Chapter 19

Anakin had Ahsoka not long after she had contacted Laetitia. She had been expelled from the Jedi order and was no longer a Padawan. The Jedi turned their backs on her. Master Yoda, Windu, Koon and even Obi-wan. That's what hurt the most. That the people Ahsoka had counted as friends and family were the ones who betrayed and hurt her the most. But then again, betrayals hurt because they only count as 'betrayal' when it's from the people we love.

Laetitia decided to go to the prison cell, where Ahsoka was. She had already lost her friends, she could use someone by her side.

On the way, she saw her father in a black cloak in disguise. He didn't look so good.

"Where are you going looking like that?" Laetitia asked her dad.

"To get to the bottom of this. This is all Ventress' fault. So I'm gonna find her and turn her in."

Anakin was angry. You didn't need to hear his voice to know that. Just one glimpse of the look on his face and you would run away from him as far as possible, as fast as you could.

"Master. Master! Dad!" She yelled whispery but Anakin didn't turn back.

In the prison cell

Laetitia entered the cell to find Ahsoka with her mother, Padme. Anakin had asked her to represent Ahsoka in her trial in the senate.

"Hi, mom."

Padme acknowledged her daughter and left her alone with her friend.

"You're the worst fugitive in the world, you know that? I mean, you couldn't even run for a day and get caught."

Laetitia was trying to make Ahsoka cheer up when she's falsely accused of murder. It worked.

"I'm sorry. Remind me to take some lessons about running if I make it out of here alive."

"You mean when you make it out of here alive. Master Skywalker is right now trying to find Ventress and …" She stopped when she mentioned Ventress' name.

"Ahsoka, what happened out there? I thought Ventress was helping you."

Ahsoka laughed bitterly "So did I but, once again, you were right. She couldn't be trusted."

"Once again? So I was right the other times as well." Laetitia said with a smirk.

Ahsoka smiled but continued "We had an argument. I thought she left but she came back after a few minutes and attacked me. "

"Are you sure it was her?"

"Her face was covered but the lightsabers were hers. I know it. Her fighting style showed that she had practiced the dark side of the Force too."

Laetitia let out a groan because she couldn't understand any of this. Why would Ventress help Ahsoka and just attack her again? So does that mean Ventress was the one who killed Letta?

Padme entered the room "Ahsoka, Leah. It's time."

The council had ordered Laetitia to go get Ahsoka for a meeting. If it hadn't been for Anakin, who found out Barriss Offee was actually behind all of this, Ahsoka would be dead and it was all the council's fault. They abandoned one of their own because they didn't want the senate to get the wrong idea.

Leah found Ahsoka in her and Anakin's room. She was sitting on her bed and looked to be in deep thought.

"Penny for your thought?"

Ahsoka turned her head up "It wouldn't be worth it. It's nothing important, anyway."

Laetitia sat next to her "The council has requested your presence. They probably want to beg you to come back."

Ahsoka didn't say anything and just looked away. She was clearly hurt. By the Jedi's abandonment and Barriss' betrayal.

"You are coming back, right?"

"Leah …"

"Right?!"

"I'm sorry."

Sorry? "So you're just gonna go? Leave?! Do the exact same thing the Jedi did?"

"The council didn't trust me and turned their backs on me as soon as there was any suspicion about my loyalty. I can't trust them. Not after what they did."

Laetitia couldn't believe what she was hearing. Ahsoka was leaving her. But she can't do that. She's her best friend, her sister.

"Me and master Skywalker believed you. Doesn't that count?" Laetitia asked with clear hurt in her voice. She couldn't see clearly because of the tears in her eyes.

Ahsoka was crying too. She wiped the tears off of Leah's face and pulled her into a hug.

"It means more than you know. I wouldn't have been able to live through the trials if you didn't believe in me. But I don't have a choice. I don't wanna leave but I can't stay here either."

Laetitia sobbed in Ahsoka's arms. She was really leaving. Then she suddenly remembered something. What she always wanted to tell her best friend.

She pulled away from her arm and looked at her "Can I tell you something? I mean, I don't think there is any harm in knowing now that you're leaving."

"What is it?"

Laetitia took a deep breath. How she supposed to start?

"You know my background story, right? I mean, the only blood family that I have is my mom …"

"Yeah."

"… As far as the Jedi know."

Ahsoka frowned. "What do you …?"

"I do have a father. The best one in the world I might add." She said trying to smile and use her cute eyes to make things less awkward.

Ahsoka's eyes bulged out of her skull. But then again she already knew that, deep down.

"I knew it. I knew it! You are practically Anakin's female, and cuter just to say, version. Of course Anakin is your father!"

"Shh. You might wanna keep that down …" Then Leah suddenly realized she didn't say a name.

"What …? How do you …? How did you …?"

"Please. You two are so alike." Ahsoka said with a smile "You take care of him while I'm gone, okay?"

Laetitia didn't say anything and just hugged her sister for the last time.

"May the Force be with you. We will meet again. I know that."

Ahsoka tried so hard not to cry "I'll hold you onto that."

And they went to the council room.

Done :)

Sorry if this chapter was a little emotional. Ahsoka leaving was the saddest event in the clone wars series. But it's not over yet. In the next chapter Leah finally finds something in the video and goes to meet someone. I'll give you a hint. He's one of the people 'we love to hate'. I know I do.

;)