Sorry for the late updates, but I've been busy lately. I also realized some of the writing in my story is missing so I had to do some editing, it's very weird, nothing major though. And I've been having to go to the library to write, because the Internet has been out for a while. Also, I forgot to mention that the man communicating with Lita will be revealed in this chapter.
Seeking Answers
When Lita was ready collapsed, Vader quickly shut down the training droids. Vader then caught his daughter, just before her head hit the hard floor, but he couldn't figure out why the girl collapsed like that. Vader knelt down carefully, still holding his daughter.
"Lita?" he asked carefully.
Lita didn't seem to have heard her. For a moment, Vader panicked, but a quick check in the Force showed his daughter was unconscious, but otherwise healthy. Vader then reached out to touch his daughter's mind, since she didn't know how to shield her mind, it wasn't difficult for him to get in. Lita's mind was very jumbled, there were with some strange images.
Vader then felt his daughter slowly opening her eyes. For a moment, Lita stared blankly up at her father's mask before she regained her composure. Lita then sat up and looked at her father, she didn't say anything.
"Why did you collapse, Lita?" Vader asked.
Lita twitched, "I..I saw some things that I think were from the past," she said, "And I saw you and mother."
"Did you?" Vader responded, his face softening under his mask at the mention of Padme. It wasn't a question considering it was known for Force-sensitives to receive visions, even visions of the past.
"Father, what was life like for you and grandmother?" Lita asked with genuine curiosity.
"There will be no more questions about my former life," Vader boomed, "It no longer has any meaning for me."
Lita wanted to speak out, but no words could come out of her mouth, so she just stayed silent.
"That's enough training for now," Vader decided, knowing his daughter currently wasn't in any condition to continue training.
Lita was about to stand up, but she ended up losing her balance. Vader caught before she hit the floor again and carried his daughter in his arms back to her quarters. When Vader got there, he was greeted by Rori's growling and hissing. He then gently laid his daughter on the bed and exited her quarters.
After a while of lying on her bed and staring at the ceiling, Lita sat up and looked to notice Rori with her paws in Lita's lap and Deethreepio standing at the foot of her bed.
"Mistress Lita, it's so good to see you still functioning," the protocol droid said in relief.
"Thanks, buddy," Lita said with a slight smile, still feeling agitated.
"What happened? Where did he take you? What did he do?" the droid asked in concern.
"Not much," Lita answered truthfully, "Vader took me to do some training, there were a couple droids firing blaster bolts at me and he had me block them."
Lita really didn't want to talk about her training, considering it involve using the Dark Side, which was still making her feel miserable. She only agreed to protect her companions from Vader, but she still had no intention on turning to the Dark Side. Despite knowing more about her father, Lita still wished she was home on Naboo, but knew it wasn't going to happen right now.
"He also got me something to eat," Lita then added, "I almost forgot." Lita then reached into a pocket and pulled out some nerf strips, "Here Rori," she said to the cub giving her the meat, which she ate right up.
Lita then got off her bed and walked to a bookshelf that was in the corner of her quarters. She looked to see if there was something good to read. It was all books about the Sith, The Galactic Empire, and The Dark Side of the Force.
"I guess there is not much to read," Lita sighed, "I wished I still had my Jedi handbook," but she still grabbed a book that was called Book of Sith.
As Lita sat on her bed reading the book, there was one section that got her attention, "The Rule of Two." It was saying how there was always only two Sith at a time, no more, no less, a Master and an Apprentice.
"But if The Emperor is the Master and my father is the Apprentice. Why would my father train me to be a Sith and why would the Emperor allow him to train me without any issues?" Lita asked herself.
The girl's thoughts then went to the voice of the mysterious man. Who was he? How does he know her? And was he the one sending her the strange visions? Lita wished she could talk to him, because she had so many questions to ask him. Then a thought occurred to the young girl, she remembered in her Jedi handbook, how the Jedi could commune with the Jedi spirits by meditating. Lita knew she wasn't training to be a Jedi, but she still wanted to try talking to whoever it was who was speaking to her.
Lita was then sitting on her bed with her legs crossed and eyes closed. She began breathing in and out trying to clear her mind of all emotions and thoughts to focus on the man was communicating with her.
After a while the girl's patience paid off when a man's voice was heard, "You remind me quite a bit of your father, Lita Skywalker."
Lita opened her eyes and looked to a see a spiritual man with long brown hair, blue eyes and a beard and he also had a fatherly like appearance. She then realized it was one of the men she saw in her vision.
"You're the man whose voice I keep hearing," was the first thing that came out of Lita's mouth.
"I told you that you would figure it soon," the man replied with a gentle smile.
"Who are you?" Lita asked, wanting to know the strange man's name.
"My name is Qui-Gon Jinn," the man answered.
Well, there you have it, so if you guessed it was Quin-Gon Jinn, you were right. By the way if anyone has any suggestions for the story, I'm open to it. Well, until then, May The Force Be With You!
