Notes:

This fanfic is based on Melanie Martinez´s song "Pacify Her". It basically goes around the idea of Obi-Wan trying to seduce Anakin in order to separate him from Padmé, who is seen as a liability by the Council. The whole story is told by Obi-Wan´s perspective and how his intentions and thoughts change during the seduction. The story is told by parts formed by Past and Present. Needless to say that Obi-Wan, and probably every character here, acts pretty much out of character since I could never fanthom Obi-Wan doing something like this nor Anakin giving Padmé up so easily.

Chapter 1: "Tired, blue boy walks my way, holding a girl´s hand..."

Anakin was seated on one of the sofas when he arrived at his quarters. Obi-Wan have felt the presence of the younger man before he even entered the room, he could have almost smelt his anxiety from three halls down. Knowing all of that, Obi-Wan still faked surprise at the sight of the blond Jedi´s presence.

"Anakin?" he enquired lifting an eyebrow "To what do I owe the honor of your presence?"

The Knight didn´t even dare to look up at him, he was too busy playing with his nervous hands, lost inside his own head.

Obi-Wan tilted his own head at the pitiful image that his ex-apprentice made, fidgeting with his limbs like a child who was caught taking a cookie from the jar. Although, with Anakin, that was usually the case.

"Is there something wrong?" Obi-Wan asked, making his way to the kitchen to pour himself some tea.

Anakin didn´t answer again; the Jedi Master could barely hear him now. The red haired man didn´t bother to pressure the young warrior to give him an answer as he usually did back in the day, Obi-Wan was too tired to pretend he cared for any of Anakin´s antics at this time of the day; it was late, and he has been busy all day with meetings and running around trying to counsel Senators and other Jedi, his body was sore and his mind was almost blank, whatever it is that Anakin wanted to discuss, it could wait a couple of hours.

While the bearded man poured some of his precious tea inside of his favorite cup, the soft sound of clothes made Obi-Wan raise his eyes to stare at his partner standing at the entrance of the kitchen, looking at him with a mixture of anger, desire and frustration.

"Oh, here we go again…" Obi-Wan thought.

Anakin did this more times that he could count, but the boy hardly noticed it himself. Obi-Wan, in the other hand, noticed it every time. Anakin was a difficult person, and a horrendous Jedi; he could not, for his life, follow a simple set of rules, he had this undeniable need to break them; Obi-Wan was used to this for the younger man´s Padawan days but the little rebellious boy have grown into a dashing daring young man who was passionate and giving, desperate to own and feel. All those things the Jedi Code forbid. To the likes of Mace Windu and the other Masters this was irritating, to Obi-Wan it was amusing.

And Anakin eyes only gleamed that particular way when he wanted something bad. Obi-Wan had long time ago stopped trying to keep those desires in line; now a days, he just ran with it and then feign indignation when the whole ordeal was over. And if Anakin thought that Obi-Wan hadn´t noticed that those blue stormy eyes full with need, the same need he shows when in battle, the same need that he shows at the mention of certain Senator´s name, the same need that he shows when he gets to see a pod race, were the same eyes he gives at Obi-Wan when he thinks he isn´t looking, then the boy is even more of a fool than the Jedi Master ever thought.

Anakin wanted the Jedi Master so much that it was palpable in the Force, and it made Obi-Wan laughed inside the confines of his mind.

"Is there a problem, Anakin?" the Jedi Master ponders innocently, taking a delicate sip from his cup.

"Obi-Wan…" Anakin practically growls.

"Oh, this is interesting" Obi-Wan thinks to his insides, Anakin has shown this kind of intention before but he had never dared to do more than just looking, it seems that he was ready to get into action.

"Obi-Wan, there is something I need to tell you" the tall man confesses, clenching his hands into fists and taking a couple of steps in his direction.

"Yes?" Obi-Wan enquires.

Anakin falls suddenly silent. For all of the boy´s previous intent, the words quickly evaporate from his mouth at the prospect of actually express them. The Knight bites his inferior lip nervously, turning his eyes at the floor in an act of shame.

