank Bastila. The girl is stubborn; she never left your side, and cares a lot about you. She was very worried by you." Jolee answered.
"Where's she?" Conner asked.
"She's sleeping." Carth answered.
Conner smiled, then he realized he spent a long time in bed. They needed to discover the third Star map. He asked the others if they returned the memory data to the Republic Embassy, Carth said yes, and he told Conner that Roland Wann gave them authorization to descend to the ocean's floor in exchange of a favor, they had lost all communication with the research facility and the mercenaries they hired also were lost. If they could investigate what was happening down there, they might found the Star map. Conner asked Jolee if he could go for the map.
"Well, the serum eliminated every drop of venom from your blood, you are fine, but still you need to rest a few days. Once you have found the Star map, we will stay here two days more, okay?" Jolee answered.
Conner nodded and went to change his robes, before he left, he went to Bastila's room, where he found her sleeping; he got close to her bed slowly, trying not to wake her up. He saw her sleeping, she looked like an angel. He smiled and took off his jacket and covered her with it, he stroked her long brown hair.
"I'll be back princess." He whispered to her. She stirred in her sleep. Conner left the dormitory and went to the Republic Embassy. Once he, Juhuani and Mission got there, they descended to the facility; they found a scared mercenary, who told them that the Selkaths went insane, and that he needed to return to the surface. Conner said that he needed to investigate the facility and left the mercenary alone.
The group started to walk around the facility, everything was destroyed, when they reach at the first room they found insane Selkaths, they attacked them, and the group attacked the insane Selkaths. This happened more than three times, when they finally cleared all the facility, Conner discovered that they needed to go to the real research facility, which was a few meters away. They could only go by crossing the ocean's floor. Conner saw that they only had one environmental suit and he decided that he was the one who had to go. Juhuani and Mission agreed, Conner put on the suit and went out.
After taking care of some firaxa, he got into the facility, there he found the scientist that Roland told about, Kolo Nolan and his assistant, Sami. At first they tried to kill Conner, they were afraid, but after they apologized, Conner asked what made the Selkaths insane, the scientists didn't know, but they told Conner that a giant firaxa shark had woken up since they turned on the harvesting machine for the kolto. Nolan suggested to Conner that he needed to use a toxic that would kill all the firaxa sharks, including the giant firaxa shark. But Sami told Conner that he could destroy the harvesting machine, this could make the giant firaxa shark left the area. Conner agreed to destroy the harvesting machine and left the station, he made his way to the machine, once he reached at the machine, he manipulated the controls and the machine exploded.
Conner saw the giant firaxa shark left and made his way to the Star map, after seeing that this was also incomplete he download it on his datapad, and returned with Mission and Juhuani. When they were close to the submersible, they encountered Malak's apprentice, Darth Bandon with two Dark Jedis. They engaged in a fight.
Bastila was on her dormitory, she had returned from her mission two days ago, still she was tired, saving the Dark Lord wasn't an easy task.
She was worried by him, he was the only one who could tell the Council about the Star Forge, she didn't let him die, although he caused much pain, she couldn't let him die. She lay on her bed thinking what was going to happen, her thoughts were interrupted by a knock on her door.
"Padawan Shan, the Council wants to see you." A Jedi said.
Bastila sighed and put her robe on, she exited her dormitory and went to the Council's Chamber, when she arrived, the Masters were waiting for her.
"Ahh, Padawan Shan, we were expecting you." Master Zhar said.
Bastila bowed and said "Thank you Master, why do you want to see me?"
"We want to inform you that Revan is stable, he is unconscious but out of danger." Master Dorak answered.
"Is good to hear that Masters, what is going to happen to Revan now?" She asked.
"Well, you tell us that you managed to kept Revan alive creating a Force bond between you two. Maybe we can use this Force bond to find out what is the Star Forge, but this is not an easy task Padawan, Revan's memory is very damage, we are afraid, that he cannot remember where is the Star Forge." Master Zhar explained.
"But we have another plan, we are planning to reprogram Revan's mind, he is going to have a new identity, one loyal to the Republic, maybe he will not remember many things, but if some of his memories about the Star Forge try to resurface, we could take this in our own advantage." Master Dorak said.
Bastila nodded and said "Can I see Revan before his reprogramming, Masters?"
"Yes you can Padawan." Master Vandar answered.
"Thank you Masters." She said bowing to the Masters and left the Chamber.
She made her way to the medical facility, she was curious about Revan, she only had heard things about him, but she never met him in person. She had heard from many female Jedis that he was an attractive man, but she always thought that the other female Jedis needed to control their emotions.
When she entered in the medical facility, she approached where Revan was. She never saw him without his mask, and now he was there, injured and vulnerable. Revan was lying there, his eyes were half opened and Bastila saw a golden color in his eyes. She thought the dark side was still inside him, but when she looked for any signs of the dark side she didn't found anything.
Bastila woke up, she saw that it was day already, she felt something covering her, when she took the jacket, she realized it was Conner's jacket, she could sense his sent, she put on his jacket and went to the main hold, she realized that Conner was no longer in the medbay, she panicked, but before she could freak out, she took a deep breath and asked Jolee where was Conner, he answered that he was looking for the Star map. Bastila was relieved.
