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The Coming Of Age
Chapter One: The Beginning--

“Come on Padme get on before anything else horrible almost kills you!,” said a young woman with blond hair which was tied back in a tight braid. She was accompanied by two other women which were in the same clothes as she was along with the tight braids.

“Alright, alright I’m coming… I was just looking for the Jedi that are to escort us back to Naboo. That was all I was doing ok,” she boarded the ship, she was in dark blue gown, she wore a head piece that looked as though if she moved with it on she would fall on her face.

“It’s not like their going to leave us and, besides that one of them is our co-pilot.” “Oh Rabe, come on you know that if it was needed I could just hot wire this baby up and fly us back there myself.”

“Yane! Do you have any common sense? We need a pilot. Not some techno wizard that thinks they can make anything that is not working work or moving move! I would also feel much more confertable if the Jedi were here because they would protect us too.”

“Yea…well I still say I could do it.”

“I Never Said You Could Not Do It!”

“How long do you bet this one will take?,” said the blond.

“Five hours.”

“Ok I will take that bet for 20 credits, but if it goes over or is under that amount of time I win.”

“Alright,” replied Padme.

Padme looked around the ship to see if there is anything to do while the fight of Yane and Rabe’s continues. When she spots to masculine figures heading towards the ship. “Their coming SHUT UP!”

With that a silence when over the air craft as Rabe and Yane’s intince disappeared. “You owe me 20 credits now! Your horrible at bets you always find some way to screw your self over with them!”

“Oh be quiet Sabe this is more important than any stupid bet.”

“Well I’m going to get my money soon!”

“Are you the Jedi here to accompany us to Naboo?,” Padme asked the knight and apprentice.

“Yes Queen Amidala. It has been along time sense the last we met,” answered the long light brown hared Jedi master.

“Knight Kenobi? If its you then this must be….,” replied a very astonished Padme.

The young man beside Obi-Wan answered her statement before she could finish. “Yes its Anakin Skywalker. At your service M’lady.” He kissed her hand and started for the cargo hold to put he and his master’s cargo away as he left a large grin formed on his face.

Padme stood there dumbfounded He kissed my hand…He kissed my hand! Her hand was still extended as she stood there like a statue. Sabe, Yane, and Rabe could not hold in their laughter any longer, they all in unionison burst out in laughter. “You ok Padme or did your brain shrivel up and pop,” said Sabe still laughing.

“I think your right. Nothing seems to be working in that head of hers.” Rabe poked her to see if she would respond but it was a failure. “She not with us anymore that’s for sure.”

Yane started to wave her hands in a continuous motion in front of her face. “Yep defiantly gone.”

Turning to the forgotten Jedi knight Rabe tried to start a conversation. “Oh I’m sorry Master Obi-Wan you may come in. Are you by any chance the co-pilot?” She was trying to get back to her normal state of seriousness while speaking to him.

“Yes I am, I take it that the cockpit is in the same place as it was before?” Obi-Wan started for the cockpit and left leaves the four women out on the opening gate.

“Huh…What just happened?,” asked Padme as she had finally returned to conciseness.

“My Goddess Padme I sometimes really do wonder if there is that intelligent political mind up there” said Rabe as she headed for the main room of the ship and found Yane playing with some open wire. “YANE PUT THOUGHS DOWN YOUR GOING TO HURT YOUR SELF…ow!..OR ME!”

“Someone’s got a crush! Someone’s got a crush!,” chanted Sabe while going down the hall to the rooms.

“I do not! I was merrily surprised to see him, sense I have not seen him in years.”

“Ah-huh sure you just keep thinking that.” Sabe was going into her room, when she over heard voices coming form the room next to it.

“So how long are going to be doing this bodyguard thing” Sabe could hear Anakin speaking to someone in the room so she placed her ear up on the door to listen. “I’m not sure… I think just until everything wines down.” “Well then you will need to give us your holo frecquence because I have the feeling that you will be there for a very long time,” said the voice of a woman.

“Does he have a girl friend?” Sabe asked to herself quietly. “Oh My God! Come here you have to listen to this. I think found out the most horrible thing!”

The others looked up form what they are doing. “What. What is so horrible that would take me away form my reading,” said a annoyed Rabe. Padme looked up form her book as well; while Yane just kept to rewiring of the communication system in the room.

“Come hear it!” Sabe pulled the them into the hall in front of the door where the voices had come form. “Here listen.”

“This is wrong… This is ease dropping… This an invasion of privacy you know that.”

“AN INVASION! WHERE?!” blurted out Yane.

“Are you always brain dead Yane?” asked Rabe.

“No… There was this one time when I…” she stooped in mid sentence think. “Nope! Can’t remember!”

“Oh you three just shut up and listen” said Sabe. The four women walked over to the door and pressed their ears up and listened.

“Just don’t do anything stupid. We don’t need another friend dead ok.”

“Yeah Ani I would my older brother alive.”

