Title: The end
Author: Charlotte
Disclaimer: Everything except for Mayco and her friends belong to George Lucas. I am making no money out of this.
I know there's only going to be like two years between Episode II and Episode III, so there really isn't time for any of my stories to happen, but I've been bored, so I created this character Mayco.
This is my take on episode three. In my opinion Anakin can't go from being slightly evil one minute to completely Darth Vader the next, so this is all about the event that turns him.
The End
The beginning of the end
" Anakin! Would you stop wishing you were somewhere else? I am trying to concentrate!" Mayco hissed, her young face filled with focus. Anakin grinned and nearly shook his head with affection, but he managed to stop himself in time, so as not to break her gaze and lose the game. It was only a staring game, but the eight-year-old was taking it very seriously, even though she'd already lost three times. And Anakin couldn't let her win, because she could sense that and got annoyed.
" Mayco, sweetheart, it's only a game! And this particular game doesn't require that much attention," he chuckled staring back into her eyes, so like his own it was scary.
" That's what you think," Mayco said in a singsong voice, giving Anakin one of her trademark cheeky faces; so easy for her to pull off on her impish face. Anakin smiled back at her and shrugged his shoulders. They stayed like this for a further five minutes, until Anakin felt his master's presence behind him. He turned around quickly to see if Obi-wan was coming.
" Ha! I win you lose!" Mayco cried triumphantly. Anakin turned back to look at her with a boyish grin.
" You do know you only won because." he began childishly.
" You can't concentrate?" the child suggested happily. Anakin grinned and then turned round to see that Obi-wan had indeed arrived, and was watching them with a subtle smile on his face.
" So what did they say?" Anakin asked expectantly. Obi-wan unfolded his arms and approached the pair slowly, dragging out the suspense. Anakin gave his master a tired look. Mayco just stared at them both in confusion, she had no idea what any of this was about, but she was definitely growing more and more curious.
" They said yes," Obi-wan said suddenly. Anakin's face split into a broad smile and then both men turned on Mayco. She suddenly grew timid and shrunk back into her chair a bit.
" What?" she asked worriedly. Anakin looked to Obi-wan, who nodded, and then he sat down in the chair opposite her.
" We have a little surprise for you!" he said happily. Mayco raised her eyebrows with a slight smile on her face.
" Well?" she finally asked when Anakin didn't continue.
" Oh sorry, yeah we've been given permission by the council to take you on a trip," he said grinning at the child. Mayco's face instantly lit up and she was about to burst out with questions, but Anakin held his hand up. " You don't even know where we're going yet," he laughed. Mayco pouted and gave Anakin the heart melting face that she knew could get her anything she wanted. Anakin shook his head fondly. " Okay we're going to spend a week on Tatooine and a week on Naboo!" The change in the youngster was instantaneous as she leapt off her chair and threw her arms around Anakin's neck.
" Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!" she cried and then lunged at Obi- wan, giving him the same gratitude. " When do we go?" she asked stepping away and looking up at him.
" In two days time," Obi-wan replied.
" Is it like to do with the war?" she asked eagerly.
" Indirectly yes," he answered. Mayco smiled at him and then ran off.
" Hey wait, where are you going?" Anakin called after her. Mayco skidded to a halt and turned around grinning fit to burst.
" I have to go tell Tio, she's going to be totally psyched for me!" she called to them jumping up happily as she spoke and then she ran off again. When she'd turned the corner at the end of the hall Anakin turned to Obi- wan with a truly happy look on his face.
" See! I told you it was a good idea!" Anakin said cheerfully.
" Don't you think she's going to suspect something? Or pick up more strongly on your emotions and those of Padme?" Obi-wan countered worriedly. " I still think this is risky Anakin! We could confuse her greatly!" Anakin nodded grimly.
" I know, but this is important to me, I want her to at least see where she's come from!"
" But she's visited Naboo before!" Obi-wan pressed on. " And I don't think that war time is the ideal time to take her all the way to the outer rim! Anything could happen and you know how the council feels about this child!"
" Yeah I know it's not the best time, but Padme wants to see her, she hasn't seen her in so long! The last time was when Mayco was just a little girl!" Anakin said getting a little emotional.
" She still is just a little girl," Obi-wan warned and Anakin nodded grimly.
" I know," Anakin sighed and he hung his head. Obi-wan grinded his teeth for a moment and walked over to his charge.
" Come on, Master Windu has requested an audience with us, to discuss some.guidelines.for our trip," Obi-wan told him and together they walked off.
* * *
Meanwhile Mayco had reached her corridor and she ran over to her room. She could sense her roommate's presence in their room, so she barged straight in. Tio was standing facing the door with her arms crossed, she had sensed Mayco too.
" What's happened?" she asked sounding amused.
" Anakin and Master Obi-wan are taking me on a two week trip to the outer regions!" Mayco sang happily. Tio's eyes bulged jealously.
" No way! That is the coolest! When?" she cried.
" In two days!" Mayco replied and she jumped onto her bed enthusiastically and started jumping up and down. Tio grinned and jumped onto her own bed and started jumping. " I mean this trip is going to be awesome, imagine if we're flying along innocently and then this dirty great big Sith ship comes along and attacks us," Mayco began happily, getting completely overexcited. " And then 'oh no!' Anakin and Obi-wan are knocked out and then I have to fight the Sith lord on my own!" Now both girls were overexcited and Mayco used the force to bring a fake lightsaber to her hand (it was a toy - a coloured plastic rod with a handle). Tio grinned and copied her friend's lead and the two started sparring with the toy's making lightsaber sound effects. " And I fight gallantly, making all the right moves!" Mayco carried on happily, as the two jumped from bed to bed fighting. " Until finally, I get him right in the heart!" she cried triumphantly and stuck her toy sword under Tio's arm mid jump and they fell to the floor; Tio faked a strangled cry. " And then I win! Saving the universe from evil everywhere!" Mayco panted and she leant back on her knees with a sudden rush of panic. Tio sat up quickly.
" May.what's wrong?" she asked sounding concerned. Mayco gulped and turned to look at her friend.
" I don't know.I just suddenly had this bad feeling, like something horrible was going to happen," Mayco said shakily and she shook her head quickly. " I mean it's gone now.but man that was weird!" Tio gave Mayco a sympathetic look and they both got to their feet.
" Uh.feel like going for dinner, we have meditation like in an hour and I'm hungry!" Tio suggested. Mayco nodded eagerly and she quickly changed out of her training clothes (very baggy orange trousers and a black tight T-shirt that the children at the temple spend their time in when they exercise) and into her formal. She then did her hair up quickly and attached her lightsaber to her belt.
" Ready?" Tio asked standing by the door. Mayco nodded and they headed out of their room.
" You always get premonitions though don't you May? I mean you're like so powerful, didn't Master Windu say that was normal?" Tio said as they walked. Mayco shrugged.
" Yeah normally they're not bad ones though.Tio.it was like I felt my own death!" Mayco said shuddering at the thought. Tio furrowed her brow worriedly and looked over at her friend. " I mean can you imagine." she began, but as they rounded a corner they saw Obi-wan and Anakin coming towards them down the other end. " Don't tell them, act normal," Mayco said quickly and she put on a happy face and cleared her mind of any bad thoughts. Within a few minutes they met half way down the corridor.
" Have you got classes to get to?" Obi-wan asked the children good- naturedly.
" Yeah later, we're going to dinner now," Mayco answered and she looked from Obi-wan to Anakin, but he was staring at her with a weird look on his face.
" What's wrong?" he asked her. Mayco frowned at him in confusion.
" I don't." she began hesitantly.
" You're hiding something," Anakin said sounding very concerned and almost aggressive. Mayco bit her lip and looked to Obi-wan for support, why did Anakin always have to get like this? He was so overprotective!
" Come on Anakin, we're going to be late," Obi-wan said. " You'd better go girls, you're going to run out of time if you're not careful," he said and the girls nodded and started walking off.
" Bye," they called and they rushed off. Obi-wan waited till they were out of earshot and then rounded on Anakin.
" You must be careful Anakin! You were really upsetting her, you must have sensed that. Remember she doesn't have to tell you everything!" Obi-wan warned.
" Well she should," Anakin said grumpily. " I am her father!"
" She doesn't know that, but at this rate, she's going to figure it out unless you calm down a bit!" Anakin sighed and shook his head sadly.
" It's getting so hard to be less involved, I want her to know who I am and how much I care and why I care so much!" Anakin said passionately. Obi-wan nodded.
" I can understand that this is hard for you, but remember, neither of you will ever become Jedi if she finds out who you really are and your connection with her grows deeper than it should," Obi-wan said. Anakin closed his eyes and nodded.
" I hate not being able to hold her.or to comfort her when she's upset.or share her experiences with her. I helped make her, she's mine and I can't even tell her how much she means to me!" Obi-wan stared sadly at his padawan.
" I know. Come on, we have meditation of our own to get to," he told the young man and Anakin nodded. Together they walked off.
* * *
" Oh crap! Yeah why do they insist on serving all this green slime every Wednesday, I mean I just don't get it. What is it anyway?" Mayco demanded as she sat down with her tray opposite Tio.
" I think it's some sort of vegetable," Tio said frowning at her own serving.
" So why does it taste so.meaty?" Mayco countered raising her eyebrows worriedly. She then dropped her spoon back in the bowl and pushed it away. " Uh uh, I am not eating that!"
" Mayco come on! You know what'll happen if you don't eat! Anakin and Master Kenobi will totally freak at you!" Tio warned. Mayco sighed and stared at the sludge.
