Passion

Chapter 1

By Chungdoo

Disclaimer: The star wars universe in the intellectual property of George Lucas and since i am not he i don't own the star wars universe or any of its characters, i just write about them.

4 months after capture

Ashoka moved across her confined force cage, completely alone. She hadn't been outside in weeks and she missed the Jedi temple terribly. She missed her master terribly. Since she got here they had closed her off from the rest of the prisoners. She had no idea where she was or how she got here from her mission gone wrong on Tatooine. Only one person was allowed to interact with her, another captive of the separatists who happened to be a doctor.

Ashoka traced her hands around her bulging stomach. They had sent a doctor so they would make sure Ashoka would stay alive and the baby healthy. The woman had told her that Count Doku had ordered it himself, saying that she should have the care her baby needed. Ashoka knew that the woman was spying for the separatists; though she didn't know what information they wanted from her. With the disk they had they should know almost everything they needed. Also it was policy to change specific codes once a Jedi was captured or went missing. Surely they knew that already.

She was already experiencing cramps, dizziness and some signs of stretch marks were evident on her skin. The nurse was kind enough to bring her some robes she had found around the facility. The robes were very similar to her Jedi robes only they were vanilla white and felt like silk on her skin.

Ashoka's spirit was broken, or at least close to it. She still had hope that the Jedi…. her master, would come and save her. But it had been 4 months since she had been captured and still nothing. She feared the Jedi had given up on her.

'I will wait for him' she told herself again, this time with a little more conviction and a little less depression.

She felt her belly again and sighed. A few months ago she would have found having a baby repulsive, but when she learned of her pregnancy and who the father was, she wasn't repulsed anymore. In fact, she loved the child unconditionally. She felt a special connection with the child, a type of closeness she couldn't explain. It was nothing like the padawan/master bond, but different.

She wondered how her master would react to the fact that she was pregnant. Would he still love her? Would he disown her? All these questions begged for an answer but nothing would come. She moved her focus back to her love and tried to focus in on his face, his perfect feature and the way he held her, capturing her in his arm oh so lightly but making her feel safe. She desired to be touched by him again, her body wanted him and her soul begged for him. Yet he was not here, she was alone.

"Please come soon master," she begged.

Jedi temple: Couracant

"Where is she!" Anakin skywalker yelled from across the room.

He had been interrogating the separatist general for 3 days now and he was loosing his patience. His padawan was missing for 4 months now and every night she wasn't safe in his arms was a night he was tormented with nightmares and the occasional sleepless night. He was loosing his patience with this man.

"I don't know" the man said in his monotone voice. This had been the 10th time he had said this.

Anakin had enough of his tone, of his lies and he was growing tired of standing here doing nothing while Ashoka was kept prisoner.

"DAMN IT, WHERE IS SHE!" he yelled, slamming his fist on the metal table and sending a loud noise throughout the room.

The man seemed to shrink back in his seat, he knew that if it wasn't bolted to the floor he was have fallen back. He knew Obi-wan and the Jedi council would not approve of what he was about to do next but he finally got the man where he wanted him and he would do anything to get Ashoka back. Any consequence he received could be fixed, a broken heart could not.

Anakin moved from his position over to the general's chair. He lowered his head so to make eye contact with the general.

"If you do not begin answering my questions general, I will use the force to break into your mind. I will dig so deep inside your self-conscious that within seconds I will know everything you have ever done. Within a minute I could break you with just a simple thought. And I promise general, you don't want to know what happens after two minutes." He whispered.

"Y..You're bluffing." He challenged.

Anakin chuckled softly then spoke again.

"General whether you know where the location of Ashoka Tano is or not I will still get all the separatist codes that you know and using those codes I will track down every possible planet she could be on. You will be dead, and I will get a promotion."

"T..This is against the Jedi code! You will be exiled for this!" he threatened.

Anakin laughed a little louder this time.

