A beeping from his comlink cuts through Anakin's slumber. Gently moving the covers off as not to wake Padme he grabs his comlink and heads outside the room. He smiles as he answers the call seeing Obi-Wan laying on the sofa his arm dangling down the front. "Skywalker."
"Anakin where are you and Obi-Wan?" Mace Windus demands. "We are at Senator Amidala's apartment." Anakin is certain he can hear Mace frowning down the line. "What are you doing there?"
"Obi-Wan fell asleep and the Senator insisted I did not wake him. I did not want to leave him here not after what has happened." A pause in communication tells Anakin something has happened. "Master is something wrong?"
"There was an attack on the Temple…someone blew out the wall outside Obi-Wan's apartment. It seems there is a sizable bounty for his live capture."
"It has to be Dooku!" Anakin moves closer to Obi-Wan looking round for any potential threats.
"I agree. The Council want you to take Obi-Wan away from Coruscant."
Padme comes out behind him. Mace continues "You will be best to travel as a family unit. We will send a knight to come meet you." Padme moves round, "I'd like to help Master Windu, if I may."
"Senator Amidala, this is a Jedi matter."
Padme takes the comlink from Anakin "Master Windu, with all due respect, Obi-Wan is my friend. Also if you want them to appear as a family, it will be easier for us to blend in as I have known both Anakin and Obi-Wan for quite some time."
A sigh from Mace and Anakin grins knowing that Padme has won her argument. "Very well. Anakin, I want you to keep in touch when you can. We will deal with the bounty hunters." The communication ends.
"Right, you best get packing and I'll need to find civilian clothes for Obi-Wan and me." He turns to Padme, clearly not liking the idea of running and hiding. But at least if I have to run and hide it's with Padme. She smiles at him, "I'll get your clothes and you can stay here. I think Obi-Wan would rather I picked something out for him than you."
Anakin heads over to wake up Obi-Wan but stops himself looking down at him. Completely unaware of what is going on. Anakin sits down by his head reaching over to fix the blanket. Obi-Wan shifts ever so slightly, clearly comfortable. Anakin smiles fondly at his old Master, he'd let him sleep until Padme comes back. It is very possible that he won't get many moments like this in the days to come.
Nearly an hour later Padme returns with some bags. "Ok I got a few outfits for you both." She hands two over to Anakin, "One for you and the other for Obi-Wan." She smirks. "I'm sure you know which one is for who."
Anakin grins at her turning to Obi-Wan gently shaking him, "Obi-Wan…Obi-Wan you need to wake up." Obi-Wan groans slowly opening his eyes. "An…Anakin? What's going on?"
"There has been a bounty put on your live capture and already there has been an attack on the Temple. Master Windu has instructed me to take you off world. So Padme is coming with us and we need to..." Anakin pauses thinking how best to break it to Obi-Wan before deciding just to come out with it. "to travel as a family."
Obi-Wan sits a moment in silence processing the information, So Dooku is still after me he looks to Anakin, "was anyone hurt in the attack?" Anakin shakes his head, "Aside from your quarters nowhere else was hit."
He hands Obi-Wan a bag, "Padme picked these out for you, we need to lose the Jedi robes." Taking the bag Obi-Wan heads through to the spare room in the senator's apartments.
Padme walks in on Obi-Wan as he struggles with the buttons on the light blue tunic. "Oh! Obi-Wan I'm sorry Anakin didn't tell me you were in here."
"Actually…I could use a hand." He indicates to the buttons. "The healers couldn't reverse what Dooku did to my mind yet so…buttons are still a problem." Padme smiles kneeling down in front of him fastening the buttons. "If you need any assistance please don't hesitate to ask me Obi-Wan." Fastening the last button, she stands, "there perfect."
Watching from the shadows the three of them watch as Padme's sleek Nubian yacht takes off. A decoy in case anyone had followed them from her apartments. Anakin picks up Obi-Wan and with his free hand he takes Padme's hand. "In the interest of portraying a family." Although he knew that there was no play acting involved with Padme and was going to enjoy the freedom to be with her in public. The harder part was going to pretend to be his Masters father!
Obi-Wan tried not to argue or blush when Anakin picked him up as they headed over towards the yacht 3000 that Padme had hired for them. Obi-Wan had questioned Padme's choice in ship. "The last time I went into hiding, it made sense to travel as refugees, after all you would expect a senator to travel in luxury not the cheapest transport available. This time we are hiding a Jedi." She smirked. "And you don't generally spend much money on transport and certainly not luxury vessels. The bounty hunters won't expect it."
He had to concede she was right. Where possible Jedi tended to hitch rides across the galaxy rarely paying for transport. Although these days the Jedi order did have a larger collection of ships and fighters than when they had when he was a Padawan. But with the exception of the fighters these tended to be refurbished basic vehicles.
The yacht however was far from basic. A lavish red carpet, possibly the most comfortable looking pilot seats Obi-Wan had ever seen. "I'll give you both a tour of the ship once we are in hyperspace and it is safe to do so. Annie you'll need to strap him in through the back as there are only 2 seats up front."
Padme heads up to the front and starts the ship up. Anakin smirks, "I think we both know who is in charge of this mission."
"Isn't she always when we have to work with her?" Obi-Wan watches Padme then looking at Anakin there is a slight smirk, "but then she does have a tendency to be right…or she is just so headstrong that everyone else concedes to her."
Anakin laughs as he takes Obi-Wan into the back of the ship placing him in a seat. "True, I'm not sure who I would bet on if she took on Master Yoda." Obi-Wan blushes a little as Anakin fastens the seatbelts. "Well I am certain it would attract an audience."
Grinning Anakin heads back up to the cockpit, "OK, Obi-Wan is secure and we are ready to go." He sits himself down in the co-pilots seat as Padme smiles at him before turning her attention to the controls raising the ship up into the atmosphere. "And I'd hope you would bet on me."
Anakin's face flushes red. "Uh…what?" She grins looking to him. "You know I can convince Master Yoda if I need to." Turning back to the controls waiting for clearance. "you heard all that?" Anakin clears his throat. Still grinning she gets clearance and sends the ship into Hyperspace.
