A/N: As always, thanks for reviewing! Oh, and I know Benro seems very nice, but that's just toward customers. You'll see that in this chapter. And speaking of this chapter, it's gonna be much shorter than the last one, but I think you'll like it.

Chapter Three

When the couple left, Benro went back to the room where the kid was. He unlocked the door and went in, storming towards the bed.

The kid, obviously seeing that Benro was alone, knew what was coming. He leapt from the bed and tried to ovoid him. But Benro grabbed him by his shoulders and shook him.

"What's the matter wit' you!? Those people are thinking about taking you into foster care! That means more money for me and I'm not gonna let you cost me more dough just because you scared them off by actin' like you're stupid!"

Benro threw him against the near by wall and watched the kid fall to the ground. He made a noise that sounded like a whimper and just sat there, as if hoping Benro was finished and would leave him alone.

Well Benro wasn't finished yet.

With two strides, he got to the kid and grabbed him by the hair, forcing the boy to look at him.

"If you keep actin' like you can't talk –and I know you can- then be sure you're gonna regret it for the rest of your worthless life!"

With that, he threw the boy by the hair back to the wall and stormed out of the room.

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When the door locked again, Luke tried to stand up but realized that he couldn't. His head was too dizzy from that last bang against the wall. He felt blood on his cheek. Luke wiped it off, but more blood came and he gave up.

Luke, knowing that his hair probably looked wild after Benro's attack, brushed his hand through his blonde hair and sighed. Benro always got like that when Luke started causing him problems.

…

The rest of the day, Luke tried to recover from Benro's latest attack. When his head stopped swimming whenever he tried to stand up, Luke made it back to the bed to lie down. His head felt good on the pillow. When the lights when out, he tried to fall asleep, but a slight throbbing in his head left from Benro's beating caused falling asleep to be a bit of a difficulty.

After a while he finally fell asleep.

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Because of a meeting at the senate, Lizzian couldn't come to the FHF the next day. Japhonan had to come early in the morning because he too had a meeting to get to later that day.

"Mr. Marthio!" Benro said as he stood up from his desk. A smile played across his face. "How nice to be seeing you again, sir. Are you here to possibly take the poor kid into foster care?"

Japhonan held up his hand. "Ha, ha, not yet. I just wish to see him again."

Benro looked slightly disappointed when he heard this but nevertheless, he got his keys and led Japhonan to the room again. When he opened the door, they saw that since it was still early morning, the lights of the room were still dimmed and the boy was still asleep.

"Ah," Benro said. "Perhaps you'd like to come back when he is awake, yes?"

But Japhonan shook his head. "No, no, it's okay. Don't forget to close the door behind me."

Japhonan walked into the room and sat down on the chair next to the bed again. For the first time since Japhonan had seen him, the boy looked peaceful. His body moved up and down with each breath and his face was calm and placid.

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All of a sudden, the dream turned into a nightmare. The beautiful, green-toped mountain turned into a small rocky ledge. The day grew dark and the only colors he could see were black and red. Down below the dark ledge on which he now stood, a raging lava river flowed and began melting away the base of the ledge. He was going to fall!

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Japhonan watched as the boy's peaceful presence slowly turned into a troubled sleep. He groaned and turned from side to side. His face was pulled together into a look of searching. It was like he was looking for some way to escape from whatever was haunting him.

On instinct, Japhonan reached out and grabbed the boy's hand which had begun to thrash about pointlessly. Even in his sleep, the boy seemed so aware. He tried to pull his hand back, but Japhonan wouldn't let go. He took the hand closer to him and wrapped both of his hands around it, soothing him as much as he could.

It must have had some affect, because the boy finally calmed down. Japhonan finally withdrew his hands, but the boy's hand wouldn't let go of his, so he kept it there.

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He had come close to falling in the lava, but then suddenly, out of the sky and angel came and carried him up to the top of the clouds. He angel laid him down on a puffy white cloud and let him sleep. The nightmare had become a dream again.

A/N: I warned you this was going to be a short chapter. But Luke has gone through so much; I wanted him to have a little bonding moment with Japh.

Oh, and Vader will be coming in the story, I swear. This is a Luke/Vader story, so don't worry, he'll be comin' in soon.

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