missing scene between the episodes Lawless and Sabotage. In the show we see Obi-wan leave Mandalore and then the next time we see him he's in the Council chambers. Always the patient Jedi Master even after everything he's been through.

It crashed over her like a wave, ice cold fury, fear, jealousy, agony. Something evil was battling in Sundari, evil and powerful. It was fueling the battles all over the city and even as Soniee rose through the atmosphere further from the surface, she felt it fueling something within herself as well.

She was angry, more than angry. She glanced over at the helmet in the co-pilot's seat. Bo-Katan had lied to her. She never meant for Soniee to come back to the Academy after this mission. She was trying to get rid of her. Soniee was a force user. They didn't trust her. She was unpredictable. They were afraid of her, afraid that she would lead Maul right to them.

She felt guilty and scared. Maybe she would have led the Sith to her friends. Still she wished she could be with Korkie right now. Who would tell him about his mother? Who would comfort him?

Then the anger returned, a spike of white hot hatred. Her passenger, that man, that Jedi hadn't been powerful enough to save the Duchess. Obi-wan Kenobi had as good as killed her himself.

Some primal survival instinct allowed Soniee to secure the fighter in orbit before she took her hands off the controls and then she stood and turned to face the cabin. Almost blind with rage she raised her hands and the door swished open. She felt the electricity dancing between her fingers and she was prepared to send the Jedi a blast of the only thing he deserved, vengeance.

And then, he was standing directly in front of her. His hands were clamped around both of her wrists. She slumped forward, panting as the powerful emotions drained from her, leaving her feeling weak. "I'm - so sorry, Master Kenobi. I - don't know - I didn't mean..."

"It's alright. I felt it too." He kept a hold of her to steady her. "I thought for a moment that they had sent someone here to finish me off but I don't believe that was your intention. You were only caught up in it. Am I correct?"

Soniee nodded. The waterworks burst forth then, tears and wracking sobs and before the poor man could do anything to object she threw her arms around him and hugged him. "We tried... and... I'm so sorry... I know it wasn't your fault. But Korkie..." She hiccuped a sob. "I should be with him when he finds out his mother..." She stopped, suddenly frozen, shaken only by another hiccup.

Kenobi gingerly returned her hug and then politely set her back at a short distance once again. "You mean he thought of Satine as his mother?"

"Y-yes?" Soniee wobbled.

"The news will be very hard on him I'm sure. You're a friend of his?"

"I am - was a student at the Academy. We, Korkie and I and a couple of the others were working with Bo-Katan to... help... but this must be terrible for you too," She wiped her tears on the sleeve of her coveralls, smearing a spot of grease from her cheek across the bridge of her nose. "You'll do some sort of Jedi thing to lock it away but... you did love her."

He cleared his throat and looked out the cockpit window. He wasn't looking at Concordia as it came into view in their orbit, but somewhere far beyond it.

Then she remembered, "Coruscant! I'm supposed to get you there." Soniee plopped down into her pilot's chair, finished her hyperjump calculations, and engaged the engine. The stars stretched into the blue of hyperspace and she sat silently, reveling in the quiet after the cacophony of thoughts and emotions that were especially heightened in the battle that was still raging on Mandalore.

As she looked out she noticed the reflection of her passenger. He was stroking his beard and thinking. It made her smile sadly, reminding her so much of Korkie. She pushed back the thought wondering how much the Jedi Master could pluck from her mind and feeling that it wasn't her place to reveal the secret if the Duchess herself hadn't seen fit.

She got a glimpse at her own reflection then. Soniee scrubbed at the grease on her nose with her sleeve. She must look very young to the Jedi in her oversized coveralls. She wondered if he trusted her skills as a pilot. She was around the same age as Ahsoka though and the Padawn was a commander in the Grand Army of the Republic.

"H-how's Padawan Ahsoka?" she asked in an attempt at conversation.

Kenobi frowned for a moment bringing his thoughts back to her question. "She's well, I assume. On assignment with Anakin and the 501st."

Soniee guessed that Anakin was General Skywalker but she wasn't sure about the 501st. He seemed distracted. Well of course he was distracted.

He looked curiously at her then. "You were in the class she came to instruct?"

She nodded. "My name is Soniee."

"It's a pleasure to meet you. She didn't say anything about there being a force user among her students."

"I had never told anyone." She suddenly felt shy.

"Surely she would have noticed. You seem to have an exceptional amount of power for one, untrained?"

"Well I-I've always been able to - move things." She waved a hand at the co-pilot's chair and it spun in a full turn. "And I can sense feelings and thoughts sometimes..."

"Especially people you are close to?"

"Mm-hmm," she nodded again feeling a little more confident. "Sometimes it's so loud in my head. It's overwhelming, all the sensations, all the emotions. Out here it's nice though, quiet."

