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This is written in first person point of view of Meagan unless otherwise noted.

From Earth to Star Wars

Part Two: Is now Post TPM by about six years. (Anakin is now about fifteen.) Meagan has been back for about two years now.

Meagan comes back to Star Wars and meets up with now Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker. Follows the movies, but is an AU. (Caution.) Ours does have a bit of a twist to it. Obi-Wan and Meagan have now gotten married and are living happily in the Jedi Temple, with Anakin still being trained.

Chapter Eighteen

I glanced across the horizon, watching the sun rise against the soft flowing hills. I sighed, seeing the destruction of the once beautiful landscape. I'd heard of the hills, the lakes, the clean air, but now it was gone, torn apart by the many years of war. Now it was all gone, replaced by misery, pain and despair.

"Meagan, are you alright?" Dede was coming up from behind me, carefully stepping through the debris of the burnt out capital building where we were staying.

"I'm fine. Just watching the sun rise." I turned toward her and gratefully accepted a warm cup of tea. I already missed my morning coffee, but didn't want to drink it with being pregnant. "Thanks."

"Have you eaten yet?" Dede was already watching me like a hawk and was being a mother hen. I still didn't see why Obi-Wan made such a big deal about this mission.

"Not yet. Just needed a few minutes."

"Okay." She stepped up besides me. "Don't take too long. We need to start organizing the people into groups for travel and there are some people from the other side that want to come along as well."

I nodded, knowing there was work to be done. "I'll just come along with you then."

We slowly combed through the remains of the building to come up to what we turned into the kitchen. My stomach rumbled as I caught a wiff of something that immediately reminded of pancakes and bacon.

"That smells wonderful." Dede poked her head into a skillet. "Who cooked this morning?"

One of the Naboo crew, who I assumed was with Padme, came from around the corner. "I did. My mother is a chef and she taught me everything I know. Eat up."

Dede and I smiled at each other, getting something to eat, and then settled down in a corner. "Now this is what I call breakfast."

Dede raised an eyebrow at me as she took a bite. "And you don't at home?"

I quickly munched on a bite before answering her. "Obi-Wan and Anakin's idea of breakfast is dry cereal, so when I can, I'll cook something like this."

Dede laughed. "Sounds like Marlo, though he makes a mean pot of coffee."

I groaned. "Please don't mention coffee since I can't drink it."

She laughed again as we continued to eat. It was a few minutes later, after we ate, that we gathered for the day to discuss things. After we divided into groups, we headed out to different sections of the villages, preparing them to leave in a few days.

Dede, Padme, a couple others and I headed into a small village a little ways away in order to bring them closer to us. Hopefully, depending on how they were doing, we could move them over to the capital area by nightfall. (One of the Naboo pilots did fly a small ship for such purposes.)

"Well, where do we want to start?" Padme asked as we got out of the speeder.

Dede shrugged as she glanced to me.

I sighed. "I guess we can divide up by two's and just start working our way down main-street. I think most of everyone has gathered there."

"Sounds good." Padme said as she sent her pilot and several assistants off in two groups down one side of the street.

"Meagan, where are you going?" Dede asked me as I starting down the other side.

"Well, if they are starting on that side, we can start on this side." I told her.

Padme shrugged as she followed me to a "house." Since most of that particular village was already informed about the relocation and not having that many possessions to pack, most were ready to get going and help others that needed it. Getting the orphaned children settled was a little bit harder to do, but families that lost their own children in the fighting had taken in most of them on their own. It was amazing to see people taking care of each other, but also incredibly sad at the same time. These people were survivors, I could see that much in their eyes, despite the pain of their losses.

Sometime, I had sat down, taking care of a little baby, who was completely oblivious to everything around him. He easily drank out of his bottle as his mother finished her packing. When I had come in and asked if I could help her, she handed me her baby and asked me to watch him while she finished her packing.

