From Earth to Star Wars: Part Two

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AN: Aren't we cruel in letting you stew about if Meagan's pregnant again or not?? LOL... Anyway the answer is revealed in this chapter and as they deal with it other things are happening with Anakin and Padme. We hope you enjoy these rather interesting developments. Hope you enjoy this chapter. Thanks again to all our readers and reviews...and to a word of warning the rather dangerous romantic Clone Wars are coming shortly and we are making it a video for it. So, we will have that link posted when it's uploaded on Youtube! Have a blessed weekend!

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Chapter Sixty One

Meagan's Point of View

"Mummy, she took my bear." A childish voice, Sasha's voice, broke through my quiet morning as two small red headed girls literally jumped up on Obi-Wan and I before the other one began whining as well. "Daddy, she hit me."

Several mornings later after I told Obi-Wan about the "baby," a slight smile on my face at seeing a possible sister for Sasha, even if they were having a typical sibling squabble. But that didn't mean it was true I told myself as I climbed out of bed. It certainly could be wishful thinking. Sighing, just wanting to know the truth, I headed into the refresher and discovered it, discovered that I wasn't giving Obi-Wan a second child. Relief at finally knowing flooded through me, but it was quickly followed by a deep disappointment. Deep down, I really wanted that baby, my dreams certainly revealing that in full force. Wiping the dampness from my eyes, I went into the kitchen to find something to eat.

I was still eating when Obi-Wan came home from taking Sasha to her training.

"Honey what's wrong?" He poured himself another cup of coffee and came to sit down next to me.

Without saying a word, knowing he'd know what I was referring to, I shook my head.

He stared at me for a moment, slowly sipping his coffee absorbing what I told him. "You sure?"

I nodded and felt his relief.

He set down his cup before leaning over to kiss my cheek. "It's probably for the best."

"I know." I knew logically he was right, but it sure didn't feel that way. So I tried to push it to the back of my mind. Forgetting my meal, I got up from the table and started to walk into the living room. "Did Sasha get settled okay?"

I heard Obi-Wan follow me into the living room. "She's quite excited. Master Yoda was finally started them on the lightsaber training sets."

I nodded, pleased that she was doing so well. "At least she stopped roaring. It was giving me headaches."

Obi-Wan chuckled as he wrapped his arms around me. "I wouldn't discount it completely. Garen and I have used our clan calls on missions before. It saved our lives more than once."

I shook my head at their still little boy antics, but didn't answer him. So we stood there quietly with me trying not to think that I wasn't pregnant, that there wasn't going to be another baby in our family.

Anakin's Point of View

"She's grown so much." Padme smiled as Sasha was playing with Artoo as we visited on the veranda of her Coruscant apartment late one sunny afternoon. "She was still in diapers last time I saw her and look at her now."

I couldn't help but smile at Sasha, knowing she certainly was quickly growing from a small toddler into a little girl. "Yes, but she's getting into so much more trouble."

Padme just laughed, the sound warming me. "Little ones can certainly do that. Sola, my sister, has two of them several years older. She's told some stories, though I don't know how true they are."

I couldn't help but laugh at that. "If they are anything like Sasha, they just might be."

Padme just shook her head as we continued to sit together, catching up with each other and just enjoying each other's company, enjoying the friendship between us.

"Unle Ani, may I please have a cookie?" Sasha asked sometime later as she climbed up on my lap.

"You already had one." I pointed, taking a sip of my tea, hoping to deter her.

Her lower lip started to pout. "Just one little cookie."

"Sasha..." I found that I couldn't resist her pleading eyes. "Just don't tell your Mother and eat all of your dinner. Okay?"

She brightened considerably, the pout suddenly gone. "Okay. I promise."

Sighing, over Padme's quiet laughter, I handed over one chocolate chip cookie. "No more. This is the last one. Capiche?"

"Capiche." She took a big bite and barely managed to talk around it. "Th..an...k...yo...u."

"Your welcome little one." I smiled again as I adjusted her in my lap, certainly enjoying the afternoon with two of my three favorite ladies.

"Here honey." Padme reached over and handed a child's cup of milk to her. "That will make it much better."

"Thank you." She took it and I watched carefully as she drank it.

"Your welcome." Padme sipped her own tea, smiling at her, obviously liking having the little girl around.

"Thanks for not minding having her with us." I told Padme once Sasha had scattered back to Artoo again. "I know it's been a while since we've seen each other, but Meagan asked me to watch her today."

"It's alright. I don't mind. She's a delightful little girl and certainly her parents' child."

