A/N~ I love this chapter, its one of my faves! Hope you like it too! Btw,
I don't mean to, uh, offend anyone in this chapter, with the whole earth
thing (u'll see in a bit), it's just the one character's point of view. I
think its pretty funny, actually. Thanks for all the reviews! You guys are
awesome! I love you all!
CHAPTER 15
Padmé and Sabé sat at a lunch table that was filled with about a dozen other girls. All of them looked at least five years younger than the two women, and all of them were Jedi Padawans.
"Hi, I'm Arsinoe," one of the girls said, offering her hand.
"I'm Padmé, and this is Sabé." They both shook the girl's hand.
"This is Andé, Megaira, and Jodi," Arsinoe announced. "You guys aren't Jedi, are you?"
"No, we're here on, uh, business, I guess you could say," Sabé quickly told her.
"What planet are you from?" the girl named Andé asked.
"Naboo," Padmé answered.
"I heard it's nice there," Megaira said.
"I've been there! It's a lot like Earth," Jodi chimed. "Earth is my home planet. Everyone is so naïve there." Andé excused herself at this point, and left. "They think there is no one else in the universe besides them! Can you believe that?!"
"Are you serious? Why would they think that?" Sabé asked the girl.
"I dunno. They just do. They haven't even figured out how to travel at the speed of light yet!" There was a brief chuckle from the five of them.
"So how did you end up out here, Jodi?" Padmé asked.
"Well, when I was very young, three, I think, I discovered I could move things with my mind. I thought it was fun, but everyone was afraid of my power, even my parents. One day, I told them about a dream I'd had the night before. I had seen my baby sister Emilie sick and then she died. My parents punished me for telling such lies, even though that was the dream I had. They thought I was doing it for attention, making up that 'story,' I mean. Anyway, they told the whole town what I had done. I learned to keep my dreams to myself. I had the same dream over and over again, but then it stopped suddenly about a few weeks after I had first dreamed it. Emilie died the day after the dreams stopped, from pneumonia. My parents blamed me for her death. My mother told me I was a demon from Hell, and my father called me a witch. He said I should be ashamed of myself for putting a curse on my own sister. That night, I had a dream that I was a Jedi, although I didn't know what they were called or anything about them at the time. I knew they were good though, because I could feel it. The next night, I ran away. I ran as fast as a four-year-old could . . ." she was cut of by Megaira.
"I thought you were three?"
"I had a birthday in between there, but I know for sure that I was four when I took off. About a week after that, I was cold, and starving. I slept in boxes, trash bins, and doorways. One night, a man came up to me and told me that I had the Force, and he explained what that was. He told that the Force was the reason I could move things with my mind, and see the future. He also told me about the Jedi. I wasn't able to understand half the stuff he was telling me, I was too young. This man told me he was going to take me on a starship to a planet called Coruscant. I went with him willingly, my instincts told me to trust him. And that is how I ended up here. Not too many Earthlings have Jedi powers, only a select few."
"Do you know who the man was?" Padmé asked, fascinated by Jodi's childhood.
Jodi smiled. "Yes, it was Master Windu." Megaira, Padmé, Sabé, and Arsinoe listened to Jodi tell about the wonderful things on Earth, from an animal called a horse to a food called ice cream. Megaira and Arsinoe were best friends with the redheaded Jodi, but she had never told them stories like these, including the one about Jodi's past. They had never asked her about it. The thing that fascinated Padmé most was Jodi's talk of the governments on earth. "They have seven different continents, and each of them is broken up into smaller countries. Some countries, like where I came from, were broken up even more, into states or provinces. I came from the continent of North America, the county called the United States of America, or USA, and the state of New York. In the USA, they have one main leader, called the president. Then, they have their own senate! It consists of one hundred people, two from each of the fifty states. And the House of Representatives, they have 435 people in it!
Sabé, Megaira, and Arsinoe seemed bored with the stories of Earth's governments, but Padmé was amazed by it. 'They have their own senate! Imagine that!'
Arsinoe decided to change the subject. "So how old are you two? Older than us I'm going to guess."
"We're both twenty-five," Padmé answered. "What about you three?"
