The Mandalorian Jedi

Chapter Eleven

"We've been ages, you would think something of interest would have happened but nope, we've just been sitting around doing nothing. This is not a productive use of our time." I was slumped on the couch, Anakin pacing in front of me and Obi-Wan had just come up from where he had been talking with Captain Typho, "Anakin would you please stop pacing it's annoying." 
"I don't like waiting for something to just happen, we should be out there. Finding this assassin."
"Patience young one, we must protect the senator and we can not do that if we are out looking for an assassin." 
"Well, maybe her being here will draw this mysterious assassin to us." Obi-Wan looked at me and then back at Anakin,
"You two are using her as bait?" I held my hands up defensively,
"I had nothing to do with it, she was the one who convinced Ani to do it I just didn't bother to step in." Obi-Wan let out a hmph of annoyance,
"It is not a risk worth taking, there are other ways to catch an assassin."
"Don't worry I know everything that is going on in there, she will be fine."
"You still have much to learn my young padawan, your senses are not as trustworthy as you think."
"Oh and yours are Master?"
"It is quite possible Anakin." I rolled my eyes and told them both to shut up. We waited round for a bit before I sat up, groaning, 

"I'm exhausted, come on Ani lets go get some rest, I'm sure Obi can look after the Senator well enough on his own."
"No it's fine, I'm not tired." I actually laughed at that, the bags were far too visible underneath his eyes and Obi-Wan was thinking the same as me,
"Are you still having those- dreams, about your Mother?"
"I don't know why I'm having them but they- well I would much rather be dreaming about Padme." I snorted quietly and got an annoyed look thrown in my general direction.
"Remember the commitment you have made to the Jedi Order, it is not one so easily broken." I felt an underlying sense that Obi-Wan wasn't saying something but I let him have his secrets, they were after all his own to share when he felt was necessary.  They went on, Obi-Wan starting one of his long lectures and Anakin interrupting him. Regularly. Which ended up in a discussion about Palpatine. I half listened, my mind drifting in and out of focus but I felt something tugging at my consciousness,
"Uh... guys?"
"I sense it too." We all turned and ran towards the Senator's room. 

Anakin jumped onto Padme, slicing the weird sluggy things in half just as Obi-Wan decided to, rather ungraciously I might add, jump through the window and onto the retreating droid. Padme's maid and guards ran into the room, Anakin getting up and running past them , presumably to chase after Obi-Wan, "Oh right yeah I'll just stay here. Gods they never stop and think about anything those two." I was grumbling under my breath as I made my way over to check on R2. When I turned back around Padme had sent everyone else out of the room, "Uh if it's okay with you I will stay in here, just in case any more slugs come crawling through the window, Senator." She smiled softly,
"Of course, and please, call me Padme." 
"Thank you, Padme. I do feel the need to apologise for Anakin's... behaviour over the last hours, he is rather... enamored by you."
"There is no need Rhea, I have known him a long time and we have not seen each other for ten years but he will always be that small boy I met on Tatooine." She smiled tightly and I couldn't help a grin,
"Don't worry Padme the Jedi Order forbids any kind of... intimate relationship and although Anakin is known to have broken the code on several occasions, well that is one of the most important rules. Anyway we have time to pass While Anakin and Obi-Wan go on a wild goose chase around the streets of Coruscant and stories are always a good past time. In the ten nine years I have known Anakin he has never told me the story of how you two met." Padme gave me a side smile and said,
"Well..."

We sat there together for well over an hour, sharing stories that generally started off with Anakin being a reckless idiot and I had far too many of those stories. Padme got to know Anakin better and we both got to know each other, we had a great time even with the window being smashed open and cold air pouring in and freezing us to our bones. We ended up with hot, sweet drinks and talking about our heritage, our early life, our parents, that kind of thing and I found it surprisingly easy to talk about everything. She just had this way of making people feel comfortable and it would be hard not to like her.

