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[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The thick smoke, tar colored waves of guilt and remorse. Breathing grew harder, faster, panicked. Her feet rose from the pits that threatened to swallow her legs whole if she didn’t move. Voices, whispers, her name, a muted chorus from all directions. She began to chip for air as one began to stand out in particular. It whispered at first like sandpaper to her ears before exploding into an echoing roar. Her name began to echo from the voices, spread around the shrinking room. They judged her. She tried to speak but couldn’t do anything but whimper. She felt alone and exposed, more so than ever before.

One of the shades began to take shape. It was the one that had called her name before. The loud one that made it all worse. She began to back off, one step after another as it set its eyes on her. Glowing yellow irises in a sea of black. Tears flooded her sight, her arm extended towards the lurching creature. It stumbled into the light and Kaili gasped. Blood trickled down its cheek like tears in the dark with a skin as dark and rough as a slowly decomposing corpse. It’s dislocated arm dangled back and forth as it shambled in her direction. It held something, but before Kaili knew any better it had gotten a hold of her. It burned and she struggled with all that she had, repeating a loud and panicked chain of cries trying to get away but it was of no use. She felt the subtle prick as something sunk into her neck.

She resigned to fate as her body tensed up into something that could almost crush rock.

At least until the drug kicked in and Kaili collapsed in Allyson’s arms.

"Well," Henry sounded worried. "That has certainly never happened before."

 

[Allyson Locke]

Adrenaline pumped through Allyson’s veins, everything that was happening she could feel it through the Force. Never before had she been so aware of her and Kaili’s connection. What was going on with the blonde? Once the syringe delivered the drug that forced Kaili to seize for a moment and then collapse unconscious, Allyson could feel some sort of calm wash over her. What followed that calm was instant panic and worry. Allyson pulled Kaili’s sweat drenched form close to her. She could still hear the girl’s heart, its rapid beat began to slow down and return to a normal rhythm. Holding her lover close, Allyson tried to figure out what was going on, she had never seen this happen to Kaili - but she did remember the girl telling her about it when they had first met. The explanation happened after her episode at McYoda’s.

Henry made an appearance and Allyson looked up from the nape of Kaili’s neck - a place she had buried her face as she held the unconscious blonde close. It seemed that Henry knew more about this than Allyson, which would become instantly useful. Panic echoed in her voice as she frantically questioned the droid.

“What just happened?! Why?! Is she going to be okay? Sho-Should I call someone? Micah? Aela? Her parents?!” Allyson didn’t know what to do, a part of her wanted to just run, to escape this unknown. The Corellian stayed grounded where she sat, the desire to run was crushed by her undying love for the Talith.

“Henry tell me what to do…” [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

Metal pegs clanked in unison against the marble floor. Henry circled Kaili to get a look at her but found nothing that would indicate external harm. The bond between Allyson and Kaili would start to feel more and more muted the further she slipped under the drug’s effect. It was there, but it was growing into a passive state of neutrality, an existence of non-existence and a lack of any actual emotion. Kaili was going from conscious to unconscious and bordering into a brief trance of serenity. It was a side-effect of prolonged use of the drug and the biggest reason she never used it. It wasn’t the drug itself that was addictive, it was the state it put the user in that was. It was the biggest reason why Kaili had let Henry be the on to administer it. In smaller doses it was as effective as any other antianxiety or antidepressant was, but on the scale administered only a few minutes ago it would border on a five minute state of emotionless trance before exhaustion would kick in full.

“There is nothing we can do while she is out of it.” Henry tried to assure Allyson. “The drugs cut her off from the world, she is gone but not dead.”

A moment of silence passed before a blaster’s shot echoed from the grand courtyard in front of the mansion that the two women called their home. Henry jumped in surprise and turned to look in its direction only to catch the sight of a servant come running down the pathway leading to the front gates. They thrust the doors open with a look of panic in their eyes at the sight of the unconscious Kaili.

“Is she dead?” The man inquired through heavy breaths.

“No.” Henry replied and proceeded to approach the man. “Unconscious, but stable.”