"I'm eighteen, Jodi is seventeen, and Arsinoe is fifteen," Megaira told them.
Sabé spotted Anakin out of the corner of her eye. She tapped Padmé lightly and pointed to where he was standing.
"That's Anakin Skywalker," Megaira told Sabé and Padmé, who already knew who he was. "He's twenty."
"Isn't he so cute?" Arsinoe asked.
"Yes, he is," Padmé said, that tinge of jealousy reappearing.
"He's a little too old for you, Arsinoe!!" Megaira chimed in as she fixed her hair.
"He's only five years older! I have a chance with him!" Arsinoe told the group of girls.
'Oh no you don't, hunny!' Padmé thought to herself. She wanted to run over to him and give him the biggest, longest kiss ever. She wanted to show the other girls that he belonged to her. 'I have to overcome this jealousy thing!' she exclaimed in her mind. Her thoughts were broken by Jodi's voice.
"Jedi aren't allowed to love anyway," she said somberly. "We should all just forget about it, before we get hurt."
Arsinoe paid no attention to Jodi's wise words. "Here he comes!" she squealed with delight. Jodi had obviously not paid attention to anything she had said either, for the three girls watched Anakin walked over almost as if they were in a trance.
"Hello ladies," Anakin said. Padmé thought Arsinoe would faint right then and there. Megaira spoke up.
"Hey Anakin! How are ya?"
"Good, you?"
"Great. Oh, these are our new friends. They're here on business from Naboo."
'Please don't say anything, please don't!' Padmé mentally pleaded with Anakin. She knew he could read her thoughts, and she hoped he was right now.
Anakin obviously got the message for he held out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Anakin Skywalker."
Padmé gratefully took his hand and shook it. She nudged Sabé, who got the message right away. "I'm Padmé Amidala, and this is my friend Sabé Bernali." Anakin turned and shook Sabé's hand. 'Thank you, Ani.'
"Are you hungry, Anakin?" Arsinoe asked him nervously, and offered him some fried potato wedges.
"A little," he said, and took a few of the potatoes.
"Did you say you were Padmé Amidala?" Megaira asked.
"Yes," Padmé replied.
"Aren't you a Senator on Naboo?"
"I am," she told Megaira.
"Wow! I can't believe I'm meeting you! I've read so much about you in the archives!"
"You have?" Padmé asked. She sounded surprised, and she was, because she had no idea she was in the archives.
"Yes, from when you were queen and you landed on Tatooine after merely escaping the blockade to how you fought so hard to defeat the military creation act!"
"If you haven't guessed it, your basically her idol," Jodi said, and Padmé blushed. She never thought anyone could look up to her the way Megaira did. "She even wrote one of her research papers on you."
"I can't believe I didn't recognize you! I guess I was too caught up in-" she glanced at Anakin before finishing, "-stuff." Padmé knew what she really meant. She was too busy going gaga over her husband. This didn't bother her anymore, she wasn't going to let it get to her. She knew Anakin loved her, and that was all that mattered. "Oh jeez! Arsinoe, we're going to be late for our lightsaber training class if we don't hurry." Megaira picked up her tray, and Arsinoe did the same. "See ya later!" Megaira said before rushing off to the trashcan.
"I better go, too. I have a meditation period with my master to prepare for," Jodi told the remaining three. She looked at the clock and said, "I still have a few minutes though."
"I don't have any classes today. My master is in the infirmary," Anakin told them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that! What's wrong with him?" Padmé asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"He's got a bad case of food poisoning. Not to worry, though. He'll be out of there in no time," he said confidently.
"Jodi, before you go, can you tell me a little more about earth?" Padmé asked.
"Sure!" Jodi said. She rambled on about Earth's one moon, which was rare. Most planets had at least three moons.
When she was done, Padmé turned to Anakin and said, "I've never stayed in the Jedi Temple before, nor has Sabé. I'm afraid we'll get lost on our way back to our room. Do you think, since your classes are cancelled, that you'd be able to show us Anakin?"
