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Padfootkicksbutt I am really looking forward to when they talk it out as well, but I am not quite sure yet as to when that will be.

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~Tara Azzan

Chapter Nine

Wait what!

Sabe was glad to be in her room, she was also hoping that Anakin would come and see her, but she didn't know if he would.

She also almost wished she hadn't sent Padme with Obi-Wan so she would have someone to talk to, but then she was glad she had since she wanted to give Obi-Wan the time to talk to Padme.

The door hissed opened and she looked up as Rabe entered.

almost intently a idea came to mind.

"Rabe, will you please help me?"

"With what?" Rabe asked warily as she came to a stop, the door sliding close behind her.

"Why do you always think I'm up to something?" she asked.

"I didn't say you were up to something." Rabe replied.

"No, but your voice implied it."

"You just think that, now what do want help with?" Rabe responded.

"Simple, I just want you to stay in here." Sabe explained. "So I can go out and talk to Anakin."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Why wouldn't it be?" Sabe asked, though it wasn't really a question. "It's not like Anakin doesn't already know that I'm not Padme."

"Are you sure?" Rabe asked still uncertain. "and what if you run into a guard?"

"If he doesn't know, I'll hit him! And the guard will just think I'm a handmaiden, which I am!"

"Alright," Rabe said, defeated as she crossed the room and flopped down on one of the other bed's. "I'll stay."

"Thank you so much!" Sabe exclaimed as she jumped up from the bed and tripped on Padme's gown that she was wearing, falling on her face in a tangle of cloth.

"Are you alright?" Rabe asked clearly trying not to laugh."

"I'm fine," she said irritably , sitting up her headdress toppled to one side.

"Would you mind helping me out of this stupid thing?"

Twenty or so minutes later Sabe was dressed in handmaiden cloths, with the hood pulled up over her head leaving her face in shadows.

This was much better, she thought as she walked quickly along the ships corridor in search of Anakin.

It didn't talk her long to find him working on getting the Hyperdrive ready for when Obi-Wan would return with the parts to fix it.

He glanced up as she entered.

"Hello." he greeted her as he turned his attention back to the Hyperdrive.

"How's it coming?" she asked when she was standing beside him.

"I'm almost done, then its just waiting until Obi-Wan gets back and if Watto has what we need, he shouldn't be long." Anakin told her.

"Watto? Who's he?" Sabe asked.

"He's a junk dealer, we met a while back."

"How'd you meet him?" she asked, always ready to learn more about him, Anakin that is, not Watto.

"Well," Anakin began looking up at her thoughtfully for a moment, then shrugged. "I met him when Gardulla the Hutt lost my mother and I to Watto betting on the pod races."

"Lost you?" Sabe asked, she thought Anakin was implying that he and his mother had been slaves, but was not sure.

"Yep, we were slaves." Anakin confirmed. "but I was only three, so I really don't remember Gardulla all that well. I mostly remember being Watto's. that was where I learned how to repair droids and stuff. I even built my own pod racer."

Sabe wasn't sure how to react, so she asked another question.

"How did you meet Obi-Wan?"

"That is a much longer story." Anakin warned.

"We have time." she replied with a grin as she sat down on a crate.

Anakin looked over at her. "I suppose I should be glad you're talking to me." he said.

"Yep." she agreed cheerfully.

"You know I really don't think you could manage not to talk to me." Anakin told her as he went back to working on getting things ready for Obi-Wan.

"Would you bet your life on that?" Sabe challenged.

"Yes." he replied giving her a grin, then looking back at what he was doing.

"Just tell me how you met Obi-Wan!" she demanded, not wanting to admit he was right.

"I think you are missing a key word in that sentence and you are also avoiding saying that I'm right."

"Please, tell me." Sabe cried in frustration.

"Alright" Anakin grinned. "I guess I could." he came and sat down next to her, since there was nothing more he could do with the Hyperdrive, before Obo-Wan got back with the parts.