“We caught an intruder on the grounds, the guards have detained him.” The man then turend to look to Allyson.

“What do we do, your highness?” He wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued panting. With Kaili unable to move or speak he would refer to Allyson by the title that she had been adorned with since they both had landed on the surface of Kiara. “The guards are dragging him to the dungeons as we speak.”

His breathing calmed and he gave Kaili another look. “I can take her to your bedroom if you need it. The men need you right now, this cannot wait.”

 

[Allyson Locke]

Allyson started to feel the connection that she felt with Kaili, it worried her and she frantically pulled Kaili to her. She frantically stared at Henry and then back at Kaili. Henry quickly assured her and she inhaled deeply and then nodded. There was nothing more than she can do, which in the end stressed her to no end. A guard ran in and poked his head in. Allyson remained quiet as Henry spoke with the guard and clarified things. The man offered to take Kaili to her bed room and Allyson paused thinking about if she should trust him. She had seen the man around, so she should trust him. Still, with the threat of someone being on the grounds and the fact that Kaili was cut off from the world around her – Allyson didn’t feel safe not being the one to take her to the room.

“Take the intruder to the dungeons…” Allyson thought quietly how weird that sounded currently, she doubted she would ever get used to the way she as addressed either. In her mind, she was just Kaili’s companion and that the blonde was the one that was destined to be the leader of this world. Standing, Allyson picked up and cradled her lover tightly. Worry continued to show on her face, but she continued with her instructions. “Make sure this person has no weapons of the sort – I’ll be down in a moment to begin questioning.” Force have mercy if she found out this intruder had any ties to Kaili’s episode. Closing her eyes, she sighed softly. “I’ll take her to the room myself.”

Holding Kaili, Allyson began to make her way towards their bedroom. Without their connection, Allyson felt lost and couldn’t find the one comfort that she always knew to be there. What was going on with the girl in her arms? Was there a way to help her? Both of her questions were far from being answered, but the least she could do was remain as close to the Talith as she could. On this world, they only had each other. Laying the girl down, Allyson looked for Henry.

“Keep her safe, alert me right away if something happens.” Pausing, Allyson brushed her fingertips gently against Kay’s face and sighed softly. “She’s all I have. I’m going to figure this out.” Standing, Allyson made her way towards the clothing dresser and changed quickly into something more appropriate for questioning an intruder. A pair of blasters strapped to her snug cloth pants and a vest covered the white loose shirt. Her hair was pulled quickly into a ponytail and the signature pair of pilot goggles rested on her forehead. “Maximize security around her Henry, Bait – guard the door.” The small BB unit rolled out of his corner and began patrol in front of the bedroom. Allyson made her way to the dungeons and looked towards the guard that had arrived earlier.

“Where on the grounds did you find him?”

[member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The girl would weigh heavily in the Corellian arms. Her mind was as blank as it got and her body as still as a corpse. A soft exhale would seep through the blonde’s lips as her body touched against the soft fabric of the bed before she went back to lying as still as the night — metaphorically — within the grasp of its soothing embrace. Henry would proceed to obey the lover’s command and secure the doors alongside Bait and a two other guards before Henry too began to make way towards the dungeon. Along the way the duo would pass through the hallways of the home that the two gods dwelled in, a mansion that was by most means far more luxurious than it had the rights to be. Kaili had stated this often enough with Allyson, that the wealth thrown at their feet by the natives worried her. Not for her own sake but for theirs and what would happen when they realized neither of the two women were as grand as they were trying to make them out to be.

Eventually they came across the wide open door to the stairs that lead into the dungeon. It was another part of the house that Kaili had wished they wouldn’t install, but much like everything else in the house the locals had insisted. A real god had a real dungeon where they could interrogate and punish those that dissented or offended. It was the phrasing that had caused Kaili to recoil and subsequently thrown a tantrum at the entire construction crew for thinking she was some kind of malevolent entity looking to cause pain when in fact she wanted anything but. They had heeded her words, but the dungeon had still been installed.

Perhaps it was for the best after all.

