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Jade243
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6/28/02 1:14pm
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RE: Revelation(Sequel to Serenity and Devotion); Jaina/Jag; Updated 6/28 (#2)
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hehe.. I just wondered, because my school is supposed to be good at soccer - I think.. I know they're supposed to be good in swimming and diving, tennis, and maybe golf..
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Jedi-Princess-Solo
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6/28/02 1:15pm
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RE: Revelation(Sequel to Serenity and Devotion); Jaina/Jag; Updated 6/28 (#2)
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Yeah. My school's good at basketball- the guys basketball team gets way too much attention 
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Jade243
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6/28/02 1:21pm
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Apparently, we had sent 2 swimmers for the '96 Olymic tryouts or whatever..
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Jedi-Princess-Solo
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6/28/02 1:23pm
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Really? Wow. I made the junior olympics qualifiers in my freshmen year of high school, but I'm a better soccer player than swimmer
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Jade243
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6/28/02 1:24pm
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I'm not completely sure though.. I don't pay much attention.. 
My roommate was ranked #1 in the nation for women's tennis in our division though..
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NarundiJedi
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I posted again JPS!!  Can't wait to read the next post in here! 
Jae Angel
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Jade243
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 I think ff.net is down again.. It wouldn't come up..
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Jedi-Princess-Solo
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Read it, NJ
LOL. FF.Net is just evil
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From the top of the Great Massai temple, the sunrise spilled across the jungle, showering the lush foliage with rays of golden light.
Anakin Fel liked to sit up there and watch the sun come up on the horizon.
It was peaceful up there, and it gave him time to think.
Today he was thinking about his mother. Whether his parents, or even Master Durron, knew it, he understood exactly what was at stake with the Yuuzhan Vong priest Harrar. Before Anakin had even been born, his mother had taken on the faux pas role of the Vong Trickster goddess Yun-Harla, as a means to battle the Vong with psychological warfare.
It had worked. Jaina Solo had pulled off feat after feat that left the Vong amazed and fearful, going to such lengths as to paint the symbol of Yun-Harla on her forehead during battle, and later on her X-wing. Whenever Anakin heard stories about the kind of tricks his mother had pulled, it left him amazed.
It also left him a little fearful.
If the Yuuzhan Vong in Domain Lah could prove that she wasn't Yun-Harla, the Vong would attack again, and this time with greater numbers and strength. The Alliance had been given access to study most of the Yuuzhan Vong technology, but how many new developments could they have invented in fifteen years?
Anakin was too young to remember the war, to remember how many worlds and how many people had been destroyed and sacrificed to the Vong's imaginary gods, but he had been taught about the war in his lessons at the Academy. He had learned about the voxyn and the Jedi sacrifices and the torture the Vong had put Jedi through.
And Anakin was afraid.
Not for himself, he was never afraid for himself, but for his mother. If war broke out again, surely she would be the first target. The Yuuzhan Vong would persecute her for blasphemy, and he didn't even want to begin to imagine the kinds of torture they would have in store for her.
For Anakin, it was easy to understand why the Vong hated his mother. She had mocked their religion, she had killed their warmaster, she had even had a hand in killing their Supreme Overlord. And as if that wasn't enough reason for them to hate her, she had killed Lord Shimmra with the blade of Yun-Harla, the sacred blade that would burn the flesh of any who touched it, save the goddess herself.
Anakin wasn't stupid, he knew how his mother had done that. The Force. Just because the Force didn't work on Vong technology, didn't mean it didn't work on a Jedi's hands.
Anakin knew that his father was worried. He knew that Kyp was worried. He even knew that his Uncle Luke was worried. The only person who didn't seem at all concerned was his mother.
She said that whatever happened, she would handle it, and that was the scary part.
Anakin had never been ignorant of the dark side. His mother had made sure that he understood that while it was a source of great power, it did not come without a price. The price was that it would destroy everyone and everything you ever knew, and then it would destroy you. Anakin knew that there was nothing worth using the dark side, not even beating the Yuuzhan Vong, but he wondered if his opinion would change if he ever had to experience war against the scarred monsters.