"General, you are not in the Jedi temple. You are in a clone base, guarded only by clones that take orders from me. Men whom, not more than 5 minutes before we began this very interrogation were ordered to leave the room. They were also ordered to leave the tapes to me. No one can hear us and even if they did, the only people who could are the people that take orders from me. So you see general, I can do whatever I want."

The general gulped and Anakin could tell that the he was ready to cave.

"A..All right. j..Just please, d..Don't hurt me!" he begged.

Anakin backed away from the general and took a seat across from him.

"Lets get started."

9 hours later…

Anakin's hair and robe blew fiercely as the republic drop ship left him on the surface of the planet of Yavin IV. Trees surrounded him on all sides and the topes of the trees were covered by nightfall. The sound of the whisper birds filled the valley as they passed.

The separatist base was supposed to be a few miles from here. Anakin was supposed to be a little further back but he was too desperate to have to run even a few inches past what he had too.

"General" a voice called from his wrist.

"Yes rex" Anakin answered, moving from where the ship dropped his off to the forest towards the north.

"Are you sure you don't want any backup sir?" the voice asked.

"Yes I'm sure rex." Anakin said again.

Anakin didn't have time to get the troops ready once he had the information he needed. He woke rex and a few others and jumped onto one of the starships headed towards this planet. He knew that rex was itching to make up for his brothers mistake that landed them in this situation in the first place. He wanted to make up for the fact that Ashoka was missing even though it wasn't his fault. It really wasn't anyone's fault but Anakin still held a grudge against the captain of that ship for letting the events happen.

"General.."

"Skywalker out"

Anakin shut off his communicator. He felt bad for hanging up on rex like that but he needed to concentrate. If his padawan was here he would find her. He needed to find her. She took a piece of him when she went on that mission alone. She took his heart and now it wouldn't beat properly. He couldn't feel properly, he couldn't smile properly and he couldn't laugh at all. He needed her back, she was his other half. He would never feel the same until she was back in his arms, safe.

"Where the hell is this base?" he asked himself. The intelligence the general provided said that he should be able to see it from where he was. No, it wasn't here.

Anakin used the force to move even faster towards the plain where the base was supposed to be. He was almost there when a voice stopped him in his tracks.

"M…master"

Anakin's heart skipped a beat when he heard his padawans voice. Immediately he ran as fast as he could to where the voice came from. Soon he emerged into the plain, a circle of grass not infected by trees or other plant life that dominated the planet. He immediately looked around for the voice, but he saw nothing.

"M…master" her voice called again. It seemed to be surrounding him.

"Ashoka!" he called to her, no response came.

"Aww, how sweet, the great Jedi misses his pet." A female voice called out to him. He knew that voice, and it angered him to a point he had never been before.

"Ventress!"

Anakin watched as the sith assassin walked into the clearing, circling him. In her hands was a holo recording of his padawan, in some room, fallen to the ground coughing as she called out his name. It replayed over and over again until the assassin shut it off and stowed it away. She stopped across from him and smiled.

"You failed Skywalker, to save your padawan and to save yourself."

Anakin shook from anger, but he said nothing. Using the force he lifted his lightsaber from his belt and to his hands. Igniting the blue blade and pointing it towards the sith.

"Where is my padawan!" he demanded.

He grew angrier as the assassin smiled. "I have no idea." She said, the sarcasm evident in her tone.

Quickly Anakin rushed her, all thoughts focused on his padwan as he aimed for her heart. Two red blades met his single blue one as his attack was blocked. He pressed his blade closer to her skin. He could feel the heat of her blades against his skin. The two were close enough now.

"You know she called out your name before she fainted." She taunted him.

The two broke their lock and circled each other, Anakin was sure not to let the sith out of his sight. Ashoka depended on him winning this battle. He would not fail her. Not again.

"I'll bet she's beginning to give up hope that you'll ever come skywalker." She taunted him again.

Anakin charged, he was blinded by rage and he saw red where red was not. But his strikes were more precise. Blow after blow was attempted but each time she blocked it with ease. Both her blades worked together in an attempt to disarm him but he too blocked every move.

