CHAPTER 20

While he could tell that Terrian wanted to have a go at him for what he had said in the kitchen thankfully all the other teen did was glare at him over their sister's heads.

An hour had gone by since they were brought to the room and both girls had fallen asleep. Finally Terrian broke the silence, "How could you say that in front of mum? After all she has done for you since you were dumped on our doorstep."

"Terrian you have never been in a hostage situation, and that is what this is," he added when Terrian gave him an incredulous look, "Right now everything I do is going to be to get us out of here alive and preferably unharmed."

"But what does hurting mum have to do with that."

"I was trying to save Sandra. You have no idea what could happen to her out there, I would much prefer that she was in here and I was out there. But Xanatos is smart, he knows that any information I hear about their plan I will use against them. They see Sandra as an easy target who is mature enough to know when to keep her mouth shut. Xanatos is a gentleman he won't hurt her unnecessarily, however the other men might. Now go to sleep, we need to keep our strength up if we are going to survive this. Hold onto Bella tightly and do not allow anyone to take her from you."

Terrian still looked unhappy but did as he was told and closed his eyes to sleep, his arms looped around Bella.

Ben tried to move himself into the most comfortable position he could with out waking the others, but quickly gave up and resolutely settled down for an uncomfortable night.

"Get up!" the order was punctured by a jerk of the bed as the man kicked it. Obi-wan pushed aside his tiredness and sat up pulling Asha with him, gently waking her with a whisper and a light squeeze. He could see out of the corner of his eye that Terrian was doing something similar with Bella. Ben knew that Asha was definitely awake when her hands suddenly gripped his shirt as tightly as she could, fearing the large men and what they might do. Ben gently reassured her but kept most of his attention on Xanatos' cronies.

"Up!" the man repeated sounding annoyed and impatient.

Obi-wan slowly moved his legs over the side of the bed pulling his sister with him. He was very careful about putting too much weight on his legs, the after effects of the electro-jabber along with the extra weight of the baby and Asha hanging off of his arm weren't the best combination but he refused to show the men any weakness. Never the less they saw the difficulty he was having and jerked the bed again almost unbalancing him and laughing at the effect it had on the siblings. Terrian growled at them but wisely said nothing instead keeping his attention on protection Bella, as Obi-wan had suspected Terrian was surviving the situation better with a goal, in this case keeping his sisters safe from harm.

"Get movin'," one of the men grabbed hold of Terrian and Bella and the other held Ben and Asha, forcing them towards the door not caring as the two girls stumbled to keep up. They were pulled out of the room to the kitchen where their parents were already waiting, Sara lurched forward in her seat trying to get to her children but one of the men already had a hand on her shoulder waiting for her to do just that. Obi-wan looked around the room for Sandra and found her crouched in the corner as she had been the night before, he tried to catch her eye but she kept her gaze to the ground, even so he could still see the deep bruise that now marred on side of her face. Bant and Garen were nowhere to be seen and it didn't look like they would be joining them, all of Xanatos' men were in the room and they didn't leave to fetch the other two, although Obi-wan wasn't surprised, the rest of the family would be happy just seeing each other and Xanatos knew that he wouldn't do anything while the other two were still locked up and most likely drugged into oblivion.

Ben allowed himself to be pushed into a chair, in his head he mapped out the room and where everyone stood. The man who had brought him into the room stood nearby holding his weapon in clear view but simple glared at Ben as he passed Asha over to her mother, who hugged the girl tightly, Terrian however kept Bella closely tucked under his arm, refusing to release her for anyone or anything.

Obi-wan passively watched the guard without any emotion, but when the man's eyes shifted down he then allowed a hand to move to cover his belly. The man sneered at the weakness and turned away for a moment, exchanging a look with the other guards, informing them that he had gotten a reaction out of the Jedi reject. When he turned back Obi-wan was gone. The guard panicked, searching the room for the stray teen. It took a minute but he found him on the other side of the room with his arms around his eldest sister.

Sandra had instantly turned into his embrace when Gen had landed nest to her, recognising her brother as a safe presence after a night with only their captures for company.

When the guard found Ben he crossed the room with the intent to return him to his previous position and harm him for moving in the first place. Defying his orders he aimed for the weakness he had found moments before. Seeing this Ben let his instincts take over and lashed out, kicking the weapon as it got close, calling it to his hand he flipped it to full power and got the man in the thigh. The other guards ran over to help their friend and Ben only got one other down before the others grabbed him, although he didn't stop struggling, which made it difficult for them to try to control him and not trip over their paralysed companions on the floor.

They dragged him out to the lounge where Xanatos was standing by one of the windows talking into a comm. He signed of immediately without another word when they entered the room.

"Don't think I didn't feel that, Obi-wan. I've warned you repeatedly about using the force but you won't listen so I will have to use a different approach. Calsun," the man on Obi-wan's right straightened slightly, "turn the heating up in the Jedi's room, I would like to know if Mon Calamari can last as long in high temperatures as they do without oxygen."

"NO! You'll kill her!"

Calsun smirked at him and left the room.

"Now as for you," Xanatos continued ignoring his protests and turning to the guard now holding Ben, "Make sure he isn't going anywhere soon." He started into the kitchen but called back, "and make sure it's longer lasting this time."

Obi-wan saw the man nod out of the corner of his eye before something crashed down on his leg. There was a sharp crack and then nothing.

A/N Hey everyone I am really sorry that I am taking so long to update this, I keep meaning to update but every time I try to write it I get stuck, the plot is being mean to me Pout Anyway, I have finished High School and I am now in uni which means shorter hours but sadly more work so I don't know when I will update next, my plan to finish this before Xmas has obviously fail big time. However I am not giving up, I am going to finish this fic if it kills me.

Now on a different note I have another vote, this time however I am not going to give a reason for the vote, it could be good or bad, just give me a name, any name, well from this list anyway.

1. Tom (Obi's Dad)
2. Sandra
3. Bella

Let me know which.

I will try to update soon, I do have an hour of travelling each way to uni so I will try to write then, if I've done all my reading that is :(

Lov
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