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Durr, I forgot to put what time frame this will be in. *thinks* About 7 years pre-phantom menace. Yeah, that'll do. There's a whole reason behind that little time frame but I can't tell ya yet. J Anyway, Hope you enjoy this one as much as the last! Happy Reading!

Oh and lol, we just figured out that I had named one of my characters in The Darkness's Tribulation Series "Billy". I thought that was funny in case no one else noticed it. Hehehehhehehehhe. Anyhew, thought I'd share that with everyone, btw, there's no relation there lol. Enjoy!

Ch. 2 Different Reality

I was starting to get nervous now. I had been trying to remember all the discriptions in books and fics that I had read over the years describing the way to the Council chamber. I just wanted to know if we were close. I was totally oblivious to Billie fidgiting behind me getting closer to me every step of the way. That is, until she stepped on my foot.

"Billie!" I said nearly stumbling over. She caught me and straightened my stance again and looked at me palely.

"Sorry, I just…Look at these people!" She exclaimed.

"Shhh. Kept it down. They're going to think your species prejudice or something." I whispered as we continued to follow the human Knight infront of us. She hadn't even slowed to our little out burst.

"Species prejudice! I've never heard of such a thing!" Billie hissed looking warily at the aliens around her.

"That's probably because you've never seen a different species that walks and talks-and Don't Even Think to say that your dog talks for a treat!" I whispered back.

Suddenly I realized where we were and coughed. The Knight had stopped at a desk and was speaking quietly to an aide….a freaky looking human-noid with green skin. Billie froze up next to me.

"Relax." I told her.

She let out a peep in response. Suddenly I realized just who was on the Council…Oh My God. We're so dead.

"This way ladies." The Knight said leading us to a door.

"Thank you for your cooperation in this, and may the Force be with you." She said kindly.

"May the Force be with us?" Billie hissed.

I tried to ignore her and smiled to the Knight just as the doors opened. I thought I was going to be sick. I've seen this in movies. Written about it in fics. Read it in a million books, and a billion fics….and now I was here.

"You may come inside." Plo-Koon said.

I winced counting down from 3…I hadn't even finished thinking Three….more like I got to Th-

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Billie screamed bolting the other direction.

I grimaced and looked behind me as she hauled tail down the corridor towards the lift.

"Pardon me." I said with the best smile I could. The smile my manager taught me when I worked at Friendly Video.

I didn't give them the chance to say anything, I just bolted out of the room after Billie….Who was still screaming at the top of her lungs as she tore down the corridor.

"Billie! Get yourself back here!" I yelled, but I doubted over her own screaming that she heard me.

She jumped into the lift but then realized she was surrounded by species not of her own and jumped back out screaming louder and ran towards the stairs. I followed her through the clearing crowds in her wake and raced down the stairway across from hers.

"Billie! Calm down!" I hollared…but again no heed. Still-

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She made it down her stair way faster than me and I jumped the last three steps. If I ever caught her she was so going to die!

As we raced down another corridor I recognized the names of the doors.

Oh God, we're in the Master/Padawan wing!

Billie paused her screaming and I looked back up at her in hopes…No such luck.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

She had only paused to take a breath. She was going to need some serious Halles after this.

We passed by a corridor intersection and I was busy looking down it when I ran slam into something solid. I was thrown right onto my back and blinked for a second regaining my breath.

"Force! I'm SO sorry! I didn't see you!" A male voice said.

I didn't bother looking at him, just took his offered hand and hoisted myself up again…too quickly. Fighting dizziness I didn't hear what he was saying.

"Yeah, right, sure, no problem." I said quickly and ran past him following the trail of Billie's screams.

Billie:

Oh my God. Oh My God. OH MY GOD! I'M GOING TO DIE IN THIS FREAK SHOW!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

My voice was beginning to hurt, but hell, I didn't care. It got these freaky people out of my way and that's all I was worried about.

I burst into a room…a very LARGE room. It looked like it was the size of the school's gym, maybe bigger. I didn't have time to take in the scenery, what was I doing?! I ran onto these blue matts and raced across them like I would on track…of course I wasn't screaming my head off in track. Maybe I should do that, I seem to be getting better speed.

Suddenly I heard this

"Voooommmm!"

right next to my ear and heat came with it. Scaring me to death…or maybe spirit cause I think I'm already dead, I screamed louder and continued to cut through people in groups of two with these weird looking colored sticks. They would all turn away just as I was cutting through so I didn't have to move, thank God. My moto was, don't move for them, they can get their sorry tail out of the way. One in which I expressed often in the halls at school.

