From Earth to Star Wars: Part Two

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AN: Here is another exciting update with Anakin being knighted and things with the war continuing on. As for the trials and knighting we did a little research but mostly we made it up to make it fit the story. Also, the end of this chapter is a bit of a transition to help bring us to the next major sequence in our story, which is one we've borrowed from the Clone Wars. (but you'll have to wait to find out which one it is!) Thank you again for being such good readers and we've loved hearing your wonderful responses over the years. We hope you enjoy this chapter.

Chapter Eighty One,

**Obi-Wan's point of view**

After a day or so, with using a slight healing trance, I was feeling much better and headed up to the bridge so Anakin could get some rest. I sat in my small office and thought about what happened as I wrote my report. I could sense the men were quite discouraged with Ventress' escape. Stegera had her and then we lost her. The battle went well overall, but Ventress seemed to have quite an ability to turn things to her advantage and then vanish into thin air. On the other hand, Anakin had performed well, not to mention saving my life and kept himself quite intact. I couldn't have been prouder of him and knew he was ready to be a Jedi Knight. The Council might not completely agree with me, but there was little more he could learn from me. I figured we would start discussing Anakin's knighting in more detail once we were home.

At one point, I put a call into Meagan. I wasn't sure if the Masters would have told her, if anything, but wanted to touch base with her anyway. I did mention Ventress' escape, leaving out the extra drama, not wanting to scare her, though she seemed to already know them.

"Obi-Wan, you don't have to sugar coat it." She sighed over our connection, but looked relieved that I was in one piece. "Pierce wrote all about it."

"You've been keeping track of him?" I was momentarily distracted, hoping she hadn't actually talked to him. "So you have seen him?"
She shook her head. "No. Since I apparently have been a topic of interest to him, I've been following his articles by reading them on the holonet or wherever I can find them."

I released the breath I didn't realize I had been holding. "Well, then, what do I want to know?"

"I haven't been mentioned but you and Anakin were certainly his latest topic with Ventress escaping." She quickly summed up the articles, saying we attacked a woman, nearly killing innocent children in battle and the dangers of that old chemical plant. Nothing new from Pierce, but during the war, the Order really needed the press to help sustain the public's view of Jedi as being the good guys. Pierce certainly wasn't going to be able to help in that score. "But she did get away?"

I nodded. "Yes and neither of us is too hurt, thanks to Anakin." I didn't go into details, not wanting to scare her, but thought she would want to know. "He handled himself better than I expected him to. He's more than ready to be on his own."

She smiled. "I thought this would happen soon. I'm proud of him, but are you ready to let him go?"

"Not quite, but he's ready." I finally completely admitted it to myself. "There is little more he can learn from me."

"You've come a long way." Meagan laughed a little. "I'm quite proud of you."

I gave her a bit of a grin. "How's Sasha?"

"She's fine." At the look I sent her she changed her tone slightly. "She was understandably upset when she found you left without saying goodbye. I think she understood, but didn't like it. During the day when she's busy with her clan, it's okay, but I know at night she often can't sleep and joins me."

The thought that the war was already affecting my daughter so much twisted something inside, but there was little I could do. "Is she there now?"

Meagan shook her head. "I'm actually at my office and about to go get her. When will you two be home?"

"Not for several days." I explained. "We have a few stops to make with dropping off supplies and exchanging troops and such."

"Be safe, please."

"I will." I told her. "I love you and will see you soon."

"I love you too." With that we closed the contact and I headed back to the bridge. The sooner we got back to the Temple, the better.

Anakin followed me toward the Council room a couple days after we got back and after I got a clean bill of health from the Healers. "We just got back. Are we leaving again?"

"Not today or tomorrow." I told him, but with a war, several days down the road could be a completely different story, though Anakin still needed to pass his final tests. "The Council just wants to discuss the battle of Stegera."

Anakin, now walking by my side, raised an eyebrow, but refrained from speaking what I knew must be on his mind.

"Don't worry, I do not think it will take all that long since we've already rehashed the battle. I think it's just a few details to wrap up."

"Yes Master." Anakin said, though I sensed he would prefer to be elsewhere and I couldn't help but hold back the smile.

