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:Chapter Seven – Alone:

Corusant – 8:40am. Apartment 3320.

Luke was bored. It wasn't the kind of bored where you can't find anything to do. It was the bored where there was something to do, but he just got bored of doing it after a short while after he started it. What was he doing? The blonde four-year-old was sitting by the window thinking of how to approach his father when his parents returned. For one thing it wasn't as simple as it seemed. He was shy of Anakin because he was entirely different from what Luke's mother had said he was. The second thing was that nothing seemed to be right, nothing seemed to fit into place when his father was around.

Leia was sitting on the floor not far from her brother playing with a doll. She seemed content with the way their father was; she was always hugging him and cuddling him like nothing seemed off. Many had often called Luke an exceedingly bright child for his age and although he wasn't quite sure what they meant he agreed with them anyway.

C-3PO was watching over the twins and had been for a very long time. When Padme and her husband returned he bombed them with endless talk only to receive a glare form Anakin who stormed off to the room he shared with his wife. Padme sighed and sat down, avoiding the shocked looks on her children's faces. "Mistress Padme, may I ask what is wrong?"

"It's nothing" she said brushing a lock of her curly brown hair behind her ear, "I'm just frustrated"

"Oh, I do hope there is something I can do to help"

"You can't"

"I see…Oh dear…"

Padme lay down on the sofa and watched Luke join Leia by the box of toys. Her twins sent out a calming aura and her eyelids suddenly felt heavy. Anakin had gone to the Old Senate Offices where it happened. He had encountered the Sith and was now angry at anyone and everyone. Padme could just hope that he wouldn't take his anger out on anyone he loved, especially the twins.

Anakin was only here to pack his things, because he had to go stay with Obi-Wan in the Jedi temple. They said it was to protect him from the Sith and himself. .She remembered quite clearly the day she met him, on that dusty warm planet named Tatooine.

"Are you an Angel?" he asked curiously, titling his head slightly.

"What?" the girl, one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen, smiled and took a few steps towards him.

"An Angel," he said again, "They live on the moons of Diego…I think. They're the most beautiful creatures!"

She smiled again, "You're a funny little boy; how do you know so much?"

"I listen to the Star Pilots talk about them…"

"Master Ani?" C-3PO voice interrupted his thoughts and he turned to look over his shoulder at the protocol droid standing in his doorway. "Yes?" Anakin asked turning around properly.

"I was wondering about Mistress Padme, Sir" the droid said, "She seems very upset."

'I hope I wasn't too harsh to her on the way back…' Anakin thought as he looked down at his feet. On the journey to their apartment on Corusant he had been very rude to her when she was just trying to make him feel better. Now he felt guilty for being like that, she was very patient with him and very understanding. His beautiful Padme; it must break her heart to see him so angry and different. "Sir?"

"She's had a very hard day" Anakin said, "Take care of her for me while I'm gone"

"Where are you going?"

"The Jedi Temple…I can't stay here…"

Corusant – 9:00am. Jedi Temple – Master Kenobi's Quarters.

"This large room serves as a dinning room, a kitchen and a living room. My room is over there and you will be staying in your old room" Obi-Wan walked over to a door and it slid open, showing a rather bare looking room with nothing in it. "I used it for a meditation when you were gone; all your old furniture is down in storage. It'll be brought up later." Obi-Wan moved into the room with many uses and flopped down on a sofa. "I've got a council meeting in thirty minutes, you'll be safe here…"

Anakin sat down beside him and wrapped his cloak around him self. The room was icily cold compared to the two bedrooms but the cold didn't seem to effect his Master in anyway.

"Will you tell me what happened yet?"

"No"

"Why not?" Anakin frowned.

"It's proven too dangerous to tell you anything at this stage" Obi-Wan said avoiding eye contact with his apprentice, "I'll be going now, do not leave the Jedi Temple"

With that Obi-Wan left for his council meeting and Anakin leaned back into the sofa. It dawned on him he hadn't held his children in a long time and unless Padme brought them to visit him he wouldn't be able to unless he got his memory back. According to the council it was vital he remember his saber training and how to connect with the force. But the memories that were precious to him were things like his marriage and moments he found fun. If the word 'fun' meant anything to the Jedi, he must have had some.

