DISCLAIMER: Sabe, Rabe, Eirtae, Yane, Sache, Corde, Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Padme belong to George Lucas. They are just playing in my world for a little bit.
She was wearing a plain white dress, like the type she had seen the common folk on Naboo wear. Looking around, she didn't see anyone she knew. "Why must this happen?" "The Republic hasn't met up with our demands, Senator," a figure said. "Now, you must pay the price." *Senator,* she thought, *Not me! I'm just Sabe - the Senator's friend!* She looked around frantically and spotted Padme in...an odd outfit - much like a soldier's. She tried to call out, but she couldn't. *What? Nooo!!!!* She screamed as some soldiers raised their guns, and then there were many flashes of light.
"Sabe! Wake up!" The girl rolled out of bed, still half caught in her dream. "NOOO!!!" The other girl slapped her, bringing her back to her senses. "Thanks Sache. I really needed that." "You sounded like you did. What was wrong?" "Oh, nothing," Sabe said trying to dodge the subject. "What's going on?" "We're just on the edge of Coruscant's atmosphere. Eirtae wants us ready - we're going to go pay a visit to the Senator's apartments." "Wouldn't those be heavily guarded?" "Supposedly Rabe knows someone there who can get us in unsuspected. Come on - dress casually." "Okay..." Sache slipped out of her room as the girl shook herself fully awake.
As everyone felt the ship touch down on one of the platforms, they began to meet near the exit ramp. As soon as Sabe joined up with the girls, they began to disembark. "Okay, so we're on Coruscant. What do we do now?" "The Senatorial Apartments should be close to the Chambers, shouldn't they Yane?" "Yea." Sabe turned to her friends and said, "There's the Jedi Temple." She pointed to five towers just a few miles to their west. "If that's the Jedi Temple," Rabe said, "then the Chambers must be...a few miles that way." The girls began to walk (rather quickly) towards the direction that their friend pointed out.
They met up with a young man, about their age. "Li-shung Tang!" "Rabe Zhangerre!" The two embraced quickly before he turned to all five girls. "I am a member of the guards here at the chambers. You can go on in - the guards outside of Senator Amidala's chambers think you all are with us, trying to help crack what's going on." "Um," Sabe said, not thinking, "We are. Padme's our sister." "Right...right..." he said motioning them in.
Getting up there, they saw that the guards moved aside for them. "Let's go," Sabe whispered. All five girls went inside and looked around. "There doesn't seem to be any sign of a struggle." The apartment had been cleaned up by someone. Who? "Its really hard to envision what happened if we can't tell what...happened." "Just look around," Sabe ordered. "Maybe we'll find something that they missed."
About ten minutes later, they heard the door open again. Another woman entered, picking up a few things that seemed out of place to her. She looked up and cried out, startled at the other five women in there. One of them stood up and rushed over to her, trying to calm her down. The woman just stared at her in shock. "Senator?" "No...no...I'm a friend of her. Sabe. What's your name?" "Corde. What's going on? Why are you here?" "What exactly happened to her? Padme?" "Senator Amidala? I don't know. Supposedly Supreme Chancellor Palpatine wanted to give something to her so she sent me over to his offices to get it for her. You know...they were old friends..." "I know," she said thinking back to the Siege of Naboo. "Anyway, I came back to give her it and she was gone. The guards hadn't seen her go out or anything." "What did the apartment look like?" "Well, the window was open. I remember that there were signs of a struggle - everything was strewn all over the place. The maintenance crew cleaned it up after the guards said the investigation here was closed." "Is that all?" "Yes. Now, if you will excuse me, I'm done here. I bid you good luck in your investigation, Sabe." "Thank you Corde."
Corde almost ran out of the apartments. She hurried down the hall to the turbolifts, running into someone. "Master Kenobi," she addressed him, "There are some girls already in the apartments looking around." "Oh?" "Yes. I mistook one of them for Senator Amidala herself." "Thank you, Corde," he said dismissing her. *Sabe's here?* He thought. *I thought...oh, well. No matter.* He approached the guards and, recognizing him, went inside. He chuckled to himself seeing the five girls searching the scene for clues to their friend's disappearance. "You won't find anything - it's been searched through time and time again." They jumped at hearing the new (not to mention masculine) voice. "Obi-Wan," Sabe said startled. "Sabe," he said motioning for her to follow. "Okay. Um...just continue to look around and I'll be back A.S.A.P." Yane and Sache looked at each other, smiling. It was always fun to watch those two.
"What made you decide to come to Coruscant after all?" Obi-Wan and Sabe walked out into the outdoor area of Padme's apartments. "You know why. Devotion. Loyalty. The mere fact that Padme's our sister." "I see," he said. "You do know that there haven't been any leads in this case yet. We're suspecting the Sith to have a role in this, either directly or indirectly." "Its okay," she said looking up at him. "This is baffling us all. I just feel there's something we're missing."
She looked up into his blue eyes - the part of the body which she fell for when she first laid eyes on him. "You get more and more beautiful every day, you know that?" he asked as he ran his finger around her jaw. She smiled right before he brought his lips down upon hers. It was clear to any onlookers that a couple years apart and many planets away still hadn't destroyed the love that they had for each other.
*BEEP**BEEP* Sabe broke the kiss and asked, putting on an annoyed tone of voice, "Is that what I think it is?" "I'm afraid so," he said taking out his comlink. "Yes?" "Master," Anakin's voice said from the other end, "The Council requests our presence right away. I believe they have had a breakthrough on the current situation." "Okay. I'll head on back. I'll meet you in front of the chambers." "Yes, Master," she heard Anakin say before Obi-Wan put away his comlink.
He gave an exasperated smile before he led Sabe inside and said, "Where are you staying? I'll try and visit you tonight." "Ummm...I don't know," she said turning back to her friends. Eirtae shrugged. "I don't know." "Do you girls want me to see if I can get three rooms or something at the Temple?" "Yes," Rabe said. "Thank you." "You're more than welcome. I'll come right back after I find out what's going on. See you all tonight," he said as he moved towards the door. With one quick glance back at Sabe, he left and the girl and her friends turned back to what they were doing.
"Did you tell him about your son?" "No, Eirtae, I didn't. I was meaning to but Anakin broke the moment on the comlink." "He needs to know, Sabe. After all, its his son also." "When do you plan on telling him," Yane asked. "I'm going to try tonight," Sabe said glancing out at the Coruscant skyline. "Something's going to happen soon. I can feel it - something's happening. Tonight will be my only chance. I've got to tell him then."