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This is written in first person point of view of Meagan unless otherwise noted.

From Earth to Star Wars

Part Two: Is now Post TPM by about seven years. (Anakin is somewhere over sixteen.) Meagan has been back for about three plus years now.

Meagan comes back to Star Wars and meets up with now Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker. Follows the movies, but is an AU. (Caution.) Ours does have a bit of a twist to it. Several weeks have passed by since the emotional night of Meagan slapping Obi-Wan and they have come a long way in healing their relationship. In fact, things seem to be going well again until......................

Chapter Forty Three,

Obi-Wan's point of view

I watched as Sasha tugged her teddy bear close, her small hands clutching it to her chest. I couldn't help, but lean down to brush away the few stray hairs that fell across her cheek. She looked so peaceful, so precious, so much like her mother. My heart suddenly ached at the thought I might not have been around to see her grow up.

Noticing I was still standing there, Sasha lifted up her free arm, wanting to be picked up. Knowing she really needed to be getting some sleep, I resisted. But it only lasted a few seconds before I leaned down, picking her up, bear and all.

Cradling her close, I sat down in the rocking chair. "Daddy will hold you for a few minutes. Then you'll go back to bed."

Sasha giggled, wiggling in my arms. Twisting, she stood up and patted my cheek, the bear falling to the floor, forgotten. "Good going Kenobi that was just a ploy so she wouldn't have to go to sleep."

As if hearing my thoughts, she giggled again, jumping on my lap. Sighing, I turned her, sitting her back down. To distract her from her obvious protest, I reached out with the Force, holding a bottle in front of her. Sasha watched with wide eyes as it floated in the air. There was no better distraction to her than using the Force.

Sasha giggled again before grabbing her bottle and started sucking on it. Rocking back and forth, she actually cuddled against me, her eyes slowly beginning to drop as she drank the bottle. She fought it, but it wasn't that much longer when the bottle slipped from her hands as she finally drifted off.

Not being able to put her back in the crib, I looked at her in amazement. I easily remembered how little she was the first time I held her and how much she was growing and changing. And I could only hope I would be around when she started walking.

"Obi-Wan." Meagan's voice was quiet when she spoke from the doorway. "Is she asleep?"

I nodded. "I just couldn't put her in the crib."

She smiled as she bent down to pick up a few toys, then the discarded bottle.

Sighing, I finally rose and gently placed Sasha in her crib. She didn't even stir as I adjusted the blanket around her.

"Let her sleep." Meagan gently pulled me from the room and I reluctantly followed.

"Do you want some tea?" Meagan asked me as we settled into the living room a few minutes later.

"That sounds good." I told her as I picked up a data pad. I was still trying to catch up on the latest news while I was out of commission.

Several minutes later, while still reading, Meagan came into the room, carrying two steaming cups of tea. After finishing an article, I set it down and took the mug from her outstretched hand. "Thanks."

She smiled gently, sitting down next to me. "You're quite welcome."

We drank our tea, mostly in silence. I marveled at the comfortable silence around us. Two weeks ago the air would have been thick with tension, but we had come a long way since the night Meagan slapped me.

Both of us still had lingering nightmares about the mission and the aftermath. But since we agreed we wanted to work through this, we often, even in the middle of the night, talked about our thoughts and feelings, growing closer together in the process. Oh, our relationship wasn't what it was before, but it wouldn't be long before it was. And I knew it would only become stronger over time.

Breaking my thoughts away, I glanced down at Meagan, who was staring thoughtfully into her empty tea cup. A surge of protectiveness ran through me. What she had been through. "Honey, I'm sorry."

She glanced up, surprised. "For what?"

"For everything I'd put you through. It wasn't fair and I still feel guilty about it."

She shook her head. "I'm the one that should feel guilty. I knew you were in trouble. I could have done something about it. And I should have known you weren't really dead and shouldn't have left you in that hell hole."

"Meagan." I stopped short, trying to find the right words. We'd been through this before. "There was nothing you or anyone else could have done and I don't think I could have done anything differently that would have saved my life."