" No seriously, what is that?" she cried out. She then tasted it again and shuddered, but ate the concoction anyway. " I think they should scrap the endurance test off the course, this is testing my endurance more than any exam they set!" Tio laughed out loud and nodded in agreement. At this point several children joined them at their table.
" Oh hey guys," Mayco greeted them, they were the children from most of their classes. Mayco shared all her non-physical classes with these children, but when it came to learning how to use a lightsaber, or control the force, or combat drills, she had her own mentor: Yoda.
" You guys see what's on the menu today?" Kara, one of the smallest of the various children said with a happy look on her face. " Drelliks!" she said. The change within Mayco and Tio was instantaneous as they leapt to their feet and ran out of the mess hall, crashing into several younger students on their way, leaving a trail of mayhem behind them as usual. They headed straight for the nearest bathroom and fell into two neighbouring cubicles and then they started throwing up. They stayed like this for five minutes until someone else walked in the bathroom.
" Mayco Naberrie, Tio Al'lin! Get out here now, what are you two playing at, you've just caused chaos in the mess hall!" It was the hall monitor Shari (someone these two girls had been in trouble with since they moved in together). Mayco grimaced and wiped her mouth with some tissue, but then crept out of the cubicle. Shari was glaring at her.
" What's wrong with you? You're shaking!" Shari demanded angrily. Mayco was feeling a little shivery.
" Nothing, just feeling a little cold that's all," Mayco said, forcing her mind to think it was the truth (she had a knack of hiding the truth from everyone at the academy, except for everyone on the council, Obi-wan and Anakin - the latter two knew her too well!).
" Well get out of here at once and go and help clean up the younger children, they're all distraught, they had a recital to show the council and now they're all covered in Drelliks!" Shari hissed. Just hearing the name Drelliks made Mayco wretch again, but she managed to contain herself - Drelliks were a favourite food amongst many children in the academy, but Mayco and Tio had hated it ever since one of the older children in the academy had played a prank on them and made them believe it was animal dung and entrails, unfortunately the pair had never found out the truth, because the dish was actually perfectly harmless.
" Well I'm sorry, but we have class now," Mayco said shaking a bit more from her nausea. Shari screwed up her face angrily.
" Miss Naberrie you will." Shari began furiously, but at this point Tio came out of her cubicle and the two of them made a run for it. Shari didn't even try and followed. " I am going to tell the council about this! You mark my word!" she shouted after them. The two girls didn't stop running till they reached their meditation hall.
" Better be in trouble with the capes later than now," Mayco said grimly and they composed themselves before calmly walking into the hall. There were a few children in there already, but mostly it was empty. The two girls walked to the back of the hall and sat down on the two furthest cushions.
" You're probably putting your trip in danger," Tio said softly. Mayco grinned and shook her head.
" No, Ani will talk them round, you know what he's like! He'll do anything for me!" Mayco said grinning.
" Yeah I still don't get that, he adores you!" Tio said sadly, very envious of Mayco's relationship with both men.
" Yeah it's like he thinks he's like my father or something!" Mayco said shrugging her shoulders. Mayco furrowed her brow in thought; she often got very weird emotions off Anakin. She knew she had a weird bond with him, but she couldn't quite pinpoint how. At this point Anis walked over to them and sat down enthusiastically next to them. She was smiling fit to burst. Mayco gave Tio a tired look, but then turned on Anis with a broad smile.
" Hey Anis, how are you?" she asked with fake-enthusiasm. Anis was a third wheel so to speak, she often tried to tag along with these two, but they found her insufferable sometimes and often were quite mean to the poor girl - but they were the coolest children in their class, so she always tried to suck up to them.
" I'm great! How are you?" Anis asked in a bubbly voice. Mayco nodded slightly and then turned back to Tio, totally ignoring the other girl.
" You do remember that we still have that.you know.this evening?" she said softly, with Anis peering over her shoulder curiously. Tio nodded and smiled slightly, well aware that they were expected to compete in the dangerous underground racing sport 'the lower region space speedway games', they crashed almost every race, but were starting to get the hang of it. They had first become interested in this sport when Anakin had told them exciting bedtime stories about it and his days in podracing.
" We'd better get away before the capes get us too, because when we get back, we'll be in enough trouble," she added thoughtfully. Tio sighed and nodded. " Straight after this maybe?"
" Or now," Tio suggested. Mayco raised her eyebrows.
" Now?"
" Yeah well they might send someone to get us from class, we should go now!" Mayco thought about it for a split second and then jumped to her feet.
" Okay let's go," she said and the two of them bolted. They made it just in time, because as they rounded the corner the tutor was coming along. They ran all the way to their room and then locked the door.
" But Mayco, how are we going to get out? They know the laundry route now.what?" Tio asked, but she stopped because Mayco was staring out of the window. She instantly knew what her friend was thinking. " Um.isn't that slightly.insane?"
" No," she said and she used the force to open her cupboard door. " We still have these!" she said sneakily pulling out a machine that they had been working on out with the force. It was a power machine that would give you thrust for five minutes in flight. " We could catch a ride on a bus or something," she said.
" Hover till we find one going south right?" Tio asked. Mayco grinned and nodded.
" Yep, that's the plan," she said. " We'll probably have to split up, and we should free fall for the first hundred feet or so, or at least until we hit mainstream traffic!" Tio nodded and they both pulled their cloaks on. Then Tio found her hover machine and the two of them made their way out onto the balcony.
" Got the money?" Tio checked. Mayco nodded and patted her bag protectively.
" Let's just hope I don't lose that," Mayco said happily as she jumped onto the ledge with ease. Tio jumped with her and they looked down. " See you at Parada, outside Dennies!" Then with that, the two girls jumped. They fell and fell, lower and lower.
* * *
.Sitting in a conference room, Anakin and Obi-wan were discussing more details about their trip with Mace Windu. Master Windu had his back to the window, so he didn't see the two shapes suddenly drop past the window at lightning speed. Both Obi-wan and Anakin though, stared bewildered at the window for a moment. Mace frowned and turned around. Seeing nothing he turned back on the men.
" What?" he asked, but Obi-wan and Anakin rushed to the window, just in time to see the two girls start their hover droids and zoom off out of site in the direction of Parada.
" That was Mayco!" Anakin said looking up at Obi-wan worriedly.
" And they're heading for Parada!" Obi-wan added sounding even more worried. They both knew instantly what the girls were up to (Anakin himself had competed in the games several times). Mace had overheard them.
" Go bring them home," he said sounding tired and Anakin and Obi-wan rushed off. Pretty soon they reached the speeder bay and they jumped into their speeder.
" If you're careful you can catch them before they get there," Obi-wan said stressing the word careful, but Anakin had no intentions on being careful, his daughter was about to go and kill herself and he was expected to stay careful?
* * *
Meanwhile, skirting between speeders and ships Mayco was looking for a suitable transport that would bring her to Parada. She had lost site of Tio a while ago, so she was on her own now. Suddenly and quite sporadically her hover droid started spluttering and within seconds the engine gave way and she was free falling.
" Uh oh!" she said calmly and she quickly landed and then jumped off a speeder. She could see where she was headed, a pedestrian passageway that surrounded a park like area. Now this was fun, jumping from one speeder to the next.
" There she is!" Anakin yelled to Obi-wan over the noise of the wind and the speeder. They'd already picked Tio up out of mid air.
" She's heading for that walk way," Obi-wan said pointing. " Put her down on it, we'll wait for her there." Anakin obeyed and within no time they were leaning over the railing watching as Mayco got closer and closer and eventually touched down on the walk way. She looked smug for two seconds, then felt roughly to see if her bag was still with her. Obi-wan and Anakin approached (having left a very grumpy Tio in the speeder). Mayco must have sensed them, because suddenly she turned and saw them. She bolted.
" Mayco stop!" Anakin yelled and he and Obi-wan charged after her. It was hard, man that kid was fast! Mayco herself was panicking, she'd be in big trouble if they caught her. She crashed into someone because of her panic. Unfortunately, the guy was huge and intoxicated.
" Hey, watch it!" he yelled and he shoved her. She fell, but rolled quickly and got to her feet. The man pulled out a blaster.
" Crap," Mayco muttered and she pulled out her lightsaber. Behind the man she could see Obi-wan and Anakin getting closer. The man started shooting at her and she easily deflected the bolts onto the ground. Then she used the force to bring a can towards the man's hands at great speed and force, it knocked the blaster clean out of his hands.
" Why you little!" he yelled and he charged at her knocking her lightsaber out of her hands and over the edge onto the set of consecutive domes under the passageway.
" You idiot!" she hissed at the man and she did a backwards summersault onto the railing, then another backwards flip, then on her third backwards flip she spun around mid air and then carried on after the lightsaber headfirst. Anakin saw what she was doing and immediately saw he had to help. So he too jumped over the railing, but he landed lower than Mayco on a gutter between two domes. He sprinted down the gutter until he was directly below her and prepared for impact.
" Watch out!" Mayco yelled when she saw him. It was Anakin who had miscalculated, because Mayco hit him with incredible force and the two of them started rolling down the last of the domes after the lightsaber. The end was approaching fast, and Mayco's only concern was that her precious lightsaber was bouncing out of reach. When they reached the end of the dome the lightsaber tumbled over first, then Mayco freefalling after it, but Anakin grabbed onto the railing of the gutter with his good hand and then reached out desperately to grab Mayco. He managed to grab a handful of cloak and shirt, whilst she reached out her arm and used all her power over the force to stop her lightsaber from falling and bring it to her hand. It was incredibly difficult at first, she'd never tried anything like this, but then, soon enough she felt the familiar Force grip on it and she drew it to her. By the time it reached her hand it was going at a cracking pace. Feeling her fingers clasping round it was the most wonderful feeling ever, and then she quickly attacked it to her belt.