Cold stone floors were accompanied by walls as equally chilled to the touch. There were no natural lights here and the air had grown damp. On the walls there were unused shackles and on the other end there were three cells for holding people that in the words of the construction crew ‘most likely deserved it.’ But that was not where the guards had taken the intruder. For at the end of this hall was the very room Kaili had forever sworn herself out of. A red door with the heaviest of security measures installed. Three locks, a pocket for the delivery of food and a handle for opening. No sound escaped from behind it and no air was permitted inside unless those on the outside had permitted it.

The guard had led Allyson towards it, opened the door and let the sounds of a struggling man fill the senses as if someone had flipped a switch.

This was the torture chamber.

“We found him trying to climb the fence by the Northern Wing.” He paused for a second and gave Allyson a nod. “That’s where your bedroom is, your highness.”

“He hasn’t spoken to any of us yet, but he has struggled. That’s for certain.”

 

[Allyson Locke]

The lights flickered on and Allyson came face to face with a place she never really knew existed. She kept her nose clean of the building plans for this place – feeling that her place was never here or there. Allyson, in her mind was only here to support Kaili and because she loved the woman more than anything in this galaxy. Allyson knew that her devotion to her lover was possibly deeper than what Kaili was ready for, but Allyson clung onto the hope that maybe her search was over. Still, in his moment she wished Kaili was here with her, dealing with this together instead of Allyson by herself. Inhaling deeply, Allyson put on her strongest face and entered.

“Near the bed room right, was there anything on him that would suggest assassination attempts on Kaili?” Allyson figured if anyone was going to attack a target, Kaili would be it. The thought forced Allyson’s blood pressure to rise. Anything that threatened Kaili was going to have to deal and go through her first. Doing her best to remain as calm as possible, Allyson looked and found guidance into the room where the man was.

The room sickened her, but she figured with it being so off the grid, it meant that this kind of stuff was going to be a thing. Shaking her head, she waited for the answer, but continued forward to find where the man was and to start her questioning. She looked at him and sighed softly, she wasn’t meant for this – not even her SIS training prepared her for this. Either way she had to do it, this had to be done. Seeing the man, she looked at him.

“Why were you on the grounds?” She could have asked why he was near Kaili’s room, but then if he wasn’t sure if he was there or not – she couldn’t give him the right answer. She wanted to hurt this man, she wanted to rip his face off, but she couldn’t – she needed answers first. [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The men all kneeled the second Allyson stepped into the room except for those that kept the suspect from breaking free in his struggles. It was an older man with hair as gray as the saltiest of rocks, wrinkles as deep as a field plowed in the rain. He looked so unremarkable yet the air about him seemed to be few things other than sinister. His hazel eyes locked onto Allyson’s and a wicked grin spread on his lips.

“No, it was just him making a beeline for the fence when we caught him.” The guard that had accompanied Allyson answered her question. His knee bent in a perfect angle, his head staring at the floor in reverence. This was what the two women had endured ever since they’d landed, the only way the locals seemed to greet them. It always threw Kaili off-balance and made her uneasy, but they just wouldn’t listen at her pleas to stop.

“This is the house of the Gods.” His eyes closed for a moment as he took a deep staggered breath to calm down. His resistance settled and he opened his eyes…

What had once been hazel had turned into yellow. Specks of red circled his irises like an outer ring of hate and contempt.

“Could you imagine what a god would do for you if you pulled the right levers?”

 

[Allyson Locke]

Nodding Allyson listened to what the guard was saying about the man. She really didn't want to do this, everything that was happening made her uneasy. There was a thickness in the air and she couldn't quite put her finger on it. It was then, she noticed the man's eyes. They didn't look right. There was something terribly wrong. Allyson watched him as he slowly began to talk.

House of the gods. That's what they were being treated as and Allyson still really didn't understand why. Still, it held value to the people here and so her and Kaili played the part the best they could. Silence hung in the room as Allyson felt the man’s words cut through her. The heaviness of what he was saying drew her into him. She caught herself and prevented her from falling under whatever spell his eyes were casting on her.

