The Precursor.

[Vulpesen]

He grinned and moved to her side, happy to be there as they walked. "No, you didn't. Come to think of it, I've told you almost everything about Amar, but I hardly even know where you grew up before the sith." It was strange for him. He knew so much about her now, but who was she before? Suddenly, dozens of questions were going through his mind.
[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"Well, lets start off with my parents... my father was an old echani warrior who's trade for fighting soon became rather irrelievant in the end as there were no wars for him to take a side on. And as for my mother, she was a former Jedi healer that had left the Order after meeting my father... you see in that time the Jedi had reverted back to their pre-empire practice of restricting love and as such my mother had left the order to be with him... the problem was that the order is always hunted by the sith, and when one of its members leave the flock, they are vulnerable for conversion or death... but that comes in much later. No for the first decade of their lives my father fought in an arena and my mother a healer, both on Corellia and raising me together." She reached behind her, pulling out into her hands the collapsible staff that she continued to use even if its condition showed alot of use. "The staff was my father's main weapon in the ring."

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen looked at the staff. He knew that for the echani, combat was an art, and thus such a weapon would have likely been fairly important to him, even if they preferred hand to hand combat. "Well, so far you at least seem to know more than I do when it comes to your family." Even if for a short time, she had lived with her parents. He knew she must have lost them on the way and thus he didn't know if he should feel lucky or jealous. Maybe a bit of both.

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

She smiled sadly and sighed. "My father was fighting one night, as part of his job and hobby of fighting in an arena. He won something that he wasn't suppose to and later that night when we went home we all went to bed as normal. In the middle of the night i heard something, the sound of a scream and got up, seeing a man in a dark mask had broken down the door, in his hand a red glowing blade which i came to realize was a lightsaber. First he killed my mother, then my father, until he saw me and started to come for me, meanwhile from his hand flames were catching the apartment and causing a blaze... i survived by running and thinking if i jumped out of the window it would all just end... it ended, but i was left crippled in that gutter for a few weeks until i was found by the man i would come to call my first master."

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen twitched and pulled her a bit closer to him. "I'm sorry. Hell, that must have been terrible." Sure he never knew his parents, but his life on the streets had been his choice. In fact, he'd enjoyed them. But hers... hers sounded like a living hell. "Is he the once who gave you the name, Cinthra?"

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"Its fine... and no, he gave me no name and called me only by my first name. I took his name after i left the Sith, and my mothers name after i revisited our home on Corellia with Hakora... Its difficult to really think about any of them, both my parents dead to sith blades, my first master dead to sith blades, and finally i had become a Sith... imagine how much i hated myself as Balaya's apprentice. Imagine the guilt i felt, it eats at your insides and even now i would not fight for the Sith if you and Balaya were not Sith."

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen sighed and stopped walking, spinning Alexandra around to face him as he hugged her. "I understand, completely." He kissed her forehead and smiled at her. "Don't worry, I don't want to be a sith forever. I just need that stepping stone for what comes next. And if it were up to me, you'd be away from their bloody struggles."

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"I know... just hurry up, i hate being near anything darksided and the creature in my head makes it worse as when im near it is when shes most active... so please hurry up." She wanted to collapse now, so much for all that energy, it all just left her with the story and she couldn't get the night out of her mind now as she started to cry. Soon the simply crying got worse as she began to break down and she cried over that night for the first time in a decade, the loss of her whole family minus hakora, the loss of her first master, the loss of everything to sith and to repay that loss she fought for the thing that caused that pain.

 

[Vulpesen]

"Don't worry, I'm trying." He smiled and pressed a light kiss to her again, just before he noticed the first tears, then as she broke down, he pulled her close to him. "Hey, every things gonna be alright. Rough beginnings bring promising futures, and I promise that I intend to do everything I can to make up for any hardships you might have had. Whatever the force wills, I will stand with you and I'm not going anywhere."

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"You suck at pep talks, you know that right..." She still cried, but her smile was back as she just slowly began to sit beside him. "Also, stop making me cry, you really shouldn't make a girl cry you know that right?" She looked at his face, her tears staining and streaking down her cheeks as she looked at him and sighed into his shoulder. Maybe she should just have contacted Eve and called for the speeder, just head home now... but she still liked being somewhere safe and with Vulpesen.

 

[Vulpesen]

Vulpesen let out a small sigh of relief when he saw the smile. "I know. But that's probably the best I've ever done." He softly kissed her as moved his hand to wipe away some of her tears. "And I'll try not to make it happen again." He hated to see her cry and while the last day or two had been some of the happiest of his life, he still found her crying more often than usual, something that was starting to stick in his mind.

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

She tried to smile against the tears, her head coming down into his shoulder again as her breath became a little hoarse. "Right, im sorry vulps, im a mess right now and im sure you aren't finding this too fun being around me at the moment." She sighed as her head turned to the side and looked at his face, kicking herself again for doing what she planned to. What was she thinking, this was not going to be better... was it?

 

[Vulpesen]

He continued to hug her against him, doing his best to comfort her, even as he saw her start to get a grip. "Considering everything else we've done together, I think the wins outdo the losses. Besides, I don't expect everything between us to be easy and simple. All you have to do to see that is take a look at the lives we lead."

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"Right, ones a fool who joined the Sith and im a moron that thought living out in the middle of the forest would be easy." She grinned, her words falling on what she head expected to happen, how she thought living the life of a rouge would be an easy thing and how she could learn everything if she wasn't a Jedi or a Sith. Funny how that didn't work out the way she thought it would. "By the way, your peptalks still suck fox brain." She smiled and kissed his cheek.

 

[Vulpesen]

"A fool maybe, but at least I'm your fool." He grinned and started to walk again, at least one of his arms still around her. "As for pep talks, well I could be a lot worse." Sure his job descroption could be called dangerous at best, and suicidal at worse, but at least he went through it with her.

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"Ya, you could jump off a cliff on Mykyr, thinking you can fly." She smiled as she looked at him and poked fun at his near death stupidity that day, finding it hilarious now where he might not find it so. She didn't care though, with him close tears still remained on her eyes but they were for what she knew was coming, not for what had happened these last few days.

 

[Vulpesen]

"It seemed like a good idea at the time, even if I did need some new gloves afterwards." He grinned and continued to walk through the forest. "And what is Daeda gonna say when he sees that I've made you cry? I'll probably get hell enough from Ace as it is. After all, he seems to really like you, especially after you joined us on that little trip to Myrkr."

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

She grinned wide and laughed even as her voice remained sad to a degree. "Is Big bad fox face scared of two foot tall ashlan wolves, my oh my im going to have to rethink having you as a defense against the Sith in the future." She smiled at him as he said that, her eyes brighter to the point where she was staring at him now as they walked.

 

[Vulpesen]

He narrowed his eyes a bit. "More afraid that I'll have to step on him. Something tells me that such a course of action might be a rocky start to our new relationship." His displeased look soon turned back to his usual lopsided smile as he noticed her lifting expression. "Much better. I much more prefer it when you're smiling."

[member="Alexandra Lianne Feanor"]

 

[Alexandra Feanor]

[member="Darth Tsolan"]

"Well, i do like smiling better than crying too so ill try to keep like this... you do realize though after you get back to the sith we probably can't do this for a long time... simply taking a walk and enjoying the peace together without any fighting and war... you could always leave the Sith Vulps, you don't have to stay with them."