A Pain Lost In The Stars - Complete

Chapter 30

A week had passed since Crosshair gave birth to a little girl who had been named Angel. She was bubbly and always up, especially through the early morning. Crosshair was almost back to himself just on pain medication. His powers helped heal him but he was still recovering. Tech often found Crosshair in his lap, the marksman felt useless and overly emotional as much as the others claimed he wasn't. He just didn't know how to feel. Ever since Rex joked about Crosshair being a baby machine and it led to Echo hitting his own brother. The comment had stuck, Kix was watching for signs of anything even suicide but he knew one thing, Crosshair was depressed and the others were keeping a close eye on him. Echo had apologised, Crosshair had forgiven them all even if he didn't seem to bothered.

The two brothers had been experiencing sharp pains in their chests and it was worrying the others to the point they were getting regular scans and wearing bracelets for monitoring purposes. 

"Woah! Ship! Incoming!" Fives called out alerting them all, it was at the crack of dawn. They had landed on Serenno, deep within the dark forests. 

Switching off all the lights, the clones all hid ready for a possible firefight. Which was shortly put off as the ship landed only to reveal the three missing Jedi. Orion babbled in Sev's arms until he found himself in Obi-wan's. 

Kix was not impressed seeing the three, he had to bite his lip several times hearing their excuses as to why they disappeared. He was unaware his anger was sending a signal elsewhere. 

"Kix?" 

The medic whipped around only to see Crosshair, the marksman had his full armour on, cloak, rifle and a sling across his chest with Angel in it. He was looking past Kix over towards the destroyed village in the background. Catching Dove's eye, Kix gestured for her to join them. She nodded whispering at Grey who had her covered. Dove joined her dad and uncle on the small walk over to the abandoned village.

"Where are they going?" Rex asked, Hunter shrugged, keeping an eye on the four. Delta Squad were in the process of repairing their ship with Scorch on the top watching their family. 

Crosshair had been quiet all day and as much as it was disturbing to them all, they knew their marksman was refinding himself. However, the marksman felt such a connection with the half abandoned house that had clearly been destroyed but by what? His eyes flickered blue as he lay a hand against the stone of the house, footsteps beside him revealed to be Kix who kneeled down touching what looked like a small memorial. The medic's eyes wandered over the memorial stone only to gasp reading three names Kobi, Casper and Alastor, killed in the raid of Serenno. A symbol underneath matched their shoulder pauldrons. 

Crosshair gasped as the stone glowed and the house in front of them began to rebuild as the two brothers were sucked into a memory.

Explosions from afar had Casper jumping out of his bed, the door to the room burst open. He looked up only to see his father who picked him up.

"Daddy!" Alastors cry had them turning down the hallway to see the six year old reaching for them. Dooku picked him up running out of the house meeting his wife who held a coughing Kobi against her side. 

All around them the village was on fire as pirates, bandits and raiders set fire to the houses. 

"Tell me! The truth! Who are the ones known as the gems of the…." 

"Mummy!" Alastor screamed as he hid behind his mother as a bandit tried to grab him. Casper found himself pulled close by Kobi as Dooku was forced to the ground and held at gunpoint. 

"Daddy!"

"Shut up you brat!" 

"Cid! Grab the child"