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"Good, for now padawan I think we need to work on hiding your special abilities." Dooku quickly explained why that was necessary, and then the two of them put on a bit of a pantomime.
Dooku gestured at the surrounding illusions and animals one after another, and they disappeared, seemingly at his direction while Harry remained, moving from one prisoner to another making certain they were secure. In this fashion they created the illusion that it had been Dooku's power all along which created the creatures and did most of the damage. While odd, Dooku was a renowned Jedi Master, and his abilities, even ones like this, would not make for nearly as much talk as it would have if they came from Harry.
After they finished that, Dooku moved over to a few dead bodies where he had noticed a few grab a nearby thermal detonator. After having watched what happened to others who attempted to use the thermal detonators against the Jedi, the owner of said hadn't wanted to use them. Flicking them on Dooku then hurled them into the elevator before closing the door just as it went off, shredding Jabba's body. It never hurt to be thorough after all.
This was the scene that Aayla saw as she came up from deeper into the palace.
Dooku was busy organizing the prisoners to stand up and be moved towards the entrance, Fay was just leading the rancor past them, and out into the environment beyond, its hands full of dead goons and gangsters of various type, after all, food was food. And Harry was standing there, looking at the dead bodies scattered throughout the hall, a wan forlorn expression on his face. He had killed before of course, but now that the battle was over, all he could feel was sadness that so many sentients, admittedly scum of the universe, had died.
The moment they spotted one another the rest of the environment faded into the background. Even the slaves pushing past Aayla barely registered to her.
Harry had turned as she entered, a bright happy grin of welcome on his face, sheer joy at meeting her in person for the first time in years suffusing his features, banishing his thoughts of the dead. Aayla too was beaming like a loon.
Nearby Fay and even Dooku held back grins of their own at the feeling of the Force around them, the feel of the emotions of the meeting almost intoxicating. Moreover as the padawans laid eyes on one another there was a bright peeling note of Light in the Force flaring out from them to practically encompass the entire planet. It was as if the Force itself was exultant at this meeting.
Of course on top of the emotional aspect of meeting after so long was the first impressions of the two physically. After all, they were teenagers and even Jedi who had gone through the 'indoctrination process' as Lily put it had hormones. And Harry hadn't gone through said indoctrination.
Aayla stood at about 5 foot three, and was currently wearing a pair of trousers and a long shirt. After weeks of wearing what amounted to a bikini she'd wanted to cover herself. But despite that, the body underneath was such that the covering really didn't matter much. She was lithe with a dancer's build, with high very perky breasts pressing out under the shirt. Her once again blue skin was set off remarkably well by the white of her shirt and black of her pants. Her lekku twitched occasionally as they rode on her chest, and her hazel eyes were bright.
Her light pink lips parted, her tongue working over one of her teeth, which Harry found remarkably distracting as he stared at her and the word WOW! went through his mind.
I've seen Aayla's face of course over the years, seen what little baby fat she had disappeared, but seeing even the face is very, very different when it sits atop that body!
For her part Aayla was dealing with the same sort of feelings. She'd been around Jedi boys for most of her life and knew that Jedi training made both genders strong and well-built. But she'd never felt attraction before this moment, and she wondered if that was partly because of her and Harry having bonded when they were so young. Not that she cared, it was simply an academic question in the far reaches of her mind where logic dwelt. The rest of her mind was consumed by the sight in front of her.
Harry stood at around six foot now, taller than either of his parents had been in life. Lily had supposed this was a sign of his having had to live of the Force or as she had put it at the time 'magic' on Ryloth's surface, which had fixed all the malnutrition, and then gone further, bringing his body to the greatest physical shape it could be. Of course, staying in shape had all been down to Harry and the Jedi training. Harry's shoulders were somewhat broad for a 16-year-old, his waist almost as thin as Aayla's. His face was thin without being gaunt just like most Jedi, and was quite handsome in Aayla's opinion, dominated by those bright gleaming emerald eyes of Harry's just like Lily's. Wow! By the Force seeing Harry's face in person is really different then seeing it over Hypercom! I have missed those eyes of his for so long!
Neither would ever remember how they crossed the intervening space between one another. All they knew was that one instant they had been staring at one another, the next they had their arms physically around one another as their bond once again opened to its fullest extent. "I missed you!" They both said aloud and in their minds at the same moment, causing both of them to laugh.
But they didn't let go, leaning their foreheads against one another as they stared deeply into each other's eyes. "I am never letting you go again," Aayla said, once more aloud and along their bond.
"Hey, that's my line," Harry's said, pushing lightly against her forehead with his own, his mind and heart dazzled by her eyes and the emotions he felt surging through their link. "After all, I was the one that just had to ride to the rescue you know."
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