He had been only a year and a half old when the war ended. Padme had been only six months. She had absolutely no memories of the war. Anakin had only one or two, fleeting images that he had never been positive were real. Images of tattooed, scarred creatures with armor. Images of his father running towards his clawcraft. Images of a violet lightsaber burning in the night.
Those images stayed with Anakin, but the one that he never forgot was the silence. The cold, empty silence that replaced so many Jedi in the Force. Many had died in that last year of war, and even though his mother and his grandmother had shielded him from their deaths, they could not shield him from that emptiness that was left in their place. That emptiness filled Anakin with a cold anger that he knew he wasn't supposed to feel.
The Force was strong in his family, and so was the dark side. His great-grandfather had been Darth Vader, until his son had saved him. His Uncle Luke had tried to defeat the Empire Reborn from the inside, and had fallen into the clutches of darkness until his sister had saved him. His mother had even let the dark side flow through her for a time, just after Anakin's uncle and namesake was killed, until Kyp Durron had saved her.
Sometimes Anakin dreamed he was Vader, sometimes he dreamed his sister was. Whenever he had those dreams, the one who was a Sith Lord always killed the other.
Nothing terrified Anakin more.
He could not imagine ever wanting to hurt Padme, no matter how full of the dark side he was. She was his little sister, his closest friend and most trusted ally. He couldn't imagine her as a Dark Jedi. Then again, he couldn't imagine his mother as one, or Master Thul, and they had both been to the dark side. Even Master Durron had been to the dark side. And one of Zekk's fundamental lessons at the academy had always been that no one starts out bad, they just make bad decisions.
Anakin wondered if he might make a bad decision one day that would lead to his undoing.
He hoped not.
But it was in his blood, after all. He was a Skywalker.
I wonder if Ben thinks about the dark side as much as I do, Anakin wondered. He carries the surname of Darth Vader, I carry his first name.
"Ben used to think about it quite a bit, actually," his mother's voice said from behind him.
Anakin turned to see her standing in the shadows, dark hair loose and cascading down her shoulders onto her dark brown tunic. Her leggings were two shades lighter, and her boots two shades darker, and the black belt at her waist held her lightsaber and, at his father's request, no doubt, a blaster.
"Used to?" Anakin asked, raising an eyebrow. "He doesn't anymore?"
"He's my apprentice," Jaina smiled. "And if any Jedi alive understands the dark side and the potential our family has for it, it's me. I've drilled it into his head that Darth Vader doesn't control his destiny, any more than he does mine."
"But you don't deny that he influences it?" Anakin asked.
Jaina sighed and dropped down next to him, dangling her slender legs over the edge of the temple. For a long moment they sat in silence, gazing out at the sun as it rose above the jungle canopy. Anakin didn't mind waiting for her to gather her thoughts, he enjoyed being around her. He didn't know how many boys his age felt that way bout their mothers, but he genuinely wanted to spend time with her. They didn't get to spend time together nearly enough anymore, and it was nice to just be with her, even if they were about to head off in separate directions across the galaxy.
"I am the granddaughter of Darth Vader," Jaina said softly. "And I am also the granddaughter of Anakin Skywalker. Two people, and yet the same person, if that makes any sense?"
Anakin nodded that it did.
"When I fell I was only a little older than you are now," Jaina said. "I was devastated over Anakin's death, angry at Jacen for leaving him, furious that the Vong would dare to take my brother from me. I knew that what I was feeling was wrong, but I didn't care. The Vong had broken me, I wanted to break them back."
"Sometimes that doesn't seem so wrong to me," Anakin admitted. "If they strike one of ours down, shouldn't we strike down two of theirs?"
"It seems like it should work that way sometimes, doesn't it?" Jaina replied with a small smile. "But the only two way to avenge someone's death is not to give in to vengeance. By letting your hate and fear and pain fade away, you can better serve the Force."
"I'm afraid sometimes," Anakin confessed softly. "That I might turn to the dark side. I have dreams about it."