Anakin and Obi-Wan eventually got back after a wild speeder chase, Anakin jumping out of a speeder during that chase and then a chase through the streets and into a bar where it turned out the assassin had been a shifter hired by a bounty hunter. I had a feeling some of the story had been slightly exaggerated but anyway they went to the council in the morning where Obi-Wan was tasked with tracking down the Bounty Hunter and finding out who they worked for and Anakin was ordered to take Padme back to Naboo and keep her safe. It was his first mission by himself and while I was proud of him I was slightly annoyed that I hadn't been given one yet. I caught up to Master Windu as he was leaving the council chamber and he let out a purposely loud sigh, "All in good time Rhea, all in good time."
"Master you've been saying that since I turned fourteen. That was five years ago."
"Yes and you still have much to learn," he sighed again and looked over his shoulder at me, smiling slightly, "Fine how about when young Anakin inevitably gets himself into trouble you can be the one to go and get him out of it?" I was rather surprised he actually agreed to it and I grinned, nodding and bowing as I made my way to play around with Grogu, I had nothing else to do and I had been practicing passing toys back and forth between us in an effort to stop destroying them all.

The little guys hadn't grown much in the nine years since I had met him but he had started babbling more and more and I had visited him every chance I got. Master Yoda and Master Yaddle spent a lot of time training him and other members of the council sometimes stopped by to give him a lesson on something they were thinking about, but I think he liked me best, probably because I played with him more than I trained him, I let him be a kid even if it ended in my hair being pulled out and my braid being chewed on. I had managed to stop him destroying my lightsaber thus far but he had recently discovered how satisfying it was to turn it from dual sabers to a double saber so that possibility was becoming more and more of a risk. He enjoyed it most when I talked though, he sat on my lap fiddling with a toy or just lying down as I told him stories of my most recent adventures. He could understand me clearly enough, that was strikingly obvious from the way he reacted to the stories but I think maybe telling him those stories helped him understand more.

By the time I left Grogu and went to see Anakin off Padme's new window had been lifted in and I could just makes out his incessant whining about how unfair his life was which the senator didn't seem quite sure how to respond too. I coughed quietly and they both turned to me, "Right well Ani, if you've stopped moaning about Obi-Wan then you two need to get going, Captain Typho and Master Kenobi are waiting downstairs. I smiled at Padme and turned away, letting them finish off their conversation.

While Padme was saying goodbye to Dorme I went over to join Anakin and Obi,
"Do not do anything without mine or the council's approval first Anakin."
"Yes Master." We all knew that wouldn't happen but Obi-Wan went off to talk with Padme and I turned to Anakin,
"She'll never start liking you that way if all you do is complain, try actually making some nice conversation that doesn't center around you and all your problems."
"I'm not trying anything!" I scoffed but tackled him into a hug, patting him on the back, "Do try and get into some trouble, Mace promised that if you did I could be the one to go and get you out of it and I desperately don't want to miss out on the fun." Anakin hugged me back and smirked promising to try is best.

Anakin and Padme walked off together, R2 trundling down the stairs after them.
"I do hope he doesn't try anything foolish." We watched them go and I laughed, 
"We both know that hope is in vain."
"I would be more concerned about her doing something than him." Master Typho sighed and we all shared a look, this wasn't going to end well. All we could hope that it wouldn't end to badly either but knowing Anakin and from what I had learned about Padme I wouldn't be surprised if they accidentally started a war.

We turned back into the ship, Obi-Wan heading off to find an old friend and get the dart that had killed the shapeshifter analysed while I went back to the Temple were Master Windu had asked me to help with the training of some younglings. 

This is the longest chapter I have written so far but I think I will start making them longer because while I won't be doing every episode of the Clone Wars there are a fair few stories I want to explore, mainly the longer ones and it will be quicker to do it in longer chapter than to have to make you guys work through dozens of chapter just about the clone wars. 

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