Soon the two broke apart again. Anakin was breathing heavily and so was ventress.

"I wonder what she would give to see you. I'll have to ask her myself." She laughed.

Anakin moved again, faster than ventress could compensate for. He pummeled into her and sent her flying to the ground. Using the force he lifted her off the ground and slammed her into a tree. He then lifted her back up and brought her face to face with him. With anger shown clearly in his face he asked again.

"Where is my padawan?" he said slowly.

Ventress laughed loudly again and Anakin slammed her face first to the ground and dropped his grip on her. He moved over to where her lightsabers were and picked them up. Putting one of the two back on her belt he used his blue sword with one of her red ones to cross the two blades on either side of her neck, one move and it would all be over.

"Kill me and you loose your precious padawan." She said calmly.

Anakin pressed the blades closer to her. Then at the last moment shut them off.

"Your mistake!" she yelled and Anakin saw her press a button on her wristband and Anakin heard beeping all around him.

Quickly Anakin tried to get away from the circle but it was too late, the explosion rocketed the ground and sent Anakin to the floor. Pain racked through his body as his mind fought to stay awake. He saw his vision darkening and with one last breath, he blacked out. Ventresse's laughing the last sound his ringing ears heard.

2 hours later

"Sir!" a voice called from a position close to Anakin. Slowly his eyes opened to reveal rex standing above him.

"Are you ok sir?" he asked.

Anakin tried to move but every part of his body ached. "Help me up rex" he ordered.

"Yes sir" rex replied, lifting the general from his position on the ground to where he could rest with his back against a tree.

"Where's ventress?" he asked.

"Gone sir." Came his reply.

"I want you to check around and be sure. Don't go to far, Ventress likes to stick around." Anakin ordered him.

"Yes sir." Rex replied in his formal tone he used when given an order.

Anakin saw rex turn around and took a step forward before stopping, turning back to him.

"Sir, this was found near your body." He said, tossing him the device.

"T..Thank you rex." Anakin finally said.

Anakin waited until he was finally alone before he activated the recording. It was the same image of his padwan, lying on the floor of some unknown room coughing.

"M…. master" she called quietly before fainting to the floor.

The great Anakin Skywalker shut off the communicator and put his head in his hands. And then, the great Anakin skywalker cried for his lost love.

5 hours later: Location unknown.

Ashoka was woken up by the activation of her force cage. Slowly she opened her eyes and sat up. Next to her was a device that was normally used to store holo recordings. Slowly she hit the button and her dark cell was lit up with the blue light of the projector.

She gasped in terror as she saw her master standing by the sith assassin, his lightsaber and hers moved around her neck. She saw him deactivate the sabers and heard the laughter of the sith.

"Your mistake!" she heard her yell.

Ashoka's eyes widened as her master attempted to flee but flew to the ground by the explosion that rocketed around him.

"Master!" she yelled into the device. Wishing he could hear her.

Her hands shook as she watched him on the ground, not moving. She felt the tears well up in her eyes as she held the holo recorder up to her chest. Her body shook as she cried. She could silently hear the words of the sith assassin as they mocked her tears.

"So much for hope."

Authors Note:

Well, book 2 finally begins. I ended up changing my mind about how I wanted to go at it. I'm not sure how many chapters will be in this book and I'm still not sure if Ashoka will be rescued in this book. Well all the more fun for later :) as always I would like to thank everyone who reads this as well as those who reply. I love hearing your thoughts. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Passion and I look forward to posting the second chapter when it is completed. Until then, stay cool!

P.S.

I recently received a letter from a fan of Feelings regarding the fact that ashoka is pregnant. I have posted the initial message and my response on my home page here at fan fiction and invite all of you to read it. I would love to also hear any response you guys have on the letter. You can simply leave it as a reply to one of the stories or simply send me a private message. Either way I would love to hear your opinion on the issue! Thanks again!