The four took a transport to the Senate building. Grim sat next to Obi-Wan, resting a head on his shoulder. Obi-Wan smiled at her. "Tired already?" he teased.

"Saving the day when you've seen it can be tiring," replied Grim. Her eyes were half closed and she seemed ready to fall asleep.

"You can take a nap after we've made our report to the Council," Obi-Wan told her. He furrowed his brows. "Did you say you've seen this?"

"And the following, I'll explain to the rest of the Council after our report," she told him.

When they arrived at the senate, Grim got up and so did Obi-Wan and Anakin.

Palpatine already left to speak with people.

Anakin was at the steps when he turned around to see the Master and Padawan weren't with him. "Are you coming?" he asked the two.

"Oh, no. I'm not brave enough for politics," Obi-Wan replied, leaning on the door. "I have to report to the Council."

Grim was leaning on the other side. "Besides, I think there's someone you might want to talk to without Master Kenobi and I around," she added with a smug smile.

The smallest hint of blush was visible on Anakin's cheeks for just a small moment. "I have no idea what you're implying, Grim," he told her.

Grim laughed, "if you say so Skywalker."

"Anakin, let's be fair, you were a hero today, and you deserve your glorious day among the politicians," Obi-Wan told him.

"All right. But you owe me one, and not just for saving your skin for the tenth time," Anakin agreed.

"Ninth time," corrected Obi-Wan. "That business on Cato Neimoidia doesn't- doesn't count."

Grim laughed. "We'll see you at the briefing, Skywalker."

With that the two Jedi went back into the transport as it took them to the Jedi Temple. Grim took in the beauty of Coruscant as they headed to the Temple with a mixed sorrowful expression.

Obi-Wan noticed. "What's bothering you Grim?" he asked her.

"You'll know with the rest of the Council," she told him.

Obi-Wan put a hand on her shoulder and they watched the scenery pass them by together.

When they arrived at the Temple, Master Yoda was waiting for them. Grim and Obi-Wan exited the transport and Yoda approached them. "Good to see you again, it is, Master Kenobi, Padawan Kennet."

Grim smiled and bowed slightly. "It's good to see you as well, Master Yoda. After Master Kenobi and I's mission report, I have something to speak of with the Council of my own."

Yoda tilted his head curiously, "of course, young Kennet. Of great importance I sense it is."

"Yes, Master, it is," she admitted.

The three Jedi reached the Council Chambers and entered. Yoda took his seat.

As Grim looked around she had a slight frown, over the years the chambers had emptied more and more. In fact, she had a moment of realization that even when she had joined the Order many of the Jedi were there through holograms.

Now there was even less. It saddened the padawan slightly.

The Council waited for Obi-Wan to begin his report on the events that transpired while they had rescued the chancellor.

Once Obi-Wan and Grim had finished their report, Grim spoke up.

"And there's something else," said Grim. Everyone returned their gaze to Grim. "When you first welcomed me into the Order I had told you that there are things I wished to prevent. Some of those events have passed, but with very little changes, if there were any at all. The main thing that I wish to stop is upon us. It started to unfold the moment the Chancellor was captured. But then again, in all reality, it had started long before I was brought into this story. I fear that I may not be able to stop it."

The Council exchanged looks and Grim's vague words. "The event speak of you do, share will you, what it may be?" Yoda asked.

"The destruction of the Jedi Order, and the fall of the Republic," Grim replied, calmly. She nearly sounded resigned.

"And how would that happen?" Master Mundi inquired. "You should not attempt to prevent this alone. This is something that concerns all of us."

Grim was quiet for a long moment. Tears filled her eyes, and in a sudden burst of fear she ran out of the Council Chambers.

"Grim!" Obi-Wan called after her.

But Grim was already gone.

That night, Anakin was not the only one who dreamt of death.

Grim was not one for visions. Despite what she told other Jedi as an excuse. The padawan wasn't even sure if it was truly a vision. Especially when she already knew how it happened.

Her dream was full of blasterfire. Not from droids, but from the clones she saw as family. She didn't see anybody dying, because she didn't need to. She already knew. One phrase echoed throughout her mind.

"Execute Order 66."

She woke up with a jolt, and tears in her eyes. Fearing for when she would hear the words in real life.

The following day Grim decided to talk with Yoda.

Grim knocked softly. "Master Yoda?" she called. "May I speak with you?"

Yoda opened the door, and looked up at the padawan. "Of course, young Grim. Come in, come in."

He walked back in the room and the padawan followed him inside. He used the Force to set up two cushions, he sat on one and gestured for Grim to sit across from him. Once she was comfortably seated Yoda asked, "Wish to speak with me, on what matter? What is it that troubles you?"