Obi-Wan almost rolls his eyes at this. "So close." He thinks. The Jedi Master knows exactly what the Knight its thinking. He is thinking of her. Her, also known as Padmé Amidala, is Anakin´s no-so-secret lover. The boy wants to let his ex-Master know his desire for him but the memory of that basic bitch, as Obi-Wan likes to secretly calls her, appears in his mind like a Force-damned ghost. That woman, who acts so softly and kind and it´s so insignificant to even make the effort to mention, has smuggled her way between Obi-Wan´s and Anakin´s relationship from the very start, and now she is an ever present shadow whenever they go and it´s most annoying.

"Anakin, what is it?"

The blond haired man just looks at him with insecurity.

"So pathetic." Obi-Wan thinks. With a small smile he decides to help him, putting a hand over his where it lies on the counter. Trying to appear reassuring, but subtly being flirty.

"You know you can tell me anything, Anakin" Obi-Wan reminds him with a flutter of his lashes.

"Master, I…" Anakin interrupts himself to look at the older man´s lips. He looks like a possessed man, to Obi-Wan he just seems a pathetic dog, so to embarrass him further he licks his lips slowly, seductively, just enough to get him started but making sure the movements appear involuntary, innocent.

Anakin falls for it like a child, following the motion of the tongue as if his life depended on it. Obi-Wan has to force himself not to chuckle.

"Anakin, really, I´m tired" he tells him, and it´s true. He is too tired for this, too tired to deal with Anakin´s inexperience and childish apprehension, he is not interested in getting his way with his ex-apprentice if he was going to be so clumsy about it. "Can this wait for another time?" he pleads to him.

Anakin takes the offering in a heartbeat.

"Yes! Of course, Master!" the Knight accepts, eyes shining with relief.

"Fine. Then, with your permission, I will be retiring, I trust you know your way out?" he enquires in a playful manner, putting his now empty cup in the sink and starting to walk away.

"Yeah, sure. See you tomorrow, Master!" Anakin says as he rushes out of Obi-Wan´s apartment.

Once the front of the door hisses closed, Obi-Wan allows a dry laugh to escape.

"Stupid boy…"

"We have to do something about Skywalker´s and Senator Amidala´s relationship" Mace says with obvious discomfort.

Master Yoda, Master Windu and Obi-Wan are currently seated inside the Council Chambers, they were there to discuss the war, but once that such topic was over with, the Vaapad Master seemed interested into talk about Kenobi´s ex-apprentice.

"What do you mean, Mace?" Obi-Wan asks, genuinely perplex by the topic of conversation.

"I think it´s obvious, Obi-Wan" Mace tells him "Everybody in this galaxy knows about the relationship between Anakin and the Senator of Naboo. It´s outrageous."

Obi-Wan only lifts one of his eyebrows in response.

"Hmm. Prone to attachments, young Skywalker has always being." Yoda adds, sighing with a tired look that Obi-Wan has rarely seen before on his face.

"I think it might be too late to do something about it" Obi-Wan warns honestly. "They have been involved since the beginning of the Clone Wars, and Anakin has been infatuated with her since he was a child. He will not give her up that easily."

"Something, we must do, regardless." Yoda corrects him, looking at him with a strange gleam in his eyes that Mace doesn´t quite catches but that Obi-Wan more than anything understands.

"That boy is too set in his ways" Mace laments, putting a hand on his forehead in search of patience "and meanwhile we are the laughing stock of the Republic, the Senate talks about it more often than not and it´s a matter of time before it´s all over the holo-news."

Obi-Wan stares at the dark skinned man and feels pity for him, Mace has too many responsibilities within the Order and Anakin surely gives him more preoccupations than he can handle, more than all the other Knights combined for sure.

"But if you say that he cannot be swayed, what it's there for us to do?" Mace huffs looking back at Obi-Wan´s direction. "He is the chosen one, we cannot simply expel him from the Order but we cannot also permit this disregard of the rules to continue…"

Obi-Wan quickly sets his eyes back at Yoda, the green Master is already staring at him with the same gleam that Obi-Wan was able to detect some minutes ago. Obi-Wan got his answer right then.

"Do not worry, Mace" he reassures him with a soft smile "I have an idea."