" You know, I'm beginning to think you'll do anything for that thing," Anakin said sounding amused. It was true, he'd taken her out to see a Packball match (a game similar to baseball) the other week and she'd cleared a space in the stands of 10 meters in diameter of people with the force just to find it when it had dropped out of reach. Injuring several people in the process. Mayco grinned and nodded.
" My father made the handle for me sir, it's all I have," she said. Anakin felt a pang of pain. She was right, he had made that handle for her when she was a baby, it had been his parting gift.
" Let me go," Mayco suddenly said. Anakin knew what she was doing so he did. She only dropped a few centimetres, because she suddenly grabbed onto his leg and started climbing up to his shoulders.
" Excuse me sir," she said as she climbed up onto his shoulders and then onto his head. She was so small that she had to make a jump off him and onto the railing. She pulled herself up into the gutter and sat down panting. Anakin then pulled himself up and stood leaning against the dome. He could feel a few bruises forming, but looking down at his daughter's blonde hanging head, he reminded himself how much she was worth. If anything happened to that child he would never forgive himself. As he thought this Mayco suddenly leapt to her feet all set on jumping off the railing. Anakin reached out as quickly as he could and grabbed the back of her cloak again. Now he held her leaning over the edge, practically horizontal.
" Now what are you doing?" he asked sounding half amused and half annoyed.
" Tio, I have no idea where she went!" Mayco said sounding frantic. " If anything happens to her it's all my fault, let me go sir, I have to find her!" she cried and she struggled madly. Anakin was loosing grip on her cloak, so he gave one almighty pull and lifted her clean off her feet and into the crook of his arm, where he held her firmly.
" You're not going anywhere," he said firmly. " And we've already picked up Tio, she's fine, a little angry maybe." Mayco sighed and nodded.
" All right then, you could have said," she muttered. " Could you put me down now?" she asked and he obliged. Anakin wondered whether he should be the one to reprimand her. He felt he should certainly say something.
" You know that you could get killed in speed races?" he said in a stern tone. Mayco nodded without looking up at him.
" Don't start on me sir, please! Not you!" Mayco suddenly said looking up at him sadly and Anakin realised for a moment that she was really beginning to look like Padmé. Sure, she had his colourings, but her face was so similar to her mother's, it was scary. She was such a beautiful child. " You've always told me stories about how you used to podrace back on Tattooine! So you can hardly turn round and tell me I can't speed race, when it's so much safer than what you used to do!" she said firmly.
" If you'd listened more carefully, you would have heard me saying I had no choice! I raced to survive!" he said sternly.
" And I race for my honour," she muttered. Anakin sighed. He knew how important it was to a child to fit in. Mayco was like a god to the young Padawans at the temple. Not because she was so amazingly talented, but because she was daring and adventurous and never backed away from any challenge. and got in trouble every other second. Under any other circumstances he would be proud of her, but he didn't want her to get hurt.
" Trust me Mayco, you're honour is not worth risking your life for," he told her. She must have sensed his emotion in his voice, because she suddenly looked up at him, but then all of a sudden Obi-wan in a speeder, with Tio still in the back appeared at eye-level. Anakin and Mayco jumped in, Anakin next to Obi-wan and Mayco next to Tio in the back. Mayco nodded grimly to Tio and they both stayed silent for the whole journey back to the temple. Once they got there the two girls started off in the direction of their room.
" You two, wait!" Obi-wan called to them. " The council want to see you!" Mayco and Tio exchanged a scared look, but then they both mastered their fear.
" Lead on," Mayco muttered to the men and so they did, with Mayco and Tio following, their heads hanging in shame. Within moments they reached the council room and the girls were ordered to wait outside whilst Anakin and Obi-wan went in and explained to them.
" What do you think they'll do?" Tio asked sounding bemused.
" Same thing they did last time probably, revoke our privileges for a week or something," Mayco replied softly. " You know, we must be losing it! We haven't sneaked out successfully in over a month!" she suddenly said sounding angry.
" We were really unlucky to get caught that time though, how did they know?" Tio asked. Mayco shrugged her shoulders.
" I have no idea!" she muttered. " We planned it so well!" They sat in silence for fifteen more minutes until finally the door slid open and they were called in. They walked in and bowed lightly to the council. Obi-wan and Anakin were standing in the middle of the room. They cleared slightly to the side and so Mayco and Tio took their places.
" This is the second time this month you two have been caught sneaking out to Parada," Mace said. "And earlier today Master Shari came to me telling me about the chaos you caused in the mess hall, and then how you flatly disobeyed her. It seems that you never learn!"
" Good Jedi learn to obey rules," Even Piell said from the other side of the room. " Whereas you two only seem to learn new ways in which to break them!" Silence followed this statement.
" Anything to say in defence do you have?" Yoda eventually said.
" No master Yoda," both girls said clearly and unemotionally.
" Then on to your punishment," Mace said. The girls looked him straight in the eye. " We have tried everything with you two and nothing seems to work! So we're going to see if you still get in trouble if you're apart!" he told them. Mayco glanced quickly at Tio and then straight back at Mace. She didn't like the sound of this. " You are both to transfer to separate single rooms and you will not be permitted to see each other for at least a month." Mayco's jaw dropped slightly. She's shared rooms with Tio further back then she could remember. Tio was a like a sister to her, the only 'family' that she had. Sure she had plenty of other friends, she was very popular, but none like Tio.this wasn't fair!
" Something to say have you Mayco?" Yoda suddenly said. Mayco snapped her gaze on him, how did he always manage to read her thoughts? She had a strong mind, it should be impossible to read her thoughts, but yet Yoda always managed.
" No Master Yoda," she said gravely.
" But unfair you find this," Yoda stated.
" Yes Master Yoda."
" You brought this on yourself Mayco, you have to learn to obey rules and orders, you'll never become a Jedi if you can't learn to do those things," Mace told her. Mayco nodded. This she knew. " Then it's agreed. Go and start packing your things and someone will be with you shortly to take you to your new rooms." Mayco and Tio bowed again and then walked out slowly, side by side, each thinking about what this meant. They walked in silence all the way to their room and only when they got there did it sink in what all this meant.
" I can't believe they are actually doing this," Mayco said coldly, as she sat down on the bed she'd slept in for the last four years. She had so many memories from this room, but she never thought she'd feel this bad about leaving it.
" They can keep us apart, but they'll never stop us from being friends," Tio suddenly said. Mayco looked at her and nodded.
" I still can't believe that they're doing this!" she repeated and she begrudgingly picked up her large travelling bag and used the force to quickly and efficiently empty her wardrobe.
" How are we going to move all our stuff?" she then asked as she opened her cupboard and looked inside and then looked round the room. Her stuff was everywhere, and she had art work stuck to the walls. This room was her home! The answer came when two droids appeared with huge crates. Mayco exchanged a sad look with Tio and then used the Force to strip the room of any sign that they were ever there. When they were done Mayco gave the empty room one last sad gaze and then she walked out and started following her droid. Tio was being led in the opposite direction.
" They can't stop us from seeing each other either!" Mayco called after her and then she begrudgingly followed the droid to a different part of the temple. It led her to a narrow corridor with lots of doors on it and stopped by one of them. Mayco opened it with bated breath and nearly closed it again once she saw what was inside. It was tiny, had no windows and was definitely colder than any other room she'd been in. The droid pushed the crate in and then shut the door and left. Mayco felt forlorn, how could this be happening. She sat down on the bed and it felt distinctly different to her own comfy bed.
" This is a nightmare," she told herself and she quickly went about unpacking her clothes and then some of her personal items to make her new room look more homely. It didn't work, so she gave up and lay down on the bed staring up at the ceiling. She lay there for quite some time, until someone signalled at her door to come in.
" It's open," Mayco called to whoever was standing there. The door slid open and she wasn't surprised to see Anakin and Obi-wan standing there. They walked in and looked around.
" Well it's nice," Anakin lied. Mayco sighed.
" It feels like a prison cell," she said unemotionally and then she shivered. " And it's so cold!" Anakin sat down on the crate as Obi-wan sat down in the chair.
" Well you could ask a droid to alter the environmental controls," Obi-wan suggested.
" It would still be cold, the sun has never touched this room, how could it be warm?" Mayco said softly. " I'm going to have nightmares in this room, I can tell!" Obi-wan and Anakin exchanged a sad look. " And it's lonely, I never realised how much Tio meant to me! She's the only family that I'll ever have, and even then she's not really family, but she's still my closest friend, we're closer than family! No.actually that's a lie!"
" What do you mean?" Anakin asked. Mayco seemed to think about it.
" I remember how my father felt," she finally said and Anakin glanced worriedly at Obi-wan. " I remember when he gave me away.well no.I remember how I felt when he gave me away! I had like this amazing connection with him, and even though I must have only been a tiny baby, I guess I knew who he was. When I was alone that night, I cried for him. That's the only memory I have of what having a family feels like. They are so close and so important to you, that it kills you a little bit every day you're away from them," she said. When she was finished Anakin was in torment.she was making him relive the terrible day he gave her up.she was sitting right next to her father, the man who had broken her heart when she was one day old and she didn't even know it. Silence followed, and then Mayco spoke again. " And now I have no one."
" That's not true, you have us, and all you're other friends," Anakin said, trying to sound unemotional, but failing. For the second time that day, Mayco stared him straight in the eye, a glimmer of comprehension in her gaze.she was so close to understanding who he was, but yet so far too.