I had to agree with her as Sasha looked like Meagan, but so much of Obi-Wan's personality was already showing through. "Are you here until the Senate goes into session again?"

She shook her head. "Just for a few months to meet with the Loyalist Committee to keep fighting the Army bill."

"Is it going to be voted on this time?" The Senate had been arguing and discussing it for some time now and I wondered once it was over, how things would go. Was a war coming?

Padme grew thoughtful for long moments before she finally nodded. "I would be surprised if it wasn't."

"And how do you think it'll go?" I had honestly wanted her opinion. And since Meagan gotten in trouble for helping out, it was an issue we really didn't discuss.

She sighed again, the growing issues obviously bothering her. "Honestly, the Senate is nearly spilt in two. It could go either way and the public is about the same. It might take a long time to finally come to some sort of resolution about it."

"Or war."

"I hope not." Padme visibly shuttered. "So many lives could be lost."

"Me too." I nodded. "The Jedi, I'm sure, will be involved, and I don't want to see Meagan and Sasha's lives involved in it."

She reached over and squeezed my hand in support. "I know and I'll be there for your family if I can."

"Thank you. You and Meagan are friends and you fight in your own way, for the good of the people, for everything that's right, good in this galaxy. You've done more than your part and you've touched all our lives. You'll be just as involved and we'll be there for you too."

"Anakin, really." She visibly blushed and quickly changed the subject. "Now, what's this I heard about you being Knighted?"

"Not yet." I told her, wanting to share more with her about what was going on in that particular area. "I guess what you could say is that I'm in the last stages of my apprenticeship." I went onto explain that I would soon be approaching my final testing periods, so after that my classes would be completely done and after that, I could possible start the Knighting process.

"Ani, that's wonderful." Padme congratulated me after I finished explaining. "You must be so proud."

"I am. It'll be a lot of work, but I'm looking forward to finally being a Jedi Knight."

Padme smiled again, her entire face lighting up and my heart certainly gave a little jolt at her expressive dark eyes. "I'm sure Obi-Wan will miss you."

I shrugged slightly as I felt Sasha wrap her arms around me, resting her head on my chest, a sure sign she was beginning to wind down. "Well, it's not like we won't see each other as I don't think Meagan nor this little hoodlum would let me hear the end of it if I didn't come over for dinner now and then. Besides they are my family."

"That's true. I don't always see mine and we are still close." We both grew thoughtful for a bit before I noticed that Sasha was definitely ready to head back.

"I don't want to leave too early." I looked over at Padme as she was watching Sasha and I with a gentle smile. "But I think it's about time for me to get this little one back. I'm sure Meagan has dinner about ready and then it'll be time for her to go b-e-d."

"That's completely understandable." Padme, I could tell, couldn't help, but giggle as I spelled the word. "We can meet again sometime later when I'm not in meetings and your not off sabering somewhere."

We shared a laugh before I roused Sasha as we made our goodbyes and I had to blink away the tears as she gave Padme a big hug.

As Sasha and I left the building hand in hand, she looked up to me and smiled. "I like her Unle Ani. You should keep her."

I couldn't help but laugh. "Even if she is a Senator?"

She made a show of thinking about before nodding. "She's nice and pretty too."

"That's exactly what I think too."

"Good." Sasha said as if that answered everything.

And flying home, with Sasha loving every moment of it, obviously not inheriting Obi-Wan's near hatred of it, I couldn't help but pleased on what happened that afternoon. That Padme and Sasha got along so well and if Padme and I were ever to marry, as Sasha was going to play such a large part of my future, it was more than imperative that they two would need to share a strong relationship. And it warmed me, feeling and knowing that they would.

Meagan's Point of View

"Meagan..." I barely recognized Obi-Wan calling me one evening after he'd put Sasha to bed. He had obviously sensed that I was still trying to deal with the disappointment in not having another child, especially as we discovered the truth barely a week ago.

But maybe if we finally discussed it, it would help me move on and deal with growing desires of wanting another child. "A part of me really wanted another baby. Sasha's a little girl now. She'll be three soon."

Reaching up a hand, he gently smoothed back some tangled curls. "I know, but think about it. There's a possible Civil War looming ahead of us, so now is not exactly the best time to be expanding our family."

"I know, but sometimes your feelings and desires don't exactly follow logic."

"This false alarm hasn't given you any ideas has it?"

I thought about it briefly before shrugging my shoulders. "Maybe, but I've always wanted several children."

I heard Obi-Wan sigh. "Meagan with things going like they are, it's going to become a dangerous time to be a Jedi. We could be putting them into danger. Sasha has already been in a considerable amount of danger when Caddock put that bounty on her head."