We entered the Council room, finding all the other members there. After I took my seat, they asked Anakin several questions about the battle and such before we all glanced at each other.

After long moments, Anakin waited patiently. Master Windu finally spoke. "Well, after some discussing, meditating and Master Kenobi's reports, we have decided that, pending your final test results, you will be bestowed the title of Jedi knight."

Anakin looked absolutely flabbergasted and it took him a moment to speak. "Thank you Masters."

I was quite pleased with his reaction but knew once he was out of the room he wouldn't stop grinning for days.

"You will be taking your final tests at the end of the week. I trust you will finish preparing by then."

"Yes Master."

"Master Kenobi will inform you of the details later. You may go." Windu smiled slightly. "Congratulations."

"Thank you Masters." With a slight bow and smile towards me, Anakin left the room and the rest of us turned back to a more serious matter of the war.

Throughout the rest of the week, while I would be working on troop movements and where the CIS troops might be going next, Anakin spent a lot of time studying and preparing for his final tests. His knighthood, at least to me was a time of bitter sweetness, at least a little bit. I admired, respected and praised his hard work but on the other side I couldn't help but remember the young boy who had pestered me about lightsaber forms and teased me relentlessly about liking a strong red headed woman. But all children, Jedi or not, grow up and move away from home, to make their own way in the galaxy. It was time for me to let go. Well, at least somewhat as he was too close to Sasha not to at least come over for dinner several times a week to play with her.

"Are you ready?" I asked Anakin one morning.

"As ready as I will ever be." He stated rather calmly. I could sense he was a bit excited and anxious, but he was keeping it under control and in perspective.

"Good." I said as we walked through the Temple corridors until we arrived in an empty classroom. "You have three hours to finish the written part of the trials. After lunch you will complete the more practical application tests."

He nodded, sat down and started to work.

That afternoon, Anakin was in one of the training rooms while several of us were watching from behind the one way glass window. He was standing against the wall, watching as the boxes and other things shot up and down around him, including fiery lasers. The goal was to jump on them at the right moment and follow them correctly to land on the platform at the top. The program was designed to see how patient the Jedi was and Anakin was doing very well, not panicking, moving when he needed, waiting for the right time. I couldn't help but be proud of him when he passed it with flying colors.

The other tests not only tested his patience, skill, knowledge, ability to think quickly but also his Jedi spirit and ability to make the right decisions even if they were hard ones.

"Doing well, he is." Master Yoda commented toward the end. "Trained him well you did." The other masters looked at each other before he spoke again. "Passed he has."

The lights came up in the room as Anakin stood waiting patiently for us.

"Congratulations young Skywalker." Windu said as we came around the corner. "You passed all your tests very well. "

Anakin smiled being gracious, but I could sense below that he was definitely excited. "Thank you Masters."

"Well, I believe we have a ceremony to attend to."

With that we went back to the Council chambers for the actual knighting. On the way, I commed Meagan and told her to bring Sasha to join us. They arrived just as we were getting there. Meagan and Sasha stood back out of the way as the Masters, half of them only being there with the war, forming a circle around Anakin.

"Knell young padawan." Master Yoda spoke as we drew out our sabers and ignited them. Once Anakin did so, he spoke again, the words the Masters had spoken to the padawans in the knighting ceremony for hundreds of generations. "We are all Jedi. The Force speaks through us. Through our actions, the Force proclaims itself and what is real. Today we are here to acknowledge what the Force has proclaimed."

Master Yoda took a few steps back, then turned to me. "Do the honors you can."

"Thank you Master." With that I stepped forward, exchanging a slight smile with Meagan, who had tears in her eyes. Sasha watched in quiet awe. I brought my lightsaber down on one of his shoulders then the other. "Anakin, by the right of the Council, by the will of the Force, I dub thee, Knight of the Republic." With that I brought my saber back up, slicing the braid off with one swoop. "Rise Anakin and join us."

Anakin bowed respectfully to us. "Thank you Masters. I will strive to uphold the honor of the Jedi and the values of the Republic."

I placed my hand on his shoulder. "You will do the Order proud."