The padawan fiddled with her braid nervously as she spoke. "What I told the Council, I want to expand more on it, but I'm afraid," she admitted.

"Understandable is your fear, little one," Yoda told her. "Concerning it is, what you shared with the Council. Listening I am."

What Yoda said was true, what Grim had shared with the Council was disturbing news that unsettled every Master present. They had discussed what she had shared even after Grim had stormed out of the room in a hazy fog of fear. The dark side clouded them all.

Grim sighed. "The events I want to stop, the ones that lead to our destruction. They have already begun. The ending is beginning and I'm afraid it shall stay the same. Dooku's death was only another step. Sidious is without an apprentice but not without a plan. He needs a new one, and he already does, except his next apprentice doesn't know," Grim confessed.

Yoda was quiet for a moment, considering her words. Grim had just confirmed the roles of the Sith. The Council had been wrong, Dooku had not been the Master, that role had fallen to Sidious. "Already after his next apprentice, Sidious is?" he asked.

A broken hopeless sort of chuckle came from Grim. "Master, Dooku was only a placeholder; he already knows his next victim, he's been after him for years." She froze as the realization hit her. "Before I appeared here..." Her eyes widened with terror. "How was I ever meant to change things years in the making? What if it's already too late? What if I fail?"

Yoda placed a gentle three-clawed hand on her knee. "Young one, listen to me," he said. She nodded and looked at him with emerald eyes that shone with tears. Yoda saw Grim as she really was and had been for months, a lost child who was searching for guidance. "Always in motion the future is. Know this well you do, changed things before you have."

"And what if that wasn't enough? What if the ending stays the same?" Grim asked him. "I made a promise to you and all the others on the Council, if I fail-"

"Keep that promise you still do," Yoda replied. "Save everyone you can not, save everyone your promise was not. Save as many lives as possible you said, save as many lives as possible is what a Jedi does. Let go of your fear you must, alone you are not. Saved lives already you have. Forget this do you?"

Grim smiled and wrapped her arms around Yoda. "Thank you, Master Yoda. I needed to hear that. I won't fail you."

"Here for you I am, little one. Alone you are not."

Grim left the meditation chamber feeling calmer and more hopeful. She was glad she decided to open up more about what it was that bothered her - even if again she didn't explain how the Jedi would be destroyed. She found discussing it with Yoda to be more helpful.

As she was walking back, she noticed Anakin heading in the same direction she was to speak with Master Yoda.

Grim paused and pursed her lips together.

Is it that scene already? She thought. Surely the movie is longer than this in actual time?

How much longer do I have left?

How much longer do the Jedi have left?

Anakin noticed Grim, she seemed anxious. He's noticed that she has often been so, for the past few months now.

Even more since they were called to save the Chancellor.

She seemed to be even more anxious whenever she was around him.

Almost like she was afraid of him.

"Hey Grim, is everything alright?" Anakin asked her.

"It was," she replied. Without another word, she walked away to find Obi-Wan. Not wishing to miss the briefing on the Outer Rim Sieges.

Grim stood next to Obi-Wan as the other Jedi talked. She had nothing to add and mostly her worries drowned out their voices as the report on the sieges of the Outer Rim went on.

She kept thinking about what Anakin had done to Dooku. It wasn't the same as watching it on a screen. The movie didn't capture the darkness that showed its true face. Grim did. Grim was the only witness to the darkness inside of the Sith Lords.

It had been terrifying to see the true faces when both had worn a mask. Except Anakin's had fallen for a moment, and Grim saw inside him. He was already gone. He had been since the beginning.

The dispersing Jedi brought her back to the moment. It seemed the report was over. Obi-Wan and her were the only Jedi left in the War Room. "You were lost in your thoughts again, Padawan," Obi-Wan said as he began to turn off the starcharts and holomaps, it wasn't a question, it had been an observation.

"I apologize, Master. I was just thinking about what transpired when we rescued the Chancellor," she explained. She shrugged her shoulders hoping that her worries hadn't shown.

Anakin entered the room. Grim felt the energy shift as he did. She wondered if Obi-Wan sensed it too.

Anakin's storm of fear had winds that hit her. Or was that just because she knew, and because she was afraid too? Anakin's presence in the room also caused her to suddenly tense up. Her mind saw someone else. Her mind could only see Vader. Anakin was only a ghost.

If Obi-Wan noticed anything wrong about either of his padawans he said nothing about it. Instead he saw Anakin and simply said, "you missed the report on the Outer Rim sieges."

"I'm sorry, I was held up. I have no excuse," Anakin replied.

"In short, they are going very well. Salecami has fallen, and Master Vos has moved his troops to Boz Pity," Obi-Wan summarized.

Anakin felt the unease of his former Master. "What's wrong then?"

