Carth:

"Clear your mind, Adalia." Bastila told her, keeping her eyes closed as she sat cross legged in the middle of Carths' living room floor. "Focus on your breathing, keep calm, keep an opened mind…" She trailed off.

Carth watched intently at Adalia who was mirroring Bastilas' pose and would peek up from under her lashes to see if her master had noticed her squirming.

"She is way ahead of where I was when I was her age." Juhani told Carth quietly.

Carth had to keep himself from sighing when he saw her for the first time in years since she left to join Bastila, sadly Bastila had fully trained her to control herself and wipe away the rest of her free will…

Stop it, he had to tell himself, they need to keep their emotions in check…

He grunted. "Wonder where she gets it from…" He said flatly and eyed the cathar with a blank look.

She averted her bright yellow eyes and feeling self-conscience under his glare, she roved her hands over her clothes, she was wearing an identical dress as Bastilas' which, in his opinion, would attract more attention than dismiss…

Juhani uneasily squirmed in her seat.

"I'm sorry." Carth went back to watching his daughter attempt to meditate "Ignore the cranky old man. You don't deserve any bashing." He trailed off and lazily leaned back in his chair.

"I understand, Admiral." She said calmly in her deep-throated accent.

Carth hadn't been pleasant the entire time the two jedi had been in his apartment and Juhani easily understood why, they were the 'enemy', the 'enemy' who wanted to take his daughter away from him. She smiled slightly, same old over-protective Carth, she thought to herself.

"Master Shann?" Adalia asked, giving up on her meditation.

"Yes?" She asked opening her eyes to look at the girls extended hand.

"Do all jedi get to have glowing swords?" She pointed to Bastilas' lightsaber that was hooked to her belt.

"Light saber." She corrected her. "And only trained jedi get them."

"Will I ever get one Master Shann?" She asked eagerly, a smile lighting up her face.

"Well-" She was interrupted by an angry Carth.

"No." He snapped, standing up quickly. "No light sabers! No training! No academy!"

The three of them stared wide eyed at Carth, shocked by his out-burst.

"No. Just-just, no!" He stormed down the hallway calling back to them over his shoulder. "I-I need a minute alone. Just do your jedi… things…"

He slammed his bedroom door and slumped onto his bed, burying his face in his hands.

He was at breaking point and he knew it, he didn't know how much more he could take. "Screaming at your kid won't help anything, you bastard." He said to himself quietly and raked his fingers through his hair then shook his head helplessly. He wished he could take the harsh words back as soon as they had left his mouth…

He flopped onto his back and flung an arm over his closed eyes. "How could you let this happen?" He said at the ceiling and bit down on his lip.

For the first time since his wife had left him and their daughter, he was angry with her and he hated himself for it.

There was a light tapping on his door and he took no notice to it.

He heard the door open and felt a small body climb up the bed to snuggle against his chest, his arms automatically wrapped around his little girl.

"I'm sorry, Princess. I'm so sorry." Hot tears fell down his face as he spoke, he couldn't hold them back no matter how hard he had tried.

She stroked the tears from his face and gave his prickly cheek a kiss. "Don't cry." She begged quietly.

He couldn't believe how much she was reminding him of Scarrlet in that moment as she comforted him, he looked up at her, she looked just like her mother ( despite the fact that she had his eye color and nose shape ) hell, she even frowned the same way she does.

"I'm only upset with myself." He told her stroking a strand of hair out of her face then gently cupped the side of her face in his hand.

"Well, don't be." She said rubbing his rough hand and gave him a small smile.

Her heart-shaped face was so angelic, her eye-lashes touched her rosy cheeks every time she blinked. How did she grow up this quickly? She was only a few months old a while ago, back when he was the one comforting her, instead of she comforting him.

He couldn't help but smile back at her, he rubbed his face with his other hand "We should get back to your meditating, huh?"

"Only- only if you want me to." She said gently.

"Only if you want to." He stroked her rosy cheek with his thumb.

"Kay." She nodded and gave his hand a squeeze before she scooted off of the bed and walked back down the hall to go back to 'Master Shann' and Juhani.

He rubbed his eyes with a groan wishing that his daughter hadn't seen him crying and forced himself to get back onto his feet.

Since when was it her job to comfort him? He asked himself with a shake of his head.

His shoulders slumped. "Why can't things just be simple for us, again?" He asked and turned to follow his daughter out to the living room.

Adalia:

She doodled on the piece of paper in front of her as she sat alone at the short table with her classmates playing and talking around her but she wasn't paying any of them attention.

Pain, fear …. Pain, so much pain….

Adalias' body went limp and she flopped down onto the hard surface of the table.

Darkness…. Everything felt so dark….

Pain knotted in her stomach and a whimper escaped from her throat as tears flooded her eyes.

Darker…. Getting so much darker….

She felt as if the galaxy was trying to swallow her whole.

"Adalia!" Her teachers worried cries were way in the distance….