Forcing her gaze to look else where she regained her composure. “What things could you do with the powers of a god? Why would you want that power - for what reason would coming here give you this power?” [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The man laughed in her face. “What could I do with the power of a god?” His question shot out in spite at Allyson. “I guess someone like you wouldn’t know.” He almost spat at her. “Weak. Not good enough. Undeserving.”

“Such gifts, squandered. ‘Love’ in the wrong places, ‘love’ in you.” The man laughed again and tugged at his binds. “It is not I who is a god, it is not I who hold the adoration of the people living at the base of this mountain.”

“They adore her, they adore you, and soon they will adore me.” The man calmed down and got into a grand pose with his hands behind his back. “Eurice, the subjugator of the gods. Eurice, the master of nightmares.”

His eyes fell on Allyson again. Had hers met with his, and if she had wanted to ask him about his connection to the events earlier in the evening when Kaili had freaked out he only had one thing to offer.

“She needs to wake up to her potential.”

“My potential.”

“Someone worthy of her.”

 

[Allyson Locke]

Everything the man said hit home, Allyson never felt good enough for Kaili. She always wondered what the girl saw in her. There was nothing heroic or magical about her, she was simple and only could do one thing in the Force. Maybe she was a place holder till someone better came along. Shaking her head, Allyson fought every fiber in her being that told her to smack this man across the face. She couldn’t be like that.

Taking a deep breath, she fixed her brunette bangs from her eyes. “Nightmares…everything is your fault.” Her voice was quiet as she pondered what to say next. Instantly, she straightened her back and found some sort of courage. “She has someone worthy of her. She is searching for her potential, but whatever you are, whoever you are – you’re not the one to wake it up.” Allyson drew closer, a fire of distain for the man starting to burn in her chest. She lowered her voice and spoke clear and sharp to the man.

“You stay the feth away from her or I’ll show you what a real nightmare is.” Allyson felt something dark growing inside of her for this man. She didn’t question it just yet, but deep down – she feared it. [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The man mocked Allyson in a laughter again. Before the silence could settle in the guards moved up to him. They forced him into the back of the room where they proceeded to tie him to one of the nearby devices. The man struggled, kicked and spat as arms and legs were separated into an upright yet exposed position upon the device’s cold metal surface. Once done all except one guard — the guard that had brought Allyson here — slowly left the room to leave the woman alone with their prisoner to do what she alone was the one to do. The man’s cackling laughter didn’t stop. His madness would slowly grow all the more evident.

That was when the sound of the door opening echoed ever so slightly within the confines of the small room.

“You. Show me a nightmare.” He spat in Allyson’s face. “You’re worthle-”

He turned to see who had stepped in…

---

The world had flickered back into a state of overwhelmingly stale existence. The room was cold and empty, like a testament of what could have been if Kaili had not brought Allyson with her on that day when they found this planet. The creeping sensation of loneliness began an attempt to overwhelm her mind, but something muted it. Kaili tried her best to figure out what it was, but she couldn’t for the life of her figure it out. An impassive stare circled around the room only to set on the droid standing guard by her bed. Bait. The droid chirped and chimed in joy as Kaili got herself out of bed and wrapped a sleeping gown she had around her and tied it by her waist.

It was quiet around here. Kaili tried to focus on the force but felt nothing.

Where was Allyson?

What about the dream?

“Where is Allyson, Bait?” A far too neutral Kaili asked the droid that had kept her company in her slumber. “Where is everyone?”

No force, no emotion. It was the drugs. The girl would have frowned but found herself incapable of even that. Instead what was meant to be a panicked cry for her lover, for anyone, became a sleepy mutter. Kaili hated this drug. The droid answered her and began rolling towards the door leading into the hallway. The grand doors into their bedroom were opened by guards on the other side who at the sight of their god would proceed to follow in perfect formation as they were lead into the dungeon by the lover’s droid unit. This was the dungeon. Kaili feared the worst. The guards gathering around the entrance to the chamber all lined up before her and knelt down to form a pathway that under most circumstances would have left the girl uneasy.