"The Senate is expected to vote more executive powers to the Chancellor today," Obi-Wan answered.

"Well that can only mean less deliberating and more action. It will make it easier for us to end this war!" replied Anakin, with enthusiasm.

Grim let out a rueful laugh.

Startled Anakin turned to her, he hadn't noticed the Padawan behind Obi-Wan. She looked up at him and shook her head. When she spoke there was a sorrowful weight behind her words, as if she knew more and already grieved. "If only it was so easy, Skywalker."

Anakin looked at Grim confused. What did she mean, and why did she say it like that?

Even though it had become harder to understand Grim the more they had drifted apart he could still detect the fact there was a deeper knowing meaning behind what she said.

Which made him angry. Why did she act like this? Like she knew more than anyone else and was just dangling the information above their heads, tauntingly.

Obi-Wan could sense the tension between his former and current padawans and spoke hoping to stop the argument before it began. "Anakin, be careful of your friend, Palpatine."

"Be careful of what?" asked Anakin.

Grim scoffed. "Everything."

Obi-Wan gave Grim a disapproving look. She went quiet. He turned his attention back to Anakin. "He has requested your presence."

"What for?"

"He would not say."

"He didn't inform the Council? That's unusual isn't it?"

"Everything is," said Grim, as if the reason was supposed to be obvious to everyone else.

Anakin had enough of Grim's attitude. "You know Kennet, it's obvious you don't trust the Chancellor. Or even me for that matter. What is with all of your distrust?" He demanded. He then turned to Obi-Wan, with the same anger. "With everyone's distrust?"

Another scoff from Grim. She walked towards him and crossed her arms. She looked directly up at him, and got on the tips of her toes to try and get some extra height. "If you could only begin to understand the full scope of what I know, Skywalker. I have a good many reasons for my distrust."

Anakin looked down at her. Not breaking from her gaze, she was hardly intimidating when she tried to be. If anything she reminded the Jedi of an angry tooka kitten.

He took a step closer to her. "And what exactly are those reasons, Grim?" He demanded to know.

He was sick of this behavior from the Padawan. She always acted as if she was better than him, as if just because she somehow knew his secrets it magically made her any better.

Grim didn't back down when the older Jedi matched her. She just scoffed and gave a smile with no joy. There was anger in her as well. Their anger seemed to match. "If only you knew."

Anakin almost laughed at her response. "Yeah, that's why I'm asking! What is it that you know that makes you better than everyone else anyways?!"

"Anakin! Grim! That's enough!" shouted Obi-Wan, intervening in their argument.

The two Jedi ignored their Master.

Grim took another step closer to Anakin, there was barely any space between the two. "What I know doesn't make me better, what I know haunts me for every moment I exist. What I know allows me to see things, and when I see the wrong person in the wrong time it is terrifying. I'm not better than anyone Skywalker, I just know who is better to trust," Grim told him, her voice quieter now.

Anakin noticed the beginning of tears forming in her eyes. He didn't care. He was too angry to.

"And I'm not better to trust?" Anakin asked her, not demanding, but hurt and angry.

Another sad laugh from the padawan. "You never have been."

"Do you find this amusing, Grim?" He was demanding answers again.

"Far from it," she replied.

"You sure are laughing a lot for someone who doesn't."

"My only other option is to mourn while we still live," Grim replied with a quiet voice.

Anakin was taken aback by her mysterious response. He didn't show it, and he didn't budge. "Mourn what? What is it you know that we don't?"

She shook her head with more laughter and a sad smile. "Everything."

Tears were falling now.

He didn't care.

"You're only a padawan you don't know everything, and if there's something you know you should tell people. You're just a child Grim," Anakin told her.

"Remember that when you steal everything from us," she told him. Then before Anakin could respond or Obi-Wan could interfere again the padawan marched out of the room, shoving Anakin out of the way as she did.

"What was she talking about?" Anakin asked.

"Anakin, Grim has been having a hard time, we all have," Obi-Wan told him. "This war has taken a toll on all of us."

"But with Dooku dead the war is going to end soon, it has to!" Anakin said.

"I think that's what she's afraid of," said Obi-Wan.

"Why? This is in our favor," said Anakin, he was left confused about the Padawan. "What did she mean her only other option was to mourn everything?"

"I can't speak for her, and you shouldn't keep the Chancellor waiting."

Anakin nodded. "Right."

Grim found an empty training room.

She set up a training remote. She turned it on, closed her eyes and activated her lightsaber. Then she sunk into the Force and allowed it to be her guide. As she deflected the shots from the remote she let herself go, releasing her fears. With every bolt she deflected she felt more at peace.

Having calmed herself she set up a different training simulation, the one that had been created to help train against the droids.

