Writing Star Wars Our Way

[Justin]

"I did not forsee this. It matters not. The girl's curiosity will be her downfall. And his passion for her will be his." Exar Kun said as he paced through his palace.

"Afraid you might lose, Kun?" Fayde's hate for the Sith was now as great as his hate for Justin.

"Silence." Exar Kun hurled him against the wall."I'll be glad when I can be rid of you!"

"Why don't you just go ahead and do it now, coward?" Fayde said.

"Your time will come, my friend." Exar Kun growled.
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"Well, uh...it's late. So why don't we go back in and get some sleep?" Justin said as he lowered his hand, and dropped his and Jenna's hands to their waists.

"Yeah. I think there's room for us on that couch." She said, kind of shakily.

Justin surveyed the junglescape once more with trained eyes before he turned and followed Jenna's lead into the ship.


Once they got in, Justin took his shirt off. For some reason, he felt much easier around Jenna now."Jenna, did you mean what you said?"

"Of course I did." Jenna looked at him strangely.

"Ok. You know something might happen when we go looking for whatever it is you want to find, and I just want to make sure that you're not going to run out on me."

"You don't go running out on me either." Jenna threatened.

"Heh...I won't." Justin shot her a wry smile.

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=purple]During the night, Jenna's sleep was interupted and restless as usual, and the only thing that reassured her was Justin's presence by her side. He could feel her discomfort with slumber, so he reached out and pulled her close.

Pressed against him, Jenna took comfort in the rise and fall of his chest. She nearly jumped when he spoke, "The moon makes them worse."

She shifted so that she could see his face in the dim light of the transport, "Makes what worse?"

"Your nightmares. They were gone for a brief period, I could tell."

"Oh." She relaxed and wrapped one arm around his torso, enjoying the feeling of his warm skin, "I suppose it does."

She fell silent after that, and Justin didn't press her to talk. Eventually, after what seemed like hours, he could feel her drift back into sleep.

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This time Jenna's dream was different. Beneath a sunny sky, Jenna turned suddenly to see a beautiful stone house rise behind her, draped with flowers and vines and bright, warm colors. She could hear the high giggle of a child's laughter, and watched as two small, dark-haired children bounded over to her.

"Mama," the girl clutched her leg in a hug, "Daddy was teaching us how to make objects fly!" The boy nodded in excitement.

Confused, Jenna stared down at the children, "...Daddy?"

"Daddy!" The two children cried in unison, "Can we show Mama what we learned?"

Jenna looked over her shoulder, but she recognized his presence before she recognized his face, "Justin."

He smiled at her, a smile that was full of love both for her and for the children now tugging on his tunic. He kneeled down and pet their hair, "Of course you can." Justin then crossed the lawn to Jenna, reaching out a hand to take her own.

When she jerked away, his expression darkened. The two children were still laughing, but the site of them faded. Looking back at Justin, Jenna was frightened by his face which had become shadowed with anger.

As he started towards her, she could see him reaching for his lightsaber, and she drew her own. She was about to block the first strike from him when she woke up.

Startled and wide awake, Jenna climbed over Justin in an attempt to get away. He could feel her leaving and gently grabbed her hand, "You all right?"

Saying nothing, Jenna yanked her hand away and pushed the release button on the ramp. The Yavin night was humid, but the air felt refreshing. She knew Justin would come after her, so she set off into the jungle.

All Jenna needed was some time to clear her head and focus. The dream had scared her in a way that she hadn't known possible. It had showed her things that she had been to afraid to consider...and that was what frightened her the most.

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[color=deeppink]Here's another little sketch of Jenna...I find this one to be far more accurate.[/color]

[Justin]

Justin stopped at the edge of the clearing,"Jenna?!" he called out into the semi-night,"Jenna, where are you!?" His voice echoed back to him. No response.

Jenna heard him, loud and clear. She wanted desparately to go back...to before the dream. This was a time when she wished she, or Justin, weren't a Jedi. Because if she stopped running, Justin would catch her now. She just kept running in whatever direction seemed right in fer mind.

At first, Justin could only wonder what could trouble Jenna so badly. Then, he realized that it was something to do with him. Suddenly, all his worry transformed into rage. He ignited his lightsaber, and cut off in the direction where he sensed the darkness.[i] Exar Kun is to blame for this. I'll have his head for it.[/i] He thought, hacking through brush and trees.
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Exar Kun could only laugh. The laugh was cold, and it sent a chill through Fayde like being naked on Hoth."I take it, someone died...or something else very tragic happened." Fayde said sarcastically.