But with this drug few things managed to do that.

Kaili put her hand to the door’s cold surface. A small sigh parted her lips as the effects began to wear off. She gave the door a gentle push. It creaked open until eventually it stood wide open to expose Kaili to the intruder. She saw the way he taunted Allyson before spitting at her.

That was when something inside of her cracked. Perhaps it was the drug wearing off or perhaps it was her own stubborn anger, but the girl began to shake in palpable rage. Her teeth started to grit as her eyelids slowly sunk to cover a heterochromatic set of eyes. The force was gone, the drug’s effect was in effect but not for much longer.

She took one step towards the man and felt her arm began to shiver in full. Nobody disrespected Allyson, nobody mistreated her.

She took a second step and her hand tied up into a tight fist. Self-control was slipping, her anger getting the better of her.

With the third step she felt a low growl. A guttural growl, primal.

With the fourth she found her hand wrapped around his neck. He didn’t deserve it; the air wasn’t his to inhale, his life so insignificantly unimportant. The touch of her hand against his grayed skin felt like silk on gravel and she would treat him like little else. The goddess’ eyes peered into his as she threw the first punch. He recoiled and slumped down upon the device but Kaili brought him back up again. A small laughter parted his lips but before he could let it get anywhere she threw another punch to make him shut up. With her bond to Allyson muted there was nothing to tell her to stop.

She felt the punches roll one after another.

Nobody disrespected Allyson like that.

Nobody.

 

[Allyson Locke]

Allyson covered her face the best she could from the spit hat came from the man. Anger flared within her but she did her best to keep her cool. That was what he wanted, he wanted her to get upset. Though before she could even react to anything, someone entered the room. Allyson blinked quickly seeing Kaili or who she thought was Kaili. The woman made a beeline for the man and with everything that happened she noticed his face and how he enjoyed it. Remembering the small lessons on the Sith that Kaili had given her along with what Ember had taught her growing up, Allyson knew this path.

After a couple of punches, Allyson found her footing and moved towards Kaili. She wrapped her arms the best she could around the girl’s waist and attempted to pull her off of the man. “Kaili! Stop it!” If she killed this man, she didn’t know what would come of it. Allyson knew in the back of her head that this was all part of the plan. He knew somehow, or the people he worked for knew that all of this would happen. Without their connection, Allyson couldn’t stop her. Releasing Kaili, she had to think of something. Two more punches rang against the man’s face. This was because he did something to her, Allyson knew how to stop this.

She psyched herself up, knowing how hard Kaili hit. A few steps and she wormed her way into the line of fire of one of the punches. Knuckles contacted the side of Allyson’s face and she cursed under her breath and went down. Maybe she really didn’t know how hard Kaili hit because this hurt more than getting shot down. Allyson took in deep breaths as she felt her world spinning, she wanted to throw up and fall backwards knocked out all at the same time. Tears welled up in her face as she held her face. “Kaili stop it!” STOP IT KAILI!”

What in the Force’s name was going on? Looking up towards the woman she loved, she noticed the change in her eyes. What was that? What the kark was going on?! Once more Allyson yelled Kaili’s name, “KAILI!” [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

Arms wrapped around her waist but the punches did not stop. Nails dug into the man’s throat, her punches going for the stomach and face in an attempt to silence him. There was someone tugging her away from the man but Kaili did not care. She wanted him to burn, she wanted to cause him immeasurable pain for what he had done. Second for second she would keep on hitting until the anger was gone, but seconds turned to a still picture of her own worst fear.

It was the longest second of her life. She felt the slow burning, agonizing sensation of knuckles sliding against soft skin that they weren’t meant to touch. There weren’t many things that Kaili feared to such a great extent as the mere idea of ever hurting Allyson like this. Tunnelvision gripped at the corners of her eyes. This wasn’t how this was going to end, was it? Out of all thoughts that crossed her mind that was the only one that she could think about. She had just struck Allyson in anger. Not anger directed at the woman herself but it was still an anger at something someone had done to her. Was this who Kaili was? Did she punch her way through problems? Had she not gotten any further than that?

