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Coruscant during nighttime despite being a city planet was still a marvel. Especially during this particular night as there were many couples just enjoying a walk , a good meal and a conversation or just spending their time together as if there was no war and the galaxy wasn't tearing itself apart.
If one looked more closely they would see a couple so happy as if they were the only ones together blind to the others existence, and while this feeling would appear something normal given the abundance of couples only this one felt as if it was truly living up to the standard of a golden couple without even trying. No pretensions, no extra need to put in more effort or just trying too hard to be something more or trying to hold somekind of standard. And maybe that was why it seemed so genuine.
And, while it would seem a tragedy that this true couple wasn't even a couple, let alone in love the fact that no one bothered to look in they're general directions at all - upwards towards the open balchony room of a fancy restaurant - was a Force-sent blessing!
As to why that would be the case. the answer is relatively very simple. After all, the place would be swarming with paparazzis if anyone caught wind of Anakin Skywalker, the Republic's Hero WIth No Fear was enjoying what seemed to be a a romantic dinner. Especially when the one he was enjoying said dinner with was a known senator, a member of The Declaration Of Two Thousand, and for those that had met her the most active advocate for the clones' rights.
Ladies and gentleman, Riyo Chuchi in her most dashing dress is on the scene!
While it seems premature, and truthfully it is Anakin under Riyo's persuassion decided to accompany her to celebrate what they managed to accomplish so far.
Despite Anakin telling her that before and during dinner Riyo managed to still bat it away with what so far was a you-worry-too-much-attitude.
"You know, despite being one of the more lax Jedi you are such a worry Rankor" she teased
"I'll let you know that despite what the other Jedi think, Obi-Wan chief among them I can be cautious." He made a pause more for the dramatic effect and then retorted with:"Despite what you might have heard I'll let you know fighting on the front did in fact make me more cautious. Even if it's just a little bit", his banter was as obvious as his mock outraged face.
The small talk continued and in no time at all they finished and were ready to leave. Too bad it wasn't fast enough for them to avoid the waiter and neither his gobsmacked expression.
Poor twi'lek looked like he could just stand there for an eternity.
Cough, cough!
"Well, as nice as this night has been I believe we have finished here and here's something for you" she as well as Skywalker gave him quite the generous tip . The waiter understood this was shush money.
Add said money to getting on the bad side of a senator and a war hero and the twi'lek understood that he not only should keep his mouth shut he'll also be very deep in shit if he does even as much as tweet a little about what he witnessed. FActs which only made him nod in head so fast he could have been a machine.
With that taken care of the duo of Anakin and Riyo left the restaurant.
Unfortunately, they weren't as careful as they originally thought and have attracted the attention of Ahsoka with a few clones that happened to contain both Rex and Fives, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon and surprisingly Yoda.
They're reactions varied from surprise to delight to contemplative to dread.
As the two groups followed the unlikely pair things almost went to a boil moments before it looked like the two of them were about to kiss, as it was at that time that the two groups discovered eachother.
Fives and a few other 501st clones drew they're weapons and set them to stun, as he saw the generals were about to intervene, Ahsoka tried to diffuse the situation as well as Rex while the other Jedi while still igniting their lightsabers were still trying to difuse the situation.
And then Skywalker spoke.
"What the kriff are you doing here?"
As if magic his words put a stop to the fight before it erupted.
Before anyone could say anything Rex decided to report so that this madness could be over already.
"Sir! Fives believed that you and senator Chuchi had feelings for eachother and worked with a few other brothers to come up with a plan to get you together, Commander Tano may have followed because she was curious about what were you doing with said senator as well as the other clones, I followed because I wanted to stop something stupid from happening while the other generals I believe were just as surprised as the commander." Rex the no-nonsense second in command of the 501st raported with the same efficiency he was known for dispatching clankers.
After Rex finished his report there was silence enough that you could hear a pin drop.
"You knew!" Blurted out Fives.
"Was I wrong about you senator Amidala" Ahsoka was perplexed.
"Anakin! We talked about what attachments can lead to" Obi-Wan was so done with it.