"I thought I told you to be quiet." Exar Kun snapped.

"You did. I don't listen well."

"You could be made to listen." Exar Kun threatened.

"That's the only way I will, then." Fayde half-strutted across the room.

"No matter," A large door open behind Fayde,"you may go, now. Your work here is finished, my friend."

Fayde looked at the dark lord cautiously. Years of experience, and the best luck in the Galaxy, had taught him to be careful. Keeping his eyes, on Exar Kun, he stepped slowly out of the doorway. It closed slowly behind him. Leaving him alone in the jungle. In the distance, he heard the sound of falling trees and wild animal scurrying. [i]What the hell has he let me out into?[/i] Fayde thought.

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=deeppink]Sorry it took me so long to write another addition...I was sort of in a weird, depressed mood all day V_V;
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[color=purple]As soon as she could feel it growing weaker, Jenna cut herself off from Justin's presence altogether. She needed to be able to get away without hurting him.

Hurting him would only make it worse.

When a clearing opened before her, Jenna fell to her knees, breathing hard. The dream she had experienced came washing back over her, as if it had been running behind her the whole time and had finally caught up with her frenzied pace.

Never before had she felt such a violent blend of emotions; sadness, anger, fear...and they were growing stronger every minute. She knew the dream had brought all of them out, had exposed a deep place in her that she had no intentions of ever visiting again.

...until last night.

The sky was afire with morning light, and all around her wildlife was awakening. She let herself fall to the ground and lay still, soaking up the splendor of the jungle and the energy that pulsated within it.

But all that she could think about was the dream...of Justin's pained expression when she had pulled her hand away from his...of him calling her back as she just kept running away...

It wasn't in Jenna's nature to cry, but had she ever spoken those words to someone, the past few days would have proved her a liar. Once again the hot string of tears that so rarely traveled down her face did so, and she let them without resentment.

The dream of her and Justin...her and Justin's [i]children[/i]...had sparked a reaction that she could no longer control. The realization had slammed ruthlessly into her and swept throughout her body like a wildfire, one she could not contain. If she were to ever have children, something she had at one time [i]dearly[/i] wanted, then surely she would pass on her Dark tendencies to them!

If her children were fathered by Justin, a powerful man with roguish sensibilities...certainly her children would become evil with the combined Dark power that would be birthed in them. It was a thought that she simply could not bare.

It was her decision to dabble in the Dark Side, and it was [i]Justin's[/i] decision to do so as well...but to force that decision upon vulnerable children?

That was something that she would have no part in.

Jenna knew that she had to tell Justin about the feelings that were swarming angrily around her head, but she couldn't bring herself to find him. His presence was too beautiful, too comfortable, and she'd fall back into it as soon as she let herself feel the effects.

But it was something that must be done. She'd simply cut herself off from those feelings; the way he felt and smelled and how he had told her that he loved her. At that moment, staring up at the high jungle trees that sheltered her from the rising sun, she painfully admitted that she loved him too.

[i]But that is what I must not let myself believe.[/i]

Taking a deep breath, Jenna stood up and started towards the center of the moon's Dark energy, forever sealing off all emotions that she held in her heart for Justin.[/color]

[Justin]

"Fayde!" Justin cried out as the bounty hunter's figure came into his sight.

"Justin..." Fayde could barely see the Jedi, but there was no denying the orange sliver of light in his hand. It was Justin...but Justin had never looked so...dark. Frightening, even. He was no longer the boy he had tormented for the longest time. No, he was something else.

"Get out of my way!" Justin reached out with Force, and gripped Fayde. Fayde raised his blaster, and pulsed fire towards Justin. Justin simply held up his lightsaber and blocked the fire, then he launched Fayde off into the jungle.

His attention turned toe the palace before him,"Open up, Exar Kun!" he called out,"If you want someone to toy with, at least pick someone who will toy back."

An evil laughter creeped from the ground and trees around him."Very good. You'll make an excellent warlord in my Sith Empire."

"Hardly. I'd say I'm here to destroy you, or to die trying." Justin said calling out into the jungle.