The Masters disengaged their sabers before leaving the room and we soon followed them. Once the others had left the immediate area, Meagan, who was just as proud as I was, threw her arms around him. "I'm so proud of you."

"Thank you Meagan." I heard him say, obviously feeling a bit emotional himself.

Once the emotions had settled a little down, Meagan suggested we should go out and celebrate. I wasn't quite sure about the idea with all the reporters around right now, but it was a good time to celebrate and it had been a while since both Meagan and Sasha had been out of the Temple.

"Can we go to Dexter's?" Sasha asked, jumping between all of us.

Anakin leaned down and swopped Sasha up, swinging her around, making her laugh. "Of course we can."

So, we headed off to Dexter's, luckily we weren't "caught" by reporters and followed there. Despite keeping alert for anything suspicious, we had a great time being together and having fun. Something we could all look back on darker days. We stayed out a bit later than we should have as Sasha was nearly asleep by the time we left. I carried her as we made our way home, her head lying sleepily on my shoulder.

"Master?" Anakin asked me as we were nearly back.

"Yes?" I turned slightly to him, shifting Sasha, but only could make out a bit of his face in the growing dark.

"I don't know quite how to say this…." He paused as he gazed at me, then to Meagan who was walking next to me. "but thank you for everything. I know that doesn't cover even a little bit."

"Your welcome Anakin." I stopped and smiled at Anakin. "It was my pleasure. Meagan and I couldn't be more proud of you than we are now."

"Are you sure about that?" Anakin teased. "After all the trouble I caused?"

"Did you hear that honey?" I couldn't help but smirk. "He finally admits it."

We all laughed as we entered the Jedi Temple.

**Anakin's Point of view**

After being knighted, I had wanted to go see Padme to share my news with her, but she had been tied up with Senate business that kept her going for nearly all hours. Then when she had some time, I had been sent to scout out where Ventress was hiding, my first solo mission as a Knight. So, I wasn't able to see Padme for nearly two weeks. However, once I returned and reported to the Council, I was completely free. I flew directly over to her penthouse on Republica 500, parking the speeder outside her rotunda, taking a chance she would be home and have at least a little time for us.

"Good evening Master Skywalker." I was greeted by her security. "The Senator is in her study. I'm sure she will be pleased to see you."

"Thank you." After visiting her plenty of times, I knew the way and headed that direction.

As I knocked on the wall next to the open door, Padme didn't even bother to look up. "I know, dinner is ready, Dorme, I'll be done in just a few more minutes."

"Well, actually I thought we could go out for a night out on the town."

Padme put down her datapad and looked up. "Anakin." She jumped up and within a few steps we were in each other's arms.

"I've missed you." She leaned up kissing my cheek. "How long have you been here?"

"I was on a mission the last two weeks and before that I was busy with my trials."

Padme's deep brown eyes searched mine as I pulled slightly away to place my Padawan braid into her hand. "Oh, Anakin I'm so proud of you."

With that no more words were spoken for several long moments. Once I pulled my lips from hers, I was pleased to see her face was flushed from pleasure. "Shall we my dear?"

"Give me a few minutes to freshen up." Once I agreed, she headed off and I waited in her living area and soon we were headed out.

We hit a high end restaurant/club that she said was nice and safe, that she had been to before. We enjoyed sharing a meal together and being able to catch up on our lives. Since there was music, we even danced a little, certainly enjoying being in each other's arms. Sometime during the evening as we decided to sit out a few dances, sitting down at our table, I thought it would be a good time to talk. So, leaning across the table, I covered her hands with mine. "You know what this means? Me being knighted?"

"Are you saying that we would be free to be together?" She asked me after several minutes in which I didn't breathe.

"Well, I'll still be leaving a lot with the war, but yes, we can." I squeezed the hand I was holding. "That is if you are still interested? I'm sure I can find a fan girl somewhere."

"Well, she's just going to have to get in line." Padme leaned over to kiss me. "You are all mine."

So for the rest of our evening, we had a great time, both of us losing our responsibilities for a time, feeling secure in our growing love for each other and in our future together.