Getting up he walked into his room and over to the window where speeders and transports could be seen rushing by busily. On this planet everyone was so caught up with their own problems such being late for work or finding out their girlfriends were cheating on them, that you could hardly expect any sympathy if you woke up from a coma with amnesia.

It was a grey day and a light shower was beginning to fall over that section of the city. A soft, long roll of thunder could be heard not far off as fork lighting flashed across the clouds in the distance.

"Wow, very bare but call it home…"

He turned and it dawned on him that he had foolishly forgotten about her; "Tera."

She was wearing her Jedi padawan robes; he now noticed how similar they looked to her Sith robes, except those were completely black. Tera sighed as she leaned in the door way but her eyes danced with laughter, showing she clearly enjoyed watching his expressions change. "Do you really think you could escape my master by jumping out a window?" she asked, "He knows your darkest secrets that even you aren't aware, not now anyway…"

"Why did you join him?"

"Because I'm better then them, all of them…" she walked over to the window and looked down at the Jedi outside on the steps, they had their hoods up and didn't seem too bothered by the rain. Then Tera looked up at him, "And you are too…"

"What…"

"You and I are both very powerful, he is very powerful. We don't need that lame Jedi code holding us back from shaping the universe the way we want it to be…" she moved across the room, her brown cloak sweeping gracefully after her.

Anakin scoffed and turned to her, "The Dark Side huh? I'm not impressed…seeing as there isn't much 'shaping' going on"

"You're the final piece that fits in the puzzle, that's why we need you"

"I'm not a thing Tera; I'm not a piece of a puzzle…"

"Oh I'm sorry. I was getting so carried away that I didn't even realize I was starting to sound like them…" she said in a rather sarcastic fashion.

"They?"

She grinned menacingly as she walked back over to the door. "You mean to tell me you haven't noticed? To them you're the Chosen One, you're like a weapon to be used when they feel like it, that's why the keep things from you and lock you away in here…"

"That's not true, they're protecting me because they--"

"They what? Love you? Padme is the only one who could ever really love you, even then she's afraid you. Deep down, inside she's aware of your every move. They don't want to realize how unique you are, they probably never will…If your memory never returns they won't teach you over again, but we will…"

Anakin walked over to Tera and glared down at her; "My memory will return, and when it does you'll be the first one I come after…"

"I don't doubt that, but I think by then you'll realize how alone you are in this. That's the nagging feeling since you woke up right? Loneliness? We know that and they don't; think about that…" Tera turned and began to walk away.

"You were right about one thing Tera" he said after her.

She turned and folded her arms, looking at him expectantly.

"I am very powerful, so maybe it's not such a good idea you piss me off…"

Tera grinned as her arms fell down to her sides, "I'm not afraid of you…And Anakin; he won't understand..." she said. Then she turned and swept out, leaving Anakin once again all alone. Loneliness… it was a horrible feeling. But he didn't want to think about anything Tera had said. He wished he could have stopped her, he wished he could have killed her right there. But without his Jedi training he couldn't of done any of that. He felt useless.

About half an hour later a bed and other essential bits of furniture arrived. He let them arrange the room anyway they wanted because his mind traveled else where. Off into a place where there seemed to be comfort. The comfort was little but it was enough to get him through the day. He was sitting in the living room when they left right through until late at night. He hadn't bothered to turn on the lights either; he was too busy thinking about what Darth Sidious could possibly offer him. Well, obviously quite a lot if all Tera said was true.

Obi-Wan came in quietly and switched on the lights, Anakin squinted up at the one above his head, his had yet to adjust to the sudden source of light. The Jedi Master made his way over to Anakin, who had returned back to his own universe, and sat down. "The furniture is here" Obi-Wan said quietly looking at his friend's rather blank expression. "Anakin?"

"Tera…"

"What?"

"Tera, she was here…"

"Anakin, who is Tera?"

"She's a padawan learner here in the Jedi temple," Anakin looked up, "And she's one of the Sith I met in the old offices…"

Obi-Wan frowned, "Did she hurt you? Did she attempt to?"

"No we just talked. About being alone among people who say they love you..."

"Anakin," Obi-Wan said with a rather confused expression; "I don't understand..."

"She said you wouldn't" Anakin stood up and went to his room, he kicked off his boots and flopped down the soft newly made bed, then drifted off to sleep.

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