Thank you to the 22 people who reviewed the last chapter and I hope that you like this chapter. This chapter is going to lead into the Clone Wars movie arc of my story and completely ignores the Cat and Mouse episode from season two. Oh and there is no fixed timeline of this story so events are not going to be in the order they were in canon at least date wise. They will be in order episode and event wise though. Also, on another note, many of the episodes and events I use in this part will be different from what they are in canon and I'm not just talking about Obi-Wan's meddling.

Part Two : The Clone Wars

Chapter 11

Six months later...

Obi-Wan walked down the many twists and turns of the Jedi Temple deep in thought. It seemed like only yesterday that the Clone Wars began and yet six months had already gone by. A lot had happened in the last six months including the event that took Siri Tachi's life last time. This, however, Obi-Wan managed to prevent Siri's death and he was glad that Siri's death was among the things that he could change about the future.

Sighing, Obi-Wan slipped into the Room of a Thousand Fountains. He was alone but that suited him perfectly because it meant that he would have some time to be alone with his thoughts. He sat beside one of the fountains before closing his eyes and slipping into a meditative trance. So much had occurred in the last six months that Obi-Wan was still attempting to wrap his mind around it. Saving Siri's life when Magus would have killed her was actually one of the very few things Obi-Wan was able to change; other events, like Praestilyn two months earlier, occurred exactly as they were meant to occur and Obi-Wan had to remind himself of Qui-Gon's words; just because the Force sent him to the past to change the future didn't mean he was sent to the past to change every single thing.

"Mind if I join you?"

Obi-Wan opened his eyes before glancing up as Siri came to a stop at his side her bright blue eyes examining him. "I don't mind," he replied gesturing to the spot next to him. The beautiful blonde Jedi sat down beside Obi-Wan before slipping into a meditative trance of her own.

Obi-Wan closed his eyes comforted with Siri's presence at his side. As he meditated, he found himself thinking about Qui-Gon's words; the dark is generous, it is patient and it always wins. But in its strength lies weakness. One lone candle is enough to hold it back. Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars. Obi-Wan still didn't understand as to what his former Jedi Master's words meant but he was attempting to figure it out. When Qui-Gon said dark, he could have meant the dark side of the Force. That meant that the lone candle must be a metaphor to indicate the light side of the force, or at least a flicker of it. Did that mean that love was more than just a flicker of the light side of the Force? Obi-Wan did not know.

"Credit for your thoughts, Obi-Wan?" Siri asked curiously.

Obi-Wan let a small smile grace his face. "I've been thinking about Anakin's Knighting Ceremony," he lied easily.

"Ah yes. He was knighted recently right?"

"Only a week ago after his actions on Praestilyn," replied Obi-Wan.

"Where is he anyway? I haven't seen him around."

Obi-Wan knew Anakin was visiting his wife but he couldn't say that to Siri. "I do not know where he is," he said. "He's probably just resting or training."

"Maybe." Siri pulled herself from her meditative trance and opened her eyes. "Ferus just contacted me. He wants to spar. I'll see you later."

Obi-Wan nodded a goodbye to his friend before watching as the beautiful Jedi walked away. When she was gone, Obi-Wan got to his feet before stretching out with the Force to his former apprentice's Force presence.

'What is it, Master?' Anakin asked through the Force.

'It might be best if you return to the Temple, Anakin, before too many Jedi become suspicious,' Obi-Wan sent back.

There was a long moment of silence. 'All right, I'm on my way back,' Anakin said before he fell silent and Obi-Wan walked out of the Room of a Thousand Fountains. He started walking to his apartment but decided to check on the Jedi Initiates. If he was timing it right then his and Anakin's mission to Christophsis would be coming up in a couple of weeks. It was during the mission to Christophsis that Anakin was given an apprentice and Obi-Wan still wanted Anakin to meet Ahsoka before he went to Yoda about his suggestion like he did last time.

