morally_cryptic: (undercover: skepticism for days)
Anakin Skywalker ([personal profile] morally_cryptic) wrote2016-11-30 11:21 am

[for [personal profile] 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.
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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-05 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
She lets Artoo lead her in, sensing that the droid is about as eager to leave her side now as she is his. Now that she's with them both again, Ahsoka's already mentally putting off all the things she'll need to do once they part again. For now, she has this and she's cherishing it.

"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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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-07 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
"We?" Ahsoka echoes, curious about the weight of the word. It seems like more than just the two of them and besides, it only being Anakin and Artoo on the run together leaves some people out of the picture. Her first thought it Obi-Wan, the person she's always associated first and foremost with her former master. But there was no way Obi-Wan would let Anakin wander around chasing leads on Ahsoka without him. They would have found her together.

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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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-08 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
( ooc: i'm down for him working on hiding younglings! maybe they're mostly staying radio silent for safety reasons? )

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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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-08 09:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe..." She pauses, shaking her head. Even though she'd been doing her best not to think about the Inquisitors in any context outside of keeping herself well away from them, Anakin is the first person she's seen in all this time that she actually can talk about them to. Her speculations would only have worried the other rebels.

"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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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-09 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
The Inquisitor had felt like a match for her, until she'd resolved herself to winning that fight, not just for her friends, but for those crystals that felt rightfully hers. But she's not going to voice that doubt in herself to Anakin; he believes in her too much for her to let him down.

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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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-09 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, maybe if you wanted to raise your family to be smugglers," Ahsoka quips lightly, a hypothetical situation. Even if Anakin did have kids at some point, she was the last person allowed to call anyone out on being a pilot of questionable legality these days.
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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-09 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Probably not." Better not to comment on the Jedi business. They're both far away from that now.

Ahsoka leans forward, her smile less forced as she asks, "How is she, anyway?"
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[personal profile] fulcra 2016-12-25 09:54 am (UTC)(link)
There's a second where she almost agrees out of happy, relieved instinct. Then there's a second of insecurity and paranoia. And then- "We'll see how things play out."

Because what if two Force users in the same place puts Padme in unnecessary danger? What if there's some reason that Bail hasn't recruited her into his blossoming rebellion yet? How many things could possibly go wrong?

"But I'm really glad to know you're both alright. I... feared the worst."
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[personal profile] fulcra 2017-01-07 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
"I can imagine," she replies softly and honestly. On Mandalore, once she knew that Rex could get away and take care of himself, she'd only had herself to worry about. Padme was as capable as politicians came, but if she and Anakin had been in different places on Coruscant when the chaos broke it, it couldn't have been easy.

"You didn't feel-" It didn't feel the same, Ahsoka wants to say of their connection, the one weathered by Barriss's betrayal and Ahsoka's decision to leave the Order, but one she'd still been able to feel when she'd left for the mission on Mandalore. She shakes her head, allowing herself a moment of being the uncertain young student she was to him not too long ago while she sorts out her words. "I couldn't reach out to you. And maybe it was safer that way, but I didn't think you were still alive, Anakin. I thought you were gone."
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[personal profile] fulcra 2017-01-11 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
That explains a lot, Ahsoka realizes with a little pang of heartache. It's why he had felt further from her than ever before, why there's this feeling about him that she had been attributing to the general bleakness of the contemporary galaxy.

"That couldn't have been easy," she says, but doesn't clarify if she's talking about Palpatine asking him or him walking away. "But I'm glad that you didn't, for what it's worth."
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[personal profile] fulcra 2017-01-21 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
"You... What?" It doesn't feel like Anakin is lying, but those words don't sound like they could be true, either. She stares at him a moment, face scrunched in confusion as she tries to reach out to him with the Force, leaning on the bond forged through training together for so long.

"Why?"
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no worries!

[personal profile] fulcra 2017-02-07 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ahsoka doesn't mean to freeze up like this. She just... sort of does, that stark stillness of a predator that seems unnatural among humans. But she doesn't know what to say, doesn't even know what to think here. She doesn't want to believe that, even as she knows that she has to.

"But the Temple was a place of peace, I- Anakin," she breathes out finally, shaking her head, gaze dropping to the table. "I can't believe... What did he say to you? What made you do that?"

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