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Epilog

"Anakin, I've to talk to you."

"Of course, Master. Are there any problems?"

"Truly I am a little bit concerned – about you and the chancellor."

"Palpatine, what's wrong now?" Anakin laid the stress on the last word.

"You know, that I hate it, when you act like this. I'm concerned, that you're dismissing your duty! The Order of the Jedi attaches great importance to it."

Anakin sighed and sank his view to the floor. He couldn't understand and he didn't want to understand, why they wanted to spy on Palpatine and why he had to do it. He wondered, if it's some kind of trial for him. "I'm sorry Master that my behaviour had concerned you – I promise I give this duty top priority from now on."

"I'm glad to hear this", Obi Wan said, "Anakin you have to understand, how important this is for the order. I know and thus the councillors do either, that you are close to the chancellor. For any purpose is the chancellor really interested in you. The political circumstances degrade more and more and the chancellor is involved in this."

Anakin knew that Obi Wan was right, but through the Clone Wars Palpatine had become a confidant, a friend and no one would easily deceive a friend. Unconsciously Obi Wan, Padme and all the other pushed him to make a decision; a decision between the duty of a Jedi and the duty of husband and a father-to-be. He had known that he would have to make this decision sometime, but he had never imagined that the decision would be such difficult and complicated.

"Sometimes I wonder, if this is a trial of the council", Anakin said after a while.

"Why should we do so? We do not trust Palpatine, but we do trust you. You should take a rest, because this is a lesson you should learn", Obi Wan turned around and was going to leave the room.

"But I'm no longer your Padawan", Anakin said and grinned.

"Right", Obi Wan turned once more, "the years, in which I desperately tried to teach you patience and the compliance of instructions are over." Obi Wan left smiling the room; in hope his former Padawan would now understand the sincerity of his assignment.

During the door closed behind Obi Wan, Anakin heard how a familiar voice said, "Master Kenobi, do you know where…"

Only a few seconds later the door opened again und Ahsoka stepped in. She stopped right before her master and looked up to him. From the date Ahsoka had become Anakins Padawan she had grown a few centimetres, but for a Jedi, she was still by the way of comparison small.

"And?", Anakin asked.

Ahsoka seemed to be a little bit confused for a while and said, „Hello Master."

"Hello Snips", Anakin looked expectant at her, but it just confused her increasingly.

"What? Why are you looking at me like this?"

„Surely there is a reason for you being here, isn't here?"

Ahsoka started to realise now, what her Master was talking about. "I have searched in the whole library for information about chancellor Palpatine and I haven't found anything which is noticeable – mh, except for the fact that he has driven in a race."

"Okay, perhaps it has been senseless."

"Oh I forgot something. During his adolescence he has travelled planet to planet for over a year – financed by his parents, but they are meanwhile dead."

"What kind of journey?"

"Mh, seemed to be this kind of journey when you want to become acquainted with other cultures and species. At this time he was an afferent politician."

"That's that", Anakin said.

„Why?", Ahsoka dug deeper.

„I have learned one thing about politics and politicians that it is all about to socialise with someone, because it always offers benefits for them and that is what they need."

"Why should I find out thus much about Palpatine?"

Anakin already had wondered, why she has not asked this question before, but it had provided time for him to get a good and logical answer to her question. The council had given this instruction to him in secret and the fact was, that the council of the Jedi did not trust the chancellor anymore and under no circumstances should the instruction be publicized – in this case Ahsoka was meant either.

"Okay, it is important for the Jedi either, to socialise with the politicians, who support us in case of emergency. Background knowledge about the different politicians includes. Like we have helped Naboo once and Naboo or Senator Amidala has helped us. And now you should search for a few Information about another politician – what about… mh, Senator Organa. We have already worked with him and his planet Alderan."

Ahsoka looked surprised at him for a while, Anakin already thought, that she had found out about this lie, but she said, "Okay, SkyGuy – if you search for me, I am in the library." Anakin sighed.

