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"Lux? Lux, what are you doing?" Ahsoka pounded lightly on the small, glass window. She left her hand there for a moment.

Lux stood up from his seat and walked swiftly over to the Padawan. "I can't go with you, Ahsoka." He said as Ahsoka dropped her hand from the glass.

Ahsoka stared at him, in shock and…sadness. "You," Lux continued, "You know that." He looked at the ground. Ahsoka could see some emotion in his eyes, and she could feel it through the Force too. He felt like she did.

Ahsoka looked at the ground for a second, like it would help her say the things she wanted to, "But, but we could try. T-try to change things…together." Ahsoka seemed to be getting…desperate?

Lux looked at her again, "We make a pretty good team, don't we?" He smiled.

Ahsoka smiled back briefly, but then returned her sad gaze to the floor. "Don't worry," He said, trying to make her feel better, "We'll meet again. I promise."

She looked back up at him, smiling lightly. She placed her small hand on the glass. He did the same.

Suddenly, a loud, worried beeping noise sounded, and Artoo burst his way through the door. He wheeled straight into Ahsoka's legs, causing her to stumble a little. "What's wrong, buddy?" Ahsoka asked, patting his dome.

He beeped and squeaked, and then took off to the control room. Ahsoka seemed to have gone a little pale.

"Ahsoka!" Lux banged on the glass hard with his fist. "Ahsoka, what's wrong?"

"Get out of that escape pod! The Death Watch are coming! They've followed us!"

Lux ran over to the controls and deactivated the pod. "Wait!" Lux said before exiting the pod, "Shouldn't we get in the escape pod?"

"No!" Ahsoka exclaimed. The door opened and she restrained herself from flinging into him. She grabbed hold of his arm and ran. "Even if we're in the escape pod, their ship is much too fast. We'd be captured. All we can do it try and get away from them!"

The little Togruta jumped up the ladder, not bothering to waste time and climb up it. While Lux clambered up, Ahsoka dashed over to the controls.

Artoo was right, Death Watch were literally right behind them…

Ahsoka was frantically pressing buttons and flicking switches, but it seemed Death Watch was gaining on them. The ship suddenly jolted heavily. Lux and Artoo were knocked off their feet, but Ahsoka's Jedi skills kept her standing.

"Oh, frak! Kriff, kriff, kriff!" Ahsoka kicked one of the chairs violently.

"What?" Lux exclaimed.

"They've entered the ship! Oh, frakking hell!"

"What are we going to do?"

The Padawan didn't answer. The lights suddenly flickered out, leaving the slight glow of Ahsoka's eyes. Being Togruta, her irises glowed a little when it was dark, part of her Togruta heritage. She ignited her lightsabers and told Lux to stand back. She stood in front of him and Artoo, holding her lightsabers in her Shein grip. Everything was quiet, and the tension was rising slowly. Suddenly, a yellow blaster bolt was shot, heading straight towards Lux. Ahsoka deflected, but it only hit where the Mandalorian once was.

Ahsoka's montrals picked up a light, feminine chuckle, and Ahsoka knew it was Bo-Katan, the female Death Watch.

"Come on, coward!" Ahsoka teased.

"Now, come on, skinny. Is that a threat?" Bo-Katan replied.

"Come out and I'll show you." Ahsoka snarled, baring her predatory fangs. She deflected another bolt, sending it flying into the wall.

Suddenly, a grey coloured smoke began to flood the room. "Hold your breath!" The Togruta yelled to Lux. She heard him take a deep breath. She held her breath too.

It was quiet. Too quiet. Ahsoka knew what Bo-Katan was doing now. She didn't have to fight them. She knew that eventually they'd both have to breathe.

After a minute or so, Ahsoka heard Lux let his breath go, and then his body fall to the floor.

Ahsoka still held her breathe though.

Bo-Katan started to get worried. Not that she'd admit it. But the Togruta wasn't going down.

Now, the ghostly smoke was filling the whole room, making it near impossible to see. Artoo was squeaking quietly, coming close and gently bumping into Ahsoka's legs. Her lightsabers did nothing to make her vision better, she still couldn't see.

She suddenly felt a presence behind her, and before she could spin round, she felt something hard strike her sensitive lekku.

