Barriss POV

He slapped me again, I turned and spat out blood. He grabbed my head and made me look at him, "I won't ask again!" I smirked.

"NO!" he slapped me before commanding a droid to come. The droid handed Count Dooku a remote and the droid placed a shock collar around my neck, I tried to resist but my binders were to tight. He had been torturing me for days, well maybe not him personally. He shocked me, "Join me skug!"

"Never!" he shocked just high enough to practically paralyse me but keep me awake.

"Then you are of no use to me!" he slapped me and left. I don't get why he didn't just use the mind-control necklace again – maybe he couldn't sustain control for long periods of time or something. I strained to hear the conversation outside my cell I could make out some of the conversation.

"…..all yours…..skug….shock…sumbition…" then a stranger spoke.

"thanks…..join…..mine…..fun….skug…..slave…. zygerria…" I could make out what it meant, but a large zygerrian walked in, I growled and looked away. He smiled and bard his teath. "Your mine now." 2 soldiers started to move my cage. King Atai smirked as Dooku handed him the remote for my shock collar. They took me out of my cage and shoved me into a cell on their ship, the king muttered something about me being a good specimen or slave or something. I looked around me and saw millions of cells and prisoners. I looked around my grimy cell and my eyes landed on a small torgruta, she was curled up in a ball with her back to me, she was pale, malnourished, small and had obviously been abused. Her skin was pale due to her condition but it was once orange, her lekku which once would have been blue and white was now grey and blue. "Whats your name?" I jumped at the small voice.

"Barriss Offee, what's yours?"

"Akeia, I think?

"Don't you know?"

"When no-one says it you soon forget it," she turned to face me. Her clothes were 2 bands of material – one around her hips and one around her breasts. Her facial marking were a rectangle with two triangles on one side (on her cheeks). She had marks that looked like eyebrows and went straight up her forehead and then zigzagged back down. She looked similar to Ahsoka – accept Akeia was small and sick.

"What's you last name?"

"I think it begins with a T or S,"

"Do you have any family?"

"My dad died before I was born and my mother and sister died in a fire when I was taken," I suddenly thought of something.

"Sister?"

"My twin,"

"Ahsoka Tano?" her eyes lit up as if the memories came flooding back.

"Tano… yes that's it, Akeia Tano,"she tested her name, but she wouldn't say Ahsokas because she thought she was dead.

"Ahsoka isn't dead, she's alive and living on Curasont, I'm going to get you out of here," she stared at my trying to register what I just said.

"How?" I slipped my hand into the secret compartment in the heel of my boot and pulled out a small laser cutter. I cut a square in the wall to reveal many wires. She sighed, "How's that going to help us?" I winked and started pulling wires, an crossing them. In my secret compartment I also had a comlink and some poison, I connected the comlink to the wires so I could call for help, at the same time I sent out a distress call. To avoid notice I threw some poison into the guard's lunch.

"Hello is anyone there, hello, hello?" I waited, then I head Skywalkers voice.

"This is a secure line, who is this?"

"Master Skywalker it's Barriss, I need help!"

"Barris? Keep the communication open and we will send help,"

"Thanks," I turned to the young girl who looked 15, not 17.

"You're a jedi right?"

"Yes, well I used too, um, it's complicated," I sighed.

"Are you the one who tried to kill her best friend?"

"Yes, but I was being controlled,"

"I heard, are you ok?"

"Yeah but she thinks I'm dead,"

"Everyone does," I wondered how an isolated slave heard that, she pointed at the guard who was holding a small radio. "It was my sister, wasn't it?" she was very perceptive but she wasn't strong with the force like her sister.

"Yes," we sat in silence for what seemed like hours. I heard an explosion and I jumped as did Akeia. I saw blue and green lightsabers – Obi-wan, Anakin, Luminara. I grabbed the guard outside and knocked him unconscious, and took his key, I unlocked our cuffs and collars. I took his gun and we unlocked the cell.

"Barriss!" I looked at my former master and ran towards her. Akeia was slow, weak and light so I carried her. The other jedi were opening cells and prepping escape pods, as soon as the other slaves were away we got on our ship.

Luminara hugged me tight. Obi-wan looked at the small torgruta in my arms. She was shaking uncontrollably. "Who is this?" Akeia looked up at the jedi then turned away and stared at the floor.

"This is Akeia, Akeia Tano," Skywalker looked like someone had slapped him in the face.

"Is she related to…"

"Yes, they're twins,"

Anakin POV

I looked at the small, frail, tiny, weak, fragile girl. There was no-way this girl was related to Ahsoka, let alone her twin. I reached out with the force, she was her fraternal twin. She gad obviously been abused, beaten and raped. I placed a blanket around her shoulders, she flinched at my touch – I'm guessing she had bad experience with men. I looked at Barriss, but she avoided my gaze – she'd done that ever since the mind-control necklace was removed. Barriss looked around.

"Where's Ahsoka?" no-one had told her Ahsoka'd left. I handed her the holo-news, the headline read.

Jedi princess leaves the order

I wasn't fond of the way the public gives us jedi nick names – mine was 'the hero with no fear' Ahsoka's was 'jedi princess'. Barriss read before putting down the holo-pad "this is all my fault!"

"No, it wasn't just you," I looked at Luminara who had returned from putting Akeia to sleep. Luminara took her former padwan into her quarters as tears rolled down her face, black curls draped down her face. I thought for a moment. Ahsoka had a twin, she never told me – why? There were things I never told her about my past (actually I never told her anything). Then I got a message from padme, the subject line read.

You are invited to Ahsoka Tano's 18th birthday party

I read the rest of the message, it was next Friday on Naboo.

Party! Next chapter = lux picking Ahsoka and Padme up;) how will Ahsoka react to finding out both Barriss and Akeia are alive?