A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a fair while. It's just that my school work and my other stories have gotten in the way a bit. Anyway, I've a few reviews asking why Sola would be so angry at Padmé for marrying Anakin, well you'll see why in this chapter. This is also the chapter things settle down a bit. You'll see what I mean when you read the chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter Thirteen: Ahsoka reasons with Sola

Ahsoka ran down the corridor franticly looking for Sola. She looked down the shadowy corridors as she continued to run. No sign of Sola anywhere.

She was about to give up as she reached the Senate office building when she saw someone rounding the corner in front of her. Ahsoka took off and saw as she ran closer, the high bun that Sola had her hair styled in.

"Sola!" Ahsoka yelled.

Sola either couldn't hear her or was simply ignoring her. Ahsoka wasn't about to give up. She bolted as quickly as she could and reached out her hand to grab Sola's elbow.

She knocked Ahsoka's hand back and turned to face her.

"No! Don't touch me!" She yelled.

"Shh!" Ahsoka said, looking around before seeking out an empty office.

"Come on," she whispered. Sola was relucent to follow her.

They entered the office and Ahsoka closed the door and locked it as she entered. "Why did you explode back there?" she asked, folding her arms across her chest.

Sola sat on the desk glumly looking down at her feet. "I don't approve of the Jedi or their laws and to have my brother-in-law being one just makes my hatred towards them worse."

Ahsoka raised her eyebrows. "OK, but what does that have to do with Anakin and Padmé?"

Sola looked to see that Ahsoka was standing in front of her so that she had no chance to escape. She took a deep breath before continuing.

"Padmé has probably already told you that when we were younger, I use to enjoy taunting her; I still do. When she brought Anakin home to meet our family, I taunted her front of Anakin saying that he was the only boyfriend that she had ever brought home to meet us and so forth."

"That it?" Ahsoka asked, not sounding real amused.

"No there's a lot more to the story then just that." Sola said.

She explained how Padmé seemed distracted the day she and Anakin had visited the Naberries and that even Jobal, their mother had picked out on Padmé's distraction as she looked out the kitchen window to see Anakin and her father talking and walking in the garden.

"I don't know what to do, Ahsoka." She said, even more glumly then before.

Ahsoka nodded before pulling herself up onto the desk.

"They told you before they told me. How did you feel when they told you?" Sola asked.

Ahsoka looked at her feet before looking back at Sola.

"I have to admit I was a bit shocked at first but for as long as I've known them I've always suspected something was going on between them. At the time I couldn't put my finger on it but I was never able to work it out until now. Besides, I thought you would be happy for Padmé." She said.

Sola thought over Ahsoka's words before thinking of what she wanted to say.

"I don't know what it is. I just don't trust the Jedi." Sola said as she looked down at her feet, uncomfortably.

Ahsoka's eyes grew wide in horror.

"What? Why don't you trust us Jedi?" she asked in shock.

Sola took a deep breath before continuing.

"About 11 years ago while Padmé was queen of Naboo and she was fighting in the battle of Naboo with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon, another Jedi by the name of Dooku-"

"Dooku?" Ahsoka said in disbelief.

"Please Ahsoka let me finish."

"Sorry. Please do go on."

"Anyway, the Jedi Council had assigned him to get my family to safety. He disobeyed the council's orders and took us an abandoned mines shaft and tortured the Security Guards that were with us to death and he almost came close to torturing my family and I too."

Sola couldn't get anything else out. She shuddered at the memory.

"So that's why you hate Anakin so much." Said Ahsoka; in realisation.

Sola nodded.

"Sola, Anakin and Padmé only married because they loved each other. If they didn't they wouldn't have married. Why can't you just be happy for them and let your hatred go?"

She got up and started to walk the door but stopped when she reached the doorway where she looked over her shoulder to see Sola looking down at her feet in complete denial. Ahsoka sighed and started to head back toward Padmé's apartment.

Anakin still sat comforting Padmé when Ahsoka walked in.

"How did you with Sola?" he asked when Ahsoka had sat down across from them.

"I've failed you Anakin. I really did. It's as if she didn't listen to a word I said to her." Ahsoka boasted.

"You tried your best Ahsoka. That's all we ever wanted for you." Said Padmé looking up at the young Padawan with puffy blood shot eyes.

"Thanks Padmé."Ahsoka said with a small smile.

The trio sat in silence for what felt like, well, ever. Not one of them chose to speak knowing that it was bound to set off a chain reaction of complaints between either Anakin and Padmé or Ahsoka and Anakin.

"This is my fault. If I hadn't had insist that we marry then we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with." Anakin said, breaking the silence.

Padmé and Ahsoka looked up at him with two completely different looks on their faces.

"Master Anakin. None of this is your fault. It's neither of your faults." Ahsoka said with a look of sympathy planted on her face.

