Obi-Wan didn't even know what to say. He shouldn't have been surprised. He had expected that she wouldn't take it well but… Even though he had known that it might happen, he hadn't been prepared.

And part of what she said was right. He could have checked in to see how Satine was doing, but he hadn't. He had left with Qui-Gon and not looked back. Yes, he had thought about Satine a lot, and there had been times when he had wished that he could have stayed with her. Or at least that he could see her again.

But he had never done anything about it.

He could probably have convinced Qui-Gon to let him visit her in Mandalore at one point. Master Qui-Gon hadn't been like most Jedi masters and he would have understood if Obi-Wan had explained it, even though he knew that Obi-Wan had feelings for Satine that the Jedi Order wouldn't have approved of.

He still would have eventually allowed him to do so.

But he hadn't, and he didn't know why even. Maybe he had worried if he saw her then he would regret leaving and he wouldn't be able to bring himself to go back to the Jedi Order. Or maybe Satine wouldn't have cared about being around him.

He hadn't thought that she would have been pregnant.

"Satine… I'm…" Obi-Wan said after Bo-Katan had stormed out of the room. She had looked like him or rather like his mother. Obi-Wan might not remember his mother, but he had a few holo-images of her. She had the same red hair and even her eyes were similar to hers. "I apologize, Satine."

"Don't say that, Obi," Satine said with a sigh. "I'll talk to Bo-Katan."

"Do you want me to go with you?" he asked. Even though she had been angry with him, he wanted to see her again. He wanted to make things right with her. She was the only child that he would ever have.

He was lucky to have her despite what the Jedi Order would say. But now he might not even get to know her. If she didn't want that, he couldn't and wouldn't force her to. That wouldn't be right.

"No, that's probably not a good idea," Satine said. "She's… She's going through a lot right now."

"I know," Obi-Wan said. "I should have tried to come back to Mandalore at one point. I should have checked to see how you were doing."

That would have been the right thing to do, even if she hadn't been pregnant. Rebuilding Mandalore after the war wouldn't have been easy. Maybe they couldn't have been in a relationship, but they still could have been friends.

Yes, she could have reached out to him too but still…

"Tell Bo-Katan that I want to get to know her, but I'm willing to wait as long as she needs to. Tell her that I care about her." He looked at Satine. "I never thought that I would have a child. She's… She's beautiful, Satine. She's perfect."

And he did think that, even though she didn't like him. He couldn't blame her for that.

"I imagine your Jedi Order won't be happy if they find out that she exists," Satine said.

Obi-Wan wished that he could have said something about that not being true, but of course it was. At least to an extent.

"It'll be fine with them if I don't form attachments," Obi-Wan said, crossing his arms over his chest. "I'm not the first that…"

"Wonderful, so it's fine for you to make children, but you're not expected to be there for them."

"Satine, I didn't know about Bo—"

"Yes, but just in general the Jedi Order is fine with you Jedi having fun. But since you can't "form attachments" you can just not take responsibility for what you do."

Obi-Wan was silent at first. "Jedi should be careful about—"

"Yes, I'm sure you should be careful," she sighed and reached out to him for a moment but then let her hand fall on her side. "I know that you wouldn't have been like that, Obi-Wan."

"I wouldn't have." He would have left the Jedi Order if she would have asked him to, even before he found out that she had been pregnant. He had loved her. There had been times when he had wondered what it would be like living in Mandalore with her.

"I'll talk to Bo-Katan and maybe I can get her to come back out," Satine said. "I think she'll calm down eventually…"

"Eventually?" Obi-Wan asked.

"Bo is very… well, she can hold grudges at times," Satine said. "She's… I don't know where she got it from."

"Mandalorians are like that," Obi-Wan said.

Satine stared at him, but then she nodded. "I'll be back soon. Hopefully with her."

Obi-Wan nodded, but he had a feeling that she wouldn't want to see him again soon. Maybe she would never want to.

*Break*

Bo had made a horrible mistake not going with Pre. She had to get out of here. She couldn't believe that her sister had actually convinced the Jedi to come here. And she couldn't believe that he had the audacity to look hurt when she hadn't been happy about seeing him. Like she would really be happy about seeing some dead-beat Jedi.

Maybe people in the inner rim planets would be happy to find out that they were part Jedi, but that wasn't the Mandalorian way. Jedi were the enemy.

It had been a mistake telling Satine that she wanted to meet him too. She just thought the Jedi would never agree to come and that Satine would be hurt and then would realize that he had just used her all those years ago.

But no, here he was wanting to talk to her. What did he even want from her? Did he think that she was Force Sensitive? No, he couldn't care about that. She was much too old for them to kidnap and have become a Jedi. Satine had probably been smart not to tell Obi-Wan about her. Maybe he would have ratted her existence out to the Jedi Council.

No… Maybe he wouldn't have.

Bo-Katan grabbed some of her bags. She was going to get out of here. Maybe she could still go to Concordia and then she could find out what Pre wanted to show her. It had to be better than being here. He'd probably want to know why she was upset, but she would do her best to hide it. Even if she failed, she wasn't about to tell him.

No way.

She had barely started putting things in the bag when Satine came into the room. She stopped and looked at the bag.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Leaving," Bo said, knowing already how she was going to react to this.

"Leaving? And where do you plan to go, Bo-Katan?"

Bo stopped and looked at her sister. Stars, Bo didn't look that much like her at all. Seeing the Jedi… she probably did look more like him and his side of the family, which she hated. Were there other parts of her that she had gotten from him that she didn't know about? There had to be.

Maybe it would have been better if she never found out about this. Maybe then she could have been happier.

