Beginning Again

Chapter 8: Getting Information

Ahsoka POV

It had surprised me when I was summoned by the Council, I hadn't been expecting to be sent on another mission when I had recently completed one, but in this time of war I suppose it was to be expected.  The Jedi were spread thinly across the galaxy and were always kept busy.

The real surprise came, however, when I found out that I would be meeting Anakin and Obi Wan on Tatooine.  It looked like poor Anakin was being sent back to face his demons, yet again.  I just hoped that the mission would be short so that he wouldn't have to endure being on his home planet for too long, I knew how much he loathed the place.  Who wouldn't after going through what he had endured there?

When I arrived there, the market place was alive with activity and I had to weave my way through the stalls to the point where I was supposed to meet Anakin and the others.  Thankfully the rendezvous point was out of the way from prying eyes so I didn't have to worry too much about people noticing me, of course I still made sure to keep my wits about me.  It was never a good idea to let your guard down when on a mission, especially when it was in a place like Tatooine.

Thankfully I didn't have to wait there for too long before the others arrived.

Ahsoka." Anakin greeted with a smile.

"It's good to see you guys again." I returned his smile. "The Council told me that you were out here looking for this bounty hunter and sent me to help, clearly you got their message to meet me here."  After I said that I thought I heard Alexa mumble something, but I paid it no mind.  It was probably just a sarcastic remark anyway.  "So, do we know where to start looking?"

"Not exactly." Anakin sighed. "We know he's on the planet, but we don't know exactly where."

"Well that's helpful.  It's not like we can just scour the entire planet to find them, there aren't enough of us for that and even if there were, we would just stir up more trouble and alert T'doshok that we're after him."

"I might know some places that we can start looking." We all looked at Alexa in surprise when she said that only for her to roll her eyes.  "Well anything is more productive than standing around here talking about all the things that we don't know."

"Alright Alexa, lead on." Obi Wan nodded and she turned and started to walk so the rest of us followed her.

I looked at Anakin, a slight frown on my face as I wondered if it was really a good idea to let Alexa lead us around and direct the search.  However, it seemed like she was the only one of us with an idea, so what else could we do?  As much as I didn't like the idea of this, it seemed to be our only option at that point.

As we approached a darker corner of the market place I began to feel more on edge, this certainly seemed like a place where people who knew the guy we were looking for would hang out.  Before we got too close though, Alexa stopped and looked back at us.

"You can't come in here, I-"

"Don't even say it, Alexa."  Anakin cut her off.  "I'm not letting you go in there by yourself.  Not in a million years."

The young teen sighed and grabbed his hand, dragging him to the side so that they could talk a little more privately while I looked at Obi Wan.

"What does she think she's doing?  We can't let her talk to these people alone.  She's still a padawan, one of us needs to be there to make sure that nothing goes wrong."

He stroked his beard as he thought.  "Usually I would agree with you whole-heartedly about this, Ahsoka, but Alexa isn't an ordinary padawan.  She's more experienced with these particular people and if even one of us goes with her and we are identified it could make it harder to get the information we need from them."