Present Day

Aurora's POV

"How could the separatists infiltrate the temple?" Anakin asked in disbelief as the four of us stood before the Jedi High Council.

"Worse than that it is." Yoda explained with a sigh.

"What could be worse, Master Yoda?" Ahsoka questioned.

I glanced around the room, looking at all the other members of the Jedi High Council, who were deep in thought as to what could possibly come out of the headmaster's mouth. "Everything is on the table." Windu explained breaking the silence. "We have to look at the possibility that it could've been anyone in the temple, even a Jedi."

Yoda nodded. "If a Jedi this is, gone to the dark side they have."

Ahsoka shook her head in disbelief. "I...I can't believe a Jedi would attack a place this sacred."

I looked over to Ahsoka and sighed. She's been through so much recently. So much, so soon for her age. Then again, I could say the same thing about all of us. Anakin, Ahsoka, and I have been through a lot together, and I can tell that just from standing in this very room, was taking a toll on them both. Almost like they're tired of doing it.

"We'd like for you two to lead the investigation. We can't trust anyone who was here, even a Jedi." Windu continued. "You and Ahsoka will provide an impartial point of view free of assumptions."

"Where do we come in?" Alex asked crossing his arms, speaking for him and I, being the only non-Jedi allowed in the room.

"You both will also be part of the investigation. We want you to find any similarities of this attack. Anything either of you might have come across in the past." Ki-Adi explained.

"You want us to dig up our criminal records?" I asked in disbelief and annoyance. Part of my annoyance was because I still had the spiked headpiece in my hair from the Senate Gala earlier in the day, piercing through my skull. "You're saying that you think one of us did it?"

This time Obi-Wan stepped in. "No. We are saying that we want you to find any similarities to any other Separatist bombing in the past. It could be Death Watch related or not, but we want you both to scope out the site, after Anakin and Ahsoka, deem it safe."

"Like we won't be able to handle ourselves." Alex murmured under his breath.

"We'll do everything we can." Anakin replied, clearly not wanting an argument to breakout.

"Careful you must be, Skywalker." Yoda warned. "If willing to destroy the temple the attacker is, to great lengths they will go to keep from being caught."

"Then I guess we'll have to go to even greater lengths to catch him." Anakin replied with confidence before we all left the High Council.

With Anakin and Ahsoka going immediately to the hangar to begin the investigation, that gave me enough time to head back to my mother's old apartment and change. I was so anxious at getting out of my gown, that I started taking off the headpiece on the ride back to the apartment. I walked through the front door with Alex right behind me, trying to get the rest of the gold fragments out of my hair.

"I swear, if you rip out my hair…" I began in annoyance.

"It's not my fault, whoever pinned this made it impossible to take it out!" He retorted.

Almost as if on cue, Rehana came running into the room.

"I put it in her hair, and I did it so it would stay." Rehana explained as she guided me towards my room, before gesturing for Alex to sit on the couch in the living room.

"I like her better when she's covered in dirt!" Alex called to Rehana who rolled her eyes in annoyance as she began to help me get out of my gown.

"What're you doing on Coruscant?" I heard Zara ask, as the apartment had very thin walls.

"Obi-Wan called, he said it was urgent…didn't say what." I heard him explain.

"I'm just glad that none of us were there when it happened." Zara continued. "I couldn't live with myself if one of us were gone."

"Me too." I heard my brother say, indicating that he must've come into the living room.

"Korkaran, don't put your feet on the caf-table." I heard Zara scold.

"You sound like Ro." I heard Korkie moan as I started to walk out of my room, now dressed in a pair of black pants with black boots, a black long-sleeved shirt, and a black vest that I had unzipped even though it was quite cold on Coruscant today.

"I do not sound like that." I retorted in annoyance as I came into view.

"Yes, you do." Korkie replied. "You and Zara both look and sound alike. Perks of being body-doubles."

I glanced to Zara who just shrugged in response before I sat down on the couch next to Alex. I grabbed the datapad off the caf-table, and leaned back into the couch, as I started to type away.

"Ro." Alex began.

"Mhm." I replied not looking up from the datapad.

"What're you doing?" He asked.

I stopped typing and glanced up to make eye contact with my brother, Zara, and Alex.

"Trying to see if Anakin and Ahsoka got anything yet." I explained.

"I doubt they'll have anything." Korkie began, picking up the HoloRemote to turn on the HoloNet.

"Maybe you should see this as your sign to relax." Zara explained as she tucked her feet underneath of her from her position on the other couch.

I glanced up from the datapad to look her in the eyes. "I'm fine."

