Okay I just want to spoil you all by giving another chapter on the day I publish this! Now you all enjoy this! I OWN NOTHING by the way…

Chapter 2-Who does she remind you of?

Eight years later…

On the main balcony of the palace, Obi-wan and Padme, now 8 years old, were playing around. Padme ran up behind him and grabbed his leg, giggling. She looked out to the city and valleys that spread past it.

"Wow," Padme said.

She let go of his leg and ran to the rail. However, Obi-wan swooped her up into his arms.

"Whoa. Where do you think you are going in such a hurry?" Obi-wan asked.

Padme tried to escape Obi-wan's grasp.

"Daddy!" she laughed. "Let go."

"Well, I just want to be careful," he said putting her down.

Padme chased after a butterfly; Obi-wan grabbed her dress holding her back.

"Padme, are you listening? Accidents can happen," he continued. "You could easily get hurt, or stepped…"

"Hurt, or stepped on, or even get lost," Padme said frowning.

"And remember…I want you to stay in sight of Pride City at all…"

"At all times, I know," Padme repeated the speech she had heard a thousand times. "And if I see any strangers, don't talk to them. Come straight home. Okay, okay. Can I go now? Please?"

Satine and Threepio walked out. Obi-wan let go of Padme and wrapped an arm around Satine.

"Hmm. Very funny," Obi-wan said.

Satine laughed gently. "Min your father, Padme."

"Yes, mom," Padme said then giggled.

"And stay away from the Outlands," Obi-wan said.

"Nothing there but a bunch of backstabbing, murderous Outsiders," Threepio said.

"C-3P0's right," Obi-wan said. "You can't turn your back on them."

"Really? How come?" Padme asked curious.

"Mmm…never mind," Obi-wan said. "Just run along now."

"But Dad, I…"

"You'll understand someday. Go on."

"Dad…"

Obi-wan gave her a hug then nudged her off. She started giggling and ran down the stairs to the courtyard below.

"And stay on the path I've marked for you!" Obi-wan called out.

Satine chuckled. "Obi, who does she remind you of?"

"Huh? What? Who?" Obi-wan asked cluelessly.

"She's just like you were when you were young," Satine said hugging his arm.

"Exactly," he said. "Do you realize the dangers we put ourselves in?"

Satine backed Obi-wan into the rail, their bodies pressed together.

"You mean the dangers you put us in," she said.

They chuckled then kissed. Satine pulled away after a few minutes.

"She'll be fine," she said. She left into the palace.

Obi-wan waited until she was out of earshot.

"Hey Rex, Cody. Come here," Obi-wan said.

They came from within the palace and walked toward him.

"Good morning, mon Capitan," Rex said.

"I want you to keep a close watch on Padme," obi-wan said. "You know she's bound to run off."

"No worries, obi-wan," Rex said. "We're on her like stink on a warthog."

"Hey!" Cody said feeling mad about the joke toward his home.

"It's the hard truth, Cody," Rex said. "Live with it."

"Guys, I'm counting on you," obi-wan said. "Danger could be lurking behind every corner."

Rex looked at Obi-wan, quizzically then took him mock-seriously.

"Ah hah," Rex said. Both he and Cody began looking theatrically from side to side. They both slipped away spy style.

Padme walked through the tall grass of the open savannah, chasing a butterfly.

"Hey! Wait! Come back! I just want to play!" Padme called at the butterfly. The butterfly landed on a rock. Padme crouched, grabbing her training saber, ready to attack. "Ah… the mighty hunter had cornered her prey." She snarled at the bug.

Padme pounced the bug onto a rock with an rising incline, from which she can see the outlands.

"Whoa…cool!" Padme said standing on the rock. "The outlands! I wonder what's out there…"

Suddenly, there was a rustling in the grass behind her. It drew Padme's attention. She turned as the grass separated.

Suddenly, Rex, Cody, and Padme screamed in shock. Padme was frightened backwards and fell off the far side of the knoll and into a pool below. Cody ran up the rock and prepared himself to jump in after her. Rex got up the rock a moment too late, as Cody had already jumped.

"Oh, don't worry, Padme," Cody called. "Uncle Cody's coming."

"Oh no…oh…oh…uh…let's see, uh…" Rex said to himself nervously. He then pretended like he was talking to Obi-wan. "Gee, Obi-wan. The good news is we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her. Is…there a problem with that?"

As for Cody, he was hopelessly looking around for Padme in the water.

"Padme? Padme?"

"Cody,' Rex called. "Let me define, "babysitting"!"

Cody immediately got up and found Padme underneath him, sputtering.

"Sorry," Cody said then offered her a hand up. Padme took it. "Now, Princess Padme as Obi-wan's daughter, you know better than to go off all alone. You could have been hurt!"

"But…but…" Padme tried to speak as Rex helped her out of the pool.

"Hurt!" Rex panicked. "Oh, Obi-wan would kill us! You didn't slip a disc, did ya?" Rex looked her over.

"B-but…" she tried to speak.

"Catch a fever? Get a hang nail?" Rex asked.

"Rex…" Padme said pushing him away.

"I had one once," he said.

"Very painful," Cody said.

"Excruciating," Rex said.

Rex then grabbed a part of a tree branch and pulled it over Padme, shading her.

"Darling with your complexion, you should stay out of the sun," Padme swatted away the branch. "What? Do you wanna wrinkle?"

"Would someone please just listen to me?" Padme begged.

"I'm sorry; I wasn't listening," Rex said. "Did you say something princess?"

"I'm not just a Princess, you know. That's only half of who I am!"

"Oh, uh… who's the other half?" Cody asked.

"Uh…well, I, uh… um…" Padme couldn't think of the word.

"Well, while you're figuring it out, let's eat," Rex said. He snapped his fingers and Cody lifted up a log. "Grubs!"

"The other white meat," Cody said dropping the log.

Rex offered Padme a leaf covered in bugs.

"And so high in protein," Rex added.

"Ew! Gross!" Padme said in disgust.

"No?" Rex turned to Cody. "How about you, big boy?"

Cody sniffed the leaf.

"Ah. Love grubs!" he said.

"Not like."

"Love!" They both said.

Rex tossed a bug into Cody's mouth; he crunched and coughed on it a little then hiccupped and spit the fragments back onto the leaf, coating them all with saliva.

"Oh…you always do that!" Rex said disgusted. "You take a bite out of each one then put it back. It drives me crazy!"

"But you can't tell from the outside which are the real slimy ones,' Cody said cleaning himself.

"Slimy?" Rex said shocked. "Cody, my corpulent compadre. It's the crunchy ones that make the meal."

"Slimy!" Cody said.

"Crunchy!" Rex said.

They repeated it back and forth.

"Less filling!" Cody said.

"Tastes good!" Rex said.

They repeated that too.

LOL! To be continued…