I made it out of that room in one piece and tore through another hallway with strange looking things looking at me as I went. Finally I saw sunlight and ran through the open breezway into what looked to be a garden. Not many people were here and my screaming ceased.

Elli:

I watched her go through the sparring arena with my hands over my eyes and peeking out every so often. The skilled Jedi all sensed her coming and pulled back out of whatever engagement they were in to my relief. When she ran through the doors on the other side I took the long way around. Never setting foot on that blue mat.

When I finally saw her go into the gardens her screaming stopped abrutly.

Uh-Oh, she sees something that is scaring her speechless. That is NOT a good thing…because it's never happened!

Running faster I saw her moving along the walk of the garden, her pace slowed to a jog. With a last burst of energy I lunged at her and tackled her from the back to the ground.

"AHHHHH!" She screamed again.

I rolled her over onto her back and clamped my hand over her mouth. She looked at me wide eyed I sat on her, pinning her to the ground.

"You…Are…such…an…IDIOT!" I said between deep breaths.

She said something under my hand that was muffled.

"What?" I asked.

"Wigam mahimny fmalini-"

"Huh?"

She shook her head away from my hand and said.

"They were going to EAT ME!" She cried. I slapped my hand over her mouth again.

"No one's going to eat you!" I whispered.

"Are too! I've seen those horror flicks where aliens just love to eat people!" She said getting away from my hand again.

"Are not! These are civilized people Billie! They're not wild, hating aliens. They're way of life is only peace. They've lived without eating little blonde human girls for decades I'm sure." I replied my breathing starting to return to normal.

"What if they suddenly decide they want to taste then?" She asked.

I eyed her and rolled off laying on my back on the ground.

"Then you poke them in the eyes." I told her.

"I don't understand it here." She said. "I know nothing about Star Wars!"

"I told you to come and see Attack of the Clones with me. Feel sorry for it now don't ya?" I said.

"Elli!" She whined.

"Alright, alright. Now, we have to think about this. We ended up here out of a car accident, right?"

"Right…I think."

"Right. So now we're here, on the walk of the gardens after running through the PEACEFUL Jedi Temple and they have no idea who we are, where we've come from, and what we're doing here."

"What are we doing here?"

"I don't know…but we have to be here for a reason."

"Oh, not another speech about fate." Billie moaned.

"Hey shut up." I said with a smile. "We have to think of it from their prospective."

"What is their prospective?"

"Here, all things are linked by a living power called the Force. They, being Jedi, are able to manipulate it, use it. They can see things, hear things, do things without actually physically doing it."

Billie was silent. I thought I heard a few crickets.

"…How about I just leave the technical stuff to you eh?" She said, utterly confused.

I sighed. "Probably a good idea."

We laid there a while and I knew Jedi were looking at us strangely as they chose a different path to go.

"Alright, we have to think now. They're going to make us go into the Council again. No bolting out of the chambers this time."

"No bolting….but if they even look like they're hungry they're going to have a red head and not a blonde." She replied.

I rolled my eyes with a laugh.

"They're going to ask us how we got here…We'll have to say that we're from another planet."

"Earth?" Billie said sarcastically.

"No, not Earth dim-waod." I told her.

I thought back in to memory.

"We'll say…uh..we'll just say that we're from the other side of this planet."

"Which is?"

"Coruscant. Remember?"

"Oh yeah. Got ya."

"Anyway, why we're here….Uh.."

"It was a mistake and we need to go back home?"

"If we say that then they'll put us out of the Temple and think we're going to the other side of the planet. Which is where we're from, remember?"

"Right." Billie said shortly.

"Ok…I think I have an idea now. Scratch all that, this one's better. Just let me do most of the the talking." I said, ideas starting to turn in my head.

********

"Would you like to make it inside this time?" The aide asked us. Billie flushed and I just smiled kindly.

"Sarcastic little wench." Billie whispered to me.
I turned and gave her the look. You know the, shut-up-before-we're-turned-out-on-a-planet-we-don't-know look.

The doors opened again and we gingerly stepped inside. I reran my plan through my head another time, for the millionth time.

"Welcome again, you are." Yoda greeted as the door closed. Billie immediately pulled out the paper bag we had gotten and started breathing in it.

The council looked at her strangely.

