The treaty was just wrapping up on Ansion and everyone was shaking hands and saying goodbye to the two hooded figures, as they boarded their shuttle.
" Ok, Anakin, it's time to go home. I can't wait to get back to the temple, so that way, I can have a nice hot shower, meal and comfy bed. I will want to sleep for the rest of the week." Obi-Wan said, as they made their way to cockpit of the shuttle.
" That is wonderful to hear, and yes, you mostly need that shower. As for me, food and bed will do me just fine and I can't wait for that too." Anakin said ,as he gave his Jedi Master a cocky smile.
" Why do I have a feeling that's it's not your bed that you want to be in?" Obi-Wan sat down in the co-pilot's chair.
" Well, not for a couple of days anyway, because like you ,all I want to do is sleep for a few days." Anakin said, as he plop down in the pilot's chair.
" You better hope that the Padawans' Masters don't catch any of you together." Obi-Wan just shook his head and hoping that Anakin wouldn't get caught messing around with the girls.
" Now, who said anything about it being someone from the Temple?" Anakin smiled and before starting up the engines of the shuttle, they lifted upward and headed straight for outer space.
Ten minutes later, they were in the atmosphere and was ready to go into hyperspace. Obi-Wan sat there and set the coordinates in the Nav-computer, before getting up and leaving his Padawan going to his sleeping quarters.
" Good, we are to go. So, that means we are going to be there faster, and that way I can finally see her." Anakin said, to himself as he hit the hyperspace button and the stars blurred in front of him. Anakin moved his hand over to the Nav-computer and began changing the coordinates that Obi-Wan had put in there a few minutes ago.
" Ok, I'm back and I feel a little better. Um ... Anakin ... You have reset the coordinates!" Obi-Wan said to his young Padawan.
" All I did was lengthen our time in hyperspace just a bit, so that way, we'll come out closer to the planet is all." Anakin explained.
Obi-Wan gave a great and resigned sigh, and sat back down at the console, and noticing the coordinates that Anakin had put in. Now, there wasn't anything he could do but sit back and pray to the gods that when they exit hyperspace, that they won’t hit anything.
" We can't exit hyperspace too close to Coruscant's approach lanes, Anakin. Because there's way too much congestion for a safe flight. How many times have I already explained all this to you?" Obi-Wan said, with a very heavy sigh and just shook his head.
" But ...." Anakin started to say, but never finished because Obi-Wan interrupted him.
" Anakin." Obi-Wan said pointedly, as if he were scolding a pet perootu cat, and he began to tightened his jaw and stared very hard at his Padawan.
" Yes, Master." Anakin said looking down obediently, because he knew he did something wrong.
" I know that you're anxious to get home, and we have been away for way to long." Obi-Wan just glared at Anakin for just a moment longer, before he conceded.
Anakin didn't look up, but his Master could tell that he began to smile, knowing that Obi-Wan agreed with him.
" Ok, but never do this again." Obi-Wan just warned him, before getting up from his chair and left the cockpit of the shuttle.
Anakin considered their current destination, and who waited for them there, but the scolding was all worth it, even if his resetting of the coordinates had bought him only a few extra hours on Coruscant. So now, he was getting anxious to get there, though not for the reason Obi-Wan had stated. It wasn't the Jedi Temple that was beckoning him. Earlier in the morning, he had heard rumors that a certain Senator was coming back to Coruscant, who was also the former Queen of Naboo. She was on her way to address the Senate. Padme Amidala Naberrie. The name resonated in Anakin's very heart and soul. It was hard to believe that they haven't seen each other in over a decade, when him, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon helped her with the struggle with the Trade Federation on Naboo. At the tender age of nine, when he first laid eyes on her, he knew that she was the woman that he was going to marry. Anakin just knew, without a question. All the images of the beautiful Padme Amidala had stayed with him, had been burned into his every dream and fantasy, every day since he had left Naboo with Obi-Wan over a decade ago. He could still smell the freshness of her hair,even could still see the sparkle of intelligence and passion in her wondrous brown eyes, and even could still hear the melody that was Padme's voice.
Anakin let his hands return to the controls of the Nav-computer. Maybem he could find a little used lane through the Coruscant's traffic congestions, just to get them home faster. Once he finished doing that, he got up and left the cockpit and headed into the kitchen area to make him something to eat, before taking it to his sleeping quarters, so that way, he could lay down for a couple of hours, before they get to Coruscant.
* (pages 40-43 of Chapter 4 of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones by R.A. Salvatore.)