She felt the dark eating at her mind not leaving a single corner with light…

"H-hurts!" She wailed brokenly. "Hu-urts…"

The darkness was pulling her further and further away from reality until all of her senses had left her small body leaving her completely still…

Carth:

"What's going on?" Carth demanded as he barged into Adalia's hospital room to see his daughter sitting on the edge of a cot with a doctor hovering over her.

"Admiral!" The man turned to greet him.

"Hi, Daddy." Adalia waved at him with a loli-pop in between her fingers.

"What happened? Adalia, are you okay?" He pressed and walked over to her to rest his hand on her head as he examined her from head to toe.

"She gave everyone quite a scare, Sir." The doctor informed him. "She had spontaneously collapsed at school and I cannot find a single reason as to why that had happened. But as you can see her condition has improved." He shrugged his shoulders.

"Thank you." He told the man and he nodded in return.

"I'll leave you to some privacy" he turned to leave. "We would like to keep her over-night just in case."

Carth nodded and waited for him to leave.

"What happened?" He asked coming down on his knees in front of her to hold her chin in between his thumb and finger.

Her smile had slowly turned into a grimace and her dark, brown eyes were full of pain. "The- the bad feelings… It hurt, Daddy. It hurt me." She winced.

So many tears in such a short few months.

"Shh." Carth held her and soothingly rubbed her back as she wailed brokenly in his arms.

He was hurting her just as much as these 'visions' were by keeping her here and not sending her to Datooine with Bastila, where she belonged…

Carth felt tears sting at his own eyes as he held Adalia against his chest. "It's okay, Princess. Everything will be alright. I won't let it hurt you again." He promised and fought back the lump in his throat.

He held her closer as she sobbed, the tears finally spilling over his cheeks and he buried his face in his hair. "….okay…. Gonna be…. Okay…" He said brokenly as they held each other, never wanting to let go.

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"That's not going to work for me." Carth argued firmly. "I need to see my daughter more than just once a month, Bastila. She's never even been away from me over night since the day she was born!" He complained, absently rubbing his sore back from sleeping in that hospital chair next to Adalia the previous night.

Bastila sighed over Carths' desk comm. "Admiral Onasi, I'm pushing things to the limits and beyond just for this to work out for you."

"Dammit woman, for the last time, call me CARTH." He demanded, irritation decorating his face.

She rolled her eyes "Okay 'Carth'." She shook her head and brought the calm mask back onto her pale face. "Once a month is the best that I can do Adm- Carth. I am sorry but you have to consider the circumstances. I don't even know how I am going to sneak you in or her out in the first place."

He swallowed hard and bit down on his lip, whatever is best for her, he told himself.

"It will work out, Carth I promise you that." She said reassuringly understanding the pain that he felt.

"Just tell me when and I'll be on my way." She said gently.

He nodded and rubbed his eyes "I-I still… Still need to tell her…" He admitted quietly.

"I see." She said quietly and felt uncomfortable as the Admiral went quiet. "Good-bye, Carth. The force be with you."

She disappeared from view and the comm went silent.

How could he bring himself to tell his little girl that he was sending her away? No. It's not like that, he fought with himself quietly as he sat at his desk ignoring the paper-work in front of him.

He rested his elbows on the desk and twisted his fingers painfully in his dark brown hair and groaned hating the silence that echoed through his office.

About an hour of self-loathing later his comm had buzzed and he answered. "What is it, Zerre?"

"Sir, you have a visitor who says they need to see you." She asked, he could hear a hint of bitterness in her voice. "Says her name is Terra." She said blankly.

Yes, send her in." He responded eagerly.

The exile had returned… With Scarrlet? He hoped desperately, calm down don't get your hopes up, he reminded himself.

He stared at Terra as she entered his office, waiting for her to say something but all he got was a nod of greeting.

"Well- did- did you?" He couldn't go any further, all he could do was eye the brown haired woman who stared back at him.

"Oh, yes. I've found her, Admiral." She confirmed and slumped down onto the chair that was on the opposite side of his desk and she absently tugged at a piece of hair that hung in her face.

"Where is she?" He almost yelled. "Is-is she here?" his eyes widened.

"Nope." She shrugged off his gaze and a small smile tugged at her red lips.

What the hell was up with her? He stared into her nearly black eyes. "Where is she?" He demanded. Wait, I thought her eyes were hazel, he thought and stared at her puzzled.

She waved her hand "Oh, off in the un-known regions, like you figured, but I was able to pin-point her location."

"Then what are you doing here?" He asked irritated and confused at the woman that sat across from him, something in the air just didn't feel right.

"Needed some fuel for the Hawk." She explained. "Filled it up and thought I would come and give you a heads up before we head out again."

The fuel had been off limits for everyone besides the Republic so how the hell did she…

"So I'll just go and find little miss Revan for you then." She said with a smug smile ignoring Carth's questioning gaze and stood up to leave.

The tension in the room could be cut through with a vibro-sword as they eyed each other, waiting for someone to make a move.

