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Family. She had had family! Not just Tabby and Kalex, her adopted family, but actual biological family. Katrin and Katri had searched for her. They had been raised by their grandfather, but Katarina had never made it. Katarina . . . so that was my whole name. It was nice, it fit. She still prefered to go by Kat, but knowing my whole name . . . well that was something else. Christa . . . what had ever happened to her? She had been captured . . . tortured . . . used to get to Kat. Oh yeah, now I remember; I was forced to . . . to . . .

Kat looked over to see a feline that looked remarkably like her, only her left hand was black.

"What are you just standing there for Katarina? GO!! Get to you're ship, I'll cover you!" the fem said to Kat.

Kat didn't know who the fem was talking to, but she hurried to her ship. Helping Katri and the other female right behind.

They ran up the exit ramp of her ship, Kat and Tabby ran to the controls. Kat suddenly felt a pang of pain on her arm, like it was on fire. Kat moaned and fell out of her seat in the cockpit. The other female that helped them hoped into her seat and took over the controls, she got them out of there.

As they jumped into hyperspace Kat stood up holding the side of her arm.

"Kat are you ok?" Tabby asked.

"I . . . I'm not sure," Kat replied shakely walking to the main cabin and she flopped into an empty chair. She looked up and the stranger, "So who are you? and who's 'Katanna'?"

The fem looked at Kat in surprise, "You mean to tell me you don't know you're own name?"

"My name is Kat Kariena what else is there to know?" Kat replied.

Katri and the other female looked at eachother. Katri turned to Kat, "I am Katri Kariena, and the other female who stands before you is Katrin. We're you're sisters."

Kat looked from one to the other, the only way you could tell them apart was the fact that Katri's right hand was black and Katrin's left was black. "You mean to tell me that I had sibblings?! Sibblings that survived?!"

"Yes, Katri and I have spent the last year and a half trying to find you, Katri got captured and I was on my way in to save her when I came across you. You wouldn't of made it out of there alive if I hadn't arrived when I did," Katrin replied.

Tabby groaned, "Don't remind us."

Kalex rolled his eyes, "To many Kat's. Do either of you have other names that you go by?"

Katri looked at Kalex, "Usualy Katri and I call eachother Kat, but unfortunately we can't do that anymore."

"Woah! Wait a sec, you don't plan on staying with me do you?" Kat jumped in.

"We've spent the last standard year and a half looking for you, do you expect us not to?" Katrin replied.

"I expect that you have your own ship or ships and you leave me alone! I have no family, all my family died when I was three! I barely remember that as it is!" Kat replied.

"Katarina do you wonder at all why my hand is black?" Katrin asked she held her left hand up showing Kat what she meant. "My left hand is black to resemble the fact that I'm the youngest of the three of us. It's to resemble the hole in my heart that my family is dead and that I do have a sister out there somewhere. A sister who I've spent all my life hoping to find." Katrin looked at the ground she didn't try to hide the tears coming to her eyes. "I've now found her. You are my sister Kat. Reach out with your feelings, strech out with the force. Look into my mind and see for yourself that I'm not lieing."

"I . . . I . . ." Kat stammered.

"My black right hand means that I'm the oldest of the three of us, it also means that I too have the hole in my heart from our parents being killed, and that I have a little sister out there somewhere that I care about and would spend the rest of my life to find," Katri inturupted Kat holding up her right hand. "Look into my mind, you'll see that I'm not lieing."

Kat closed her eyes, she streched out with the force. She would do anything to prove them wrong . . . and to hide the fact that she was almost in tears. She probed Katrin's mind first. She looked through, she found Katrin had pushed what she was looking for to the front of her mind, so she wouldn't have to look far, but Kat probed deeper. She found feeling and memories of the three of them on Corellia, going to the lake with their father, playing with dolls together, going shoping with their mother. She found the memory of the night their parents were killed. Katri and Katrin we're at their grandfathers. Safe, undetected, unharmed. Kat tried not to let these images and feelings have an effect on her, or atleast a visable one.

She probed Katri's mind next, finding the same feelings and emotions and memories. The same truth. She also found out that they were all identical. They were a triplet.

"You're right," Kat sighed standing, she went to her private room. "You are my sisters," she said right before she went into her room and shut the door.

"I found out when you got connected. How you managed it we haven't figured out yet," Hershia said walking into Katrina's room throwing a data file on the table infront of her. "You're fighting eachother with the force, when Kat protected her friend from your attempts to control her mind. You somehow became binded."

"Yeah, don't remind me," Katrina snapped rubbing her arm. Pain suddenly shot from her fist through her arm like she had just punched a wall with all her might. "She just punched a wall, or some durasteel."

"How do you know?" Hershia asked.

Katrina held up her hand about as closed as she could get it, "This could be a problem, but it could be a good way to weaken her. I want to test psycological and emotional pain on her. Even from long distances I will be able to tell how she reacts. Where's that little Jedi that we captured?"

Christa was shoved through the door, her hands bound behind her back. She looked up at Katrina hate and fear swirling in her eyes.

"Will she be alright?" Katri asked.

"I'm not sure, all her life she thought all her family was dead," Katrin replied.

"If only she had made it to Grandpa's," Katri sighed.

"Wait a sec, will you please explain what you just did to my friend?" Tabby asked.

"We told her the truth. Here," Katrin plucked a few strands of fur from her arm. "Run this through the computer, see for yourself."

Tabby took the strands of fur and walked into the cockpit. She placed the fur in the scanner and waited for it to confirm that she was related to Kat. After only a few moments the computer confirmed what Katrin said. "Ok, Katrin, you're Kat's sister, your turn Katri . . ."

Katri handed Tabby a few strands of her fur and Tabby went though the same process. Katri was indeed Kat's sister. It even confirmed that she was the oldest.

"Do you still doubt us?" Katri asked.

"No, you are Kat's sisters, but do you realize just how much damage you're done by showing up now? at this time?" Tabby replied.

"We senced that something was wrong with her. Is there something we should know?" Katrin replied.

"Aside from the fact that everyone important in Kat's life has died, her old Jedi Instructer, her best friend Kira, and now Christa is missing. The few males that actually been in her life died too. Can't you see that you just complicated problems? Kalex and I are the only two that have survived her. Each time she blames herself. You may be family and you may have saved her butt, but as soon as we get wherever we're headed you get off, understand?" Tabby answered.

"But-"

"You get off at our next stop and you never show your faces again," Tabby said firmly. "You've hurt my friend more than helped her."