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Post by Force_Flow on Aug 15, 2007 11:14:29 GMT -4
Darrina bowed her head. "It's a triangle," she muttered. She raised her eyes and looked at him, sad and defeated. She shook her head. "I was there for you because I like you, Naos." She lay her hand on his shoulder. "But Scout needs you more than you need me. I know we kissed back on Kamino, but it was only in the thrill of the moment. You and Scout... You guys really like each other. I have my eyes on someone else here. Sorry."
She quirked a smile. "You can't betray me," she said, "because there's nothing to betray."
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Post by hk47fan on Aug 15, 2007 11:27:19 GMT -4
Naos
I managed to smile, and I finally just let out a large breath of releif and said "Thank you, Darrina. Thank you so much."
"I hope I haven't hurt you...and what you want works out." I told her, and slowly turned to walk out the door
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Post by Force_Flow on Aug 15, 2007 11:35:32 GMT -4
Darrina shrugged, watching him leave. Then, as she got back to work, she wondered what Nait was doing.
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Jaing didn't seem to care about Don Wei. He was too busy playing around on the HoloNet with his brothers. Nait decided to press the point. "That guy can find us all out," he hissed.
"Yes, he can," Jaing said. Whistling through his teeth, he leaned foreword and squinted at the screen. "Mar'e! Vode! N 'oya 'kari gihaal!"
"Udesii," Ordo warned. "Ori'jate. Nar dralshy'a."
Jaing nodded. Nait, beweilded, left the room.
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Post by Revan Jast on Aug 18, 2007 9:37:14 GMT -4
Selas looked at the computer.
"Open hatch."
Nothing.
"I said open hatch!"
"Shush," the comouter replied quietly. "I'm testing my theory."
Selas frowned."What theory?"
"My theory on how lazy humans, especially men, are when they tell thier computers to open the hatch when the button is 2 inches away."
"Goddam piece of equiptment. Why did I ever listen to what mother said about cheaper is better?"
The computer had a hint of sadness in what it said next.
"You could have gotten Computer number 2, which would have opened the hatch and made you drinks for only 500 credits more! Or spend 5000 credits on a computer that opened the hatch, made you drinks, and came with a limited time only Female Twilek Generator! But under the circumstances, I think I do just fine!"
Selas glanced at Fi. "What would I do with this Twilek Generator?"
"What else," said the computer happily. "The best massages in the galaxy!"
"Overated." replied Selas.
"Free to dress them however you want!"
"Got better." said Selas.
'Sex 24/7!!!" the computer yelled.
Selas raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
He suddenly remembered Fi was there.
"Dammit."
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Post by Force_Flow on Aug 18, 2007 15:00:06 GMT -4
Sanji was reaching for her bottle, making incoherent sounds with her mouth as she struggled to grab it. In her crash chair, restrained by the crash webbing, Sanji started crying.
Fi held the bottle just out of her reach. “Get it, Sanj,” she whispered. “Come on.”
“Bottle!” Sanji cried.
“The bottle’s right here,” Fi said. Kneeling down in front of her daughter, Fi shook the bottle slightly so she could hear the juice sloshing around in it. Sanji struggled and reached again with her hands. Not because she was thirsty, but because that was her bottle and, in her own words, mine! Fi felt Sanji tug on it with the Force, then with more force, and it flew out of her hand and into Sanji’s.
Fi unbuckled Sanji’s crash webbing and stood, bending backwards to stretch her muscles. Picking Sanji up, Fi crossed over to the ramp where Selas was having an animated conversation with the computer.
Fi rolled her eyes and hit the activation stud, opening the ramp. She gestured for Selas to go first.
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Looking out into the sky, Scout brought her knees up to her chest. She closed her eyes for a moment, listening to the sound of nothing. But it was a peaceful nothing. Straining her ears, she could just barely hear the music coming in from the dining hall, and using the Force to further enhance it, she heard the thunder in the distance, the clatter of spoons and knives, the flowing water beneath her…
Opening her eyes, she took a chance and looked down. Below her, though distant, was at least fifteen acres of gardens. From her perch five hundred feet up in the air, she saw spots of purple and yellow, suggesting bloomed flowers.
She didn’t even think.
Calling out to the Force, she took a step into the open air, slowing her descent to pick out a nice landing spot. Her concentration slipped, and she landed rather hard on both feet. Her leg accidentally locked and unlocked, sending her on one knee in life-filled garden.
Blowing out a breath, she headed for the sound of the water.
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Post by hk47fan on Aug 19, 2007 17:48:57 GMT -4
Naos
I slowly made my way through the halls back to Scout's quarters. It wasn't a very long walk at all, due to the fact Bail didn't want us staying in some huge area incase on nights like this tours were made.
