In Perfect Love and perfect trust

 

Title: In Perfect love in perfect trust

Author: Jenna Raven Rose

Chapter 12

The next morning Isis found herself elevated to the position of personal assistant. She didn't recall ever applying for that job. But apparently Dooku wanted her close. A fact that would make her upcoming plans a bit more difficult. It did however give her more access to information that she previously had no access to before. She of course shared the pertinent parts with her friends. While they went forward with their rescue plans. It had so far been revised so many times that they were calling it, plan what the heck. The girls ran errands for her while she distracted Dooku. A task that was absurdly easy for her to do.

He was apparently quite besotted with her and it was all Isis could do to delay her answer to his proposal.

He was very persistent and she didn't know how long she could keep stringing him along before he realized that she didn't feel the same way about him. The age difference was really starting to bother her as was the idea of being married so young. She really was not ready for this. No matter what the legal age was on his planet. I mean what if he had nieces or nephews or worse children her own age I mean talk about being awkward. What she really wanted to do was get away from him.

Needless to say she was relieved when the girls claimed everything was ready. They chose that night to put their plan into motion.

Mean while else where.

"So her friends have been visiting the prisoners, perhaps they are all spies" said poggle. "They are not even from our part of the universe and their activities are being monitored," said Dooku.

"And what of the movements of your new assistant" said shu mai

" yes how well are you watching your new interest" said San hill smiling at Dooku with a row of stained teeth.

Dooku suppressed his disgust.

'She is as well, by me personally" said Dooku

"I believe what my companions are saying is how much time do you spend watching her activities instead of her body" said nute.

"Yes is their any truth to the rumor that she is your intended?" asked Shi Mai

Dooku glared.

"More time than you realize" said Dooku

"Now I believe you had something to show us Tambor?" Said Dooku smoothly changing the subject.

'Yes of course " answered Tambor pulling out an info crystal and sliding it into the slot. A holographic came into view of a round moon like station.

Isis was busy running down the information Dooku asked her to get. She knew something was up, because he obviously wanted her out of the room. Still it gave her a chance to get the door codes to her girls and arrange for a blackout on the surveillance system. Everything would be ready for tonight.

It had to be cause the executions were scheduled for tomorrow. They ate dinner like usual only Isis was absent. A benefit of her new position, mainly because Dooku wanted her to dine with him. So the girls were left finishing the details themselves. Isis hoped they planned well because their lives depended on it.

"So Isis and her friends are planning a rescue" said Dooku

"very well keep me informed as to when they make their move" said Dooku

The guard relaying the information said "roger, roger" and left.

 

Later that night, implementing Plan what the heck

 

Petra and Chani were at the door to Obi's Cell. Kira was freeing Padme, and then would help her free Anakin. Isis was stuck running interference and killing the surveillance system. She was already in place. Isis peered around the corner, all she saw was droids. They were absurdly easy to bypass if you knew how. A few whispered spells and they were as inert as toasters. She slipped into the room. So far so good, now all she had to do was figure out how to shut the system down.

She saw her friends reach the cell doors on the monitors and began her chant to kill the system. After she disabled the alarms she shut the system down and fried it. She peaked out from around the corner and walked down the hallway. After all she belonged here as far as anyone knew.

She turned the corner to Anakins and padme's cells right before the lights went out. She conjured a witch light and walked down the corridor. She met up with her friends and her new allies in the hallway. Together they made their way towards the hangar bay.

"You took out the guards?" asked Chani

"yeah I have them all running a maintenance program on themselves" said Isis

"so they should be immobile?" asked Kira.

Obi and Isis were in the lead followed by Kira and Petra. Chani was helping Padme with Anakin who was in the same condition obi had once been in. Only they apparently showed less restraint with the boy.

They turned a corner into the landing bay. It was eerily dark except for the glow of the still was the motionless droids, seemingly frozen in place all around the room.

"This way" said Isis

leading them towards Dooku's private shuttle.

