Ahsoka: Origins
Chapter 3: Childhood
Note: A character introduced in this chapter is not my character. Character will be/has been introduced in another story written by Sensey. Enjoy!
Ahsoka and her parents had now been together for 3 years. Ta'zeek was with child and Maak's butcher shop was successful, he even hired some Togrutan hunters that would hunt for the purpose of selling their game at Maak's shop.
Ahsoka was assisting Ta'zeek in prepping the new baby's room, she was only a few standard weeks from giving birth. Ta'zeek had some beautiful music playing while they were spending some quality time together fixing up the new room.
Ahsoka was really soothed by the music, but it still didn't prevent her from spilling an entire barrel of galactic paint on herself.
"Oh honey!" Ta'zeek shouted running over to Ahsoka who was laughing mostly. Ta'zeek scooped Ahsoka up in her arms and ran her into the wash room to get her all cleaned off.
Ahsoka, being her three year old, playful self, couldn't help but splash around in the tub that her mother had placed her in. She was having the time of her life at that moment.
Ta'zeek was now laughing at her daughter. "Honey, cut that out!"
Everytime Ta'zeek would tell her to stop, Ahsoka would look directly at her and with a huge smile on her little round face, she'd splash again, almost as if to taunt Ta'zeek.
Once Ta'zeek got Ahsoka mostly cleaned up, she couldn't help herself from pickup Ahsoka up and kissing her multiple times on both cheeks. Then she'd hold Ahsoka close enough to hear her heartbeat.
Coruscant – 33 BBY
The Jedi council was having a session to discuss children that were force sensitive.
"Many leads we have, on force sensitive children." Yoda stated.
"There is a young female Twi'lek on Ryloth named Klayna Obra, who is quite sensitive." Mace Windu mentioned.
"To the temple you must bring her. Powerful Jedi, the Twi'leks make."
"When she is old enough, I will retrieve her." Windu said. "She is only 4 years old right now."
"One more year, she needs."
"The academy is changing the joining age group to 5 years. We are advised to bring younglings in early so we can begin to observe their behaviors."
"Right, Master Shaak is. Bring young Klayna to the temple soon, you must."
"Very well, I will go to Ryloth after this session."
"Shaak Ti and other operatives on Shili have mentioned something about a young Togrutan female who is also force sensitive. I was informed that she is also being pursued by some other entity claiming to be one of the former Jedi academies." Adi Gallia brought up.
Mace Windu looked at her with confusion. "Who would try to imposter a Jedi academy, especially when it no longer exists?"
"I don't know, but this concerns me. We must retrieve the young Togruta." Adi added.
"Any idea what her name is?" Master Tiin asked.
"My intel tells me, it's Ahsoka Tano. I do not have a holoimage of her at this time."
"Very well, perhaps Master Plo can make a visit to Shili after he gets done with his retreat on Vespa. Shili is on the way back to the temple." Windu suggested.
"Agree, I do." Yoda confirmed.
"I shall contact Master Plo to brief him." Adi mentioned.
The meeting adjourned and the members of the council went their separate ways and went about their intended business.
Adi went into the transmission room to contact Plo Koon.
"Master Gallia, what a pleasant surprise." Plo answered.
"Like wise Master Plo. The council has some further business for you if you wouldn't mind."
"This retreat is taking longer than I had anticipated. It could take another month or so, but I'd be happy to attend to whatever they are asking of me." Plo added.
"There shouldn't be any rush for the time being, but today we discussed force sensitive children and we need you to make a stop on Shili to pick up a Togruta named Ahsoka Tano." Adi mentioned.
"I'm surprised they didn't ask Shaak Ti to bring her back, since she is on Shili right now."
"She is settling a dispute within the system. We didn't want to interrupt her work out there. Besides, once she's back here, she won't be going back to Shili. As you know, going to our home worlds distorts our minds."
"Yes, that is true Master Gallia, I see I was not wrong to push for your addition to the council afterall." Plo added.
"Yes, I appreciate your consideration on that Master Plo." Adi added as she bowed to Plo.
"As soon as my retreat is finished, I will head to Shili to retrieve this child. Coordinates please."
Adi gave Plo the coordinates of the respective location of the Tano residence and signed off.
Shili – 33 BBY
Ta'zeek was sitting in a lounge chair with Ahsoka playing with her convor toy on the floor. Ta'zeek could feel the baby kicking and she could tell that something wasn't quite right. She began to feel contractions. The issue was that Maak was still at work and Ta'zeek wasn't due for another week at least.
Ta'zeek began to let out loud screams due to the pain and it began to scare Ahsoka who had no idea what was going on.
Ta'zeek sent a transmission to the doctor. She stuttered as she tried to tell the doctor that she was going into labor.
"Don't worry Mrs. Tano, we'll send a medical carrier to bring you in." The doctor stated.
"We need to get a medical carrier to the Tano residence immediately!" The doctor called out to his staff.
The staff scrambled around loading medical supplies into the carrier and headed for the Tano household.
The nurses rush into the house and lift Ta'zeek onto a stretcher and get her into the medical carrier while one other nurse grabs a crying Ahsoka and brings her with.
There were two Togrutan nurses working on Ta'zeek in the back of the medical carrier and one driving the vehicle while watching Ahsoka.
Ta'zeek was now in labor and was letting out painful screams. Through the screams she tried to tell the nurses to contact her husband but she never could get the words out.