The anger inside went quiet, replaced once more by the impassive neutrality that the drug forced her mind into. Staggered steps lead her back against the wall. Inside her mind she felt the chemicals work overtime on battling the extreme remorse that bubbled up from her heart. Eyes locked onto Allyson as she stumbled around in pain. The blonde felt the silky fabrics of her gown slide against the uneven surface of the wall. It broke up, tore it asunder with a rip as the edges dug itself into the skin on her back to draw scrapes that scaled the entirety of her back. Yet it didn’t hurt as much as the fire beneath the skin of her hand.

She wanted to sink further into the wall until the stones could even out the pain. Cold, expressionless eyes stared at the hand. She could cut it off. The other hand moved up to join. She could cut them both off. Without the force she was lost and with it she was living a life of serenity borrowed from a trinket that her brother had made. While Allyson might have screamed her name she found no response from the girl whatsoever. She was too terrified of herself to provide any. In this moment she wanted to be anyone else but Nohei Shamalain, she wanted to be anyone other than Kaili Talith, she wanted to be anything other than the person that she was. This person that she had become lacked control. This person that she had become was going against everything that she had been taught as a child.

Her hands continued to hover before her face in unexpressed terror, a blank face with tears running down its cheeks.

A girl kept pushing into the wall, she wanted to disappear.

 

[Allyson Locke]

Kaili had stopped which was a good thing, Allyson got to her feet and called to the guards. She looked at the man that was in the back and nodded to him. They knew what they had to, so they removed him and he was sent to a cell for the time being. “Keep him under heavy security – I’ll deal with him later.” Allyson wanted to know more about him, she wondered if that was the real underlying reason why she stopped Kaili from killing him. The woman adjusted her jaw and sighed softly seeing Kaili attempting to express some sort of emotion. She moved towards the girl and placed her hands-on top of Kaili’s.

She held the hands that the other feared so much. Allyson knew that having her hit her wasn’t the best course of action, but it was the only thing that cracked through the fury. If she wasn’t drugged, if she didn’t have those night terrors, none of this would have happened. The Kaili that attacked that man wasn’t the girl she knew. Their bond would have stopped her, would have helped her stay in control. A sigh escaped her lips as she shook her head. A kiss on each pair of the knuckles and an extra kiss against the knuckles that were beginning to bruise from the onslaught she had given the man. The Corellian knew why Kaili had attacked so she attempted to make things better and easier to accept. “Thank you Kaili, thank you for coming to my aid.”

She pulled the girl tightly against her body and held her. It was the only thing she knew she could do. What more was there? She wasn’t strong in the force, she wasn’t someone that could make this all go away, so all she was left with was her love. Allyson didn’t know how this happened, she was never one to fall for someone like this, if her past self could see this – she would laugh. Still, she would never trade this, she couldn’t live without this and without Kaili. Another soft sigh, she wished she could connect to the blonde like she usually could. “Kaili is okay, it’s over, it’s all over don’t worry please…” [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The guards would nod in confirmation of their orders and proceed to drag the unconscious man out of the chamber to leave their two overlords alone. The door closed and a deafening silence fell upon the small room once again. The sound of the guards was gone. The kisses that touched against her knuckles made her uneasy, the first semblance of emotion that would seem to linger on Kaili’s face. Unease at Allyson’s willingness to accept what Kaili had done. Unease at how she was able to just overlook it. She hadn’t come to her aid, she had almost killed a man. Aid was to involve the person in question, Kaili wanted to call it vengeance. A vengeance that was not hers to take on since it had not been she who had been the person who had gotten spat on in the first place.

Allyson’s embrace was met with no resistance, yet no response either. Inside of her mind Kaili felt the drug work on its last straws against the onslaught of emotions as its nullifying effects slowly began to wear off. What hadn’t been felt a few moments ago always came back in droves to be felt later. Under most circumstances Kaili would have had time to prepare herself mentally for that, but situations such as these quite simply didn’t allow for it. Her head slumped into Allyson’s shoulder as a shaky breath parted her lips. The tears that ran down her cheeks started to burn like hot coals and the sensation only grew more intense for each tear that passed through her defenses.