Not wanting to argue with her, I cradling him close, taking comfort from the warmth, peace and the trust the little one projected. I sighed, glad that this little baby would remember nothing of what happened here, but as I watched him I wished I could protect him from the harshness of life. Immediately I thought of my little one, wishing I could also shield her from things, but as a Jedi, she would see suffering and death, but she would be serving people.

"Practicing?" I heard a voice from the doorway, breaking my thoughts of my daughter away..

I glanced up into the smiling face of Dede, with Padme shortly behind her.

"The mother was just packing her things."

Padme came into the room. "And she's now loading it in the ship." She smiled at the now sleeping baby in my arms. "Can I hold him?"

I smiled back at her, gently placing him in her arms.

She smiled at him, rocking back and forth. "My sister has two toddlers, so we all miss having a baby around."

Dede smiled at me as I placed a hand on my middle. "We need to keep moving. I think most of everyone has their things ready, we just need to load it up on the ship and most of everyone has eaten lunch, except you." She glared at me.

I held up my hands. "I was going to get something after his momma came back."

Dede just looked at me again while Padme look confused.

"I promise Dede."

She relented as we left the house to go back to our "headquarters" in the village, meeting up with the mother on the way. After I ate something, we were trying to organize people loading stuff when I felt a slight disturbance in the Force. I glanced around, trying to find the disturbance, but after a moment or two I just credited to the conditions and feelings of the planet and people. However, as the day wore on, it would not go away, but kept getting stronger.

"Dede." I came up to her as she was sorting some supplies.

"Give me one second and I'll be right with you." She told me as she finished up with what she was doing and then turned to me. "What is it Meagan?"

"How close are we to leaving?"

She shrugged. "Couple hours maybe. Why?"

"I've got a funny feeling. I'm feeling a disturbance in the Force."

She looked at me for a long moment, well knowing I had strong instincts. "What's wrong?"

I shrugged my shoulders. "I can't pinpoint it, but I think we should get these people out of here."

Dede nodded. "You take a break for a moment or two and I'll round up the others and we can go from there."

Dede left as I sat down. However, I wasn't sitting down for very long when a shiver of fear ran up my spine. Standing up, I glanced around. Everything seemed normal, but something was not right. I walked toward the middle of town, not sure how to go about this. I wished one of the Jedi was here or Obi-Wan, they would know what to do. However, I was one my own.

Sighing, I continued to walk down the street, wishing I could locate the disturbance I was feeling when an armed young man appeared, pushing a blaster against another young woman's head.

I stood still for a moment or two, trying to get a feel for him in the Force, when he spoke out to the small crowd that was gathering there. "Let me speak to the leader of the resistance and she'll be alright."

I stepped forward slightly as Padme spoke up. "It's alright. Just put the gun down to let her go and then we'll go from there."

"You bring me Gunthuer Aritha now." I could tell he was close to losing it and his trigger finger was twitching nervously.

I stepped a bit closer to him, drawing on the Force, thinking maybe if this guy was unarmed he would be easier to deal with. Before he could speak again, I stretched into the Force, calling his blaster to my hands. Needless to say he was shocked as I walked the short distance to where they were standing, but his elbow was still wrapped tightly around her neck.

"Now, let her go." I commanded him.

"I don't think so." He told me as a small group, all armed came out from the outlining trees of the woods and from the bombed out buildings.

"Put your weapon down." One told me as I felt the cold metal press against my back.

Sighing, I put my weapon down as they pushed myself, along with Dede, Padme, several women and children of the village into the inside of the building. As we stood in a circle, I turned slightly to Dede, where I could reach inside my robe to my comlink, pressing in the emergency code to our other team members, without being seen.

Within another few minutes, they had rounded up the town and the other volunteer teams. Sighing, I wondered how we could get out of here, so I took a chance and stepped toward one of the main guys.

"If you let all of these people go, we'll see what we can do."

He waved a weapon in front of my face. "No, I don't think so. We already have someone going to the capital, telling the leadership that if he doesn't answer our demands, we'll kill all of you."

