Hey! Here's the next chapter! As a post note, the grammar and punctuation is purposely wrong to fit Anakin's style of speaking and flow of feelings.


Ch3

Wizard! I've never ridden in such a fast star ship ever! I wish I could drive it but I can't something about me being too young. These people are weird on Tatooine if you could eat with no adult help you were an adult. Except sometimes when Mom decided I wasn't then the rules changed.

And Padme she's the Queens assistant she's super nice, if it were up to me I'd make her the Queen. It was so cold on the ship and she tucked me in and everything. She kinda reminds me of mom that way except much younger and prettier. Maybe that's how mom used to look when she was young.

And Qui Gon, he's this really awesome Jedi he must blitz like a gazillion bad guys just for breakfast. And he has this padawan and all he's cool too. His name is Kai but he keeps telling me to call him Padawan Shinshee all formal n and official'n stuff. But he doesn't look so good; on the inside I mean he feels sick kind of. I don't know how to explain it. Qui Gon promised to make me a Jedi but I don't know, he freed me n stuff but he left Mom. I don't get it. N'I promised that when I would be free with Mom I'd never call another man master. But it's all different now. Qui Gon's nice but Mom told me not to trust the words of strangers but their actions, cause people lie a lot. N'If being a Jedi means being like Kai then maybe I don't wanna be a Jedi.

Kai is very good with machines. I can tell. I don't know how this model works exactly but I can get a good feel of it. I walk into the cockpit it's on auto pilot now and Kai's just sitting there.

"Um Master Kai?" I say hesitantly and slide into the copilot seat. I'm still kinda small so my feet are dangling over the edge of the chair. I'm kinda scared of him but only a little. He's got this black short hair and these scary black eyes like he has no irizes or whatever their called. N'he looks like one of those slaves that get beaten a lot, the dead eye look. N' I just wanna give him a hug. Mom would approve really. She's like the remedial nurse. It's why Watto keeps her. She's good with people, me not so much. Watto makes a lot of money for her work since she gets called almost every day to the mines. She tells me about the people sometimes and sometimes she hugs me and cries and tells me that our life is a blessing to what they're going through and she's glad cause I'm good with machines'n will never get sent to that horrible place. N'I'm glad cause she's glad and I cry cause she's sad but I don't know what to say so I just hug her.

"Padawan Shinshee," he corrects me sighing.

"Um, are you okay I mean? Do you need a doctor?" Watto never called a doctor when I was sick and the vet only when I was super sick and when Mom couldn't do anything about it which only happened once, and I wasn't really sick I just felt like something was choking me something dark. N'Then a huge sandstorm came and Mom said maybe it was that. N'that I was like a seasoned sand ranger like in the stories Edno used to tell cause his dead was a big time bounty hunter, on Tatooine anyway.

Kai frowned. I must've said something wrong. "No," he bit his lower lip, "I'm fine." After what like seemed a light year he finally continued. "I heard about your pod race, it must have been something."

"Oh yes it was!" I answer excitedly. N'I told him the whole story N'about the pod race N'about how Qui Gon freed me. N'hese like the most wizard listener he stopped me at all the right times and asked me about all the models N'he whistled when I described the best ones N'it was like we were the bestest friends and had known each other for years. Then I asked him about the star ship and he told me all about it and he was about to explain how the jump to light speed worked in technical terms when he got this hazy look in his eye like he was gonna pass out any second now. N'he got up all shaky and I did something stupid cause I'm bad with people N'I hugged him tight cause that's what Mom did when I felt sick, except he was way bigger than me and I hadn't thought of that. N'he came nearly crashing down N'all. And a few images were pushed like into my mind and I wanted to throw up cause it looked like he had been working in a mine very recently N'I wanted so much to forget N'then Qui Gon rushed in like he felt something was wrong. N'I couldn't see much after that cause something was in my eyes and I wasn't crying not at all cause Jedi aren't supposed to cry they're suppose make things better. N'Padame was there and somehow I ended up in the small lounge of the ship. She tucked me in all nice like Mom does it well almost cause Padme did it much neater when she folded the edges all nice an proper.

"Shhh, Ani what's wrong? Don't worry Kai is a Jedi he'll be fine." She said all nice and sweet. But he couldn't tell her no, cause the things he saw looked very private N'he couldn't betray Kai not like that not when they just became bestest friends N'all. So he shook his head and Padme didn't pry just like mom wouldn't when he didn't want to talk. And suddenly he missed her very much. And he wanted to go home. And maybe Kai could quit being a Jedi and open a shop and buy Mom'n free her and they could live together as a family and Qui Gon and Padme would visit them too and they would all be happy.

The waiting was like forever'n he was way too scared to ask himself, what if him hugging Kai had made it worse? Qui Gon walked into the room all calm and serene like Jedi are supposed to be. He shot up instantly. "Kai will be fine," Qui Gon sighed. "But Master Qui Gon sir is Kai like me? Did you save him from slavery too?"

"No Anakin" Qui Gon said stroking his beard. He did that a lot. "We were on a mission undercover."

"But I thought Jedi blitzed the bad guys," It didn't make any poodo amount of sense Jedi weren't miners. "But why?"

Qui Gon sighed, "Sometimes it's necessary to find out who the real bad guy is."

"But aren't they all responsible I mean their all bad those people who put other's in chains an make em work?"

Qui Gon ruffled my hair, the way Mom did except she never made it that messy, it felt good. Like the way Edno's dad messed up Edno's hair. Many of the other kid's dads were either dead or working day and night. Sometimes he wished he could have one of those dad's at least he'd see em once in a while or at least know what he'd looked like. He tried to ask Mom once but she got all quiet'n he didn't have a dad so he couldn't lose her too'n he didn't want her to be said so it was okay kind off.

"Not all of them are guilty, maybe some of them had families, or a mom they were afraid to lose, and they were forced to hurt others to protect themselves."

That made sense sort off but still couldn't Jedi like mind read them and then blitz all bad guys? He was about to ask but one of the Queens maidens said Kai was stabilized. Yipeee now Kai can tell me all about how the jump to light speed works!