Chapter 10
A talk with Esther and watching Grease

Hey there, I'm back with the next chapter. I won't keep you to long from reading, but first I want to thank , cdaye8184, for correcting this chapter and adding pieces to it. Thanks, girl. For being a great friend and for helping me out. Thank you AVP5 for always being the first when I upload a new chapter. And thank you Gabierules, Will zona, crazy, Michael 13, Dolphingirls and Ahsokatano1 and for reading and/or reviewing the previous chapter. And last but not least, thank you to all of my readers. I love you all!
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Moonwolflove

Ahsoka's p.o.v

After Esther had finished her story, the twins each went their own way. Aidan had gone outside for a breath of fresh air and to calm his mind. Dawn had gone to her room, presumably to get everything straight inside of her head. Ahsoka sat at the table with Esther, who could use some company and who was constantly asking questions about her training and her life. Their mother seemed fascinated about Ahsoka. Never in a million years would Dawn guess her mother would be okay with an 'alien' in their house. But it turns out... their mother was sort of, well... an alien as well, in a weird sort of way.

Ahsoka told her about the time she was found by Master Plo Koon and the moment where she became Skywalker's padawan. Of course she first had to explain who Anakin was and so she remained busy with the whole conversation. She told the whole story of the clone wars (as far as she could remember it) and about all the men she had seen die. She didn't hesitate to make her feelings towards war clear .She hated it, but as peacekeepers it was simply their job to help the people that needed it.

Esther listened, responded occasionally on something, but sometimes seemed completely absent. After a while she even was that absent that Ahsoka didn't see the point of continuing her story. She hesitated for a moment and then laid a hand on Esther's.

"You're thinking of your husband, aren't you?" She asked with a small smile.

Esther sent her a smile back and said: "Wonderful how the Force can expose feelings. But yeah…I do think of him. There's not a day that passed where I haven't thought of him."

Ahsoka tried to empathize with Esther's situation…what it was like not to know where you loved one was, but unfortunately she didn't really succeed in it. After all, she had never really been in love with someone.

"You know…I really wonder what he saw in that vision," Esther said thoughtfully. "It must be that something terrible will happen…otherwise he would have never left us."
"Hadn't he said that the future of the twins depended on it?" Ahsoka asked.

Esther nodded. "And the future of the twins has already been put in motion."She looked at Ahsoka and said: "I must say that I was shocked to see you. I really was convinced that my past wouldn't find me here. Fortunately, I was wrong."

She shook her head. "I had thought that I could raise the twins…far away from everything. They would never have to know that another galaxy existed and they would never get involved in the whole Jedi-business. Now I know that if something is destined, you cannot hide it from it. Not even by travelling to another galaxy. It's the will of the Force that Dawn found you and I'm not going to oppose it."

Ahsoka thought about those words, and suddenly a light started to burn on the edge of her mind.

"You know that Dawn is Force-sensitive, right?"

Esther nodded again. "She is indeed. But what do you think, Ahsoka? Should I tell her or not?"

Ahsoka was shocked by the question. She didn't immediately know what to answer. "Uh…well, I don't see why you wouldn't tell her. I mean…It's a part of who she is. If she has it inside of her, then why wouldn't she be allowed to know?"

Esther nodded again and looked down at her folded hands. "Okay, I'll tell her tomorrow."

"What about Aidan?" Ahsoka asked.

"Aidan isn't Force-sensitive…I think. Dawn made things floating around the house by the time she was two. Aidan never let that kind of things happen. Moreover, I've never been able to sense that power in him."

Ahsoka shook her head in agreement. "Neither did I." And that was very bizarre. It seldom happens that a child was born of two Jedi…but there were cases where it actually happened. And those children were always sensitive. Not always as highly, but nevertheless always sensitive. How could it be that Aidan didn't possess that gift, while his twin sister did?

"Most remarkable, actually," Ahsoka said then.

"Indeed," Esther said. "But I honestly don't mind. With what he doesn't have, he also can't work himself in trouble."

Ahsoka smiled. Esther had a point. A life without Force sensitivity didn't seem to be very bad. In that kind of life you didn't have to worry about anger or fear or whatever. It was a simpler existence.

"I've never wondered what it would be like to just be a child," Ahsoka murmured. "Without trying to walk the straight path all the time…without feeling…every moment…that you can fall in some dark abyss…without any chances to get out of it again." She looked away, trying to keep her emotions at bay.

"Oh, honey. I pity you. You are signed by the war and have grown much faster than some others of your age. You're a Jedi, but it's also true that you never really had the chance to behave like a child. You see why I followed my vision? I didn't want the twins to live a life full of suffering…sometimes it's the best to follow your feelings. You know…they have lived a great part of their childhood…if it's Dawn fate to become a Jedi, then there is no better time than it is now."

"I don't know if she'll want that. She doesn't like the rules at all." Ahsoka told Esther doubtfully.

"She takes after me," Esther grinned. "We'll see tomorrow. In any case I'm very happy that I know the truth…and I'm happy for you that you no longer need to hide in Dawns room."

"I have stayed in worse," Ahsoka grinned.

"Oh, I do believe that," Esther said as she stood up. "I still have to do the housework. More so, I have certain things to get done."

"Of course," Ahsoka said, while she also got up and went to look for Dawn. It was an easy quest, because Dawn was in her room…like most of the day….and again engrossed in a book.

