Caitlyn watched as the brightness of the sky dimmed, suggesting it was night. Caitlyn had told the council a reason she saved them (not because Jango was family.) Caitlyn now sat in the Grand Hall which led to the entrance of the Jedi tempple.
Caitlyn had been there all day. She watched as the clones switched out of guard duty and new ones took their place. She stayed in the shadows and no one seem to note her presence.
Up in the room Yoda was medataing Mace quietly entered and sat apon the other mat in the room. "Yoda you wanted to see me?"
Yoda opend his eyes and looked at Mace with interest. "Having trouble are you?" Yoda felt the turmoil of emotions coming from Mace.
Mace rubbed his head. "My apperentice betrayed us. She.."
"betray us she did not." Mace stopped when Yoda interrupted. "Acting out of events in the Force she was."
Mace turned to face Yoda confusion was clear on his face. "Yoda, what do you mean?"
"Saw something in Force she did. Bad it probably was, so protected the bounty hunter she did." Yoda tapped his walking stick gently on the ground.
"You mean she saw something I or you didn't." Mace paused as her studied the room. "Shes just a padawan, How can she.."
"Unknown to us that is, but something else has become clear now." Yoda turned to face Master Windu fully and tipped his head.
Mace turned back to Yoda. "What?"
"Search your feelings, become clear it will."
Mace closed his eyes and focused untill he saw his apprentice helping a woman dressed in dark clothing. Then saw Caitlyn again slicing up something that looked like a droid memory chip with her lightsaber. Mace opened his eyes and stared Yoda in disbelief. "My apprentice help the woman escape!?"
Yoda nodded.
"But... Why?" Mace said looking down at the floor.
"Important to Caitlyn the woman was." Yoda stated.
"How inportant?" Mace asked looking up hopefully at Yoda.
"Find out that, you must." Yoda said blinking and then closing his eyes to start meditating again.
Out side the main entrance to the Jedi temple Jango waited. He learned the the Clone troopers switch out every half an hour taking about a 2 minutes to resume posts. Zam and Boba stood at his side, both wearing different clothing. Jango him self was wearing normal clothes. It made him feel kinda exposed, but if it meant getting to Caitlyn, he would do it.
"Okay, They are going to swich out soon. Get ready to go." Jango said. He watched as the three Clones walked away and the trio of people slipped in side.
Caitlyn sat quietly in the shadows. She couldn't sleep so she just sat thinking over what she had done. Caitlyn only glanced up for a second then double take. There standing in the middle of the Grand hall were three people.
One was a tall man, one was a small boy about 10 and a woman who was a head shorter than the man. Caitlyn stared at them but her face immediately started to light up as she realized who they were. A night lighting was scare in places like this, but the faint, ever changing light revealed the people she most wanted to see.
Caitlyn ran over to them and threw her self around Jango who a bit surprised but returned the hug. Then she hugged Zam them Boba. "I'm so glad your here. Why are you here any ways?" Caitlyn face was a cross between happy and confused.
"For answers." Jango said flatly. Cailtyn look turned to regret.
Caitlyn glanced around not sensing anyone, but someone had seen their reunion.
Mace Windu watched as Caitlyn threw herself around the tallest of the three intruders. Mace instantly recognized all three Force signatures. The two bounty hunters and the bounty hunters son. In disbelief he watched the meeting.
"Okay I'll give you answers but they may not be the ones you want." Caitlyn said as she reached in to one her pockets and pulled out three different holo disks.
"We can handle it." Zam said as she studied Caitlyn.
"Well.." Caitlyn pushed the button on one of the holo disked and an image appered of Tipoca City. Soon the confrontation of Jango and Obi-Wan on the Slave I platform was playing before them. Jango watched mistified, everything was exsctly the same.
Caitlyn turned it off and presented another one. It flickered on and the Genosis Battle area was shown. Once again everything was playing along to a certain point. Jango watched as Mace Windu changed at him in the holo, cutting off his arm and head. the holo flickered to Count Dooku who had the look of "oh no." Then it flickered to Boba hiding in the shadows with a look of disbelief crossed with sadness. It then flickered back to Mace Windu who face looked quite stunned as he glanced back down at the body.
It kept rolling though, to the part where the clones came in and then at the end of all that. It showed the Battle area just about empty. Boba(In the holo) knelt down and touched his fathers helmet to his forehead, crying softly. Then the holo flickered off.
"Was this some kind of cruel joke?!" Zam snapped.
"No. Its real. The person playing you, Jango was never really killed." Caitlyn sad staring at the ground.
Jango looked a bit nervous but said, "What about the other one?"