**Meagan's Point of View**

Time passed as it always did, Anakin, from what I could tell, was doing very well as a Knight on his own. I didn't see him too much as when he wasn't tied up with his duties, he was courting Padme. Though, I really liked seeing him doing so well, so happy, so stable, despite current events. I was so happy that he and Padme were finding what Obi-Wan and I had found, that made fighting a war a little more bearable, that she gave him a stronger reason to fight and to come back home. I could only hope we would all survive.

Because, all the while, the war kept growing around us, spreading to nearly every corner of the galaxy, more and more battles breaking out, spreading the Jedi thin. Of course with the Jedi fighting a war, pirates, thieves, bounty hunters and other scalawags began to have a free reign over a growing lawlessness. Their names were splashed across the holonet just as much as the Jedi had been. Their deeds giving innocent beings almost more trouble than the two armies fighting across the galaxy did. The two that seemed to be getting more attention was a pirate gang led by the scrupulous greedy pirate named Hondo Ohnaka and Cade Bane, a skilled bounty hunter where there was no hard job as long as the price was right. I really hoped I would never meet either of them, wishing my husband could avoid them as well. However during a war, he or any other Jedi may be forced to deal with either of them. Then, once the war was over, I couldn't even begin to imagine how to reign in a galaxy of the unlawful that will still be wreaking havoc.

Of course, with the war, Obi-Wan and I always seemed to be going in two different directions. He would be attacking a Separatist hold or defending a Republic stronghold while I would be half way across the galaxy distributing supplies to a planet that had been partially destroyed or raising support and awareness of the relief efforts. Every time I would come home for a few days or a few weeks, he had left the day before and I would head back out a day before he came home. No matter how much we tried, we never could even seem to catch each other over a comlink, only able to leave messages. I sometimes even left handwritten messages somewhere in our quarters, telling him where I was going, that I loved him and hoped to see him soon.

I hated it, not being able to see or even talk to my husband. I would replay his messages, even if it was just a simple, hi honey, I'm leaving in the morning, hope to see you soon, just to hear his voice. I hated the fact that just six months into the war, it was already disrupting my family, my life so much. But we were at war, there was little I could do about it and I desperately prayed our relationship was strong enough to withstand the trials and separation of a war. I missed him so much it became a constant deep ache and knowing he was in harm's way, caused many sleepless nights.

The months passed by and finally, when we hadn't seen each other in over three months, I was helping evacuate a devastated area while Obi-Wan and his troops first routed out the Separatist from the planet, then the sector. The only reason why I knew he was there was that the clones stationed with me as guards, were pulled to help with the battle. So, I stayed well back from the front lines, helping the women and children resettle while the men, who had been trying to route out the droids for the past several months had joined my husband.

There was dancing in the streets when we heard the enemy had been seen fleeing. Then the next day, ships started arriving. The men had returned. I watched as the children ran through the crowds finding their fathers, their mothers hurrying behind them. It brought tears to my eyes to see the town square filled with embracing families and people cheering, eerily reminding me of another scene, but I couldn't quite place it. I was about to turn around, to head back to my room, knowing Obi-Wan would send for me when he was ready to leave, when a lone hooded man, walking through the crowd, caught my attention. My breath caught in my throat as I heard his call.

"Meagan."

"Obi-Wan." Watching my husband, I followed his casual walk and we met in the middle of the crowd, where no one would notice one more couple embracing. Smiling widely as Obi-Wan lifted me off my feet, holding me close, my hair hanging around his shoulders, my arms on his shoulders. I placed my forehead on his head as I took a deep breath, finally feeling my husband so close. Long moments passed before he slowly lowered me, my feet still dangling off the ground, but low enough where his lips meet mine and everything else disappeared.

Obi-Wan and I stayed on the planet with the celebrations that lasted through the rest of the afternoon and well into the night. He had told his troops to stay on the Sassy in orbit and that we would join them the next day, leaving to go back to the Temple .

"Where are you staying?" Obi-Wan asked me quietly as we walked through the square that was hosting the rather large party.

"A little apartment of sorts a few streets away." I told him, smiling as an upbeat song, turned into a soft slow romantic tune. "How about a dance husband?"