"Then how come we're both still feeling so guilty?"

I put down my cup, then reached an arm around her, pulling my wife close. "Human nature, I guess. It will pass as we heal."

I could feel her nod against my chest. "I'm just so relieved that you're nearly back to normal."

"Me too." I couldn't help but smirk. "And then I won't have to go down the Healer's for therapy anymore."

She playfully slapped my chest. "Obi-Wan."

I shrugged a shoulder. "What?"

She studied me for a moment or two before shaking her head, but wisely letting the subject drop.

It was several minutes later that she spoke into the quiet. "Obi-Wan?"

"Hmm?"

"Promise me one thing."

"And what's that?" I pulled back and looked into her eyes.

"Promise me that you won't ever do that again. That you won't ever leave me alone."

I held in a sigh as I briefly thought about it. It wasn't something I would want to do, but in the coming darkness where Master Yoda didn't even know what the future held and I could certainly be killed on any mission that we were on. But as I gazed into her teary green eyes, I found myself saying. "I promise."

She sighed in utter relief and snuggled back into my arms. For now I knew it was the right answer to give her.

"I'm almost getting better than you." Anakin smirked as we spared one day. The Healer's had given me a go ahead on a normal schedule and it felt so good to have my lightsaber in my hands again.

"Only because I'm a bit out of practice."

Parry, parry, slash, slash.

"Excuses, excuses." He taunted as we circled around each other. "You're just jealous that I'm going to beat you."

I cockeyed one eyebrow, trying to decided what his next move was going to be. "And what makes you think that?"

His only answer was with a burst of youthful energy, quickly advancing on me. He was so fast and furious that I barely managed to block his repeated shots.

As the spar continued, I knew Anakin had me bested with pure Force talent, energy and youthful exuberance, but he hadn't managed to master thinking his way through a battle. And when I saw him make a mistake, I took advantage of it and Anakin's saber flew out of his hands.

"How did you do that?" He asked as I leveled my weapon towards his chest.

"Because my young apprentice that is how you think about your battle. And quick thinking can make the difference between life and death, whether it's yours or someone else's."

Anakin nodded, admitting defeat.

"How's your school work coming?" I asked him as we walked through the Temple corridors after a cool down and a brief discussion about the spar.

He shrugged. "Alright I guess. I feel like I'll be playing catch up till I'm knighted."

"Do you need my help?" I asked him, growing concerned.

Another shrug. "Sometimes I just don't know where to start. It can be rather overwhelming."

I stopped walking to look at him and immediately noticed how tall he was getting. He was about as tall as I was and would easily grow taller when he had another growth spurt. "Maybe we can work something out. I'll see what I can do since this is mostly my fault. I should have been helping you more."

"Master, this isn't your fault. You've been recovering and with everything else my school work has been secondary."

I agreed with his statements. "Well now that I'm back, and so forth, we should be able to get you caught up somehow. We can start going over things after dinner. I think Meagan's got something cooking."

He grinned. "And miss the cafeteria?"

I couldn't help but chuckle at his response.

The next several weeks passed by without too much trouble. Considering that I'd been dead for a few weeks, we were able to work out a catch up plan where Anakin wouldn't be doing it till knighthood as he put it. So, we worked together and took study breaks so we could spar. He needed to clear his mind and I needed the workouts.

On another note, Sasha was more than delighted to have me around a lot more than I'd been before and often got me to play hide and go seek with her. She really seemed to like the game and it enabled her to use the Force in ways she hadn't before. There was no doubt in my mind that Sasha would make a very gifted Jedi one day. I could only hope that I could teach her the ways of the Force so she could get there eventually.

Sighing, not being able to mediate any longer, I opened my eyes and saw the subject of my thoughts crawling towards me. I held out an arm as Sasha, with a little help, pulled herself up into a standing position.

"Good girl." I praised her as she clung to my arm for long moments before sitting back down. "You're getting much better at that and you'll be doing it on your own soon enough."