Meanwhile Conner, Mission and Juhuani were fighting Darth Bandon and the Dark Jedis, after defeating Bandon and the Dark Jedis, they made their way to the surface, where Roland Wann asked if they had found what happened in the station, Conner said that a giant firaxa shark was awoken by the machine and he destroyed it to save the shark, Roland said that all their work was lost, but he thanked Conner for his investigation, after they exited the Republic Embassy, Conner was arrested by the Selkaths. They heard the problems that happened on the ocean's floor.
In the trial, Conner explained that the harvesting machine had woken up a giant firaxa shark; the judges believed that this shark was The Progenitor, an old legend; they asked Conner if he had killed the shark, he answered no, the judges declared Conner innocent and let him leave.
When they returned to the ship, Bastila was waiting for Conner, when she saw him standing and walking, she wanted to run and embraced him, but she stayed in control. Control yourself Bastila, you can embrace him later. She said to herself. Mission and Juhuani boarded the ship, leaving Conner and Bastila alone.
"Hey princess." He said with a smile in his face.
"Hi Conner." She answered returning the smile. "I'm glad to see that you are fine."
"Thanks. Hey…I…was thinking that you'd like to go out to dinner with me tonight." Conner said a little nervous.
Bastila could feel how her temperature was raising, her heart was beating faster. Is he asking me to go out on a date with him? She thought to herself.
"Don't worry, is not a date." Conner answered looking at the light red color on Bastila's face. "I only want to go to eat something, I'm hungry, the past six days, I only eat a strange soup that tasted awful, and I want real and delicious food." He said.
Bastila was relieved when she heard Conner's words, but also was disappointed, how she wanted to go on a date with him.
"Sure, how about meeting here at seven?" She asked.
"Sounds good to me, see you at seven." He answered and gave her a smile.
Conner boarded the ship. Bastila stayed behind, she could not believe that she and Conner were going to have dinner alone.
"Oh, Force!" She said. "What I am doing?" She boarded the ship and went to her dormitory, trying to relax before seven. Meanwhile, Conner took a shower, he wanted to look good, although he knew that they were not going on a date, he still believed that he needed to look descent before going out.
At seven, Conner was outside the ship, he was using his Jedi robes, he fixed his hair several times until he felt it was ready, when he looked at the ramp and saw Bastila coming down, he paralyzed when he saw her, she was wearing her jumpsuit, which she rarely wore. She told Conner she only used her jumpsuit in special occasions, but these occasions were training and meditation. Also her hairstyle was different, she wasn't using her pigtails instead, she had loosed her hair.
"Wow, you…you…you look beautiful." Conner said making her blush.
"Thanks, you look good too." Bastila answered brushing a strand of hair away from her face.
Conner smiled and the two left the hangar and went to Ahto City, they walked in silence until they arrived at a small restaurant, it wasn't too fancy, but the food was great.
"Carth told me that where was they came to have dinner a few days ago, what do you think?" Conner asked.
"It's beautiful." Bastila answered.
They went inside, the restaurant had a balcony overlooking to the ocean, also had a dance floor. The band played romantic music. They were greeted by a pink twi'lek. The twi'lek guided them to a small table, which was on the balcony.
After having dinner, they talked for an hour. Their conversations were focus in Conner's travels around the Outer Rim when he was a smuggler. They spent a great time together. A moment of silence fell on the table when the band and two singers started another song.
"Hey, you want to dance?" Conner asked suddenly.
"Uh…I don't know Conner. I have never danced." Bastila answered nervously.
"Don't worry, I'll show you." Conner said and offered to her his hand. Bastila took Conner's hand and he led her to the dance floor.
"Okay, listen carefully, place your left hand on my shoulder and left your right hand in mine." Conner instructed her, she did as Conner said. "Good, now I'm going to place my hand on your back, don't be scared okay? This is how it's done." He said.
When Conner placed his hand on Bastila's back, she felt like electricity running through her body, she glanced at Conner's eyes and saw that he was smiling. "Follow me." He said.
Bastila nodded and started to do the movements that Conner was doing, after the first seconds, she realized that dancing was similar to training, fluid and slow moves.
"Where did you learnt to dance?" Bastila asked Conner through the bond.
"Back at my homeworld, Deralia." Conner answered.
They were so into their conversation that, Conner never realized when he drew Bastila closer to him, and she never realized when they were resting their foreheads in each other's. The music was playing, but for them, the only person that matter was the other. Although that Bastila knew that she was breaking the Code, she didn't wanted to ruin the moment. Without thinking, she rested her head in Conner's chest. He was taller than her, Conner was 1.85 meters tall and Bastila was 1.65 meters tall, but she didn't care. She could hear Conner's heartbeats, they were a peaceful rhythm for her, she felt a feeling she never had after joining the Order, safety.
She could hear Conner's breathing, and Conner heard her breathing. He enjoyed the moment by closing his eyes and in a single movement, he wrapped his arms around her waist while she wrapped her arms around his neck. He leaned his head trying to meet Bastila's lips, but she saw this and turned her head away from Conner's face. Conner realized what he almost did.
"Sorry, I went too far again." He whispered.
They left the restaurant a few minutes later. In their way back to the ship they didn't speak.
"Thanks for this night." Conner said.
"You're welcome." Bastila answered with a faint smile. "Goodnight."
"Goodnight." He said.
A/N: Here's a fact I never wrote in the story, when Revan was influenced by the Dark Side, his eyes were dark tone of red and when the Dark Side left him, his eyes returned to normal. (Golden amber in this case).