"You're worried?" Anakin asked.
"Yes", Farah answered, concentrating on the steering.
"Don't worry, they'll be fine", Anakin said with a smile. "Trust me."
Farah sighed and nodded.
"I guess", she said and turned towards the Senator. "Should we take you to the Senate immediately?"
"That would be great", she answered. "Senator Organa of Aldeeran will be there, so you won't have to walk in with me."
"I believe we should", Anakin said calmly. The females looked at him in surprise.
"Just a feeling I got", Anakin explained. "But when a Jedi gets a feeling…"
"You should follow it", Farah muttered. "My Master usually tells me that."
"Mine too", Anakin grinned. "He always has 'a bad feeling' about me flying him around on Coruscant. I believe he's right to have that feeling."
Farah laughed, before she once again concentrated on steering the ship smoothly through the clouds and houses of Coruscant. Soon, they could see the Senate in front of them. Padmé rose and walked out from the cockpit and was the first one to step out of the ship when it was put down on the ground. Farah and Anakin had to run to get up by her sides.
"I would be surprised if someone…" the Senator began, but she was interrupted by a masked man who suddenly emerged from behind a pillar. Before any of them really understood what was going on, he fired a large, red energy-ball towards the Senator.
Anakin was the first one who reacted and just managed to get out his lightsaber and block the shot. The next moment he ran off to catch the man.
"Make sure she's safe!" he called to Farah, who already had begun to pull Padmé back out of the Senate. They ran onboard the ship and flew away from the Senate. The younger Jedi's heart raced. What was all this about? Why did they all want to kill Senator Amidala?
"Where are we going?" Padmé asked and sat down next to Farah.
"We need to get to the Temple, they might be able to help us and there you'll be safe", Farah answered, before she used telepathy to contact her Master. "Master, there's an attack in the Senate!"
"What?" Sandra answered while grabbing a comradio in the ship. "Farah, you need to get the Senator away from there!"
"We're on the way to the Temple", Farah answered. "Where are you?"
The comradio sounded really weird and Farah wrinkled her forehead in surprise.
"Master?"
"Farah! Do you hear me! Farah!"
The panic in her Master's voice made Farah's heart race once again.
"Master! I hear you!"
There was no answer, just a scream and then silence. Farah looked terrified as she looked up at Padmé, who looked just as terrified.
"Something must've happened", Padmé said in a voice that was merely a whisper. Farah nodded, before she used telepathy to contact Anakin.
"You've got him?"
"No, he's quite fast", Anakin answered as he continued the chase. "Hopefully he'll get tired soon, or I will give up on this."
He sounded really irritated and Farah fought to keep her tears away. She had sensed danger in that man.
"Anakin, I beg you, don't give up", she said. "For both of us, don't give up… I love you."
"What?"
Anakin sounded really confused and Farah thought that she had sensed the wrong thing in him. Her heart dropped down into her boots.
"I… I thought you felt the same", she said.
"What? Of course I… I mean… ah, blasters! Of course I love you!"
He continued the chase with a lighter heart and a smile on his face. She loved him! They were still one! He laughed when he caught the masked man and twisted him around.
"Now, tell me what you want with Senator Amidala", he said.
"Do you really think I would tell a Jedi-Scum like you that?" the man answered in a harsh voice. Anakin pulled up his lightsaber once again and ignited it in front of the man's face.
"Actually, I do think that", he whispered. Suddenly he felt the presence of more people and he looked up. About twenty other masked men stood around him with blasters and other weapons. As they started to shoot at him, he threw the man away and had to retreat while blocking the shots.
"Master Windu!" he managed to call in a comradio that he held in one hand. "There's an attack in the Senate!"
The next moment a shot hit him and he fell down on the floor, coughing.
"Where is the Senator?" the leader hissed. Anakin looked up at him while trying to stop the blood from his side.
"I'll never tell you", he whispered.
"Tell us, or we'll kill the woman you love!" the man bellowed. Anakin must've looked terrified, because the next moment the man started to laugh.
"We're telepathic, we were able to read your little conversation", he said. "So, tell us where the Senator is, or your love will die."
"I will never betray either of them", Anakin answered. The man's eyes darkened behind the mask.
"Foolish boy! Don't make me kill you!"