A small murmur could be heard outside the door at that point, but Kaili wasn’t paying it any attention.

The magnitude of tears only grew larger for each moment that passed. She didn’t deserve this woman. While she knew that Allyson suffered with the concept at times, Kaili had always been as equally convinced that it was she who did not deserve the Corellian.

“I’m sorry.” Kaili whispered under her breath as her entire body shook in pain. “I am so sorry.”

“Sorry,” Kaili sobbed. “Sorry,” She exhaled. “I am so sorry,” Kaili wasn’t stopping. “Sorry,”

The chain wouldn’t stop until Allyson made it stop.

A mute bang was heard outside the door before the world went quiet again. There was just Allyson and Kaili’s apologies.

 

[Allyson Locke]

Kaili started to come back and Allyson exhaled softly. The girl was stuck on a loop of apologies and Allyson let her go for a moment, but then soon caressed the blonde’s face lightly. Despite what happened, Allyson chose to make it happen. It was the only way to stop the never-ending cycle. The situation that was occurring outside didn’t’ phase Allyson, her focus was on the girl that was in her arms now. Despite the circumstances that had made this a possibility, Allyson never wanted to not have this.

Hands still holding Kaili’s face, she pulled her into a desperate kiss. Allyson at this moment realized how important Kaili was to her. Not feeling her, not having her near in any form of the way was unbearable. She broke the kiss, hoping that it ended the unnecessary loop of sorry. The Corellian rested her head against the blonde’s taking in everything that she was. This drug was a terrible thing, she wished she didn’t have to administer it to her. There had to be another way to deal with the night terrors, to make them stop for good. Allyson filed that away and wondered if she could contact [member="Kira Talith"] and hopefully meet the woman, then come up with something to help Kaili.

Whatever it took, Allyson would do everything in her power to keep Kaili safe. “I love you and stop apologizing…” Sighing softly, Allyson smiled slightly, “How are you feeling?” She made a mental note to make sure ice and bandages were brought to their room. She would see to taking care of Kaili’s hands and then her own face eventually.

[member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The usage of the drug was something that Kaili had kept hidden from most of the people that she knew for a very long time. Not that it was ever administered at this dosage, or all that often to begin with. It was an emergency plan, a sort of contingency for what to do when all other options had failed. For the most part it was safe, and for the most part she was alone with Henry who she had programmed to do what nurses would have helped Kaili with. Under most circumstances this drug would have left her system while she was asleep, but not now. Instead it had done what she knew it would do and amplified the remorse and the anger she felt directed towards herself. It was a harsh balancing act, but one that Kaili had experience with. She knew the risks and she knew that Henry was capable.

Today was quite simply not something she would have, or could have, counted on happening.

Her lips locked onto Allyson’s with a lackluster response.

“I’m sorry.” Came the last apology as they broke apart. Her face buried itself in Allyson’s shoulder. “I feel like I just punched the woman I love in a fit of rage.”

She sobbed, tried not to apologize again no matter how hard her mind wanted her to do so.

“I feel-”

The door opened with a loud creak and bang as the man who had lead Allyson into the dungeon stumbled into the dungeon. “Let go of me!” He shouted through the door. Kaili’s heart started to race in terror at the sight of him. He was covered in blood, splatter covered his cheek in a smeared pattern as if he had tried to wipe it off of himself.

“Hemvar, don’t!” One of the other guards shouted.

“He’s dead.” The man looked terrified, shocked. His eyes set on Allyson. “They shot him. They shot the intruder.”

 

[Allyson Locke]

Allyson held onto Kaili for as long as possible. It was all she could do for the time being. They would move past this, like they did most horrible things. Kaili would continue to apologize and Allyson would just wave her on. There was no reason for Kaili to feel this way - but Allyson knew there was no talking her out of it. Their moment was cut violently short as the guard burst into the room. Allyson who was already on high alert did her best to shield and protect Kaili from whatever came through the door.