" It's not the same," she eventually said. Then she smiled cheekily, her old self, beaming at them. " I mean great as you guys are and everything, you can never replace my family, whoever and wherever they are!"
" That may be so, but we're still here for you if you need us," Obi-wan said quickly, so Anakin wouldn't speak and give away even more of the big secret. A silence followed, in which Mayco nodded silently to herself. " Speaking of which," Obi-wan carried on. " You're lucky that we care so much, we had to pull some considerable strings to ensure that the council would still permit you to come with us on our mission!" Mayco's face lit up slightly.
" Thank you," she said quickly.
" Though I'm not sure you deserve to go after this evening," Obi-wan said sternly. " You have to learn how to control yourself, the council will eventually get fed up of your antics and expel you from the academy." Mayco looked up looking slightly alarmed, though secretly she knew that would probably never happen, she was too powerful to let go.
" I said I was sorry about all that," Mayco said in a tired blasé tone. Obi- wan looked at her even more sternly, she was getting too cocky.
" You will learn your place little one," Obi-wan warned and he stood up. " I'll see you tomorrow. I suggest that you stay here and try and think about the implications of your actions, and then try and get a lot of sleep!" Mayco nodded.
" I'm sorry sir," she said and Obi-wan nodded back to her and left. Mayco watched him go and felt very guilty. She then turned back to Anakin who was staring at her with some disappointment in his face.
" Not you as well!" Mayco said tiredly. " Please! I never meant for any of this to happen, you've got to believe me!" Anakin nodded and stood up himself and walked over to the child. He patted her head sadly and then walked out. Mayco closed her eyes sadly and lay down on her new bed. What a day!
* * *
A few hours later, after several sessions of mediation, someone signalled at Mayco's door.
" Come in," she shouted and the door slid open. When Mayco saw who it was she cringed a little; it was the chancellor. Palpatine was extremely interested in Mayco's upbringing and her training and he met with her twice a week. Mayco distrusted him immensely.
" I was hoping to find you still awake," he said in a dark tone as he walked in and sat down in the chair.
" I was meditating sir," Mayco replied.
" I should hope so after the trouble you've caused," he growled. " I hope they have punished you!" Mayco nodded and indicated her surroundings, getting a little annoyed that he was punishing her too now. " You could have got yourself killed, and you could have killed that poor girl Tio. You put other people's lives in danger far too often young Skywalker, you have to."
" What?" Mayco suddenly asked frowning.
" Don't talk to me with such an insolent tone!" the chancellor snapped.
" No you called me Skywalker," Mayco retorted quickly, and a little angrily, her anger was definitely anger.
" I did no such thing!" Palpatine roared.
" Yeah you did! You said young Skywalker! I think you're a little confused," Mayco said touchily.
" Why of all the insolent. you'd better start treating me with respect child, or I will ensure that your punishment is doubled!" he snapped. Mayco's jaw dropped.
" That's not fair!" she cried, oh how she hated this man.
* * *
Elsewhere in the temple Anakin and Obi-wan were sitting eating their dinner when both of them felt the tremor in the force.
" What was that?" Obi-wan gasped. It had been so powerful and so dark; it had definitely unnerved him a bit. Anakin gripped the side of the table and closed his eyes; his daughter was feeling hatred.something she had never felt before.
" It's Mayco! We have to get to her!" Anakin suddenly exclaimed and the two men jumped to their feet and ran out of their quarters. They met Mace and Yoda in the corridor heading in the same direction.
" You felt it too?" Mace asked as they ran.
" Yeah!"
" Whatever is happening to her, it's causing a huge disturbance in the force, everyone in the temple is feeling it," Mace told them. They'd soon reached Mayco's new quarters and they rushed in to find the small child standing in front of the chancellor screaming at him with tears rushing down her face. Hatred was flowing from her. Mace rushed in and grabbed her, but she was struggling away from him.
" Anakin help me!" Mace yelled and Anakin rushed in too and grabbed the small child whilst Obi-wan rushed the Chancellor out of the room.
" I was only trying to discipline her," the chancellor insisted before making his way down the corridor. Inside the room Mayco was calming down slightly, but was very shaky.
" What the hell just happened?" Anakin demanded.
" I don't know," Mayco cried. " He made me so angry, he was being so mean and then." Everyone sensed that she was hiding something, something which to her had been horrific.
" Then what?" Obi-wan asked gently. Mayco shook her head. " Mayco please sweetheart, tell us what?" But the child shook her head again. Obi-wan sighed and looked to Mace and Yoda, who were holding a hushed conversation in the corner.
" I think the child needs lots of sleep," Mace finally said. " We can discuss this in the morning, but for now, just try and rest Mayco," Mace told her. Mayco nodded and swallowed hard.
" Yes sir, goodnight," she said and the two council members left the room.
" Can you tell us now?" Anakin asked, but Mayco shook her head shakily. Anakin sighed and looked to Obi-wan for help.
" Let's juts let her sleep Anakin," he said and he was about to leave.
" Wait!" Mayco said and she sat up to look at both men. " Tell me a bedtime story!" Both men grinned.
" Aren't you a bit old for that, we haven't told one of those in years," Obi-wan chuckled. Mayco shook her head solemnly. Obi-wan laughed and nodded. " Very well." Mayco smiled and snuggled down under her covers as Obi-wan sat down in the lazy chair by the bed. Anakin was about to stand up and move to the other chair, but Mayco reached out and grabbed his shirt.
" What are you doing?" she asked him furrowing her brow. " You always lie with me for stories!" she said in an accusing tone. Anakin grinned.
" I thought you'd be too old for that now!" he said as he lay down next to her and she dragged his arm round her.
" No. It makes me feel safe," Mayco said and she closed her eyes. " Tell me the story of how you guys escaped execution with the senator on Geonosis!" Obi-wan smiled at Anakin, that was an old time favourite story. And so they started telling the story, but before the end the child was already fast asleep, and so Anakin kissed the back of her head and carefully got off the bed and walked out with Obi-wan.
" Whatever happened to her in there, brought her very close to the dark side.closer than she's ever been before.she was very scared and very angry about something," Obi-wan said grimly as they walked home.
" I know, I felt it too," Anakin agreed. " I want to know what it was!"
* * *
Hours later still Mayco was sweating in her sleep, she was tossing and turning and crying out.she was having a bad nightmare. It was so bad that it woke her up. She sat in bed for a few minutes before she realised that she needed Anakin. He could always calm her down. So she crawled out of bed and pulled on her loose training shoes. Then she scampered out of her room and through the empty corridors of the temple. She'd nearly reached Anakin and Obi-wan's quarters when she ran into none-other than Shari.
" Mayco Naberrie!" Shari bellowed causing the eight-year-old to leap up and turn around in fright. " Walking around the temple after hours is forbidden! You know that! And with all the trouble you're in." she hissed.
" Yeah but I have to go see Master Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, please it's urgent!" Mayco begged, but Shari just shook her head and glared at the child. So Mayco reached out with the force till she could sense Obi-wan, he was meditating.
*Obi-wan!* she thought hard, trying to reach out to the master. *Obi-wan please! I need you!* After a moments silence she finally got a result, when the door to their quarters opened and Obi-wan stepped out.
" What is going on here?" he asked Shari.
" I've caught Miss Naberrie sneaking around the corridors after hours," Shari said curtly.
" Yes that's right, I've been expecting her," Obi-wan said and Shari looked horrified, " I am ever so sorry Master Kenobi," she said and she rushed off. Mayco nodded gratefully to Obi-wan and followed him into his quarters. Then she rushed and hugged him.
" Thank you! Can I go see Anakin please?" she asked sounding distraught. Obi-wan could sense that she was in desperate need of comforting and everyone knew that only Anakin could calm this child when she got upset - thought only a few people knew why.
" Yes go," Obi-wan said and she ran off to his room. She didn't even signal on the door, she just barged straight in. He was asleep, but her distress, which he could sense through the force woke him up straight away as she lay down next to him shaking.
" Mayco! What's wrong?" Anakin asked and he wrapped his arms around her. It had the instant effect of calming her down a bit. " What happened?"
" Palpatine is evil!" she cried. Anakin frowned and hugged her a little tighter.
" What?" he asked in a light-hearted tone.
" When he was in my room, he was like punishing me, and I got all these visions, all these feelings when he came near me.I could see the future! You're going to die alone, I saw you dying alone, all old and deformed and metal and you were alone! I didn't want to see you alone! It was all fire and burning and panic everywhere and there were people dying everywhere, and there was no Obi-wan, there was no Mace, there was no Jedi!" At this point she broke down and started shaking insanely. " There was no Jedi!" she repeated over and over.
" Where were you?" Anakin asked trying to keep his voice under control, her pain was affecting him seriously.
" I was dead! I was dead! I don't want to die!" the child cried. Anakin hugged her even tighter and he rocked her.
" You are not going to die, I am not letting anything happen to you! Ever!" he said firmly and a tear rolled down his face.
" Yes I will! I'm going to die soon! I know I am! And chancellor Palpatine has something to do with it! He's so evil Anakin, he's so evil!" she cried passionately. Anakin gulped and closed his eyes - he didn't want to hear this, he didn't want to know this. Her premonitions were usually very accurate.
" How are we going to lose all the Jedi?" Anakin asked.
" The Sith are going to kill them!" she cried.
* * *
More to follow soon.
