Chapter thirteen- Rocks, rocks joyful rocks.

The voyage to Geonosis was short in comparison to the trip to Kamino from Courscant, so short that I did not even leave the cockpit. I had instead fallen asleep in the rather uncomfortable chair much to my displeasure. I had not wanted to sleep, I had wanted to work on a silent code system with Obi-wan.

Thinking of Obi-wan caused me took look beside me where I could see him flicking a large blue switch. Abruptly a strange buzzing sound that I had not even taken note of stopped. It had to have been what woke me up.

"How long was I out?" I asked a little groggily, sitting up straighter and rubbing the kinks out of my shoulders, caused from my unnatural sleeping position.

"Almost five hours, that was the revision alarm. We will be coming out of hyperspace in less then ten minutes." He replied to my question.

"Turn around." He commanded before I had the chance to ask any more. I turned so that my back was to him, still rubbing my neck. Too preoccupied to wonder what he was up to.

I let out a slight gasp as I felt his hands come in contact with my shoulders, gently massaging all of my pain away. When his thumbs moved to the back of my neck I could not stop the sigh that escaped from my lips. I didn't even bother to try and hide the feelings that his actions produced. They were completely natural after all. I only thanked the gods that my hair was held firmly in place.

"Is that better?" He asked once he had returned to studying the display board.

"Yes." I said my words little more than a whisper. "Remind me never to willingly sleep in this chair ever again."

At that he chuckled and I couldn't help smiling. "I will keep that in mind Sabé, you just looked so peaceful that I didn't want to move you."

I didn't know what to say to that, so I said nothing. Instead I studied the star lines of hyperspace flashing past. I had never really paused to think about the fact that the galaxy was so huge. So massive that all these stars could fill it. Was it right that my actions could determine its future? Was it even possible that the actions of one so small could affect so many people?

My musing were stopped by the reversion of the ship to real space, bringing all the crashing realities of our predicament back in a flash.

"Can, you find the ship on scanners?" Obi-wan asked heading towards the planet following the most likely vector for the bounty hunter and his ship to have taken.

"Yes, directly ahead, vector 511." I said completely reverted into my business like state. I will admit that I was surprised that the bounty hunter had made no attempts to disguise his position.

"Good let's hope that they don't spot us, that will make things nice and simple." Obi-wan murmured as he adjusted the flight controls. I returned my gaze to the sensor scan.

"They are moving along a different course, it appears that they are heading into the planet's asteroid field." I said with a sigh, turning to glare at him. "You just had to mention something didn't you? Now we will have to wait until they come out of the field." I continued letting my annoyance show fully.

"There will be no waiting." He said looking at me with determination in his eyes.

"Your not thinking of flying into an asteroid field are you?" I asked shocked, rising from my seat.

"They wouldn't think that we would follow them, we can use this to our advantage Sabé." At his words I slowly sank back into my seat. He was right as much as I hated to admit the fact.

I dejectedly turned back to what was under my own control as asteroids began to wiz past. Obi-wan turned the ship one hundred and eighty degrees before entering into a tight spin, which threw me into the control panel.

"You might want to fasten your crash webbing, though, I have a feeling that this could get a little bumpy."

"Thanks for the reminder." I said securing myself firmly into the co-pilots seat. "This isn't something that I do every day you know."

"I know." Was the only response I received before he inverted the ship to avoid a particularly lethal looking rock. I gave the sensor board another scan.

"They are launching seismic charges." I said in exasperation. "He really doesn't like you." A slight smirk now graced my lips.

"Oh, young handmaiden, what makes you so certain that it is me they don't like?" He asked while pushing the ship into a sharp dive to avoid the blast of the charge. "Couldn't it have just as easily been you they took a disliking to?"

"What's not to like about me?" I asked in return, smiling prettily. I couldn't help it; I knew that I was making fun of a deadly serious situation, but it made me feel better. I had always figured that when death would come to me I would know, and it didn't feel like it was coming now.

I braced myself against the armrest as another blast went off, and Obi-wan sent the ship careening into a mad roll.

"Let me see, your pretending to be a Jedi." He paused to change course following Jango's ship into the inner caverns of one of the asteroids. "Bounty hunters don't seem to be all that fond of Jedi."

"Oh and then you were the one who seen the incrementing armor, which confirmed my suspicions, which caused him to have to flee his nice tropical paradise." He turned away from the view screen to smile at me. "I think he has plenty of reasons not to like you."

"Watch where you're going!" I screamed in alarm as the ship moved so close to the rock wall that I was certain it scratched the hull paint.

"Right. Sorry about that." Obi-wan returned his focus to following the fleeing ship, which turned out was no longer fleeing. "Can you get a read on his position?" He asked all sign of playful banter gone.

I was performing another sensor scan when red turbo laser bolts flashed past causing Obi-wan to once more put the ship into a dive. "I would say that they are behind us. Does this thing have weapons?"

"Forward laser batteries only." He was too busy trying to dodge the blasts to say anything more.

"Well that's useful." I tried but could not help the sarcasm that seeped into my voice, as the ship rocked, some of the blasts, were finding the hull. "Aft shields are down to ten percent. Another direct hit and there gone." No sooner had the words left my mouth that the shields failed and a direct hit was landed.

"There is nothing that we can do about that now." Obi-wan said turning to me immense regret in his eyes. I couldn't help looking back.

"The firing has stopped." I said in surprise, turning back to the control board to try and discover the cause. Was it hoping against hope that they had been destroyed?

"There has to be a reason, they are still out there." Obi-wan's words confirmed what the sensors showed.

"They have launched a torpedo." I said taking a deep breath. I couldn't help feeling that the time for my death had come. No matter how many asteroids we dodged the torpedo just kept coming, it had to be tracking the engines heat signature. I reached my small ladylike hand out to touch Obi-wan's wrist, curling my fingers around it.

"Obi-wan." I said softly. If I was going to die then there was no use hiding my feelings anymore. My last moments would be happy if I could only tell him how much I loved him.

"Sabé, prepare to open the cargo bay door and release anything that is inside, on my mark."

I saw his intention immediately and was shocked that I didn't see such a solution myself. It would only work once though, what were we to do when another was lunched on our tails? I removed my hand from his wrist.

"Now." I opened the doors just long enough for space to pull the containers out before shutting them quickly. They might hamper maneuverability.

"Now what? They will only fire another." I said hoping that he had a plan, and was not disappointed.

"Now, we disappear." With a smirk, he pulled up behind a large asteroid and extended the landing gear.

I sighed softly as I looked once more at the scans. The bounty hunter's ship was moving towards the planet breaking off from the pursuit. It was not difficult, to track his landing plan.

"You do have your moments, you know." I said turning to smile at Obi-wan.

"Thank you, Sabé. Now we just wait for them to land before we continue the pursuit." He said as he leaned back in his seat, looking as calm and collected as if he did this kind of thing everyday. Which come to think of it he probably did.

I on the other hand did not, and I could not believe how close I had come to revealing my feelings. I looking inside my mind to make sure that everything was secure and was pleased to see that it was. I could not help feeling that if I were ever in the same situation I would do the same. To die without him knowing the truth wasn't fair somehow. I could only hope that the situation would not arise again.