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In Perfect Love and perfect trust	By : jennaraven Category: Star Wars (All) > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 6123 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-In Perfect Love and perfect trust
- 2-trust2
- 3-trust3
- 4-trust6
- 5-trust7
- 6-trust8
- 7-trust9
- 8-trust10
- 9-trust11
- 10-trust12
- 11-trust13
- 12-trust14
- 13-trust15
- 14-trust16
- 15-trust17
- 16-trust18
- 17-trust19
- 18-trust20
- 19-trust21
- 20-trust22
- 21-trust23
- 22-trust24
- 23-trust25
- 24-trust26
- 25-trust27
- 26-trust28
- 27-trust29
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Trust chapter 20
Though she included him in the memorial, she still avoided him. After the ceremony she wandered off with her friends. She was crying and he longed to go to her. He knew that she would no longer find his presence comforting.
That knowledge hurt, he hung his head. She was a good person she didn't deserve what he had done. Try as he may he could see no way to make this right. May be if he respected her wishes and stayed away from her. She would eventually forgive him.
He turned and watched her with her friends. She looked so sad over the loss of Kira and Obi -Wan. He considered approaching but held back for a second. Then he realized he was being ridiculous he had never shied away from trouble before. He had just made up his mind to approach them when his COM went off.
He answered it, it was Padme "how are you?" she asked "I've been better" he answered "come by the apartment" she said "all right I'll be there in a couple of hours" he said. He glanced at the group one last time and left. He flew back to Coruscant with a heavy heart.
One month later
Isis passed her trials barely. They were a lot harder than she thought they would be. Of course she was tackling them from a state of depression. The council had picked up on her feelings towards Anakin and didn't question her appropriating Obi -Wan's old quarters. Yoda tried on several occasions to delve the source of her hard feelings for Anakin from her. She kept her secrets however and yoda didn't question further. Anakin for his part volunteered for the more dangerous assignments much to Padme's dismay.
A fact Isis didn't know about until she ran into Padme at a state dinner. Isis was performing security duties for a senator. Padme pulled her aside when she had a moment and asked her about Anakin. "I don't know, I rarely see him lately" Isis said. "He seems depressed lately and won't tell me why," said Padme.
Isis groaned this is why she wanted to avoid this sort of assignment. She'd rather get shot at than try and explain this. "Will you talk to him for me, maybe you can help" said Padme. Isis' stomach clenched, oh great sure no problem. I'll just waltz right up to him and bitch slap him while I'm at it. "Sure, I'll talk to him" she agreed. "Oh thank you so much I know he's really proud that you made Knight," said Padme. "He misses you thoroughly and this war doesn't help," said Padme.
Isis was praying someone any one would distract Padme. Then her charge moved towards the buffet table and Isis gratefully excused herself. She breathed a silent sigh of relief. It wasn't that she disliked Padme it was just an awkward situation. The evening concluded and Isis escorted the senator to his rooms. She was relieved by another Jedi, and went back to the temple. The next day she accepted a field assignment.
If she had read the posting closer she would have seen the other Jedi assigned was Anakin. She didn't of course all she thought about was getting away from all the prying questions. The assignment was on the planet Aargonar and the other Jedi besides Anakin was a Tusken raider named A'Sharad Het. They were to meet on the planets surface.
Isis got off the transport into blinding heat. "Oh great I'm vacationing in hell" she said. "It really is not that bad," said A'Sharad. "You must be A'Sharad?" said Isis. "Did I pronounce that right?" she asked. "Yes actually surprisingly accurate" he said, "your quarters are in this direction" he said "please excuse the sparsity of the accommodations, we are a military camp after all" said A'Sharad. He lead her towards a group of pop ups. Basically high tech tents. Isis dropped her duffle bag on the floor next to one of the cots.
There were two other cots in the room. Only one of which had something next to it. That was the one on the far wall. A cloth hanging sectioned off the area she was in. She looked at the empty bunk but couldn't remember the name of who was to fill it. She frowned at it trying to recall the assignment parameters.
"So when does our third party show?" she asked turning back to the door. He was gone. "Hello?" she said and poked her head out of the door flap. He was standing outside. Ok strange, but he was an alien so weird customs were the norm.
"So any idea when our third party gets here?" she asked. "Yes he should be here within the hour, I am surprised that you did not fly here together" said A'Sharad. "Why would we do that?" said Isis. She stepped out of the tent. "Were you not his Padawan?" he asked Isis looked confused for a second. Then she put the words together. Oh shit Anakin was the other party. "Ah I must admit I didn't really look at the names too closely," said Isis "a failing I see you still have not corrected" said Anakin from behind her. "And you still sneak up on people I see" said Isis. He nodded to her in acquiescence she had him there.
