I blinked my eyes open groggily as I sighed not comprehending what happened in the last week or so. "Good morning Dear." I heard the sinister nickname I quickly looked at the source of the sound, Thrawn. "You look quite peaceful when you sleep." He made a comment that made my insides want to turn inside out. "Give me the holophone, I'm going to call Rue." I said rather rudely done with him, but instead of getting up from his position on the bed he chuckled and leaned closer to me. "Were not on Naboo anymore Dear, there are no calls for you to make and there is no Palpatine to stop me." I felt the hair on my neck stand up as I quickly looked around the room realizing that it was unfamiliar and cold. Memories from the previous week came flooding back, I gave up my freedom for the freedom of my family. "Where are we?" I asked attentively and Thrawn stood up peering over me "Why would I tell you that?" He asked and I knew the answer, why would he tell me where we were? That would mean that I knew where to tell the Rebellion to go if they did go after me. "I'll let you have one call to your sister, a call to tell her goodbye." I bit my lip holding back tears as the thought of having to tell my sister goodbye, the thought that I would have to tell her to give up on me. I mean, who was I kidding? Thrawn would never let me out now that he has me in the palm of his hand, and even if I were to escape from this house, I had no idea where in the galaxy I was. I would have to deal with the Empire because Palpatine wouldn't live, let alone live in peace, with all the information I knew. I wasn't going to make the Rebellion waste their precious time searching for me when they could be spending those blood, sweat, and tears fighting the Empire. I hated the fact that sometimes to protect the things you love, you have to let go of them first. That's why I gave custody of the triplets to Ash so quickly, its why Ash asked in the first place, because we both knew that I probably wouldn't be coming back to the Rebellion. I nodded as a sign that I complied with the reason why I was going to call Rue, and he handed me the holophone, and pressed a blaster against my back. I put in the frequency and the call picked up in around a millisecond. I saw Rue with puffy eyes and Ash holding Ria next to her. "Hey sis," I waved but quickly hid my hand when I realized it was shaking. "Rebel, where are you? Are you okay? Where is Thrawn?" She asked questions like rapid-fire and I sighed "I don't where I am, as far as I am aware I'm fine, and he's beside me." I answered her questions and I saw Rex, Ahsoka, Hera and Wrecker enter the room, sitting next to the couple. "I'm just going to cut to the chase. I said looking down at my lap knowing that I wouldn't be able to look her in the eyes while telling her this. "I don't think it would be smart for anyone to look for me, because it would waste time and resources that would be used on more important things, um, and if I'm being realistic," I looked up at the group "I'm not getting out of here alive." I saw tears run down Rue's face, "which is why I agreed to give custody of the triplets to you and Ash," Tears started streaming down my face, "so I guess my last order as leader of the Rebellion," I choked up and wiped the tears off of my face "Is that I want you and the Rebellion to forget about me, so what I'm really saying is that I love you, so I'm saying goodbye." I exhaled shakily "Rebel no, you can't do this." Rue pleaded through a flow of tears "That's an order Soldier." I bit my lip as if started to shake "Take care of your new kids okay?" I asked purposely not calling the kids mine, "Bye Sis." I looked up at Wrecker and by heart ached as I saw my older brother shed a silent tear "Bye Tall guy." I whispered not sure if it was loud enough to hear but right before I hung up I heard words that shattered by heart "Bye Shortie."
