"I see you are well rested." Obi Wan said to Siri as she walked back into the training room. He must have gotten there early.

"Yes. I was able to mediate and clear my head of some thoughts I wasn't able to let go of." Siri said grabbing a training saber from the floor and twisting her wrist in a circle as she rose. She looked at Obi Wan and smiled. "Are you ready?"

"I hope so." Obi Wan said bracing himself reaching out with the force to grab his own saber.

Siri backed into the room glaring at Obi Wan thinking of steps and motions in her head before striking, something he wouldn't think she would do to take him by surprise. She jumped in the air towards him with a flip and landed in front of him crashing her saber down towards Obi Wan's head. He moved backwards blocking her saber with his own. As he stepped back, she stepped forward bring more force with each swing. The clicks from their weapons could be heard from down the hall as younger Jedi started to form at the doorway. Anakin was one of them walking more into the room in a hurry sensing his Master was in danger. He relaxed as soon as he saw Master Siri there with him.

Siri flipped backwards as Obi Wan chased after her swinging at her legs just missing them. She landed, her back towards him putting the saber behind her blocking Obi Wan's blow. She pushed him away and twisted her body towards him and began to strike again. His saber caught hers, but she had such force and strength he couldn't fight her off. She pressed her body on to his as he began to bend backwards. He fell to the ground and she stood before him. She threw her saber to the side and fell on top of him putting her hands on his biceps.

"Told you." A smirk slowly appeared on her face and she got to her feet holding out her hand for him to take it.

"It would have been like old times if you didn't have an audience." Obi Wan said breathing heavily and taking her hand getting to his feet. Siri looked towards the doorway and saw a small group of Jedi and Anakin standing there.

"Wow. I've never seen anyone as quick on their feet as you were Master!" A young girl padawan said running up to Siri's side. "When I'm a Jedi Master I want to be just like you!" Siri blushed putting her hand on the Younglings shoulder and crouched to her level.

"If you train hard and listen to your Master's, you will be." She patted the young girl on the shoulder and rose to her feet.

"Words to live by." Obi Wan said looking at Siri with a smile. "Now then, all of you get back to your Master's. I'm sure they're looking for you." He said to the younglings.

"Yes Master Obi Wan." They all said in unison and then scrambled out the door down the hall. As they left Anakin was left standing there in patience.

"Anakin, what are you doing here?" Obi Wan asked putting his stick down with Siri's.

"Well. I sensed you were in danger Master." Anakin said slightly embarrassed by choosing those words.

"Huh, danger." Siri said looking towards Obi Wan raising her eyebrow. "How ironic, and to think that I was to be the one in danger."

"Alright. Alright." Obi Wan said waving his hand towards her. "You were right to begin with and I'm not surprised. You're still just as strong as I remember, now even more so because of your… Well… New found body. Strength, and your new found strength."

"Of my what?" she asked in a chuckle giving him a look as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"Well. You're older now and you've grown up. You're not the same girl you were when you were 17 Siri, its plain physics." He fumbled with his words, trying to explain his point without sounding like he was ogling over her. That outfit just makes her look so different. It fits the curves of her body that she didn't have before making her silhouette look as if it were an hourglass. "You were able to keep your body so fit. And you knew moves that you did when you were still here."

"I did drills a lot when I was away. It kept me strong and on my toes if anything was going to happen." She said sitting down stretching her legs out. "I found places in fields to mediate. I fought images with my eyes closed running tactics through my mind over and over again until they were perfect. That's why I told you I'm strong and I never gave up on being a Jedi. It's a part of me, it's who I am."

"Now I believe you, and the Council will as well. I'm sure in no time you'll have a padawan and be on your own with missions." He said with a smile looking towards Anakin that was smiling back with his head bowed towards his Master. "You'll only be lucky enough to have such a gifted one as Anakin."

"Thank you Master." Anakin said lifting his head up slowly with a smile. Siri studied their body language and knew they were more than just Master and padawan. She sensed a strong bond between them, like brothers.

"Must be nice." Siri said getting to her feet.

"Anakin, I have a lot of things to cover with Master Siri, did you have any news for me?" Obi Wan said placing the two sabers they used into a space on the wall of the training room.

"No Master. I was actually on my way to see Senator Palpatine when the force brought me here."

"Well, there is no danger here as you can see. Unless of course I plan on doing anymore drills with Master Siri." Obi Wan said rubbing one of his shoulders. Siri laughed softly to herself. "I'll meet up with you later before the meeting. I'm sure the Council will be happy to know that Master Siri is willing and able to help in our war."

"Yes Master." Anakin said then bowing towards his Master and Siri before leaving the room."

"Anakin is friends with the Senator? How did that happen? Usually the Jedi and the politicians stay out of each other's work. Or have I been gone so long that we now all work as one?" Siri said with a concern look on her face, getting to her feet and crossing her arms in a manner Obi Wan would.

"No. We still handle our business as we did before. Anakin just found a friend in the senator for reasons I don't understand. I've never warned him of the complications, neither has the Council. We have no right to say who he can and cannot talk to, but I don't trust it. But then again I've never trusted Politicians."

"I wouldn't either." Siri said looking towards the doorway as if Anakin was still there. "Something doesn't seem right with him. Have you ever sensed it?"

"No. But recently I've become more worried about his choices and understanding of Jedi ways." Obi Wan said in a sigh bringing his hand to his temple.

"He seems distracted, like his mind is elsewhere."

"Yes. But they say he's the chosen one and he'll bring balance to the Force. It's so strong within him."

"That's what they say, doesn't mean it's true." Siri said looking at Obi Wan from the corner of her eye. "Let's go for a walk. We have hours before the meeting and I haven't been able to see the Garden's yet." She patted Obi Wan's back and walked towards the doorway. He walked with her, the familiar feeling of closeness running away with him from her soft touch. He truly did miss her.