"Dreams that you're Darth Vader?" Jaina asked.
"Yes," Anakin replied.
"I had those, too," Jaina told him. "And so did your uncle Anakin. I remember once, we were at the Academy during the same term for the first time, I woke up with this feeling that something was wrong. I got out of bed and let the Force guide me, and it led me to Anakin's room. I found him inside, crying over a dream he'd had."
Anakin nodded, understanding. Sometimes his dreams were so vivid that he woke up shaking, tears sliding down his cheeks, a cold anguish rising in his chest. Usually those were the dreams where he killed his family.
"He told me he'd dreamed that he'd become Vader, the mask and all. He'd killed our mother and our father, killed Uncle Luke and Aunt Mara, and even killed Jacen," Jaina said, her tone conveying a sad fear. "In his dream he had me before him, and I refused to fight him, just as Uncle Luke had refused to fight Vader. The part of him that was still Anakin was screaming for me to kill him, but the part of him that was the dark side wanted to kill me. Needed to. Anakin never told anyone, but he battled the dark side everyday, inside of himself. That fear, the fear of who he might become, was the dark side at work. Once he accepted that the Force had his destiny planned out already, he was able to conquer that fear, and the dreams stopped."
"So what you're saying is I should trust the Force?" Anakin asked. "And trust that it won't lead me astray?"
His mother smiled, that brilliant smile that he had heard men refer to as alluring. "You're a pretty smart kid, you know that?"
"Must have gotten it from Uncle Jacen," Anakin replied.
"You certainly didn't get it from your father," Jaina replied with a wink.
Anakin grinned.
"Come on," his mother said, standing. "Ben and I are about to head out, and I told Kyp I'd be sure you're ready. He's ready to go, too."
Anakin nodded, and pushed to his feet. "I'm all set. I just have to swing by my room and pick up my bag."
"And your lightsaber," his mother said, eyeing the empty belt he wore with disdain.
Anakin rolled his eyes. "Pady has it. She wanted to get in some double blade practice before she and Tahiri leave this morning. I lent her my lightsaber so she wouldn't have to go get one of the practice sabers."
"Okay," Jaina said. She flashed him a lopsided smile. "Just wanted to be sure you weren't going to start taking after your great-grandfather and start forgetting it."
"A Jedi's lightsaber is his most prized possession," Anakin replied with a smirk. "Isn't that why you sleep with yours under your pillow?"
"I keep it there to use as an alarm," Jaina retorted wryly. "Yo'd be surprised how fast your father wakes up when he hears the hiss of a lightsaber over his head."
Anakin laughed, shaking his head. He started back down the temple stairs, his mother walking alongside him. When they reached the bottom, Jaina turned to head out to the landing field, and he turned to go back to his room to get his stuff.
"Mom?" he asked.
She turned her head, raising an eyebrow inquisitively.
"Thanks," he said.
She smiled and nodded, then headed off towards the field. Anakin looked after her for a moment, his heart swelling with love for the woman, then turned and entered the temple.
His mother was right.
He had to trust in the Force.
But a voice in the back of his head, that nagging, quiet voice that had been haunting him all morning, whispered, But what good will the Force do against the Yuuzhan Vong?
Anakin didn't know, but he had a feeling he was going to find out.
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"Love can ignite the stars..." -RotS novelization
"Even the stars die out, Anakin Skywalker..." -RotS novelization
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Jade_Fel_Horn
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6/28/02 3:17pm
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Can't wait for more!
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Jedi-Princess-Solo
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Look above you, JFH
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excellent postie!
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Aww. That was sweet. Now all we need is a Jaina and Padmé scene. Excellent post, JPS, as always.
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RE: Revelation(Sequel to Serenity and Devotion); Jaina/Jag; Updated 6/28 (#3)
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Thanks you JG
Thanks Kathryn And don't worry, there will be one eventually
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Awesome post, JPS! I wondered if the name Anakin would have the same affect on Jaina's son as it did on her brother Excellently done!
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