Author's Note: Thanks to my Beta shoshana at Feedback please. If I get sleep, I will post the last two chapters tomorrow. 'May the force be with you' if you, like me will be at the midnight show tonight. Enjoy. Meg

Anakin walked softly and then turned sensing d'Artagnan was not following. Sure enough d'Artagnan had stopped and was watching Padme and Jacqueline disappear. Anakin studied d'Artagnan a soft smile forming as the force pointed out the obvious. "You love her," Anakin told him. His tone made it clear it was not a question, but merely a statement.

D'Artagnan sighed dramatically as he followed Anakin back into the light. "I keep her secret, I do what she asks of me, I comfort her when she needs it but…" He trailed off sadness in his voice.

Anakin broke into a knowing smile. "But she does not seem to notice your attentions or even return your feelings?" D'Artagnan nodded at him suspiciously. "Padme was the same way, I just learned to be patient." D'Artagnan raised an eyebrow at him. Somehow, he did not see this younger man as the patient type. Anakin looked at him sheepishly. "Well, that kiss she shared sped things up a bit." Anakin then broke out into a soft laughter over the memory.

"Jacqueline would kill me if I tried to kiss her." D'Artagnan stated confidently.

Anakin stopped and looked at him. "She cares about you, I can sense that, but I would have to be closer in range to sense more…" Anakin trailed off concentrating. "She is afraid, I can also sense that." He paused. "I would not give up on her."

D'Artagnan pondered Anakin's words as they entered a transport. It looked odd to d'Artagnan and when the engines started and it went into the air, d'Artagnan jumped back slightly causing Anakin to throw him a funny look. "So, where are we going?" D'Artagnan asked him.

"To the Jedi temple to get you some clothes, and see Master Yoda." Anakin stated as he piloted them.

The rest of the ride was silent. Once they entered the temple, Anakin handed him a robe and tunic and pointed off in direction for d'Artagnan to go change. D'Artagnan changed and he could hear Anakin saying something to someone about requesting an audience with Master Yoda of extreme importance.

Master Yoda studied d'Artagnan with no visible expression on his green face. Funny looking green creature d'Artagnan thought. Yoda then smiled knowingly at him and he shifted uncomfortably. "From far way, you are." Yoda said stating the obvious. Yoda closed his eyes and it went silent for several tense moments. "Sent here to learn, you have been." Yoda eyed d'Artagnan. "Strong the force is with you."

Anakin turned to Yoda shock on his face. "Trained as a Jedi?" Yoda closed his eyes again. When he opened them a smile was on his face. His ears sprang up. "No, sent to learn a lesson from the chosen one, he has." Yoda frowned at Anakin as he finished the statement. "Once he has learned, back the force will send him." Yoda has turned back to d'Artagnan now. "Take him with you, you must." Yoda directed Anakin and they were dismissed.

Once outside d'Artagnan turned to Anakin. "What does he mean?" Anakin shrugged frowning slightly. "Yoda is wise, but…" Anakin did not finish his thought, but d'Artagnan got the meaning. The hallway was deserted as left the temple and once back outside near the platform d'Artagnan spoke. "So, why all the secrecy with Padme?" D'Artagnan asked curiously.

Anakin looked around and then spoke. "We've been married, secretly, for three years now."

D'Artagnan frowned. "Why?"

Anakin sighed now and then waved his hand away. "The Jedi code." He then spoke as if reciting. "Attachment, possession, marriage… forbidden for a Jedi." Anakin rolled his eyes dramatically and cleared his throat. " 'Let things pass on with the force. Miss them not. Mourn them not.'" Anakin said in his best impression of Yoda.

"Yoda called you the 'chosen one', what does that mean?"

Anakin again rolled his eyes. "I was born to bring balance to the force or something." He shrugged as if that was the least of his concerns.

D'Artagnan climbed into the transport. "What is this 'force' thing?"

Anakin turned to him as he started the engine. "Well you see all living things…" He continued his long explanation on the way to Padme's apartments.