"Eights, where are you?"

"Yes, ma'am?"

"I think it's finally happening…"

"I will summon the medical droid at once."

She stepped into the hospital room bed heavily, her baby bump at its peak, she was ready to give birth at any moment now. "Good news, Madam Tano. Your baby is on the way."

The words pierced her heart directly. Finally, she no longer had to hide. Soon, she will execute her and her lover's plan to reappear by the Jedi. She had not been in contact with him since their good-bye sex session. Many days, one might say - every day since he left, she rubbed herself and came to that memory. She missed Anakin terribly, and even after hearing that the baby is on the way, her only hope is to see Anakin as soon as possible.

"Will he be here?"

"I'm afraid not, madam. He is currently on a mission, one he might be on for a while. You're on your own." She always hated the bluntness of droids. It disappointed her hearing that, but in he end she knew it'd be worth it, and the feeling of Anakin near her, with her, and preferably inside her, gave her infinite hope.

Then, labor. Her screams filled the hallway, and after pushing for what felt like two or three days, the baby was out. "Congratulations madam, it's a boy! What will you name it?" She recalled that Anakin's always wanted to have a boy named Luke, so came out an orange skinned child with otherwise human features: Luke Skywalker, son of Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. "What? Another one?" Ahsoka was still in incredible pain, as if she were still in labor, but she didn't know that it was because there was another baby… A twin sibling for Luke. So she pushed, and pushed - and out came another orange-skinned baby, with its father's blue eyes but its mother's face markings and montrals. "Madam, it's another boy! What would you name it?" Shame, she thought. Anakin would've loved to have a little girl called Leia. "He will be called… Jacen."

"My lord… I feel a presence… No, two presences, sudden but heavy, as if the Force itself was rippled in waves, could it be?"

"Yes, my young apprentice. And now, my plan truly begins. The Skywalker children will be the key of the dark side's dynasty." And before Darth Sidious even finished his sentence, Darth Maul was already cold on the ground. The red flash of the two lightsabers were quicker than an eye's blink. "It will be my victory. You have served your purpose."

MEANWHILE - AT THE JEDI COUNCIL:

"I can not be the only one who has felt this, masters. A ripple the Force, followed by an uprising of the dark side."

"Obi-Wan, your visions are clouded. You are worried about your apprentice still. If we must, we would summon him from his mission."

"No, Master Windu. But time will tell whether I speak truly or otherwise."

Obi-Wan took off his shoes and sat in meditation. "Ahsoka disappeared… For two months before that she was acting strange, I always sensed her thoughts were blocked and well protected… Then, seven months later… I feel them, a presence all too familiar… Anakin… What did you do?"