"So many Jedi have said that. So few resist the temptation long enough." Exar Kun said confidently,"Step in, boy."A doorway opened in the palace in front of Justin. Though, ever fiber in him that was still loyal to the Light pulled him back, every fiber that had turned to one step forward; and so did Justin.

The door sealed behind him.
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"Ah ****." Fayde said as he tried to stand on his injured leg. [i]Justin was really out of it[/i]. He thought to himself.[i]Oh well...ditry banth[/i]--"What the hell!?!?" Fayde called out as a huge black mass came hurtling out of the jungle.[i]Piranha beetles...[/i] was Fayde's last thought before the mass hit him.

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=deeppink]Sorry so short >_<

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[color=purple]The sun was rising high above the trees by the time Jenna reached the Dark sphere that radiated from a gargantuan Massassi temple. She could feel Exar Kun inside...his power overwhelmed her.

And yet it felt so different from her dreams and visions; the wildlife didn't fill her with energy...it angered her. For the small moment that she reached out with the Force, she sensed a disturbing presense, one that was not long-dead. [i]Fayde...[/i] "I thought that bastard was already dead. At least he is now."

Jenna turned all of her attention to the great temple, trying to get rid of the thoughts that made her head spin madly. She knew what she had to tell Justin ?or make him [i]feel[/i], rather? to let him know she had to leave him. She knew that Exar Kun's teachings could bring her strength and power and wisdom of the Sith beyond anything that she could ever experience in a few small dreams.

With that small ammount of hope, Jenna closed the distance between where she stood and the entrance of the Massassi temple...now, it was do or die.[/color]

[Justin]

"So kind of you to join us, my dear." Jenna heard Exar Kun's voice in the darkness of the temple. It was even colder and more dark than in her dreams.

Jenna swallowed her fear,"Us?" She called meakly into the abyss.

"Yes, Jenna." then a familiar figure stepped into the light of the entrance."Meet my new friend." Exar Kun's voice introduced Justin.

"Justin?" His physical features were the same, but he had a dazed, almost absent look about his face.
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"Jenna?" Justin gazed at the blankly staring figure in front him."It was obviously Jenna, but she was not herself. She was under Exar Kun's control. Suddenly, Jenna's lightsaber ignited, and she attacked Justin. He ignited his and dipped it to catch the blow.
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"Hutt slime!" Jenna called out as Justin swung his lightsaber at her. Blocking all remaining memory of her former love for him, she turned her lightsaber on, and counter-attacked Justin.

She dove in with a hard slice at his head, which he stopped with a high block. He rolled his lightsaber around until it's blade pointed downward and swung a strong fist at her face. When she tried to dodge to the side, he raised the blade of his lightsaber up and singed her thigh. He came across with her blade at his head, but he ducked, pushed her blade down with his and kicked her. Already being off-balance, she hit the ground. Justin deactivated his orange blade, and the temple was now only barely illuminated by Jenna's blade.
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"Jenna, I don't know what's going on, but please don't make me hurt you anymore!" Justin pleaded.

Jenna rose to her feet, picked up her lighsaber, and attacked again with a sweeping blow at his knees. He jumped and kicked her in the chin. She lashed out again with a swift strike at his head, which rolled under and counter-attacked with a downward blow at her shoulder. She quickly brought her blade back to intercept it. Then, she pushed his blade up, and out of the way, dipped down and cut him savagely across the torso.
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Suddenly, Jenna realized what she had done. She looked around and they were not in the Massassi temple as she thought, but they were standing just outside of it. But Justin was still laying in a bloody heap at her feet.[i] Serves you right...[/i] was her first thought.

Then, her blood slowed. The memory of her love for Justin flowed over the dam she had built to hold it back. She felt sudden anguish, then rage, then hate all in one moment. She had come here to explain why she ran to Justin, to make him see why they wouldn't work, and he attacked her before she could. Or had he? Suddenly, she sensed Justin trying to heal himself. He was alive, and now she could do what she came here to do.

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=purple]Not fully aware to the fact that Exar Kun's powerful influence had confused them both, Jenna knelt beside Justin. It wasn't an act of love so much as it was of comaraderie.

"Justin..." she didn't know what to do with her hands...should she touch him and help him or did she despise him or did she love him or was it wrong or did she hurt him...? Her head spun, "I have to tell you something."

