CHAPTER 6

ANAKIN

"Y..you're," I stammered unable to take my eyes off the Jedi. "You're Anakin Skywalker."

The blond gave me a look. "Do I know you?" he asked.

"No," I said. "But I know all about you! How you were a slave on Tatooine till you were nine when the Jedi came and Qui-Gon brought you to the Temple, how Obi-Wan Kenobi trained you as a Jedi, how you married Padme-"

As soon as I said this Anakin's eyes filled with horror. He squashed a hand over my mouth. "How do you know about that?" he demanded.

I hesitated. I couldn't tell him how I knew. If I did he'd think I was nuts. I'd have to make up a lie but not really.

He removed his hand to let me reply. "Uh.. umm...," I stuttered. "An older Jedi Master found out. They uh.. told me.. well he wasn't exactly a Jedi.. he was a important person who um..."

"Palpatine!" he gasped.

"No it wasn't Sidio- I mean Palpatine," I corrected.

"Then who was it!" he growled.

I saw a dangerous light in his eyes. Oh boy, this doesn't look good. "Padme!" I shouted.

Now it was his turn to get the 'gapes'. "Padme!" he gasped. "She told you?! Why?"

"I... umm.. did her hair and we talked," I said stupidly.

Anakin's gapes got worse. "You did her hair!"

"Never mind," I finally said. "I just know."

The next thing I knew Anakin had me by the collar of my tunic and had slammed my back against the wall. My feet dangled inches above the floor. "I don't know how you found out," he hissed, his breath hot against my face. "But you'd better not tell anyone about it!"

I stared into his dark blue eyes. They held fear as well as anger. Now I was scared as I realized my mistake. He's mad! Maybe I shouldn't have said anything. Now he's going to kill me. "Don't worry, Anakin," I said nervously. "I'm not going to tell anyone. It's not time for them to know yet..."

He slammed me against the wall again. It hurt real bad. I grunted in pain.

The snot nose didn't seem to notice or he just didn't care. "What is that supposed to mean!" he demanded.

"I...never mind," I stuttered.

Anakin began to breathe rapidly. I think he was trying to get a hold of his temper.

Good, I thought. I wouldn't want him killing me. "That's it. Breathe. Just breathe," I said.

He looked up at me with icy blue eyes. "What!" he snarled.

I instantly stopped talking. If I kept that up I'd be his first Force Choke victim instead of Padme. I said nothing I just stared at him, sweat drops running down my face.

Eventually Anakin did calm down and his eyes regained their boyish warmth. I was glad. Now he wouldn't kill me. "I'm sorry," he said lowering me to the floor. "I shouldn't have done that. There I go again. Letting my emotions take over."

"Aw, don't worry about it," I said trying to make light of it, even though it unsettled me greatly. "I do the exact same thing."
He stared at me in surprise. "You do?" he asked unbelieving.

I shrugged. "Yeah, my mom is always yelling at me about it," I noticed him gaping again. "What?"

"Your mom?!"

"I... mean my Mo- Master," I said feebly. "My Master is so close to me she's like my mom."

Anakin didn't speak. I could tell by the look on his face that he was giving me the Jedi Eye Scan. Instantly I put my hands over my breasts. "Stop it, perv!" I snarled.

He blinked. "Perv?" He sounded confused.

"Stop looking at me like that!" I said. "I'm not your damn wife!"

"I know that!" he said. "I was just trying to see if you were telling my the truth."

"What? Your eyes are a Lie Detector now?" I demanded my arms still around the upper part of my chest.

Anakin shook his head. "I'm sorry," he said. "I shouldn't have done that. Uh.. see you later."

He walked away. Rather quickly I might add.

I watched him go. I waited until I was sure he wouldn't come back before I let my arms drop. I sighed. Great, my first encounter with the hottest Jedi in the Order and I managed to tick him off and label him a perv.

"I'm such a retard," I said out loud.

Someone tapped me on the shoulder and I jumped a mile.

"Hey, it's just me," a voice said behind me.

I turned around. Green skin. Ebony unblinking eyes. Dark tan color tunic. Kit Fisto. "What do you want!" I demanded.

He took a step back. "I just wanted to ask you something," he said. "No offense."

I sighed. "What?"

"Where's Earth?"

I raised an eyebrow, a common gesture from me. "Why do you want to know?" I asked.

"I'm just curious."

"It's in the Milky Way galaxy," I replied. "It's ninety three million miles from the sun and probably a bazillion lightyears away from here."

"If that's true, how did you get here so quickly?"

I crossed my arms. "Gee, I dunno," I said sarcastically. "Maybe it was hyperspace jump or whatever it's called. I understand all Republic and Separatist starships and star whatevers have had that in this galaxy for a long time."

"Yeah, but hyperdrive from Earth in the Milky Way Galaxy?" he said. "That's even farther than the Outer Rim."

"Well don't ask me. I was the hostage," I said, rolling my eyes. "I don't know a thing about hyper rings and all that technical crap. All that I know was that I was just minding my own business on Earth and POW (here I smacked my hands together causing Kit to jump) I end up on a planet where I almost drown because I can't swim and then I end up here where everyone thinks I've lost it."

"I don't think you've lost it," he said.

"You do too, you liar!" I growled glaring at him. "You think I'm crazy. Just like everyone else does. You're just denying it because you don't want me to get mad at you."

"If you were crazy you would be on the dark side."

"I would not!" I protested. "Yoda's crazy and he's not on the dark side."

Kit stared at me. "Master Yoda is not crazy!" he told me.

"Then why does he act the way he does?" I demanded.

Kit shrugged. "That's just how he is."

"Which is crazy."

Kit shook his head. "He doesn't go around knocking people over or hugging people until they choke," he said. "Nor does he hum the Imperial March or steal lightsabers and turn them on too close to his face."

"Hey," I said. "I was excited."

"About what?"

"About seeing the old prune in real life for the first time."

Kit shook his head. "Where did you learn to talk that way?" I heard him mutter.

I bit back a snide remark. He hadn't intended for me to hear that. It wouldn't be good to reveal my sources.

"I think you should come with me."

I shrugged. "Whatever."

I followed him down the hall.

The Nautolan led to me what looked like a helicopter landing pad. I saw a huge starship standing ready and waiting to be boarded by whoever.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"You're going somewhere," he said.

Instantly images of an insane asylum popped in my head. "Oh no!" I protested. "I'm not going anywhere!"

"Yes, you are," Mace said coming up to me from the direction of the ship.

I gave him a look. "Who says?" I demanded.

"I do," he said.

"Why you?"

"You're coming with me."

"Why and where?"

"To a planet called Sydrun," he replied. "and to your first question you'll find out."

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, whatever you say."

He grabbed my arm. "Come on," he said in his authority voice. "Let's get going."
I rolled my eyes again. "Whatever."

A/N

I think I got people out of character in this :shrug: all well. I'm trying. I don't have much to say about this chapter.