The group got halfway to the ship when obi wan uttered

"this is too easy, I have a bad feeling about this"

right before the lights came back on. They found themselves surrounded by droids

"ah shit!" said Kira in the background.

The guards in front of them parted somewhat and through them strode Dooku. Fett followed him. Dooku looked pissed off and Isis reflexively tightened her grip on obi's arm.

"I thought you were much smarter than this Isis," said Dooku

"you disappoint me" he said

he moved towards her and glared down at her. Obi stepped forward

"you betray me for this, Isis I was going to make you the most powerful woman in the galaxy, why? Why did you do this?" he asked

"maybe she wanted to do what is right," said Obi

Dooku glared at him.

"Those were your dreams not mine," said Isis

finally answering his question. Dooku stepped forward he was still very angry, maybe he meant to hit her maybe he did but he found Obi wan in his way.

"Leave her be Dooku" said Obi

stepping up for her. Dooku gazed at him with such undisguised fury than Isis was sure the room had gotten smaller as well as colder. Dooku's hand was hovering over his light-saber.

"Anytime your ready" goaded Obi.

Isis thought he was crazy and held her breath hoping Dooku wouldn't go for it because Obi was unarmed.

Dooku growled his frustration and his rage and activated his brought it to Obi's throat "you will not steal her from me!" he yelled

"Magnus stop!" yelled Isis

horrified by his intended actions. Dooku glanced at her coldly. Isis slid her own blade free of its hiding space. She stepped forward intending to at least deflect his strike.

Obi continued to glare at him as if daring him to strike. Dooku looked like he was going to put up his blade for a second. Then he snarled and spun intending to behead Obi wan. Isis blocked it with her own blade.

"No" she said sternly like she was scolding a child.

Which only served to enrage him more. He glared at her over the crossed blades. "Traitorous bitch, is this where your heart lies?" he hissed angrily

"it certainly never laid with you" she hissed back.

He yelled and pushed forward

"liar!" he said

as he tried an overhead attack. He was trying to use brute strength to beat her into submission.

Isis stayed calm and slipped into the zone she used for their sparing sessions. Except this session had no friendly banter, just an enraged opponent trying to kill her. He kept attacking, he was driving her back. He knocked her to her knees

"I don't want to kill you Isis, please" he said.

Hell he didn't even want to maim her.

He had her back to a wall and was anticipating her to do a flip over his head to get out of it. He would disarm her with a small burn and be done with it. Instead she did something he wasn't expecting and dove down instead of up. Right between his legs he froze when he felt the heat.

"Isis?" he said

a worried note in his voice. She stood up slowly keeping her blade where it was. Unfortunately she also put herself in the line of fire for one of the droids. The droid fired and Kira screamed.

Isis felt a flare of pain in the center of her back and gasped. She crumpled to one knee gasping in pain. Dooku knelt beside her

"Isis?" he said

she moaned. He leaned down and retrieved her blade.

"I see you've been doing much more than talking to grievous," he whispered.

"You've gotten quite good I'm most impressed" he said.

Isis was having trouble keeping her eyes open. Her last thought before losing consciousness was that one of those droids shot her.

Dooku watched Isis sink to the floor with a mixture of worry and relief in his heart. He was grateful that he didn't have to harm her to end that match but irritated that the droid had used the highest stun setting. He shut off his own saber before ordering the droids to carry her.

"Escort the prisoners back to their cells" he said coldly.

"What of the girls, sir?" asked one droid

"take her and her friends and put them in with their new allies" he said.

He didn't know why he hadn't just put them in separate cells maybe it was something Isis brought out in him.

" They are so fond of each other let them die together," he said

before striding away. He had to deal with these emotions before they consumed him.

He headed towards his office and closed and locked the door behind him. Then he gave in to his rage and trashed his office.

The droids pointed their rifles at the prisoners and ordered them to walk. Two droids dragged an unconscious Isis between them. They stopped in front of the cells and opened a door. They put Kira in with Padme. Petra and Chani in with Anakin and Isis in with Obi Wan. Then they left them there.