They rushed Ta'zeek into the medical station to finish the delivery and they took Ahsoka to a care unit for the time being.
"You're almost there Ta'zeek! Just give me three more good pushes!" The nurse encouraged.
"I Can't push anymore, I can't!" Ta'zeek cried.
"Yes you can sweetheart, you need to, your baby is almost here!"
Ta'zeek took a deep breath and began to push again. The baby was still not fully out.
"Keep pushing Mrs. Tano!" The nurses kept saying.
Ta'zeek had never felt so much pain, even with Ahsoka's birth. She was screaming at the top of her lungs at this point. Her eyes began to get cloudy and she began to pass out. "Maak," she slurred.
"She's passing out, we're going to have to cut the baby out the rest of the way!" a doctor shouted.
"Doctor, Maak is her husband, we should get in touch with him." A nurse informed.
"Good, go get in touch with him quickly!" with that order, the doctor began making cuts in order to get the baby the rest of the way.
The Togrutan nurse ran down the hall to the transmission room of the medical station to send for Maak Tano.
"This is Maak!"
"Mr. Tano, this is a nurse from the medical station in Corvela; your wife is giving birth and she's passing out! We need you down here!" The nurse said hurriedly.
Maak held his head up and quickly responded. "I'll be right there!" he said as he signed off and hopped in his speeder and headed for the medical station in Corvela.
As he headed for Corvela, all he could think about was how Ta'zeek was doing, was the baby going to be alright, and of course where was Ahsoka and who was she with, and was she also safe. These questions circulated through his mind during the whole drive.
Ahsoka had been placed in a nursery area where she would be monitored by nursery workers. There were a few toys in there for her but she felt a bit lost without her stuffed convor toy. The 3 year old Ahsoka just sat wondering what was going on with her parents and of course, her missing favorite toy.
There was another child in the nursery as well. She was an Aqualish named Hasqual.
Curiously, Ahsoka crawled over to Hasqual who was playing with a few of the other toys in the room. Ahsoka tried to speak to Hasqual, she was becoming better with her talking but still wasn't all that confident.
Hasqual didn't speak any English, only Aqualish dialect. But she was playing with a ball by laying on it and letting it roll her around. She then sat up and spoke something but Ahsoka didn't understand.
"Don't know." Ahsoka said. "What do you say?"
Then Hasqual rolled the ball over to Ahsoka for her to try.
Ahsoka looked at the ball from every angle just to see what it would do. Then she laid on it with her stomach as well and began to balance herself, although she didn't know it, she used a measure of the force to keep herself perfectly balanced.
Hasqual's mouth dropped open in surprise. She crawled over to Ahsoka to see if she could do it too. And of course she couldn't, she kept falling off the ball.
The three year old Ahsoka held out her hands in order to hold Hasqual steady on the ball.
Hasqual squealed with excitement despite the fact that she had no idea what was actually happening to her.
During this time, Maak rushed into the medical station. "Where's my wife? Where is she?" he said in a panicking voice.
"Sir we need you to calm down." A nurse said. "What's your wife's name?"
Breathing heavily he responded. "Ta'zeek Tano."
"Ahh yes, she is down this corridor. Follow me Mr. Tano."
As they walked down the hall towards the room where Ta'zeek was, they passed by the nursery where Ahsoka was playing with Hasqual.
Ahsoka happened to notice that he walked passed and let go of Hasqual who then proceeded to fall off of the ball.
"Daddy?" Ahsoka said with her big blue eyes all lit up. She ran over to the door to leave the nursery area. She was becoming quite skilled with her abilities and she used the force to turn the door knob since she wasn't tall enough to reach it. The door opened and she began running after Maak.
Maak finally was united with his wife who was in the process of waking up after her procedure.
Pretty soon, the doctor walked into the room to talk to Maak and Ta'zeek once she was more awake. "So, you now have a baby boy. He's in the infant nursery."
Maak smiled at his wife who's eyes were barely open at this time. Then he looked at the doctor. "Doctor, where is our daughter?"
"She's in the toddler nur…."
"Daddy?" came a petite voice that peaked from the doorway. Everyone turned to look at young Ahsoka standing there.
"Well, I guess she's right there." The doctor said smiling.
Maak ran over to Ahsoka and picked her up and started kissing her. "Oh, Ahsoka, I was so worried about you." He said with a bit of relief.
"Would you like to see your baby?" The doctor asked.
"Yes." Maak stated.
So the doctor took Maak and Ahsoka to see the new born baby. "Well, there he is."
"Look at that Ahsoka, that's your baby brother." Maak said.
"Brudder?" Ahsoka mumbled.
They then walked back into the room to be there for Ta'zeek until she was fully awake.
It felt like hours for Maak and Ahsoka had been taken back to the nursery even though while she was gone, Hasqual's parents came and picked her up and left.
Ahsoka didn't even stop to wonder why there was an Aqualish on Shili, it was actually her first time seeing a being of another species.
Ta'zeek started to turn and moan as she woke up the rest of the way. "Maak?"
"I'm right here sweetheart." Maak said as he rushed over to grab her petite hand.
"Where's our baby?"
"He's in the infant nursery. He's so beautiful Ta."
"I want to name him after my father, Mako'ta."
"Umm, sure I guess we can name him after your father." Maak hesitated to agree but he knew how much Ta'zeek's father meant to her before his passing. "Mako'ta it is then."