Chapter 23.

Coruscant

POV: Obi wan Kenobi

Senator Amidala, has been admitted to hospital for unknown reasons and her body double had been sent along with Jar Jar to the Senate to run things as normally as possible under the watchful eye of Bail Organa and Mon Mothma. She had requested my visit and after Anakin and Ahsoka's disappearance… the attack on the temple; it wasn't them, whatever it was it had consumed them. It plagues me everyday since, it was them… they've been exposed, changed, tainted by the Dark Side but not completely. Yoda and Mace still haven't returned. I can sense it in the Force, a shift of the unnatural balance that has swallowed the galaxy for years has finally shifted. Shifted away from the Dark Side and for the first time in my life, the connection to the Light Side is the strongest it's ever been. Much darkness still remains but it's fading.

The top floor of the North Coruscanti Hospital was used to treat people in positions of power. All very deprecating if you ask me. It really highlights the differentiation between the upper and lower classes. Most of the Senate if they ever needed treatment would be admitted here, safe from media attention and thing in the Senate would run as if nothing had ever happened.

I activated the door lock and waited for a response, a muffled voice returning my call as the door slid open. I walked in to cast my eyes upon an enlarged Padme, her stomach was noticeably larger than usual, and her face looked different, a weak, exhausted expression on her face. I used to force to float a chair to her bedside and cautiously took a seat.

"Obi wan," she said, a smile pulling at her cheeks and she reached for my hand. I took her hand in my own.

"Thank you for coming," she began, "I wasn't sure who else to turn to".

"I'm glad to be of assistance, Senator," I replied, placing her hand at her side.

"Tell me, what do you know about Anakin and Ahsoka whereabouts?"

"I'm not quite sure I can give you the answers. It's outside of even my own understanding. With their disappearance a valuable artefact of knowledge also went missing," I furrowed my brow, not making eye contact with her.

"You're not implying that they took it, are you?" she said alarmed, trying to sit up, wincing once before laying back down.

I sighed, "I think they've fallen to the dark side… although I'm not entirely sure".

I continued to explain what had happened in the temple and their disappearance from the system. None of the Republic spies had seen them.

She covered her mouth in surprise, tears forming in her eyes. I tore my eyes away from hers as her face contorted into a look of pain and betrayal.

"I know you about you and Anakin. I'm sorry you had to find out about it this way".

Between her tears she reached for my hand again and placed it on her stomach. I felt a nudge, then another… small little bumps tickling the palm of my hand. My eyes went wide, my breath catching in my throat.

"Is she the one?" she said letting go of my hand, new tears falling silently down her face.

"the one who?"

"Ahsoka, is she the one Anakin loves?"

"I'm not su-"

"Don't lie to me Obi wan!"

I stood up moving the chair, making my way to the door, stopping to look back at her.

"I'm sorry, please find him. I can't do this without him".

I nodded my head before taking my leave. She was in no condition to travel, and I have absolutely no idea as to where to even start looking for Anakin. The force however was telling me otherwise. It called to me to embrace it completely to trust it to its' utter entirety even if it meant abandoning the order. All the wrong decisions I could make and it feels so right.

The more I thought about it the more determined I become to find Anakin, my brother and bring him home. To answer all the questions, I have for him. To find closure. As a Jedi we are supposed to find closure in the Force, however, I sense that those days are soon to be over. The Force is foreboding the worse with Padme being pregnant and Anakin the father. How come everything has happened this way? Perhaps this is the hope we have been searching for in the darkness of the Sith. Maybe Padme, the baby, is the key to bring back Anakin. Anakin Skywalker tainted by the dark side, could this bring him back?