[member="Connor Harrison"]
"You haven't fallen yet, Connor Harrison," Taeli whispered. "I would know . . . you're confused and standing at the crossroads of your life, maybe more than you realized, and not sure which way to go."
Taking a steadying breath, she placed a hand to his temple, and continued with an even quieter whisper, "I'm going to show you a few things . . . and let you see what a true fall to the dark side looks like . . . and what the dark side can do . . ."
With that said, she allowed two specific memories to swell up in her mind, and she sent them gently for Connor to view.
"Excuse me, you're in the way," she said, trying to push them.
'If you want to pass, you gotta pay a toll," one boy, a Kiffar judging by the tattoo on his face, smugly said.
"What's the toll?" she sighed.
"A kiss for each of us," the other boy, a normal Lorrdian leered.
"How about you both get out of my way and I don't hurt you?" Taeli replied sweetly, but her fists were clenched and she could feel her annoyance bubbling up inside.
"Then we'll just take the toll," the Kiffar boy laughed, making a hand gesture.
Confused by the gesture, she took a defensive stance her mother taught her, dropping the package of datapads at her feet as she did. That was when two large arms wrapped around shoulders, holding her back and stopping her from fighting.
"Let me go!" she yelled, panic and anger making her voice higher.
"Not a chance," a voice growled in her ear and by straining her neck, she could see the person holding her was a Mandalorian boy that she had bested in a fencing duel. "You owe me something for that humiliating defeat. You stripped me of some honor, and now my friends and I will strip you of yours."
The other two boys came forward and she could feel them running their hands along her body. Her panic, shame, and anger were revolving inside of her and it was making her lose control.
"No! Stop! Please!" she yelled, hoping someone might hear her predicament from the street, but there was no one nearby.
"This is what you get," the Mandalorian boy growled, roughly kissing her ear and biting it. His companions began to try and slip their hands under clothes. She continued to struggled even more, her panic blazing ever brighter and her anger and hate of the boys kept growing and growing. Like a dam breaking inside of her, the rage she felt unleashed itself.
The two boys in front of her were thrown backwards by an unseen force, landing heavily on their backs. The boy holding her also was blasted backwards, but he recovered his footing and looked at Taeli in shock. Before he could say anything, Taeli instinctively raised her hand and threw him on top of his two friends. Her eyes were blazing as she advanced on her would-be rapists. The three boys scrambled to their feet, trying to get away from the enraged girl, but Taeli would not allow them to escape without punishment.
Again, through instinct, she reached out and gripped each boy by the throat with the same unseen force, lifting and choking them. The boys started making gurgling sounds as their eyes pleaded for mercy, but they would find none as she increased the pressure on their throats.
"You're an or'dinii," the Mandalorian boy was able to gasp out.
Knowing exactly what she had just been called, Taeli's eyes blazed with anger as she completely let herself go. Twisting her hand, she heard the satisfying pop of the Lorrdian and Kiffar's necks breaking and she dropped their bodies to alley floor. Walking directly up to the still struggling Mandalorian, she removed the beskade from his belt.
A few minutes later, Taeli was blinking rapidly as her bloodlust dissipated and she took in the sight in front of her. Two of the boys were on the ground their necks at odd angles, their eyes unseeing. It was what had happened to the third boy that made her recoil against the wall and stare at her bloody hands and the bloody saber clenched in them. The Mandalorian boy had his nose, ears, hands, and feet removed and scatted around his torso. Small cuts were across his body and had finished with a long slash across his throat.
"What have I done?" Taeli whispered. "What have I done? What have I done?" She kept repeating this mantra over and over again, staring at the bodies and unable to look away."
Gasping a bit from seeing that again, she sent the second memory as well.
Palpable waves of Force energy starting lashing out around her as she closed her eyes, tears falling thick and fast now. Her world, her support that had been her parents, had crumbled. She wanted to scream, to rage, to cry, to laugh, to . . . it was too much. Too much!
"Too much!!!!" she screamed, the Force energy rocketing out of her and smashing everything in its path. Pieces of china, knick knacks, datapad, and other small objects started flying through the air. Her 'parents' were thrown backwards over the couch and into the wall behind them, yelling in pain from the impact. Taeli couldn't comprehend anything, her entire focus was on the fact her parents had just told her she wasn't their daughter anymore, that they hated her. . .
Another shockwave of Force energy rocketed out from around her, she had no control over the outpouring of energy, she couldn't even say if it was a technique she knew. It was simple raw instinct and power lashing out as she collapsed to her knees. The furniture nearest her exploded into splinters and shredded cushions, the debris rocketing around the room in an almost whirlwind fashion. No control . . . no control at all . . .
"Taeli!" Jakon yelled, straining against the storm that their daughter was radiating. While he hated what she became, and he agreed with his wife, right now his fatherly instinct was kicking in. His daughter was having an emotional collapse right in front of him, because of them and this was far different than last time.
Melarna had never seen a Force User lose control like this, their daughter was incredibly powerful. She was now more concerned than ever, but she couldn't move. The energy exploding out from their daughter was too much to move against.
Hearing her father's voice, the voice of someone who she loved that hated her now, that has cast her aside easily, just made it worse. Another, even stronger, wave exploded out from her and she screamed, "TOO MUCH!!!!" The latest wave of energy blew apart everything around her, huge shards of the floor and walls were now being whirled around, the ceiling cracking as the energies blew everything apart. Melarna and Jakon could only watch as several large shards of permacrete and steel ripped from the walls and headed their way.
It was several minutes later, long painful minutes for Taeli before she was able to regain control of her powers and regain her awareness of her surroundings. Blinking slowly, tears still falling she could see her parents stuck to the wall, shards of debris in their body.
"No, no, no, no, no, no," she sobbed, almost crawling to where her parents, the ones she had known anyways, were now pinned to the wall . . . dead.
"NOOOOOOO!" she yelled, unable to comprehend she had killed them, to even think it. But the proof was there, and as she she sobbed uncontrollably, she rolled into a ball and cried.
Whispering quietly, she said, "You gave into your darkness, yes, but that is not a true fall. Corvus gave into it once, briefly, but she is still a Jedi and following that path. What you are, Connor Harrison, is human, and we humans always make mistakes. Don't give up on yourself when there are people who believe in you. . ."
Her voice trailed off for a moment, to let him contemplate what she showed him.