Hello!

Sorry for the hold up, but finally here're the next one and half chapters. I say one and half, because, 'tho I post them separately because of the different tones and subthemes, they're techically one chapter. Before going further, let me explain while did it take me so long to update with two such short chapters. But, first things first: StarwarsRocksMySocks, elle baybee, AldamonBurst, and Miss Annikin Starkiller thank you all for the reviews.

Miss Annikin Starkiller: Thank you very much for going into details of what you like about the story so far, and thanks for suggesting toning down Anakin's angst. I started to feel that I went overboard with it a bit, but my specualtion was that, he's ought to be angrier in a timeline where he lost his mom, and Padme within a day, so I figured he should be very close to his EP3 portrayal. I'll try to tone it down step by step, as his realtionship with Ahsoka develops.

So now my pathetic excuse for the late:

For once, I felt the idea I'm working on, is very farfetched from the SW universe, and it really took my confidence away, and it also started get complicated to synchronise it, with my earlier ideas. So I took it into account to ditch the whole thing, and go back to the original plans. This of course, would've resulted in rewriting the last 3 chapters quite a bit, for which I couldn't make up the strenght to do. Ultimately I decided to go along the path I choose for the story, so without further ado here it is!

I hope you'll like it! If you feel I went way out of my way with this idea, don't shy away, tell me, and I'll try my best to rebuild this part of the story.

SO PLEASE REVIEW!

It took quite a few minutes before Ahsoka looked up again to the Masters around her. She asked quietly:

„Why can't I remember any of this? I vaguely remember Nikana, the village, even your arrival Master Plo. But nothing of Sul and what happened to her." Plo crouched down to her, and put his hand on her shoulder.

„You had been asleep when Sul arrived, and most likely it was the screaming of the villagers, that woke you up. Besides you were very young, and probably even the seal I used has something to do with it." Ahsoka was speechless. Eversince she became Anakin's padawan, she dreamt about becoming his equal, but never hoped she could ever be as important or powerful as him. No that she heard this story, it made her wish she'd been an average Jedi –well if something like that was even possible. „Like I didn't have enough problems already." she risked a glance towards Anakin, but his face was unreadable. „No, stop it, don't think about him! I've got to concentrate to here!" She turned to Yoda, but before she could ask him, Master Ti spoke up.

„Sorry to interrupt, but I think it would be better if we moved to somewhere else. Ahsoka, I know this must've been a shock, but there are more things to discuss, and they need to be kept in perfect secrecy. Go, change your clothes, patch up your bruises, and calm your mind. We'll wait you in an hour, in the Council's meditation chamber. Skywalker, Master Plo, Master Yoda please come with me." with that she walked away. Yoda and Plo followed her, Anakin however hesitated. He wanted to make sure, that Ahsoka hadn't been seriously injured, but after what happened between them earlier, it felt really awkvard to stay alone with her. Ahsoka must've noticed his problem, because she whispered to him:

„Ana…Master I'm fine, please go ahead." from how cautiously she avoided eyecontact with him, as well as from that she wanted to, but ultimately did't call him on his first name, Anakin realised she felt even more uncomfortable about the thought of being left with him, than he himself. He nodded and turned towards the door, but before leaving he still managed to squeze a question out of himself:

„You sure, you're okay?" Ahsoka sighed

„You worry too much. Master Ti wasn't trying to hurt me."

„That's not just what I meant" Anakin wanted to say, but instead he nodded again, and bolted out from the Room of a Thousand Fountain.

Ahsoka waited until the door closed behind her Master, then laid back, staring at the ceiling. Her head was spinning, partially from the beating she took, but mainly from the story she heard. „What's going on here? Eversince I became a Padawan, I've always tried to keep things around me, under my control as well as I could, and it worked as many times as it didn't. But lately everything's been running wild around me, and I couldn't do a thing against that. I couldn't even control myself" she thought, remembering how she dismissed Anakin's warning about Ala, how she had run after those two, despite knowing it could've been suicide, and how she threw herself on Anakin just a few hours ago. And now, it turned out that –for Master Plo, and the residents of her home village at least- she's also some sort of „chosen one". She recalled what Master Plo said about the legend, that Nikana belived she'll fullfill:

„Therefore hie decided that, at the werge of that cataclysm, a person will come, who will have the power to pull back the universe from the edge of destruction. But Shili feared, that this person would be just as fallible, as the rest of hir creation. For this reason, a guardian will be sent, to guide, protect and keep him or her on the right path."

„Okay, this person, who can save the universe, is definitely refering to the Chosen One" Ahsoka thought „and if they belive that Anakin is the Chosen One, while I'm the Linarali… could it be that Master Yoda assigned me to him, because of this?" the idea made her seriously upset. It felt like the past one year was nothing but a lie. She didn't earn her staus as a Padawan, she wasn't chosen to be Anakin's apprentice, because of her achivements in her studies as a youngling, but because they wanted to assure the Chosen One's safety in the war, by pairing him up, with the one who's supposed to protect him anyway. „Didn't it occur to them, that I could barely do anything to protect him back then?" she asked herself clenching her teeth with anger „I almost got him killed on our very first mission!" she still remembered with shame, how stupidly she activated those guard droids at the shield generator, but for some reason the fact that, she got him out of that mass as well, didn't ease her this time.

„STOP THIS!" she yelled at herself mentally „Don't question Master Yoda's reasoning without knowing a thing! He's surely not the one to make decisions based on an ancient myth, from a planet forsaken by the Force."

„I better go. I dodn't want to keep them waiting. Besides, I'll go crazy, if I think about this for an other second."

„What was that about?" Anakin asked as he stepped into the meditation chamber. The three Masters already took their seats. He was speaking to Shaak Ti, who already put on her usual heavy robes above the provocative clothes.

„What do you mean?" the woman asked.

„Don't you think, Master Plo's given her more than enough to chew on? You should give her time to think, not throwing even more on her!"

„You're far too concerened for her, Skywalker." she said sharply „She's a Jedi, so she should be able to accept sudden news like this story. She can have time after I told her, what I have to. This is urgent. You senced the disturbace in the Force caused by her, didn't you?"

„Off course I did. Why…"

„I can quarantee that, every Force-sensitive in the Galaxy had felt it, 'tho might not as clearly as we did. Now take a seat, and calm yourself! I'll explain everything, once your Padawan arrived." Anakin really started to run out of patience, but bowed regardless and muttered an apology, before sitting down. While they were waiting, Anakin tried to meditate, but his thoughts were too scattered, runnig so wild, he struggled from trying to cover them from the Masters. When Ahsoka stepped in twenty minutes later, he felt extremely releaved –not least because she was wearing her new clothes, which weren't showing nearly as much as either her old ones, or the ones she wore during her fist-fight with Shaak Ti.

„Take a seat Padawan." the elder togruta said.