The Rising

Stand

Kix groaned as his body burned with pain. In his daze, he could smell the sterilized environment of the med bay and hear a garbled conversation going on somewhere else.

But the pain was constant as it traveled from his feet to his neck.

He managed to get to his feet somehow before he noticed something strange about the med bay.

For one there was no one else in there. It was just him.

And for another he was wearing a strange bracelet.....no it was some kind of medical monitor.

"Ooookkk" Kix whispered to himself before he swung his legs off the med bed and pushed himself up.

Almost the second he did his surroundings changed from a med bay to a room that looked to be in the Mandalorian palace.

".....I'm dreaming...." Kix concluded as he looked around at the familiar soundings of the bedroom Lil and him shared in the Palace.

"defiantly dreaming" He mumbled before he heard a strange sound from outside the door. 

"LIL!!!" Kix yelled his heart hoping and praying what had happened had all been a bad dream as he rushed over to the door and wrenched it open and tore through. 

He let out a loud shout of surprise as he grabbed the edge of the door barely managing to pull himself back from falling off a cliff. 

"WHAT THE HELL!!" He yelled in fear and confusion. 

Kix panted slightly as he pulled himself up and scrambled back through to the room as the door shut behind him and disappeared. 

"...........Oh that's not good". 

"Kix" 

Kix's head snapped back to the bed at the mention of his name. 

"Lil?", He moved back to the bed at lightning pace confused at what was going on. 

Then he spotted it. 

Or rather her. 

Lil's body was laying on the bed, almost as if she was asleep, the only thing off  about this situation was that he could see right through her to the bed covers under her. 

"Lil..." Kix whispered as he bent down next to her, his hand outstreached inches away from touching her cheek. 

His hand touched the surface then went right through her cheek. 

the moment his hand went through her 'skin' his mind was filled with images, first was a lab with two droids, next was a ship with a cowering scientist at gun point. the last image was one that scared him to his core. 

It was of a version of him.....but this version had a gun pointed at him..or rather that was what Lil was dreaming. 

He pulled his hand back as he closed his eyes in a mixture of shock and pain. Shock at what he was seeing and Pain at the fact she was dreaming he would hurt her. 

He felt tears come to his eyes as he looked down at the strange ghost like form of his Cyare. His hands clenched into fists at his frustration towards the inability to touch her, to comfort her or hold her. 

"Lil.....lil I'm right here.....I would never hurt you,......please Cyare. Wake up......." His voice cracked slightly at the end of his sentence. 

"please" he whispered again as he watched her dream. 

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