He didn't know how he could feel it but he just felt dark energy rolling off of her body as she stood in front of him with her lips turning into a sneer. A good person turning into a monster in a short period of time… It was all too familiar for him to stomach.

Carth's hand twitched for the blaster that was resting in its holster that rested against his thigh.

"I see." He said quietly his voice full of disgust and then there was a complete silence that entered the room as they eyed each other.

"I should be going now." She turned for the door with a sinister grin on her face.

He acted quickly, raising his blasters and pointed them at her back. "The hell you are-" He was cut off, Terra had acted faster, with a jerk of her hand Carth was thrown across the room to collide with the wall with a loud "Oomph" and a grunt of pain.

He held his throbbing shoulder, hoping it hadn't been dislocated and propped himself on his un-injured arm peering up at her with narrowed eyes.

Terra, enjoying the pain and anger rolling off of his bruised body had crouched over him with a smirk on her twisted face.

"Oh, our brave Admiral!" She cried in a mock cheer "You either are very stupid or someone has 'feelings' for the ex-Dark Lord."

"I won't let you touch her!" He snarled at the evil woman. He had to do something, he wasn't going to let her touch a hair on Revan's head, he'd die first.

Terra cackled. "Stupid and in love!" She declared setting a tight grip on Carths' jaw and switched on her light saber holding it close to Carths' neck. "Don't worry, Carth. I'll be sure to let Revan know that the republic is minus one Admiral."

Carth hit her wrist with the palm of his hand and kicked her leg out from under her sending her saber across the room and setting her momentarily off balance, just long enough for him to take advantage of.

He sprinted back to his desk and retrieved the double-bladed vibro sword he had stashed in the hidden compartment and dropped into a battle stance, facing Terra who had also regained her composure.

Light saber in hand she twirled it threateningly. "Alright maybe not too stupid…." She admitted and lunged to attack.

She wielded her light saber as Carth focused on blocking the deadly strokes of the powerful, orange weapon.

After what seemed like an eternity they had broken their spar to catch their breaths.

"This is getting boring." She said, faking a yawn and then waved her hand throwing Carth against the large glass window smacking his head, hard.

He groaned but didn't move, he felt warm blood trickle from his fore head and over his closed eye.

"You're a strong fighter, Admiral." She sneered standing over him "I see what Revan saw in you."

"Leave her…. Leave 'er …. Alone!" He growled struggling to get back up and find his fallen vibro sword again.

"Heh." She scoffed. "I admire your will, too bad I have to kill-" She was cut off.

"Daddy!" The shrill cry came from Adalia as she stood in the door way staring wide eyed at the horrific scene with Zerre standing behind her.

"Admiral!" The secretary gasped and tried to hide Adalia from view.

Terra stared at the child who had Carths' eyes and Scarrlets' features. "Tsk, tsk, tsk." She chided. "Revan and the Admiral got a little busy after you saved the galaxy, eh?" She asked very amused.

Carth was struggling to stay awake, he had to get up, he couldn't give into the pain. Adalia, Scarrlet, the two people who meant the most to him in the galaxy, they needed him.

Daddy, the sweet word had sent shocks of pain to his very core, he had to keep going for his daughter, his wife, his family.

"Get her out of here!" He yelled to Zerre who looked like he was going to faint from fear.

"No, Carth don't be rude. I'd love to meet Revan's 'daughter'." Terra said sweetly and gestured for her to come. "Bring her to me." She commanded and Zerres' eyes went dull and her face expressionless as she mindlessly dragged Adalia by the wrist towards them.

"No!" Carth grunted trying to stop the room from spinning as Adalia struggled against the secretary.

"Thank you." She waved her hand to Zerre. "Now back to work."

She mindlessly walked back out to the lobby leaving the three of them alone.

Terra smiled at the small girl's confusion and fear for her father. "Such a beautiful girl!" She complimented and her hand fell onto her black haired head. "And so strong in the force. Hmm. Just like her mother." She mused.

"Get your hands, ugh, off of her!" Carth winced at the pained and stared at his daughter with fear in his eyes but all he saw in her eyes was anger.

Adalia looked from her broken, bleeding father to Terra "You hurt my Daddy." She stated her tiny fists clenched.

"And I'm afraid I'll have to do more than that." She smirked at Adalia and pointed her saber to Carth who was attempting to sit up.

Adalia could feel her father's fear and then she was consumed with hate…. She let all of her anger go. "NO!" She shrieked and Carth watched as his desk was lifted off of the ground and was thrown at an un-expecting Terra, the blow had sent Terra straight on her back and the back fire made Adalia fall onto her backside.

Adalias' victory only lasted for five seconds when Terra had pounced back up to her feet and held her hand out towards Carth. "This is what happens when you cross me!" She snarled and shocks of blue lightning had exploded from her finger tips to collide with Carth's chest, then everything went dark, the last thing he remembered was the feeling of being burned alive and the terrified screams of Adalia….