Thank you for taking the time to read it! And I'm REALLY sorry if Mayco turned out to be a little bit Mary Sue
Author: Charlotte
Disclaimer: Everything except for Mayco and her friends belong to George Lucas. I am making no money out of this.
I know there's only going to be like two years between Episode II and Episode III, so there really isn't time for any of my stories to happen, but I've been bored, so I created this character Mayco.
This is my take on episode three. In my opinion Anakin can't go from being slightly evil one minute to completely Darth Vader the next, so this is all about the event that turns him.
The End
The beginning of the end
" Anakin! Would you stop wishing you were somewhere else? I am trying to concentrate!" Mayco hissed, her young face filled with focus. Anakin grinned and nearly shook his head with affection, but he managed to stop himself in time, so as not to break her gaze and lose the game. It was only a staring game, but the eight-year-old was taking it very seriously, even though she'd already lost three times. And Anakin couldn't let her win, because she could sense that and got annoyed.
" Mayco, sweetheart, it's only a game! And this particular game doesn't require that much attention," he chuckled staring back into her eyes, so like his own it was scary.
" That's what you think," Mayco said in a singsong voice, giving Anakin one of her trademark cheeky faces; so easy for her to pull off on her impish face. Anakin smiled back at her and shrugged his shoulders. They stayed like this for a further five minutes, until Anakin felt his master's presence behind him. He turned around quickly to see if Obi-wan was coming.
" Ha! I win you lose!" Mayco cried triumphantly. Anakin turned back to look at her with a boyish grin.
" You do know you only won because." he began childishly.
" You can't concentrate?" the child suggested happily. Anakin grinned and then turned round to see that Obi-wan had indeed arrived, and was watching them with a subtle smile on his face.
" So what did they say?" Anakin asked expectantly. Obi-wan unfolded his arms and approached the pair slowly, dragging out the suspense. Anakin gave his master a tired look. Mayco just stared at them both in confusion, she had no idea what any of this was about, but she was definitely growing more and more curious.
" They said yes," Obi-wan said suddenly. Anakin's face split into a broad smile and then both men turned on Mayco. She suddenly grew timid and shrunk back into her chair a bit.
" What?" she asked worriedly. Anakin looked to Obi-wan, who nodded, and then he sat down in the chair opposite her.
" We have a little surprise for you!" he said happily. Mayco raised her eyebrows with a slight smile on her face.
" Well?" she finally asked when Anakin didn't continue.
" Oh sorry, yeah we've been given permission by the council to take you on a trip," he said grinning at the child. Mayco's face instantly lit up and she was about to burst out with questions, but Anakin held his hand up. " You don't even know where we're going yet," he laughed. Mayco pouted and gave Anakin the heart melting face that she knew could get her anything she wanted. Anakin shook his head fondly. " Okay we're going to spend a week on Tatooine and a week on Naboo!" The change in the youngster was instantaneous as she leapt off her chair and threw her arms around Anakin's neck.
" Oh thank you, thank you, thank you!" she cried and then lunged at Obi- wan, giving him the same gratitude. " When do we go?" she asked stepping away and looking up at him.
" In two days time," Obi-wan replied.
" Is it like to do with the war?" she asked eagerly.
" Indirectly yes," he answered. Mayco smiled at him and then ran off.
" Hey wait, where are you going?" Anakin called after her. Mayco skidded to a halt and turned around grinning fit to burst.
" I have to go tell Tio, she's going to be totally psyched for me!" she called to them jumping up happily as she spoke and then she ran off again. When she'd turned the corner at the end of the hall Anakin turned to Obi- wan with a truly happy look on his face.
" See! I told you it was a good idea!" Anakin said cheerfully.
" Don't you think she's going to suspect something? Or pick up more strongly on your emotions and those of Padme?" Obi-wan countered worriedly. " I still think this is risky Anakin! We could confuse her greatly!" Anakin nodded grimly.
" I know, but this is important to me, I want her to at least see where she's come from!"
" But she's visited Naboo before!" Obi-wan pressed on. " And I don't think that war time is the ideal time to take her all the way to the outer rim! Anything could happen and you know how the council feels about this child!"
" Yeah I know it's not the best time, but Padme wants to see her, she hasn't seen her in so long! The last time was when Mayco was just a little girl!" Anakin said getting a little emotional.
" She still is just a little girl," Obi-wan warned and Anakin nodded grimly.
" I know," Anakin sighed and he hung his head. Obi-wan grinded his teeth for a moment and walked over to his charge.
" Come on, Master Windu has requested an audience with us, to discuss some.guidelines.for our trip," Obi-wan told him and together they walked off.
* * *
Meanwhile Mayco had reached her corridor and she ran over to her room. She could sense her roommate's presence in their room, so she barged straight in. Tio was standing facing the door with her arms crossed, she had sensed Mayco too.
" What's happened?" she asked sounding amused.
" Anakin and Master Obi-wan are taking me on a two week trip to the outer regions!" Mayco sang happily. Tio's eyes bulged jealously.
" No way! That is the coolest! When?" she cried.
" In two days!" Mayco replied and she jumped onto her bed enthusiastically and started jumping up and down. Tio grinned and jumped onto her own bed and started jumping. " I mean this trip is going to be awesome, imagine if we're flying along innocently and then this dirty great big Sith ship comes along and attacks us," Mayco began happily, getting completely overexcited. " And then 'oh no!' Anakin and Obi-wan are knocked out and then I have to fight the Sith lord on my own!" Now both girls were overexcited and Mayco used the force to bring a fake lightsaber to her hand (it was a toy - a coloured plastic rod with a handle). Tio grinned and copied her friend's lead and the two started sparring with the toy's making lightsaber sound effects. " And I fight gallantly, making all the right moves!" Mayco carried on happily, as the two jumped from bed to bed fighting. " Until finally, I get him right in the heart!" she cried triumphantly and stuck her toy sword under Tio's arm mid jump and they fell to the floor; Tio faked a strangled cry. " And then I win! Saving the universe from evil everywhere!" Mayco panted and she leant back on her knees with a sudden rush of panic. Tio sat up quickly.
" May.what's wrong?" she asked sounding concerned. Mayco gulped and turned to look at her friend.
" I don't know.I just suddenly had this bad feeling, like something horrible was going to happen," Mayco said shakily and she shook her head quickly. " I mean it's gone now.but man that was weird!" Tio gave Mayco a sympathetic look and they both got to their feet.
" Uh.feel like going for dinner, we have meditation like in an hour and I'm hungry!" Tio suggested. Mayco nodded eagerly and she quickly changed out of her training clothes (very baggy orange trousers and a black tight T-shirt that the children at the temple spend their time in when they exercise) and into her formal. She then did her hair up quickly and attached her lightsaber to her belt.
" Ready?" Tio asked standing by the door. Mayco nodded and they headed out of their room.
" You always get premonitions though don't you May? I mean you're like so powerful, didn't Master Windu say that was normal?" Tio said as they walked. Mayco shrugged.
" Yeah normally they're not bad ones though.Tio.it was like I felt my own death!" Mayco said shuddering at the thought. Tio furrowed her brow worriedly and looked over at her friend. " I mean can you imagine." she began, but as they rounded a corner they saw Obi-wan and Anakin coming towards them down the other end. " Don't tell them, act normal," Mayco said quickly and she put on a happy face and cleared her mind of any bad thoughts. Within a few minutes they met half way down the corridor.
" Have you got classes to get to?" Obi-wan asked the children good- naturedly.
" Yeah later, we're going to dinner now," Mayco answered and she looked from Obi-wan to Anakin, but he was staring at her with a weird look on his face.
" What's wrong?" he asked her. Mayco frowned at him in confusion.
" I don't." she began hesitantly.
" You're hiding something," Anakin said sounding very concerned and almost aggressive. Mayco bit her lip and looked to Obi-wan for support, why did Anakin always have to get like this? He was so overprotective!
" Come on Anakin, we're going to be late," Obi-wan said. " You'd better go girls, you're going to run out of time if you're not careful," he said and the girls nodded and started walking off.
" Bye," they called and they rushed off. Obi-wan waited till they were out of earshot and then rounded on Anakin.
" You must be careful Anakin! You were really upsetting her, you must have sensed that. Remember she doesn't have to tell you everything!" Obi-wan warned.
" Well she should," Anakin said grumpily. " I am her father!"
" She doesn't know that, but at this rate, she's going to figure it out unless you calm down a bit!" Anakin sighed and shook his head sadly.
" It's getting so hard to be less involved, I want her to know who I am and how much I care and why I care so much!" Anakin said passionately. Obi-wan nodded.
" I can understand that this is hard for you, but remember, neither of you will ever become Jedi if she finds out who you really are and your connection with her grows deeper than it should," Obi-wan said. Anakin closed his eyes and nodded.
" I hate not being able to hold her.or to comfort her when she's upset.or share her experiences with her. I helped make her, she's mine and I can't even tell her how much she means to me!" Obi-wan stared sadly at his padawan.
" I know. Come on, we have meditation of our own to get to," he told the young man and Anakin nodded. Together they walked off.
* * *
" Oh crap! Yeah why do they insist on serving all this green slime every Wednesday, I mean I just don't get it. What is it anyway?" Mayco demanded as she sat down with her tray opposite Tio.
" I think it's some sort of vegetable," Tio said frowning at her own serving.
" So why does it taste so.meaty?" Mayco countered raising her eyebrows worriedly. She then dropped her spoon back in the bowl and pushed it away. " Uh uh, I am not eating that!"
" Mayco come on! You know what'll happen if you don't eat! Anakin and Master Kenobi will totally freak at you!" Tio warned. Mayco sighed and stared at the sludge.
