53 Confidential (2/2)

Would her father still had viewed her as a tool? As a threat? Her eyes remained on Valad, this was his story to tell, not for her to fantasize.

”It's a typical boy meets girl story, we fell in love. Or at least I did, she was everything.” He smiled brightly at the memory, ”But she was my sister's best friend.” His smile morphed, it wasn't a frown, yet it appeared rather morose and angry. ”She caught us together and dedicated herself to destroying my life, because I was 'stealing' her friend from her. I became a social outcast. My parents betrayed me, my friends betrayed me. She used her words to warp the world's view of me. Torment in the open, behind doors, my parents locked me away.”

Vaylin froze hearing his words, the similarity of their lives were extreme. He was abandoned by his parents, betrayed by everyone. He was locked away, tormented and isolated. He only had fear, anger and silence.

”Then how did you...?”

Valad looked over at her as she asked how he had come to be in this reality, a different dimension entirely from his own. ”I died,” He made a toothy grin as her eyes emotionally dilated hearing his answer and his own expression.

He died and was rebirthed? Was this the reason why he was so insanely strong? Why he could do things no one else could ever imagine? She stared at him, she couldn't understand. If one became a singular entity amongst the force, then how was he rebirthed?

Vaylin's mind tingled as she thought about this, it almost tickled. Her head involuntary jocked a bit, and she laughed to herself, shaking her head. ”You died?”

He slowly nodded, ”I've only been here for a few months by the time you arrived.”

Vaylin blinked a few times hearing this, he wasn't rebirthed. It was as if he was just placed into another world all together. She centered her gaze on his face, he was still grinning a bit. ”How did you die?”

Valad shrugged lightly, ”Wrong place... Wrong time.” His eyes slowly began to lower towards the floor of the room. ”The love of my life had been moved out of my reach. I was forced to get a 'corporate' job. I just happened to walk into a robbery, and I died before I even hit the ground.”

Died before he got to hit the ground. That line echoed in her mind as she seemed to be mesmerised by this. He was shot, killed, but he died from the shock of intense pain. Either that, or he had a heart condition and he had an instant shutdown of his cardiac system. Instead Death Syndrome, cardiac arrest.

”At least it wasn't that painful...” She seemed to laugh weakly, he knew she wasn't laughing at him. He could tell it was a nerve-related reaction. ”But how did you get so powerful in the force so quickly?”

Valad would make his blaster carbine appear in his hand and place it on the bed. The F-11D was black and white, similar to the E-11 which would be made for the late Galactic Republic and later the Galactic Empire.

”The fighters on board, in the hangar. The 'eyeballs,' those are from over a hundred years into the future from now. Those Star Destroyers you saw appear outside our vessel a few days ago, were from about eighty years from now, used by the Chiss Ascendancy and the averted Empire of the Hand.”

Nodding slowly, Vaylin began to understand. The world he now resided in, the reason why he knew so much, was because this world was nothing more than a story. She came to this conclusion quickly. He hadn't used time travel, he didn't use flow-walking. He already knew everything that would happen in an partially unchanged timeline.

”So you're the reason why I'm the me, now... Huh...” Vaylin would lean against his shoulder, grasping his hand tighter in her hands. Her gaze was glued at the door.

”Yeah... Otherwise you'd just kill your own soldiers for the sake of having an even number of them.” This made Vaylin's eye twitch hearing this from Valad. ”You had some serious OCD problems and daddy issues.”

Vaylin glanced over at him, turning her head and looking at him as he was watching their hands in her lap. Leaning in, she bite his ear lobe teasingly without warning.

Quickly he yanked away, a shocked expression on Valad's face. ”Ow... What the hell was that for?” He said in a somewhat offended expression, seeing her somewhat cross expression on her face.

”What'd I do now?” Valad began to chuckled a bit, seemingly a bit brighter after sharing something he had been keeping to himself since he arrived.

”Let me call you by your real name, for now on.” Vaylin demanded with a giggle, ”Or I'll take the lobe next time,” she was giving him empty threats which sounded more like a tease than anything else.

Valad gave her a long stare before shrugging lightly, ”Sure.”