Not wanting to remember that damn pirate, I shook those horrible memories away. Slightly stepping out of my husband's arms, I turned to face him. "I know, but I can't just wish my feelings away. Women naturally want to give their husbands children, me included."

He watched me carefully for several long moments before speaking again. "How long have you been feeling this way?"

I shrugged again. "Unconsciously for quite a while I bet. This probably just brought it out."

The room grew quiet and Obi-Wan and I just stared at each other, seemingly having reaching an impasse, both thinking quite differently on the subject. And there wasn't exactly a compromise on having more children. You either did or you didn't.

"You know Meagan." He finally started out sometime later, filling the silence. "Maybe we should discuss this later, when you are not so emotional and once things calm down around here."

I wanted to protest, but knew he was right, but yet I felt something else underneath his words. That what if he didn't even want to have this discussion and was using events in the galaxy as an excuse to avoid it?

"You don't want any more children do you?" I nearly couldn't believe that I actually asked that, so up-front with no word of warning.

"Meagan." He stared at me in shock before he spoke again, his voice accented and low. "It's just with everything going on..."

"You're skirting the issue." I told him rather bluntly, wanting to know what he felt, especially as I wanted more children.. "Forget the galaxy's issues for a moment and just think about having another child."

He sighed sadly as if he didn't want to answer the question and in that one sigh and the silence that followed, I knew my answer, the hurt echoing deep inside me.

I turned quickly, hiding the swell of sudden tears. While wiping my eyes on the sleeve of my shirt, I heard Obi-Wan come up from behind me.

"Honey, I'm sorry." His voice was low and soothing as he began rubbing my shoulders. "That's why I thought we might want to discuss this once you've adjusted to what just happened."

Knowing he was right, it would be easier to discuss when I wasn't hurting from not being pregnant. However, I wasn't going to let this drop completely, so I began thinking of a compromise. "I'll drop it on one condition."

"And what's that?" His voice was cautious, but I knew he knew that it would work better between us this way.

"That having more children isn't a completely closed topic, that you'd be willing to discuss this at another time, maybe if things settle down." I turned to face him again as I felt a protest coming. "That even if we couldn't physically have another baby, maybe adopt a younger child that would eventually become your next Padawan." I placed a finger on his lips to forestall his answer. "That you would be at least willing to be open to options and I'll resign myself to realize that despite what my feelings say that because of certain situations, nothing might be possible."

He studied me for several more moments before agreeing, knowing the compromise was the best we could do for now.

"Thank you." I managed through the sudden tears, wishing I wasn't so emotional right now.

"It'll be alright." Obi-Wan pulled me close against his chest, letting a few tears soak onto his cloaks.

As we held each other in near silence, I, despite Obi-Wan's feelings, slowly began to feel better from having a very open conversation with him about what had happened. That maybe, someday, he might change his mind.

I was sitting on the edge of the shore, letting the warm water lap at my toes. Even after all these years, I still hadn't quite adjusted to the water's warmer temperature, that I still missed the more frigid rivers and lakes of the Colorado Rookies.

"Meagan, are you coming in or not?" Anakin hollered from where he was swimming.

"I'm okay here." I told him watching Sasha somewhat swim towards him, wearing her floaties.

"I know you can swim." He grinned rather mischievously. "Don't make me come and get you."

"Don't you threaten me Anakin Skywalker." I warned him, but knew he could certainly haul and throw me in, bathing suit, wrap and all.

"What do you say Sasha?" Anakin asked as she floated next to him, only slightly hanging on his arm. "Would you like Mummy to join us?"

Sasha clapped her hands together in glee, splashing water onto Anakin's face. "Yes! Mummy, please come."

Sighing, not being able to find a reason to say no, I gave in. I slipped off my outer wrap and shoes before slipping into the warm water.

"Mummy look." Sasha called out as I half swam half walked out to them.

I couldn't help but smile at how much she was learning, just in everything around her, including swimming. Granted Bant had been teaching the younger ones lately.

"Very good honey." I told her pushing my stringy wet hair behind my shoulder. "You and Uncle Anakin having fun?"

"Yes." Sasha laughed gaily as Anakin lifted her up, tossing her back into the water.

"Anakin." I half laughed, half scolded as Sasha came back up, squealing with pure delight.

"Again." Sasha swam to him. "Please."

Anakin just laughed and tossed her again, obviously liking it as much as she did.

And I couldn't help, but enjoy not only the relaxing feel of the warm water, but the laughter on their faces, on my children's faces. I was beyond blessed.