"It was back when Obi-Wan had just become a Jedi knight. He was on his first solo mission. He was looking for a piece of equipment , ( I never did find out what it was.) I didn't get to talk to him at the time, but there was something about him . Needless to say he barely glanced at me and then Watto was in his face demanding to know what he wanted. He was with Watto in the back for a little, then left. That was when I first saw him, I didn't meet him until I was on my way home to my mother and I ran right into him, literally. In my defense there was a sandstorm brewing and I couldn't see very well. Then I invited him home to wait out the storm. I didn't find out his name until I got home, my mom wasn't to pleased that I had-" at that moment Anakin and Sabe both turned as they heard a commotion out in the corridor. They hurried to see what it was, Obi-Wan and the others had returned with the parts.

"Looks like you had better get back to your room." Anakin said then added when he saw her face. "Don't worry I'll finish the story later."

She nodded and hurried away, wondering if Obi-Wan had talked to Padme at all, well she was sure he had, but was it about what she hoped.

As she entered Rabe looked up.

"Well you certainly took your time, what's going on out there?"

"Obi-Wan, Padme, Jar Jar and R2-D2 are back and they have the parts."

Obi-Wan had gone back to Mos Espa to return the Eopies, Anakin was repairing the Hyperdrive and her sister was in the throne room with her handmaidens.

Padme wasn't sure where Sabe and the rest of her handmaidens were, but she could at least go where ever she wanted, since she was still a handmaiden and for some reason she found herself at the top of the exit ramp looking out toward Mos Espa.

She was about to turn away when she saw Obi-Wan. Now she really needed to leave, before he saw her, but out of the corner of her eye she saw something speeding across the desert behind him, she froze.

Something or more like someone leapt off what tuned out to be some kind of speeder bike.

What looked like a red lightsaber came to life in the creatures hand, even from this far away she could tell who ever it was, was not human.

Already well she had been thinking this Obi-Wan had turned to meet the attack his own blue lightsaber in hand.

Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew she needed to get Anakin, but it was a moment longer before she turned and ran to get him.

He wasn't with the Hyperdrive, but she soon found him in the cockpit.

"Obi-Wan's in trouble!" she exclaimed the moment she saw him.

Anakin spun his seat around to look out of the view port.

"There!" he said pointing to a cloud of dust.

Padme could just make out Obi-Wan and the creature.

"Fly low." Anakin ordered, then the next moment he was out of his seat and out the door.

Padme wanted to run after him, but forced herself to stay in the cockpit.

She watched as Obi-Wan leapt onto the ramp, then let out a gasp as the dark clad figure leaped after him.

Obi-Wan turned to meet him.

Padme wasn't sure after that for it was hard to see because of the cameras angle, but she did see the creature fall backward off the ramp.

A moment later Anakin's voice crackled over the comlink saying that it was safe to take off.

Rabe had helped her change back into one of Princess Amidala's dresses, then had left her.

She thought about going back out, but at the moment she hadn't really wanted to, then some much later the ship had taken off suddenly and she wished she had gone out, just so she would know what was going on.

A little bit after that Padme rushed into the room and flopped down on one of the beds.

"How was Tatooine?" Sabe asked.

Padme lifted her head up just enough for her to glare at her.

"It's really hot out there." Padme said at last. "But we will be on Coruscants soon."

"That's all you have to say about it?" Sabe asked.

"Yes, that is all." Padme retorted, then sat up suddenly on the bed. "It was you, Wasn't it?

"Me what?" Sabe asked trying to play innocent.

"Oh you know very well what!" Padme said glaring at her. "It wasn't Sola's idea to send me with Obi-Wan!"

Alright so playing innocent hadn't worked, but that wasn't really a surprise.

"I will not say one way or the other to that." she said at last and Padme rolled her eyes, then clearly a thought came to mind and she asked a moment later "Did you get to talk to Anakin?"

Okay so it went both ways.

"Yes." was all Sabe said.

So it would seem Obi-Wan had not told Padme how he felt. Why did guys have to be so annoying sometimes? Then Sabe's mind wondered to something else and she asked. "What was it with the sudden talk off?"

"We were attacked." Padme answered simply.

"Wait what!" Sabe exclaimed. "Who and why didn't you say something sooner?"

"You didn't ask." Padme replied calmly. "And I don't know who. He was wearing all black and had a red light saber, other then that, I can only guess that he was working for the Trade Federation." Padme must have seen that Sabe was still concerned, because she added. "Don't worry, Obi-Wan had it all under control."