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morally_cryptic) wrote2016-11-30 11:21 am
morally_cryptic) wrote2016-11-30 11:21 am
[for fulcra, an AU]
Padme had tried to dissuade him from this and of course she'd made plenty of good points.
You saw the report too, she was reported dead on Mandalore.
Which was true but then...he's seen the report that went out reporting his death in the Jedi Temple so really, how much stock can he really put into that?
They're hunting Jedi still, Anakin and you know Palpatine is hunting you specifically.
Maybe, but Anakin was determined not to live his life in fear of the old man. Not after all of the lies. Not after what he had done and what Anakin had done for him. Let them catch him, he thought a little recklessly, and when they brought him before Palpatine he'd do what he should have done that night in Palpatine's office.
There'd been other arguments given as she tried to convince him not to go on this hunt for someone who was likely dead with no other evidence that Ahsoka was alive save Anakin's conviction that if she weren't, he would know it...feel it in the Force somehow. The only thing Padme hadn't tried was what might be termed the nuclear option: using their children as motivation for him to not leave them.
She might have won the argument with that, at least for the time being, but he would have been hard pressed to forgive her for it.
And so she let him go after extracting from him a promise to send her frequent updates as to his progress...which was really just a way of saying she wanted to not have to worry whether he was lying dead somewhere or captured and being taken to the Emperor.
Privately, Padme wondered if Anakin's determination to track down Ahsoka had as much to do with attempting to assuage his guilt for what had happened in the Jedi Temple as to assuring himself that she was safe.
For Anakin it took a few weeks of chasing vague feelings from the Force and rumors of a Togruta female seen carrying lightsabers (one of those rumors had led him on completely the wrong track and he'd wasted days only to find a Twi'lek trader with stolen lightsabers...suffice to say that trader was no longer in possession of them). Eventually, his path took him to Takodana and Maz Kanata's castle. This tip was supposedly actually good. It had come from Padme, of all people, and though she hadn't said as much in her message he was pretty certain she'd actually gotten it from Organa.
It feels right, too, he thinks as he lands even if he's not getting any more specific feelings about it. For now he'll take it.
When he enters the castle and finds his way to a table, no one gives him much of a second glance...which is just fine by him. The average person who might have known what Anakin Skywalker looked like would be expecting someone with longer hair, Jedi robes, and a prosthetic arm covered with a heavy glove. This Anakin Skywalker has cut his hair, taken up dressing in well-worn spacer gear, and he'd finally gone the route of having his arm covered in synthflesh so to look at him one would never know he'd lost it in the first place. Also, it appears he's got a blaster on his hip instead of a lightsaber.
Sighing, Anakin orders a drink and settles in to wait. The tip hadn't said when she'd be there, just that it was likely to be "soon".
He really hates waiting.
You saw the report too, she was reported dead on Mandalore.
Which was true but then...he's seen the report that went out reporting his death in the Jedi Temple so really, how much stock can he really put into that?
They're hunting Jedi still, Anakin and you know Palpatine is hunting you specifically.
Maybe, but Anakin was determined not to live his life in fear of the old man. Not after all of the lies. Not after what he had done and what Anakin had done for him. Let them catch him, he thought a little recklessly, and when they brought him before Palpatine he'd do what he should have done that night in Palpatine's office.
There'd been other arguments given as she tried to convince him not to go on this hunt for someone who was likely dead with no other evidence that Ahsoka was alive save Anakin's conviction that if she weren't, he would know it...feel it in the Force somehow. The only thing Padme hadn't tried was what might be termed the nuclear option: using their children as motivation for him to not leave them.
She might have won the argument with that, at least for the time being, but he would have been hard pressed to forgive her for it.
And so she let him go after extracting from him a promise to send her frequent updates as to his progress...which was really just a way of saying she wanted to not have to worry whether he was lying dead somewhere or captured and being taken to the Emperor.
Privately, Padme wondered if Anakin's determination to track down Ahsoka had as much to do with attempting to assuage his guilt for what had happened in the Jedi Temple as to assuring himself that she was safe.