"Soka's right, Ani. None of this is your fault. It's mostly my fault. I'm not saying that our marriage is a bad thing but it was a stupid thing for me... for both of us to consider but we went ahead and married anyway." Padmé said blaming herself.

"So what are you saying? That's our marriage is a bad thing?" Anakin protested.

"Didn't you listen to single thing that I said? I said that our marriage was a good thing but It was a stupid thing to do at the time." Padmé huffed at her husband's hurtful comment.

"Sure sounded liked it." Anakin muttered as he crossed his arms and sat all the way back on the sofa.

"Anakin! You know Padmé loves you. She would be lost without you and I honestly think that you would be lost without her too." Said Ahsoka hotly.

Anakin remained silent.

Before anyone else could speak a knock interrupted them.

"Sola." Said Padmé and Ahsoka in unison. They didn't even attempting to move from their seats.

"I'm really truly sorry for storming out like that."

"Got that right." Anakin muttered as he folded his arms across his chest.

Padmé looked at him for a faction of a second before elbowing him in the ribs.

Anakin held back the pain by gritting his teeth together.

"I don't know what came over me. I was so caught up with turning to keep safe for the sake of Darred and our girls that I didn't see the upside to your happiness, Padmé and I truly am sorry for anything that I may have said to upset you. All of you." She said nodded to each one of the others in front of her.

"I never thought I'd say this but it's nice to have an apology from someone in high place." Said Anakin.

"Master!" Ahsoka hissed.

"It's fine Ahsoka, really." Sola insisted.

Ahsoka sat down and crossed her arms looking rather annoyed.

"So... who else knows?" Sola asked in her normal teasing tone.

"Oh ah..." Anakin said looking rather alarmed at his wife.

"Only R2, 3PO and Ahsoka." Said Padmé; stepping in to help her husband.

"Very modest. I'm impressed." Said Sola.

"Modest?" asked Ahsoka.

"She means I step in to help Anakin out when he's stuck on words to say." Padmé explained.

Ahsoka nodded.

"Odd. I do the exact same thing. Only I give him advice on battle plans."

Padmé and Sola laughed while Anakin just eyed Ahsoka with pure annoyance.

"What? It's true! Most of your plans would blow up in smoke or even get somebody killed if it wasn't for me." Ahsoka protested.

"Oh stop it!" Padmé chimed in with a giggle.

"What's funny?" Ahsoka asked exchanging looks with Anakin.

"You behave the same as Anakin." She said with a lop-sided grin.

"Can we just get back to the issue at hand, please? What will happen to me now?" Sola asked.

Anakin, Padmé and Ahsoka all looked at Sola before looking at each other in turn.

They hadn't thought about that at all.

"We've been so busying trying to figure out a way to tell you about our, um, situation, that we haven't really worked on a plan to keep you, ha-ha, yet."

Sola's jaw dropped. "You have got to be kidding me."

Padmé exchanged looks with Ahsoka who rolled her eyes.

It was routine to her now. It had been since the moment she and Anakin been forced to pair up through the help of Obi-Wan and Yoda.

Ahsoka smacked her forehead. "You're kidding, right?"

She peered out through her fingers to see that Anakin was shaking his head.

"Oh no!" Padmé groaned.

"I'll come up with something. I always do." Anakin said trying to reassure them.

"Always would be the wrong word, Master." Murmured Ahsoka, eyeing Anakin.

Anakin looked over at Ahsoka with his eyes turned to slits.

Ahsoka looked away not wanting to face her Master's wrath.

"So what are we going to do about the know Ventress issue?" Ahsoka asked.

Sola's eyes lit up. "I have an idea."

Padmé immediately looked interested.

"Go on." She inquired.

"The Queen plans to enter a plea in the Senate tomorrow-" Sola started to explain what the Queen had said to her and the rest of her council but was cut off by Padmé.

"How did you know that? You've been with us the entire time."

"See here, dear little sister. When you called Ahsoka into the Cargo Bay for a private chat about me, I was contacted by the Queen telling me that she had arrived on Coruscant; safety and that the rest of her council was fine. That's when she informed me that she was going to address the Senate but she realised that she didn't have a Senator of Naboo represent the planet for her. She would be there and speak but she needed extra, um, backup."

"It's getting late. I think we should all get some rest." Anakin said all of a sudden.

No one had realised that they had spent the whole day in verbal conflict over the issue of Anakin and Padmé's secret marriage.

But for Anakin and Padmé, they could finally breathe a little easier, knowing that Ahsoka and Sola now knew of their secret life and that they weren't going to judge them on what had brought them together in a time of war.

Please review and vote in my profile poll. Chapter 14 will be up hopefully, this weekend if I get to finish if not it will be next week some time. God, I can't believe I've finished about 65% of the story already. Please keep the review coming.