Obi flipped Isis over and examined her back. Other than a scorch mark and a small burn she was unharmed. He thanked the force the droid had set his rifle on stun. He sat down on the floor and pulled her body onto his lap. He felt absurdly fortunate that the guards didn't chain him this time.

Kira paced the confines of her small cell and swore. Padme watched until it became irritating

"oh stop already, you had no idea it was a trap" said Padme

Kira sighed and joined Padme on the small bench.

"I know but I can't help it I feel so stupid, we should have seen this coming" said Kira "its ok we all make mistakes" said Padme

Kira sighed "I'm worried about Isis" said Kira

"She'll be ok they only stunned her" said Padme

Kira sighed and put her head on her knees, she could here Petra crying in the other cell. She didn't blame her she felt helpless too.

Petra was crying in the corner and no amount of coaching or sweet-talking would get her out, Even if a cute Jedi was doing it. Chani gave up trying to look through the small crack in the door and walked over to them she knelt down by Petra

"let me try" she said

Anakin sighed and stood up. Like he knew what to do with a hysterical female anyways. It's not like the temple covered it or something. Anything he got off the holodramas probably would have gotten him slapped so that info was useless as well. He decided he needed to meditate so he made himself comfortable on the floor.

Chani got Petra somewhat calmer though it took a while. She ran her fingers through her hair and glanced towards Anakin. How could he even relax enough to do that? Wasn't he even the slightest bit worried?

"Its easy all you have to do is forget them and immerse yourself in the force." He said Chani opened her mouth in shock she hadn't said that out loud.

"You didn't have to, your easy to read," he said

"easy to read how?" said Chani.

" I can see you're worried by just the way you move," said Anakin.

"I am worried, about Isis, I can't believe they shot her" said Chani, Petra sniffled in the corner.

Anakin sighed; he hoped the meditation he just got was enough.

"She was just stunned if it had been set on anything else she'd have been a charred corpse," he said

"gee thanks that's so reassuring" said Chani sarcastically

"sorry, I didn't mean to sound so cold" he answered.

"She should be up and about in a few hours" he said

"great she gets to wake up in time to die, just wonderful" said Chani

"its not your fault you know, the Sith are very skilled in deception"said Anakin

Chani glared at him. She wondered if this would be a bad time to mention that they were all students at a Sith school.

"You four are very close aren't you?" he asked

"yeah we've been friends for a long time" said Chani.

"It must be nice to be that close to someone" he said wistfully.

Chani looked at him sideways. Petra had stopped sniffling in the corner and moved closer.

"Yeah we've been friends so long we're more like siblings than friends" said Petra

Anakin smiled at them and started talking about his own childhood. Chani and Petra told him about theirs. They noticed he got sad when they mentioned their mothers so they tried to steer clear of that subject. When a tear escaped his eye talking about how much his mother used to worry about him, the girls responded by pulling him into a group hug.

Isis came to slowly, everything hurt. She shifted slightly and realized she was being held. She opened her eyes and found herself staring into a pair of bright blue eyes "welcome back" he said softly.

She sat up slowly

"how long have I been out?" she asked

"only for a few hours" he answered.

"Dare I even ask what happened?" she said

He sighed "Dooku cheated and had one of his droids shoot you" he said

"Why is that not surprising?" she said

"if its any consolation you did surprisingly well against him" said Obi

'thanks but I still botched up the rescue" said Isis.

Obi snorted, "That wasn't your fault he obviously was having you watched," said Obi. Isis sighed what he said made sense.

"Now what?" she asked,

"We try to survive our impending execution," he said.

She didn't even want to think about that, so she changed to subject.

"You were going to defend me weren't you?" she said,

"Yes I was, I don't believe in hitting women" he said

She smiled I guess chivalry wasn't dead.

"Why did you stop me?" he asked

she looked at him like he was mental or something.

"Because you were unarmed," she answered.

"I could have borrowed yours," he said.

