Sabine's secret

Chapter 7

The Dark abyss consumes me. The alarms become distant and die, and the flashing red lights and metal of the escape pod become a blur and slush as I blink my eyes awake.

I blink again but there is a face above mine, the colourful hair blocking out the rest of my view, their facial expression blurred beyond hope of recognition. I see their mouth moving but all I hear is a distorted blurb of unintelligible sounds.

I blink again and my surroundings have changed I'm in a dull grey room and although everything is still fuzzy I can make out the sight of medical equipment and the distant quite sound of a beep. whether I'm safe or not is no longer a concern, I close my eyes and succumb to the darkness.

Sabine's POV

"do you think he will wake?" came a quiet voice of Mira "I don't know sweetie" I give her the best smile I could muster but even then, it probably looked half-hearted and fake at best. "who is he" I would of thought that it was obvious who he was but apparently not "his... He is your father Mira "what!" she squeals in disgust and hatred "that monster can't be my father! You said he was a good. A great and loving man!" again yelling "you said he was dead! So please mum how that disgusting mon" but I cut her off before she can finish "He is not a monster!" I scream at her, causing her to step back and cower slightly in fear. "he was a good man... driven to do awful things" she looks over at me before she straightens her back and rolls her eyes "really, so your saying that m. that it's not his fault he killed so many rebels" she sounded angry, I could understand why but this was not the time, not when I was so. So helpless, so weak, so fragile "yes honey. It's the Rebellions fault he did those... things" she laughs at my statement "oh of course it's their fault" she may be my daughter but she has no right to laugh at what she does not understand "Yes Mira! It's their fault. If they hadn't betrayed him, hadn't killed master, his father, my father he wouldn't be the same fucking man he is today!" I scream at her, she doesn't cower away but she does drop her head and tears form in her eyes as she stares at my feat "I'm sorry mum" she mumbles "it's not your fault... you didn't understand"

We both sit down on the couch but stay separated. Both staring at the ground in front of us and letting the deafening silence take over. I hated it, I wanted it to end but I knew that it would only lead to talking about her father and that, that I was not prepared for.

"what happened" it was a simple question that had a hard answer, "he was betrayed" it was obvious and I had already stated it but I had to reassure her it wasn't his fault "how" she presses on "I. I don't know why, what made them do it or who but they decided that your father and his master where a threat to the rebellion. So, they..." my bottom lip starts to waver and tears swell in my eyes ready to burst their banks. "they took him to Alderaan... took them to the middle of the forest, told them that they had found a secret imperial factory that they needed to steal from. You know standard mission" I stutter, trying to prolong the inevitable "mum..." Mira stated walking beside me and clutching my hand and giving it a reassuring squeeze "there was no base... instead when they were far enough away, they turned their weapons on them and gunned them down in a cold-blooded execution... I found out three days later that I was pregnant with you" a take a deep, ragged breath in and try to push down the emotions that were swealing "I. I that's all I know. I'm sorry..." she gives me another reassuring squeeze before I fall apart and cry into my hands

Mira's POV

This entire time I knew my father, I knew him as a monster that served the empire, that killed my friends and I blamed him for so many deaths. But it wasn't even his fault, he was forced into his position, forced into becoming that beast, that murder and it was all the Rebellions fault! I grew up without a father, a single mother who refused to go into a relationship because her love for my father, a broken family all because of the Rebellion that I was proud to serve with, with those I called my friends and some even my family. I was sick, sick at the fact that they could do something so terrible, to throw out my father like he was a tool that was no longer needed. They don't deserve me, don't deserve my mother, don't deserve my family and they don't deserve to be able to have Luke. Because they will eventually do the same thing they did to my father, they will toss him aside like a broken tool. A relic from another age, we can't go back. I can't face those that broke my family, did so many terrible deeds in the name of "freedom". But what about Luke, my on and off again Master, I. we need to warn him, tell him of what will become of him. He always told me that everything happens for a reason. Finding my father was to save him. To save the man I thought of like a father when my real one was 'dead'.