A.N. Well, I hadn't expected such a good feedback on the very first chapter so, here's a second to you all. Enjoy.

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Before

Ventara fell silent, "I see you can read between the lines," he said aghast, "very well, how much?"

Now

The boy clung to his sister, his knuckles white such was the intensity of his grip. He turn his narrow eyes to the two dealers. How could they talk about his sister as if she was a, a.. a thing. They would pay, all of them, maybe not today, but they would pay.

"Any," the scared child whispered in a begging voice to her brother, "don't!" She was in trouble, and if she end up being sold to the strange humanoid.. it would brake her mother's heart. The last thing her brother should do know was to make their owner aware of his special abilities, who knew what he do with him them. Her mother was strong, but she doubted she was strong enough to deal with the lost of their two children.

Anakin pursed his lips, but after hearing his sister request, he sighed and calmed himself. She was right, he couldn't do anything even if he wished it with all his might.

Watto's laugh made the two siblings watch the adults' interaction.

"Do you take me for a fool Ventara? Your last question was all that I needed to be aware of my slave's true value. Now that I do, do you really think I would sell her to you, for what I understand your not the one with the money, if you truly want her you better make me a real offer," the Toydarian said cunningly.

"How dare you," Vendara said enraged, "I'll go to the Hutts with this," the Koodinar threatened.

"Be my guest," Watto said amused pointing to the exit, " I'm sure they would love to know about such profiting business, after all I'm sure they would have to get themselves a commission for all their trouble."

"Argh," Ventara roared, " mark my words Toydarian, this is not over," he spit towards Watto before leaving the premises.

"What are you two looking at," he said gruffly to his two stunned slaves. "Boy haven't you work to do," he pointed out, "and you girl, go to your mother, I'm certain your work for the day is far from over."

Anakin left with a sorrowful glance to his sister, she tried to cheer him up with a small smile, even knowing it was a cold comfort.

"Well then girl, didn't I made myself clear," the Toydarian said exasperated to his slave.

"Thank you."

"What are babbling about girl," he asked surprised at her choice of words.

"You didn't sell me," she said matter of factly.

"You heard very well why not," he said snidely, "I won't ever allow for someone to beguile me into a bad dealing."

"I wonder then, why you ,instead of making your own demands when he granted you that power, trick him into considering something that could take all the appeal he could have about such deal," she observed knowingly.

"Go do your tasks girl, before I start considering a spanking," he growled her way.

The happy girl sprint off the junk shop, mirthful laughter ringing in the Toydarian's hears. He shook his head before eating the rest of the eggs-seeds, that human girl was a sly one. He scuffed, she would need all the cunning she had if she wanted to survive there.

…...

Ana peeked from behind the shelves towards the strangers her brother brought along with him, he had told her about them before, about their encounter in Watto's shop.

"And who my this one be," the older man said looking directly at her.

She stiffed, even after that incident three standard weeks ago she hadn't left her house. The Koodinar's ominous words still too fresh in her mind.

Anakin smiled at her before jumping off his seat at the table had running to her, "come out from there sis, its okay their friends," he assured her. She tried another peep at them, the man was holding the humanoid longish tong between his fingers, chastising him from his poor manners. She sniggered, they were a fun bunch. She skipped towards the table, "hi," she said tentatively.

"Oh, hello there little girl, I'm Padmé and you are," asked a girl a bit more older than her.

Ana looked her over, she must be the one her brother had said to have mistaken for an angel, she was pretty all right, but didn't look anything other than human. Her brother was just too rush in his judgments, but there was definitively something off about her. She cocked her head to the side, before giving the elder girl a big smile, "hello, I'm Ananta," she introduced herself taking the empty seat beside Padmé.

"That's a beautiful name, like its owner,"the man said to her.

She accented, "it means infinite and Anakin's means warrior."

Ana started eating as the adults returned their conversation, her brother interfering here and there. She choose to wait and listen, to know the outsiders best. She felt a change coming, she just couldn't farthom if for the best.

…...

The Twi'lek frowned, she should have known that twenty peggat for kidnapping an infant human slave was a too good to be true of a deal. She left the roof edge and turn back. The Koodivar could shove his peggat up his ass. She knew a jedi when she saw one and she sure wasn't about to confront one for twenty miser peggat.

The bounty hunter climbed up her speeder and left the slaves row, that's one lucky kid.

…...

"It's okay Ana, you'll just feel a little sting that's all," her brother said reassuringly.

She looked at her brother and then at the man, she bit her lip as she glanced to the tiny machine in the man's hand before tensing even more, "no, I don't want to!"

"Is something wrong," Padmé asked approaching from inside the hove, noticing the tensed girl beside her.

"I was just running a scan on Anakin's blood, to make sure he's healthy, I had wanted to do one at Ana's too, but she seems fearful of it," Qui-Gon explained.

Padmé arched a brow at the jedi but just let the matter go. "You're just a little scared, aren't you, "she said reassuringly to the scared child, "how about this, I'll do it first, so you can see there's nothing to be afraid, then you'll do it, okay?"

"Okay," Ananta mumbled unsure.

She watched as the brunette did as she had promised before the man detached the vial from the machine, he turned to her again, "see, nothing to be scared about." Ana let him hold her hand before setting the small device on her middle finger, the pain was almost non-existent as a little vial filled itself with her blood. He retrieved the vial, but before any other word could be spoken, he raised himself quickly and advanced towards the hove's entrance.

"What's the matter," Anakin asked the brunette.

"I, don't know," she answered him before following the Jedi, the little boy hot in her trail.

…...

"Are you sure there's no danger," his padawan's concerned voice sounded from the comlink.

"Whomever had been, by the moment I felt it he or she had already departed," the Jedi interjected.

"Master, do you think they had been send by the Trade Federation?"

"I don't think so, whomever it was their thoughts were as far from us as they could ever be, that was why I didn't felt it sooner."

"Even so, it doesn't make it any less troubling."

"Obi-wan before we disconnect, I have the blood samples of two twins that I want you to scan for medi-chlorians and give me a precise count," he instructed his padawan.

"I'm ready Master, you can send them.," was heard coming from the comlink.

"This is impossible," Obi-wan tried to reasoning with his results.

"Obi-wan, what's the matter?"

"From whom is this sample," the padawan asked amazed.

"The boy."

"It's, it's outstanding, his count, his over 20000 per cell. Is even higher than Master Yoda's," astonishment creeping into the padawan's words.

"Obi-wan, now the girl's," he said switching the vials

"Huh!"

"What is it my padawan?"

"That's..strange."

"What is?"

"The girl's don't surpass a meager 2500. Master, didn't you say they were twins, isn't it unusual when such close siblings aren't both force users?"

"Hn."

"Master?"

"Unusual, but not unheard of. It is a pity, she would have been an extraordinary Jedi."

…...

She watched as her brother deceived death again and won the race leaving everyone surprised (well, almost everyone, the man didn't seem surprised at all with the outcome). And heard as, after collecting the parts the strangers wanted from Watto, the man informed her family Anakin was free to go with him. She fell silent as her mother questioned as much hopeful as afraid, if her little girl was free too.

Ananta knew what his answer would be, but although her heart was breaking inside her chest, she smiled encouragingly to her devastated brother, it was better that way. Someone needed to take care of their mother.

She embraced her brother as their mother hugged them both, a conviction that such a simple act wouldn't ever happen between them again left her speechless when she had wanted to encourage her brother, her mother doing it in her place.

He let go off them then, sorrow marring his cherubic features as he run to the strangers. Anakin turn his back at them then to never look back again.

And her heart wept, with the certainty of never seeing her brother again.