Obi-Wan walked to the doorway where Master Yoda was teaching the initiates and Yoda glanced at him before inclining his head in greeting. "Brings you here what does, Obi-Wan?' he asked.

"I decided to watch the initiates train," Obi-Wan replied.

"Looking for a new Padawan are you, hmm?" Yoda asked.

"Perhaps," Obi-Wan replied watching Ahsoka although he noticed his eyes kept drifting to Jenica Narak as the dark haired Jedi Initiate meditated beside Ahsoka. "However, Anakin was only knighted two months ago. I am thinking about it though." In truth, Obi-Wan was; he wouldn't mind having another apprentice but he didn't like the thought of taking a young Padawan in the midst of a war.

Yoda nodded. "Grown into a fine young Jedi Knight Skywalker has," he said.

Obi-Wan remembered that Yoda had said Anakin's future was shrouded in shadows and he couldn't help but wonder how Anakin's future was looking now. "Out of curiosity, Master Yoda, how is Anakin's future looking now?" he asked casually.

Yoda closed his eyes before stretching out with the Force. "No longer as shrouded in shadows is young Skywalker's future. Clearer it has become."

It looks like I am making some progress, Obi-Wan thought.

Yoda's beady green eyes opened. "Proud of him you should be, Obi-Wan," he said.

Obi-Wan smiled faintly. "I am very proud of him, Master Yoda," he replied before he returned his attention to Ahsoka and Jenica.

Anakin walked down the corridor of the Jedi Temple heading toward the training room where he was supposed to meet his former master. He had left Padmé only twenty minutes earlier and, thanks to Obi-Wan's warning, managed to return to the Jedi Temple before too many people got suspicious.

Anakin continued to walk and passed by one of the training rooms where a group of Initiates were practicing. He paused when he spotted a young Togruta flip over her dark-haired human opponent and nearly land a blow on her shoulder had the dark-haired human hadn't lifted her training blade to block the blow. The young Togruta didn't let that stop her as she spun around and landed a glancing blow against her opponent's side.

"Good, very good," Yoda's voice said. "Passed the last initiate test you have. Chosen by or assigned to a master you may be soon. Done well you have. Rest you may."

"Yes Master Yoda," the Initiates said at the same time and Anakin noticed that he couldn't help but examine the young Togruta Initiate. Anakin locked eyes with the Togruta Initiate briefly before she inclined her head in polite greeting and followed her companion and the other Initiates out of the room.

"Brings you here what does, Skywalker?" Yoda asked glancing at Anakin as he walked out of the room just behind the group of Initiates as they made their way back to the crèche.

"Er…I was actually on my way to meet with Obi-Wan, Master Yoda," Anakin admitted. "Then I caught sight of the Initiates training and I decided to watch for a bit."

Yoda nodded. "Thinking of taking on a Padawan are you?" he asked.

Anakin resisted the urge to snort in front of the old Jedi Master. "No," he said with a shake of his head. A Padawan would just slow me down, he thought but didn't dare repeat his thought out loud.

"Train a youngling a difficult challenge it is. Feel ready you do not, hmmm?"

Anakin was silent for a long moment before he shook his head. "I'm too newly knighted," he said finally.

"Ah but newly knighted Obi-Wan was when took you as his Padawan he did," Yoda reminded me.

Anakin thought about his master; the man who had become his brother in everything but blood; the man he trusted with his life and the secrets that he kept from everyone else within the Jedi Order. He knew that Obi-Wan had only been knighted a day or so before he took Anakin as his Padawan.

"That's different," he said.

"How so?"

"It's just…well…" Anakin couldn't think of a reason why Obi-Wan taking him as his apprentice so soon after he was knighted was different.

Yoda let out a small chuckle. "Think of a reason you cannot, yes?"

Defeated, Anakin shook his head.

Yoda tapped his gimer stick on the ground. "Think about it, you should, Skywalker. Benefit from having a Padawan you can."