She steeled herself for a confrontation. " Hello Anakin" she said with a wicked smile. He looked at her funny taken slightly aback by her friendliness. "Hello Isis" he said and moved past her. He entered the pop up and set his bag down at the empty cot. He noticed the one cot was pushed up against the wall and a screen was hung between their sleeping area and hers.
Anakin didn't like the idea of working with Isis again but he liked the idea of working with a Tusken even less. He exited the room and met up with the other two. Isis was talking to A 'Sharad about customs. He had said something about sleeping arrangements and the reason he hung the screen.
Anakin approached them but said nothing. Isis was laughing at something A'Sharad had said. Anakin felt a sudden flare of irrational anger and jealousy. "The propriety of her behavior is not your concern," said Anakin. He was glaring at A'Sharad hotly as though he were insulting her. "Anakin, did you settle in?" asked Isis. A'Sharad had gotten suddenly quieter. "Yes thank you," he said.
There seemed to be a level of tension in the air that wasn't there before. A' Sharad quietly excused himself and went towards another of the pop ups. "Where did that come from?" she asked. Anakin was still staring after A'Sharad's retreating back. He looked as though he wanted to put a knife in that back. He turned to look at her "I'm sorry I was just concerned for your safety is all, Tuskens are not to be trusted" said Anakin coldly.
"He's a Jedi, surely that should make him a least a little trust worthy" said Isis. "No not always, just be careful around him, Tuskens will kill for no reason at all," he said. She looked sideways at him and decided to change the subject.
"Anakin I ran into Padme" said Isis. She watched him stiffen in reaction "she's concerned about you, she wanted me to talk to you," she said with an ironic smile. He frowned "I'm fine" he said. "Really, are you?" said Isis. "You've done as she asked now you can go," he said. "Anakin this may be a long assignment the least we can do is try to be civil," she said. He snorted 'I thought you never wanted to talk to me again?" he said stiffly.
She stepped forward and put her hand on his arm. "Anakin, please we need to talk" she said He looked at her small hand and closed his hands on hers. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He looked so sad for a moment. "I'm sorry I should have never pushed you away not now" she said He smiled wanly at her "you had your reasons" he responded.
After a month of the silent treatment and avoiding she was talking to him again. He was ecstatic. She hadn't insulted him yet either, this was almost too good to be true. "I know but still you needed me, I'm sorry I wasn't there" she said. He met her eyes and reached up to touch her cheek "you have nothing to apologize for, I hurt you when I should have been there for you" he said. "So how do we fix this?" she asked.
He smiled at her for the first time in more than a month. "I think you already have," he said warmly. He was rewarded by her return smile. "What are you going to tell Padme?" she asked. He took a quick breath and stopped walking. "I will tell her my stubborn rascal of a former padawan snapped me out of my depression over Obi-Wans' loss" he responded.
"If I recall it was my Master who was the rascal," she said in feigned innocence. He laughed. "All right we both are," he said. She snorted at his response. Score one Isis Anakin zero, she thought and hoped he heard her. He frowned at her. She let out a giggle she had been trying to repress. He glared at her further but this time he was teasing. She lost it and dissolved into laughter.
"Did I miss something funny?" said A'sharad Anakin immediately stiffened. "It was a private joke," he said coldly. "Very well, I just wanted to inform you that there is a sand storm approaching and we are moving camp to the southern ridge." Said A'sharad. Then A' sharad seemed to want to be elsewhere and walked off. "Anakin that was rude" said Isis when they were alone.
"I do not care, tuskens have no manners anyways they are nothing but animals" he said coldly "why do you say that?" she asked. He sighed "Isis did I not tell you what happened to my mother?" he said "not that I recall" she said. "She was murdered by Tuskan raiders, I tried to rescue her but I was too late" he said. Then he paused to take a steadying breath.
"They tortured her to death Isis, I barely got there in time to hear her goodbye" he said sadly. Isis had a funny nauseous feeling growing in the pit of her stomach. She had seen Anakins temper before. "What did you do to them for it?" she asked. She glanced around to make sure they were alone. She spotted A'Sharad talking to some troops far away from them. "I killed every last one of them, even the women and children" he said part of the statement sounded remorseful.
