I'm not exactly sure on the process of taking padawans, but I wrote it the way that I thought it worked. If it's not right, at least I tried ;D


"Younglings, you no longer are," Yoda announced proudly to the room of young padawans. "Today, padawans, you will become. Proud of you, I am."

Leia grinned at Luke, then Janey. It had been six years since Yoda had told her to not doubt the Force, and she was still having those feelings deep down, but she did a good job of hiding them. Also, Janey had since become her best friend in and outside of the Jedi Temple.

"Already been made, requests have," Yoda continued. "Master Skywalker? Master Kenobi?"

Anakin bowed his head to Yoda before turning to the class. "This will be my very first padawan, but I know I will teach her well." He smiled widely at his daughter. "Leia?"

Leia beamed and left the semi-circle of padawans, walking towards her father. She bowed slightly. "Master."

Obi-Wan nodded at Anakin and Leia before turning to the class himself. "As my second padawan, like his father before him. Luke?"

Luke nodded and left the semi-circle like Leia had and bowed slightly to Obi-Wan. "Master." He wasn't angry that Anakin had chosen Leia instead of him. Leia wasn't as confident in the Force as him, she needed the guiding hand of her father to lead the way. Plus, Luke had always been close with Obi-Wan.

"Notified of your presence, the Jedi Order will be. Taken, more apprentices will be. Dismissed for now, you are," Yoda announced with a wave of his green hand.

The padawans bowed before leaving the room. Janey paused slightly, as if she was going to wait for Leia, but then she decided that she'd need to get used to training with her master and continued walking.

As customary for young padawans, Luke's hair was cut short except for a ponytail and braid in the back. Leia, on the other hand, had cut her hair shoulder length and kept it up in a bun. Female Jedi weren't forced to cut their hair like the male Jedi, but it was to be cut shorter.

Yoda gave a nod to the masters and their new padawans before hobbling out of the room with his cane.

"What're we doing first, Master?" Luke asked Obi-Wan, his eyes bright with the thought of trying out his newly toned Jedi skills.

Obi-Wan laughed. "Now don't get too anxious. There isn't going to be some really important mission right from the start. But, we can train." Obi-Wan placed a hand on Luke's back and led him from the room.

"Are we going to train too, Master?" Leia asked, the word feeling strange in her mouth while addressing her father.

Anakin thought a moment. "I'm figuring this out as much as you are, Leia. But I suppose if that's what Obi-Wan is doing, then it must be the initial padawan move."


Anakin stood across from Leia calmly, his green lightsaber ignited and ready. Leia stood across from him, taking a deep breath.

"Come at me," Anakin encouraged, moving to a defensive position.

Leia bit her lip and nodded. She leapt at her father and slashed towards him with her lightsaber. His own saber moved to block her. Quickly, she recovered and attacked from the other side. Once again, he blocked her. Carefully, she moved him back towards the edge of the building platform. Beneath it, there was a long drop filled with Coruscant traffic.

Seeing her motive, Anakin quickly switched their positions and led her to the ledge, placing his lightsaber at her throat.

Leia took ragged breaths through her mouth, lowering her head in shame. "I failed, Master."

Anakin laughed, clapping her shoulder with his hand. "Nonsense. Against a Jedi Master on your first try, it was very good."

"But not good enough."

He shook his head. "You truly are your mother's daughter, always believing you can do better at something."

Leia scowled. "Well it's true."

Anakin backed away and allowed his daughter to come away from the ledge. "Okay, let's try you on the defensive this time, okay?"

She nodded and moved into a defensive position. "Ready."

Anakin nodded and stood for a moment, poised to attack. Suddenly, without warning, he struck, cutting the air with a zinging sound towards Leia. Quickly, she raised her lightsaber and slashing back.


After a straight week of training with Anakin, Leia finally had time to meet up with Janey. Janey had been taken as a padawan by a newer master like Anakin, Master Bren Adda. He was young for a master taking on a padawan, about twenty.

"He's very good at fighting," Janey told Leia with a wide smile. "I've learned so much from him already."

Leia laughed at Janey's dazed look. "What's with the face?"