"Sure can," he told them. Jodi sat in amazement as her mind jumped from one conclusion to another. 'Does she really need help, or is she trying to get somewhere with him? Did she just invite him to her room, or was that just my imagination? He better be careful. He may be the Chosen One, but the council will never go along with that!'
"See ya later, Jodi!" Padmé said as she, Anakin, and Sabé stood up.
"Bye!" Jodi replied.
The trio left the cafeteria. Out in the hallway, Anakin bursted into laughter. "Why didn't you tell them about us?" he asked.
"I wasn't sure if I was allowed to," Padmé said. She laughed as well, and Sabé joined in, too. "When Megaira said something about landing on Tatooine, I thought for sure she'd figure out that I already knew you!"
"She's not the brightest person in the world when it comes to common sense like that," Anakin said. Padmé punched his arm playfully.
"That's not very nice!" she said between laughs. "Looks like those three have major crushes on you!" Padmé said with a smile. "Isn't he so cute?" she said, imitating Arsinoe's voice, which made them laugh all the harder.
"Did you see the way they were practically drooling over you when you came into the cafeteria?" Sabé asked, and the three laughed again.
"You were jealous in the beginning there, I could feel it." Padmé gave Anakin a funny look. "You kind of also gave it away when you said 'I got to get over this jealousy thing.' Good thing I was reading your thoughts, huh? Otherwise I might've said something about us being married."
"That's all we'd need. Three talkative girls knowing about our little secret. Dou you know how fast it would get around?" Anakin looked at her and realized that Padmé didn't want everyone to know about the marriage right now. "So, I'm going to take it that you know those three?"
"Yep, since I was eleven. The four of us were in class together. Arsinoe is very intelligent for her age. When she was six, she was in classes with nine, ten, and eleven year olds, and Jodi was one of the four eight year olds in the class. Did she tell you all about Earth?"
"Yes! It sounds like a wonderful planet! It seems a lot like Naboo." Padmé told him.
"In appearance, yes. There is a lot of crime and hatred and war on that planet though. That's why there aren't a lot of Jedi that come from Earth. We're feared there. They kill us if we go to their planet and are discovered, although, not all of them are like that. The funniest thing is, is that only humans live on Earth. Well, that's not entirely true. There are a few "alien" species living there. They are scientists, usually of the Shi I'd race, the shape shifters. They disguise themselves as humans while studying the planet and it's people. They've been studying Earth for years, and none of the earthlings know it."
"Wow! A planet made-up of all one species! Amazing! You don't find that often!" Sabé exclaimed. The trio reached Sabé's room, and Anakin and Padmé bid her farewell after agreeing to meet for dinner at seven o'clock. A few minutes later, the couple arrived at their room, and Padmé pulled out a tiny card, which she swiped along a scanner mounted to the outside of her door. The door swooshed open.
"It was nice meeting you Anakin. I'm sure I'll bump into again sometime." Anakin looked confused, and Padmé waved to someone beyond him. He spun around and saw Megaira walking slowly past them, watching them the whole time.
Anakin turned back to Padmé, whose hand was held out. He shook it. Right before this, Padmé had secretly slipped her key card into her hand, so Anakin could take it and let himself back into the room. Anakin took the card into his own hand now and Padmé entered the room, leaving him in the hallway. He stood back as the door closed.
He turned around to see if Megaira was still there. As he'd predicted, she was. "Hey Meg, where ya headed to?"
She stood with her back to him, looking out a window across the hall from Anakin's room. She had been pretending not to be listening to Padmé and Anakin's conversation. "Back to class," she responded. "I just had to use the bathroom."
"Well, if it's on the way to the infirmary, I'd be glad to walk you there," he lied to her. 'The only person I'd be glad to walk to class would be Padmé,' he thought.
"Okay," Megaira said in a feeble voice. Luckily for Anakin, Megaira's class was only a few minutes away from his room. He hugged the girl goodbye and quickly walked around a corner.
