Disclaimer: I do not own StarWars. a bunch of other people do though. So awesome for them ;) .

Again sorry for any mistakes. Also I got a PM from a reader, asking me why I chose Yakna to be a Ti'lek. I thought it was a fair question so i'm repeating my answer here. One: Its one of the humaneque beings I knew by name, and Two:They always to me seem to be slaves, Jedi or senaters from what I've seen, and I thought it would be interesting to have one on the darker side of things and high ranking. Anyway here's the next chapter. Still struggling with a better name for this story. Naming is not my forte. This chapter is short, sorry. But, its more of a filler. Something that connects last chapter with the next. Enjoy.

Lalia groaned out in pain. She squinted her eyes up at the ceiling every inch of her hurt, miraculously though she hadn't cracked. Neither with Vader trying to force it out of her , or the generals trying to torture it out of her. She either had more tolerance of pain than she realized or something kept her from speaking. She turned her head to face the wall feeling a cool cloth on her forhead.

Yakna was cleaning her wounds, a frown on her face. "It wouldn't be so bad for you , if you would just tell us what we needed to know. "

"Now why would I do that." She hissed. Somehow she always felt stronger when she had something to focus on, and at that moment it was getting under the twi'leks skin.

The Imperial general let out an exasperated sigh. "Let me give you some womanly advice."

"Oh, now this I got to hear." She faced the red Twi'lek , though her eyes were watching the black patterns she had painted on herself this time. Over the weeks she had been here, She noticed the symbols she painted were different from day to day. Sometimes studying the patterns made her sleepy enough to actually sleep.

"You can give a man your mind , body and even your heart. Never give up your power."

"Whats that supposed to mean?" she grunted, was she trying to encourage her not to talk? She wondered if the female was on drugs.

"This your way of telling me your proud of me?

"No, this is my way of telling you. Use this situation to your advantage. "

Lalia turned over so she was facing the wall. having no interest of paying her any more attention.

"Fine. I tried to help." Yakna sighed and left the room.

Lalia closed her eyes. Almost afraid to, sure enough the voice she longed to hear at the same time scaring her to hear. She first heard it after that first night, and again she heard it almost every night since. It was a woman's voice, and without fail, it was there again.

"He's coming."

"Who?" She spoke out loud. Maybe she was going crazy. no one knew she left or where she went. How could they be coming for her?

She didn't get a reply just a repeated "He's coming"

She slipped off into unconsciousness, a boy with blond hair and blue eyes entered her thoughts. She had been there for four months, she didn't know when the dreams started. She was sometimes lucky enough if she remembered her own name by the time they were done with her. Today she hurt more than usual. She had attempted to escape again. She got as far as the hanger before she was caught. She had been so close. The punishment was quick and severe. She could still feel the sting of the heated whips, designed to categorize wounds so she wouldn't bleed out but increase the pain .

She wondered , for not the first time if the man from her dreams was the same as the one the voice kept hinting at.

Days, turned into weeks, weeks to months. Before he knew it, Luke had turned twenty and had been away from Tatooine for a year. Han Leia and himself had temporarily parted ways. Han went to look for his missing sister. They had gotten a hologram almost as soon as they fixed the meliineum falcon's communications system. Luke had Helped Leia and the alliance for a while.

That was until the empire attacked Hoth and they had to retreat, He had gotten a vision of ben telling him to the Dagobah system. Which is where he found himself now. Training with an eccentric creature named Yoda. It was becoming increasingly harder to concentrate though.

Luke concentrated the best he could. trying to balance Yoda why moving rocks with the force. It was a lot harder than it sounded. He almost got the last rock when he wavered and both of them went tumbling. He groaned, just his luck to hit a rock.

"You must concentrate. Distracted you are."

"I can't help it, those dreams again. I can't help but feel like I shouldn't be here." He panted bit starting to get exhausted he took a swig of water from his canteen.

"Listen to your thoughts to much , you do. Feel Yes? Everything around you. Happens for a reason it does. Clear your mind of questioning you must"

He closed his eyes and went over to where they set up camp. Grabbing a bit to eat, though tossed part of the meat from his sandwich to Esmerelda who caught it in the air. Artoo beeped and whirred in excitement.

