The First to Fall (Star Wars X Male Reader) [SOON TO BE WORKED ON AGAIN]

The Zandian Campaign (Part 2)

In the time it's taken us to get out of the forest and to the capital city, I've chopped down a few more patrols with single blade, and one patrol with double bladed. I think I'm a natural. As the grassy path starts to turn to a metal road I look left and see my pike. I immediately rush over to get it while Runner just stares at me. I grab it, but I hear something.

"RAHHH!!" I hear from the ridge as two Zandian soldiers shoot at me. I back step and ignite the new lightsaber, deflecting the bolts with little trouble.
"I am a Jedi! Don't shoot!" I yell.
"Oh, it's just you two, we've been told to escort the both of you to the palace. Come on! Up!"

I wave for Runner to come over and he does just that, I also grab my lightsaber pike. Then we climb the cliff to get into the city the fast way. I see a battle raging above us, in the skies as we are lead to the castle. When we enter, the castle has been converted into an impenetrable fortress, with a field hospital, lodgings other than the guard houses, and most importantly, the study has been converted into a map room.

The two scouts point their fingers over to the room and leave. We decide to enter the room. We knock on the door.

"Come in!" We hear the voice of my friend, Paytan yell.
I open the door, walk in, and see her. Her hair is tied up, she isn't wearing finery, a rapier hanging from her belt, a blaster hanging from the other. She looks really, really good. "G-Good afternoon, your highness." I stumble.
"Oh come on, you were my best friend for about two months and you don't have the decency to call me by my first name?"
"Sorry, Paytan." I tell her.
"You two are acquainted?" My Master asks.
"CorSec."

We talk a small bit and I remember how much I like her, no, I don't like her, I can't like her. Oh no, this is bad, I like her.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASH FORWARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As Paytan wakes up in a hospital, her chest hurting from the blaster shot. It was him, he's alive, and walking too. He seems in his prime. She needs to call Ahsoka and Galen.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FLASH BACK~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
She shows me to my quarters and Master Secura asks to talk to me in private, so I go to her.

"Where did you get that new lightsaber?" She asks.
"I found it on a body in the woods, that sounds bad now that I say it." I answer.
"I think I know the corpse you found it on. The legendary Exar Kun had a lightsaber just like that, legend has it that he could cut through Mandalorian iron with that lightsaber."
"I want to say that's cool, but I can feel something wrong with it."
"Probably the people he killed, and the dark side energy he used." She says, deadpan.
"What?" I ask.
"Didn't you pay attention during lessons? Exar Kun was a famous Sith Lord."
"Probably not."
"It was rhetorical, apprentice." She facepalms.
"Oh." I say.

She starts shaking her head and walking off. I need better humor detectors, like badly. I walk in and sit on the bed, which is more a cot, in my room. I remove my armor and cloak, place my sabers down, and I meditate. I don't know how long I've actually been meditating when I hear a knock on my door.

I open it and who other than Princess Skemar.

"Y/N." She says simply.
"That's me." I respond.
"I have a mission for you. My parents are trapped in a supermax prison on the other side of the planet, with the separatists and the black flag army, a militant Zandian rebel group." She motions for me to walk to the map room with her.
"Alright then, how are we going to get there?" I ask.
"You'll be with clone medic Runner, and ARC trooper Deuces. We will provide you with speeders, after all, we are home to the biggest ZandiSpeed factory." She says while I just nod at her. We make it to the map room, it's empty for some reason.
"Okay, do I just try to evacuate them?" She nods.
"What if they aren't planetside anymore?"
"Then we'll get another plan."
"And if they're, you know?"
"They aren't! Think about this logically, Y/N. They're way too valuable to just kill." She has a point, but I have a better one.
"And if they kill them during the breakout? Your parents are of less use to them out of prison than dead." I try to explain to her, but I think I came on too strong.
"I-I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound pessimistic, I'm sure your parents won't die."

I try to sound apologetic, but the damage is already done, her eyes fill up with tears and I walk to her side of the table and wrap my arm around her neck. She hugs me and I just hold her for a bit while she cries.

"I'm sorry, Paytan, I didn't mean to make you cry." I say.
"I-I know, I just don't want to believe they're dead."
"I know, Paytan, it's a lot for us kids to go through, and I made it harder on you." I pat her back.
"I think I should go to sleep, c-could you stay with me, not in the bed or anything, but at my desk chair? Like move it towar-"
"Okay, Paytan, I get it."

She grabs my hand and leads me over to her room. When we get there, she locks the door and lays on her bed while I telekinetically move a chair over. I sit down and wait for her to talk.

She takes my hand and says, "I know you're a Jedi and all, but do you have a person or people in your life that you would be terrified to lose?"
"Yeah, her name is Ahsoka, and she has the potential to be one of the best Jedi ever. She's great, strong, she's funny, and she's kind." I smile.
"Sounds like an amazing girl." Paytan responds.
"She is."
"Y/N, why did you trick all of us back on CorSec?" She asks.
"Because I had to solve a murder." I answer her.
"So you used us for your job?"
"Well, when you put it like that, I guess I did, but I loved every minute of my deceit."
"I suppose it doesn't matter now, but did you ever actually like me? We did go on a date after all."
"I did. Y'know? You've always been beautiful, I just think you're more beautiful now than ever." I say to her. Without noticing, we've moved quite a bit closer.
"You're such a flatterer, Y/N, but if we're in the topic of beauty, then we can't discount the Jedi, the robes look good on you."
"I am sorry-mmfhh!" My speech is muffled as she kisses me.

I kiss back. Before we know it, I'm topless and bootless while getting onto her bed, don't worry, I still have my pants, though I'm not sure how long that'll last if we keep going at this pace.

"I didn't think that Jedi could do this."
"We can't."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~Timeskip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I wake up in the bed, naked. For some reason Paytan is spooning me. The only thing I really remember from after crawling into bed is the feeling, well, there was also Paytan alerting me that I wasn't going to be on top. But now I feel guilt, I just betrayed the order that has fed me, clothed me, taught me, my family.

But because of this, I am the envy of most boys and a few girls, and those who aren't either, but I'm getting off track. I think that we should just forget that this ever happened.

"Y-Y/N? Did we really?"
"Yes, but I don't think we should remember this, after I leave your room, this never happened, alright?"
"Or we keep it a secret?" She says
"That would be lovely, but like you said, secret."
"If you feel like staying for a while longer, you can, it's got to be late at night."
"Yeah, I'll stay for a while."

I lay back on my pillow, with a sense of new found satisfaction, but dread is pooling in my stomach, looking for a way to leak out.