Star Wars fic: "Queen's Gambit" (2: Cat and Mouse)

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Queen's Gambit (17885 words) by bedlamsbard
Chapters: 3/?
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Dooku (Star Wars), Palpatine | Darth Sidious, Mace Windu, Yoda, Bail Organa
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Parallel Universes
Series: Part 2 of Ouroboros
Summary:

Civil war threatens the galaxy. Hundreds of star systems have declared their intentions to leave the Republic and form a Confederacy of Independent Systems.

In the hopes of securing a quick peace, the Jedi Council has dispatched two Jedi to capture or kill the leaders of the separatist movement, Queen Amidala of Naboo and her lover, the former Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Into this period of conflict have come four refugees from another universe, fleeing a devastating massacre triggered by the death of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, secretly the Sith lord Darth Sidious, at the hands of Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker…

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Bail Organa paused in the doorway of his office, looking back at it. Alderaan, as one of the oldest systems in the Republic, rated offices in the Senate Building itself, rather than being shuffled off to the Senate Annex or the Overflow Offices. Bail was only the latest in a very long line of Alderaanian senators to occupy this suite.

He might very well be the last.

He let the door slide shut, then activated the security system and went to join his bodyguards and his aides, who were waiting in the anteroom. All the art had been taken off the room’s walls, the imported furniture covered with plastic sheeting. Bail had brought it with him from Alderaan when he’d come to replace the previous senator, but unlike the art and his files, there was no way to get it out of the office without alerting the Senate Guard, who were undoubtedly reporting straight back to Dooku. Alderaan’s junior representative had already departed Coruscant a few days ago, under the pretext of a family emergency.

His bodyguards – all members of the Alderaan Royal Guard, rather than Senate Blues – waited patiently. Bail looked around the room, taking in everything he had spent the past ten years working for, and then said, “All right. I’m ready. Let’s go.”