"It doesn't matter," Bo-Katan said.

"Oh, yes it does," Satine said, but she probably just thought that she was going to stay with one of her friends. Satine obviously knew Pre, but that was just because he was the Governor of Concordia. Satine would not approve of Bo-Katan spending this much time with him. She would find it… unsettling and inappropriate.

That just showed how little her sister knew, even if she always thought she was smarter than everyone in the Galaxy. Sometimes Bo didn't think that there was anyone who could get through to her sister. No, she just had to be right always.

Bo glared at her.

"You're not going anywhere right now," Satine said. It was kind of nice that at least now she wasn't tiptoeing around her. She had been weirdly nice to her just because she obviously felt guilty because of how she had lied to Bo-Katan and everyone for all these years. "I know that this is hard for you."

"You don't know at all what it's like," Bo said. "You could never understand something like this. You haven't been lied to your whole life. You're not… part of our enemy."

"Bo-Katan, Obi-Wan isn't your enemy."

"The Jedi are our enemy. All they have done is hurt Mandalore. He probably got you pregnant on purpose in a way to—"

"That is not how it happened. Don't be ridiculous."

Don't be ridiculous? Don't be ridiculous? She wasn't being ridiculous. She had been told about the Jedi her whole life. She knew the kind of people they were. Yes, Satine might have been protected by Obi-Wan during the war, but clearly, he had more plans than just making sure she didn't get killed.

"I bet he was hoping that I would be Force Sensitive and—"

"He hasn't even asked about that," Satine said. "And it hardly matters. Our mother would have never allowed you to be trained as a Jedi. I would have never allowed you to be trained as a Jedi."

Bo smirked and rolled her eyes. "Really? Since it seems like you're pretty close to Jedi."

"I was close with one Jedi. Well two in a way, but Qui-Gon had been like a father to me," Satine said. "But believe it or not, I wouldn't want a relative of mine to be trained as a Jedi either. I don't agree with the Jedi taking away children when they're little and basically brainwashing them."

Bo rolled her eyes. She knew that she was being a brat, but she really didn't care.

"Bo-Katan, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you about this earlier and I'm sorry that you're having a hard time with it."

Yeah, like apologizing was going to change anything. Really maybe it would be better if she didn't exist. Now she had to find a way to prove that she was a good Mandalorian. Bo had never cared about her sister's stupid political views which she had always thought were impossible, but now she felt like she needed to do something to help Mandalore. Way more than just help.

She had always planned to do something for Mandalore.

But now if she didn't was she even a Mandalorian? Or was she just some weird hybrid.? Someone who wasn't truly one. Someone who wasn't anything.

"But you said that you wanted to see Obi-Wan. That you wanted to know who was your father," Satine said. Of course, she had to bring that up.

Bo sighed. "I didn't think that he would actually show up. I thought you could finally feel some of the pain that you caused me. I thought that he…" She scowled and shook her head. She shouldn't be showing this much emotion. It wasn't like her, but she was just… She couldn't stand any of this.

"Well, he did," Satine said. "And you should talk to him. It's not like I'm asking you to—"

"I'm not going to talk to him," Bo-Katan said.

"Well you're not going to go to any of your friend's. Not right now anyway. I understand you being upset. I even understand not being ready to see him,

but I don't think you need to leave," Satine said. Bo had always hated that now she was in charge of her.

Not because she was biologically her mother but because their mother had died a few years back. And now she was stuck with her.

If only she could go somewhere else.

Bo gave her a horrible look. She just couldn't stand anything about her. It had been one thing when they had been sisters and then she could put up with all the things that she didn't like about Satine, but now… now it was so much worse. Just knowing that she was half of her.

And what made it even worse was she was the better of the two that she was made from. Half Jedi and half pacifist. It just… There was no way that any proper Mandalorian could result from that.

Stars…

"Please, Bo-Katan. Can you please try and talk to him?" Satine said. "I know that this is hard but… Please, you don't know how much I would appreciate it."

"Will you do something for me then?" Bo asked as she sat on her bed and folded her arms over her chest. "I want to go to my friend's." There was no way that she would tell her what she was really doing. Satine wouldn't approve.

And she would want to know why she had been spending so much time with Pre. She wouldn't like that he was training her in the old Mandalorian warrior ways. Yes, Bo got some self-defense training in school and even outside of school, but that wasn't the same as what she was doing.

Satine wouldn't approve. She would think that she was making her look like a fool. She had never liked any of the things that Bo had cared about.

"You can't leave today," Satine said. "I want you to stay here tonight. This… today is a…"

"I don't want to talk to Obi-Wan now," Bo said. "Maybe I'll do it later." But really she probably wouldn't even do that. She could sneak out when Satine was sleeping or just another day.

"Bo-Katan, please."

"I said later maybe," Bo said. "Now leave me alone."

Satine sighed and shook her head before leaving. For a moment, Bo even felt a little bit of guilt. There had been a time when the two of them had been close. That was so many years ago, but sometimes she still thought about it. It used to be important to her and she used to be sad that they weren't like that now.

Now she doubted that would ever be the case again.

And yet…

"Maybe later," Bo muttered to herself, but she did feel some relief that at least now she would have some time alone. Maybe then she could think about what was happening and not feel as horrible about it.

Maybe, but she doubted it.

She didn't think anything could make her feel less horrible about what she found out. At least not anything in this palace.

(AN: Agent N: Yes, I hope you don't mind the twist. Thank you for reading and commenting.

OldGlory: I partially blame all the Evanescence and Linkin Park I was exposed to as a child for the angst in this story as well as my others.