Seeing it was the guard, Allyson relaxed somewhat - even after seeing the blood. There was commotion and she stood in front of her lover. The last thing the blonde needed right now was more chaos.

“They shot him? Why and who shot him?!” Allyson’s chance at figuring what this was all about was gone. Cursing under her breath Allyson wanted to hit something, she couldn't control the anger that started to build up inside of her. The man has hurt Kaili, he had endangered her life and Allyson’s chance at finding out why and then killing him herself was gone. What if there were more like him? She would never know.

“Answer me! Who killed him and why? Did he say anything more before you decided to take justice into your own hands?” Allyson get something inside of her begin to grow, she had felt it when she looked at that man. It was something she had never felt before. Taking a deep breath, she tried to get rid of the tightness that was building in her chest. She needed answers, she needed them as soon as possible. [member="Kaili Talith"]

 

[Kaili Talith]

[member="Allyson Locke"]

The blonde would not let go of Allyson. She might have stood before her, but Kaili kept a firm grip of her hand refusing to let go. She looked pitiful, looked small as she stood behind the Corellian almost cowering from the guard that stood paralyzed before his gods. Allyson was getting tense and the blonde hated not knowing why. It was there in the way Allyson’s grip seemed to grow as equally rough around Kaili’s hand, the way her breathing seemed to grow faster, shorter. She was agitated, angry, furious, a great many things and the fact that their bond was silenced caused Kaili as much distress as one would expect.

“The man said nothing.” The guard tried to carefully explain the situation. “He was unconscious when Lee opened fire.”

The rest of the men came back into the room and threw the corpse on the floor. There was a hole where his forehead had once been. Blood poured out of the wound and onto the floor and in that instance Kaili felt her panic rise. The sight of blood wasn’t one that usually worried her but this medication was wearing off, it amplified everything.

Her breathing started to stutter more and more for each attempt she made at breathing. Her eyes welled up and the grip around Allyson’s hand began to slip as she tried to back away from the corpse in full reverse.

The guard that had shot him, Lee, looked at his the blonde and then Allyson.

“See? She is freaking out. I did the right thing.”

“He was a threat to all of us.”

 

[Allyson Locke]

Allyson remained in front of Kaili, she didn't know what to do at this point and time. The guard was right, Kaili wasn't acting the same and there was more going on. Looking at the body, she felt rage building up inside of her. This man, the one that laid dead on the floor threatened their paradise and he was the reason they were in this situation. Why couldn't he have just remained at home with his family, why couldn't he just have continued his day not worrying about anything beyond himself? Why? Allyson continued to question everything internally, but there were no answers. No one knew the answer, minus the man that was dead with a hole in his forehead. She couldn't berate the man that did what he believed was right. Yet, was this planet going to run on their own idea of justice? Allyson once again didn't have the answers, she needed Kaili.

Kaili wasn’t there, she was hiding behind her. Right now, Kaili needed Allyson. A hand pushed Kaili farther behind her and Allyson looked at the body. “Get it out of here. The last thing any of us need is a dead body just staring up at us.” The other guards moved to take him out and Allyson relaxed for a moment. Looking towards the man that shot the intruder, she nodded. “He needed to die yes, but I would have liked to find out if he was working alone or if there were others.” Kaili was in danger and Allyson didn’t know what to do to protect her. “Thank you all of you for handling this situation. I request that next time – we don’t kill anyone until they’ve been fully questioned.”

Another pause and Allyson turned to Kaili. A soft smile and then she returned her attention to the guards. “Clean everything up, check the body for any evidence of what he was about – find out everything about him. I want to know every detail about this man. Who he talked to down to his favorite food.” She tightened her expression as she nodded once more. “I need to know everything if I’m going to keep her safe.”

“She’s important to all of us.” With that, Allyson began to usher Kaili out of the room. She didn’t need to be there any longer and neither did Allyson. The Corellian hoped that information would come about and she could be put to ease about this entire matter. [member="Kaili Talith"]