The Missions Between

Ahsoka and Lux's eyes met. Lux smiled at Ahsoka and she back at him. Then Ahsoka and Padme turned to walk back to their ship leaving Mina and Lux behind on Raxus to await what their secret meeting would accomplish. Ahsoka sat back down in her seat next to Padme with a huge smile on her face and butterflies in her stomach.

Padme looked at Ahsoka noticing the smile. "Well Ahsoka, did you get some time to chat with Lux?" She asked.

Ahsoka snapped back into reality. The smile still fleshed out on her face. She stuttered, "umm, yes. I most certainly did." She stated trying not to show what she was feeling inside.

Padme just smiled at Ahsoka. She was no fool to secret romantic feelings of course. "He's a good looking guy isn't he?" Padme asked trying to bait a small trap for the young Togruta.

Ahsoka just looked at her with wide eyes and a concerned look on her face. "Umm, I… didn't notice." Ahsoka covered as she turned her face away from Padme and back to the floor.

Padme knew exactly how Ahsoka felt, she knew Ahsoka had feelings but wasn't so sure how to deal with them. As a Jedi, she really wasn't exposed to romance much, unbeknownst to Padme that this wasn't the first time Ahsoka had a romantic fling.

The fly back to Mandalore was pretty quiet. While Ahsoka and Padme were waiting to board a transport back to the Coruscant, Ahsoka's mind began to wonder, but with much more intensity. It had been a long time since she felt anything close to what she was feeling now. But she didn't understand why she was feeling the way she was. "Gosh, I was so darn rude to him." She told herself as she was waiting in line to board the transport. A part of her wanted to talk to Padme about it, but she just didn't know exactly how to strike up that conversation.

The two women boarded and were on their way back to Coruscant. For a while, the flight was quiet. But then Ahsoka finally looked at Padme and had the conversation mostly planned out. "Umm, Senator, can I ask you a very personal question, and by personal I mean, no telling anyone and I mean, anyone about this?" Ahsoka asked.

Padme looked at Ahsoka and smiled for she had a feeling what the conversation was about. "Of course you can Ahsoka. What's up?"

It took a moment for Ahsoka to collect her thoughts which were now scrambled in her brain as she tried to remember the conversation she had in her head. "Umm, so, Lux; I guess I really like him, or something. I'm just not sure how I feel exactly, ever since we left Raxus, all I can do is think about him." Ahsoka said with a tad bit of embarrassment.

Padme put her arm around Ahsoka. "Ahsoka, it's perfectly normal at your age to have these feelings and not quite understand them. Let's just say, I've been there. Be careful on how you act on them though. Also, consider his situation, maybe you just feel bad for him losing his father." Padme suggested. "Maybe once you're back in action with Anakin, you'll be back to normal."

"Maybe." Ahsoka said although she hoped that wasn't the case. She looked up at Padme and smiled. "Thank you Senator."

"Any time Ahsoka."

The transport landed back on Coruscant and the two ladies got off and went back to their lives for the moment, at least until the next senate debate.

Ahsoka walked back to her room in the temple. When she arrived, there was a transmission waiting for her to answer. She pushed the receive button and the message played.

"Ahsoka! I really enjoyed out meeting yesterday. Might I add that I really didn't mean anything rude. My eyes couldn't help it. But I also noticed your eyes wandering around a bit too under that gazebo in mom's garden, wanted you to know that. Anyway I'd really enjoy talking to you some more about your Jedi stuff or something, I guess maybe I'll talk to you later?" and that was the end of the message.

Ahsoka clenched her chest to stop her heart from beating out of her body. Now she was even more conflicted than before. Not only was he still in her mind, now she could actually hear his voice, especially if she decided to call him back. She decided not to call him up at the moment. She wanted to attend the senate hearing to see if their secret meeting would actually do anything.

It was almost time for the debate and Ahsoka threw on her Jedi top and her leggings. She slung on her boots and ran out of her room to join her master as they headed to the debate.

"Well, hey there Snips. You seem to be in a good mood tonight." Anakin pointed out.

"I, just have a good feeling about this debate Master." She added.

"Really? I thought you didn't understand politics." Anakin retorted.

"Well, who knows; maybe Padme taught me something that actually made sense to me." She fired back.

[after debate]

Ahsoka, Padme, and Anakin were walking out of the senate building after the attack had been put to a rest.

"I did learn one thing." Ahsoka said. "The politics of this war are not as black and white as I once thought they were. Now Master, Senator, if you'll excuse me, I have some meditating to do." Ahsoka added as she parted ways with the two and ran back to the Jedi temple.

She ran up the stairs and in through the doors as fast as she could to get back to her room. She knelt down beside her communicator and sent a call out to Lux. Her heart was about to beat out of her chest again. She was shaking so bad, she barely had any control of her body.

Lux then answered the call. "Hello, Bonteri residence."

"Lux!"

"Ahsoka? I'm so glad you responded to my call. How are you doing?" He asked.

"Well, I'm good, aside from our meeting not being effective in the senate." She mentioned.

"Oh no! That really is unfortunate. Why, what happened?"

"The senate building was attacked by droids of some kind." She told him. But anyway, how are you doing?"

"Well, I'm doing just fine here, working in the garden until mom gets home from her senate hearing." Lux informed.

"That sounds fun, I'd love to see your work." Ahsoka blurted out without even thinking. She cringed and wondered what his response would be.

Lux just chuckled. "Well, maybe when you're free, you can come back to Raxus and have dinner with my mom and me. Then I can show you what we added to the garden." Lux suggested.

Ahsoka's heart began to flutter again, she hadn't scared him off with that hasty request of seeing his handy work. "I'd love to, I know I have a mission coming up here soon with Master Skywalker and Master Kenobi. But don't worry, I should be free for a while when I get back. Oh, and maybe we should make it Mandalore, my master wasn't too happy when he found out that we came to Raxus."

Lux chuckled again. "Can do, thanks Ahsoka. It was good to talk to you. My mom's home now and she looks worried, I have to go."

"Oh, umm okay. Have a good night Lux."

"Thanks Ahsoka, you too."

And that was the last that they talked to each other until after the events on Mortis.