"Dissapointed, in you I am Skywalker" Yoda announced grimly.
"Now, now let's not jump to conclusions without even giving Skywalker a chance to defend himself" Plo Koon took the role of the voice of reason.
Anakin, having enough of this decided to silence this headache in the bud.:I'll let you know that: one, I and Padme aren't a couple, two, who I choose to date is my choice and three, I and Chuchi are don't have feelings for one another let alone being romantically involved"
The peanut gallery looked like it wanted to argue until Riyo dropped the nuclear bomb.
"I also believe that Anakin has yet to recover after his divorce with Padme", her voice was so soft, clear and eloquent that lives up to her career as a senattpr
The whole street was enveloped by such a silence that it may as well have been the Will of the Force.
It was Obi-Wan that somehow managed to get a grip under the ludicrousity of the situation."Excuse me, senator Chuchi but did you just said, divorce? As in when a married couple decides to end things?"
"As far as I and the whole galaxy knows that, is the definition of a divorce"
"You knew?! How did you know? The only one who knows is Rex!" Anakin right now couldn't hold a secret to save his life.
"YOU TOLD HIM?" Ahsoka and Obi-Wan were the voices that were the loudest about this fine detail. Though if one looked closely they could make out the hard to notice betrayal in their eyes.
"WHAT? NO, I DIDN'T! He figured it out himself a while ago and he's been helping me to visit Padme since", Skywalker tried to pacify, before he could move onto the next big question. "And, more importantly how did you know" he asked the one question he wanted answered more anything.
The young pantoran answered calmly and strangely enough with a smile. "You told me along with a few other things that happened after the fact that you were secretly married that one time when you got drunk after we decided to work together towards granting the clones their rights. And it is with the same care that I held towards any good friend that I say you need to talk to someone you trust about your problems. Whether that be a friend or a trained professional is all upto you frankly."
"With that out of the way I believe you all have a lot to talk about and things to work on sooo, goodbye, don't bother seeing me off" she left leaving them to resolve their own problems.
The Jedi and clones just stood there in awkward silence and worse no one knew how or when to break it.
Plo Koon - Force bless him - found himself taking the role. "I believe we should all return to sleep and talk about what just transpired tommorow morning", while the words were simple they've done their job as everyone else snapped out of it and departed in a semi comfortable silence.
From there things escalated. After hearing Anakin's story about how Padme was mad that her husband wanted their marriage to be more like a real marriage and a few other things that would stand in her way to be a senator and their ensuing fight a divorce seemed to be natural to the Council as well as a few of them expressing their sympathies for Anakin and decided to allow Anakin to be part of the Order after completing his punishment thanks to his recent behavior and maturity in the wake of his divorce. The war has gotten worse and Anakin and Obi-Wan have gotten closer, as evidenced by the fact that Anakin revealed to his former master his darkest secret and together they worked on making things right not only for the Tuskend but also between them. Ahsoka despite being framed for bombing the Temple has decided to remain a Jedi after Plo Koon, Obi-Wan and Anakin found the real culprit and teared the arrogant council members a new one. The discovery of inhibitor chips within all the clones and the start of the Order trying to dechip their clones. Unfortunately, Palpatine has revealed himself to be a Sith and despite taking down a good chunk of the Order with the Coruscant Guard and other legions after ordering Order 66 Sidious' defeat by the Chosen One and the Senate chose a new Supreme Chancellor after the Jedi were cleared of their supposed "betrayal", Dooku being allowed back into the Order and mending his relationships and more importantly not only did the Order start recruiting from all ages after rediscovering the techniques for training older initiates in the wake of Sidious's machinations they also allowed attachments after lengthy discussions, Anakin being granted the rank of Master and being made a councilor also started a family with none other than....
RIYO CHUCHI?!
Qui-Gon couldn't help his scream at the vision from the Force after seeing what the events of this night will lead to.
"At the very least, his twin kids have good names: Jinn and Inla SKywalker", Qui-Gon couldn't help putting in his two woopies.