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There was a somewhat tense silence in the air as the three Jedi sat across from the Senator and Captain Typho. They had discussed the security measures that would be taken, despite Padme's protests.
It was then that Anakin burst out with, "We will find out who's trying to kill you Padme, I promise."
Sarah gave Anakin a sharp look, and then shut her eyes for a brief moment, already sensing the rebuke forming in Obi-Wan's mind. "We will not exceed our mandate my young Padawan learner."
Anakin looked embarrassed, and offended. Sarah ran her hand through her hair. It was always the same with them, but it was not Obi-Wan and Anakin's conversation that she was really listening to, she knew too well how their argument would go. It was the look on Padme's face. The Senator was wearing the most peculiar expression, and when she looked at Anakin, something seemed to change in her eyes.
Bringing herself back into the moment, Sarah heard Obi-Wan say firmly, "We will do as the Council has instructed. And you will learn your place young one."
Sarah could sense Anakin's humiliation at being rebuked by Obi-Wan in front of Padme, and it hung heavy in the air. They talked for a few more moments, neither Sarah nor Anakin paying much attention.
Padme then retired to her quarters, and the three Jedi were left in silence. Captain Typho had a strange look on his face, but he finally began to speak and review the security measures. Obi-Wan left with him to examine the rest of the building, just to be sure that everything was as it should be, and Anakin and Sarah were left standing alone.
As soon as Obi-Wan had left the room, Anakin burst out with, "How could he do that to me? He treats me like a little child! He can't just do that to me in front of others! He only thinks that he is right!" Anakin stopped to take a breath, fuming with anger.
Sarah gave him a peculiar look as she waited for him to calm down. Finally he asked, "What?"
She shook her head and said, "Anakin, I'm not going to stand here and side with you and pretend that you are right, because you aren't!"
Anakin just looked at her, taken aback. "What the Force is that supposed to mean?"
"It means that you bring it on to yourself! We have our instructions from the Council, you should know better than to go against them just because you-..." she trailed off, knowing that if she spoke in anger she would regret her words.
He felt the anger boiling up inside of him, and he knew that she sensed it. "Because I what?"
She simply looked at him for a moment and then looked away. "Forget it Anakin."
"How, can I just forget it? Since when are both Obi-Wan and you against me?" He had tried to keep his voice calm, but the anger had crept its way back in.
She turned on him. "Oh, give me a break Anakin! The whole galaxy isn't out to get you! In case I need to remind you, we are Jedi! We have direct orders from the Council, and you think that you are wiser and stronger and more right than twelve of the best Jedi in the Order! You never seem to give thought to the fact that you are not always right!"
Anakin was shocked. In all the time that he had known Sarah, he had never heard her speak so sharply, and her words had stung. He could not seem to find any words to speak.
"You aren't perfect Anakin," she said quietly. "You aren't always right."
He looked away, wanting terribly to punch something. "You said that already." He sat down on the couch and put his head in his hands. He could feel Sarah come and sit next to him.
"Anakin..." At that moment, the was a feeling in the Force like a crashing wave. Sarah and Anakin leapt up immediately and burst into Padme's room, lightsabers ignited. The Padawans each took out a Kouhun. When Anakin glanced out the window, he saw a hovering droid, and he leapt out the window, shattering the glass and was holding dangerously onto the droid as it zoomed out into Coruscant's night sky.
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Sarah barely spared a glance for Padme, who was sitting up entirely shocked in the bed, and she was racing out of the apartment to the speeders down below. She hoped that she would run into Obi-Wan along the way, but when she did not, she knew that she did not have time to look for him. She raced into the hanger that she had noted on their way to the apartment, she chose the first speeder that felt right and she hopped in, taking off, hoping that she was not too late.
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Meanwhile, Anakin clutched onto the droid as they raced through the lanes of Coruscant, not really knowing what to do. Once again, he had acted rashly, but all he knew was that when he had seen Padme in danger, something had risen up inside of his heart.
He had done impulsive things before, but now, hanging precariously hundreds of levels off of Coruscant's floor after having jumped through a window, this certainly seemed to put him in a slightly worse position than those other times.
It was then that he heard a shot somewhere in the distance, and before he knew it, he was falling.
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The speeder made a loud groan that did not sound very good to Sarah. It lurched forward, and she could not help echoing the blasted thing with her own groan.
She had never been much of a pilot. Actually, it was Anakin's favorite thing to tease her about. The speeder lurched again, and she prayed to the Force that it not give out on her. She flipped a few switches, trying to remember the simulations that she had been forced to do at the Temple. The speeder suddenly went into reverse. "Oh, not good," she muttered, fumbling frantically around.
Eventually, she managed to get the speeder moving forward again, and she raced off into the night, depending on the Force to lead her to Anakin, and silently making a vow that she would never fly again.
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Anakin continued to fall, gaining speed. He did not want to accept death, for it had always been a difficult concept for him to handle. He shut his eyes and tried to let his emotions go, but all he could think about was that his last words to Sarah had been in anger.
The Force surged. Anakin opened his eyes and he saw directly below him, Sarah. He had never been so glad to see her in his entire life. He landed hard on the rear of the speeder and leapt in. "What took you so long?"
She was about to come back with a sharp retort when the speeder lurched again. There was now an odd clanging sound somewhere and one side was vibrating quite violently. Anakin was horrified. "I thought that they teach us how to fly at the Temple?"
This time it shook ferociously, and it began to swerve a bit. Sarah grasped so hard on the controls that her knuckles turned white. Anakin tried to fight the urge to laugh uproariously, and he said, "Hey, what happened to Jedi calm."
Sarah felt the sudden urge to throw up. If there was one thing that she was terrible at, it was flying. She tried to keep her mouth closed tight, but she could not help saying to Anakin, "Seeing as to how I just saved your life, I would say that you are quite possibly not in any position to criticize my flying skills."
Anakin smiled, glad that they were over their disagreement back at Padme's apartment, when another speeder zoomed by them. Anakin knew instantly that this person was the assasin, and he shouted, "That's the guy, go!"
Sarah glared at him for a moment and then went to press a button. Anakin grabbed her arm, "Are you trying to kill me?" He pressed the right combination of buttons and the odd clattering sound stopped.
Sarah shot daggers at Anakin and mumbled, "No, it would just make my life a whole lot better."
"Oh, come on now, I know you don't mean that." She looked at him, and he could not help smiling again at her deathly white face. "You know Sarah, you may be smarter than I am, but you are one terrible pilot."
The speeder groaned again, and the two Jedi Padawans shot off into Coruscant's night.
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A/N: I just have to say that I love being on Winter break, it lets me update more often! Thanks for reading!