As she trained and released all the fear and anger inside of her, Grim didn't notice the other Jedi entering the room.

Younger padawans coming and sitting down on the benches with their Masters as they watched Grim effortlessly train with ease.

She didn't notice her Master entering, and how he watched her with a proud smile.

She didn't notice Yoda or Windu either.

All her focus was on defeating the remotes. After she had, she smiled.

That was when she noticed all of the people who had stopped to watch her. "Oh," she said before laughing a little. "Hello there."

Grim had forgotten that she drew attention sometimes. Obi-Wan's fame usually cast a shadow on her, but at the Temple everyone was a community.

Ahsoka had also experienced this as Anakin's padawan.

Although rumors were not something among the Jedi, younger padawans did engage in gossip sometimes and she remembered back when she had gotten her scars on her face and later on her shoulder she had noticed some younger padawans staring at her.

It didn't bother her.

Neither did this now.

She just smiled at her family. Then as if performing a show, Grim set up another round. This time she added several more remotes then what was recommended. She heard several people murmur questions, asking what she was doing.

The answer was that she was preparing for Order 66. She was terrified of it. She wanted to stop it, she had spent years working towards it, but now there was no time left. She could only hope she had done enough.

She started this simulation purposefully. Her back turned to the remotes, knowing her back would be to the clones when it started. She gave the remotes a second and then she turned and began deflecting the shots they sent at her.

She started stationary, and then, knowing that were the real event to happen the only way to survive was to escape, she began to move around the room, as she defended against the remotes.

She let herself go in the Force. It guided her. She searched for openings, and exploited them. Ten minutes later she ended the simulation. She hadn't defeated all the remotes but she had escaped their range and that was her goal.

Order 66 would be harder, it would be unpredictable even for her. The one advantage she had was that she knew it was coming.

That didn't ensure her survival.

She didn't know where she'd be when it happened, she assumed she would be with Master Kenobi, or he might decide that hunting Grievous was too dangerous for a padawan and want her to stay at the Temple. That wouldn't be much safer, she didn't know anyone who survived the Temple.

And Anakin would be there.

She shook herself out of her thoughts and looked to see that even more spectators had gathered during her unusual display. She smiled at them, but with a hint of sadness that could only be caught by those who knew Grim well enough.

She searched the crowd for Obi-Wan having noticed him with Yoda and Windu earlier, but she couldn't spot any of them.

Oh right, Anakin had that meeting with Palpatine, which meant he was joining the Council now. They were probably discussing it now.

Grim gave a small bow to the older Jedi who had followed their eager young padawans and left the room.

She knew she had been right when she caught Obi-Wan and Anakin leaving the Council chambers. She found herself spying on the two older Jedi.

"-put me on the Council and not make me a Master? It's never been done in the history of the Jedi. It's insulting!" Anakin was complaining.

"Oh, calm down Anakin. You have been given a great honor," Obi-Wan told him. "To be on the Council at your age- it's never happened before." He lowered his voice, and Grim snuck closer. "The fact of the matter is that you're close to the Chancellor. The Council doesn't like it when he interferes in Jedi affairs."

"I swear to you, I didn't ask to be put on the Council."

"But it's what you wanted. Your friendship with Chancellor Palpatine seems to have paid off."

"That has nothing to do with this."

"The only reason the Council has approved your appointment is because the Chancellor trusts you."

"And?"

"Anakin, I am on your side. I didn't want to put you in this situation."

"What situation?"

"The Council wants you to report on the Chancellor's dealings. They want to know what he's up to."

They walked to a window, and Grim hid behind a small half-wall next to it.

"They want me to spy on the Chancellor?" Anakin asked. "But that's treason."

"We are at war, Anakin."

Anakin looked away in thought, and noticed Grim, who was trying to move closer to hear better. "Grim!" he exclaimed.

Obi-Wan turned around and noticed Grim. "Padawan, what are you doing here?"

"I happened to overhear-"

"You mean you were spying on Master Kenobi and I," Anakin corrected. "Since you know everything, did you know about this assignment too?"

"Anakin..." Obi-Wan said, warningly.

"I'm not on the Council so how could I have?" Grim asked him.

"No, you're not. Yet you did know."

"And if I did?"

"How do you?"

"There's no way, so I didn't."

"You said you know everything."

"I said I know everything you don't, as you know, how could I?"

"Because I didn't know until now."

"True, and I did say that when you didn't know. Implying I knew. Except what logical reason could you have for believing I would know?"

"None, and yet you knew."

"Do you have proof? Perhaps I just learned at the same time as you."

"Grim, that's enough," said Obi-Wan.

"You're right, Master. I apologize. If you need me I will be in the gardens."