With eyes wide open (a past rp)(complete)

[Garith Darkhold]

He shook his head, “I have no family still let living. As for sitting down I’m fine standing. I have never had performance issues.” He was thinking about the past as he took a few more bits. A little bit lost in his head simple conversation was difficult to come.

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

Arianna for just a moment let her mind slip and wander about performance issues and rather than make a remark about it she focussed on his family, "I'm sorry Garith" She felt bad that he had no family living even with all her ups and downs with Rianna she could not imagine her not being there and had she taken a moment to think on it, it would have made her cry to think of her sister as gone.

Arianna took a bite of the chicken, sauce and cheese she believed that was how this was to be eaten. She took a breath and put the bite into her mouth it was good, and it did taste like chicken.

"I have a sister, I had two sisters actually one of them is still missing" Arianna had thought on this for sometime, "I'm thinking she would have come home by now if she could so there's the chance she's dead." For a moment all emotion left her face as she thought about Maeve being dead she could barely remember her but she remembered her holding her hand and always playing with her. "But we aren't giving up until we are certain" She played with her food for a moment.

"You might like Alderaan we have the fierce manka cats roaming our mountains, and you can learn to ride the thranta, and swim in our oceans" As they had done when they were all children with their father. Arianna pushed the memory away down.

"I don't think I've ever said so much about my family" she laughed uneasily. "Do you like to hunt?" She meant animals not men. she wasn't sure there was a difference.

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

He was previously thinking of the past and he could not help to think about it more as she spoke. “My idea of a hunt is a extreme survival trip. If there is no real threat of death it is not a real hunt for me. As for Alderaan I’ve been there. It has been some time since I have but I’ve been there. Some of the creatures I’ve hunted make the manka cats look like pups.”

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

He had been good enough to not bring up her family and focus on the hunt, "OH and what creatures are those that would make our cats so tame? And when were you last on Alderaan?" She thought of making a joke of it, but considering the content of the conversation it might be wise not to.

He was certainly complicated in many ways and yet Arianna couldn't help but think there was something else there that an unmet need for all his experience. What it was she didn't know. What would happen after he takes her home, she'd probably never see him again. He'd probably forget about the Alderaan Princess...but she'd make an impression at least for a bit espiecally her egg story.

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

What kind of creatures, should he even honestly answer that? “You know one man I’ve hunted before. He is tame to some of the beasts I’ve hunted. What if I told you I’ve hunted and Killed Sith and Jedi Masters? I’m not that nice of a guy Arianna. True I may have some sense of honor but some may call me a killer.”

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

Ok that did set her back some, "that's scary Garith I admit it. Why? I mean I'm naive on some of this and from an uninformed point of view I would say I understand killing Sith some of them have done some horrors, but aren't Jedi supposed to be the good guys?"

Perhaps her rose colored glasses were on a little too tight. But he was honest enough to tell her and she'd be honest enough in her response.

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

Garith sighed, he had thought as much. “I do not conform into their ideas of religion. That very much means I do not fall into the laws of their Order. Some Jedi say conform or die. Also on the battle field I do not judge, I kill all those who rase a blade to me, well there is some exceptions to that. Sometimes children pick up things they should not.”

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

"So are you saying some of them are zealots and pushing on you what they believe to be the right way to live your life?" She had heard some of the Jedi talking and she knew their code could be very strict, so it would not seem unlikely that the Sith have a code with restrictions.

Battle or war was something else many people died when they took arms against someone, that was why it was war.

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

“You mean they’re not all zealots”, jesting he laughed; he did know a couple of Jedi that were not like that. “So you, what is the most bad thing you have ever done?” It was only fair, right? He shared some of his sins to her.

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

"The most bad thing" Whatever it was she had done it wouldn't compare. "Last year my sister made me mad, so I burned her favorite dress and then sprinkled the ashes on her bed." It wasn't terrible but it was probably the worst thing she had done out of anger. "Course there was that boy on Corellia he made me mad so I pushed him off the wall and he broke his arm." She made a face.

"I can have a bit of a temper" she said sheepishly. "its a secret don't tell".

She looked away for a moment, "I don't always fit into the role that people think I should. I laugh when I shouldn't, I'm blunt and direct when I shouldn't be. Its just I don't see the reason for wasting such time we have this one life to live........why can't I live it according to my own rules?"