"You look tired." Alex murmured to me so that no one would hear our conversation.

"I'm fine." I murmured back. "I-I just have a lot on my mind."

He looked over my facial expression, and just from the way he was looking at me, I could tell he was in deep thought trying to understand what was wrong with me. Just as he was about to reply, my brother outbursted.

"FUCK!" Korkie shouted.

"Language." Zara, Alex, and I all said.

"I'm sorry but look!" Korkie said gesturing to the HoloNet, where it showed protesters on the steps of the Jedi Temple.

"Oh no." Alex and I both said in unison.

"They're anti-war protesters." Zara explained as she began to read the close captions, since we had the sound off. "They're angry that the Jedi are at the forefront of the war and are angry that their families were lost in the blast."

"They're blaming a Jedi?" I ask, turning over my shoulder to look at Zara.

She shrugged. "It wouldn't surprise me."

Alex sighed. "I guess that's our que to head back."

I nodded. "Yeah. C'mon Geenine."

Geenine, who was in sleep mode for all this time, lively awoke and began to follow us out.

"I'm coming too." I heard Korkie say making the both of us stop abruptly.

I turned around to face my brother. "No, you are staying here, where it's safe. I don't want you hurt."

"That's not fair!" Korkie argued. "If someone comes to attack us, Zara won't be able to do anything!"

"Hey!" Zara protested.

"Obi-Wan has been saying I need to venture out more…please Ro? I promise I won't get in your way." He begged.

I looked to Alex who shrugged. I sighed.

"Fine." I said with an eyeroll. "But you can't do anything stupid, it's an active crime scene."

He nodded eagerly, and the three of us, walked out of the apartment and started our trek back to the Jedi Temple. Once we were at the temple, the three of us headed to the specific hangar that got bombed. When we all entered it, we were all in shock.

"Wow, whoever did this, sure knew what they were doing." Alex began. "Geenine, get a scan of the room."

Geenine beeped in agreement before rolling ahead of the three of us to scan the room.

"This is crazy." Korkie said in disbelief. "Where are Anakin and Ahsoka now?"

"Interrogating the wife of a potential suspect." I explained.

As I walked deeper into the room, I started to cringe. I could feel, everything that the people caught in the blast could feel. It was horrendous.

"Ro, are you ok?" Korkie asked, noticing my discomfort.

I opened my eyes and nodded, carefully wiping the small tear I had in the corner of my eye away.

"Yeah." I explained. "I just-I can feel everything they felt."

Korkie nodded. "I hear their screams."

I stopped in the middle of the room and crossed my arms. I couldn't believe this happened. This bombing was far worse than any other Death Watch bombing I've seen. This was planned. This wasn't done in rage; this must've taken months if not years to plan.

"What's going through that beautiful mind of yours, Princess?" I heard Alex quietly ask as he placed a hand on my shoulder.

I shook my head. "This was planned. This wasn't done in rage, this was…well throughout."

"Death Watch couldn't have done this." Alex began. "Fuck, Dooku couldn't have done this."

I nodded. "It definitely was a Jedi, or at least someone on the inside."

"Hey!" Korkie called from the other corner of the room. "Geenine found something."

We both carefully walk over to the other side of the hangar to where my brother and Geenine both were standing.

"What've you got?" Alex asked.

"I may be wrong, but is that a hand?" Korkie asked pointing to an object on the floor.

Geenine ran a quick scan of it, and it indeed did come back as a hand, with its fingerprints matching that of Jackar Bowmani, the person who was Anakin and Ahsoka's prime suspect.

"Nice job kid." Alex said in disbelief.

"Hang on." I said kneeling down on the floor to get a better look at the hand. I noticed the small pool of dried blood next to it. "Geenine, scan the blood."

"Why are we scanning blood?" Alex asked in confusion.

"Just a theory." I said quietly. Once Geenine's scans were complete, I sighed, the scan came back clear.

"Great, nothing but a hand and some blood." Korkie said in annoyance.

I slowly stood up and sighed. We hit a dead end. We all left the hangar that evening fed up with anger and frustration that we couldn't find anything leading to the bomb and or the attacker. I informed Anakin and Ahsoka on my findings, and they said that they hit a dead end as well and were going to set up Wanted ads around Coruscant and have Law Enforcement ask around if they've seen Jackar.

As I lied in bed that night, staring at the ceiling, I couldn't help but think, that it was a dead end. It couldn't have been. It would've been too obvious. Too predictable. Too…common. I snap out of my thoughts with the loud snore coming from Alex. Of course, he'd be sound asleep in times like these. I guess that's why we work well together. He's the calm one, and I'm the psycho one.

