Ahsoka's Lovers

Chapter 3

All three of them were quiet for a moment. Ahsoka just stood there staring at her ticket and the hand held monitoring screen for the races. She was so concerned to look up at the two boys who were glaring at each other with anger.

Ahsoka finally mustered up the courage to break the silence. "Umm, so Kidd, how's the podracing been going for you over the last few years?"

Nyx rolled his eyes annoyed that she would initiate a conversation with Kidd rather than he.

Kidd smiled at the idea of Ahsoka showing interest in his passion. "Well, I actually got seriously injured early last year. One of my power cuplinks burnt out and sent my racer flipping uncontrollably. Half of it smashed into the side of a rock and I was sent flying our and landed in the area known as the dead zone. Its an area on the far side of the tracks in the second circuit with many short buy jagged edged rocks that cut the whole left side of my body. Would you like to see the battle scar?" Kidd asked Ahsoka.

"Alright, that's it! Come on Ahsoka, we are leaving!" Nyx demanded as he grabbed Ahsoka and began to pull her away.

She shook him off and gave him an angry look. "Nyx, what has gotten into you? This is not how you normally act."

"Yeah well most people that we encounter aren't trying to show off their racing wounds to you." Nyx explained.

"Hey, I can relate to having many scars and wounds. Remember your reaction when you saw the laser wound on my left shoulder?" Ahsoka retorted. After that, she walked back over to Kidd. "Kidd, I also have a pretty major battle wound myself. She lowered the strap of her top in order to show Kidd her laser wound on her left shoulder, little did she realize how much of her back she was exposing to Kidd, which made Nyx more nervous, but he wouldn't want to tick Ahsoka off again so he held onto his anger.

Kidd began to lose focus when Ahsoka exposed the scar to him, it was all he could do to look at the scar rather than the rest of her. He was always mesmerized by her slender yet pronounced bone structure. No matter how many short term girlfriends he had since he fell for Ahsoka, she was always the one on his mind. "Wo…wow. That's quite a wound Ahsoka." He said with a stutter.

"I know." She said as she placed her top strap back into place to cover her wound.

"Okay, so you got to see her wound! Are you happy now Kidd?" Nyx said but with much less fury.

"Hey pal, we both have wounds that will forever scar us. And it's nice to know we can relate in that way." Kidd mentioned.

"Well, I've been shot before too ya know!" Nyx interjected.

As the arguing started again, Ahsoka realized that she really needed to get away for a moment. She slipped away from the two arguing boys to grab a snack from concessions. She was a bit annoyed but also flattered that Kidd still felt something for her, and also how far Nyx seemed to be willing to go to defend her honor, it made her smile. She was now two persons away from the counter.

"Ahsoka?" came a familiar voice.

Her eyes widened and her neck stiffened. She recognized that voice immediately, that accent, those soft deep tones, it had made her tremble many times in the past and it did now as well, even more than her former master's voice would have. She slowly turned her head, and sure enough, there he was, Lux Bonteri himself. "Oh, hey Lux." She muttered with only a small amount of excitement.

"Well, that wasn't quite the reaction I was expecting." Lux playfully joked.

"Oh, I'm sorry Lux, I just distinctively wasn't expecting to see you here. There are a lot of people I wasn't expecting to see here I guess." She said with much more sincerity.

Lux chuckled. "Well, that's alright I suppose. Here, let me buy you a snack and we'll catch up." Lux suggested.

Ahsoka smiled up at him and nodded once. She grabbed Lux's shoulder before he got back in line. "Lux, I'll be waiting way over there for you." Ahsoka said pointing as far away from the other two boys as possible.

As she turned to head in that direction, she felt dazed. So much emotion had just stirred up in her mind. She had liked Kidd back in the day, and maybe still had some feeling for him, and she loved Nyx now, but there was just something about Lux that she just never could resist. While she waited for Lux, she tried to make sense of her feelings. It must have been how they met, and all they had been through together, and how she'd lost him to Steela and no matter her feelings, had to see them together while she worked along side them both. Not to mention everything she was going through personally during that time.

Lux was heading her way with some type of fried bowl of something. "Here ya go Ahoska." Lux said as he placed the bowl in front of Ahsoka.

She took a big whiff of it and the smell of the sweet fried food melted her. She smiled at Lux. "Thank you Lux." She was happy to see Lux, he always seemed much more civilized than the other two, but less inclined to protect her in some ways. He wasn't as aggressive as Nyx or Kidd, but no matter what, he was always a gentleman to Ahsoka.

"Ahsoka, I must say I'm glad to see you here! And I have to say, I'm sorry about the matters with Steela. You must understand, I… I knew since you were a Jedi that I couldn't ever have a settled life with you, especially since it was forbidden for you and I to be involved with each other." Lux explained.

Ahsoka finally got the closure she needed. She still cared about Lux in a romantic way but now that they talked about Steela and how he felt, she didn't feel so inclined to rush into anything with him as she once had a few months after Steela's death. "I understand that now Lux, and I don't blame you at all, things were very complicated at best. But did you know I'm not a Jedi anymore?"

"I thought I'd heard something to that affect, but I wasn't sure if it were true, and I wasn't sure if I should bring it up now."

Ahsoka and Lux talked for what seemed like several hours but was probably only 8 minutes. She began to wonder what was becoming of Kidd and Nyx's argument. She was able to keep her eye on them and they weren't beating each other to a pulp, yet. However, they also seemed to show no concern about searching for where she was at the time. She still had no idea how she was going to break free of Lux without them seeing her with him. she didn't really want to break free of Lux, but she knew in order to keep her own sanity alive and Lux's safety and Nyx's safety, and well, Kidd's safety too, she had to get away from Lux at some point.