Obi-Wan sat the rest of the ride to the temple in silence.

Watching his young apprentice leave for his first mission filled his heart with joy, knowing that the Jedi were starting to put trust in his hands. He was proud of Anakin...in many ways he served as a brother, and as a father to him. He was taken in as a young boy...no one believed in him but his late master, and soon after...only himself.

He caught on quick, and was feisty towards the strict rules, but Obi-Wan kept a mindful eye on him to make sure he would think before acting.

But during these eight years, during the course of their missions, he somehow helped during those dark moments he found himself thinking back about his past with Padme. He raised him in almost every shape way and form to the young man he was today.

Anakin was a good friend, who helped him out whenever he felt as if the risk was to great.

He would become a fine Jedi.

But something else bothered him.

Seeing Padme again was something he wasn't prepared to do just yet...even if they had ended it so many years before.

But even if his mind said everything was in the past, and that he acted foolish in his youth, his heart wouldn't agree.

Deep down inside he loved her, more then anything in life itself.

He was willing to risk everything for her and their child, but when the Jedi found out they told him to act on what was best for her...and he chose to let her move on and life.

He was a Jedi...he couldn't love.

But every since seeing her, looking like an angel in her high rise, her skin glowing and that warm smile he loved to see in the early streams of the day light, made his heart ache.

Part of him wished he stayed that rainy day on Naboo, he wished he stayed in that room with her and was by her side when she woke up.

He closed his eyes and felt another sharp pain dart in his chest.

He couldn't take it.

He was glad the others were gone now, and he rode alone past the buildings of the city.

He turned his thoughts away as he looked out the window and sighed, trying to take away this awful feeling.

"I think I met you, must have been last July, I can't remember cause there were tears in your eyes, a band of rockets filled up the sky...then you left me and now I know why..."

He sang under his lips, a short poem he had read when he was a young padawan himself...somehow saying those lines over and over made him feel more at ease and calm.

He was halfway there when he typed in the arm rest to change his located, and change it to down town, within minuets he arrived at Dex's diner.

This was always a happy place for him, he remembered as a teenager he and his Jedi friends would come and celebrate together after the trails.

He had gotten to know Dex as a good friend...in fact other then the ones that did know on the council, he was the only outside that knew about his broken relationship with Padme.

When he arrived he was seated at a booth, and smiled as he watched the common people sit down and enjoy their meals together.

He liked people like this, they seemed more at ease and happy with life.

Once Dex was able to sit down he showed him the toxic dart that had killed the trooper.

Dex told him that it belonged to the cloners on Kamino Kyberdart.

"Kamino Kyberdart... I wonder why it didn't show up in any analysis archive."

Dex gave him yet another speech about how dumb the droids were getting, which made Obi-Wan laugh as he studied the dart between them.

Dex was a good friend, and knew what had happened to him. He also knew that the Jedi were his only way of trying to move on and not have a breakdown.

He was always there for him, and he was a good close friend.

With that Obi-Wan thanked his friend and headed straight to the temple.

Once he arrived at the Jedi analysis center, he asked a helper once she wasn't busy if she could try and locate a system called Kamino Kyberdart for him.

While he waited he watched across the marble covered floors and watched the young padawans study at the tables alone.

When the helper came, Obi-Wan showed her where the system should have been, but she sadly shook her head and told her that it just wasn't there.

When she walked away, Obi-Wan was left alone with his thoughts...it didn't make sense.

He sat there, looking at the maps, he knew Dex was right about the place...but why wasn't it there like he said?

With that he stood up and knew he would have to ask someone of higher power.

Meanwhile, Padme had arrived on her home planet with Anakin.

The ride there was long, and she tried to keep herself busy eating lunch as she felt Anakin's eyes glaze at her from across the table...it made her stomach roll.

She liked him, she really did...but why did he look at her that way, couldn't he understand how heart broken she was?

They talked back and forth for a while, mostly about their life's...one on his way to become a Jedi, and the other a retried Queen, and now a senator...at the young age of twenty-three.

She told him how hard it really must have been, now thinking of her past. Of how hard it must be as a Jedi, having the go by the rules, do what others say...not being able to visit the places you wished to visit.

"Or be with the people you love?"

Padme stopped dead, she thought they could have lasted the rest of the way talking like normal people, but his eyes seemed to be melting as she looked at him and sighed.

That last comment broke her heart even more.

"I thought the Jedi were forbidden to love."

She knew this rule most of all...that was the only reason she was alone right now.

"Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is central to a Jedi's life, so you might say we're encouraged to love."

He smiled and laughed a little as Padme looked into his eyes.

She didn't know the feeling that made her feel good at the time, but she saw a brave kind man behind Anakin's young eyes.

She went down to her food again.

"You have changed so much."

She was right about that.

"You haven't changed a bit. You're exactly the way I remember you in my dreams."

They locked eyes and Padme smiled looking away again.

When they arrived on Naboo together, she all ready felt a great weight be lifted off her as they docked.

Anakin's eyes seemed to dance as he looked at the clay buildings, the crystal clear water, the wild colored trees, and the lush rolling hills.

A sweet breeze blew by and Padme smiled as she walked off with Anakin, she felt better somehow, this was a place where her family was, where everything seemed as if it were standing still.

They walked together, talking back and forth...and it seemed as if the more they talked, the more they learned about each other.

When they took a meeting with the new queen, Padme told Anakin they would be staying at her home in the hills.

As they walked together, R2 not to far behind she smiled watching him. She felt good about this place, as if it were a drug...no war, no politics, just peace.

First they visited Padme's family...it had been far to long since she saw them.

