Chapter 1

Coming Home

Three years after the battle of Geonosis and the start of the Clone Wars, a master and padawan journey back home to Coruscant.. Unfortunately, the padawan Ahsoka Tano has just lost Lux Bonteri, her friend, to an explosion on Sullust. Now grieving and hurting, she will soon come face to face with the biggest problem a Jedi could handle, attachment.

Ahsoka POV

I was asleep in my quarters on the ship when Master walked in. "Snips, wake up! We're approaching Coruscant!"

I groaned and fell out of bed. Master laughed and said, "Did you have a nice rest?"

"I was until you walked in," I said, rubbing my head.

Anakin just laughed and said, "We'll be home in about ten minutes so get ready."

He left the room and my weak smile faded. I had never been the same since the incident with Lux Bonteri. Sighing, I pulled out a box filled with pictures and mementos of the time I had with Lux a week ago. I looked at a holo-strip of pictures.

Lux and I had seen each other on the mission and we had spent a few days together before things went wrong. Anyway, we had found this old photo booth that still worked so we got inside and had taken some pictures.

I looked at them and smiled. One had me holding a lightsaber to Lux's head like I was about to kill him. Another was us making silly faces at the camera. My eyes wandered down to the bottom of the page where there was one serious picture of us together just smiling at the camera.

A drop of water splashed at the bottom of the pictures. I hadn't realized I was crying until that happened.

I mentally slapped myself for forming an attachment to the boy. He was funny, sweet, handsome, and smart. He was the nicest person that I had ever met.

Why'd he have to go like that though? Why?

My eyes started to drift down to the last picture on the strip, but it was too much and I dropped the photos.

I started sobbing, but I knew that reliving what happened would just bring me closer to the Dark Side.

I calmed myself and started getting ready.

Anakin POV

I could feel what Ahsoka was feeling in her room, and that wasn't a good thing. I had already known that she had an attachment to Lux, but I didn't know that losing him would result in this.

Damn you, Lux! Why did you two have to be so close?

I calmed down and thought of what to tell the Council. Hmm… well, there's always "We failed to complete the mission because of a snobby, rich kid who decided to destroy the holocron we were looking for"!

I sighed, knowing that wasn't true. Lux knew that that holocron had information in it that wasn't for Republic or Separatist eyes.

I closed my eyes, remembering the explosion. It was the most gruesome I had ever witnessed.

I shook my head. I had to think positive. I couldn't be like Ahsoka, sitting in my room, thinking I was responsible for his death.

I turned to the window overlooking the black sky and the bright stars in front of us. "Sir, we are coming out of hyperspace."

"Thank you for informing me, Admiral Yularen," I said to him and he walked away.

I sighed as we exited and the stars went back to being small dots in the sky. I walked out of the bridge, headed toward the hangar.

Ahsoka POV

I was debating whether or not I should take my box of mementos, when Master contacted me. "Ahsoka, meet me in the hangar."

"Yes, Master."

I finally decided to take the box and stuffed it into my bag. I walked out of my quarters and raced to the hangar.

I found my master waiting for me at one of the gunships and I stepped aboard. "Nice of you to join us, Ahsoka," he said and smiled.

I tried smiling at him, but it came out as more of a constipated look. I gave up trying and just held on as we landed at the Jedi Temple.

We were greeted by Obi-Wan and Master Windu. "Skywalker, did you manage to retrieve the holocron?"

I held back a wince as I saw Lux holding the holocron in one hand, the detonator in the other.

"Ah, not exactly," Master said and shot me a worried glance.

"What do you mean?"

I clenched my fists and tried to conceal my anger and sadness, but it didn't work. "Padawan Tano, is there something wrong?" Master Windu asked, giving me a concerned look.

Obi-Wan placed his hand on my shoulder, but I backed up and let his hand fall back to his side.

"Maybe you guys should call a Council meeting and then we'll discuss this inside," Anakin suggested and nodded in my direction.

Obi-Wan and Windu nodded and proceeded to go inside. Anakin placed his hands on his hips and turned toward me. "Alright Ahsoka, I know that you might say that you didn't have an attachment to Lux, but right now your feelings are betraying you. Spill it."

I opened my mouth, but the only thing that came out of my mouth was a whimper. My eyes started brimming with tears and they spilled over.

Anakin sighed and wrapped his arms around me. I sobbed into his shoulder and he stroked my lekku comfortingly. "So this wasn't just a crush, was it?"

I shook my head and he pulled back. He wiped the tears from my cheeks gave me a gentle kiss on my forehead. "Don't worry, Ahsoka. I won't tell the Council. You're not the only one who's ever been in love."

I was about to ask him about that when he pressed a finger to my temple and everything went black.

Barriss Offee POV

I was walking down the halls of the Temple when I saw Anakin Skywalker walking down the hallway. My cheeks turned a darker shade of green. You see, when I was about fifteen, I had gone on a mission with him and his master to Ansion and I've had a small crush on him ever since. But I know that it could never work out. He's obviously way out of my league.

He saw me and yelled, "Barriss!"

My eyes lit up when he called out my name. He ran over to me and for the first time, I noticed that he was carrying Ahsoka.

Ahsoka and I had been best friends ever since the brain worms and the factory on Geonosis, but I've always envied her because of Anakin. But she doesn't seem to notice that she has such a handsome master.

"What is it, Master Skywalker?" I asked, hoping to please him in any way that I could.

"I need you to take Ahsoka to our room and keep an eye on her. We just got back from a mission and it didn't go so well," he said, giving his padawan another worried glance.

I stared dreamily at him, mesmerized by just how compassionate he could be at times. "Yes, Master Skywalker."

"You can just call me Anakin, if you want," he said, giving me Ahsoka. "Master makes me sound old like Obi-Wan."

He gave me a smile and I giggled.

He walked away and I realized just how light Ahsoka was. "Don't you ever eat, Soka?"

Ahsoka POV

I woke up and found that I was in my room. I looked around and saw Barriss meditating, floating a few feet off of the ground.

Some of you might find that a little weird, but you see a lot of weirder stuff than levitation when you're Anakin's padawan.

"Good to see that you're finally awake, Ahsoka," Barriss said, opening her eyes and slowly lowering herself to the ground. "How have you been?"

I was about to say fine when I remembered Lux. I had thought that it was just a dream at first, but now it had caught up to me. I had bruises and scratches along my arms and a pain in my heart that wouldn't go away.

I started crying again and Barriss sat next to me on my bed. She wrapped her arms around me and I folded into her arms.

Lux is dead… and he's not coming back to me ever again.

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