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

“Everyone has rules no mater where you go. Without it there is only chaos. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes a little chaos can be good. It shakes things up and makes it interesting. For example; you go in to kill a mark and you leave with a young lady that turns out you actually have a pleasant conversation with. Yes but without laws we are just a bunch of filthy animals killing and screwing each other.”


[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

She did laugh and there was a little heat in her cheeks. "the killing part I think I can live without unless necessary, now the other part...well...that can be.." Her face went completely red, "Well you know your a man you know what I mean"

The eighteen year old was now talking about things she had only heard others talking about and had her own fantasies about. Would he catch on to that, she didn't know but she was not worldly in this respect.

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

“It could be a while tell the computer pings telling us it is time. We should get some rest. Go ahead and take my bunk.”

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

"Ok, are you going to rest too?" She asked as she walked away, she could hear him no matter what the place wasn't that big.

She took her plate with her she hadn't eaten much and she knew she needed to. She looked at the bunk so this was where he was sleeping. It wasn't built for comfort that much was certain. Arianna pulled off her pants and shoes and then slid onto the bed leaving the plate to the side.

She hoped they would make it off Corellia alive, and she was really beginning to like Garith he was honest and up front qualities she admired.

[member="Garith Darkhold"]

 

[Garith Darkhold]

“I will get some rest”, he attempted to reassure her as she went to his bunk. Going over to the couch in the living room he had left his glass and just taken the whole bottle. The gruff old man would not openly admit it but he was starting to like just hanging out with Aranna.

Later...

Garith awoke to an alarm. Feet hit the floor and a blanket hit the ground. He darted to the cockpit, coming in he started to flip switches and push buttons. The hum of power resounded through the transport, it was time to go.

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

[member="Togashi Yokuni"]

Someone was beating down the door in her dream, and then there was this clanging of a bell, Arianna turned over oh God she thought stop with the bells!!! Then it finally pierced her sleeping mind not a bell, alarm, claxon....she rolled over putting her feet to the floor blinking wildly as she tried to focus on where she was taking a breath she stood up, grabbed her pants inserting one leg and hopping across the floor till she got it in she repeated the process with the other and then stood there bouncing up and down pulling her pants up, only when she had them to her waist did she run barefooted to the cockpit.

"Whats up!" She was out of breath, half asleep, her voice sounded like she had swallowed a frog.

 

[Garith Darkhold]

‘It is time”, Garith already sitting pulled back on the stick. Looking out the cockpit the doors of the warehouse came closer and closer. “You might want to sit down. Those doors do not open on their own”, shortly after he said that the ships shields crashed into he large wooden doors and the ship flew up into the sky!

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

[member="Togashi Yokuni"]

"Time!" Geez that felt really quick how long had they slept. Arianna fell into the navigators seat, "oh!" quickly righting herself and looking ahead, still out of breath. "Do you think they will follow?"

Damn this running away from people was scary, hard, unexpected and down right un nerving. But they were pulling away, and she had just gotten here. She hadn't gotten to see her adopted family, she sighed. How could they follow? They didn't know they had a ship, and the tracking device was gone. She leaned back some taking everything in.

 

[Garith Darkhold]

As they flew up into the atmosphere they heard a expected message on the comm system. It mentioned how they were in violation of such and such law. That if they did not flew to the location they had been given they would be shot down. Shortly after that the transport shook several times as they were shot at by warning shoots.

Ignoring the comm message Garith pull up on the stick. The transport dove through clouds giving them a brief moment from attacking star fighters. “You doing ok over there Arianna? If you like and if you know how you can fire some weapons from the console in front of you.”

[member="Arianna Darklighter"]

 

[Arianna Organa]

[member="Togashi Yokuni"]

Did she want to shoot at them, they were only doing their duty. But. She could shoot over them warn them off. Was she alright!? NO they were being fired at! She shook her head, sometimes the way men thought what they heck.

She flipped a few switches, and brought the weapons on line. Directing the targeting system to shoot warning shots at first, hoping they got the message she fired. All the while thinking miss miss miss. She held her breath as she watched the the bolts head toward their targets. Their ship rocked again. For a moment there was another lull as if waiting for someone to exhale. They were getting ready to break from atmosphere to space. Could they or would they follow.

Arianna fired again to slow them down if they could not, then this would keep them down. But then, there could be ships in space waiting on them.

The ships fired again, and again, rocking them hard throwing them side to side as they made it into space. Only to be met by another escort, escort..hahahah

"Garith, any suggestions?"