“Ok ok I get it. I will be careful,” replied Anakin. Sabe was so into hearing this conversation that she slipped, but in the action she caught herself by holding on to the door panel. All of the sudden the door slide open and they four women tumbled into the room. “AHH!”

“I see you have some admires.” asked a young man with dark brown hair that was cut the same was as Anakin’s with a padawan braid to top it all off.

“Huh?” he turned around to the see Padme, Rabe, Sabe, and Yane spiraled out on the floor. He had a look of disgusted in his as he stared at them. Then he turned back to the monitor. “Their the group of girls I had been telling you about… I did not know that they enjoyed ease dropping though.”

“Oh! Their the ones you and Obi-Wan are supposed to protect,” said the young man.

“Yea…” Anakin was interrupted by some loud yelling in the back ground.

“Breaks over Back to Work NOW!” yelled a strange voice in huttish.

“Looks like I got to go. I will holo you later alright.” The picture was about to fad out when Anakin asked a quick question. “Why are you working I thought?”

“Oh I’m just helping Owen and your mom with their loads. You guys have done so much for me that this is the best way to for me to repay.” The picture faded to darkness.

There was a disturbing silence over the room as the four ease droppers got to their feet. “Uh… we can explain Anakin,” said Padme trying to search for word that did not sound so informal.

“Ok then.” He sat in a chair and turned his atention to her. “Let hear it.” The four very embaressed women when silent because they did not know of anything to say or at least three were embaressed. Yane had gotten up and was looking around the room at all of Anakin’s things. When she finally came upon one of Anakin’s projects.

“What this do!” she was looking at the blueprints of a newly dissign and upgraded podracer.

When Anakin saw this he got up and took it from Yane and placed it in his duffle. That seemed to just higher his level of annoyance with the four women. With that done he went back to the chair and waited for Padme’s reply.

“AWWW! That looked cool!” said Yane.

They just stood there for awhile in silence when finally Anakin spoke. “Well if your not going to tell me why you were doing what you were doing. Then would you leave I would like to get some sleep.”

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Padme could not sleep, she had been tossing and turning in her bed for about and hour, and when she would close her eyes and almost drift off into sleep her mind would just wander back to thinking about Anakin and the girl that she had heard him talking to. She got up and when into another room that had tables and chairs. She when over to the cooler and got her self a bottle of water. She opened it and sat down thinking about the incredibly embracing event that had taken place just hours ago. “ Oh Goddess what if Sabe was right. What if that women we heard is his girlfriend,” she sighed. Just then a woman appeared on the large screen in the room.

“Ani you there?… Oh hi sorry did I get the wrong ship?”

“No Anakin’s on this ship. He is asleep now.”

“Oh my Goodness did I wake you I’m sorry. Its six in the morning here, and I was not sure of how much a time difference it was.”

“No its alright I was awake thinking about things… Are you friend of Anakin’s?”

“Yes I’m Jenulesca its nice to meet you.”

“Oh…,” replied Padme. She was astonished at how beautiful she was.

Her caramel colored skin, her light brown hair, her dark blue-brown eyes. No wander Anakin would go out with her she is perfect, thought Padme. Then she finally realized that she had not introduced her self. “I’m Padme.”

“Your Padme? We have heard about you form him. Owen tried to tell us about you but sense he had not spent a good amount of time with you when you were on Tatoowine. Anakin on the other hand, was happy to tell us everything about you.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, Arron, Circuit, and I were like ‘yes Anakin you told use five minutes ago that she was so pretty’, and Owen would just be there knoding his head.”

“Oh…, Owen? That is the only name out thoughs that sound familiar. He I Anakin’s brother right?”

“Yeah. Arron is an old friend ours, he is also training to become a Jedi, and Circuit well he is not from here,” she smiled at the fact that someone was so interested in knowing about him. “He is also my husband.”

“REALLY!?” Padme was over come with joy at that statement. Her husband! YES!

“Yes.. Why are you so excited about that anyway?”

“Oh… um…,” she had turned bright red. “I thought…”

“ME AND ANI! Your kidding right!” she started to laugh uncontrollably. “That would be the day! Beside you have a better chance than anyone else. Well I have to go work so when you seen Ani just tell him that I said hi and to holo me back ok.” She disappeared from the screen.

Her spirits had been lifted like a bird flying 100 feet in the air. Thank god Sabe was not right I don’t know what I would have done if she was. She heard a door close. Who could be up at this hour, and with a shrugged she got up and went back to her bed.

The Coming Of Age
Chapter Two--

Padme awoke the next morning hearing blaster shots echo through halls and rooms of the ship. She hurried out of the room to see a shirtless Anakin reflecting all the shots with a just a simple swift motion of his light saber. Just then the only shot he missed came hurtling towards her. “OH MY GOD!” after a minute of frantic screaming she side jumped out of the way, but got her shoulder grazed. She got up and paused “Wait a minute my shoulder does not have a huge burn?”

“Of coarse it would not senator, that blast should only give you a sting” said Obi-wan as he turned the corner to see her face to face. “I must apologize though, Anakin should have been able to block that.” He glared at Anakin and started for his room. “Anakin you need to get your things together we will be arriving soon.”