Anakin right away loved her little brother and sisters as they danced about with R2 and laughed as they both entered inside.

Her mother and father were more then happy to see her again, they threw their arms around her telling her how happy they were that she was safe.

Then they casted an eye on Anakin, and right away Padme knew it was a mistake to bring him here.

Another Jedi, she knew that's what they were thinking.

But she lead on, telling them that Anakin was here to watch over her during their stay, they all sat down together as they ate and laughed together.

Anakin seemed to be fitting in just fine, and Padme was happy that he seemed more relaxed now.

The only time she felt uneasy was when her sister told Anakin it had been forever since she brought a boyfriend home.

With that she snapped at her, and later on would be yelled at by her parents.

But the rest of the meal was peaceful as they talked back and forth and shared stories. Padme's parents were happy to see her smile again, after so many years of being drawn back...but at the same time they gave this young Jedi a very uneasy eye...as eight years ago another Jedi came into their daughter's life and broke her heart.

At the end of the meal, Padme helped clean up as her father took Anakin around the yards and talked with him.

Padme smiled...she was happy.

At that exact time, Obi-Wan was crossing the halls of them temple, and entered one of the darkened training rooms.

There twenty or so younglings were standing around doing training exercises.

All of them had helmets on as the mini droids buzzed around them and they stuck them with their miniature lightsaber.

Yoda was teaching them, telling them to clear their minds.

Obi-Wan entered and Yoda turned and smiled.

"Younglings - enough! A visitor we have. Welcome him."

The Younglings take off their helmets and turn off their lightsaber, and almost at the same exact time they piped in their high voices...

"Good morning Master Obi-Wan!"

Obi-Wan smiled looking at the children.

"Good morning."

"I am sorry to disturb you, Master."

"What help to you, can I be?" Yoda asked as he leaned on his cane.

"I'm looking for a planet described to me by an old friend. I trust him. But the system doesn't show up on the archive maps."

"An interesting puzzle. Gather round the map reader, younglings. Master Obi-Wan has lost a planet. Find it, we will try..."

"Lenin the shades."

One of the children darkened the room even more, as Obi-Wan set down the reader in the center of the room.

It started, projecting the star map hologram into the room. The children laughed, some of them reach up to try and touch the nebulae and stars. Obi-Wan smiled to himself as walked to where the system should have been and pointed.

"This is where it ought to be...but it isn't. Gravity is pulling all the stars in this area inward to this spot. There should be a star here ... but there isn't."

"Most interesting. Gravity's silhouette remains, but the star and all its planets have disappeared. How can this be?"

Yoda looked around the room until a small boy, maybe seven or eight spoke up.

"Because someone erased it from the archive memory."

Obi-Wan smiled down at the young boy and then another pang of pain hit him, so hard that for a second even Master Yoda felt it.

He knew his little girl would have been about that old.

The thought went away and Yoda looked at Obi-Wan with a smile.

"Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is. Uncluttered. To the center of the pull of gravity go,
And find your planet you will."

Obi-Wan then shut off the reader and the room filled with light.

"But Master Yoda who could have erased information from the archives? That's impossible,
Isn't it?"

Yoda took a few steps with his cane.

"Much harder to answer, that question is."

Obi-Wan thanked him again and left in a hurry...he had to find this system, and find it fast.

Over on Naboo, Padme and Anakin had shared an amazing day together. Once they left her family's house they took a water speeder and came to her home which was just as beautiful as the land.

They walked together on the stone decks, looking at the bright wild flowers dip down with the long branches of the trees, as they looked at the sparking water of the land.

"We used to come here for school retreat. See that island? We used to swim there every day. I love the water."

"I do too. I guess it comes from growing up on a desert planet."

Padme became lost in her own thoughts as she leaned against the railing and looked out at the land, the sun coming down like glitter on her skin.

"We used to lie on the sand and let the sun dry us ... and try to guess the names of the birds singing."

Anakin stood beside her and sighed.

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here.
Here everything's soft...and smooth..."

His fingers then danced across her bare skin of her arm...Padme stood there, at first feeling her heart pound, she looked over at him and gazed up at his arms.

Her thoughts were spinning, she felt happy since she was home and was letting her guard down, something about this place made your heart seem to just sit down there in the open.

Anakin was handsome, brave, and strong.

She did see the way he looked at her, but why couldn't he understand?

She didn't wanna be thought of as a whore, the type that went from man to man at the lowers rims of the cities.

She had a broken heart, and the truth was she wasn't sure if she could ever love again...most of all a Jedi.

But for a slight moment she remembered the first kiss Obi-Wan and Padme shared and she got caught up in it as she leaned forward and kissed his soft lips...she wasn't thinking.

Soon she pulled away, she felt sick.

"I shouldn't have done that."

It was the situation, the stress.

How could she have been so stupid?

And somewhere across the galaxy as Obi-Wan arrived on Kamino Kyberdart and spoke to them about this clone army, in which he had never heard of...he asked to see the man who these clones were made after...

Jango Fett.

Once he met him and his young son Boba, he knew more then what it seemed was going on, and he knew this was the man who tried to have Padme killed, but he kept his soon as he bowed to him and left his apartment, right before casting one last glance at Bobo.

He thanked the cloners before leaving out into the rain storm, still feeling uneasy about this whole thing, and how he knew someone must have placed that order for that clone army.

After sending a message to the temple and telling them what was going on he heard a blast, but right before he turned, the rain soaked in his clothes and his dripping wet hair coming across his eyes.

He grabbed his lightsaber off his belt and then felt something.

The very came moment Padme kissed Anakin, he felt such a pain...it could of killed him,

Love.

And just like that it was gone and Obi-Wan fought.