Luke breathed deeply, trying to clear his mind. He watched the dragon pick her teeth with a talon and groom herself. He Smiled a bit. HIs companions were an odd pair to be sure. They completed each other though and the three of them , a human a dragon and a Artoo unit had been through more in the last year than most did in an entire lifetime. He felt a sudden evil oppression looming toward him and he shivered.

"Somthings not right." Luke gotup and slipped his jacket around himself looking around the swampy woods.

"I feel cold." He started to walk over to the part of the wood he and Yoda had not been.

"That place, strong with the dark side it is. Briming with evil. In you must go."

"what's in there?" He found himself curious, drawn even more to the dark place.

"Only what you take with you." Yoda such a way that it made Luke pause. Try to get some meaning out of what he said. He gave up though. There wasn't much use trying to figure yoda out. It was his experience, you would experience andfigure things out for yourself what Yoda said. He just guided you.

Luke put on his belt heading deeper but was stopped.

"your weapons, you will not need them" Yoda said wisely.

Luke hesitated, but secured the belt around his hips anyway and headed deeper into the forest, he felt better when he knew his tools were just a hairs breath away. Further and further into the dark side of the forest he went. The air becoming thicker and it became harder to breath. He could feel the dark force emanating from the very roots of the trees. Luke climbed down a hole and continued to walk.

He didn't think, he just felt and let that guide him. His heart quickened in his chest, and his palms felt sweaty. He wiped them on his pants as he made his way through. Finding himself in ruins of sorts covered in vine and moss. He slowed his pace. Feeling like something was coming.

Luke heard it first before he saw it. Steps, and cracking of twigs. He shivered seeing Vader come through the fog. he started his lightsaber and blocked the attack, back tracking as he fought. He knew it was a vision but it felt so real. It was only a few attacks before he managed to behead him.

When Luke ventured to look at the helmet though, he saw not an unkown face, but his own. He watched it a moment. Was this a vision of the future, what will be or what could be? He tried to ignore the fear creeping in his heart like yoda had taught him. But he couldn't.

Then he felt it, something different, the darkness and oppression of the air seemed to lift, and he felt a warmth surrounding him and a light touch of a hand against his own. He couldn't breath. He stared ahead, afraid to look to see what he would see standing next to him. Whatever it was wasn't going to take No for an answer.

"Luke, Shh its ok to be afraid, but don't let that rule you. Look at me."

He felt compelled to slowly turn his head and look at who/what was beside him. It was the girl again. though for once she didn't have any fresh wounds or blood. Her voice was softer than he imagined it, having only heard it pain filled before. He felt her brush a palm on his cheek. It felt as real as anything he could touch or feel. He almost forgot that she wasn't there with him, whover it was.

"Calm" She said leaning up and brushing her lips to his temple, and like a bullet images flashed through his mind, the station, the room she was kept in, before finally clarity overtook him. He knew where she was.

"Hold on, i'm coming." Luke said, feeling the old elusive feeling of purpose flood through him. At that moment he knew what he was, who he was, and what he needed to do.

"I KNow." She disappeared and Luke took off at a run back toward the camp , the dark forest not feeling so dark.

Luke was no longer out of breath when he arrived back at the camp. Yoda waiting expectantly for him.

"Found answer you have."

"You knew?" Lukefelt a bit irritated that such information was kept from him.

"Know much do I. Must go you do." Yoda jumped off his rock and waddled toward the direction of his hut. Past that where another hsip was.

"Kept this I have. Come back when your done" Yoda settled himself down.

It wasn't a big ship, but it was big enough for an extra passanger. He looked over at Yoda.

"You sure?"

"Doesn' matter if I'm sure. Sure are you?"

Luke nodded he didn't need to hesitate.

"Then go, may the force be with you"

"you as well.." Luke helped Artoo get onto the ship and the dragon took a back seat as he jumped into the cockpit. He looked back at yoda.

"You sure you'll be ok?"

"Be fine I will!"

Luke shut the top part of the ship and entered the coordinates of one of the imperial's main fleet.

"Just a little longer"