It wasn't long before I sensed a familier presense in the street. I looked up to see someone ahead of me, walking against the flood of the crowd, who all seemed to be heading to the the lower levels, news spread way to quickly. I grinned when I realised who it was, and because they hadn't yet noticed me.

I broke into an eager run, weaving through the crowd and occasionally pushing them aside (not violently) so I could reach him. Unlike me, he wasn't wearing a cloak, and I watched as he strode up the street calmly and unconcerned. I was about to take full advantage of this. Grinning at the creativity of my planned prank, I slowly crept closer and closer, keeping his lightsaber in full view.

I was right behind him now, and I reached out to snatch the lightsaber from his belt, but unfortunately for me, Anakin's reactions were quicker.

I let out a yell of surprise as Anakin span around, grabbing both of my hands. My fingers slipped from his lightsaber as he span me around, pinning my hands behind my back. We wrestled for a moment, me trying to escape and him trying to hold on, before I realised he was keeping hold of both of my hands and stopping me from moving with only one hand. The other, pulled down my hood, even though he already knew it was me.

"And that Snips, is why I am the master," he speaks for the first time, laughing at me while I struggle. He takes my lightsaber instead, and all I can thing about is how I didn't see that coming. I groan and he lets go, knowing I've finally admitted defeat. I rub my wrists and take back my weapon, not impressed with myself.

"How did you know?" I ask him.

"Snips, have you ever heard, of the amazing thing called the force?You should try using it," he shoves me gently, still laughing.

"Whatever," I say snippily, punching his shoulder playfully back,"Where were you anyway, nobody knew where you were?"

"I decided to go and look in the warehouse near the one we searched the other day," he replied as if it were the most obvious place in the world.

"Well, you could have told somebody where you were you know. Obi Wan isn't very impressed with you," I tell him.

"When is he?" Anakin retorted.

"Um..." I drifted into silence, unable to think of an example. Only now did I notice the few people staring at us in surprise and amusement. Jedi messing about was obviously not that common. Whoops. Jedi were supposed to be powerful, mature and wise peace keepers, not being immature and playing pranks on each other. I obviously need to work on that.

A woman standing outside a shop looks at me amused. But I can sense an understanding in her, almost as if she knows what it's like to have a strong bond. I smile to myself.

"So what did you find, anything?" I ask Anakin, attempting to restart conversation.

"There was nothing there," he told me. That's going to make Obi Wan even more impressed, "What are you doing anyway?"

"Not a lot. I came looking for you, I was in the lower levels. Oh, and I broke another lift," I tell him casually. Anakin raised his eyebrows.

"Do I want to know?"

"I doubt it," I reply, "It was just another criminal with a knife and plenty of bombs,"

***
As we clambered into the speeder, which surprisingly wasn't the bike type, we continued to head away from the Jedi temple.

"Um, Anakin, where are we going?" I ask, confused.

"I thought I found a shortcut earlier, but I want to see where it ends up at," he explained to me, starting the engine.

"Fair enough," I comment, it's a bit busy though, as in more than usual," Anakin just shrugged at me and sped up, weaving in and out of the traffic. The force of the wind whistled loudly and I had to shout to make myself heard.

"Master, you do realise you're only allowed to speed and break traffic rules if it's an emergency? Don't you?" I yell at him, referring to the Jedi road laws.

"So? This shortcut could save a lot of time in the future," Anakin overtakes another speeder, narrowly avoiding the oncoming traffic in the opposite direction. I could feel the speeder gaining even more speed and I felt myself tense with the high risk. But before I could ask him to slow down, he dived downwards at full speed, the speeder turned vertical. I shrieked.

"Are you trying to kill us?" I yelled at him, hanging onto the Speeder in surprise.

"No, I'm not. If you're going to be like that, you can travel with Obi Wan," he shouted back at me.

"No thanks!" I replied. Obi Wan wasn't exactly the best pilot, which was why I usually helped Anakin instead of him.

I focused on staying onboard, as the speeder continued to gather speed as it dropped vertically. In fact it was so fast, the wind stung my face. It didn't help that we were getting dangerously close to the ground, and the speeder would surely crash into it with extreme speed - it would kill us instantly.

"Anakin..." I yelled, wanting him to stop, but he didn't slow down. He just smirked instead. But just as I thought it would be to late, he swerved upward at the last possible moment. The speeder slowed instantly and we slowed to a far more comfortable speed. I glared at Anakin.

We continue to travel and I start to wonder if Anakin was actually telling the truth. There was just floods of traffic. I lean back in my seat and cross my legs over, with my arm slung casually on the side. We weren't getting anywhere very soon.

All of a sudden, a loud noise exploded behind us, and the speeder shook dangerously. I lept up into a standing position on my seat, drawing my lightsaber as I did so. Anakin swerved away as a second shot sped toward us and I struggled to keep my balance.

"Where did it come from?" Anakin asks me, trying not to crash into the surrounding traffic.

"Behind us. But I can't see who it is because they have cover," I explain quickly, deflecting shots and trying to protect myself, Anakin and the speeder at the same time.

"Be careful up there Snips," I roll my eyes. I always was. I watched carefully at the spot the shots were coming from. I was waiting for them to come out to get a better view of them.

They soon came out. It was a female, judging by the slim body, and they wore Deathwatch armour, except it was light green. I shouted this to Anakin, who asked me about her weapons.

"Two blasters, which she's using at the moment, and...is that a lightsaber?" I almost drop my own in shock. I have no idea what this is about. And this just got a whole lot more dangerous...