Chapter 20

“ Obi-Wan, Anakin, this is a huge surprise. Please, come follow me to the mess hall.” Lucas noticed two Jedi standing in the middle of the great hall, looking around like they were lost.

“ Lucas, hello. Well, it has been a while.” Obi-Wan turned to see his brother coming up to him and Anakin.

“ Hello, Master Lucas.” Anakin bowed his he head to the other Jedi Master. “ Please Anakin, call me Lucas. We are very informal around here.” Lucas gave Anakin a warm smile.

“ Yes, sir.” Anakin smiled back and then he realized that Lucas was by himself.

“ From the look on your face, you are wondering where Nessie is at. At the moment, she is off world.” Lucas noticed that Anakin was looking behind him, then around the ground hall.

“ Oh.” Anakin sounded very sad that he would not get to spend some time with Nessie.

“ Don’t worry. She will be back before lunch time. Come now. Let us go and get some breakfast.” Lucas laughed, then motioned for Obi-Wan and Anakin to follow him towards the mess hall.

The three men walked over to the turbo lift and Lucas hit the up button. They waited for the lift to come to the main floor, in total silence. Once the lift came to the grand hall, the doors opened up and the three men stepped onto the lift. Lucas hit the second level button, just before the doors closed.

“ So, what brings the two of you here?” Lucas stood across from Anakin and Obi-Wan.

“ I will tell you later. That is, if we can go somewhere away from here, because I don’t want anyone to know why we are here at the moment.” Obi-Wan gave Lucas a look to tell him that, now was not the time to be asking why him and Anakin were there.

“ I understand. Well, here we are.” Lucas nodded and looked away from his brother, just as lift stopped and the doors opened up.

They walked off the lift and Lucas led them down the long hallway ,until they came to a sliding glass door, that was the entrance of the mess hall. After breakfast, they headed off to Lucas and Nessie’s quarters. Once inside the room, Lucas offered both Anakin and Obi-Wan a drink of Caf, before sitting down and waiting for Obi-Wan to tell him why him and Anakin was here on Corellia.

“ So, can you tell me why you two are here and why do I get a feeling that you two have run away from Coruscant?” Lucas turned to his brother and his Padawan learner, who were sitting in the chairs by the small table, and giving him a very serious look.

“ If you must know, we have left the Jedi Order on Coruscant. We are hoping to join the Jedi Order here on Corellia.” Obi-Wan took the cup that Lucas held out to him.

“ I see. So, what made you two, do that for? You both are very welcome to stay here. All we need to do, is get you and Anakin a room.” Lucas handed Anakin his cup of Caf, before going over to his bed and sitting down on the foot end of the bed.

“ Well, they were going to expel Anakin from the order, because he and Nessie was having a relationship. Then, I learned that they were going to do the same thing with me, just because I knew that they were having a relationship and I did nothing to stop them.” Obi-Wan looked at Anakin, who gave him a small blush, before he took a sip of his Caf.

“ Really/ I always knew that branch of Jedi were strict. To show or have no love whats ever, is not a very good thing. To make a very good Jedi, one must show some kind of emotion, such as love.” Lucas looked over to Anakin and winked at him, before taking a sip of his Caf.

“ I agree to that and I do love, Nessie. Um, I thought you said that she would be back here before lunch.” Anakin heard a bell go off.

“ When I got up, to get some more cereal, I got a call from Nessie. She told me that she was going to be at her parent’s house.” Lucas looked at Anakin, as he took another sip of his Caf. ,P>“ Um, would be ok, if I headed out to the Solo’s estate and see Nessie? Please don’t let her know that I am coming to see her, I want to surprise her.” Anakin gave Lucas a smile, before looking over to Obi-Wan who nodded to him.

“ Ok, I will not let her know. I will have to let her parents know that you are coming there to see Nessie, and ask them not to let her know.” Lucas nodded his agreement, just as Anakin put his cup down and stood up from the small table.

Before Anakin left the room, Lucas directed him down to the speeders, where Anakin found one. He raced off towards the country, to where the Solo family lived.

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Nessie was sitting on the couch, reading her data pad, when there was presence that she had not felt, for over a year. It was coming up to the front door of her small cottage. Putting down her data pad, she got up from the couch and went to the front door, Opening it up, just before the person at the door could knock on the door.

“ Oh, my . . . Anakin!” Nessie said, in total surprise to really be seeing him right in front of her.

“ Hey, Nessie.” Anakin said, just before he picked her up and carried her off to her bedroom.