Anakin had put on the Jedi robes the Council had given him to wear, when he heard the door open.

"Anakin where are you?" Padme` called.

"I'm right here Padme`" Anakin said as he walked out of the extra room in Master Qui-gon's quarters "how do you like my new style?" Anakin then asked.

"It suits you very well, much better then the old" Padme' agreed.

"Thank you" Anakin said bashfully still shy from his eleven years of imprisonment.

"You've grown a lot since I last saw you on Tatooine" Padme` said trying to draw him into a conversation with her.

"You have too, more beautiful I mean" Anakin replied stumbling over his words as he forgot his fearfulness about talking with others.

"Why Thank you" Padme` Answered happy to have pulled him into a conversation "You're exactly as I remember you on Tatooine, just much taller now, but still funny" Padme` also thinking that he had also becoome much more handsome as well but not daring to say it.

"I'm just glad you remembered me" Anakin said.
"How could I forget you?" Padme` questioned surprised.

"Because I'm just a poor slave you barely knew" Anakin replied.

"But you saved Naboo from a terrible fate" Padme' replied easily.

"What do you mean? I've never even been to Naboo" Anakin questioned curious now.

"If you hadn't won the Podrace we would not have been able to save Naboo, but I'll tell you that story another time" Padme` answered without any difficulty, then added "the reason I came here is to tell you that Master Jinn, Master Kenobi and Knight Nind are escorting us to Naboo for a couple of weeks."

"We're going because of the assassination attempts on your life aren't we? Am I correct?" Anakin asked.

"How do you know about those Ani?" Padme` questioned wondering how exactly he learned about the assassination attempts.

"I overheard you in the Council Chambers before I came in and gave you and the Jedi a big surprise."

"Well you are right on, we will be travelling as refugee's, and you sure did give us a surprise, Master Jinn had given up on the possibility of your survival" Padme` replied.

"I'd given up on my chances of escaping, but I figured I'm just going to get tortured extra why not try to get away so I came up with a plan and thankfully it worked" Anakin said trying not to remember his time in Sidious and Tyrannus hands.

Padme` sensing his discomfort quickly steered the conversation in a new direction this subject being Naboo.

"Naboo is a lovely place, I'm sure you'll enjoy our time there, my family has a beautiful Lake House on Lake Varykino and we'll be staying there" Padme` said successfully steering the conversation in a new direction.

"When do we leave?" Anakin asked curious about the planet he'd wanted to visit for the past eleven years due to Padme' talking about it when they met.

"As soon as Master Jinn arrives with your refugee robes then we'll meet Master Kenobi and Knight Nind at the Spaceport" Padme' answered.

xXx

The door opened breaking the silence that had fallen between them.

"Hello Senator, Ani" Master Qui-Gon said as he entered.

"Hi, Master Qui-Gon do you have my refugee robes?" Anakin asked excited to finally go to Naboo the planet the woman he loved adored.

"Yes, here they are" Master Qui-Gon said handing him a package of refugee robes.

A couple minutes later Anakin re-entered the main room carrying his small pack that had his Jedi Robes the Council had given him and his lightsaber, which for a reason he did not know the Council had allowed him to keep his lightsaber, still in the Crimson Red the Council and he hated so much.

"I'm ready to go" Anakin said carrying his meager belongings.

"Then we shall go" Master Qui-Gon said as he picked up his pack and Senator Amidala's small suitcase.

xXx

They arrived at the Spaceport right on time and came to the table where Master Kenobi and Knight Nind were sitting.

"Did we arrive on time?" Master Qui-Gon questioned knowing the answer whether they had arrived on time or not.

"No late as always" Obi-Wan and Shia did in a synchronized voice filled with sarcasm and fun.

"I swear you two practice that" Qui-Gon muttered under his breath, obviously not quite quiet enough as they chorused "Do we?" Same as always sarcasm filling there voice.

"Yep, you most certainly do practice" Qui-Gon answered their sarcastic question as Anakin and Padme` laughed and Artoo gave a electronic twitter.

Qui-Gon smiled as he heard Anakin's laugh, he deserved it, Anakin's whole life had been suffering upon suffering, first for his first nine years of life as a slave then the next eleven as the prisoner of a Sith who was tortured everyday in many different ways, and now even with the clone wars raging on around them and the whole Galaxy, for the first time in his life even with a Galactic wide war raging on Anakin was freer then e'd ever been in his whole twenty year old life, but how long would it last? Qui-Gon continued to think.

xXx

they'd arrived in their own little Cabin for the duration of the trip to Naboo, they all sat down on the couches, Anakin fidgeted around on one of the couches sitting next to the cool and composed Padme` not at all bothered with the attempts on her life, Artoo was at Padme`s side keeping close and careful guard of his mistress at all times. Qui-Gon and Shia took the other couch and Obi-Wan lounged on the chair.

"Padme` said that because I won the Boonta Eve Classic that you were able to save Naboo, How so?" Anakin questioned.

"Well," Qui-Gon began the story "you winning the Boonta Eve allowed us to fix hyperdrive in the Nabooian Queen's cruiser, so we made our way to Coruscant, but the Senate would not help and the wouldn't either, but they assigned Obi-Wan and Myself to get the Queen back to Naboo safely" Qui-Gon continued the story on, "then the Nabooian fighters couldn't get past the defensive shield around the Droid Control Ship, so one of the fighters that had been hit crashed themselves to the Shield Generator destroying it, allowing the rest of the fighters to destroy the Control Ship, saving Naboo" Qui-Gon finished the story allowing Obi-Wan to take over for the fight against Darth Maul and how Qui-Gon was saved from his injuries.

"So Padme` was actually the real Queen and the Queen was just a decoy to protect her? Maul stabbed Qui-Gon who was saved by Obi-Wan? the Droid Control Ship was taken out? And Darth Maul was also killed at this time?" Anakin questioned about the story.

"Yep, you understood that remarkably well" Shia commented.

"Thank you Shia" Anakin said as they had smoothed out to first name basis.

xXx

"I tried to find you for many months but my leads always ended up dead ends, at the end of my search I found a clue leading to Malachor, but before I could check it out properly the Council sent me on a mission and then banned me from searching for you any more, so I never fully checked out the final lead" Qui-Gon said.

"Well you almost found me I've been imprisoned on Malachor for the past eleven years, Sidious didn't want to move me unless any Jedi got close to finding us" Anakin commented, "Sidious and Tyrannus also tried to tell me that you didn't care about me and you never even bothered to search, but I knew different and I'm glad I was right" Anakin said, he was also starting to let his shields down as he enjoyed the conversation with Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, Padme` and Shia, especially Padme` who he found himself falling in love with more every second that passed by.

"I'm very thankful of your trust in me Ani" Qui-Gon said honored by the trust Anakin had in him.

xXx

Shia was loving every moment of this trip, Shia was a fun-loving and humorous Nautolan and had a trademark smile much like Kit Fisto, but she was also serious and followed the Code just as closely as Obi-Wan, though neither of them followed the rule of no attachments closely, both were attached to each other and Qui-Gon as well as Obi-Wan had an attachment to the Duchess of Mandalore Satine Kryze.

I did plan to make this chapter longer than this but it ended quite naturally here, I hope I didn't make to many grammatical errors, I hope you enjoyed the Chapter, and Anakin will finally see his mother again next chapter, I promise. I'm also sorry for the long wait for this chapter it was a hard one to write and I thank all of my followers for waiting patiently. Please Review/Follow/Favorite or P.M me, goodbye.

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