Chapter 1: Welcome back.
Revan was in the training room, although he only was 10, he was the only Padawan of his class to develop faster than anyone his Force powers. He was practicing with a simulator droid, when a girl of nine entered in the room.
"Have you finished your training?" The girl asked.
"No, I haven't, Meetra." Revan answered.
"C'mon Revan, you train everyday. You promised me that today you were going to play with me." Meetra said.
Revan sighed and turned off the droid. "Alright, I have finished for today; I only hope Master Kreia won't get mad at me for playing with you." He said.
"C'mon." Meetra said.
The two kids left the training room and went to the main courtyard of the Enclave, there Meetra pushed Revan and ran away from him, eventually Revan chase her like an older brother would do.
Revan felt the shining sun in his face, he opened his eyes and realized it was morning already; he looked down and saw Bastila sleeping in his shoulder. He smiled and slipped off from the bed carefully, trying not to wake her. He whispered something to her and left the room.
When Revan returned to his room he found HK in front of his door.
"Query: Where were you last night master?" HK asked.
"I spent the night in Bastila's room." Revan answered.
"Observation: Of course, organic beings need a…" HK said, but he was cut off by Revan.
"I didn't go there for that HK, she had a nightmare and asked me if I could stay." Revan answered, his face had a red color.
"Statement: I believe you master." HK answered.
Revan sighed in relief, he changed his clothes and went to wash his face, minutes later, everyone in the ship had woken up, they started to arrive to the kitchen. Bastila woke up an hour later, she opened her eyes and saw that Revan wasn't around, she got up and put on her robe, she went to the kitchen, there she found the crew talking about their future plans.
"Good morning." She said, everyone including Canderous greeted her.
She served herself some food and sat at the table, she look around and noticed that Revan wasn't around.
"Where is Revan?" She asked.
"He went out." Carth answered. "He said he needed to talk with the Rakata before leaving."
"I see." Bastila answered, then she took breakfast.
Minutes later, Revan returned to the ship, he went to his room to hide a bag from the rest of the crew. When he exited he told Carth that they were ready to leave, Carth nodded and took off, when the ship was away from the planet, it entered into hyperspace, Revan traced route to Coruscant, Master Vandar told him that the Council needed to talk with him and Bastila.
While the ship was in hyperspace, Revan went to the training room and found Bastila meditating.
"Hi sweetheart." He said breaking her concentration.
"Hi." She said smiling at him. "Where did you go after breakfast?"
"I needed to talk with The One; I needed to thank him and his people after helping me." He answered.
"I heard that the Council wants to talk with us." She said.
Revan sighed and said "Yeah, it's true; they want to know all about the mission."
"Even my fall to the Dark Side?" She asked.
"I don't know, but we will through this together, I promise." He said taking her hand in his.
"You always know what to say." She said placing her free hand on his cheek.
"Just a good advice I heard." He said and smiled. They embraced and stayed in silence a few minutes, until Revan broke the silence. "I fell in love with the most beautiful woman in the whole universe." He said.
"Really? Do I know her?" Bastila asked teasing Revan.
"Yes, actually you met her when this mission started." He said smiling.
"Can you describe her?" She asked looking at Revan's eyes.
"Sure." Revan answered. "She has a beautiful dark brown hair, bluish-gray eyes, and she's amazing at what she does, and I'm not talking only on her ability to use the Force." He said with a cocky smile, making Bastila to blush.
"Well, I also fell in love with the most handsome man, he is very tall, very strong, he has brown hair and the most beautiful and unique color of eyes that makes you lost in them." Bastila said while Revan was smiling. He leaned down to her and gave her a passionate kiss, after they broke the kiss they stayed in silence smiling at each other.
Two days later, the Hawk arrived to Coruscant; Carth took the controls of the ship and made his way to the landing path.
"Wow, the city is way bigger than Taris, I wonder if we could take a walk around." Mission said looking at the big city in front of them.
"The last time I was here was like ten years ago, I don't remember quite well." Revan said.
As the ship got close to the landing pad, an escort of patrolling ships led the Hawk to the landing pad.
"Look all the people who are cheering us, I never imagine to be a heroine." Mission said amazed.
Once the ship landed, the crew started to descend from the ship, but inside the ship were Bastila and Revan.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"I don't know if I can do this Revan." She answered.
"Oh, c'mon, you are not talking serious, you have already let your emotions flow, but a meeting with the Council scares you?" He asked.
"Yes." She answered.
"Don't worry." He winked at her "Everything is going to be alright." He said. She glanced at his eyes and took his hand in hers. She took a deep breath and both descended hand-in-hand from the ship.
Once the crew was in front of the Jedi Temple they decided it was time to part ways for now; the four Jedis; Revan, Bastila, Juhuani and Jolee make their way to the Jedi Temple.
While the four Jedis were walking down the hallways, Revan and Bastila felt their heartbeats getting faster, they took each other hands again and tried to relaxed, when they reached at the doors of the Council Chamber, they took a deep breath.
