A/N: Hello,

My name is Katia, and my friend Cassi and I collaborated on this story. It is the second book in the Darth Maleficent series. We decided that we couldn't just end it at "Return of the Padawan."

Thank You Cassi! You are the BEST FRIEND EVER and an AWESOME writer!

Without any further ado, Chapter Three! Once again, I want to thank Cassi (Casscat) for her wonderful contributions!

The next morning, Adeline was awoken to the smell of breakfast cooking. She grinned and slipped out of bed, making her way to the kitchen.

"Good morning," Obi-Wan greeted.

"How long did I sleep?"

"Long enough for the storm to stop, for me to make a trip to Mos Eisley, come back, get a couple hours of sleep, and make breakfast." He grinned.

She smiled and sat down, "And as far as disguises go?"

"I can't find anything to hide that you're an Angel. We need a story for that."

She grinned. "Oh, don't worry, I'll come up with that. Also, Diathim, or the Angels of Iego, aren't so uncommon. I could dress up as one of them, since they glow as well."

"Too risky." Obi-Wan said. "Just come up with a cover story."

Adeline sighed and pulled out a datapad, typing in a few numbers and whistling in surprise when she found what she was looking for. "Wow! There are only about twenty Nubian Angels left in the galaxy! This'll be harder than I thought... then again, my species is lucky, no matter how small our numbers are."

Obi-Wan looked puzzled. "How so?"

Adeline smiled and kissed him passionately. "Lucky because one of our numbers is making out with Obi-Wan Kenobi, in his kitchen."

He kissed her again before replying, "Wasn't your mother a famous actress before she had Sadira? You could take her identity."

Adeline nodded, looking unexpectedly sad. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, Obi. My mother died just a little while after Sadira and I returned to Dathomir."

He put his arm around her. "Oh, I'm so sorry!"

She sighed. "It's okay. Sadira ran away, to go live somewhere where her memories wouldn't haunt her, and got captured by Maleficent. It's all my fault."

Obi-Wan looked concerned. "No, Addie, it's not your fault. Come on, let's take your mind off this by getting your alibi ready."

She nodded. "Thanks, Obi-Wan. You always know how to make me feel better."

He smiled sadly and touched her cheek, "Right, so if there's twenty of you left, then how would one end up a smuggler, I wonder."

Adeline grinned, "Well, that's simple! You ran into me on one of your trips and we fell in love."

Obi-Wan looked at her, "Is that believable?"

"If I wanted to get away from home it is." Adeline pointed out, "But, did we ever say our names in front of the Sith? I can't remember."

"Neither can I; we shouldn't risk it. Out here, I'm Ben and I don't think we need to worry about them tracking that name too easily. After all, there are at least fifty other Bens on this dust ball."

Adeline giggled at that, "Wonderful, well, as for my name... I don't know!"

"What was your mother's name?"

"Zillah, why?"

"Perfect."

"What's so perfect about it?"

"You'll respond if anyone calls it naturally." Obi-Wan said softly, "That's the thing about false names, you have to learn to respond to them."

Adeline nodded, "Right. Zillah, it was a common name; it's common enough."

"Right," Obi-Wan agreed, "Your clothes are over there; we'll need to get your ship-"

"I can do that. Stay here. I'll be back." With that, she disappeared out the door.

About three hours later, she returning in her ship, "Come on, Obi. We have work to do."

"Right, Zillah, and you better get used to calling me Ben."

She grinned, "Yeah, I suppose so."

He kissed her halfway up the ramp, "At least the fact we're in love will throw them off the trail that we were Jedi."

"That you were a Jedi." Adeline corrected, "I was never officially a Jedi, remember?"

"You were to me." Obi-Wan answered.

She smiled. "You flatter me too much, Obi- oh, all right, Ben. Come on, let's go. We need to find Sadira, and do it fast. They've been torturing her, Obi, and we have to save her before it's too late!"

"And we will." Obi-Wan said gently, laying a hand on her shoulder, "No matter what it takes."

"No matter what it takes." Adeline echoed.

...

Sadira woke, alone and cold. She hugged her arms around her body, trying to stay warm. She could feel the cold seeping in closer. The wounds her captures had given her ached and throbbed.

She didn't know who they were. She didn't know where they came from or what they wanted with her. Sadira closed her eyes, resting her head against bare stone.

She knew she had been foolish, trying to escape memories. Memories couldn't be escaped; they followed you. But she had run from her sister, the one being who truly cared for her, and this had come about. She had been kidnapped and taken somewhere, but she didn't know where.

Sadira buried her face in her knees, which were pulled close to her chest. She wondered of Adeline knew about all this, and if so if she had been able to follow. It was a hope: a fool's hope, perhaps, but it was better than no hope at all.

She gave up on her thoughts eventually, giving in to the wills of sleep.

...

Obi-Wan Kenobi sat down in the co-pilot's seat of Adeline's ship, the Starflyer. Adeline, always the daredevil pilot, sat down with a thud in the pilot's seat and powered up the engines.

"Get ready for a wild ride!" She said devilishly.

He gripped the sides of the seat, already turning a nasty shade of green. "Blast, Adeline! You know I hate flying!"

She laughed. "Sorry, Obi. I just... can't help myself. Got wings, have to fly!"

He sighed. "Too bad I don't have my old astromech, R4-P17," The Jedi Master muttered. "She could help."

Adeline turned in her seat. "What happened?" She asked curiously.

"Blast! Why does she have to have such good ears?" He thought.

"I heard that too, you know," She said, laughing. "What happened to those mental shields?"

He growled. "All right. R4 stayed with Satine. I don't know why, but she did. She was a faithful droid... until then."

She managed to find his hand and hold it. "I'm sorry, Obi-Wan. Maybe we can find you another droid in Mos Eisley."

"Do banthas have horns?" He muttered.

She laughed. "I'll take that as a yes." The young Angel pushed a few buttons, pulled a lever, and took the steering controls in hand. "Get ready for a wild ride!"

He groaned again. "Didn't we just have this discussion?"

She laughed again. "Yes, we did. Now, don't be such a wuss, Obi." She gently nudged the ship's controls, taking off with surprising grace.

Obi-Wan sighed. "Well, that wasn't so bad."

She grinned devilishly. "You haven't seen anything yet!"

Obi-Wan closed his eyes, "Adeline-"

She flashed him a devilish grin and yanked on the controls, turning hard. Obi-Wan glared at her.

"Was that necessary?"

"Maybe," Adeline said, not denying or confirming his suspicions.

She flew toward Mos Eisley, jerking the controls once in a while just to get on his nerves. When at last she landed they threw on the smuggler clothes.

Adeline threw a cloak on over her shoulders as Obi-Wan said, "Stay close to me."

"I can take care of myself, remember?" Adeline snapped.

Obi-Wan sighed softly, "I know that. Just... humor me, okay?"

"Just this once, Kenobi."

Obi-Wan nodded, "Just this once."

Together, they walked into Mos Eisley. Adeline looked around suspiciously, as though expecting an attack. Obi-Wan put an arm around her, looking less concerned.

"Okay, so we either go to Jabba's now and stay there for the rest of the day, or we could go find you a droid and go later." Adeline whispered.

"Let's do something productive: the droid. It won't matter if we're at Jabba's Palace today, we won't get close to Sadira within a day, I would expect it to take about a week, if we're careful. And we might need the droid." Obi-Wan pointed out.

"Droid shopping it is!" Adeline grinned.