I made Leah's droid BB-8 because I really like that him and he is sooo cute.

Chapter 25

Laetitia had finished her Starfighter and her droid. She named her fighter Comet and her droid BB-8. He had a sphere and a half sphere on it as a head. The background color was white but there were some orange parts. He was exactly how Leah wanted him to be. One of a kind and made for her. He also had a personality similar to R2.

Anakin and Laetitia had a mission on Florrum. Apparently, the separatists were interested in the planet, which was no surprise. Florrum was a sulfurous desert planet in the Outer Rim territories. In some ways, it reminded Leah of Tatooine. She had only gone there once and decided to never set foot on it again. She might not have been born but that is where her father touched the dark side of the Force for the first time and killed the Tusken Raider village when her grandmother, Shmi, died.

Florrum was the perfect planet for criminals. Which made sense since every criminal in the Outer Rim was hiding there. Besides, it was the base of the pirates. The person they were meeting was Hondo Ohnaka, the chief of the pirates.

"Skywalker! Always a pleasure."

"Hondo." Anakin said. He never liked the pirates but Hondo was someone you could bare to work with. Of course he would betray you in a heartbeat if he was offered more credits but at least he had conscience. Well, as much as a pirate can have conscience.

"Little girl, it was nice to meet you. It is a shame that a young one like you has to fight in a war like that." Hondo said to Laetitia as he turned away from them.

Leah couldn't come up with something to say that showed her disagreement because she did agree with him. Yes, she liked excitement and saw the danger as fun but she was still a 4-year-old kid. And yet, she was fighting a war. She never got to act like a child, even though she still was.

She sighed and followed her father but something stopped her. She turned around and immediately recognized what had. It was the same boy outside the Temple, who disappeared. She had told Anakin about it but he didn't think it was anything important. Laetitia was a famous child in the whole galaxy.

She was looking at him in the eyes. She thought that he was gonna run again but he didn't. Not in the way Leah had thought. He just slowly walked away.

"Laetitia!"

Anakin's voice brought her back to the reality.

"Focus, Leah. We are needed somewhere else."

She still didn't move.

"You coming?"

Rex took a step closer. "Are you alright, kid?"

"Yeah. I'm fine. I just …" she paused when everyone was looking at her. "I'm sorry, I'll be back in a second." She said as she ran away to find the boy. She had to. She couldn't shake the feeling that there was something wrong with him.

"Laetitia!" Anakin yelled after her but that didn't stop her.

Thexan knew what he had to do. His master, Darth Sidious, had told him.

'Just let your presence be known by her once and the next time, she will come after you. It is in her nature. She cannot resist to find out what is going on if she sees you following her.'

He didn't understand why he had to hurt an innocent girl. His order was to hurt her enough so she couldn't move for a while. His master suggested that she lost a limb, preferably a leg, so she couldn't walk.

If it was his twin brother, Arcann, he would do it in a heartbeat, if it meant pleasing their master. But from the second he saw Laetitia, he was starting to doubt everything he knew. She had anger inside of her, like him, but her Force signature was so light that actually made him feel good.

"Why are you following me?"

He turned around. He saw a 4-year-old girl trying to put on a brave face. She had activated her dual blue lightsabers and was ready to attack.

"Let me guess. You're one of Hideous' lackeys, sent here to kill me?"

Thexan didn't say anything. He was still processing the fact that his master had been called 'Hideous' and not 'Sidious'. She definitely was fearless.

"What, he was too afraid to come do it himself?"

Still no answer.

"Okay, are you mute? Every guy he's sent had the ability to speak. Is he that desperate now that he turned to mutes?"

"You talk too much."

"Oh so he can talk. Now that I know, what are you doing here?"

He just looked at her. She was getting annoyed.

"Great. Silent treatment again." She muttered. "If you're not gonna do anything, I'm gonna go now."

He suddenly activated his red lightsaber and was going to strike her down from the behind but she was fast enough to activate hers and block the attack.

"Didn't your master ever teach you it's not right to stab someone in the back? Oh I forgot. I am taking about a Sith lord here."

Thexan just looked at her. He had seen a lot of things and had killed so many people, even though he was 8, but he had never seen this. At first, he had thought that she was only trying to put on a brave face, but now he was sure that she was crazily fearless. Either that or she had a death wish.

Laetitia had fought a lot of people in her life before and was considered a powerful Jedi, but something was different this time. She could disarm him if she wanted to but she wasn't sure that she did. Yes, he was a dark-side user but she could feel that it wasn't his first choice. He didn't want to do this, or be here, for that matter.

The sound of lightsabers hissing could be heard. They were facing each other now. He was supposed to cut a limb but he couldn't do that. Two big brown eyes staring at him stopped him to.

Laetitia was distracted when she saw the boy in front of her was crying. What is happening here?

Thexan came back to reality and decided to leave it. Whatever punishment Sidious was planning for him was worth it if he didn't hurt her. Their blocked lightsabers' connection was broken when Thexan pulled his lightsaber to his belt. But something else happened. He heard Laetitia let out a scream and fell to the ground.

He went by her side and saw that her face was covered in blood.

Done :)