At over ten months, she was getting much closer to walking, but still being a bit small for her age, had a bit of growing to do before that happened. Determination glazed in her eyes and it gave me quite a startle at how much of myself I could see in her at times. And I still wasn't quite sure what to make about it.

Sasha's hands pulling on my arms immediately broke me from my thoughts. I reached out to tickle her, but she saw it coming and quickly scooted away. She crawled around me and looked back carefully. Turning to catch her, she dashed back around the other way.

This cat and mouse game went on for several minutes before I caught her and pulled her close, covering her face with kisses. "Daddy loves you so much." Tickling her sides, the room exploded with her childish laughter.

Meagan stood several feet away, leaning against the wall, smiling. "Well, now that you lost your masculinity, do you want something for breakfast?"

I stood up, still holding Sasha. "I have not lost anything woman, and yes I would like something to eat."

"Mph." Was her only spoken answer as I leaned closer to her, giving her a good morning kiss.

She merely smiled again before heading into the kitchen.

It was only a few days later that Anakin suggested that we get out for a bit. So Meagan packed us a picnic lunch and off we went to a nearby park. The same park that Meagan and I celebrated her birthday all those years ago, the same park where I asked her to marry me.

Glancing over to her as we walked into it, I could tell she was remembering too.

"Would you do it again?" I whispered into her ear.

She turned to smile into my eyes. "With all of my heart."

Not being able to resist, despite being in public, I pulled Meagan close and kissed her deeply.

"Excuse me." Anakin's voice broke the kiss apart. "Padawan and offspring present."

He stood a few feet away, holding Sasha in his arms.

Meanwhile Meagan stepped out of my arms and picked up the picnic basket. "Why don't we go ahead and eat? I'm famished."

Thankful for her distraction, we did just that.

After eating, we walked around the park, pushed Sasha on the swings and helped her down the slides. I couldn't remember when I felt so relaxed, so content just to spend some time with three very special people.

"Maybe we should get on back." Meagan mused after we'd been there for a couple hours.

I opened my eyes, noticing how the sun made her hair sparkle. Though I also noticed her voice was quiet and kept mine at the same level. "What was that?"

"Both our daughter and Anakin are asleep." She nodded her head toward the tree where my Padawan was leaned up against, his long legs stretched out in front of him. Sasha was curled up on his middle.

I didn't really want to wake them, but Meagan was right and it was starting to get late. Rising from my position, while my wife began folding the blanket, I nudged Anakin by his feet.

"Yes Master?" His voice was quiet as not to wake the baby.

"We're going."

He slowly started to get up, but when the Force began warning us of coming danger, he moved quickly.

Sasha woke up crying as I turned to Meagan. My lightsaber was already in my hands. "Get the baby and stay low."

Without questioning my orders, with the roar of coming speeders, she quickly took Sasha and ducked. Anakin and I nearly stood back to back, covering them as best as we could.

Within seconds, two speeder bikes came by us, firing shots as they went. Our lightsabers were a blur, not letting them get near the other two.

"Where can they go?" Anakin yelled over the noise as the speeder began to loop around for another pass.

Quickly glancing, there was no time to hide them anywhere. "They are better off here anyway."

Anakin nodded, already blocking more shots. While trying to think of a way to defend Meagan and Sasha and attack the hoodlums at the same time, I saw two running figures coming towards us. The two quickly materialized into two Jedi, with ignited sabers.

Within seconds of their arrival, the speeders flew off into traffic and disappeared from view. I knelt down and helped Meagan up. "You alright?"

She nodded, but it was obvious she was quite shook up. I pulled her close, cradling her and Sasha close for a moment or two before pulling away.

"Obi-Wan." She protested.

"We need to get you and Sasha to safety. We don't know what that was about or who it was."

Seeing the logic, we caught a transport back to the Temple. After seeing Meagan and Sasha back to our quarters, Anakin and I joined the other two Jedi and reported everything that had happened to the Council. They said they would look into the matter and not let Meagan leave the Temple until they gave us an all clear sign.