" No seriously, what is that?" she cried out. She then tasted it again and shuddered, but ate the concoction anyway. " I think they should scrap the endurance test off the course, this is testing my endurance more than any exam they set!" Tio laughed out loud and nodded in agreement. At this point several children joined them at their table.
" Oh hey guys," Mayco greeted them, they were the children from most of their classes. Mayco shared all her non-physical classes with these children, but when it came to learning how to use a lightsaber, or control the force, or combat drills, she had her own mentor: Yoda.
" You guys see what's on the menu today?" Kara, one of the smallest of the various children said with a happy look on her face. " Drelliks!" she said. The change within Mayco and Tio was instantaneous as they leapt to their feet and ran out of the mess hall, crashing into several younger students on their way, leaving a trail of mayhem behind them as usual. They headed straight for the nearest bathroom and fell into two neighbouring cubicles and then they started throwing up. They stayed like this for five minutes until someone else walked in the bathroom.
" Mayco Naberrie, Tio Al'lin! Get out here now, what are you two playing at, you've just caused chaos in the mess hall!" It was the hall monitor Shari (someone these two girls had been in trouble with since they moved in together). Mayco grimaced and wiped her mouth with some tissue, but then crept out of the cubicle. Shari was glaring at her.
" What's wrong with you? You're shaking!" Shari demanded angrily. Mayco was feeling a little shivery.
" Nothing, just feeling a little cold that's all," Mayco said, forcing her mind to think it was the truth (she had a knack of hiding the truth from everyone at the academy, except for everyone on the council, Obi-wan and Anakin - the latter two knew her too well!).
" Well get out of here at once and go and help clean up the younger children, they're all distraught, they had a recital to show the council and now they're all covered in Drelliks!" Shari hissed. Just hearing the name Drelliks made Mayco wretch again, but she managed to contain herself - Drelliks were a favourite food amongst many children in the academy, but Mayco and Tio had hated it ever since one of the older children in the academy had played a prank on them and made them believe it was animal dung and entrails, unfortunately the pair had never found out the truth, because the dish was actually perfectly harmless.
" Well I'm sorry, but we have class now," Mayco said shaking a bit more from her nausea. Shari screwed up her face angrily.
" Miss Naberrie you will." Shari began furiously, but at this point Tio came out of her cubicle and the two of them made a run for it. Shari didn't even try and followed. " I am going to tell the council about this! You mark my word!" she shouted after them. The two girls didn't stop running till they reached their meditation hall.
" Better be in trouble with the capes later than now," Mayco said grimly and they composed themselves before calmly walking into the hall. There were a few children in there already, but mostly it was empty. The two girls walked to the back of the hall and sat down on the two furthest cushions.
" You're probably putting your trip in danger," Tio said softly. Mayco grinned and shook her head.
" No, Ani will talk them round, you know what he's like! He'll do anything for me!" Mayco said grinning.
" Yeah I still don't get that, he adores you!" Tio said sadly, very envious of Mayco's relationship with both men.
" Yeah it's like he thinks he's like my father or something!" Mayco said shrugging her shoulders. Mayco furrowed her brow in thought; she often got very weird emotions off Anakin. She knew she had a weird bond with him, but she couldn't quite pinpoint how. At this point Anis walked over to them and sat down enthusiastically next to them. She was smiling fit to burst. Mayco gave Tio a tired look, but then turned on Anis with a broad smile.
" Hey Anis, how are you?" she asked with fake-enthusiasm. Anis was a third wheel so to speak, she often tried to tag along with these two, but they found her insufferable sometimes and often were quite mean to the poor girl - but they were the coolest children in their class, so she always tried to suck up to them.
" I'm great! How are you?" Anis asked in a bubbly voice. Mayco nodded slightly and then turned back to Tio, totally ignoring the other girl.
" You do remember that we still have that.you know.this evening?" she said softly, with Anis peering over her shoulder curiously. Tio nodded and smiled slightly, well aware that they were expected to compete in the dangerous underground racing sport 'the lower region space speedway games', they crashed almost every race, but were starting to get the hang of it. They had first become interested in this sport when Anakin had told them exciting bedtime stories about it and his days in podracing.
" We'd better get away before the capes get us too, because when we get back, we'll be in enough trouble," she added thoughtfully. Tio sighed and nodded. " Straight after this maybe?"
" Or now," Tio suggested. Mayco raised her eyebrows.
" Now?"
" Yeah well they might send someone to get us from class, we should go now!" Mayco thought about it for a split second and then jumped to her feet.
" Okay let's go," she said and the two of them bolted. They made it just in time, because as they rounded the corner the tutor was coming along. They ran all the way to their room and then locked the door.
" But Mayco, how are we going to get out? They know the laundry route now.what?" Tio asked, but she stopped because Mayco was staring out of the window. She instantly knew what her friend was thinking. " Um.isn't that slightly.insane?"
" No," she said and she used the force to open her cupboard door. " We still have these!" she said sneakily pulling out a machine that they had been working on out with the force. It was a power machine that would give you thrust for five minutes in flight. " We could catch a ride on a bus or something," she said.
" Hover till we find one going south right?" Tio asked. Mayco grinned and nodded.
" Yep, that's the plan," she said. " We'll probably have to split up, and we should free fall for the first hundred feet or so, or at least until we hit mainstream traffic!" Tio nodded and they both pulled their cloaks on. Then Tio found her hover machine and the two of them made their way out onto the balcony.
" Got the money?" Tio checked. Mayco nodded and patted her bag protectively.
" Let's just hope I don't lose that," Mayco said happily as she jumped onto the ledge with ease. Tio jumped with her and they looked down. " See you at Parada, outside Dennies!" Then with that, the two girls jumped. They fell and fell, lower and lower.
* * *
.Sitting in a conference room, Anakin and Obi-wan were discussing more details about their trip with Mace Windu. Master Windu had his back to the window, so he didn't see the two shapes suddenly drop past the window at lightning speed. Both Obi-wan and Anakin though, stared bewildered at the window for a moment. Mace frowned and turned around. Seeing nothing he turned back on the men.
" What?" he asked, but Obi-wan and Anakin rushed to the window, just in time to see the two girls start their hover droids and zoom off out of site in the direction of Parada.
" That was Mayco!" Anakin said looking up at Obi-wan worriedly.
" And they're heading for Parada!" Obi-wan added sounding even more worried. They both knew instantly what the girls were up to (Anakin himself had competed in the games several times). Mace had overheard them.
" Go bring them home," he said sounding tired and Anakin and Obi-wan rushed off. Pretty soon they reached the speeder bay and they jumped into their speeder.
" If you're careful you can catch them before they get there," Obi-wan said stressing the word careful, but Anakin had no intentions on being careful, his daughter was about to go and kill herself and he was expected to stay careful?
* * *
Meanwhile, skirting between speeders and ships Mayco was looking for a suitable transport that would bring her to Parada. She had lost site of Tio a while ago, so she was on her own now. Suddenly and quite sporadically her hover droid started spluttering and within seconds the engine gave way and she was free falling.
" Uh oh!" she said calmly and she quickly landed and then jumped off a speeder. She could see where she was headed, a pedestrian passageway that surrounded a park like area. Now this was fun, jumping from one speeder to the next.
" There she is!" Anakin yelled to Obi-wan over the noise of the wind and the speeder. They'd already picked Tio up out of mid air.
" She's heading for that walk way," Obi-wan said pointing. " Put her down on it, we'll wait for her there." Anakin obeyed and within no time they were leaning over the railing watching as Mayco got closer and closer and eventually touched down on the walk way. She looked smug for two seconds, then felt roughly to see if her bag was still with her. Obi-wan and Anakin approached (having left a very grumpy Tio in the speeder). Mayco must have sensed them, because suddenly she turned and saw them. She bolted.
" Mayco stop!" Anakin yelled and he and Obi-wan charged after her. It was hard, man that kid was fast! Mayco herself was panicking, she'd be in big trouble if they caught her. She crashed into someone because of her panic. Unfortunately, the guy was huge and intoxicated.
" Hey, watch it!" he yelled and he shoved her. She fell, but rolled quickly and got to her feet. The man pulled out a blaster.
" Crap," Mayco muttered and she pulled out her lightsaber. Behind the man she could see Obi-wan and Anakin getting closer. The man started shooting at her and she easily deflected the bolts onto the ground. Then she used the force to bring a can towards the man's hands at great speed and force, it knocked the blaster clean out of his hands.
" Why you little!" he yelled and he charged at her knocking her lightsaber out of her hands and over the edge onto the set of consecutive domes under the passageway.
" You idiot!" she hissed at the man and she did a backwards summersault onto the railing, then another backwards flip, then on her third backwards flip she spun around mid air and then carried on after the lightsaber headfirst. Anakin saw what she was doing and immediately saw he had to help. So he too jumped over the railing, but he landed lower than Mayco on a gutter between two domes. He sprinted down the gutter until he was directly below her and prepared for impact.
" Watch out!" Mayco yelled when she saw him. It was Anakin who had miscalculated, because Mayco hit him with incredible force and the two of them started rolling down the last of the domes after the lightsaber. The end was approaching fast, and Mayco's only concern was that her precious lightsaber was bouncing out of reach. When they reached the end of the dome the lightsaber tumbled over first, then Mayco freefalling after it, but Anakin grabbed onto the railing of the gutter with his good hand and then reached out desperately to grab Mayco. He managed to grab a handful of cloak and shirt, whilst she reached out her arm and used all her power over the force to stop her lightsaber from falling and bring it to her hand. It was incredibly difficult at first, she'd never tried anything like this, but then, soon enough she felt the familiar Force grip on it and she drew it to her. By the time it reached her hand it was going at a cracking pace. Feeling her fingers clasping round it was the most wonderful feeling ever, and then she quickly attacked it to her belt.