His eyes were closed against the pain, but he heard her loud and clear. He was as confused as she, and her presence was disturbingly closed off and empty.

When Jenna hesitantly placed her hands on the wound she had blindly inflicted upon him, Justin shyed from her touch and pushed her hand away.

When he finally opened his eyes she saw the hurt in them, the betrayal that she had unknowingly..."Justin, just listen to me for a minute."

"Fine." But it was spoken through clenched teeth.

"We would never work." Jenna said bluntly, trying to sift out the emotional tone before it left her mouth.

"You picked one hell of a time to talk about our damn relationship." He responded angrily, "Or what relationship we [i]did[/i] have."

"And there can't be any more, Justin, it's not a feasible way for both of us to spend the rest of our lives..." She trailed off in frustration as he inhaled sharply, trying to stand up.

Jenna didn't offer him a hand because she was too afraid to touch him, "I'm sorry Justin."

"Jenna," he had one arm strung across his torso, "I said I loved you and that is something I'll never take back. But obviously you were lying..."

"I was not!" Jenna cut in, the sorrow in her heart threatening to drown her, "Justin, I meant what I said. I know I'm breaking our promise...but it's for the best. There's no way in the universe that the two of us could ever live a Light life and raise good-willed children! It's not possible!" The last three words came out as if a pause had been placed between each one, the final word simmering with a burst of hot anger.

Justin nodded incredulously, "Ok."

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She [i]had[/i] hurt him. She saw it in the way he had acknowledged her reasoning...he didn't really understand...she knew he wouldn't.

But who was she kidding? She had plans for her life...plans that she wouldn't let Justin slow down because of a heart that needed mending.[/color]

[Justin]

Suddenly, Jenna's danger sense went hay-wire. She turned to see the dark figure of Exar Kun.

"Congratulations. He will die, and you will take his place at my side." A dark smile crossed Exar Kun's face.

Jenna gazed hard at the dark lord. Then she shot a sideways glance at Justin. She's gone this far, but should she go so far as to actually [i]become[/i] a Sith?

Jenna clipped her saber to her belt, then knelt to one knee."As you say, Master."

Exar Kun was caught slightly off-guard by her willingness, but he sensed no deciet in her."Good, young one. I will finish him, myself." He said nodding his head towards Justin.

Exar Kun raised his hand and long tendrils of Force Lightening emitted from it. They found their target and Justin yelped with pain. Justin went back down, and the blood began flowing again. He tried reaching out with the Force, to bring something--anything--down on the Sith; but he couldn't get a grip on anything. He could feel life leaving him.

Suddenly, a Republic Lander landed with a cracking thud on the trees just behind them. Exar Kun's concentration broke as Jedi poured from the lowering ramp."Damn it!"

Jenna got the sense of around 15 or so of them. Well more than she alone could defeat, but with her new master, who knows? She ignited her lightsaber. However, she soon realized that they weren't there to fight. This was a rescue mission. Suddenly, she caught a very familiar presence coming out of the ship.

"Jenna, good to see you, it is." The short Jedi said.

"Pity I can't say the same for you, Yoda." Jenna spit the last word as though it were poison.

"Master Yoda." A smile crossed Exar Kun's face again."So nice of you to join us."

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=purple]"Exar Kun, a shadowy image you are."

"If it wasn't for the Jedi, I wouldn't be like this in the first place." Exar Kun snarled back at the diminutive Master.

Yoda nodded, wisely holding his tongue, and turned to the woman at Kun's side, "Jenna Apdew, joined him have you?"

"I have." Her eyes narrowed, lightsaber still ignited in defense.

Yoda shook his head, "Your choice it is. Such power you harbor, yet use it wisely you do not."

"Listen, Master," Jenna snapped back, rudely emphasizing 'Master', "Why don't you and the Council tell the Republic about the mission to Nazem?" When his facial expression remained placid, Jenna's temper rose, "Why doesn't everyone know? That's why I lost faith in the Order...that's why I left!"

Exar Kun could feel her anger and smiled at it, a grin which only faded when he saw several Jedi aiding Justin's approach to the Republic craft, "Stop!" He bellowed, preparing to hurl Force lightning at the rescue party.

Yoda intercepted, "Exar Kun, weak you are; outside of your sanctuary, you have wandered. This far your power extends not."