She sighed to herself. "I should probably say something Jedi sounding here but I've never been good with platitudes" she said. He nodded she was right; she preferred honesty, though she was brutal sometimes with it. "I'm not saying what you did was right, but neither was what they did to your mother" she answered
"You won't tell anyone will you?" he asked "no Anakin I'll just add it to the collection I have going" she said, "thank you, I don't know what I would have done without you," he said. She blushed "if it's any consolation I would have done the same thing" she answered. He looked worried for a moment. "Everyone has a dark side Anakin, it how you control that side is up to you, just remember what you put out comes back to you times three" she said.
"An interesting concept" said A' Sharad Anakin glared at the tuskan. "I had not heard that view expressed in the order," said A'Sharad. "Its from my religion, outside of my girls few have heard it" she said "why not?" said Anakin curious as to why he had never heard it. In fact he had heard few things about her religion. He didn't even know she had one until now. "I guess that's because most of our practitioners practice in secret," she said "why?" said A' Sharad. 'Well because where I come from, its not really an accepted religion, we have been persecuted for it before" she explained.
"Persecuted how and why?" asked Anakin. "Well about a hundred years ago just being accused of our religion was a death sentence" said Isis "why, was it so strictly punished?" asked A'Sharad. "Fear mostly, the Christian faith was worried that people would embrace our ways which were older and disregard theirs" said Isis "is it not their right to choose their own path" said A'Sharad. "Yes but their religion has a lot to do with control" she said "why do you practice it if it's so dangerous?" asked Anakin.
"Because I believe in it," she answered. "But they could have killed you for it" A'Sharad said "they no longer kill you over it but they can make your life very miserable, they stopped killing people during the Salem witch trials" she said with a shudder. 'Why do you shudder?" asked Anakin "because it was a horrible way to die and many of them were innocent of being one of us, they were just different is all" she answered. "Horrible way to die how?" Anakin asked. "They were burned at the stake," she answered. A 'Sharad stepped back in shock.
"Ow, how horrible" said Anakin. Anakin watched her for a few moments. He was silently impressed that she managed to keep her faith not only a secret but still practiced it in the Jedi order. "Are your friends also the same faith?" asked Anakin "yes they are my coven" she said. "Coven what's that?' asked A'Sharad. "It's a group of individuals lead by a priestess that practice their faith together, it's usually a small group" she said. Anakin thought about her interactions with her friends. "Who was the priestess in your group?" asked Anakin. "I was, actually still am," she answered. "You have practiced this while still being a Jedi?" said A Sharad "yep" she answered with a smug smile. Anakin shook his head in disbelief. "You knew this?' asked A'Sharad.
Anakin stiffened, he was proud Isis had managed to hang on to something from her past. "No I didn't but it hasn't interfered with her training" he answered. Going to her defense despite the fact he was no longer her master. "Besides Yoda knows," said Isis in her own defense
A' Sharad looked dismayed, or at least his body language showed that. "Besides there are plenty of Jedi who practice other faiths and customs," answered Isis. That seemed to satisfy A'Sharad, and he walked off to gather his things before the move. They watched him go. "He will make problems for you" said Anakin "I'll see to it don't worry" she answered. She smiled a wicked little secret smile.
"Isis I never told you something," he said "what?" she said "how very proud I am of you" he said "aaw that's sweet thanks" she said blushing heavily. "I mean it few have passed their trials this early and even fewer have held onto beliefs other than the orders, I'm most impressed" she smiled and kissed his cheek "I had a good master" she said and was rewarded with his blush. "Thank you" he said as they entered the tent. They grabbed their bags and threw them into one of the waiting transports before climbing on board.
One hour later, new base camp
After a hectatic day and a quick dinner Isis volunteered to accompany a group of scouts on patrol. She needed to get away from camp. Anakin was still hovering over her in protect mode. Plus he was still snapping at A Sharad, it was like living with a couple of three year olds fighting over a toy. Unfortunately she was the toy.
She climbed onto the offered sloop bike and followed the scouts. Anakin wasn't happy about her going but told her to be careful. She thought that ironic from a man that routinely jumps into danger, sometimes literally. She started the engines and followed the scouts out.