"What are you reading?" Ahsoka asked as she tried to read the cover.

Dawn slammed the book shut and sat up. "It's called Pride and Prejudice and it's my favourite book of all time."

Ahsoka went to sit on her makeshift bed and asked: "What is it about then?"

"Well…it's about a family, but mainly about one of the daughters, named Elizabeth. She meets Mr. Darcy, who is rich and quite handsome. But according to her he has an insufferable personality. Anyway, in the end, she sees that he's actually not as insufferable as she had previously thought. She realizes that she has misjudged him the whole time.

"Sounds…interesting," Ahsoka said, who didn't entirely understood.

"You should give it a try. It think you'll find it beautiful," Dawn said while she laid the book on her bedside table and jumped on her feet.

After dinner everyone went to the living room. Ahsoka simply followed because she didn't have the slightest idea of what was going to happen. Dawn and Esther sat down in a large armchair, while Aidan started some kind of screen. Ahsoka sat down beside Dawn. She had a small suspicion of what the screen could be, but she wasn't quite sure about it.

"What's that?" She asked then. That question delivered her a puzzled look from Aidan. He raised an eyebrow and answered with a smile: "This, my dear, is the most ingenious invention of all time, called TV. Have you seriously never heard of it?"

"Nope," Ahsoka said. "What does it do?"

Dawn and Esther exchanged a laughing look with each other. "Well…you can watch movies and so on on it," Aidan said as he pulled a hand through his hair and clearly thought how he could explain it in a better way.

"Oh, I do know movies," Ahsoka said. "Not that I've ever seen one."

"Whoa, wait. You've never seen a movie?" Aidan said, in a tone as if it was the greatest crime you could possibly commit.

"Nope," Ahsoka said as she popped the "p". Dawn slipped into a hard laughter and Esther apparently had to do her very best not to splutter.

"Okay, since this is the first time you see a movie, shame on you, we need to watch a classic one."

"Precisely," Dawn said, while pointing a finger at her brother. "And I know the perfect movie." She looked at Esther and they simultaneously said: "Grease!"

"Nooooo," Aidan said wildly. "Not that movie. Anything but that!"

"What is 'Grease'?" Ahsoka asked with an raised eyebrow as she watched how Aidan had to retain himself from pulling his hair out.

"Only the best dance movie ever," Dawn said. "But Aidan doesn't appreciate good movies."

"If I've seen them over a hundred times, then they start, no then they are boring," he protested. "I really don't want to see John Travolta dance again. You know how long that song has been stuck in my head?"

"Which song?" Dawn asked innocently.

"Oh, you know which damn song!" He raised his voice in annoyance.

"Sorry, brother. You're the only man in this house, so it will be 'Grease'."

Aidan folded his arms over his chest in irritation and fell into the seat next to Ahsoka, who still didn't understood much of it. Dawn seemed to be very excited about it, so maybe the movie would be pretty cool.

Dawn started the device under the TV and the movie begun. Ahsoka thought that Danny, one of the main characters, was a little strange, with his greasy hair and somewhat strange behavior. But how longer the film lasted, the more she learned to appreciate him and his crazy dance moves. Okay, Sandy was greatly affected by his weird behaviour…and she didn't really like that…but all those amusing songs brought her mind some diversion. She had never seen something like that before.
Dawn and Esther loudly sang along when the Danny started to sing "Grease Lightning". Ahsoka laughed. She had never seen that happen either. She turned to Aidan, who rolled his eyes in exaggeration.

"Don't you feel like singing?" She asked him with a grin.

His piercing blue eyes darted to hers and they narrowed a bit.
"I don't think so," he said. "And you? Don't you want to prove that you're able to sing?"

"Hmm, no. I'm quite sure that I can't sing. Moreover, I don't know the text." And she wasn't unhappy with that.

"Oh, but that's no problem," Aidan grinned as he reached forward and then threw something at her.

Ahsoka looked at the thin booklet. Damn, it contained the lyrics of all the songs from the movie.

She sent Aidan a sour look, making his grin even wider.

"Well okay then, I'll sing," she said. "But only if you join me."

The grin immediately disappeared from Aidan's face and Ahsoka heard the laughter behind her.

Dawn laughed like her life depended on it and she said with tears in her eyes: "Aidan…singing? That's the best joke I've ever heard."

Aidan ignored her comment and looked defiantly at Ahsoka. "Fine," he said."

Ahsoka was a little surprised that he had agreed with it…and also a bit annoyed…because now she had to sing too. And that wasn't what she wanted in the least.

The film was nearing its end and the song "You're the one that I want" began.

Aidan began with the piece that Danny sung and Ahsoka was surprised about how clear and powerful his voice was. Before she knew it very well she sang with him…and it seemed as if their voices perfectly fitted each other. As if there could be not better pair.

Ahsoka had once sang a song to herself, but she had never have to do it before others. Songs didn't fit in times of war...and they didn't belong with the Jedi ways either.

But here she was free to sing and she found that she quite liked it. Maybe it was the intention of the Force to show her a whole different side of life. Perhaps even a better side…

So what did you think of it? Did you see it coming? I mean…can you imagine Dawn as a Jedi?
Please, let me know. I'm curious to know what your thoughts were when you read it.
Anyway…I'll try to update soon, but it can take a bit longer, because I have lots of work for school and I still have another story which I haven't finished yet…
Thanks for reading and may the force be with you all!