Chapter 5

Understanding

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Lux POV

I couldn't believe it when I saw Rex and Ahsoka kissing. I mean I thought she loved me. But I guess she likes some kind of creature that doesn't even have his own personality better.

Now I'm not one for crying, but at that moment I felt like crumbling to the floor and letting the water in my eyes flow.

But I managed to hold back the tears until I got to my room. Then I couldn't stop sobbing.

"Mother! I wish you were here!" I yelled. I hadn't seen my mom for almost a year. Tomorrow would be the day she died. But what happened next had to be one of the happiest moments of my life.

"I am here, son," said a voice behind me.

I turned around and saw my mother.

"Mom!" I said as I ran toward her, but as I tried to hug her, my arms passed through her, like she was made of air.

"Son, I'm sorry I've waited so long to contact you, but apparently even the Force has its limits," she said as if it were a joke.

"Why can't I touch you?" I cried. All I wanted to do right now was feel her warm embrace around me but even that was impossible.

"Lux, I'm dead and I'm only here as a ghost, so of course you can't feel my touch. Anyway I heard you crying and here I am. So what's up?" Mom told me.

I tried to swallow my shock and answer her question. "You remember Ahsoka, right?" I asked.

"Yes, of course. Very nice girl. Pretty too," Mom replied.

"Well me and her started dating, but I saw her kissing another guy and we fought and now I don't know what to do," I said, my voice cracking on the last word and breaking into sobs again.

"Oh my, well you have yourself in quite the predicament don't you? Hmm… well, do you have the entire story?" Mom asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked, trying to comprehend what she was saying.

"Well, who says Ahsoka kissed him? It could be the way it was when that girl on Coruscant kissed you. Did you ever consider that?" Mom inquired.

Oh kriff! I never thought of that! I thought.

"Well… no, I didn't think of that," I said sheepishly.

"Then what are you doing standing here! Go to the security room and take a look at those security holo-tapes," Mother said, obviously irritated by my answer.

When I turned to leave though she said, "But Lux, I want you to know that I'm proud of you."

She smiled at me and then disappeared.

"I'm proud of you, too Mother," I replied, then raced to the security room.

Ahsoka POV

When I heard a knock on my door, I expected it to be Rex, looking for me, but when I opened it, Master was there.

"What do you want?" I asked, trying to sound as if I didn't want to be bothered.

"Ahsoka, why did you run past me in the hall earlier?" Master asked, sounding concerned. "Was it something to do with Lux? Did he hurt you?"

"Well, I kind of hurt him," I said. Seeing the confused look on Master's face I said," Come in."

"What do you mean by you hurt him?" he asked, when he had come inside and sat down on my bed.

That's when I told him the story. And by the story, I mean all of it. From the day I met Lux, to that day on Carlac, and to today's incident. Unfortunately though, that meant thinking of us arguing and him breaking up with me, so before I knew it, I was crying uncontrollably and decided to sit down.

"Oh, Snips," Master said pulling me into an embrace. "If you had told me the entire story in the Medical center, I probably could've helped both of you guys. Gosh, teen romances are hard to deal with. I mean I should know. I was only nineteen, when I married Padme."

I looked up, surprised. "Really?"

"Well, yeah! I mean at first we both decided that we shouldn't be together, because we thought it would destroy our lives, but eventually we came to the conclusion that our lives would be miserable if we didn't get married. So we found a priest on Naboo and got married there."

"Wow. Um… that's quite a story!" I said, finally knowing their entire story and wondering how they had kept it a secret for so long.

"So Ahsoka, from what I can tell, you two, even with your up's and down's, love each other a lot, so if I were you, I wouldn't be sitting here, moping around, so go find him. Besides I have to deal with Rex, anyway," Master concluded.

I nodded and started to head toward the door when Master said, "Oh and Snips! Just call me Anakin from now on, okay?"

I smiled and said, "Okay… Anakin."

Then without another word I raced out the door.

Lux POV

I don't know how I ended up in the cargo room, but I did. I had just finished looking through the earlier holo-tapes and I ended up here.

But it seems as though I was in the right place at the right time, because a few minutes after I entered the place, Ahsoka entered as well.

"Ahsoka!" I yelled as she yelled, "Lux!"

We raced toward each other and embraced.

"Ahsoka, I am so sorry for what I said earlier," I cried, as Ahsoka was sobbing into my shoulder.

"It's alright, Lux!" Ahsoka sobbed desperately.

"No! It was wrong of me to think you would cheat on me without knowing the complete story," I said.

"Lux, I said it was okay, alright," Ahsoka said.

"I know, but is there anything I can do to make it up?" I questioned, as I kissed her cheek.

"Well… there is one thing you could do," Ahsoka said reluctantly. I knew it must be pretty important to make Ahsoka hesitate. She was usually pretty straight forward with me.

"Lux… I want to get married," she said.

I just stood there, mouth open, not sure what to say.

But then a few seconds later, I knew exactly what to say.

Ahsoka POV

As soon as the words were at of my mouth, I regretted ever saying them.

I mean, what would Lux, the hottest guys I've ever seen, want with me, Ahsoka Tano, sixteen year old Togruta, who can't even control her big mouth.

But all of those thoughts changed when Lux took me in his arms and kissed me more passionately than anyone had ever kissed me.

"I would love for you to be my wife, Ahsoka," Lux said and we resumed kissing.

I guess things do work out after all.

Anakin POV

I just smiled as I saw them smooching and making up.

"Those two remind me of Padme and I back in the day," I said to no one in particular. But then I remembered.

Padme.

I could've passed out right then and there, but I heard someone behind me.

"Hello, sir."

"Hey, Rex! How you doing?" I asked, trying my best to sound cheerful. It came out more constipated sounding.

"I'm fine. Except for my nose. Man, who knew Ahsoka could punch so hard! Anyway, why did you want me to kiss her earlier and say all those things about Lux. I mean, were you testing them?" Rex asked, wanting to know about my strange ways.

"Well, yeah! How'd you know?" I asked, wondering how he figured it all out.

"I came looking for you before the briefing and saw your master plan on your bed."

"Oh… well." I looked at the ground, my cheeks burning.

"By the way, can you tell them about the plan before the mission starts? I don't want things to be weird between me and her on Felucia." It was Rex's turn to look at the ground now.

"Oh… well okay, Rex," I said.

"Thanks, sir."

Then he left and I turned back toward to the two lovebirds, who apparently had left the cargo hold.

"Yeah. Those two are definitely like me and Padme."

Rex POV

I loved being able to kiss Ahsoka just once. It was magical.

I mean, even though it seems I'd do anything for my General, I had another motive for this. I like Ahsoka. There. I said it.

But I would never try to break her and Lux up just because I want her. I mean even though I'd rather be the one to date Ahsoka, Lux does seem to care for her a lot.

But if he ever breaks her heart, I will break something of his that should never be broken.

Gosh, Rex. You're getting really violent aren't you? Anyway, I'm going to try to update the story in a day or two. Depends on if I can actually get to a computer! LOL...