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"Padawan? Where are you going?" Anakin asked looking up from a data pad to look at his Padawan who was stalking toward the door.

Cassidy stopped and turned to look at her master with an awkward almost caught look. "Out" she said simply.

"Out?" Anakin asked raising an eyebrow. "Out where? It's passed eleven."

"To a club, Master" she admitted sheepishly.

"To a club? What makes you think that I would let you go to a night club? You're not even 17 yet."

"But, Master" Cassidy said in an almost whiny tone "Padawan Valenzy and Padawan Sahil are going."

"Don't you be taking any examples from Padawan Valenzy. His master lets him have too much liberty" Anakin said a bit huffily. "And I don't think that Knight Aji would let his padawan engage in such activities…especially unsupervised."

"But, Master, Master Lysk is going with us. She is the one who invited me and Lavel in the first place."

'What is Lexxa thinking' Anakin thought irritated. "Come, Padawan. I will speak to Knight Lysk about this matter" Anakin said rising from the couch abruptly. He grabbed his cloak and called his lightsaber to his hand with the Force. It was a habit now.

Anakin eyed his padawan disapprovingly as they streaked down in the turbolift. She was in a pink flaunty dress that went down to her knees. Her hair was in a braided bun except for her padawan braid, which hung limply to her shoulder with a simple pink ribbon woven through it.

The turbolift doors slid open and Anakin was greeted by the sight of two padawans and a grinning Jedi Knight. Lavel, a 17 year old padawan with blonde hair which had natural pink highlights in it, was dressed a lot like Cassidy except her dress was silver. Paolo was in black pants and a dress tunic. Lexxa was in white pants and a lime green corset like top.

"Cassidy you made it!" Lavel called happily.

"Lexxa, a word" Anakin said sharply grabbing Lexxa's arm and dragging her to the side.

"What are you doing?" Lexxa gasped at Anakin's un-Jedi-like behavior.

"Would you mind asking me next time before you invite my padawan anywhere?" Anakin hissed.

"I'm sorry" Lexxa said looking almost annoyed" I didn't think you would be so opposed."

"Of course I am opposed, Lexxa. How is this appropriate?"

"Oh, Anakin, you're overreacting! Remember when we were padawans?" We snuck out to do these things."

"Is that what you want? For my padawan to start lying to me?"

"No! Of course not! That's why I invited padawans who could be open about this with their Masters."

"Well she wasn't exactly eager to tell me about it" Anakin grumbled. "Besides" he sighed" remember how we ended up?"

"That's why I'm going to provide supervision. Besides…" Lexxa's gazed dimmed" We were happy weren't we?"

"Alright" Anakin announced turning back to his padawan "You can go. BUT…I'm going with you, I will be watching you, and I'm taking you home in an hour."

"Yes, Master! Thank you, Master!" Cassidy cheered turning emotion-filled eyes on her handsome master.

Control yourself, Padawan! Anakin commanded his padawan through their bond.

Instantly Cassidy's eyes dimmed and her shields slammed back into place.

Anakin took to brooding as they boarded a multi-passenger speeder and he took his place at the steering wheel. Suddenly his thick haze of thought was interrupted by an alien presents in his mind. 'Mind prodding' he thought irritated. But who would be doing it? He had his partial shields up and the padawans were too engaged in their conversation to break through even those. 'Lexxa' Anakin thought as the realization came to him. He glanced at his friend seated next to hi him and gave her a warning look as he pulled up the rest of his shields.

"A Drop Dive?" Anakin purposed with a mischievous grin.

"Not in a speeder full of squirmy padawans you don't!" Lexxa growled.

"Alright" Anakin complied dully suppressing the urge to do some delightful maneuvering.

Half an hour later Anakin stood at the bar in Blue Blaze Night Club watching Lexxa and the three padawans dancing in the middle of the large crowed. Lexxa broke off from the teenagers and leaving the trio to enjoy themselves walked over to him.

"Anakin! You look like you've just had a whole serving of Sour Sennis."

An absent minded smilefloated onto his face. He watched Cassidy laughing as Paolo twirled her around.

Lexxa saw where he was looking and frowned. "Force you've changed!"

"What?"

"Live a little! And let Cassidy do the same. We turned out fine didn't we?"

"We could have been expelled from the Order! I don't call that fine."

"Fact is we didn't."

Anakin's commlink went off in a series of beeps. He reached for it and listened for a moment. A frown formed on his lips and his brows furrowed. 'I'll be there momentarily."

"Is something wrong?" Lexxa asked watching Anakin shove the commlink out of sight.

"I'm needed back at the temple" he explained flatly.

Lexxa trailed after Anakin as he started a march toward the group of dancing padawans. "You can leave Cassidy with me" Lexxa offered reading his intentions. "I'll be sure to get her back home on time I promise."

"No. My padawan is coming with me. Cassidy!"

Cassidy whirled around to face Anakin. "Yes, Master? Have you come to dance with us?" She looked hopeful. Too hopeful, for Anakin's likeing.

"No. We're leaving young one."

"Why?" Cassidy protested. "It hasn't been an hour yet."

"Padawan, I am needed back at the temple-"

"Oh Anakin for Force sakes let her stay!" Lexxa said exasperated.

"No." Cassidy had come out of her giddy excitement, her face a blank "I will go with my master."

It had been an hour since Anakin returned to the temple. An hour since he had rushed to the Council chambers. Ana hour since the emergency Council meeting had started.

Anakin watched the holograms spinning in front of him he found it harder to push denial into existence. As much as he hated it Obi-Wan had been right. The Sith seemed to have really returned. Their old Sith monastery had been abandoned but they seemed to have build a new one on the planed Karrahn, an almost completely unpopulated, isolated, planet on the Outer Rim.

So this was the cause of all the disturbances in the Force.

"That the Sith have returned, doubt there is not" Yoda proclaimed at last.

"So what do we do about it?" Anakin asked.

"Destroy the Sith, We must."

"Do you think it wise to start a war with the Sith?" Obi-Wan asked.

"If we are going to destroy them that seems to be the only way" Anakin said.

A debate sprung up. Several minutes later the council members quieted a bit. "It's not like we can go barging in there with lightsabers raised" Obi-Wan protested "It's not the Jedi way!"

Surprising himself Anakin said quietly "I agree."

"More time to investigate, our spies must have. Give them more time, we will."

A/N: Ok so I decided to take a little longer with starting the war. The chapter wasn't as long as I wanted it to be but I decided to just update sooner. Next update should come around some time next week. Review!