Caitlyn quickly glanced at the third disk in her hand. "I don't think you want to see this.." Caitlyn started to put it away, when Jango caught her arm and tumble out of her grasp. Caitlyn tried to grab it agian, but she was restrained by Jango so it fell to the floor and turned on.
There it first showed the meeting after the first attempt on Padmes life. Then It flickered to the chase scene. Then the bar when Obi-Wan cut of Zams arm. Jango watched he quickly glanced at his soon who was watching it with wide eyes.
Then the part in the ally. He thought Caitlyn was suppose to step in and do something but the quick sound of a dart was heard and Zam transforemed back in to a Clawdite. When Obi-Wan studied the dart and looked up, they saw a small trail of fire come from Jangos jetpack.
Boba stared Caitlyn as the disk turned off. Caitlyn was staring at the floor.
"Why did you show us this again?" Zam asked.
"Because this was what was suppose to happen." Caitlyn mumbled. "I am not suppose to be here."
"Not suppose to be here. Caitlyn that souds weird!" Boba snapped.
"Did you see how close those scenes came to real life. I had these before the events happened, even before Boba was born. Looks can be desiving, I'm much older than I look." Cailtyn looked up at Jango who was still holding on to her arm.
"We still don't get what you mean by, not suppose to be here." Jango said, studying Caitlyn seriously.
Caitlyn sighed and twisted her arm out of Jango's grasp. She took a deep breath before saying anything. Caitlyn spared a glance at Jango, Zam then Boba. "I am not suppose to be here. When I walk around the Jedi temple, other Jedi ask me how I mask myself so well with the Force. I tell them there's nothing to it, but..." Caitlyn paused looking up at the ceiling before turning back to Jango, Zam and Boba. "I don't exist in the Force. Where I come from the Force is not more than a mere dream that will never come true. The force has certian ways of working stuff out, and since I am not suppose to exist here the Force flows though me like I am invisible." Caitlyn turned towards Zam. "The night I helped you escapse, When I hid you in the Force from the two Jedi, you could see though your hand. I can summon up that much force that I literally become one with it, and not die." Caitlyn Puased her eyes taking on a glazed look, like she was looking beyond the walls that surrounded her. "I came here from a different world, one that is even more peaceful than here, but the wars we've had are far more bloody, than anything you have seen." Caitlyns voice echoed though the Grand Hall. "I'm sorry I put you all in danger."
Jango stayed silent as he studied Caitlyn. She looked so strong and powerful out on Genosis, but now look small and helpless. Jango spared a glance to Boba. He saw Boba nod, almost as if he approved of what he was thinking. "Caitlyn?"
Caitlyn looked up her hazel eyes now sad looking. "What?"
"Do you have a family?" Jango watched as Caitlyn face turned from sad to surprised.
"No, why?" She looked at Jango tilting her head.
"I.." Jango paused looking from Boba to Zam. "We want you to be a part of our family. We can adopt you."
Caitlyn face lit up with a smile. "Funny thing about that. My records in the republic data base show two different people if you search my name. The first one is just Caitlyn. A Padawan under Windu's teaching. The other is Caitlyn 'Fett' Madlor Bounty Hunter. When asked for a comment on saving the life of a small child, it says, Didn't talk."
Jango smiled. "So that's mean your a part of the family."
"No, the last name was used in a non real way, so it says Caitlyn Fett Millier." Caitlyn paused as she looked up thoughtfully out a window. "I can hack computer systems very easily. So I can erase the Jedi one and be forever Bounty hunter!"
"Lets go get this settled then." Jango started to walked away, with everyone following until the sound of a lightsaber echoed though the grand hall.
"Your not going anywhere with my Padawan." It was Windu. He face clearly showed he was angery.
Jango remained pretty calm along with Boba and Zam, but between the three of them, no blaster was in sight.
Caitlyn was surprised by Maces sudden appearance. "Caitlyn come here, they obviously tricked you. They tried to kill innocent people." Mace said.
Caitlyn narrowed her eyes. She took two steps and was then half way between Mace and Jango. "You know which side I'd lean to?" Caitlyn pulled back the sleeve of her shirt and around her wrist was a tattoo of a rose with thorns incirlcing her wrist. "I got this to represent my ship as a bounty hunter. I came here and learned from you because I knew it was the only way to stop you from killing my dad."
Mace was dumb struck by Caitlyn short speech. She had told him her biological father was long dead, before she was born, her mother died soon after.
"Anyways we have to leave." Caitlyn turned to walk away but saw the clones now standing in the way.
"No where to go. Give up and I might let you live." Windu said harshly. Caitlyn nodded and pressed a button on her communication wrist panel.
