Sorry that it is boring at the beginning. I had to set the scene and it had to start with Anakin doing all the heroics. Though, I think Obi-Wan should have gotten much more credit in this movie… It starts out in Revenge of the Sith but Padmé isn't pregnant… yet and goes into an AU. First chapter is probably going to be the longest. Now I'm just rambling. Sorry.

Obi-Wan and Anakin run over to the Navigator's chair of the failing ship.

"All the escape pods have been launched." Anakin pointed out.

"Grievous." Obi-Wan cursed. "Can you fly a cruiser like this?"

"You mean, do I know how to land what's left of this thing?" Anakin remarked as he sits down in the pilot's chair and starts looking at the screens.

"Well?" Obi-Wan asked after awhile.

"Under the circumstances, I'd say the ability to pilot this thing is irrelevant. Strap yourselves in." He ordered.

Obi-Wan and Chancellor Palpatine buckle themselves into the nearest empty chair, while Anakin struggles with the controls of the ship. The ship starts to glow, and pieces break off.

"Steady . . . Altitude . . . eighteen degrees." Obi-Wan started naming off the controls, but Anakin was too focused on trying to land what's left of the ship without killing both his Mentor/Father figure and his Best Friend. He didn't know which was which. They both wanted what was best for him.

"Pressure rising. We've got to slow this wreck down. Open all hatches, extend all flaps, and drag fins." Anakin says as his attention snaps back into the present dilemma.

"Temp steady. Hatches open, flaps extended, drag fins . . ." Obi-Wan was cut off by a sudden jolt of the bridge.

Anakin looks out of the view screen. "I think we lost something."

"Not to worry, we're still flying half the ship." Obi-Wan made the light joke to take tension out of the room, but it just put more pressure on Anakin to land the ship safely.

"Now we're really picking up speed . . . I'm going to shift a few degrees and see if I can slow us down." Anakin started working on the controls when Obi-Wan broke his concentration, again.

"Careful . . . we're heating up-twelve thousand . . . thirteen thousand . . . "

"What's our speed?" He asked a little too harshly. But Obi-Wan understood the pressure that he was under.

"Eight plus sixty-forty. Eight plus sixty-twenty. Eight plus sixty. Temp ten thousand, nine thousand . . . we're in the atmosphere . . . "

Anakin pointed to one of the controls. R2-D2 beeps madly. "Grab that . . . Keep us level."

"Steady. Steady." The Jedi Master warned.

"Easy, Artoo. Hang on, this may get a little rough. We lost our heat shields." He noticed.

"Five thousand. Three thousand . . . two thousand. Fireships on the left and the right."

"We'll take you in." One of them communicated to Obi-Wan.

"Copy that. Landing strip's straight ahead." He told Anakin.

"We're coming in too hot." Anakin exclaimed.

"Easy-easy."

The ship leaves a contrail as it streaks across the Coruscant skyline. Palpatine and Obi-Wan hold on for dear life as the ship shakes and rattles toward an industrial landing platform.

A large landing platform in the industrial part of the city is surrounded by Emergency Fire Speeders. The smoking ship approaches as five Fireships spray it with foam. The ship finally makes a rather hard landing.

"Another happy landing." This joke even made the Chancellor smile.

-oOo-

The small Jedi Shuttle carrying Palpatine and the Jedi arrives at the landing platform. There are about a dozen Senators, including Bail Organa and Jar Jar Binks with C-3PO, waiting for them. Palpatine, R2-D2, and Anakin get out. Obi-Wan and Mace Windu stay in the doorway of the Jedi Shuttle.

"Are you coming, Master?" Anakin asked unsure what to do.

"Oh no. I'm not brave enough for politics. I have to report to the Council. Besides, someone needs to be the poster boy." Obi-Wan smiled.

"Hold on, this whole operation was your idea. You planned it. You led the rescue operation. You have to be the one to take the bows this time." Anakin tried arguing out of this one.