I felt shivers of fear run up and down my spine, not just for myself or the others that had known so much around me, but the little one I carried inside me. But I had to play along, not letting him know. "How do you know he will go along with your demands?"

He laughed maliciously. "Oh, he will."

I gazed at him for a moment or two before speaking again. "Peace has finally been declared. Why do you want to harm these innocent women and children? Whatever you want won't be accomplished by holding us hostage."

He glared at me, and I could feel the hatred rolling off of him in waves. Something had made him angry and I don't think it was just because of the war. I decided to try another tactic.

I put a hand on his arm, then started off quietly and soothing. "What happened?"

He sighed and I felt his armor start to fall. "My parents were home when the bombing started couple years ago. I wasn't at home, out somewhere, don't remember now. The house burned down, they never made it out."

My heart turned within me, hoping I could help him. "I'm so sorry. There isn't a person in this room that hasn't been affected by a war of some kind. I'm sure your family would want this peace as well."

"Yea right." His hurt was coming through loud and clear. "Gunthuer Aritha's son led the raid that night. I've discovered that he died in some battle a bit ago….."

"So you want to hurt Aritha as his son hurt you?" I summarized.

Suddenly the open demurrer changed and he was the hard rock he was before. "Why am I telling you all of this? Give me your comlink and anything else you might have on you and the rest of your people."

Sighing, I pulled out my comlink and a few other things I had with me, then went to the rest of the crew, doing to same thing. I was grateful that we had radioed the emergency code. After giving the things to the guy, I went and sat down with Dede and Padme.

"How is everyone?" I asked them as we settled against the wall, trying to get comfortable for the long night ahead of us.

"Calm and settled as much as possible. I hope our warning gave the others some time to act before their ransom note got there." Dede commented.

Padme nodded, then turned toward me. "Did you find out anything from him?"

I sighed as I retold his story briefly. "He wouldn't let me get to far with him though."

Dede nodded then spoke. "Can't you use the Force?"

"He's too strong minded for normal Force manipulation. There's not a lot I can do now. I think we just have to wait and see what the others do."

"Now that's all covered and everyone is settled down, you Meagan, my dear are going to take a nap."

I sighed, knowing there was no way I could protest, and I was pretty tired anyway. "Wake me if anything happens."

Dede nodded and Padme just looked confused as I managed to turn my robe into bedding. Lying down, I easily fell into a restful sleep, despite the hard concrete flooring. It was several hours later, I started coming awake. It was dark and I immediately wondered what was going on.

"Dede." I called out quietly, glancing around the room.

"Go on back to sleep. There's still nothing we can do. I assume that Aritha and the others received the messages. "

I nodded my head in the dark. "Okay. I'm sorry if I woke you up."

"I don't mind." She lowered her voice. "Are you going to be alright? I mean, with…."

"I'll be just fine." I told her just as quietly as I felt the softness of movement within me. My baby. I smiled as I reached along the Force to the bond my daughter and I were creating. She hadn't responded as yet, but that night I felt her reach toward me, like she was saying hello. Impulsively, I grabbed Dede's hand, placing it on the small bulge in my middle.

Her eyes widened as the baby moved again. "Oh, Meagan, that's amazing."

I felt my eyes well up with tears as I wished Obi-Wan was here to feel his daughter. "I know."

She patted my stomach. "Get some rest."

I nodded as I drifted back to sleep, wrapping my love around the little girl I was already deeply in love with.


AN: We've finally got another chapter out with fanfic being down and we are finally moved!!!!!! Anyway, for those of you that have made comments wondering if Obi-Wan was really sensing something or if he was being overprotective, you were right in thinking something was going wrong. We will hopefully have the next chapter out shortly, so ya'll don't have to wait too long to see what happens while Meagan is held hostage!!! Please stay tuned and let us know what you think of this latest turn in the story!!!