The first hour or so was uneventful. Just miles and miles of dirt and small scrub bushes. Then finally they found something. It was a ship parked in a box canyon. As they approached to investigate they were spotted and fired upon. One of the scouts took cover behind a rock and called the base. "I can't get through its jammed," said Ed the clone. "Ok, go for help" said Isis "I can't leave you here they'll kill you" said Ed "aw I'm touched but I can handle myself "she said "But" he started to protest "besides I out rank you and that's an order not a suggestion soldier." Said Isis "what will you be doing?" he asked "I'm going to keep that ship from taking off" she said. The other scout looked dismayed "how?" said the clone. "Well first I need a distraction" said Isis "how am I going to distract them I'm one guy?" said the other scout
The one scout took off towards the base flying at full throttle. He had his orders even if he didn't like them. Isis instructed the remaining clone to take up position to her right and began casting. "When I tell you to, open fire," she said he looked at her like she was crazy.
She finished her spell and said to fire. The clone complied, and to his shock bolts filled the air where there should have been only one. "How'd you do that?" said the clone. "Jedi secret" she answered with a grin. " Keep them busy for me I'll be right back" she said and she slunk into the bushes before he could reply. She snuck closer to the ship and went in behind a couple of exiting droids. She found herself in a cargo hold and ducked behind a crate. A droid passed her position and stacked a crate on the crated behind her. She moved sideways to avoid one being stacked on her.
She heard voices she vaguely recognized and ducked down farther and peered between the crates. Two of Dooku's dark siders were standing in the cargo bay. She vaguely recognized one from her class, a boy named Araz something. She used to make fun of his hair and call him razzleberry behind his back. The other was older she remembered seeing him at the upper class table. He had resented her status as Dooku's' favorite. He even accused her of sleeping her way to the top. Well all was fair in love or war she reasoned.
She remembered his name mostly because he pissed her off. It was Marq, something but the rest didn't matter. All that mattered was he had the better skills out of the two. He would be a challenge to take down. Fortunately she liked a challenge.
Marq suddenly spotted a movement behind the crate and moved it aside. He found her crouched there. "Well hello Isis, if you wanted a ride all you had to do was ask" said Marq. "No thanks my mother taught me to never accept a ride from a jack ass" she responded coolly. He set the levitating crate down next to her. She was surprised he didn't use it to crush her. Perhaps it was explosive and he didn't want to damage the ship.
"Come to return to the winning side?" Araz asked. She snorted, "I assure you whatever side I choose it will be the winning one" said Isis. "Ooh how very unjedi like" said Marq. "Or is all that an act Isis, you know you belong with us" said Marq "Dooku wants her taken alive" said Araz. "Oh really how interesting" she answered. Marq glared at Araz for talking too much. Isis made a mental note to only incapacitate Araz but kill Marq.
"I say she has an accident right here and it's a fatal one," said Marq. "Dooku will be angry," she said calmly. Not that she cared about their well-being but it was worth a try to get them to surrender. Araz looked scared "either your with me Araz or your against me which is it?" said Marq. Araz must have remembered her teasing him. He raised his weapon and ignited it. Then he charged at proof of the threefold law.
She danced around him like a firefly. She avoided his blows and answered with her own. She had to side step the droids several times because they weren't programmed to go around combatants. She used them a few times as shields. When Marq joined Araz in the attack Isis got desperate. She was being backed towards an airlock. No way was she going in there. She flipped over their heads and removed Araz's sword arm as she did so.
He screamed and fell out of the fight. Now she only had Marq to worry about.
Base camp.
The clone roared into camp and screeched to a halt. He raced to the Jedi, since they were in command anyways. "Sir" said the man "where is the rest of your patrol?" asked Anakin "we found a separatist ship but before we could report it we were ambushed, they jammed our radio so we couldn't call for help" said the clone "where is Isis and the other soldier?" Asked A 'Sharad "they are under fire sir, but we must hurry she said something about keeping the ship from taking off" said the scout. Anakin got a worried look on his face. 'They must be trying to take off before the sandstorm hits" said A Sharad. "We must reach them before Isis does something foolish" said Anakin "like what?" said A Sharad "with Isis who knows?" said Anakin. He was running for the soldiers swoop bike. "Anakin you just can't go running off to save her, she's a Jedi she can take care of herself," said A Sharad. Anakin ignored him and started the bike. Before A Sharad could protest further he was off.
Anakin was worried too worried to pay any heed to A' Sharad. He had to get to Isis; he had just made peace with her damn it. A Sharad left one of the clone officers in charge. A clone everyone for some reason called Sam. Then he jumped on another swoop and followed Anakin. The foolish young Jedi was so intent on saving the girl that he didn't realize the leading edge of the storm was nearly upon them. If he didn't reach him in time, Anakin would die before he reached the girl.
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