Leaving Soniee where she is for a bit i'm going to write a couple chapters about what's been going on with Korkie all this time. i'll make a note at the beginning of each section what chapter these coordinate with. I'm drawing a lot from the Duchess Diaries also as Korkie learns some more about his parents.

Suspicion:

"Wait! Where are you going? We need to leave! Now!" Bo-Katan called after him, down the hallway.

"I need to find it!" Korkie yelled back at her. "Can't leave without it!"

"You haven't taken a step anywhere near her room since she left and now when they're about to bomb the Academy down around our ears, NOW is when you have to find this thing, whatever it is?"

Korkie wasn't even exactly sure what he was looking for. He just knew that he had to have something that belonged to her. He couldn't leave this building until he had something of Soniee's in his hands.

Bo was right he hadn't wanted to enter this room since Soniee had left. They had come out of this room together after their one and only night as lovers and he had promised himself that he wouldn't enter it again unless she was with him. But now, since Almec had given the order to smoke out the resistance he had to break that promise. He had to have... That!

Korkie picked up the holonotebook and hugged it to his chest. It was the same notebook she had lost the first time the four of them had spied on Almec and she'd gotten it back after Ahsoka helped them put him where he belonged. It was the same notebook that the two of them had used to research his mom's past and saw the still of her when she was pregnant. And if Korkie knew anything about Soniee and the way she saved data and kept her devices networked together, he was sure that there would be a copy of the play on this notebook too. He could see his mother again, hear her voice. Yes, this notebook was exactly what he was searching for, even if he hadn't known it.

He could leave the Academy now. He was ready to go. That is until he saw the blinking light on the comm system. Someone had sent a comm to this room? There had been no record of it in the main comm system in the administrative office. There was only one person Korkie knew who could hack into the comm system of a cadets dorm room. That person was Soniee Ordo.

Krif! Why hadn't he thought of that? He had been so worried about her. He remembered how he used to tease her about being worried to drop out of hyperspace, that she would drop out into a firefight like her birth mother did. What were the odds of something like that happening? But in a galaxy at war where no system was immune to the fighting even peaceful Mandalore, he had begun to share her fear. As soon as Bo-Katan had told him that Soniee was piloting that Kom'rk to the core he had pictured that very event. And then when they got the word, started seeing the holos of the Jedi Temple, smoke pouring from the hanger, he had started worrying that she had made it, that Soniee was there when the bombs when off.

He knew Bo was coming and now that he had got what he had come for, that they needed to leave but he needed to see this holo. Korkie activated the comm and there she was, still in her coveralls with grease streaked across her nose. She looked like she might have been crying not long before or if she might start again.

"Korkie," she began. "You don't know how badly I wish I could be with you right now. Or I don't know maybe you do. I wanted to be with you when you learned about your mother... It breaks my heart. Kenobi too, though he hides it well. He's an incredible man. His humor and his compassion remind me so much of you. He was teaching me how to meditate on the way here."

She was finally getting her Jedi training, after years of struggling with her powers finally his own father was helping her.

"And that's what I commed to tell you. We've made it safely here to Coruscant. We're going to go before the Council and ask them for help. That's right I said 'we'. He says I have to address them, that I'm better qualified to explain everything that's been going on than he is. I'm nervous. I wish you..."

He didn't hear the rest Bo came in then and dragged him out. "We are leaving now!"

"She was there!" He screamed. "She was at the temple!" He was nearly blind with tears while his aunt shunted him down the hallway. "Fierfek, Auntie Bo, Soniee was at the temple when it was bombed!"

"You don't know that." Bo-Katan tried to reassure him but she couldn't trust him to fly on his own with a jet pack in this condition. She mounted the swoop and told him to get on behind her.

"It doesn't matter." Korkie cried. "If she's dead I might as well go down with the Academy."

"Korkie Kryze-Kenobi, You get on this bike! You don't know when that holo was taken! You have no idea if she was anywhere near that temple or anywhere near the hanger! She could be on her way back here to Mandalore right now! And what am I supposed to say to her when she finds out you stayed behind and allowed yourself to be blown to haran!"

"I'm sorry." He mounted the bike behind her, clutching the notebook. "I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking. Of course you're right."

Never Alone:

They got out just in time and Korkie watched, numb while the place he'd called home, the place they had called home was destroyed. Never again would she walk to class backward while they talked about exams. Never again would they steal food from the kitchens in the middle of the night. Never again would he fall asleep holding her in that narrow bunk.

And then, he'd been so focused on Soniee that he hadn't even thought of the other girl. "Auntie Bo, Lagos, got out okay, didn't she?"

"She's already at the safe house. That's where we're going now." Bo seemed glad that he was no longer yelling but she was still strung tight.

"Is it in Sundari?" he asked as they made a wide arch around the palace.

"No, it's... well you've been there before but I don't think you would remember."

Korkie squinted. There was an unfamiliar craft rising off of the palace landing pad. It was a Lambda-class shuttle if he wasn't mistaken. He'd never seen one of those land at the palace. Must have been an off worlder, but who? "So if not Sundari, then, Kalevala? Are we leaving Mandalore for somewhere else in the system?" Kalevala was the home of his clan but he hadn't been there since he was a young boy, not since his aunt, or his mother rather, had come to claim him.

"No, not Kalevala either. We'll be staying on the planet..." she started explaining but he lost track of her words.

Korkie began to feel a strange sensation. It was a very gentle touch, a presence but from very far away. It was... "Soniee! She's alive!"

"What are you talking about?" Bo looked back over her shoulder as they left the dome of Sundari and a wave of heat hit them. They began to fly out over the empty desert surface of the planet toward one of the cube cities in the distance.

"I- I don't know. I can't explain it. She must be reaching out with the force, but it's her. I know it's Soniee. She's alive!" he said again. And then just as suddenly as he had felt her touch it was gone. Something dark had come between them and the brief connection had been severed. "It - It's gone now. But I swear, Auntie Bo. I felt her. You were right. She's not dead. Wherever she is she's alive and she was able to reach out to me."

"Well, there now. Aren't you glad I didn't let you stay and die in the Academy?"

"Yeah. Yeah I am."