They walked out behind the temple along a worn down pathway that lead out to the Jedi Garden's. Birds flew by and the intense color of the exotic flowers made Siri have to shade her eyes. Obi Wan stopped and tried to find a good place to sit as Siri kept walking as if she were entranced by the beauty surrounding her.

"I don't remember it being so, so beautiful." Siri said looking around. Obi Wan smiled and put his hand on her shoulder.

"Yes. It's very beautiful." He said only looking at Siri. She turned around and smiled at him and he looked up as if his eyes had been there the whole time, then back down slowly into Siri's eyes. He moved his hands from her shoulders down to her back slowly feeling the softness of her skin. Siri took a step closer to Obi Wan pressing her chest against his, looking up at him with soft gentle eyes. "Why don't we go sit under the tree over there?" Obi Wan pointed and walked away from Siri's embrace. She sighed and put her head down before turning and following him.

They sat on the grass with their legs crossed under them, Obi Wan's back to the tree while Siri sat in front of him.

"So why did you want to come out here?" Obi Wan said placing his hands on his lap.

"Well, I missed it. I came out here a lot to meditate and just forget a lot of things that went on inside the Temple. Out here it's peaceful and serine. In there is more business, war, planning, strategizing. It's sometimes too much, but that's probably why they made this." Siri looked around at the green and sunlight coming down over the trees. She put her hands back on the grass as the warmth from the sun ran across the skin on her face moving down across the top of her chest, to her stomach and her one bare arm. The leather from her outfit warmed the other, the remainder of her chest and legs. Obi Wan watched her as her chest rose and fell, down her body admiring her form. She sat up again and met Obi Wan's eyes as he looked away quickly. She smiled and shook her head knowing what he had been doing. She looked over her shoulder and noticed a tree in the far corner of the Garden's. "Remember when we were younger, about 16?" Siri said still looking towards the tree.

"Yes." Obi Wan followed her eyes to the same tree. "Oh. That." He chuckled to himself. Siri looked back towards him now with his head towards the tree. Her eyes moved across his lips down his rugged beard to his neck until she saw tunic, then back up slowly. He turned his head and instead of looking away she fixed her eyes on his. She smiled softly before speaking.

"You gave me my first kiss there." She looked down at his hands running over the blades of grass slowly.

"You gave me mine there as well." Obi Wan said with a smile looking back towards the tree. "Qui-Gon knew something had happened because the smile never left my face. I must have been 18 then." Obi Wan brought his hand to his hair and brushed it from his eyes and looked back towards Siri. They looked at each other longingly for many minuets until she broke the silence.

"Obi Wan, I've wanted to tell you why I left when I was younger." Obi Wan didn't speak and just waited for her to continue. She sighed, "Well when we were younger and we made a pact to one another that we should just never talk of our love. Just remain friends, but have it be known to ourselves that our love is there, how it would just make things so much easier, do you remember that?" She said avoiding contact with his eyes.

"Yes." He said after swallowing all her words.

"When I left it was mainly because I just couldn't take it. The pressure of not being able to kiss you again and be with you made me crazy. I wanted to every time I saw you, all that ran through my head was the word 'no', I hated that. I hated feeling like I was locked up, not being able to do as I pleased when I pleased. Having Adi on me constantly telling me to be more like you, 'be more like Obi Wan he's so in tune with the force, he follows orders, he respects the force and the Jedi order for what it means.' It made me mad. Mad to the point where I just packed and left." She took a breath in slowly letting all her frustration out. "I wanted to tell you that I was leaving. I wanted to just see you one last time, but it would have been too hard, and when I saw you for that brief moment at Qui-Gon's ceremony my heart broke for you, and was torn apart even more when I knew I couldn't do anything about it. But I guess that's life. We are trained to let go of things that are close to us, and learn that everything happens for a reason." She looked up at Obi Wan who had his hand on top of hers. He ran his thumb over her knuckles slowly. His touch was so soft and so familiar it made her move involuntarily closer to him. He looked her in the eyes as he noticed her body closer to his. She licked her lips slowly in welcome to his moving closer to hers, he wanted to just grab her and hold her tightly in his arms pressing his lips tightly against hers but stopped just before.

"We shouldn't." Siri slowly opened her eyes and leaned back on her heals. Obi Wan looked back at her with sorry eyes. "I want…" He sighed before finishing his thought. "You've just come back not 24 hours ago, we can't rush back into things and mess them up for you. You want to be let back into the Council. You have to prove yourself first and this wouldn't be a way of doing that. We can't do this like we're teenagers again Siri. We have too many responsibilities now. I have an apprentice, I am on the Council. You'll be on the Council soon and have an apprentice of your own. We can't do things as if we were 18 again." He sighed again, looking past Siri, "we should be going back, the meeting is going to start soon and I'm sure you'll want to change." Obi Wan said getting to his feet brushing grass from his pants. Siri looked up at him confused and got to her feet as well.

"I suppose I should." She let out a sigh and turned away from him and started to walk back towards the Temple without waiting for Obi Wan. She wanted to come back with something, she wanted to tell him he was wrong, that she wasn't trying to act like she was a teenager again, anything to make what just happen not seem as bad as it was but she had nothing.

Obi Wan put his hand to his beard rubbing it as he took a breath. He watched her walk away, the girl he tried so hard to shake for so long was back in his life. He just had to keep himself focused and be mindful of his thoughts.

He began to follow Siri back into the Temple. Once they got inside the two Jedi went their separate ways, Siri to her quarters while Obi Wan off to find Anakin. He shook his head at the memories it took him so long to erase as he walked the long hallway. He could feel something about to happen, good or bad he didn't know but something none the less.