For Anakin it took a few weeks of chasing vague feelings from the Force and rumors of a Togruta female seen carrying lightsabers (one of those rumors had led him on completely the wrong track and he'd wasted days only to find a Twi'lek trader with stolen lightsabers...suffice to say that trader was no longer in possession of them). Eventually, his path took him to Takodana and Maz Kanata's castle. This tip was supposedly actually good. It had come from Padme, of all people, and though she hadn't said as much in her message he was pretty certain she'd actually gotten it from Organa.
It feels right, too, he thinks as he lands even if he's not getting any more specific feelings about it. For now he'll take it.
When he enters the castle and finds his way to a table, no one gives him much of a second glance...which is just fine by him. The average person who might have known what Anakin Skywalker looked like would be expecting someone with longer hair, Jedi robes, and a prosthetic arm covered with a heavy glove. This Anakin Skywalker has cut his hair, taken up dressing in well-worn spacer gear, and he'd finally gone the route of having his arm covered in synthflesh so to look at him one would never know he'd lost it in the first place. Also, it appears he's got a blaster on his hip instead of a lightsaber.
Sighing, Anakin orders a drink and settles in to wait. The tip hadn't said when she'd be there, just that it was likely to be "soon".
He really hates waiting.
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"Don't get into trouble without me," Ahsoka says, flashing Anakin a grin as she heads back the way they come in, back to the main room so she can put on her Fulcrum face and see if she can identify just who it is she needs to be meeting. It doesn't take her long to find the woman, a spacer-looking type she disappears into a corner with for nearly half an hour before emerging, giving her contact a nod of farewell as they go their separate ways.
And then she's back to Anakin, heading over to where he's sitting and leaning casually on the table to talk to him.
"Well, that's my work done for the day."
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Anakin raises his still mostly full cup in her direction by way of greeting.
"Doesn't look like too difficult of a job. Must give you a lot of free time," he quips as he stands, leaving the cup on the tabletop. "Want to see my new ship?"
It makes the Twilight look new by comparison. At least from the outside.
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"As for work... Well, some days are easier than others. And I do have to travel a lot."
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Artoo, also, will be thrilled to see her again.
"I bet you're seeing all kinds of exotic places."
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She gives a little shrug, but her attention is around them as they walk, her head up and eyes darting around. Her species has always led her to be inclined to be aware of her surroundings, but she's hyper-vigilant about it now, when her enemies are worse than they were. But when they get to the ship, well, it has her full attention- "Yeah, alright. This looks like yours."
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Which is accompanied by a series of excited trills and beeps.
"Artoo's glad to see you, too."
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"Oh, Artoo, I missed you," she says, earning an excited, heartfelt binary response as she pulls away to beam at the mechanical friend she's missed just as much as she's missed Anakin. "I know, but we're all back together. Everything's gonna be okay."
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Anakin would be the last person to judge if she wants to get sentimental about a droid....particularly when the droid is Artoo. So he just leans against a bulkhead with his arms crossed and watches, a fond expression appearing on his face.
Letting out a dubious tone, the droid sounds momentarily doubtful that 'everything' was going to be okay but he follows it up with a few happy chirps because hey, the team's back together again and that makes things automatically better than before.
"Huh," Anakin says teasingly, "he might be more excited to see you than I was."
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Much like the one she has with Anakin, in her opinion. Strained, stretched, and shrouded, but not broken. She's missed them both dearly. Another pat for the droid and she gets back to her feet, now taking a moment to properly peer into his ship, getting her quips all ready.
"I guess you missed the Twilight, huh?"
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Hence why the bulkheads look in need of a good scrub and the cockpit chairs might be older than both their ages put together.
"Figure if I ever get bored, there's always the Kessel Run."
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"You wouldn't be you if your ship was actually as useless as it looked," she teases. "But you would make a pretty good smuggler."
Especially for the Rebellion. Once she's sure they're safely alone, she'll work up to that.
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Instead he just waves Ahsoka further into the ship and moves to close the ramp behind them so they can go sit down somewhere.
"Though it would be useful for keeping on the move," and they both know how important that's become for their kind.