"Yes Master Yoda." Anakin lowered his head before watching as Yoda walked away down the corridor and turned around before making his way toward the training room where he was supposed to meet his former Jedi Master.

Obi-Wan was sitting on the bench next to the wall in the training room when Anakin entered it and he glanced up before a faint smile crossed his facial features. "You're late," he said standing up.

"Sorry master," Anakin replied. "I just got a bit sidetracked."

Obi-Wan simply raised his eyebrows but said nothing in response as he unclipped his lightsaber from his belt and walked to the center of the training room. "Ready?" he asked igniting the azure blade.

Anakin unclipped his lightsaber from his belt before igniting it. "Be ready to lose, old man," he said falling into the Ataru ready stance he was so familiar with. Obi-Wan had commented that Anakin took after Qui-Gon when it came to which form he preferred to use.

Obi-Wan rolled his eyes. "This old man is not going to lose, youngling," he said falling into the Soresu ready stance that Anakin had seen him use against Dooku six months earlier. Anakin had only been semi-conscious during that duel but he did see that if Obi-Wan hadn't made that one mistake then he would have won the duel.

The two of them dueled for the next half hour but it was clear by the end of the duel that Obi-Wan was still the better duelist. However, it also showed that Anakin was getting better as he nearly beat Obi-Wan a few times had his former master not managed to parry the thrusts and slashes that would have won Anakin the duel.

Anakin was amazed; it seemed that Obi-Wan was an even better duelist than Anakin remembered. Immediately, suspicion crawled through Anakin's veins as Obi-Wan calmly deactivated the lightsaber and clipped it to his belt. He returned his lightsaber to his belt as he examined his former master.

Obi-Wan raised an eyebrow. "What is it, Anakin?" he asked patiently.

"Nothing." Anakin said quickly not wanting to reveal his suspicions to his former master only because he was unsure as to why he was feeling suspicious just because Obi-Wan was a better swordsman than he was before Geonosis.

Obi-Wan merely gazed at Anakin until Anakin looked away feeling uncomfortable under his former master's penetrating gaze. "Why don't we go get something to eat?" he suggested apparently deciding to change the subject.

Anakin let a smile cross his face as he turned his gaze to his brother. "Dex's?" he asked.

Obi-Wan grinned. "You're buying," he said.

"Why me?"

"You lost the duel. Wasn't that the standing arrangement?"

Kriff, I thought he had forgotten about that, Anakin thought. "All right, fine," he said. "But next time, you're buying."

"Only if you beat me."

Anakin glowered at Obi-Wan who merely smiled amusement glimmering in his gray-blue eyes as he added, "It was the standing arrangement after all."

"Yes, yes, you don't need to remind me," Anakin grumbled before he and Obi-Wan walked out of the training room and down the brightly lit corridor.

One week passed by and Obi-Wan sighed as he made his way down the corridor with Anakin on his side toward the Jedi War Room. He had a feeling he knew of what was coming. He couldn't even think of anything about the upcoming missions that he could change other than reminding Anakin that he couldn't have any contact with his mother while on Tatooine.

Obi-Wan's lips twisted into a frown. I am already letting Anakin have an attachment with Padmé so why shouldn't I let him have an attachment with his mother? He thought before another question crossed his mind as he thought about the love Anakin had for both Padmé and his mother.

Were love and attachment the same thing?

Obi-Wan realized that if he didn't have knowledge of the future and Qui-Gon's words echoing around in the vaults of his mind, he would have said yes. But, now that he has had time to actually sit down and analyze Qui-Gon's words, he was beginning to realize that attachment and love were not the same thing. Love was when you cared for some unconditionally while attachment was when you cared about someone so much that you turned possessive rather than unconditional.

That being said, Obi-Wan was beginning to believe that love was the core of the light side of the Force, which was why it could hold the darkness at bay, while attachment was on the borderline of the dark side of the Force. He couldn't exactly say attachment was the core of the dark side of the Force because he wasn't entirely sure if that was true.