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"How was your conversation with the young Skywalker", Mace Windu asked when Obi Wan came around.

"I think, he has apprehended the sincerity of this instruction and that he will concentrate on this now."

"The council attaches great importance to this instruction – I am seriously concerned about giving this instruction to Skywalker, he too young."

"Do not worry; he will execute this instruction – perhaps on his way of doing something."

Mace looked over Obi Wans shoulder. "We have visitors", he said.

Obi Wan and Mace stayed there for a moment and went towards to their visitors. "Senator Organa, Senator Amidala – what to us owe the honour?"

All of them looked a little bit stressed and the both Jedi suspected already, that this conversation would not be pleasant.

"There exist some problem in the senate", Bail Organa said calm.

"It is absolutely horrible; you can already see how the democracy of the republic collapses", Padme continued.

"We already heard about that."

"It is getting worse with every hour and chancellor Palpatine seemed to have no problem with the whole situation." Mace and Obi Wan nodded silently.

"Oh", Padme said and laid down her hand on her stomach, thus that nobody can see that she is pregnant – the unborn child had hit her two times in the stomach.

"Is everything okay, Senator – perhaps we should walk a few metres", Obi Wan said and rested his hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, we should do so. The whole situation in the Senate affords stomach pain too me."

"We had come to request help from the council of the Jedi", Bail said after a while.

"We feel honoured about your request of help, but this does not belong to the duties of a Jedi."

"We know, but if the Jedi do not interfere, who else should do this? Otherwise the democracy in the republic collapse. If they arrange chancellor Palpatine with the full authority, this is not any longer a democracy, but anarchy."

"We can calm you down, we already care about the problem with chancellor Palpatine."

"You do?", Padme asked and looked surprised at the both Jedi. Mace and Obi Wan nodded silently again. "There are some days", Padme continued, "when I wonder, if we can be more afar from peace, than we are at the moment."

The only reason Padme had joined Bails trip, is that she had hoped that she will met Anakin in here and to ask him when he will return home. But it would be too noticeable when she would ask Obi Wan for Anakin.

"Who are those kids? Have they come with you?", Obi Wan asked Padme and Bail.

The Senators and Mace turned around. Two kids stood just a few metres away from them, they had not been older than eleven or twelve years. Padme and Bail shake their head, they had never seen these kids before, but Padme felt familiar with them.

Mace stepped up to them and said, "Who are you? You are not allowed to be in here."

The kids looked up to Mace, probably his grim look had scared them, and they turned around and run away. "You", Mace yelled at two clone troopers, "stop the kids!"

The kids ran into the clone troopers, when they realized it, they tried to avoid them. One of the clone troopers managed to capture the girl, during the boy escaped the other clone trooper. When the boy discovered that the girl had been captured, he turned around, jumped at the clone trooper and tried to liberate the girl. The second clone trooper grabbed the boy and handcuffed him.

Mace and Obi Wan went over to the clone trooper and the small prisoners, Padme and Bail followed them.

"Is it really necessary to handcuff them?", Padme asked.

"We do not know who they are, they could be secret agents of the separatists", Mace answered seriously and looked down on the kids. The kids stared to the floor and did not move any centimetre.

"Master Windu, do you really believe the separatists had sent those two kids, to spy on you? They are totally scared!" Padme bend downwards to the kids. It scared her, how familiar they looked. „Hey, is everything okay?", she asked them lovely.

„Senator, your worry about those kids in honour, but we don't know who they are and what they are doing here", Obi Wan said.

The both kids looked up to Obi Wan and seemed to be happy about him being here. "Ben, please help us, they try to kill us", the girl begged.

"Master Kenobi, do you know these kids?", Mace seemed to be surprised.

"Master?", the boy repeated faithless.

"I don't know this kids, I have never seen them in my life."

This is my first story... Surely there are some mistakes, because I'm not a native speaker and I first wrote the story on german... :D

Try to ignore the mistakes - I'll handle this in the next days.