"Ah, Padawans, Jolee, come in, please" Master Zhar said.
The four Jedis entered into the room and bowed to the Masters.
"We want to talk with all of you, but you will be summoned one by one. Jolee, you are the first." Master Vrook said.
"The others will wait in a room next here, please follow this Padawan." Master Zhar said. A Padawan was waiting outside the Council Chamber.
"As you wish, Masters." The other three Jedis answered and bowed. They left the room and the door was closed. They waited in the room. The room was big; it had an incredible sight to the city, and lots of shelves with holocrons.
After a few minutes, Jolee entered in the room and Juhuani left to the Council Chamber.
"What did they want?" Revan asked.
"They wanted to now all about the mission, and how I came here with you." Jolee answered.
"Did you tell them about…Revan and me?" Bastila asked.
"Nope, I'm not the one to tell them. You two have developed a relation that can not be hidden, I hope the Council sees that when you speak to them." Jolee said.
The door opened and Juhuani entered, it was time for Revan to talk with the Council. He took a deep breath and left the room.
"I'm here Masters." Revan said bowing to the Masters.
"Master Vandar had already told us about you and Padawan Shan, we want you to know that we approved your relationship, but with one condition." Master Zhar said.
"What is it Master?" Revan asked.
"You can be together, but you cannot go on missions together unless the situation demands it. Agreed?" Master Zhar answered.
Revan felt disappointed, he and Bastila were trying to have a formal relation, but now they couldn't be together in missions. He released a breath and said. "Agreed Masters."
"One more thing Padawan." Master Vandar said. "Been considering your Knighthood, we have."
"What?" Revan asked surprised. "Master you cannot be talking seriously, I…I mean, I do not know if I deserve the title. I have caused much pain to the Republic." He said still not believing what he heard from master Vandar.
"Yes, but you were redeem Revan, and even when you faced many situations where your loyalty to the Order was tested many times, you proved to be a true servant of the light, even after knowing your true identity." Master Zhar said.
Revan knew that the Masters were right, although he caused many problems when he was Darth Revan, he had a second chance, and he never wasted it.
"So, when I will be knighted?" Revan asked.
"Next week." Master Vandar said.
Revan nodded. "That's all for now Padawan, you can go now." Master Vrook said.
"As you wish Master." Revan said and bowed to the Masters.
Revan returned to the room, in that moment Bastila was walking down the hallway, she was going to the Council Chamber. They only met their eyes few seconds, when she entered in the Council Chamber the doors closed behind them.
Moments later the other three Jedis were summoned. The Masters gave Jolee the tile of Master, Juhuani asked to continue her training, and to Revan and Bastila; they wished them luck.
When they exited the Council Chamber, Revan and Bastila went to the gardens of the Temple, they walked along the hallways until they reached a bench and sat down.
"What did they tell you?" She asked.
"They told me that I made the right decision." He answered. He took her hand in his and brushed away a strain of hair away from her face.
"What did they said about us?" She asked again.
Revan sighed and said, "They let us to be together, but we cannot go on missions together unless it's necessary."
Bastila was shocked, if Revan was telling the truth she didn't want to be mad at him.
"I don't believe this. What if something happens to you? I won't be able to save you." Bastila said with a tone of sadness on her voice.
Revan took off his necklace and gave it to Bastila. "Here, take this." He said.
"This is your necklace, the one you told me you had since you were a child!" Bastila answered looking the necklace in Revan's hand.
"I want you to have it." Revan answered.
"Revan…I don't know." She said.
"Take it. If we are apart, I want you to remember that we will always be together, the bond we share is one thing, but our love is more than that." He said.
Bastila smiled and took the necklace and put it around her neck. "I love you." She said.
"I love you too." He said with a small smile in his face. She placed her hand on his cheek and kissed him on the corner of the lips, their faces were inches apart. Revan cupped her chin and kissed her softly on the lips. When they broke apart, she rested her head on his shoulder while he wrapped an arm around her. He didn't care if others Jedi saw them, all that matter was their love.
"So, he is alive, I knew Malak was a fool." A voice said.
"With Revan alive, our plan is not going to be possible." Another voice said.
"You are wrong my friend, I have made a change of plans." The Dark lord said.
"What?" One of the voices said.
"What are you talking about?" The other voice said.
"Patience my friends, our plan is still going to be possible." The Dark Lord said.
"What you want to do?" One of the voices asked.
"You are not planning to bring Revan to the Dark Side again, do you?" The other voice asked.
"No, but we can use him to get information about the Republic and so attack from the inside." The Dark Lord answered.
There was a long pause, then one of the voices spoke; "When do we attack?"
"We need to train our troops, we are going to attack in a year, and we need to lure the Jedis into a tramp to capture Revan." The Dark Lord answered.
"So is decided, we will attack them in a year from now." The second voice said.