" You know, I'm beginning to think you'll do anything for that thing," Anakin said sounding amused. It was true, he'd taken her out to see a Packball match (a game similar to baseball) the other week and she'd cleared a space in the stands of 10 meters in diameter of people with the force just to find it when it had dropped out of reach. Injuring several people in the process. Mayco grinned and nodded.
" My father made the handle for me sir, it's all I have," she said. Anakin felt a pang of pain. She was right, he had made that handle for her when she was a baby, it had been his parting gift.
" Let me go," Mayco suddenly said. Anakin knew what she was doing so he did. She only dropped a few centimetres, because she suddenly grabbed onto his leg and started climbing up to his shoulders.
" Excuse me sir," she said as she climbed up onto his shoulders and then onto his head. She was so small that she had to make a jump off him and onto the railing. She pulled herself up into the gutter and sat down panting. Anakin then pulled himself up and stood leaning against the dome. He could feel a few bruises forming, but looking down at his daughter's blonde hanging head, he reminded himself how much she was worth. If anything happened to that child he would never forgive himself. As he thought this Mayco suddenly leapt to her feet all set on jumping off the railing. Anakin reached out as quickly as he could and grabbed the back of her cloak again. Now he held her leaning over the edge, practically horizontal.
" Now what are you doing?" he asked sounding half amused and half annoyed.
" Tio, I have no idea where she went!" Mayco said sounding frantic. " If anything happens to her it's all my fault, let me go sir, I have to find her!" she cried and she struggled madly. Anakin was loosing grip on her cloak, so he gave one almighty pull and lifted her clean off her feet and into the crook of his arm, where he held her firmly.
" You're not going anywhere," he said firmly. " And we've already picked up Tio, she's fine, a little angry maybe." Mayco sighed and nodded.
" All right then, you could have said," she muttered. " Could you put me down now?" she asked and he obliged. Anakin wondered whether he should be the one to reprimand her. He felt he should certainly say something.
" You know that you could get killed in speed races?" he said in a stern tone. Mayco nodded without looking up at him.
" Don't start on me sir, please! Not you!" Mayco suddenly said looking up at him sadly and Anakin realised for a moment that she was really beginning to look like Padmé. Sure, she had his colourings, but her face was so similar to her mother's, it was scary. She was such a beautiful child. " You've always told me stories about how you used to podrace back on Tattooine! So you can hardly turn round and tell me I can't speed race, when it's so much safer than what you used to do!" she said firmly.
" If you'd listened more carefully, you would have heard me saying I had no choice! I raced to survive!" he said sternly.
" And I race for my honour," she muttered. Anakin sighed. He knew how important it was to a child to fit in. Mayco was like a god to the young Padawans at the temple. Not because she was so amazingly talented, but because she was daring and adventurous and never backed away from any challenge. and got in trouble every other second. Under any other circumstances he would be proud of her, but he didn't want her to get hurt.
" Trust me Mayco, you're honour is not worth risking your life for," he told her. She must have sensed his emotion in his voice, because she suddenly looked up at him, but then all of a sudden Obi-wan in a speeder, with Tio still in the back appeared at eye-level. Anakin and Mayco jumped in, Anakin next to Obi-wan and Mayco next to Tio in the back. Mayco nodded grimly to Tio and they both stayed silent for the whole journey back to the temple. Once they got there the two girls started off in the direction of their room.
" You two, wait!" Obi-wan called to them. " The council want to see you!" Mayco and Tio exchanged a scared look, but then they both mastered their fear.
" Lead on," Mayco muttered to the men and so they did, with Mayco and Tio following, their heads hanging in shame. Within moments they reached the council room and the girls were ordered to wait outside whilst Anakin and Obi-wan went in and explained to them.
" What do you think they'll do?" Tio asked sounding bemused.
" Same thing they did last time probably, revoke our privileges for a week or something," Mayco replied softly. " You know, we must be losing it! We haven't sneaked out successfully in over a month!" she suddenly said sounding angry.
" We were really unlucky to get caught that time though, how did they know?" Tio asked. Mayco shrugged her shoulders.
" I have no idea!" she muttered. " We planned it so well!" They sat in silence for fifteen more minutes until finally the door slid open and they were called in. They walked in and bowed lightly to the council. Obi-wan and Anakin were standing in the middle of the room. They cleared slightly to the side and so Mayco and Tio took their places.
" This is the second time this month you two have been caught sneaking out to Parada," Mace said. "And earlier today Master Shari came to me telling me about the chaos you caused in the mess hall, and then how you flatly disobeyed her. It seems that you never learn!"
" Good Jedi learn to obey rules," Even Piell said from the other side of the room. " Whereas you two only seem to learn new ways in which to break them!" Silence followed this statement.
" Anything to say in defence do you have?" Yoda eventually said.
" No master Yoda," both girls said clearly and unemotionally.
" Then on to your punishment," Mace said. The girls looked him straight in the eye. " We have tried everything with you two and nothing seems to work! So we're going to see if you still get in trouble if you're apart!" he told them. Mayco glanced quickly at Tio and then straight back at Mace. She didn't like the sound of this. " You are both to transfer to separate single rooms and you will not be permitted to see each other for at least a month." Mayco's jaw dropped slightly. She's shared rooms with Tio further back then she could remember. Tio was a like a sister to her, the only 'family' that she had. Sure she had plenty of other friends, she was very popular, but none like Tio.this wasn't fair!
" Something to say have you Mayco?" Yoda suddenly said. Mayco snapped her gaze on him, how did he always manage to read her thoughts? She had a strong mind, it should be impossible to read her thoughts, but yet Yoda always managed.
" No Master Yoda," she said gravely.
" But unfair you find this," Yoda stated.
" Yes Master Yoda."
" You brought this on yourself Mayco, you have to learn to obey rules and orders, you'll never become a Jedi if you can't learn to do those things," Mace told her. Mayco nodded. This she knew. " Then it's agreed. Go and start packing your things and someone will be with you shortly to take you to your new rooms." Mayco and Tio bowed again and then walked out slowly, side by side, each thinking about what this meant. They walked in silence all the way to their room and only when they got there did it sink in what all this meant.
" I can't believe they are actually doing this," Mayco said coldly, as she sat down on the bed she'd slept in for the last four years. She had so many memories from this room, but she never thought she'd feel this bad about leaving it.
" They can keep us apart, but they'll never stop us from being friends," Tio suddenly said. Mayco looked at her and nodded.
" I still can't believe that they're doing this!" she repeated and she begrudgingly picked up her large travelling bag and used the force to quickly and efficiently empty her wardrobe.
" How are we going to move all our stuff?" she then asked as she opened her cupboard and looked inside and then looked round the room. Her stuff was everywhere, and she had art work stuck to the walls. This room was her home! The answer came when two droids appeared with huge crates. Mayco exchanged a sad look with Tio and then used the Force to strip the room of any sign that they were ever there. When they were done Mayco gave the empty room one last sad gaze and then she walked out and started following her droid. Tio was being led in the opposite direction.
" They can't stop us from seeing each other either!" Mayco called after her and then she begrudgingly followed the droid to a different part of the temple. It led her to a narrow corridor with lots of doors on it and stopped by one of them. Mayco opened it with bated breath and nearly closed it again once she saw what was inside. It was tiny, had no windows and was definitely colder than any other room she'd been in. The droid pushed the crate in and then shut the door and left. Mayco felt forlorn, how could this be happening. She sat down on the bed and it felt distinctly different to her own comfy bed.
" This is a nightmare," she told herself and she quickly went about unpacking her clothes and then some of her personal items to make her new room look more homely. It didn't work, so she gave up and lay down on the bed staring up at the ceiling. She lay there for quite some time, until someone signalled at her door to come in.
" It's open," Mayco called to whoever was standing there. The door slid open and she wasn't surprised to see Anakin and Obi-wan standing there. They walked in and looked around.
" Well it's nice," Anakin lied. Mayco sighed.
" It feels like a prison cell," she said unemotionally and then she shivered. " And it's so cold!" Anakin sat down on the crate as Obi-wan sat down in the chair.
" Well you could ask a droid to alter the environmental controls," Obi-wan suggested.
" It would still be cold, the sun has never touched this room, how could it be warm?" Mayco said softly. " I'm going to have nightmares in this room, I can tell!" Obi-wan and Anakin exchanged a sad look. " And it's lonely, I never realised how much Tio meant to me! She's the only family that I'll ever have, and even then she's not really family, but she's still my closest friend, we're closer than family! No.actually that's a lie!"
" What do you mean?" Anakin asked. Mayco seemed to think about it.
" I remember how my father felt," she finally said and Anakin glanced worriedly at Obi-wan. " I remember when he gave me away.well no.I remember how I felt when he gave me away! I had like this amazing connection with him, and even though I must have only been a tiny baby, I guess I knew who he was. When I was alone that night, I cried for him. That's the only memory I have of what having a family feels like. They are so close and so important to you, that it kills you a little bit every day you're away from them," she said. When she was finished Anakin was in torment.she was making him relive the terrible day he gave her up.she was sitting right next to her father, the man who had broken her heart when she was one day old and she didn't even know it. Silence followed, and then Mayco spoke again. " And now I have no one."
" That's not true, you have us, and all you're other friends," Anakin said, trying to sound unemotional, but failing. For the second time that day, Mayco stared him straight in the eye, a glimmer of comprehension in her gaze.she was so close to understanding who he was, but yet so far too.