I kept my back against the wall, slowly edging around, and cloaked my presence in the Force. As I was out in a more open area, for the moment anyway, I could sense another Force Sensitive here. Not a Signature I knew, either.
During the past two years and during my time in the Jedi Order, I had once learned about cloaking your Force Signature. It was a beginning lesson, but I had been taught at least how to do it.
I had discovered after the Empire started I would need that power, even more than I would have needed it in the Clone Wars. With Vader around, and the obsession he had with us, I had to be careful.
I wasn't completely efficient in doing it, but I was getting there.
After a few more minutes of sneaking around and concentrating through the Force, I got back to the door of Scout's quarters. I opened it, and swiftly slid inside.
My eyes nearly widened when I saw an open window, and no Scout. "Oh no...." I whispered softly, and ran frantically towards the open space
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Post by Force_Flow on Aug 19, 2007 18:09:11 GMT -4
Scout fell to her knees at the grassy banks of the small pond and ran her finger through the clear clue water. A memory, unbidden, came to her mind. Of her and Naos, kissing, floating in the water, having fun…
So long ago.
Bending foreword, she plunged her head into the icy water. Angrily, rubbed her hair with both hands, trying to get the purple hair dye out. Her efforts produced little relief, for when she looked at a clump of her hair, she saw traces of purple. “Kriffing Sith,” she muttered. “Kriffing hair. Kriffing life!”
Wringing out her hair on the grass, she sat cross-legged, rubbing her temples. “I’m not Cerasi,” she muttered. Laying on her back, her hair spread out in a fan around her, she looked up at the sky. With the soft insect chirping and animal movements, Scout’s eyes closed half-way as she watched a shooting star streak across the sky…
“I wish to be forgiven,” she muttered. She kept the tears in. “For everything.”
And it was hardly a surprise when she saw Naos’ face staring at her only a heartbeat later.
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Post by hk47fan on Aug 19, 2007 18:13:42 GMT -4
Naos
"You already are. I forgave you the minute you came back," I said to her, and my voice slowly lowered to a whisper "Scout, don't let the guilt over take you. It will destroy you, even more than Vader ever could no matter how hard he tried. The only real threat to you is yourself."
"Look inside you, and forgive yourself. I can do no more than tell you I forgive you. You know Nait has, you know Sora has, whever she is Jaskia has, Padme has, Fi has, Selas has...." I told her, slowly crouching down and touching both her cheeks with my hands "Forgive yourself, Scout. And it will set you free...."
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Post by Force_Flow on Aug 19, 2007 18:25:28 GMT -4
Her face didn’t show any other emotion but a small swallow. As her mind wrapped around this concept, her eyes shifted back to the sky. “I don’t think I’ve forgiven myself yet,” she said. Sitting up, she hugged herself, staring intently at a frog on some sort of leaf in the water. “And… I don’t really think I ever will. No, don’t say anything, Naos.” She focused a hard look on him as a protest formed on his lips. “Listen to me: Vader did something that can’t be reversed. I’m going to make the best out of it, though. It’s like there’s a whole different feel in the Force. Everything’s put into place. I have something to fight for now. And it feels good to have someone who I consider a friend to be by my side.”
She looked at him, and gave him a half-hearted Scout-like grin. “But I don’t know if he trusts me enough to be a real friend.”
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Post by hk47fan on Aug 19, 2007 18:34:31 GMT -4
Naos
I smiled light-heartedly at her, and said "You know I do."
I looked her right in the eyes, and said "I want you to be the old Scout you were. I am having a hard time to this very minute having trouble accepting it. You know how stubborn I can be. But I do know you can forgive yourself. It's inside you, Scout. And if you do not....you're not truly winning the battle. Cerasi may be gone, and you may remember, but it will be for nothing if you can't forgive yourself for what Cerasi did. I don't care how many people she killed. I don't care if you did only slightly let Vader get into your mind. I don't care if you took over rebelling planets, I don't care if you hunted us, I don't care what you did. What matters is that you must forgive."
I looked down and closed my eyes, almost stopping from saying what I was about to say, but I looked back up to her and admitted "Two years ago, I thought the same as you did. I couldn't forgive myself for letting you get captured, I couldn't forgive myself for letting you get away on Naboo, I couldn't forgive myself for distrusting the crew....but one thing saved me: Remembering our kiss on Lok. I could forgive myself for giving into my emotions there, and I don't care anymore due to that. Then I very slowly began to forgive myself for anything I ever did. It was hard when it came to what happened to you...hard for us all. But I did it, Scout. And if I can, so can you."
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