Barriss x Caleb one-shots

Following your heart

"Padawan Barriss Offee, you have 5 minutes until your execution. Do you have any last words?"

She didn't reply. In fact, time even seemed to slow down a bit as the numbers on the timer slowly dropped. For Caleb that was.

Ever since he heard of her execution from all but 48 hours ago, he had wanted nothing more than to dismay her from her demise. Of course what she did was wrong. Bombing the Jedi and harming innocents were no tread to be taken thinly, but despite all of that, he still knew there was still good in her. He stood firmly by his own beliefs, just as she did hers.

1 minute to go, this was his window. Rapidly dimming down the lights of the room, he emerged from behind and slashed Barriss free of her restraints. He then stepped back into the shadows, however this time, taking her with him.

"Caleb. Caleb what are you doing?" She whispered.

"Saving your life." He replied.

"Caleb don't do this for me. They'll strip you of your Jedi status."

"It's all right Barriss, I've made up my mind."

Caleb hadn't known what had come over him last night, but when he began to anticipate his regrets for not saving his crush, he'd truly be crushed. There wouldn't be a day that goes by without reflecting on his fatal mistakes.

"Why are you doing this?"

"I umm...I'll tell you later."

The two Padawans crawled through the vents, departing the order. About a minute ago Barriss was still far too stubborn to delegate, but when Caleb out of pure instinct made the move to kiss her, she simply became fully lost in his affection for her, enduring a feeling hitherto unknown.

Soon after, they both blushed in their wild habitat colours, unable to provide even the slightest encounter of eye contact with one another.

Caleb sat at the front of the speeder, stowing away all the while feeling Barriss' soft green hands caress his belly. The last 5 minutes had been indubitably intense, ergo, it stopped him from being able to process the most miraculous course of action he had undertaken.

Only now had he found the time to really judge his suspicious acts, summarising the plentiful things that had actually happened during the alarming kiss.

Barriss was also deep in thought. Her mind was bugged with numerous thoughts of his delicacy that she hadn't even realized how her hands were slowly lowering down from his belly to his groin.

When the dust settled, the two harnessed all their force powers into convincing a rodian to give them a free ship. Whilst Barriss was still working heavily on his mind, Caleb decidedly snuck off, keen to finding some supplies that will assist them in the long run.

That was when he spotted another Jedi, waving her hand around a human to persuade her into giving her a meiloorun fruit. Caleb saw the figure and ambitiously decided to walk away, but just as he did, he heard the calling of his name.

Caleb fearfully turned around, hoping that whoever it was had not been sent to hunt him down.

"What are you doing here Caleb?"

"Ah...Ahsoka?" Caleb swallowed, unable to consider what he was to do.

"It...It's good to see you Ahsoka. Force everyone's talking about you now!" He acted normally.

"Yeah, you too. But what brings you all the way out here? Shouldn't you be studying or something?"

"I was – sent here to uhh, aid the homeless."