" It's not the same," she eventually said. Then she smiled cheekily, her old self, beaming at them. " I mean great as you guys are and everything, you can never replace my family, whoever and wherever they are!"
" That may be so, but we're still here for you if you need us," Obi-wan said quickly, so Anakin wouldn't speak and give away even more of the big secret. A silence followed, in which Mayco nodded silently to herself. " Speaking of which," Obi-wan carried on. " You're lucky that we care so much, we had to pull some considerable strings to ensure that the council would still permit you to come with us on our mission!" Mayco's face lit up slightly.
" Thank you," she said quickly.
" Though I'm not sure you deserve to go after this evening," Obi-wan said sternly. " You have to learn how to control yourself, the council will eventually get fed up of your antics and expel you from the academy." Mayco looked up looking slightly alarmed, though secretly she knew that would probably never happen, she was too powerful to let go.
" I said I was sorry about all that," Mayco said in a tired blasé tone. Obi- wan looked at her even more sternly, she was getting too cocky.
" You will learn your place little one," Obi-wan warned and he stood up. " I'll see you tomorrow. I suggest that you stay here and try and think about the implications of your actions, and then try and get a lot of sleep!" Mayco nodded.
" I'm sorry sir," she said and Obi-wan nodded back to her and left. Mayco watched him go and felt very guilty. She then turned back to Anakin who was staring at her with some disappointment in his face.
" Not you as well!" Mayco said tiredly. " Please! I never meant for any of this to happen, you've got to believe me!" Anakin nodded and stood up himself and walked over to the child. He patted her head sadly and then walked out. Mayco closed her eyes sadly and lay down on her new bed. What a day!
* * *
A few hours later, after several sessions of mediation, someone signalled at Mayco's door.
" Come in," she shouted and the door slid open. When Mayco saw who it was she cringed a little; it was the chancellor. Palpatine was extremely interested in Mayco's upbringing and her training and he met with her twice a week. Mayco distrusted him immensely.
" I was hoping to find you still awake," he said in a dark tone as he walked in and sat down in the chair.
" I was meditating sir," Mayco replied.
" I should hope so after the trouble you've caused," he growled. " I hope they have punished you!" Mayco nodded and indicated her surroundings, getting a little annoyed that he was punishing her too now. " You could have got yourself killed, and you could have killed that poor girl Tio. You put other people's lives in danger far too often young Skywalker, you have to."
" What?" Mayco suddenly asked frowning.
" Don't talk to me with such an insolent tone!" the chancellor snapped.
" No you called me Skywalker," Mayco retorted quickly, and a little angrily, her anger was definitely anger.
" I did no such thing!" Palpatine roared.
" Yeah you did! You said young Skywalker! I think you're a little confused," Mayco said touchily.
" Why of all the insolent. you'd better start treating me with respect child, or I will ensure that your punishment is doubled!" he snapped. Mayco's jaw dropped.
" That's not fair!" she cried, oh how she hated this man.
* * *
Elsewhere in the temple Anakin and Obi-wan were sitting eating their dinner when both of them felt the tremor in the force.
" What was that?" Obi-wan gasped. It had been so powerful and so dark; it had definitely unnerved him a bit. Anakin gripped the side of the table and closed his eyes; his daughter was feeling hatred.something she had never felt before.
" It's Mayco! We have to get to her!" Anakin suddenly exclaimed and the two men jumped to their feet and ran out of their quarters. They met Mace and Yoda in the corridor heading in the same direction.
" You felt it too?" Mace asked as they ran.
" Yeah!"
" Whatever is happening to her, it's causing a huge disturbance in the force, everyone in the temple is feeling it," Mace told them. They'd soon reached Mayco's new quarters and they rushed in to find the small child standing in front of the chancellor screaming at him with tears rushing down her face. Hatred was flowing from her. Mace rushed in and grabbed her, but she was struggling away from him.
" Anakin help me!" Mace yelled and Anakin rushed in too and grabbed the small child whilst Obi-wan rushed the Chancellor out of the room.
" I was only trying to discipline her," the chancellor insisted before making his way down the corridor. Inside the room Mayco was calming down slightly, but was very shaky.
" What the hell just happened?" Anakin demanded.
" I don't know," Mayco cried. " He made me so angry, he was being so mean and then." Everyone sensed that she was hiding something, something which to her had been horrific.
" Then what?" Obi-wan asked gently. Mayco shook her head. " Mayco please sweetheart, tell us what?" But the child shook her head again. Obi-wan sighed and looked to Mace and Yoda, who were holding a hushed conversation in the corner.
" I think the child needs lots of sleep," Mace finally said. " We can discuss this in the morning, but for now, just try and rest Mayco," Mace told her. Mayco nodded and swallowed hard.
" Yes sir, goodnight," she said and the two council members left the room.
" Can you tell us now?" Anakin asked, but Mayco shook her head shakily. Anakin sighed and looked to Obi-wan for help.
" Let's juts let her sleep Anakin," he said and he was about to leave.
" Wait!" Mayco said and she sat up to look at both men. " Tell me a bedtime story!" Both men grinned.
" Aren't you a bit old for that, we haven't told one of those in years," Obi-wan chuckled. Mayco shook her head solemnly. Obi-wan laughed and nodded. " Very well." Mayco smiled and snuggled down under her covers as Obi-wan sat down in the lazy chair by the bed. Anakin was about to stand up and move to the other chair, but Mayco reached out and grabbed his shirt.
" What are you doing?" she asked him furrowing her brow. " You always lie with me for stories!" she said in an accusing tone. Anakin grinned.
" I thought you'd be too old for that now!" he said as he lay down next to her and she dragged his arm round her.
" No. It makes me feel safe," Mayco said and she closed her eyes. " Tell me the story of how you guys escaped execution with the senator on Geonosis!" Obi-wan smiled at Anakin, that was an old time favourite story. And so they started telling the story, but before the end the child was already fast asleep, and so Anakin kissed the back of her head and carefully got off the bed and walked out with Obi-wan.
" Whatever happened to her in there, brought her very close to the dark side.closer than she's ever been before.she was very scared and very angry about something," Obi-wan said grimly as they walked home.
" I know, I felt it too," Anakin agreed. " I want to know what it was!"
* * *
Hours later still Mayco was sweating in her sleep, she was tossing and turning and crying out.she was having a bad nightmare. It was so bad that it woke her up. She sat in bed for a few minutes before she realised that she needed Anakin. He could always calm her down. So she crawled out of bed and pulled on her loose training shoes. Then she scampered out of her room and through the empty corridors of the temple. She'd nearly reached Anakin and Obi-wan's quarters when she ran into none-other than Shari.
" Mayco Naberrie!" Shari bellowed causing the eight-year-old to leap up and turn around in fright. " Walking around the temple after hours is forbidden! You know that! And with all the trouble you're in." she hissed.
" Yeah but I have to go see Master Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, please it's urgent!" Mayco begged, but Shari just shook her head and glared at the child. So Mayco reached out with the force till she could sense Obi-wan, he was meditating.
*Obi-wan!* she thought hard, trying to reach out to the master. *Obi-wan please! I need you!* After a moments silence she finally got a result, when the door to their quarters opened and Obi-wan stepped out.
" What is going on here?" he asked Shari.
" I've caught Miss Naberrie sneaking around the corridors after hours," Shari said curtly.
" Yes that's right, I've been expecting her," Obi-wan said and Shari looked horrified, " I am ever so sorry Master Kenobi," she said and she rushed off. Mayco nodded gratefully to Obi-wan and followed him into his quarters. Then she rushed and hugged him.
" Thank you! Can I go see Anakin please?" she asked sounding distraught. Obi-wan could sense that she was in desperate need of comforting and everyone knew that only Anakin could calm this child when she got upset - thought only a few people knew why.
" Yes go," Obi-wan said and she ran off to his room. She didn't even signal on the door, she just barged straight in. He was asleep, but her distress, which he could sense through the force woke him up straight away as she lay down next to him shaking.
" Mayco! What's wrong?" Anakin asked and he wrapped his arms around her. It had the instant effect of calming her down a bit. " What happened?"
" Palpatine is evil!" she cried. Anakin frowned and hugged her a little tighter.
" What?" he asked in a light-hearted tone.
" When he was in my room, he was like punishing me, and I got all these visions, all these feelings when he came near me.I could see the future! You're going to die alone, I saw you dying alone, all old and deformed and metal and you were alone! I didn't want to see you alone! It was all fire and burning and panic everywhere and there were people dying everywhere, and there was no Obi-wan, there was no Mace, there was no Jedi!" At this point she broke down and started shaking insanely. " There was no Jedi!" she repeated over and over.
" Where were you?" Anakin asked trying to keep his voice under control, her pain was affecting him seriously.
" I was dead! I was dead! I don't want to die!" the child cried. Anakin hugged her even tighter and he rocked her.
" You are not going to die, I am not letting anything happen to you! Ever!" he said firmly and a tear rolled down his face.
" Yes I will! I'm going to die soon! I know I am! And chancellor Palpatine has something to do with it! He's so evil Anakin, he's so evil!" she cried passionately. Anakin gulped and closed his eyes - he didn't want to hear this, he didn't want to know this. Her premonitions were usually very accurate.
" How are we going to lose all the Jedi?" Anakin asked.
" The Sith are going to kill them!" she cried.
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More to follow soon.
Thank you for taking the time to read it! And I'm REALLY sorry if Mayco turned out to be a little bit Mary Sue