Janey's smile disappeared. "What face?"

"Now you're going to act like it was never there?"

Janey smirked. " I have no idea what you're talking about."

Leia sighed dramatically. "Well fine. But eventually, you're not going to stand me not knowing and you're to have to tell someone, and trust me, it'll be me."

Janey scowled for a moment, before brightening. "Master Adda is going on a mission to Dantooine soon, so I'm going to go on my first mission as a padawan. When's yours?"

Leia shrugged. "I don't know. Master Skywalker hasn't said anything about one yet."

"Is it weird calling your father 'Master Skywalker'?"

Leia laughed. "You don't even know."

Janey joined in the laugher.


Leia stood silently outside the senate room, waiting for the meeting to be finished and her mother to come from the room.

Anakin had given her the rest of the day free of training, and Leia found herself wanting to spend some time with Padmé. She felt like she didn't see her mother enough.

A part of Leia has always wished that she could have pursued politics, like her mother. She longed to be a senator, arguing her point like there was no other option. But, that path had been closed probably since before she was born. Anakin Skywalker was her father, she had to become a Jedi and follow him into the Order.

The large doors opened and senators of all species spilled out. Leia stood on her tip-toes, looking around for Padmé.

"Leia?" Padmé's surprised voice came from beside her. Leia turned to smile up at her mother, formally dressed with her hair up in a tight, elegant bun.

"Mom, hi," Leia said warmly, wanting to give her a hug. She decided against it, though. She was a Jedi padawan. Jedi's didn't give their mothers hugs. "Master Skywalker gave me the rest of the day off and I felt like we hadn't been able to spend much time together lately. Are you done with meetings for a little bit?"

Padmé smiled widely. "Yes, I don't have another meeting until tonight. What would you like to do?"

Leia thought a moment before responding. "Can we just go for a walk and talk?"

Padmé nodded. "Of course." They headed out of the senate building side-by-side. "You know, you don't have to call your father 'Master Skywalker' to me."

Leia shrugged. "Formalities. He's my master and I might get in trouble if someone heard me call him anything but."

"That's slightly odd," Padmé laughed. "But I suppose it's true." She paused, unsure of how to say her thoughts. "Are you…liking, being a Jedi?"

"I'm not a Jedi yet, Mom," Leia corrected with a smile. "And well…it's…it's…" She didn't know to tell her mother that even she didn't know. "Fine," she finished lamely.

Padmé frowned. "Luke kept telling me the other day about how much he's loving training with Obi-Wan and how he can't wait to be a Jedi. You sound so…unenthusiastic about it. Are you wishing that you didn't become a Jedi?"

"It's not like I had a choice in the matter," Leia snapped more harshly than she had intended. Sighing, she continued. "I'm not sure how I feel. I really wasn't ever given a choice. I had Force-sensitivity, so I was set to become a Jedi. It's in my future."

"But would you rather, if you could choose to, be something else?" Padmé was worried about her daughter's happiness. She knew that Anakin loved being a Jedi. She knew Luke loved the thought of becoming a Jedi. But, Leia didn't seem to feel the same way.

Leia sighed heavily. For only being twelve, she was very insightful. Like her mother, she was prematurely responsible and well, mature. Padmé had been queen of Naboo at only fourteen. It seemed Leia was following Padmé, at least with maturity levels. "I guess…I would want to be a senator, like you." Leia voiced her earlier thoughts to her mother. "I love the thought of making my point known to everyone in the room, making them believe that it's right. I love the confidence of standing before people and giving a speech about my thoughts." Leia shook her head. "But, it's not meant to be. No Jedi could ever be a senator."

Padmé felt horrible for her daughter. Here, Leia clearly longed for the Senate, like Padmé herself once did for politics, yet she was condemned to life as a Jedi.

"Don't get me wrong," Leia added quickly, "I love helping people, protecting those that can't protect themselves. I am thankful for the gift of being able to be one with the Force. But, I sometimes wish things could be different." Before Padmé could comment, Leia ended that conversation. "Enough with heavy topics. You must hear the latest padawan gossip, courtesy of Miss Janey Braske."