Jenna watched as Justin retreated with the Jedi, feet frozen in the ground, muscles tense and nerves on end. He turned back to glance at her, one final time, to see the glimmer of tears threatening her eyes.

His mouth was dry, but he managed to speak quietly, urgently, when he realized the truth, "She isn't fully gone..." When one of the Jedi helping him walk leaned in closer, asking what he had said, he tried to pull away from their grasp, "She isn't fully gone, she could return! I know it..." Justin felt as though he was yelling it loud enough for the entire planet to hear, but the Jedi merely shook their heads and pulled him along beside them.

Exar Kun didn't notice her stinging eyes, and Jenna was thankful for that. He was too preoccupied with Yoda...

Jenna saw Justin for the final time as he boarded the ramp of the Republic Lander. She had finally achieved everything that she had ever wanted, and without Justin, she would make-do. She could bury her love, easily, much more easily than she could deny her Dark calling.

Besides, all of it was for the better. This way, she got what she wanted, she saved Justin from a painful, comeptitive relationship, and she finally would get revenge for Nazem.

Feeling the last bit of love that she would ever know, she took the diminishing emotion and purged herself of it.[/color]

[Justin]

Justin fought his escorts as best he could, which wasn't even enough for them to notice they were being fought.

"Get him in a bacta-tank, now!" One of the Jedi called out.

Before he knew it, he was fitted with a breathing mask and tossed in a tank full of bacta. [i]Alone, at last.[/i] After a moment, he stopped trying to heal himself, and let the bacta take over. [i]Jenna...[/i] The events of the last few moments flashed through his memory like a sandstorm on Tatooine. He couldn't feel his connection with Jenna anymore. She had severed it. He began building a wall around it, around his feelings that he had had for her. He had never let a anyone affect him so much, and he wouldn't let it happen again.

He could feel the tensions rising. Lightsabers were swinging now, Jenna brought one down, now two. Dark energy pulsated from her. Justin couldn't love that.

But he had loved that. He had nearly become that himself. Jenna gutted another comrade.

Yoda was in it now. Jenna was far out-classed. She began running, and her and Exar Kun retreated to the Temple. Yoda could not defeat them there.

[i] I'll be back, Jenna. Count on it.[/i] Then, he had a sudden calmness flow through him. The Force told him that he would not be returning, and that he would never see Jenna again. Strangely, he wasn't upset at this. He knew it was right.

[i]Heal quickly, you must. Much to talk about, we have.[/i] The thoughts of Master Yoda comforted him.
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"That's all that happened?" The man--nearly as tall as Justin-- asked.

Justin was somewhere in his early Sixties now, but he was as handsome as he could be.

"More or less." Justin said with an easy smile at the man next to him.

"What ever happened to Jenna?" The tall young man asked.

"Well, she finally died three years ago. She tried an assault on a small planet in the Hapes Cluster. Master Yoda had the foresight to predict it, and he was waiting for her. They fought, and he killed her." Justin said as a mist formed in his worn eyes.

"Well, at least you met Mom. Otherwise, I would never have been born!" The young man said with a cheering smile.

"Heh, maybe I should've stayed with Jenna, in that light." Justin joked."The galaxy sure wasn't ready for Jake Skywalker to be born."

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=deeppink]That's...The End.

Thank you for co-writing it with me, Sir Justin!

::sniffle:: I'm going to miss this story :crying: [/color]

[Justin]

Bah...maybe we can do it again sometime.

At least [i]this[/i] one had an end, lol.

-Justin

[BabyGirl]

[color=deeppink]I found a song that I feel almost sums it all up nicely (for me anyway :))

[i]There's somethign about the look in your eyes,
Something I noticed when the light was just right.
It reminded me twice that I was alive,
And it reminded me that you're so worth the fight.

My biggest fear will be the rescue of me...
Strange how it turns out that way.

Could you show me, dear...
Something I've not seen.
Something infinitely interesting.

There's something about the way you move,
I see your mouth in slow motion when you sing.
More subtle than something someone contrives,
Your movements echo that I've seen the real thing.

Your biggest fear will be the rescue of you,
It's strange how it turns out that way.

Could you show me dear...
Something I've not see?
Something infinitely interesting...[/i]

[size=1][b]~Incubus[/b] [i]Echo[/i][/size][/color]