Also, he only knew that attachment was against the Jedi Code but that didn't mean love was against the Jedi Code. At the very least, love shouldn't be against the Jedi Code if it really could 'ignite the stars' and keep the darkness at bay.

Obi-Wan cast a sidelong glance at his former apprentice who was silent and obviously deep in thought. He knew Anakin loved his mother greatly and, although he reminded the Council and Anakin that Anakin was not to have contact with his mother, he wondered if he could somehow get Anakin to visit his mother at least briefly. If things went as they did the first time around then Anakin would be on Tatooine anyway so there would be a chance to speak with his mother.

Obi-Wan decided he would worry about that later as he came to a stop outside the war room. Reinforcing his mental shields to avoid information about the future from slipping into the forefronts of his mind, Obi-Wan walked into the chamber with his former apprentice just behind him.

"A mission we have for you two," Yoda said without preamble and the topographic display of Christophsis appeared before them. "Invaded Christophsis the Separatists have. A plea for help we received from the people of Christophsis."

"It is believed," Mace Windu picked up with Yoda left off, "that the Separatists invaded to seize control of the world's resources. Intelligence has informed us that General Whorm Loathsom is behind the invasion while Admiral Trench has put in place a massive naval blockade of the planet."

"You two will need to penetrate the blockade and then attempt to defeat General Loathsom on the planet's surface," Eeth Koth said.

Obi-Wan glanced briefly at Yoda knowing full well that Yoda had spoken to Ahsoka Tano and assigned her to Anakin just as Obi-Wan thought he would once he talked with him. Ahsoka was only fourteen years old, having turned fourteen about three months earlier, but Obi-Wan knew she was ready to become an apprentice. It did sadden Obi-Wan that Ahsoka would have to train in the midst of a war though because that meant Ahsoka wouldn't get as much training and studying as other Padawans did.

"Go to Christophsis you will," Yoda said, "and may the Force be with you."

Obi-Wan and Anakin inclined their heads respectfully before they turned around and walked out of the war room.

"Penetrate a blockade and lead a ground assault against General Loathsom's forces? Sounds pretty straightforward," Anakin commented.

"Straightforward never means easy," Obi-Wan reminded his brother.

"I know that, master. Come on, let's go get Rex, Cody and the rest of the 501st and get going," Anakin said.

Obi-Wan nodded although he had to resist the urge to shiver. Although six months had gone by since the 501st was formed, most if not all of them were programmed with Order 66, Obi-Wan couldn't help but remember the siege of the Jedi Temple and Anakin killing the younglings…

Do not think about that, Kenobi, Obi-Wan told himself sternly. That will not happen this time, I will make sure it does not happen one way or another. Obi-Wan was given the chance to change the future by changing events in the past and he was determine to make sure Order 66 and Anakin's fall to the dark side were changed no matter what.

"Master?" Anakin's voice sounded concern and Obi-Wan blinked before pulling himself from his thoughts.

"I'm all right, Anakin," he said before he placed a hand on Anakin's shoulder and added, "Come on, let's get going."

Anakin, eyes still filled with concern, nodded before the two of them quickly made their way out of the Jedi Temple and toward the gunship that would take them up to the Resolute that hung in orbit around Coruscant.

Ahsoka Tano walked alongside her friend Jenica down the corridor in the Jedi Temple. She and Jenica had become friends by complete accident actually; they had literally run into each other, apologized and then started talking while they headed off to the same class. Ahsoka felt a bit sad that she would be leaving to join her newly assigned Jedi Master soon and Jenica hadn't yet been assigned a master.

"Don't be upset, Ahsoka," Jenica said soothingly green eyes examining the young Togruta. "Master Yoda said that I just have to be patient before I get a Jedi Master. I'm only twelve. Some apprentice aren't chosen until they're your age you know."

Ahsoka smiled faintly. "True," she said. "But I wasn't chosen. Master Yoda told me that I was assigned to a master. Don't you think that's odd?"