When Obi-wan had his back turned Anakin glared back at him, but he did not go to his room he went over to Padme. “You ok?”

“Yes I’m fine…”

“Are you sure because I have some stuff that can help take the pain down”

“No I’m fine. You should go pack I don’t want you to get into any trouble with Obi-wan.”

“All right… I will see you later then I guess.” Anakin walked off towards his room looking a little hurt that she did not want his help.

“Your up early.”

“HOLY!” Padme jumped and turned around to see Rabe “DON’T DO THAT!”

“Sorry.” She noticed that Padme was holding her shoulder and started to get worried. “What happened? Are you all right?”

“Yes I’m fine I just got hit with a blaster shot.” After realizing that saying she got hit with a blaster shot did not help the situation she corrected herself. “Its not a real blaster shot Master Obi-wan told me that it will only sting for a while”

“Ok good…” Rabe was interrupted with a loud thud coming form the kitchen that hooked the four women’s rooms together. “What is Yane doing now…”

Rabe and Padme walked into the kitchen. It was a medium size with booth like table in the corner. The walls were painted over in blue with different designs painted in gold over them. Over in another corner was a long counter with a refigurater and microwave. They had to take out the stove after a little accident with Yane.

“SIT DOWN!” screamed Sabe.

Yane just shook her head and started running in her circles again. “WEEEEEE!”

“IF YOU DON’T SIT DOWN! I WILL USE THIS!” Sabe shook a tazer gun threteningly in front of Yane. “She got into your chocolate stash, and has been running around for two or more hours now.”

“I’ll get the cage!” said Rabe knowing that Yane would calm down after hearing that.

“NO!” Yane whimpered. She went to the booth and sat in the seat furthest away form Rabe and Sabe.

Padme just walked over to the booth and sat by Yane. She was still shocked by what she had heard from Jenulesca. “I have a better chance with him than anyone” she thought with a smile.

Rabe now had her eye on Padme she was acting so different. Some happened to her maybe between her and Anakin, she didn’t know. She walked over to Sabe to get her view on this ordeal. “Hey Sab, do you think she has seen an angle?” Rabe said while looking at Padme.

“Could be… or she saw Anakin naked. I think either one could get her that way.” Sabe replied loud enough so Padme could hear it. “AND DON’T CALL ME SAB!”

“I heard that!… And if you must know his tunic was only off when I saw him this morning.

“Did he see you?” asked Yane while jumping up and down in the booth.

“After I screamed form getting hit by the fake blaster shot.” Yane looked confused form that answer. “Yes Yane he did see me… I spoke to Jenulesca last night”

“OH!…wait…I don’t know…” Yane blurted.

“Yane your going to hurt yourself one day…Who is Jenulesca?” ask Rabe.

“She is woman that Sabe was so convinced was Anakin’s girlfriend.” Said Padme bluntly.

“Then who was she?!” said the other three in unison.

“Well I was going to tell you but now I do not feel like it because of the way you just spoke to me” Padme said with a sarcastic reply.

“COME ON TELL US WE’RE DIEING HERE!” said Sabe.

“No your dying we are waiting” said Rabe.

“Well… we talked for a while, she said she has known him her whole life.”

“Oh skip all that junk and get to the good stuff Padme” Sabe blurted.

“I will, I will just hold your horses” Padme answered.

“Horses?!! Where! I want to hold some horses!” said Yane randomly with a sigh.

“That’s nice Yane… Well anyway, we started talking. I asked her who the three other guys were as well and she said that they were friends of Anakin’s. and that ONE WAS HER HUSBAND! I was so happy after hearing that. You have no idea” exclaimed Padme.

“Your kidding… I could have sworn… They spoke to each other as if they were boyfriend and girlfriend… I feel stupid…” said Sabe while slumping into a chair.

“Yeah! You should be you got all worked up over nothing!” yelled Yane for apparent reason.

“SHUT IT YANE!” yelled back Sabe.

“Oh you two please… Do you know how old she was? I mean she sounded like she could have been our age” said Rabe.

“I’m not sure, but she looked to be about Anakin’s age.”

“Who’s my age?” It was Anakin he had been listening to the last part of there conversation for about five minutes. He was holding luggage in his arms.

The four women jumped into the air. “DON’T DO THAT! You scared us to death” said Padme trying to get her voice back. “Is Jenulesca your age?”

“Why…what’s it to you?” said Anakin playfully.

“Well it would help because she holoed last night” Padme spat back in the same manner. “She also wants you to holo her back.”

“She is 19 I think… I have not seen her in so long I forgot tell you the truth. Oh yeah and I heard you talking to her last night. You need to learn how to keep your voice down. When others are trying to sleep” said Anakin with a sly grin.

Padme stood there stunned for a moment. “You mean you heard?”

“You four should be getting ready we are going to land in like 20 minutes I think” and with that he walked off towards the bay.