It was close to a week later when the Council called Anakin and me to a meeting. Feeling relieved they that they finally discovered something, I called my Padawan and we made our way to the Council rooms.

"It's about time they discovered who attacked us." Anakin commented. "Does Meagan know we've been summoned?"

I shook my head. "She and Sasha went down to the gardens earlier this morning."

"Did they want Meagan with us for this?"

"Apparently not."

Anakin was about to comment as we reached the reception area outside the main Council room. We, unlike most other times, were immediately sent in.

All twelve Masters were there and they wasted no time in telling us what they had discovered. And it wasn't good. The nightmare that we thought was over was back.

Caddock had not only recently escaped from prison, but put a bounty on Sasha's head.

The room went deadly silent and I felt like someone had kicked me in the stomach, hard. He couldn't have thought of a better way to get revenge. Nothing could have hurt me more than him taking my baby girl from me. And I had a feeling it was more than that. He wasn't out to kill her, the bounty wanted her alive. Caddock wanted to raise her as a pirate, to raise her up to use her powers for his own prestige and power, to teach her in the darkness.

NO!!!!! Sasha's face floated before my eyes. Caddock wouldn't lay a finger on my baby girl unless it was over my dead body. He was not going to take her from me. The surge of protectiveness and strong anger raced through me as I desperately tried to maintain my composer.

Besides me Anakin was also trying to contain himself, but it was short lived as he blurted out. "Why doesn't that damn pirate leave us the hell alone?"

"Calm young one." Master Windu held up his hands. "He obviously learned that Obi-Wan is alive and wants revenge for taking him and his ring down." He paused for long moments, allowing Anakin and I to try to calm down, somewhat at least. "Lashing out in anger is not going help matters, it will only give Caddock what he wants. For now, we have our sources tracking down Caddock and will send more Jedi teams out when we receive that information."

"But what about Meagan and Sasha?" I finally managed to find my voice.

"Stay close to them you will. Safe in the Temple they will be." Master Yoda spoke for the first time. His ears were down and I could feel how upset and concerned he was about this. "Need you two of sound mind, Meagan will."

Anakin and I glanced at each other, well knowing he was right as the older Master continued. "Mediate you two must before seeing your wife."

Acknowledging his wisdom, Anakin and I were dismissed and we left the Council rooms.

After leaving the Council rooms, Anakin and I made our way down to some of the meditation rooms, where we could talk and mediate without being interrupted. As the door slid shut behind us, Anakin turned to me, his eyes blazing.

"How can you be so calm, so quiet about this? You're acting like you don't care."

I raised an eyebrow before taking a slow step towards him and looked straight into his eyes. "You think I'm calm about this? You think I want that pirate, the same one that wanted to rape my wife, that nearly killed me, to come after my own daughter?" I paused as Anakin took a step back as I reached into the Force, trying to sort through my emotions concerning this sudden upheaval in our lives. "Nothing would give me more pleasure than to give that pirate what he deserves.."

"Then what are we waiting for?" He looked ready to spring.

"Because the Masters were right. We'd be playing right into Caddock's hands and that is not the way, as Jedi, that we should respond to this. And after everything Meagan has been through, she will certainly need both of us."

Anakin began to pace around the room. "Then what are we going to do?"

Sighing, I leaned against the wall. "For now, both us need to at least, somewhat come to terms with this. Then, we'll tell Meagan. She'd hear about it someway and I'd like it to be from us."

He looked at me skeptically. "That won't be easy."

I nodded as I sat down, the anger still strong, the desire to protect those I loved the most, nearly consuming. "I know it won't. Sit down Anakin."

He was about to protest, but did as I said only after I gave him a look. "How are we going to get through this?"

I reached into the Force, taking comfort from the waves that went through me. "I don't rightly know Padawan. But whatever happens, we will get through it together, all four of us."

AN: Another chapter is finally out and how is Meagan going to react when they tell her that the man who nearly killed her husband wants her daughter? Are Obi-Wan and Anakin ever going to get permission to go after Caddock themselves.......you'll just have to wait and find out.......

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