He waited there, listening for the door to click closed. When it did, he began to round the corner again, but stopped suddenly. 'What if she suspects something is going on between me and Padmé? What if she's watching for me to walk back to our room?' he thought. He decided to chance it and continued toward the door. Sure enough, Megaira was watching for him. 'He's probably going back to that Padmé girl's room,' Anakin heard her think. 'She just prances right in here, and tries to take him away from me!' Anakin could feel the anger and jealousy building up inside her. Anakin acted fast, dropping the key card that was in his pocket onto the floor. He acted like he was searching for something, and he bent over. When he stood up, he held up his hand to show Megaira his card. //Found it!// he said inside her head. He smiled at her, and walked back around the corner. "Great," he said aloud. "She's watching for me." Anakin thought of the other ways to get back to his room and his wife. The shortest way, besides the way he had come from, would take close to thirty minutes. He'd have to walk all the way around the long, continuous corridor. He was about to go that way, when a new idea crossed his mind. He rounded the corner once again, but this time stopped right before the door. He laid down on the ground and began to inch himself across the doorway.
"Anakin? What are you doing?" Anakin had been so intent on crossing the doorway that he hadn't heard the footsteps approaching. He looked up to his puzzled Master's face.
"Shhh!" Anakin said, and he continued to inch across the floor. He reached the other side and said in almost a whisper, "Good to see you Master. I'm going to take it your feeling better?"
"Yes, I am," Obi-Wan whispered back. "Why are we whispering? And why were you lying on the floor?"
"Well, Padmé met a few of my friends at lunch today." Anakin told him the entire story of Padmé not wanting to tell everyone about their marriage, and how Megaira was watching for him and so on.
Obi-Wan poked his head out just a bit and looked into the classroom. "She's still watching," he reported. The two turned around and walked the other way, Obi-Wan heading towards his room, and Anakin towards Padmé.
Anakin swiped the card along the scanner and entered the room. "I'm back!" he announced. "So, did you find out Sabé's 'mystery man'?"
"No! I completely forgot! Aww! I really wanted to know too!" With all the commotion at lunch, she forgot the main purpose of even going to get lunch in the first place. "I'm going to her room to ask her right now!"
"Ok, then. I may go visit Obi-Wan, he just headed off to his room to pack his things for the mission."
"Oh so he's out of the infirmary? That's good!" Padmé said. Worry returned to her, as she thought about poor little Ryoo and Pooja.
"They're fine. Now go see Sabé."
"Alright," she said, and gave him a quick kiss before leaving. Padmé walked quickly down the hall to her friend's room. She knocked softly on the door. No answer. She knocked again, this time much louder than the first time. Still now answer. She turned around and rushed back down the hallway. She wasn't watching where she was going, and practically flattened Anakin. "Sorry Sweetie," she said, and then burst out, "Sabé won't answer her door!"
"Maybe she's sleeping," Anakin suggested. Padmé considered the thought for a moment.
"She might be, but can we still check? Please?"
"Do you have her card?"
"No, but can't you use one of you Jedi tricks to open the door?" He gave her one of his looks that said 'You know I can't, but if you beg me, I might.' "Just this once, Ani?"
"I guess so, but only because your so worried about Sabé." They walked towards Sabé's room. At the door, Anakin wiggled his fingers and the door clicked unlocked.
Padmé entered the room cautiously with Anakin right behind her. They both tried to make as little noise as possible. If there was an intruder in the room, they didn't want it to know they were there.
"See, I told you so," Anakin whispered upon entering Sabé's bedroom. Padmé looked relieved, and Anakin turned and walked away. Padmé stayed only a few moments longer, and then she ran to catch up with Anakin. They headed down to Obi-Wan's room. He greeted them at the door.
"The doctor told me to get some exercise, so I walked down here," he told them. "He also told me that I was being released today." He turned to Padmé and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow to find your nieces."
Padmé hadn't had much time to think about them in the past day or so, with the exception of right before the visit to Sabé's room, and a worried look crept over her beautiful face. "I hope that you can find them quickly."
"I will, Senator, I will."
A/N~So how's that for a LONG chapter? I'm pretty sure that's the longest chapter I've ever written. On my laptop in Microsoft Word, it's eight pages long. I love this chapter, and the whole Earth-dissing part, that was meant for laughs, not to hurt anyone's feelings. I'm not accusing anyone of being a bad person, it's just the character's POV. Hope you liked that chapter, please review! G2G now, cuz its 11:04pm, and I hafta go to school tomorrow (bleh!) ~Jessika~
CHAPTER 15
Padmé and Sabé sat at a lunch table that was filled with about a dozen other girls. All of them looked at least five years younger than the two women, and all of them were Jedi Padawans.