Without waking him up, I carefully got out of bed, and walked back out into the apartment's living room. I woke up Geenine and made her place her scan of the bomb site around the living room. I sat down on the floor in the middle of the living room and began to work my way through the bomb site inch by inch. Eventually, I stood up and began to go through the scan that way, to see if I could get another angle of it.

"What're you doing?" I heard Alex ask from his spot behind me.

I sighed not taking my eyes off the scan. "Trying to see if I missed something."

I felt his arms wrap around my waist as he placed a kiss on my right shoulder. "Come back to bed, you look exhausted."

I shook my head as I stepped away from him. "I won't sleep. I missed something."

"Ro, the entire planet is looking for him. We did everything we could." He began.

I turned around to face him. "That's it though. It just seems too obvious. Too…predicable."

He shrugged. "Maybe that's how he wanted it."

I shook my head. "I doubt it. Geenine, pull up that blood scan again."

Geenine beeped in agreement as she pulled up the scan.

"What's going on?" I heard my brother ask sleepily from the doorway.

"Your sister is being an insomniac." Alex explained.

"She learned from our mother." Korkie replied.

I ignored both and continued to review the scan of Jackar's blood.

"Ro, we found nothing in the scan of his blood." Korkie began. "We found nothing. No bomb fragments, no residue."

That was it. My eyes widened and a smirk became plastered to my face as I turned around to look at the both of them.

"What?" Korkie asked in confusion.

Alex pointed. "I know that look. That look means either you're ready to kill someone, or you just had an epiphany."

"Or both." I said still smiling turning back around to face Geenine.

"Or both." He said with a nod.

I made her run through the scan again, this time scanning for any toxins in the man's blood, and this time, I smirked at the result.

"I knew it." I smiled turning around to face my brother and Alex.

"You knew what?" Korkie asked.

"There was no bomb residue, if there was, we would've smelled it when we walked in." I began. "Which leads me to believe that it was a suicide bomb. The hand belongs to Jackar Bowmani, who is Anakin and Ahsoka's top suspect, and surprisingly, the only person not found in the blast."

"Except for his hand." Alex concluded.

I nodded. "Which leads me to believe that he was the bomber, and how he did it, Geenine just confirmed."

"How?" Korkie asked.

Geenine then projected an image of the blood screen she just did.

"Nano-droids." I explained. "Microscopic, but quite deadly. They themselves can go undetected, but if a blood-tox screen is done, it can be shown. His levels are off the charts for the toxin produced by Nano-droids."

"But that makes no sense." Alex began. "How does someone get Nano-droids in their system? That much of toxins can induce shock."

"How do you know that?" Korkie asked.

"Kid, I smuggle everything. Rule of thumb, know what you're carrying before you agree to smuggle it." Alex explained. "But that still doesn't explain how he got it in his system."

"That part I don't know." I said with a shrug. "Can you ingest Nano-droids from breathing in their toxins?"

Alex shook his head. "Not that I know of, I'd be a dead man if it were possible."

"Then he had to ingest them somehow." Korkie explained. "Perhaps through food?"

"That's disgusting." Alex said in disbelief. "What kind of person would willingly eat Nano-droids?"

"The type of person who doesn't know it's occurring." I said with my eyes wide. "The type of person who gets fed them on a daily basis."

"His wife." They both said in disbelief.

I nodded before grabbing my commlink to call Anakin and Ahsoka, telling them that the case was cracked wide open again. Within a matter of hours, Jackar's wife, Letta, was brought into Jedi custody for further questioning by Anakin and Ahsoka, both suggested that I take evening off, since I'd been up most of the night cracking open cold cases. Once again, I found myself lying flat on my back in bed, staring at the ceiling, deep in thought.

"What's wrong?" Alex asked as he turned over onto his stomach to look at me.

"Do you really think that woman could've planned all that?" I ask not taking my eyes off the ceiling. "We said it ourselves, that attack would've taken months to plan out."

He shrugged. "I don't know, Ro. This whole thing seems sketchy."

I was silent for a moment before I asked him, rolling on my left side to face him, finally taking my eyes off the ceiling. "Do you think, a Jedi could've done it?"

He was silent for a few moments before he sighed. "With how this war's going…I wouldn't be surprised."

I hummed in agreement before rolling back onto my back to stare at the ceiling once again. Nothing made sense. Yes, it made sense that a woman was fed up with the Jedi, but killing her own husband for it? That's what confused me. But these days, everything is confusing me.