Jenica nodded brow furrowing. "It is odd," she said. "Maybe, because of the war, Master Yoda has to do it this way."

"Maybe." Jenica's words were logical; the war prevented apprentices from being chosen by masters and some younglings could be sent off to the Agricultural Corps or someplace else because the masters don't have time to choose an apprentice and that seemed unfair to the youngling.

"Maybe Master Yoda's doing it this way because it would be unfair for younglings to be sent off to the AgriCorps or someplace else just because a Jedi Master doesn't have time to choose an apprentice because of the war," Jenica added before Ahsoka could say anything almost as if she had read Ahsoka's mind.

Ahsoka smiled. "That was weird, Jeni. That was what I was thinking," she said.

Jenica chuckled. "I wonder who Master Yoda assigned you to, 'Soka," she asked. She and Master Plo Koon were the only ones whom Ahsoka let call her 'Soka. Everyone else called her by her first name or by 'Initiate Tano'.

"He told me he would tell me when he sends me off to my new master's side," Ahsoka said.

"Isn't that going to be soon?"

Ahsoka nodded lekku twitching with eagerness at finally discovering who her master was going to be. "Master Yoda told me that he would tell me when we reach Christophsis," she said. "I'd best get going. I have to meet Master Yoda outside at 1200 hours and I don't want to be late."

"All right, 'Soka. I'll see you when you get back to the Temple," Jenica said.

"Bye Jeni," Ahsoka replied before she turned around and dashed toward the entrance to the Jedi Temple.

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Ahsoka examined the planet of Christophsis as it rose up in front of her. The blockade was still surrounding the planet but Ahsoka could tell Admiral Yularen was confident that they could get her past the blockade and onto the surface of the planet. Yoda stood at Ahsoka's side as the Resolute came to a stop in its retreat from the planet.

"Ready for this are you, young one?" Yoda asked.

Ahsoka took a deep breath. As ready as I'll ever be, Master Yoda," she replied.

"Very well. Deliver this message you must to Master Kenobi and Master Skywalker. Urgent it is that they contact the Jedi Temple immediately. Risen up a matter of grave concern has."

"Yes Master Yoda," Ahsoka said.

"Also, join with your new master you will, Padawan Tano," Yoda said before he tapped his gimer stick on the durasteel ground. "Assigned to Master Skywalker you are, young one."

Ahsoka felt surprise surge through her. She was being assigned as a Padawan to Anakin Skywalker; the fabled Chosen One of Jedi Legend; the Hero With No Fear as the media was beginning to call him. "Yes Master Yoda," was all she said in response to Yoda's words as she attempted to wrap her mind around Yoda's revelation.

"Go then you will," Yoda said before he glanced at Yularen. "Get her through the blockade can you, Admiral?"

"We will get her safely through, Master Jedi," Yularen replied.

"Good. May the Force be with you, young one," Yoda said.

"May the Force be with you, Master Yoda," Ahsoka replied before she followed Yularen as the Admiral led her off the bridge of the Resolute and toward the hangar bay where the ship that would take her to the surface of Christophsis was parked.

A/n what do you think?

Blaze: and that was the first chapter of part 2

Darth: you changed a lot of what happened

Blaze: not really

Severus: yeah, it wasn't that different

Obi-Wan: not really no

Anakin: nope it wasn't

Palpypie: yes it was and it was stupid too

Severus: stupefy!

Palpypie: (stunned)

Anakin: you never did answer my question, Obi-Wan. Are you going to break the Jedi Code?

Obi-Wan: er… (takes off in Sirius's flying motorcycle)

Anakin: blast it. I still want an answer! (Runs over Palpypie in Obi-Wan's speeder as he chases after Obi-Wan)

Severus: do I want to know?

Blaze: probably not. Please review and I will post chapter 12 as soon as I possibly can and thank you to everyone who has reviewed this story so far. You guys are the greatest.