Chapter Twenty-Seven: Realization
River woke up and held her hands to her eyes to shield them from a bright light. She all of a sudden felt stabbing pains coming from all over her body. She moaned.
"Please say I'm not dead." She said not knowing some one else was in the room.
"Why do you say that?" came a voice she knew but could not put her finger on who's it was.
"Because if I am then it is a pain literally, and it is too bright and I feel like I am going to be swallowed up."
She heard movement and the lights were turned off and drapes were closed.
"Is that better?" came the voice.
She removed her hands and let her eyes adjust to the lighting.
"Yes thank you... am I dead?"
"No you're alive and are aboard the Invisible Hand and you have some explaining to do young lady."
River shot up to sitting position and grabbed her head and fell back down due to the rething pain through out her body and the dizziness in her head.
While she had been in that position she saw whom the voice was, not a disappointed master but a worry struck now relieved General Grievous.
She cried to herself.
"That wasn't the smartest thing to do," he said in an I-told-you-so tone of voice.
"Yeah you think." she said more upset at herself than at him.
There was a pause that was due to the tension in the air.
"Now time for that explanation." he said letting her know that he was all ears.
"I'm not sure what even happened after I landed on Kamino so could you be so kind to update me."
"Well first of all I did know about your little meetings with Daniel and so I followed you on this one to see what would go on and it appears it was a good thing I did, because if I hadn't you would not be here alive."
He had gotten up and walked to where he could see her face and she could see his. She looked at him with multiple questions in her eyes.
"There's no way to tell you this easily but you were betrayed... Daniel tried to kill you and would have succeeded if I hadn't of killed him first."
He let this sink in. River looked away so he wouldn't see her face. She started to cry but she didn't want him to see her. She couldn't believe that after all they had gone through together and so much trust wrapped into it that Daniel had betrayed her. But her looking away didn't do any good.
"Look at me." came his voice as more of a command than a request.
Either way she couldn't refuse what he had told her to do and reluctantly she obeyed. He looked like he wanted to tare something apart but he didn't say anything, he all of a sudden looked like something had hit him cer-plunk on the head and he couldn't believe that he had been so stupid (not saying he was... but you know what I mean).
"You should get some rest... I'll be back later to check up on you." he said as he got up and left in a hurry.
She watched him go with a realization of her own that she needed to think about.