Better Left Hidden
Prologue
It was dark in the Jedi Archives. The halls glowed a faint luminous blue in their everlasting twinkling twilight. How much learning was here? How much knowledge and secrets for those who knew how to gain access to them? Silence and night permeated the ancient learning place, and not a soul disturbed the quiet. Not a soul, except one that is.
A young Jedi Padawan was leaning intently over a desk, her dreary fingers hovering over a databank terminal. Her eyes drooped with tiredness as she scanned the files and information that flitted across the screen as she tapped at the keyboard. The Padawan lifted a dainty hand to her mouth to cover a yawn. She was tired. Who at the Jedi Temple wasn't, she thought, with the wretched war raging on all fronts with no definable end in sight. She should be in bed in her quarters, getting what precious sleep she could, but no. She was here, searching through the archives
And what was she even doing here? It was nothing, nothing that should have caused this late night behavior. What was she going off of? A snippet of an overheard conversation? A few measly questions that didn't quite add up? It was nothing, ridiculous suspicions and theories that wouldn't stand before her Master's scrutiny of why she wasn't in their quarters, resting up for their next mission. More than ridiculous, it was plain disturbing. It couldn't be possible, there was no way. Just something her exhausted, sleep-deprived, suspicious mind had spun up. There was no real factual basis. Even the Force couldn't give her as much as a whisper to confirm her suspicions. She had felt absolutely nothing from it on this matter. Nothing. It was silly. Nothing that she need concern herself with. She had more important ways to spend her time. There was nothing here. There was nothing hidden to find.
She had almost resigned herself to going back to her rooms and sleeping for what was left of the night when she froze. Her fingers stilled their motion and her once weary eyes snapped wide open. This wasn't right. What was that doing there? And with sudden fervor, her fingers picked up in their intensity. She sped through files, her eyes zipping from side to side, trying to take it all in. And at once, the picture became clearer. She was drawing the lines that had been to foggy to see before. Yes, why hadn't she noticed it sooner? Why hadn't anyone noticed it sooner?
She leapt up from her seat. Never mind the hour of night, the Jedi Council had to be informed of this at once. They simply had to be told. There was no time to waste. So engrossed was she in her task as she strode for the door, that she didn't sense the cloaked, hooded figure as it drew up behind her. She wasn't even aware of another presence until hands wrapped around her mouth, muffling her sudden scream. And then her vision went black.
A/N: Hello readers, this is an idea that I recently came up with and decided to try and make a story out of. I hope you like what I have so far. While updates will probably be slow in coming, I will finish this story. I'll try to make future chapters longer, but, hey, this was the prologue after all. It wasn't supposed to be that long, right? :) Well, anyways, please do review. I promise I'll appropriately freak when I get a handful of reviews. It's my first story, please do be gentle.
~JediRunnerGirl