He didn't protest too much as I tugged his arms around me. Despite people moving and talking around us, others dancing next us, we moved to our own rhythm, gazing deeply into each other's eyes, as if we were the only two people in the world in that moment of time. I breathed in his deep masculine scent that was all him, feeling so relieved that I could see him again, hold him again, our love a soothing balm in a devastating war. At some point, we headed back to my room. The door had barely shut behind us when his lips descended onto mine. Within moments, the rest of the galaxy blacked out around us. I finally felt at peace in my husband's arms.

A blinking comlink roused me very late the next morning. I stretched my rather sore body, poking my head up from the covers to find it wasn't my communicator that was going off. I reached for my husband to find he was no longer in bed besides me. I sat up, pulling the sheet around my chest as I glanced around the room. The comlink was still rather annoyingly blinking but a new sound came to me, of running water. Sighing, I reached for my husband's comlink, but knowing, after a night of making love, what I must look like, activated it audio only.

"Kenobi here."

"Oh, Meagan." Master Windu's calm strong voice came over the device. "Where's Obi-Wan?"

He didn't sound happy at all. "He's um…..currently indisposed."

"Indisposed?"

"He's in the shower." I informed him. "I'll have him contact you once he is done."

"I am assuming you would be leaving shortly?" He asked me, getting right to the point.

"As soon as we finish getting ready. We should be leaving in only a few hours." I told him. "As far as I know, all of the troops and such are on the Sassy and ready to depart."

"Good." He paused for a moment before speaking again. "Before you leave, I would check out the holonet and tell your husband we will be having a discussion about it once you return." Before I could question him about what he was even talking about, he spoke again. "Windu out."

With that the connection terminated and I sat in bed, staring at the comlink, as if it could explain what the Jedi Master had been referring to. My curiosity quickly got the best of me and wrapping the sheet around me, I headed for the terminal. As it loaded, I vaguely heard the water in the shower shutting off and then heard my husband moving around the refresher, obviously getting ready for the day.

Sitting down in a chair, I pulled up the net, turning to a main page and immediately saw what Windu was referring to. "Oh no." There in a big picture was Obi-Wan and I embracing. Even with all those crowds of people yesterday, a reporter snuck around, recognizing us and took our pictures. The caption read, "The General and his Lady" making it look like a sordid love affair and not a marriage built on love and trust. I quickly scanned through other pages and saw us hugging, kissing and even one or two of us dancing. I sighed, it was all over the holonet with stories about our love being torn by war and would it stand a long civil war? Another article blazed with the title, "a love story, spread across the stars." Another one, "a Jedi Knight and His fiery angel," chronologically told our story with only a few truths to it. Though some of them, pulling from their archives and general public knowledge that our love had survived nearly a tragic shoot out that resulted in the birth of our daughter and then less than a year later survived the revenge of a pirate, had many correct facts.

I sighed again. First the war and now what I thought was the only thing I could count on, my husband's undying love, was all over the holonet, for the entire galaxy to see. "What are we going to do?"

"About what?" Obi-Wan asked, me not even hearing him come into the room, but as he glanced over the picture of us embracing quite intimately, spoke again. "Oh dear."

You could say that again. "Master Windu just commed, telling me about it and said he would discuss it with us when we get back."

He nodded, not seemingly to happy about this. "Well, there is little we can do now. We best get going then."
"Let me take a quick shower." I told him, shutting down the terminal. "I'm pretty much all packed, so it won't take too long."

He nodded as I got up, clutching the sheet to me. As I walked toward the shower, I could hear him chuckling.

"And, my dear Knight, what are you laughing about?"

He stepped close to me, pushing back waves of red tangles, leaving a warm hand on my bare shoulder. "You. I have seen and touched every part of you and yet you still walk around clothed."

I felt my face flush, still amazed that after all this time, he could still make me blush. Laughing still, he leaned down to kiss me.

Once I had cleaned up and finished the little packing that I had to do. After saying a few goodbyes, Obi-Wan and I headed back to the Sassy and were soon speeding through hyperspace back to Corscant and the Jedi Temple.

Then for the quote from Bringing up Baby, staring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. They don't make them like that anymore.

Susan(Hepburn): " There *is* a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing. I can't give you anything but love baby."

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