Chapter 7

Author's Notes: This is mostly hurt/comfort.

Reply to Guest: The Old Republic namedrops are Revan, The Exile/Meetra Surik, Malachor, Darth Nyriss, and Mass Shadow Generator.

Sorry about the update delay. I had tech issues.

After Leia is sleeping, Darth Saph walks into the cell and picks up Leia, blankets and all, cradling her small body in her arms. She walks down the hallways to the cellblock where she's keeping Anakin and uses the force to hide the fact that she's carrying Leia and some stuff for Anakin and his daughter. She opens the door and lets the force field down, then gently lowers Leia down and closes the door. She gently pushes Anakin to the far wall and uses the force to keep his head from hitting the wall hard, as well as uses the force to keep him loosely held in place without hurting him. She then opens the box and grabs the sleeping bag and blankets with the force and gently puts the still sleeping Leia inside, with some blankets. She also dims the lights. By this point, Anakin has realized that Leia is still alive. She then lets Anakin out of her gentle force hold and uses the Force to drape a blanket over him and tuck a pillow behind his head. He relaxes slightly and moves to where he can drape an arm over the sleeping figure of his daughter.

"Skyguy, I sensed a Jedi while I was talking to the Emperor earlier today. I sensed they were on Malachor, and found Leia trying to steal the Sith holocron by herself. I'm not sure if you want to encourage her to do that, as she's only 15.", she says quietly.

"My daughter was on Malachor? By herself? I admire her trying, but she needs to learn about letting someone like Obi-Wan go to worlds that strong in the Dark side. At the very least, she needs to go with another Jedi that's an adult. I'm actually less upset at you now, then I am at her." Anakin didn't think that Leia would ever go there. To be honest, it's probably lucky that Darth Saph found her, instead of an Emperor's Hand. A Hand would have killed her, at least Darth Saph seems to be gentler.

"Really?"

"She ran off solo to a world that was known as a wound in the force. Why wouldn't I be upset?"

"Yes. She needs to get some rest. I had to use force lightning to knock her out, to speed things up, but I've been working on lowering the intensity so it will just knock someone out, not kill. I've been trying to force heal her, but I need to also force heal myself, to get ready to deal with Palpatine. If I'm lucky, I'll get around six weeks of leave to go to my castle on Vjun. I'm planning on bringing you along to protect you, as well as training to get ready. Is it okay with you if I teach your daughter how to at least dissipate force lightning better, as well as a few things she needs to work on? It will give her a better chance of survival should she be discovered by a Hand. It's your choice, so if you say no, that okay."

"Don't hurt her, please. Train her without hurting her."

"I wasn't planning on harming her." Leia then wakes up and opens her brown eyes. Seeing Darth Saph, her face transforms from her peaceful expression it was, just moments ago, to a mask of fear.

Darth Saph looks at Leia, with her blue eyes, and tries to give Leia a sleep suggestion without hurting her. Leia resists the sleep suggestion, her mental shielding still as strong as a Nubian diamond, one of the strongest gems of the galaxy. Then, Ahsoka reopens a bond that had been closed off on both ends since the rise of the empire. Her bond with Anakin.

Skyguy, please get her to just take the sleep suggestion, if only for a half hour.

Whoa, our bond... it's back... Ahsoka. I hope you don't mind me calling you that.

You can call me Ahsoka now. I had to reopen it, so Leia doesn't know we are teaming up to make sure she recovers.

I'll try holding her and try something that might help, 'soka. Leia sees the two acting like they are communicating over a Force bond, but her father would never team up with a Sith. Not even if said Sith was his former apprentice. So then, why was he? Leia knew better then to ask questions that might put her life at risk.

Anakin finally speaks, "Leia, just let Darth Saph put you to sleep."

"Huh, why would I want to not resist a kriffing Sith Lady?"

Ahsoka jumps in, "Language, Leia! I'm not fully Sith, little one."

Anakin says, "Language, Leia! Just do it, alright. She'll be less likely to hurt you."

Leia mouths a "Sorry." and appears to relax a tiny amount, but still tries to scoot over away from Darth Saph.

Ahsoka jumps in, "I'm just going to try to make your arm hurt less. When you are shielding, I have to use more power for the same result, and I need to save enough power to heal myself from what Palpatine has been doing lately to me."

"Alright. Dad, wake me as soon as she's done. Try not to let her hurt me." Leia crawls into her father's arms, wrapping his flesh arm over her chest, to make it so Darth Saph would have a hard time moving them without waking her up.

"Don't worry, Leila, I'll be real gentle.", says Ahsoka. Before Leia can reply, Ahsoka gives Leia a sleep suggestion, without trying to intrude by breaking her shields. Leia falls asleep almost instantly and Ahsoka begins using the force (and KT-2) to heal Leia. When she's done with the force healing, she grabs a purple crystal out of her pocket and hands it to Anakin.

"It's a healing crystal. Should make both of you feel better."

"Thanks, Snips."

"I'm just going to braid her hair. If she discovers I'm doing it while she's awake, she'll squirm and it will be harder."

"Alright, she can stay sleeping." Ahsoka carefully uses her small hands and the force to detangle Leia's hair and put it in a Nubian style braid that Padme taught her years ago, back when she was still a Jedi. She had found it useful then, as she had to deal with protecting many female senators with hair. This was a good way to help when she wasn't using her Jedi powers to protect. Braid. Braid. Braid. Braid. When she was finished, she put two hair ties in, to keep it in and tucked another pillow behind Anakin's head and neck, and tucked some coverings over Leia. Anakin was starting to fall asleep, with his daughter sleeping peacefully on top of him.

"Good night, Skyguy. Good night, Leia.", she whispers. With that, she left the cell and went back to her quarters.

Author's Note: Who got all the namedrops? So, Ahsoka is gray now. She uses both sides of the force. Leia's braid is a single large French braid to keep all the hair tucked back.