She frowned she liked that saber, now Dooku probably had it.

"Yes you could have" she answered

"but you would rather defend yourself" he said.

She gave a little laugh

"sorry I'm not the damsel in distress type" she said

"they have a type?" he said with a laugh.

She play smacked him in the arm.

"I do appreciate the gesture though," she said in a more serious tone.

"It was my pleasure," he said back meeting her eyes and taking her hand in his.

"Such a pity though you make a beautiful fairy tale princess" he teased

"and that would make you my white knight sans the armor?" she teased back.

"Well technically yes, I am a knight," he said with a smirk.

Isis play smacked him again but not before he noticed she was blushing.

Dooku had long since stopped destroying the contents of his office. He was now sitting on the floor with his head between his knees. The rage had deserted him, leaving in its place hurt and despair. He lifted his head for a moment an surveyed the ruins of his office. He had tears in his eyes, he hadn't cried since he was a child. That had taken the death of a friend to bring him to tears.

"Why Isis why?" he whispered to no one

"why did you do this to us?" he said softly.

Nothing answered him not even the force. The remains of an art frame fell off the wall. He sighed to himself in despair and wiped his eyes. He stood up and walked to the door. He was determined to get his answers.

He didn't want to execute her he wanted to marry her. He thought as he left the office. He spotted a cleaning droid as he passed and ordered it to clean his office without a backward glance. As part of the separatist hierchy she would have been one of the most powerful women in the galaxy, he couldn't understand why she had done this.

He passed the surveillance room and heard the droid report/mass system failure cause unknown/ Dooku smiled he knew the cause. He was heading for her cell as he passed. When he found her in her cell laughing and teasing Obi wan, he almost lost it again.

He found his self-control and stepped closer to the cell door.

"Isis" he said

she looked up at him but made no move to extricate herself from Obi's arms.

"Isis I need to talk to you" he said.

She glared at him

"come to shoot me again?" she asked

standing up slowly and crossing her arms on her chest. He sighed, "That was regretful but necessary," he said.

She didn't look the least bit placated by that answer.

"Isis I've come to say good bye" he said

"Bye" she said with a short wave.

She started to turn her back on him.

"Damn it girl! Why are you doing this?" he said

she turned back to him and stepped forward.

"They're calling you a traitor, I can't do anything to help you out of that" he said

"then I'll help myself" she said

"oh Isis why? They want to kill you," he said

"I gathered that already thanks" she said

"I may not be able to get the charges dropped but I can help you flee" he said

"what about my friends?" she said

 

"I would only be able to cover your absence and get you a small ship" he said

"then no, thanks but no" she said

"please be reasonable Isis I can't get you all out someone would notice" he said.

She shrugged

"darling be reasonable they're going to kill you" he said in an exasperated tone.

"I know and I'm choosing to stay with my friends," she said calmly.

Obi just listened and watched them.

"Isis this is foolish, noble yes but foolish" he said in a pleading tone.

 

He swore in his native language because he knew even if he succeeded in getting her out of here. she would only come back for her friends. He looked down in despair for a second

"very well its your choice, but I shall miss you" he said

"In case I never get to see you again I just wanted you to know that I love you." He said sadly

she stepped closer to the door.

"Good bye Isis" he said and strode away.

Isis just watched him go confused by his actions and his words.

Was he really willing to risk everything he built for her. She was still standing by the door when Obi put his hand on her shoulder.

"He's just trying to manipulate you," he said softly

"I know" she said softly and put her head on Obi's shoulder.

"Obi's right you know, he's just messing with your head" said Chani

"I know" she answered,

"you ok?" asked Kira

"Yeah sore but ok"said Isis

"you could have taken it you know?" said Kira

Isis snorted "and leave my best friends here to die, I don't think so" Isis answered "thanks for staying" said Petra

"ah sweetie you know I'd never leave you guys" said Isis

"aaahh!" the girls said

"Besides when have you ever known me to just give up?" said Isis.