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Lux's eyes shot open, and he instantly yelled, "Ahsoka!" without even thinking about it. He tried to move his arms to help him sit up, but something cold and metallic stopped him. Great, handcuffs. How kriffing great. The Death Watch had obviously captured them. He was also covered with a light coat of snow.

Taking in his surroundings, the young Human realised that he was in a large, spacious tent. A tent that seemed very familiar. Hearing a soft, quiet moan, he rolled over.

Ahsoka was lying on the floor, her arms outstretched towards him, and her hands, too, were cuffed. She was lying on her side, but her torso was twisted into what looked like an uncomfortable position. Lux could see a little trickle of dried blood that had streamed down from her nose, and a small bruise forming on her bottom lip. Lux caught himself staring at her face, especially her lips. Those exact lips he had kissed in a tent very similar to this one. Slowly pulling his eyes away from her face, he mentally slapped himself when he noticed that he had been staring at the rise and fall of her very feminine chest.

Shaking away the unwanted and unnecessary thoughts from his head, he shifted his body closer to the petite Togruta. On the way, he noticed a small pain on his arm. It must have been when he collapsed to the floor.

"Ahsoka." He nudged the Padawan's shoulder. "Ahsoka!" He hissed quietly. He moved his cuffed hands and smacked the side of Ahsoka's lekku. All he got from her was a squeak of pain. Whoops, he hadn't meant to hurt her. "Ahsoka, wake up!" He tapped her cheek with his fingers. After more failed attempts to wake her, he gave up, deciding that it was better to let the Togruta awake when her body told her too.

Anyway, where was Artoo? The little astromech wasn't with them…

Lux heard laughing from outside the tent. A moment later, Pre Vizsla made his way into the tent. He laughed, seeing Lux lying next to Ahsoka. He took off his helmet and set it under his arm.

"So, how's your 'betrothed?'" Vizsla said. He smirked. Lux glared at him.

"Jedi," he roughly kicked Ahsoka's stomach, "Get up."

The Togruta rolled onto her back and groaned. Probably from the pain in her stomach and the realisation at how cold she felt.

"Get up!" He kicked her again, and this time woke the unconscious Padawan up.

"Vizsla." Ahsoka whispered, growling slightly. She tried to sit herself up, but only managed to bring herself up to one elbow. She glanced down towards her waist, searching for her lightsabers. They weren't there. She glared back up at the Mandalorian.

Ahsoka looked behind Vizsla, seeing a smirking Bo-Katan. She laughed cruelly and flicked her red hair out of her face.

"Bo-Katan!" Vizsla snapped, "Take the Togruta to the other women!"

"With pleasure." She replied. She hauled Ahsoka up, and the Padawan tried to wrestle herself out of her grip, but it was no use.

"Let go of me!" Ahsoka snarled, baring her teeth, "Now!"

"Not a chance."

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Minutes later, Ahsoka was thrown into a tent. It was filled with familiar Ming Po women. In fact, all of the same Ming Po woman she had met before, with the exception of Tryla.

"Ahsoka?" One of the Ming Po women helped Ahsoka up. "Are you okay?"

"I've been better." Ahsoka lifted her hands and rubbed her sore lekku, "I've got a pretty bad headache, but I'm fine." She sat down. "I'm guessing that when they captured me, they came back and took you all. Where are all the men?"

The Ming Po women looked sad, hanging their heads in shame. "Dead." One said quietly.

Ahsoka's eyes widened. "I-I'm sorry." She hung her head too. Maybe, if she had fought harder, she could have killed all the Death Watch, and saved the people.

No one answered. Maybe they thought it was her fault, too.

But maybe, she could do something to make it up to them…

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FIRST CHAPTER OF MY NEW STORY! Wow. What did you guys think of A Friend in Need? I'll tell you something, that episode was AMAZING! DEFINATLY my favourite. It was filled with so much action and stuff, but it was also unexpected. Anyway, I thought of the idea for this story. Please review and tell me whether I should continue or not! PLEASE! (By the way, this story is KINDA a romance, but it's kinda not. So, it's for you LuxSoka fans, and the Lux/Ahsoka friendship fans!

Thanks so much, and please review!