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"Which comes in handy these days," Ahsoka agrees, finding the table space to sit down at and idly petting Artoo's dome as she relaxes there. "You know, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious about what you've been doing since we last saw one another."
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Anakin sits down across from her and raises his eyebrows, almost teasing, "you could just ask, you know."
But he won't push it, though he will skip a bit. There's a lot between 'since we last saw each other' and 'since I ran the hell away from Coruscant' that he's not sure he wants to get into just yet. Especially not when they've only just found each other again.
"So you know. The war ended and I barely made it off Coruscant alive." With his heavily pregnant secret wife and a few terrified Jedi younglings in tow. "Spent a while just jumping from system to system afraid to stay anywhere too long. But eventually we kind of...had to settle down."
It's possible he means him and Artoo when he says we but Ahsoka's smarter than that.
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So she has to wonder...
"I get the feeling it hasn't just been the two of you all this time."
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[ooc: I don't know if we decided where Obi-Wan went. Maybe he's helping deal with the younglings. 'Skywalker and Kenobi' are likely too noticeable to stay incognito for long.]
"Well," Anakin says slowly, "No, it hasn't been. Sen-"...hell, funny how the old force of habit pops up now. "-Padme came with me when we left Coruscant. She wasn't safe there either, Palpatine-..." he shakes his head sharply, cutting that line of thought off. Dwelling too much on what Palpatine might have done with his children is a good way to completely sidetrack them from this reunion. "And I managed to get a few younglings out of the Temple too."
And before she can ask too many questions about that..."how about you? What happened after Mandalore?"
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Padme. She's not surprised, but she is glad to know that the senator is safe- and that she probably has her friendship with the Organas to thank for Anakin having a hunch of where to find Ahsoka. As for younglings... That just makes her think of Hedala, the little Force sensitive girl she'd left on Thabeska. Maybe Anakin would know what to do about her. Maybe leaving her still is for the best.
"Well, first I had to get off Mandalore," Ahsoka starts dryly, shaking away that brief dark cloud of a thought. Hedala is fine, she reminds herself. "I wound up working as a mechanic, then a pilot. I helped people where I could, but those Force users the Empire has to track down former Jedi are no joke."
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"A mechanic and a pilot, huh? Guess you did learn some things from me after all," he teases.
Because teasing is better than wondering if he'd have been one of those Force users she's referring to. "I've heard rumors about them," he says slowly. "I don't even want to know how he found them." How many had he also taken from the Order? Or had they been disaffected Jedi, perhaps former padawans who'd left before being Knighted?
Anakin is suddenly devoutly thankful that Ahsoka isn't one of them.
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"The first one I encountered couldn't have been much older than you, though, and he wasn't familiar," Ahsoka says, although that doesn't necessarily mean much. She had known plenty of Jedi from the Temple, but almost certainly not all of them. "I don't think he was trained as a Jedi, not from how he fought, but he was undeniably strong in the Force."
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So what if he's a wee bit biased?
But Anakin frowns in thought anyway. Every single Jedi is now an enemy of the Republic. Do what must be done. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy. "They're never going to stop," he says after a moment, "hunting Jedi. Not until they're all gone." They, he says, not we.
"I'm sorry. I probably could have found something more cheerful to talk about. Like....the weather?"
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Instead, she forces a grin.
"That's a pretty good topic. The weather here always seems to be pleasant. Way better than some places I've visited, at least."
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"Might not be a bad place for a longer visit with a family," he muses thoughtfully. Then cocks his head in the general direction of the castle, "well, not in there."
But in general.
Remote enough not to draw much attention and pretty enough for a trip.
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Anakin wrinkles his nose, "well, smuggler is more likely now than Jedi."
Though he's fairly certain even if there still was an Order, he wouldn't have allowed it to take his children. He'd always sort of thought in the back of his mind he might have left it, himself, once the war was over. Then he has to remind himself that that's basically exactly what he did do...in just about as explosive fashion as possible.
"But I doubt Padme would care for that."
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Ahsoka leans forward, her smile less forced as she asks, "How is she, anyway?"
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uggggh, been doing a lot of night shifts sorry
no worries!
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that icon's keyword....i lol'd