A smile quirked at the corner of his mouth. "I can imagine in an Academy full of adolescent hormones how that could be quite distracting."

Soniee blushed. "It's been awful though, since all the trouble began. The people of Sundari in the streets, the mobs, the deathwatch, Viszla and then those," She looked up at him unsure of what his reaction would be to the word. "Sith?"

"Yes." Kenobi began to pace the small cockpit. "Might I guess that you had never used your powers for attack until they arrived?"

Soniee shook her head. She hadn't made that connection before. "No never before then."

"And you hurt someone?"

"They killed Amis! They would have killed Korkie!" She would do it again if it meant saving them.

A look of somber understanding came into his eyes. "You drew on your fear and your anger to protect your friends." It was more of a statement than a question. Then he surprised her by kneeling in front of her chair and taking her hand. "You called on the Dark Side of the Force. If you had been trained in the Temple you would have known how very dangerous that is."

She nodded, tears filling her eyes again.

"Now, it's not your fault. You can still be taught to resist the Dark Side and you can learn to control the sensations that overwhelm your mind." There was a very familiar look in his eyes as he blanketed her mind with a sense of calm.

"Korkie helped me control it sometimes."

He stood, seemingly intrigued. "Yet, the young man has no Force abilities of his own?"

"N-no," she said treading carefully around the subject. "But it could have been in his family."

"Why would you say that?"

"Well he, he never met his father. I suppose it's possible..."

Kenobi gave her a searching look but he didn't pursue the question any longer and returned to the original subject. "If you are close to the boy it's possible that your ability to focus on him is what gave you a measure of control over the outside stimulation."

She blushed again thinking of just how close she and 'the boy' had become in just the past 24 hours. "Yes, I suppose that's possible."

The Jedi Master raised an eyebrow. "Hmm. I think it's time you learned to meditate properly. How long till we drop out of hyperspace?"

Soniee looked at the console "Two point three seven..."

"We should be able to make a good start of it then. Come on." Kenobi beckoned for her to follow him into the cabin.

She watched him go and then looked back at the console and out the window. "But what if we're still practicing when we reach real space?"

"Did you do the calculations correctly?"

"Yes, of course but..." She worried. She was thinking of the story she had been told of her birth mother dropping out of hyperspace into a firefight.

"Then we'll just have to be mindful of our surroundings while we're meditating. That is an important part of the process."

She took a deep breath and then followed him into the cabin. "Alright."

He sat on the floor with legs crossed and gestured for her to do the same.

She lowered herself and tried to copy his serene posture, with hands rested lightly on her knees. Her fingers fidgeted and she tried attempted to still them.

"Now close your eyes and clear your mind." He instructed. "You must be mindful but empty, like a cup to be filled."

Mindful but mind empty? Yeah, that made sense. He might as well have told her not to think about a raging bantha in the room.

She did try, but as soon as her mind had calmed somewhat her fingers set up a mad tattoo against her knee once again. She heaved an impatient sigh and opened one eye to look at the Master.

His eyes were still closed but he was smiling. "I've seen some of the Jedi at the temple hold a strand of beads or a logic puzzle to manipulate with their hands to let their minds focus more freely."

Both her eyes snapped open. "That sounds like it would be so much easier. I've always been able to focus better when I have something to keep my hands busy..."

"Unfortunately we have neither of those things with us at the moment so you're going to have to practice without them." He gave her a quick wink before the emotion dropped from his expression once again.

"Yes Master." The expression fell so easily from her lips even though he was not her master and she was not his padawan. After that however they both relaxed a bit more into the lesson. She closed her eyes and her breathing became more measured.

"Now," he said quietly. "Repeat after me: There is no emotion, there is peace."

Soniee repeated the words and though they had no power in themselves, she did begin to sense the Force swirling around her like a warm breeze.

"There is no ignorance, there is knowledge."

Kenobi continued to lead her through the tenants of the Jedi Code.

"There is no passion, there is serenity."

Soniee shivered remembering the passion that had seemed to overtake her when she had accidentally called on the dark side of the Force. There was still power in the serenity, she realized, and she allowed it to surround her.

"There is no chaos, there is harmony."

She thought of the people chanting in the streets of Sundari. There had been a kind of music to it. Could she use that comparison to still her mind when faced with the crowds on Coruscant?

"There is no death..." He faltered on the word and Soniee knew he was thinking of Duchess Satine.

With her eyes still closed and not entirely sure why she was doing it, she raised her hand toward him and caught his hand in the space between them. She had wanted to be with Korkie to comfort him in his time of sorrow but now she knew that she had been led to exactly the place and time where she was needed most.

With hands clasped they finished the words in unison, "There is the Force."