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"now miss Lili. I don't believe we're supposed to be down here." C-3PO told Lili who was exploring the Jedi temple.
"oh C-3PO get your metal out of a twist. I'm just having some fun." she told him.
R2 beeped at C-3PO and rolled up beside Lili.
"See, R2 wants to have fun. Come on." she began to persuade him.
C-3PO mumbled something then shouted, "wait for me!"

Lili opened a door that she had never seen before. As the door slowly open a figure was standing before the three of them.
"Lilith Shmi Skywalker" Anakin whispered, "What are you doing here?" He asked her.
"exploring?" she asked questioning whether he would be mad or not.
"exploring? with R2 and C-3PO?"
"yeah"she said.
"Oh Master Anakin! I told miss Lili to not do this but she simply didn't listen. Now R-2 told you we shouldn't have let her."

Anakin looked back at his daughter and told her, "Lili I told you that you can go anywhere but not the jedi temple. "
"But da- Anakin! i've already went everywhere else." She told him hoping he would change his mind.
"well doing it again won't hurt." He told her with a smile on his face. "The Jedi masters wouldn't like you snooping around here. Go explore the storm troopers barack's."
"I've already seen them."
"not the secret ones." he winked.
"where are they?" she asked.
"if i told you it wouldn't be a secret." he told her.
Lili sighed and turned around "come on guys."
R-2 Chirped.
"lili." anakin said and lili turned towards him, "I love you." he mouthed and lili mouthed the words back.
***

Lili awoke to the sound of her father rush past her door.
She got up because she was having trouble sleeping herself. She walked down the hallway until she found him staring into the dark sky over the city.
"Dad?" she asked as she approached him.
"yeah?"
"What's wrong?"
"Just a nightmare. Just like you." he said, "I'm fine."
Lili looked at her father, sweat dripping down his forehead, his jaw clenched, and his muscles tight.
"Lili, why don't you go back to bed." her mother told her as she entered the patio.
Lili listened to her mother and slowly went back to her room.
***
A few days later
"I don't want to go back. I want to stay with you" Lili pleaded.
"you can't. We've been over this." Anakin said partly frustrated and speed walking down the halls of the Jedi Temple.
"I told you, you can't be here. You have to listen to me lili. For your own sake." He said.
"Why have you been with the Chancellor so much?" she asked.

The whole reason Lili was at the temple again was for answers. But she didn't get any before she was caught.

"He needed a favor." Anakin said in a very monotone voice.
"What kind of favor?"
"One that can help me in return." Anakin still hadn't look at Lili with his firery eyes.
"What do you need help with? I can help."
"NO YOU CANT!" Anakin raised his voice and scared Lili. She stopped in her tracks still startled by her father.
"lili," he whispered, "I have to go." he said and left lili standing there.

When Lili arrived, Padme could tell something was wrong.
"What's wrong?" she asked in her calm soothing tone.
"I just wanted to help him and he started yelling at me." Lili said on the verge of tears.
Lili was very close to her father and he rarely got upset with her.
"oh baby, he's just upset about the council. He didn't mean to." Lili rested in Padme's arms wondering why her father was so upset.
Well the chancellor can do anything. He can help maybe Anakins is too scared to ask him. I'll just ask for him.
lili thought. Lili jumped up and ran towards the door, "I'll be back!" she yelled.
***
As Lili entered the building she saw Anakin Sprint in the opposite direction. He didn't see her. Lili followed him until they reached the Chancellor Suite. As Lili followed Anakin she felt the room grow colder and colder. Something bad was gonna happen and she could already feel it.

Lili saw Master Windu of the jedi council pointing his lightsaber at the chancellor and Anakin standing there. There were other jedi bodies laying on the floor. Their lightsabers laying beside their lifeless hands.
"He's too dangerous to be left alive." Master Windu told Anakin.
The chancellor was on the ground pleading for his life.
Too dangerous? He's the chancellor. The only power he has is political.
she thought
"It's not the jedi way." Anakin reminded Windu, "he must live!"

Windu raised his lightsaber and the chancellor let out another cry.
"I need him!" Anakin yelled.
"need him for what?" lili whispered.
As Master Windu went in to end it Anakin pulled out his lightsaber, "No!" he yelled and sliced windu's hand off.
Lili gasped. she couldn't believe her father had done that.
The chancellor began to smile and Lightning came out of his wrinkly old fingers and struck Windu and he flew out of the window.
Lili's eyes widened, her heart skipped a few beats.
She watched as her father stumbled back, "What have I done?" he spoke.
"Your fulfilling your destiny anakin. Become my apprentice. Learn to use the dark side of the force." Palpating told Anakin.
"The dark side? Apprentice?" lili whispered.
"i will do whatever you ask." he father said out of breath.
"good."
"just help me save padme's life. I can't live without her."
"mother?" she asked herself questioning if her mother was alive.
Lili kept listening but her thoughts were getting the best of her. All she heard was
"I pledge myself to your teachings."
Not Anakin, Not my father, This is a joke.
she tried to persuade herself.
"Thank you, my master." She heard her father say.
"Master?!" she said loudly. Anakin and Palpatine looked at the young confused child in the doorway.
"Lili!" Anakin said. He got up to turn to her but Lili ran in fear that he wasnt her father anymore. She grabbed the Lightsaber on the ground and kept running until she reached the speeder.

I have to find the rest of the council. They can fix him.
Lili thought that they could help but it wouldn't be that simple.

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