"I give." Caitlyn said laying down her lightsabers and a clone trooper picks them up and hurries away with them.
"I give too." Jango turned to the source of the statement and saw his son put up his hands. When he swore he heard something like, just play along he raised his hands in defeat and Zam followed.
Mace was puzzled but them giving up so easily. "What are you hiding?"
"Nothing." Caitlyn said dismissively. Just then blaster fire was heard it came raining down on the clone troopers waiting out side. "Suckers!" Caitlyn yelled as she reached in to her cloke to reveal another light saber, this one a dark red. Boba also pulled out a lightsaber from her shirt, turning it on, it was a dark green. The two charged though the clones slicing them to shreds.
"Hey didn't know you still had it!" Caitlyn yelled as she reached the entrance.
"Couldn't give my light saber away to save my life. It was a nice present to have you know?" Boba replied cutting down he last of the clone troopers.
"Come on get on!!" Caitlyn said as the Rosetrhorn I hover gracefully above the ground. Jango and Zam got on and Boba rushed up in to the co-pilot seat. Caitlyn soon followed. "Lets go!" Caitlyn pulled the Rosethorn up and away. "Set the Hyperdrive, Boba."
"Where are we going?" Boba asked as Caitlyn cleared the last flying lane.
"Kamino, and be quick of it. We have followers." Caitlyn said as three patrol fliers started to fly after the ship.
Boba set the coordinates. "Hyperdrive set."
"Tragectory almost set." Caitlyn answered as she started to angle the ship.
"But were still in the atmosphere!" Zam pointed out. The Rosethorn was still in the atmosphere of Coruscant. And anyone with sense in their head did not try to enter hyperspace while the atmosphere of any planet.
"I know." Caitlyn pulled back a lever and the sky blurred around them quickly changing to the blue colored Hyperspace tunnel.
Mace Windu walked among the body of the dead clone troopers. Soon he heard running and looked up to see Anakin, Obi-Wan, Darman, and a couple other Jedi. "She betrayed us."
"Who?" Darman asked. He walked up to the body of clone trooper and studied it, killed by a lightsaber. "Who did it?"
"Caitlyn." Mace said as he turned back towards the open doors of the Jedi Temple. "She helped the woman escape, she destroyed that droid computer memory and she did this." Mace hand motioned to the mess of dead clones on the ground.
"Caitlyn!? I'll kill her!" Anakin said harshly. Obi-Wan put a hand on Anakins shoulder to calm him down.
Darman looked like he was crying. "Darman, why are you crying?"
"Caitlyn... She was..my..friend." Darman sniffled a bit. "How could she do this?"
"Find her we must." Everyone turned to see Yoda walking slowly over to a dead trooper. "Knows much about us, she dose, little we know about her."
"What are we going to do? Caitlyn is no longer a part of the order, now is she?" Kit Fisto said wearily.
"We will have add her the Lost Jedi will we not?" Pol-Koon said.
"Hmmm, the answers you seek, answerable they are not." Yoda ears twitched slightly. "Find Caitlyn we must, for many questions for her we have."
Back on the Rosethorn I...
Caitlyn watched the controls flickers with different readings. Caitlyn felt a question was about to be asked so she said, "Okay, what the question?"
Jango and Zam looked up at Caitlyn in surprise. Then Zam spoke up. "How did you enter hyperspace the atmosphere of Coruscant? You could of easily crashed in to a skyhook, and killed us all."
Caitlyn smiled, "But I didn't right? Anyways the Rosethorn I has had her fair share of improvements in her life." Caitlyn patted the ships wall. "Any ways we will come out of hyperspace in 15 minutes, go get everything you need then come back here."
"And what about the Slave I? Its still on Coruscant." Jango said, looking a bit angery.
Caitlyn nodded. Then she pressed a couple buttons on comm panel attached to her wrist. "Everything is set. The Slave will meet us at the Rondevu point."
"Where is this point exsactly?" Jango asked, starting to look a bit impatent.
"Trust me Jango, you'll know when we get there." Caitlyn turned back around and once again absorbed her self in checking over the control panel.
"Caitlyn? Did I ever tell you your weird?" Boba said as he gently poked her.
"What was your first guess?" Caitlyn smiled and genlty punched him in the shoulder.
Boba said nothing, he really liked Caitlyn, he thought she was cool and calm yet still able to back a nice punch, literally. He watched as Caitlyn turned on a small holo and started to watch the news. I really could get use to her.
Look at that! Caitlyn left the order. She built the red lightsaber a while back, before she met Jango. So she is not a Sith. She doesn't really like sith, unless they pay her good money for bounty hunting.