Anakin paced slightly as the doctor was finishing Ahsoka's exam. He wished she could just be done he needed to know if something was wrong with her. Lately she had been having odd spasms and he'd wake up to hear her screaming and panting in the next room. At first he thought they were force related but Yoda has never heard of anything like it and had recommended this doctor for her.
Ahsoka had been in there for nearly two hours when finally the doctor came out with a grimblook on his face. Anakin sensed the tension in the room and decided to break the silence. "well?" he asked.
The doctor hesitated, then answered,
"I'm afraid due to her overexposure to noise, pollution, severe radioactivity, and tremendous stress, she... well she... she has a disease"
"What?" Anakin said, not intending to sound violent but his voice came out rough and irritated.
"She has at most one week left. I'm sorry"
They stood in there for a moment as Anakin was slapped in the face by the sudden realization of his cocky, stubborn Padawan dying of a disease. It certainly wasn't the noble death she had always wished for on the battlefield. He couldn't begin to imagine it, Ahsoka was so strong, what would he do without her, he knew he shouldn't blame himself, but who else was there to blame?
As Anakin sighed heavily he realized he had been thinking deeply for over 3 minutes. The doctor spoke again.
"She will be transported to a more permanent hospital to... er ... await further development. She does not yet know about the illness, would you like to be the one to tell her?"
Anakin glanced at the door.
"No need, she was eavesdropping the whole time." And sure enough, when they opened the door, Ahsoka tumbled to the floor, her ear still pressed against the wall.
He looked at her, and she at him, each aware of the tears in the other's eyes but not aware of the tears on their own. He embraced her, breaking the tension of the room. They knelt on the floor hugging for what seemed like hours, you could feel the unspoken grief in the room.
Anakin was finally asked to exit as they transported Ahsoka to a hospital on a remote world in the outer rim. Anakin went straight home, but Padme and Obi Wan were already in his quarters.
"Anakin, we know what happened, I'm so sorry" Obi Wan said. Anakin sat down in between them and put his head in his hands as Padme rubbed circles on his back soothingly. Obi Wan continued to try to comfort him.
"Dont think about it as a life lost. Think of all the lives she saved as a jedi, hundreds would have lost their lives without her."
"That's all anything ever is to you, a statistic. Do you even care about her? And think of all the lives she could have saved." Anakin said quickly and harshly.
"Anakin, we know this isn't what you wanted, and we know this isn't the death she would consider noble..." Padme said softly. Then she suddenly stood up and began to speak in a much harsher tone.
"But you have to pull yourself together, for her sake and for yours. She doesn't want to hear on her deathbed that her master was disappointed and erupting in anger issues. So you had better give her the happiest days of her life because Anakin I swear you do not want her to die more worried than she already is. So you understand?!" Padme screamed as the two men stood staring at her in awe and disbelief.
"Now go to bed, both of you and first thing tomorrow we are going to visit her and taking Lux, ok?"
The Jedi followed her orders without hesitation as she stormed off to her own quarters. Anakin cried himself to sleep that night.
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