Here it is! The ninth chapter! This one was a little harder to write than the others :( but I think it came out ok! I hope you enjoy!
Anakin and Ahsoka walked into the piloting area where all the clones were sitting. Rex heard them enter and turned to see them. He noticed something was different about them.
"We should be arriving at Ccarlac any moment now, general." Rex said putting his helmet on as he stood to get out of the pilot seat.
Anakin nodded and sat in the pilot seat taking the controls.
All the men were preparing their gear. Some were scruffing up their armor with a blackish, greenish, brownish paint like substance to give them a little better camouflage.
As the ship came out of hyper space, Carlac came into view.
"There it is, the snow infested space ball." Ahsoka said jokingly.
Anakin smirked at her sarcasm.
The ship landed just a few miles away from the droid base.
"Rex, are you and your men ready?" Anakin asked getting up from his seat and turning to face Rex.
"Yes sir!" Rex replied straightening up.
"Ahsoka.." Anakin said turning to her.
"Hm?" Ahsoka asked, she hadn't been paying attention, she was lost in thought thinking about the last time she had visited this ice ball.
"Rex, I think me and Ahsoka need to talk in private." He said
Rex nodded and led the men out.
"Ahsoka, I know you didn't have to great of a past here but you have to put your past behind you" He said putting a hand on her shoulder.
"I know master" She said looking at him.
"Then what is it?" He asked concerned.
"I since a familiar presence, one I haven't felt for a while.." She said closing her eyes trying to make out who it was.
"Well…stay sharp and keep your eyes open…" He said looking at her more concerned.
"Yes master" She said as they both turned to exit the room.
"The men are ready and waiting general!" Rex said as he turned to face the two jedi as they entered the room.
"Good," He said walking over to a control panel on the wall,"Lets go." He said as he pressed the bottom opening the door releasing all the warm air out and letting all the cold air in.
"You heard the general men now lets move!" Rex said motioning his hand.
"Captain, our guest have arrived." Dooku said as he faced the big window with his eyes closed and his arms crossed behind his back.
"What do we do?" The droid said with his very high pitch mechanical voice.
"Prepare your men for battle, Skywalker is very bold, he is known to do the unexpected." Dooku said as he turned and started to walk to his desk.
"But sir only a small cargo ship landed.?" The droid said slightly confused as to why they should be in invasion formation under all circumstances.
"Yes, but a jedi knight was on that ship." He said ignoring the droids ignorance.
"Should we send a squad out to check it out?" The droid asked.
"No, we will let him come to us, when you have captured the jedi I want you to bring him to me, exterminate the rest." He said finishing the conversation.
"Roger roger." The droid replied a he turned and walked out the door.
The crew walked in the thick snow without saying a word. Anakin noticed Ahsoka growing more uneasy as they got closer to their objective.
"Is everything alright?" Anakin said without turning to look at her.
She took a glance towards him but turned her head almost as soon as she could make out his face.
"Yes, the presence I felt earlier is much stronger than before and has become more clear.." She said closing her eyes and putting a hand of her head trying to think who it might be. It couldn't be Lux, he had left and moved onward.
"Can you make out who it is?" Anakin asked turning to look at her now.
"No." She said opening her eyes and taking her hand off her head as she looked at the brisk white snow.
They walked in silence once again. Ahsoka's nose was becoming red and runny, as was Anakin's. The cold wind beat hard down on their bear faces, all except for the clones who's heads were covered by their helmets.
I seemed as if they had walked for hours but in reality they had only walked about 45 minutes. All of them were becoming tired and cold, the thick snow was a struggle to walk threw and the wind grew harsher and harsher as night grew near.
"Hold up men, we will be camping here for the night, so lets set up the tents." Anakin said turning and holding his fist up in the stop signal.
Their were seven people in the group and only three tents which ment three clones would be in one tent, Anakin and Rex would be in another, and Ahsoka, being a girl, would have her own private tent.
While a few set up the tents, the rest gathered wood for a fire, if they could get one started.
By the time they had the tents set and ready and had the fire going, night had fallen into a deep dark star filled night.
They sat around the fire talking and cutting up. Some were eating and some were making jokes; Ahsoka, on the other hand, was just sitting there alone on a log bent over with her elbows on her knees as she moved a stick threw the snow drawing little pictures.
She couldn't stop thinking about the last time she had been here and the presence that had occupied her thoughts earlier.
Anakin looked up laughing at a joke one of the troopers had told and noticed his padawan sitting all by herself.
As he got up to walk over to her he told Rex he would be back.
He sat beside her watching as she drew little pictures and tried to enter her thoughts to see what was on her mind.
"Master, I have my thoughts shielded this time.." She said not even looking up or smiling.
"Oh.." He said looking into the fire,"Ahsoka, everything will be alright." He said as he scooted closer to her putting a arm on her shoulder.
"I know, I've heard you say that a million times" She said pushing a small grin on her face.
"And how does it turn out?" He asked taking his hand off her shoulder to cross his arms to keep warm.
"Well, most of the time, bad" She said turning to smile at him this time.
"Haha very funny, Snips" He said," Ahsoka your young, and if you think it's hard now, you just wait until you get old like your master…" He said chuckling at his calling himself old.
She let a small laugh.
"Did you ever have troubles like this when you were my age?" She finally blurted out.
"Yes, I had dreams of my mothers death, they came quit oftenly.." He said his eyes starting to swell from fighting back tears.
"What about your…..love life…." She finally blurted out saying the last part fast.
"What?" Anakin asked nervously as he started to shake a little.
"You said you liked senator Amidala when you were a padawan, how did all that turn out?" She asked very curious.
"Umm.." He said shielding his thoughts just in case she tried to read them,"We..became really close friends!"
"Really? How close?" She said smiling, she knew she was onto something.
"Close!" Anakin said with a little more volume in his voice, he didn't want to give away the secret of he and Padme's marriage.
"OK! Sheesh! Calm down Skyguy!" She said shocked.
"I'm sorry I had no reason to yell" He said .
"It's ok, getting in trouble is what I'm best at!" She said smiling.
Anakin smiled as he got up to speak to the men.
"Ok men, we have a long day ahead of us, so lets get some shut eye!" He said.
"Sir yes sir!" The clones replied in unison.
Ahsoka was just about to enter her tent when she heard Anakin talking to her.
"Ahsoka!" He yelled as she turned to face him,"Don't worry" He said winking at her.
"I'll try" She said smiling back as he turned to walk to he and Rex's tent.
She stood there and watched as he went into the tent and then turned to enter her own
Uh oh! Ahsoka's starting to get more clues about Anakin and Padme's secret marriage! Will Anakin tell her or let her find out for herself? I guess we will just have to wait and see! :D