"Sorry, old friend. Let us not forget that you rescued me from the Buzz Droids. And you killed Count Dooku. And you rescued the Chancellor, carrying me unconscious on your back, and you managed to land that bucket of bolts safely …" Obi-Wan pointed out.

"All because of your training, Master. You deserve all those speeches of your greatness." He counteracted.

"…the endless speeches … Anakin, let's be fair. Today, you are the hero and you deserve your glorious day with the politicians."

"All right. But you owe me . . . and not for saving your skin for the tenth time . . . "Anakin teased.

"Ninth time . . . that business on Cato Nemoidia doesn't count. I'll see you at the briefing." They both smile as Anakin walks away and approaches The Chancellor and Mace Windu in a discussion.

"Chancellor Palpatine, what a welcome sight! Are you all right?" The Jedi Council Member asked.

"Yes, thanks to your two Jedi Knights. They killed Count Dooku, but General Grievous has escaped once again."

"General Grievous will run and hide as he always does. He is a coward."

"That maybe true, but with Count Dooku dead, he is the leader of the Droid Army, and I assure you, the Senate will vote to continue the war as long as Grievous is alive."

"Then the Jedi Council will make finding Grievous our highest priority."

Everyone starts walking into the Grand Building, when Bail Organa starts congratulating Anakin. "Skywalker, the Republic cannot praise you enough."

"Thank you, Senator Organa. The kidnapping was a bold move by the Separatists, but it was a mistake that Obi-Wan and I were able to take advantage of."

"The end of Count Dooku will surely bring an end to this war, and an end to the Chancellor's draconian security measures." The esteemed Senator sounded relieved.

"I wish that were so, but the fighting is going to continue until General Grievous is spare parts… The Chancellor is very clear about that." Anakin said as he thought back on the words of his Mentor.

Behind a row of large columns, a Shadowy Figure follows the Jedi and the Senator. Anakin senses the figure's presence.

"I'll do everything I can with the Senate."

"And please have Senator Amidala take a two week break. She seemed to be sick the last time I saw her, and as her friend, I fear for her health."

"Certainly."

"Excuse me."

"Certainly." Anakin stops and Bail goes off after Palpatine and the others.

Anakin goes behind one of the giant columns to meet up with the Shadowy Figure, his beautiful wife, Senator Padmé Amidala. They embrace and kiss.

"Oh, Anakin! Thank goodness, you're back."

"I missed you, Padmé. I've missed you so."

"There were whispers . . . that you'd been killed. I've been living with unbearable dread."

"I'm back, I'm all right. It feels like we've been apart for a lifetime. And it might have been ... If the Chancellor hadn't been kidnapped. I don't think they would have ever brought us back from the Outer Rim sieges." Anakin starts to give her another kiss. She steps back.

"Wait, not here . . ." He grabs her again.

"Yes, here! I'm tired of all this deception. I don't care if they know we're married." Anakin tries to kiss her, but is cut off.

"Anakin, don't say things like that. You're important to the Republic ... to ending this war. I love you more than anything, but I won't let you give up your life as a Jedi for me . . ."

"I've given my life to the Jedi order, but I'd only give up my life, for you."

Padmé playfully responds back. "I wouldn't like that. I wouldn't like that one bit. Patience, my handsome Jedi . . . Come to me later."

Anakin embraces her, and then looks at her. "Is everything alright? You seem scared."

"These past months have been torture to me. I've missed my Jedi Knight."

"And I've missed my wonderful wife." He brings her closer to her and cuddles her close. "That's why I've put in for a two week vacation. The Council already approved on account of me killing Count Dooku and rescuing Palpatine. It will just be you and me, together on a secluded planet for two whole weeks."

"But what about the senate?"

"I've already pulled a favor with Senator Organa."

Padmé smiled. "I love you."

"I love you too." He said as he picked her up and took her back to the apartment.