"Hi, I'm Arsinoe," one of the girls said, offering her hand.
"I'm Padmé, and this is Sabé." They both shook the girl's hand.
"This is Andé, Megaira, and Jodi," Arsinoe announced. "You guys aren't Jedi, are you?"
"No, we're here on, uh, business, I guess you could say," Sabé quickly told her.
"What planet are you from?" the girl named Andé asked.
"Naboo," Padmé answered.
"I heard it's nice there," Megaira said.
"I've been there! It's a lot like Earth," Jodi chimed. "Earth is my home planet. Everyone is so naïve there." Andé excused herself at this point, and left. "They think there is no one else in the universe besides them! Can you believe that?!"
"Are you serious? Why would they think that?" Sabé asked the girl.
"I dunno. They just do. They haven't even figured out how to travel at the speed of light yet!" There was a brief chuckle from the five of them.
"So how did you end up out here, Jodi?" Padmé asked.
"Well, when I was very young, three, I think, I discovered I could move things with my mind. I thought it was fun, but everyone was afraid of my power, even my parents. One day, I told them about a dream I'd had the night before. I had seen my baby sister Emilie sick and then she died. My parents punished me for telling such lies, even though that was the dream I had. They thought I was doing it for attention, making up that 'story,' I mean. Anyway, they told the whole town what I had done. I learned to keep my dreams to myself. I had the same dream over and over again, but then it stopped suddenly about a few weeks after I had first dreamed it. Emilie died the day after the dreams stopped, from pneumonia. My parents blamed me for her death. My mother told me I was a demon from Hell, and my father called me a witch. He said I should be ashamed of myself for putting a curse on my own sister. That night, I had a dream that I was a Jedi, although I didn't know what they were called or anything about them at the time. I knew they were good though, because I could feel it. The next night, I ran away. I ran as fast as a four-year-old could . . ." she was cut of by Megaira.
"I thought you were three?"
"I had a birthday in between there, but I know for sure that I was four when I took off. About a week after that, I was cold, and starving. I slept in boxes, trash bins, and doorways. One night, a man came up to me and told me that I had the Force, and he explained what that was. He told that the Force was the reason I could move things with my mind, and see the future. He also told me about the Jedi. I wasn't able to understand half the stuff he was telling me, I was too young. This man told me he was going to take me on a starship to a planet called Coruscant. I went with him willingly, my instincts told me to trust him. And that is how I ended up here. Not too many Earthlings have Jedi powers, only a select few."
"Do you know who the man was?" Padmé asked, fascinated by Jodi's childhood.
Jodi smiled. "Yes, it was Master Windu." Megaira, Padmé, Sabé, and Arsinoe listened to Jodi tell about the wonderful things on Earth, from an animal called a horse to a food called ice cream. Megaira and Arsinoe were best friends with the redheaded Jodi, but she had never told them stories like these, including the one about Jodi's past. They had never asked her about it. The thing that fascinated Padmé most was Jodi's talk of the governments on earth. "They have seven different continents, and each of them is broken up into smaller countries. Some countries, like where I came from, were broken up even more, into states or provinces. I came from the continent of North America, the county called the United States of America, or USA, and the state of New York. In the USA, they have one main leader, called the president. Then, they have their own senate! It consists of one hundred people, two from each of the fifty states. And the House of Representatives, they have 435 people in it!
Sabé, Megaira, and Arsinoe seemed bored with the stories of Earth's governments, but Padmé was amazed by it. 'They have their own senate! Imagine that!'
Arsinoe decided to change the subject. "So how old are you two? Older than us I'm going to guess."
"We're both twenty-five," Padmé answered. "What about you three?"
"I'm eighteen, Jodi is seventeen, and Arsinoe is fifteen," Megaira told them.
Sabé spotted Anakin out of the corner of her eye. She tapped Padmé lightly and pointed to where he was standing.
