Back From the Future: Episode VI The Clone Wars - Ariel_Sojourner

In Which Promises Are Made and Kept

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Ahsoka accepted her mission to retrieve Master Skywalker from the Council with a bow. She wasted no time leaving the gardens. Commander Cody in his hoverchair and Ollie, still covered in bandages and healing burns, joined her as she walked. She visited the quartermaster who gave the men by her side a dubious look and grabbed a cloak and two packs and then went to her Master's quarters.

She had never been inside Anakin's room before. She didn't think she'd ever been inside a room that felt more like him though. Posters decorated the walls. A homemade model of his star fighter (complete with miniature Artoo) sat in a place of honor. He didn't have a desk so much as a mechanic's workstation. He had no chairs, using the many crates filled with parts stacked around to sit on. (She still couldn't believe that Obi-Wan let Anakin keep his room like this.)

Ahsoka didn't hesitate. She handed one of the packs to Cody and told him to gather any personal items he could find in Master Kenobi's room, (Cody couldn't even fit into Anakin's room while in the hoverchair), while she and Ollie tackled Anakin's things. She let the Force guide her in deciding what to take and what to leave.

Call it foresight, but she just knew that neither Anakin nor Obi-Wan would be returning to the Temple any time soon and wherever they went, she would go too.

(Once upon a time, such a thought would have been unthinkable. Once upon a time, she couldn't even conceive of leaving the Order. Now she packed her Master's things without hesitation. She knew she was on the right path.)

When she and Ollie finished and joined Cody in the shared living room, his pack was still empty and he held a rock in his hand.

"This was all there was," he said, holding it out to Ahsoka.

She took it into her hand and turned it over and over. It seemed like just an ordinary rock to her until she reached for the Force, then it began to visibly shine. She stuffed the rock into the pack and asked Cody to grab the mugs and the tea pot from the kitchen, while she took any tea she could find from the cupboards. She had Ollie take the plant on the kitchen table. Ahsoka then headed to her own quarters and leaving the men outside, emptied her one drawer of personal items into the second pack.

"I'll be taking the Twilight," she told them as they walked her out of the only still usable entrance of the Temple. "I'll comm when I get there."

"Do you even know where to go?" Ollie asked, one brow raised.

She rolled her eyes. "Please. Skyguy is married to Senator Amidala and has kids; where do you think he is?"

"Naboo," both Cody and Ollie replied in perfect unison.

"Exactly," Ahsoka said with a nod as she juggled holding the second pack and the plant in her arms, "and Master Obi-Wan is probably with them."

Ollie blinked at that. "Then why is the Council sending you on this mission to find General Skywalker? General Kenobi is on the Council and with him. Why not just order him to bring General Skywalker in?"

"Because," Cody explained, "the Jedi don't allow their members to get married and have kids any more than we in the GAR are allowed to marry and have kids. General Kenobi knows that General Skywalker broke regs, but has decided to help keep his secret. For some reason, no one else on the Jedi Council has figured out that General Skywalker is married to Senator Amidala yet."

"Ohhh," Ollie exclaimed. "I understand sir." Then a frown crossed his face. "No, I don't know why I said that. I don't understand. How does no one know that General Skywalker and the Senator are married? She was pregnant while she was onboard the Negotiator. It wasn't like they kept it a secret. They were professional about it, but we all knew." He looked at Ahsoka. "You knew, right Commander?"