"You'll have to excuse my friend, we've had a long try and the trauma from this morning hasn't worn off." I explained glancing at Billie behind the paper bag.

"Understood. I am Master Windu." He intruduced.

I tried to act like I didn't know what that name meant and nodded lowly. They went throughout the room introducing themselves, even though I was saying their names in my mind as they said it. When we came back to Master Windu and Master Yoda we stood in silence.

"Introduce yourselves to us, will you?" Yoda asked kindly.

Billie and I glanced at eachother. My stomach rose with butterflies.

"We were hoping you knew." I said as genuinly as I could.

The whole Council looked at us in disbelief.

"You…don't know either?" Billie asked shakily. I wondered if she was really faking that nervousness or if it was really there.

"No, of course not." Ki-Adi-Mundi said. "How could we?"

"We don't know…we figured we belonged here or something. How did we get here?" I was really putting Mrs. Malinie's drama teachings to the test now.

"You have no idea who you are?" Mace Windu asked.

"We know eachother….but our names slip away along with where we come from." Billie replied.

The Council glanced at eachother. I feared they were speaking in a way I could not hear or see. Did they know? Surely they could sense us lying. We were both so nervous they had to have.

"You remember nothing in how you got here or who you are?" Yaddle asked.

"No Master Jedi." I told her, starting to get worried with these repeating of questions.

Silence stood for a long while. Seeming like an eternity to both of us. Billie had to put the paper bag over her mouth again. We were so in for it if they found out. Would they jail us? Execute us?!

"Very well. It seems you should revisit our healers. If this is a case of amnesia we are by code not to let you go until it has cleared or a family member comes to claim you. You will stay in quarters assigned to you until either event occurs." Windu said looking back to us.

My eyes widened. So I was right! They couldn't let us go! No hospital could let a patient go who had no idea who they were in the U.S. on Earth. It was a wild, yet lucky, guess that they couldn't here.

"We thank you." I told them quietly.

The doors opened and a person stood in it's wake I had never seen before but vaguely recognized.

"If you'll go with my Appentice, Siri, she'll lead you to the healer's wing again." Adi said softly.

I nearly gapped. That was Siri! She looked…much older than she was on the cover of some of the J.A. series books.

We nodded lowly and quickly followed the irritated looking Siri.

I had no idea what they were talking about as the doors closed.

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"They're lying." Plo-Koon stated aloud this time.

The rest of the Council agreed.

"But why would they lie about something like that? What would make them want to stay here? I feel no essence of the Force within them." Yaddle said.

"I felt no dark intentions around them either, it could give us time to find out why they wanted to stay here so badly." Ki-Adi-Mundi told them. The Council nodded.

"Young they are, much confusion I felt in them. Fear, excitement,…anger." Yoda said concentrating on the fading signatures of the girls.

"Anger? I did not sense this." Adi Gallia said surprised.

"Anger is there. Deep inside." Yoda said looking at her. "Hidden well it is, but there still."

"Obviously they wanted to be here for a reason. I don't know what it is, and I don't think anyone else knows. I suggest we keep them here and they can play out their plan, what ever it is, under our eyes. No horrible deeds can occur through them without us knowing they're here." Mace suggested.

The Council glanced at eachother and gradually agreed.

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Billie and I trailed a little ways behind Siri. Apparently she didn't much take to being an escort for two bozos that had just dropped out of the sky. Well…of course they didn't know that.

"So what if this genius plan of your's fails? What if they did sense us lying?" Billie whispered.

"Then hopefully we'll be back home by then."

"What if we're not? I saw the way that bald guy looked when we were talking to him. He didn't like us one bit. Maybe we should just get out of here."

"And go where? This whole planet is a city Billie. From core to surface, from East to West, North to South. All of it. You know how lost we would get? Not to mention smugglers, gangsters, anything you can think of that would cause us harm is out there."

Billie sighed and kept her eyes on where we were going.

"If they find out….I'm sure that can't do anything Really bad to us." I said, lying like a dog. I sure as hell didn't know what they would do if they found out…or when they found out.

"We'll be fine here for a while." I assured her as we re-entered the Healer's Wing.

Tbc…

J Well? Is it still ok? I pretty sure next chapter we'll be running into more..uh…familiar..characters. *cough Obi Cough Qui Cough cough* heh. As always with all my fics, no romance what so ever between original characters and, well this time it would be, Billie and I. ;)

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Till later,

Billie&Elli