Chapter 12: The Beginning of Sith Teachings

Brother and sister sat on a sofa in sister's quarters. Sister despising brother. Leia Organa Skywalker sat to the left of the dark red couch, and Ravan to the right, as Vader had insisted they spend a bit of time together. Neither wanted to of course. Ravan wasn't particularly fond of Leia, though he had no reason not to be, while Leia on the other hand did. A big reason, Ravan had stood back and done nothing during Bail's execution. Perhaps they couldn't have done anything, but they could have killed the Emperor before it happened.

Leia brooded over these thoughts as she picked up a glass of dark red wine, sipping it. It was quite good.

"You know…" Ravan began, but trailed off.

"What?" Leia snapped, setting the wine glass down.

"We're going to have to start eventually."

"Start what?"

"Don't play dumb with me, Vader wanted me to help you with a meditation technique so we could bond."

"Pff." Leia huffed. "And I said to you that I will not learn it so you can shut up about it and sit here until the guy comes in to take us to Vader."

"But he will be most displeased if I—"

"Aww. Afraid dear old daddy is going to ground you?"

"Ground me! He'd kill me! Besides, you're the one that sided with us, therefore you agreed to learn from us."

"From Va—" Leia began, choking on the word. Grudgingly she forced out something else. "From father, not you."

"Damn it Leia! He's going to punish us both unless you get over whatever you're angry about and let me teach you!"

Leia rolled her eyes. The truth is she had to learn, if she was going to fulfill her plan. And Ravan was right, Vader would punish them, and it wouldn't be a simple "now next time listen to what your brother has to teach you" thing. Leia would half expect to be beaten. Finally she swallowed her pride.

"Alright. Teach me."

"Excellent, first—"

"Wait, should I call you Ravan, or mister Vader?"

"Shut up and listen."

XxX

Leia grasped the technique quiet quickly, at least that is what Ravan said, Leia didn't classify three hours of sitting on her butt and trying to learn a simple meditation technique quick. But then again Ravan was the expert. This thought was enough to make Leia roll her eyes again. From what she heard Ravan was a farm boy from Tatooine, like he would ever become a Sith Lord unless Vader had found him first. He definitely was not smarter than he looked.

"I think you have it." Ravan said as Leia actually did fully slip into the Force and mediated for two seconds, and then when Ravan spoke her concentration was shattered.

"You lost it again!"

"You broke my concentration laser brain."

Ravan didn't have time to respond as the door to Leia's quarters pulled open and one of Vader's messengers stepped in.

"Eh hi, well this is awkward, rushing in when you're in the middle of a training session. Like when I used to rush in on my sister and her boyfriend to asks her if I could use her comm…" The man said. He seemed quiet… eccentric maybe. Leia couldn't quiet place it, he seemed all around weird. And strangely she was getting this impression after he only spoke a sentence, which it seemed he didn't want to finish. "You two are brother and sister, right? Yeah, he ever walked in on… oh yeah no he hasn't but…"

"Just get on with it Marshall." Ravan said.

"The Emperor will see you now."

Ravan rolled his eyes. Leia thought for a moment she knew what he was thinking, which was something along the lines of 'why won't he just get to the point?' But maybe she was mistaken. In any case she hand Ravan followed him out of her new quarters.

XxX

The first thing Ravan did when he and Leia entered Vader's throne room was climb the stairs, with her in his wake and bow to the dark lord. Leia couldn't help thinking he was a suck up. Not that she wanted to think that, it was not as if she particularly wanted to please Vader herself. Ravan seemed to somehow pick up on these thoughts and he glared at her, as she too forced herself to bow in front of this tyrant's apprentice who turned into a tyrant himself.

"I am glad to see you are allowing us to train you Leia." Vader said. "It is for the best you know. Now you may help us rule the Empire. We need a political mind and neither of us have one. Thankfully you do."

Leia felt as though she might lose her breakfast from this comment. She had no intention of helping Vader rule a cruel and heartless Empire.

"That's… uh…" Leia trailed off not being able to come up with a reply. "… good."

"Indeed." Vader said, a phrase which meant nothing. Or perhaps everything. Leia didn't know. "Your training begins now."

"Is that why laser brain over there tried to teach me a meditation technique only to break my concentration when I started to grasp it?" Leia asked envisioning Vader's helmet and head shattering and Ravan's own saber stabbing him. Vader's helmeted head that Leia would like to shatter turned to Ravan whom Leia would like to see dead on the floor after his own saber killed him.

"Perhaps." Vader said, for lack of a better response. This seemed to be lack of better responses day, first Leia, then Vader, then Vader again. "When you are able to best me in saber combat your training ends."

"Good."

"Excellent, the first thing you should know is…."

This chapter is kind of short. The reason I did this is because I want to get Mara out of the way with her Imperial quest, once she is done I want to give her months to plan, months Leia will spend training. It all works out peoples, it all works out. By the way the eccentric messenger boy Marshall is based of the computer tech in the show Alias, his name is Marshall. If any of you have ever watched Alias you know who I am talking about.