"Everyone sees us as traitors."
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*Padme's POV*

I sobbed as I watched the Jedi temple burning in the distance. My stomach was twisted in agony as each huff of smoke floated up into the air.

Anakin was at the temple because I had a meeting with Senator Organa. I had a meeting and now Anakin might be dead.

A loud sob shattered my heart at the thought of Anakin laying lifeless on the ground. Red hot flames eating at his skin turning him to ash.

" Please don't take him from me!" I called out to the sky to any higher force who might listen to me.

I sunk to the floor not caring that my dress would become caked with dust. I buried my face between my hands and sobbed.

" I am sure that master Ani will be alright mistress Padme." 3PO said.

Sniffing I looked up at him. His shiny gold coat stood out against the darkness of my apartment.

" Thank you 3PO, I hope you are right." I sniffled.

I looked back at the temple. 3PO's words spinning around in my head. 

He could be alright.

He will be alright.

Please Ani, please please please be alright.

*Anakin's POV*

I aimlessly flew around. I have managed to get us out of orbit and I put the ship into hyperspace.

Blue lights zoomed past us as we zipped through the galaxy.

Ahsoka sat silently beside me. She stared off into the distance, tears trickling down her face and to her chin.

A part of me wants to comfort her, to hold her until her tears are over but I have other worries right now.

Will I ever see Padme again?

Will I ever see her smile, hear her laugh, feel her lips on mine ever again?

Will I ever see my angel again?

I leaned back in my chair, reliving all the horrors we just faced not even an hour ago.

Why?

That was all I could ask myself. But I don't have the answers.

" Why would they shoot at us? Why would they all try to kill us?" Ahsoka asked her voice breaking from her tears.

We both turned our chairs around to face the council, or at least what is left of them.

Master Yoda looked down at the ground in sadness. He shook his head and rubbed his face with his small green hand.

" Hay we all nearly died back there. Our order is basically dead and we have no idea why but you clearly do. So get off your fucking green arse and tell us what you know!" I screamed at him. Tears began to fall down my face as I yelled.

My anger caused the ship to start to shake. But it only lasted a few seconds then it settled down.

The council looked between me and Master Yoda. Waiting for what happens next.

" Well tell me." I growled through clenched teeth.

" Anakin be patient." Obi-wan snapped at me.

" Don't tell me to-"

" The Sith Lord Sidious Palatine is." Master Yoda interjected.

Those six words nearly broke everything in me.

" What?" I asked my voice faltering.

" This his plan must have been. Destroy the order and bring back the sith." He continued to explain.

We were all shell-shocked. Palpatine is the Sith Lord we have been searching for all this time. He was right under our noses. 

But to me, it was more personal. He has been my mentor, someone I could go to when I was upset or if I wanted some advice for a very long time. 

And the whole time he was tricking me. Deceiving me all these years. And for what, well that is a question only he can answer.

Oh my force, Padme is still there with him!

" We have to go back and kill him." I said.

" You said it yourself we were all nearly killed. We need to stop and make a base somewhere. Then we can get some rest and make a plan of attack." Obi-wan said.

" We can't just leave all the senators amd everyone on that planet with a monster. And what about all our friends. Senator Organa, Jar Jar, Padme, they are all stuck with that monster and force knows what he will do with them. We have to go back and save them!"

" Anakin if we go back to that planet every clone trooper will come out after us and we will die. You have to put your feelings aside. We can't have messy heads right now." Obi-wan said more sternly.

I was so pumped full of rage that I didn't know what to say back. So I just turned back around to face the front and sat there in silence. 

" Why would the clones shoot at us so easily though. What made them all do that?" Ahsoka asked breaking the blanket of silence that had wrapped itself around us.

" Palpatine must have some sort of control over them. He was the one who pushed for them to be made and given to us." Master Luminara said.

" That is true they must have done something to the clones while they were being made that made them more susceptible to Palpatine's control." Obi-wan said.

"Okay, so Palpatine out of nowhere ordered the clone to march up to the temple and kill all Jedi. But what I don't understand is how can he just get that authority. He would have to give some reason to the people as to why he ordered our mass extermination?" Ahsoka pointed out.

" Ashoka is right he would need a reasonable reason to give the people as to why we are all being hunted down." I said.

" Sent Master Windu, Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tiin to his office I did. Didn't come back they did. Must be part of his plan." Master Yoda said. 

" Okay so maybe he killed them and is using them in some way to make what he did acceptable. But what could he say?" I asked

The beeping of a notification being sent out caused us all to turn to the communication table.

" Should we see what it is?" Ashoka asked.

" R2, jam our signal so nobody can track us and pull up the notification." I said. 

R2 beeped as he did as I told him to do. 

The notification was a death warrant on all Jedi. The order was given by chancellor Palpatine for the reason of treason and attempted murder of the chancellor.

" He is framing us for attempted murder." Obi-wan gasped. 

" So that means-"

" Everyone sees us as traitors." I sighed.