Chapter Ten

Siri's face turned from indifference to a smile in less then a second.

She laughed and tackled Obi-Wan in a hug, a smile on her face. While she was doing her job, she could go overboard a little, Siri relished in the feeling of his body close to hers. Her smile became wider.

"Obi-Wan! Dear Gods, how long has it been. It's great to see you." she turned to Anakin. She walked over to him and ruffled his hair as if he were still a padawan.

"Little Anakin, great to see you." she smirked at his look of detest, ohh poor baby, his feathers had been ruffled. Siri let out a loud laugh at that, not paying attention to the people or creatures that looked at her. She leaned into his ear and whispered,

"At least I don't call you Ani." she whispered, before turning to Padme.

Siri bowed, and murmured.

"Senator Amidala, it's a pleasure to meet you again."

Padme smiled, she rather liked this woman.

"Likewise, but please, Knight Tachi, call me Padme."

"Alright…Padme, then please, call me Siri." Siri said, putting on a smile, although in her mind she had an image of her strangling this slut who had taken Obi-Wan from her. The image disappeared in her mind as her 'job' came into focus in her mind and what her master had assigned her to do. 'Distract Anakin as much as possible, make him believe what is not true, make him think things are between Ciana and..anyone you chose. Lure him to the darkside.'. her master had said. Fine, she would do her job, as her master wished. The sound of Padme's voice brought her to the present.

"Siri, would you care to have dinner with us at my apartment? It would be a pleasure to have another guest, and I don't believe you've been truly acquainted with Ciana here."

The Jedi Knight nodded.

"Yes, that would be lovely. Thank you for inviting me."

And with that, the now group of 5 set off to the apartment of Senator Amidala.

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A couple of hours later Obi-Wan and Padme huddled on the couch, each comfortable in their shared warmth, and in the warmth of the cups hot cocoa (YAY!) they held in their hands. They watched in amusement as Anakin and Ciana proceeded to play a rather heated game of checkers. Siri sat there, watching them as well, trying to figure out how she was going to proceed with her 'plan '. She tried not to let her eyes stray to Obi-Wan and Padme, sitting so close together, looking at each other with such love. Siri's hands balled into fists, and her teeth clenched together. No, control your anger for now, Tachi. Just calm…

Obi-Wan reflected on all that had happened this evening, especially running into Siri, literally. It was nice to have her back, it was like old times, only...with Ciana here. Siri and Ciana had seemed to had a good start on knowing each other. When the 5 of them had gotten in the apartment they had had fun, talking about all the things that had happened while they were apart from each other. He suddenly looked up when he saw Siri tense and her hands ball into fists. He was about to ask her if everything was alright but stopped when he saw her relax. He hoped everything was alright.

Padme resisted the urge to yawn and looked over at the chrono. Oh my…

A yawn escaped her, in which she quickly covered it, but not before the three Jedi caught on. Anakin ignored it, he was busy playing checkers. Siri was lost in thought, but she didn't ignore the yawn. She put on a smile and stood up.

"Well, it appears that our dear Senator is getting tired, so I had best leave. It was nice talking to you all again." She walked over to Obi-Wan and gave him a hug.

"Bye, Obi-Wan. Talk to you all later!" and with that she walked towards the door, she was about to open it but was stopped by Padme's voice.

"Siri! Wait, how would you like it if…if you could come over tomorrow and we'll all have supper together. Here, at say, 6 o'clock?"

Siri smiled.

"Sure. I'll be here." and with that she disappeared out the door.

Once Siri was out of sight Padme leaned backwards and landed on the couch, laying partially on Obi-Wan. She sighed in contentment and snuggled against him. Obi-Wan smiled and stroked her hair lightly, it helped her fall asleep.

"You know, Padme, that if you fall asleep on the couch I'll have to carry you to our bed." he said softly.

A smiled appeared on her face.

"Hmm, sounds good to me." she answered sleepily.

Suddenly a cheer came down from the floor, in which Padme lazily opened her eyes and looked down at the duo playing checkers. Ciana was sitting up and had her hands in the air, a smile on her face.

"I won!" she announced proudly, "Try and beat me again sometime, eh, Anakin?"

Anakin rolled his eyes and got up, he stretched and yawned.

"Well, I guess that's it for me. Night all!" and he disappeared down the hallway, Ciana following, her voice was heard trailing him.

"That's it? You're such a wuss, Ani." they could hear her laughter and then heard her groan. "Ow, no hitting, Skywalker." in which they heard someone hitting someone and hearing Anakin groan.

Obi-Wan's voice jarred Padme of her thoughts.

"You know if they keep going on like that, sooner or later they're going to destroy this apartment." Padme could hear the smile in his voice and could just imagine his blue-gray eyes twinkling in amusement. Padme sighed and the last thing she knew was the feel of Obi-Wan's hand stroking her hair.

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Lord Sidious sat upon his 'throne' as he liked to call it, listening to the information, albeit how little it was, on Siri's current actions. He knew that having two apprentices on the same 'job' was bound to let all hell break loose, but even as the thought came to his mind, he knew that for a fact, he just didn't trust Marius enough, not that he did trust anyone…

Sidious knew that sooner or later Marius would back out, because of his daughter, he never should have assigned him this duty, Sidious could tell he would never finish it out. That's why…that's why he had assigned Siri to do it. She had come to him months before, even then he could feel the anger and hatred burning off of her, he could feel her striving for power, even then. Once he had seen her, met her, made him his apprentice, he knew that she would not fail him. He knew her anger, her hatred, towards one person and one person alone. Sidious knew that Siri would do anything to destroy Senator Padme Amidala, that's why she was such an essential part of this plan, if Siri destroyed Amidala, then she could allow Anakin to fully depend upon his anger and jealousy and hatred throughout the years, and soon…soon, Skywalker would be his.

An evil smile appeared on Sidious' face as the thought of Skywalker as an apprentice, he would be so powerful. Together they would rule the galaxy as they chose. An evil laugh reverberated through the eerily dark and quite halls of the ship, giving shivers down anyone's back who was unfortunate enough to hear it.

Evil was rising...

...Once again.

And no one could stop it.

Sidious was sure of that.