"That's Anakin Skywalker," Megaira told Sabé and Padmé, who already knew who he was. "He's twenty."
"Isn't he so cute?" Arsinoe asked.
"Yes, he is," Padmé said, that tinge of jealousy reappearing.
"He's a little too old for you, Arsinoe!!" Megaira chimed in as she fixed her hair.
"He's only five years older! I have a chance with him!" Arsinoe told the group of girls.
'Oh no you don't, hunny!' Padmé thought to herself. She wanted to run over to him and give him the biggest, longest kiss ever. She wanted to show the other girls that he belonged to her. 'I have to overcome this jealousy thing!' she exclaimed in her mind. Her thoughts were broken by Jodi's voice.
"Jedi aren't allowed to love anyway," she said somberly. "We should all just forget about it, before we get hurt."
Arsinoe paid no attention to Jodi's wise words. "Here he comes!" she squealed with delight. Jodi had obviously not paid attention to anything she had said either, for the three girls watched Anakin walked over almost as if they were in a trance.
"Hello ladies," Anakin said. Padmé thought Arsinoe would faint right then and there. Megaira spoke up.
"Hey Anakin! How are ya?"
"Good, you?"
"Great. Oh, these are our new friends. They're here on business from Naboo."
'Please don't say anything, please don't!' Padmé mentally pleaded with Anakin. She knew he could read her thoughts, and she hoped he was right now.
Anakin obviously got the message for he held out his hand and said, "Hi, I'm Anakin Skywalker."
Padmé gratefully took his hand and shook it. She nudged Sabé, who got the message right away. "I'm Padmé Amidala, and this is my friend Sabé Bernali." Anakin turned and shook Sabé's hand. 'Thank you, Ani.'
"Are you hungry, Anakin?" Arsinoe asked him nervously, and offered him some fried potato wedges.
"A little," he said, and took a few of the potatoes.
"Did you say you were Padmé Amidala?" Megaira asked.
"Yes," Padmé replied.
"Aren't you a Senator on Naboo?"
"I am," she told Megaira.
"Wow! I can't believe I'm meeting you! I've read so much about you in the archives!"
"You have?" Padmé asked. She sounded surprised, and she was, because she had no idea she was in the archives.
"Yes, from when you were queen and you landed on Tatooine after merely escaping the blockade to how you fought so hard to defeat the military creation act!"
"If you haven't guessed it, your basically her idol," Jodi said, and Padmé blushed. She never thought anyone could look up to her the way Megaira did. "She even wrote one of her research papers on you."
"I can't believe I didn't recognize you! I guess I was too caught up in-" she glanced at Anakin before finishing, "-stuff." Padmé knew what she really meant. She was too busy going gaga over her husband. This didn't bother her anymore, she wasn't going to let it get to her. She knew Anakin loved her, and that was all that mattered. "Oh jeez! Arsinoe, we're going to be late for our lightsaber training class if we don't hurry." Megaira picked up her tray, and Arsinoe did the same. "See ya later!" Megaira said before rushing off to the trashcan.
"I better go, too. I have a meditation period with my master to prepare for," Jodi told the remaining three. She looked at the clock and said, "I still have a few minutes though."
"I don't have any classes today. My master is in the infirmary," Anakin told them.
"Oh, I'm so sorry to hear that! What's wrong with him?" Padmé asked, even though she already knew the answer.
"He's got a bad case of food poisoning. Not to worry, though. He'll be out of there in no time," he said confidently.
"Jodi, before you go, can you tell me a little more about earth?" Padmé asked.
"Sure!" Jodi said. She rambled on about Earth's one moon, which was rare. Most planets had at least three moons.
When she was done, Padmé turned to Anakin and said, "I've never stayed in the Jedi Temple before, nor has Sabé. I'm afraid we'll get lost on our way back to our room. Do you think, since your classes are cancelled, that you'd be able to show us Anakin?"
"Sure can," he told them. Jodi sat in amazement as her mind jumped from one conclusion to another. 'Does she really need help, or is she trying to get somewhere with him? Did she just invite him to her room, or was that just my imagination? He better be careful. He may be the Chosen One, but the council will never go along with that!'
"See ya later, Jodi!" Padmé said as she, Anakin, and Sabé stood up.
"Bye!" Jodi replied.
The trio left the cafeteria. Out in the hallway, Anakin bursted into laughter. "Why didn't you tell them about us?" he asked.
"I wasn't sure if I was allowed to," Padmé said. She laughed as well, and Sabé joined in, too. "When Megaira said something about landing on Tatooine, I thought for sure she'd figure out that I already knew you!"
"She's not the brightest person in the world when it comes to common sense like that," Anakin said. Padmé punched his arm playfully.
"That's not very nice!" she said between laughs. "Looks like those three have major crushes on you!" Padmé said with a smile. "Isn't he so cute?" she said, imitating Arsinoe's voice, which made them laugh all the harder.
"Did you see the way they were practically drooling over you when you came into the cafeteria?" Sabé asked, and the three laughed again.
"You were jealous in the beginning there, I could feel it." Padmé gave Anakin a funny look. "You kind of also gave it away when you said 'I got to get over this jealousy thing.' Good thing I was reading your thoughts, huh? Otherwise I might've said something about us being married."
"That's all we'd need. Three talkative girls knowing about our little secret. Dou you know how fast it would get around?" Anakin looked at her and realized that Padmé didn't want everyone to know about the marriage right now. "So, I'm going to take it that you know those three?"
"Yep, since I was eleven. The four of us were in class together. Arsinoe is very intelligent for her age. When she was six, she was in classes with nine, ten, and eleven year olds, and Jodi was one of the four eight year olds in the class. Did she tell you all about Earth?"
"Yes! It sounds like a wonderful planet! It seems a lot like Naboo." Padmé told him.
"In appearance, yes. There is a lot of crime and hatred and war on that planet though. That's why there aren't a lot of Jedi that come from Earth. We're feared there. They kill us if we go to their planet and are discovered, although, not all of them are like that. The funniest thing is, is that only humans live on Earth. Well, that's not entirely true. There are a few "alien" species living there. They are scientists, usually of the Shi I'd race, the shape shifters. They disguise themselves as humans while studying the planet and it's people. They've been studying Earth for years, and none of the earthlings know it."
"Wow! A planet made-up of all one species! Amazing! You don't find that often!" Sabé exclaimed. The trio reached Sabé's room, and Anakin and Padmé bid her farewell after agreeing to meet for dinner at seven o'clock. A few minutes later, the couple arrived at their room, and Padmé pulled out a tiny card, which she swiped along a scanner mounted to the outside of her door. The door swooshed open.
"It was nice meeting you Anakin. I'm sure I'll bump into again sometime." Anakin looked confused, and Padmé waved to someone beyond him. He spun around and saw Megaira walking slowly past them, watching them the whole time.
Anakin turned back to Padmé, whose hand was held out. He shook it. Right before this, Padmé had secretly slipped her key card into her hand, so Anakin could take it and let himself back into the room. Anakin took the card into his own hand now and Padmé entered the room, leaving him in the hallway. He stood back as the door closed.
He turned around to see if Megaira was still there. As he'd predicted, she was. "Hey Meg, where ya headed to?"
She stood with her back to him, looking out a window across the hall from Anakin's room. She had been pretending not to be listening to Padmé and Anakin's conversation. "Back to class," she responded. "I just had to use the bathroom."
"Well, if it's on the way to the infirmary, I'd be glad to walk you there," he lied to her. 'The only person I'd be glad to walk to class would be Padmé,' he thought.
"Okay," Megaira said in a feeble voice. Luckily for Anakin, Megaira's class was only a few minutes away from his room. He hugged the girl goodbye and quickly walked around a corner.
He waited there, listening for the door to click closed. When it did, he began to round the corner again, but stopped suddenly. 'What if she suspects something is going on between me and Padmé? What if she's watching for me to walk back to our room?' he thought. He decided to chance it and continued toward the door. Sure enough, Megaira was watching for him. 'He's probably going back to that Padmé girl's room,' Anakin heard her think. 'She just prances right in here, and tries to take him away from me!' Anakin could feel the anger and jealousy building up inside her. Anakin acted fast, dropping the key card that was in his pocket onto the floor. He acted like he was searching for something, and he bent over. When he stood up, he held up his hand to show Megaira his card. //Found it!// he said inside her head. He smiled at her, and walked back around the corner. "Great," he said aloud. "She's watching for me." Anakin thought of the other ways to get back to his room and his wife. The shortest way, besides the way he had come from, would take close to thirty minutes. He'd have to walk all the way around the long, continuous corridor. He was about to go that way, when a new idea crossed his mind. He rounded the corner once again, but this time stopped right before the door. He laid down on the ground and began to inch himself across the doorway.
"Anakin? What are you doing?" Anakin had been so intent on crossing the doorway that he hadn't heard the footsteps approaching. He looked up to his puzzled Master's face.
"Shhh!" Anakin said, and he continued to inch across the floor. He reached the other side and said in almost a whisper, "Good to see you Master. I'm going to take it your feeling better?"
"Yes, I am," Obi-Wan whispered back. "Why are we whispering? And why were you lying on the floor?"
"Well, Padmé met a few of my friends at lunch today." Anakin told him the entire story of Padmé not wanting to tell everyone about their marriage, and how Megaira was watching for him and so on.
Obi-Wan poked his head out just a bit and looked into the classroom. "She's still watching," he reported. The two turned around and walked the other way, Obi-Wan heading towards his room, and Anakin towards Padmé.
Anakin swiped the card along the scanner and entered the room. "I'm back!" he announced. "So, did you find out Sabé's 'mystery man'?"
"No! I completely forgot! Aww! I really wanted to know too!" With all the commotion at lunch, she forgot the main purpose of even going to get lunch in the first place. "I'm going to her room to ask her right now!"
"Ok, then. I may go visit Obi-Wan, he just headed off to his room to pack his things for the mission."
"Oh so he's out of the infirmary? That's good!" Padmé said. Worry returned to her, as she thought about poor little Ryoo and Pooja.
"They're fine. Now go see Sabé."
"Alright," she said, and gave him a quick kiss before leaving. Padmé walked quickly down the hall to her friend's room. She knocked softly on the door. No answer. She knocked again, this time much louder than the first time. Still now answer. She turned around and rushed back down the hallway. She wasn't watching where she was going, and practically flattened Anakin. "Sorry Sweetie," she said, and then burst out, "Sabé won't answer her door!"
"Maybe she's sleeping," Anakin suggested. Padmé considered the thought for a moment.
"She might be, but can we still check? Please?"
"Do you have her card?"
"No, but can't you use one of you Jedi tricks to open the door?" He gave her one of his looks that said 'You know I can't, but if you beg me, I might.' "Just this once, Ani?"
"I guess so, but only because your so worried about Sabé." They walked towards Sabé's room. At the door, Anakin wiggled his fingers and the door clicked unlocked.
Padmé entered the room cautiously with Anakin right behind her. They both tried to make as little noise as possible. If there was an intruder in the room, they didn't want it to know they were there.
"See, I told you so," Anakin whispered upon entering Sabé's bedroom. Padmé looked relieved, and Anakin turned and walked away. Padmé stayed only a few moments longer, and then she ran to catch up with Anakin. They headed down to Obi-Wan's room. He greeted them at the door.
"The doctor told me to get some exercise, so I walked down here," he told them. "He also told me that I was being released today." He turned to Padmé and said, "I'm leaving tomorrow to find your nieces."
Padmé hadn't had much time to think about them in the past day or so, with the exception of right before the visit to Sabé's room, and a worried look crept over her beautiful face. "I hope that you can find them quickly."
"I will, Senator, I will."
A/N~So how's that for a LONG chapter? I'm pretty sure that's the longest chapter I've ever written. On my laptop in Microsoft Word, it's eight pages long. I love this chapter, and the whole Earth-dissing part, that was meant for laughs, not to hurt anyone's feelings. I'm not accusing anyone of being a bad person, it's just the character's POV. Hope you liked that chapter, please review! G2G now, cuz its 11:04pm, and I hafta go to school tomorrow (bleh!) ~Jessika~