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Prologue:

After Ahsoka left the Jedi Order she went to Lux. They found a little house on a random planet and lived there together. Everything seemed greatly, they lived in peace without Sith Lords, Separatists and battle droids, without war. Just in peace and Ahsoka did really like Lux, she might even loved him...

A few years later three Jedi Generals were going on a mission. It wasn't special, just like every other day in their life. The generals were Obi-Wan Kenobi, Plo Koon and Anakin Skywalker. After his former Padawan had left him, Anakin wasn't the same anymore. He kind of lost the trust in the Jedi. He wasn't in the temple that often anymore, as soon as he came home to Coruscant from a mission, he went to Padme straight away. His former master noticed that and tried to comfort him, but to no effect. Anyway the mission was on Coruscant, so they hadn't a long way to go there. They were going to a building in the less rich part of the city, because the Jedi believed there was information which will bring them victory about the still lasting Clone Wars.

Chapter 1:

They ran into it, into the old building which stood in the middle of nowhere. The building looked pretty old and it had some flaws. The door was open, so it was easy to get inside. Inside they came along a hallway and checked each room for something, someone, anything this trip was worth it, but they haven't found something or someone yet. They got an anonymous tip for this pace, but it hadn't something remarkable in it...yet. They couldn't find something on the main floor. Well, you can't say it like this because the generals sensed a strong presence of the dark side even if 'it' blurred his imprints. That's the reason why they couldn't locate 'it' and it's also the reason why they didn't even know what they were looking for. They came downstairs to the next floor and the longer they went along this hallway the more they could sense another creature in there. It was something familiar, but also something they haven't sensed in a too long time. Normally the person is stronger in the force, but what they sensed now was just a little blade of grass in a big meadow. The generals split up and each one went with a few clones to check the rest of the rooms. One of the three groups, leaded by Anakin Skywalker, one of the best Jedi ever, came closer to the last room and the place the familiar force signature came from.

Two clones opened the door after Skywalker had ordered them to do so. As the door had opened they got in, the blasters ready to shoot and Skywalkers lightsaber ignited, but as they saw her they were unable to do anything. They just stood there in shock. In one edge of the little room she laid unconscious on the cold floor. Skywalker turned his lightsaber off and the clones dropped their weapons. Skywalker ran to his former Padawan. He sat on the cold floor, leaned against the mold-infested wall and he held her in his arms.

"We need a corpsman! Immediately!" he yelled at his troopers. The captain of the company called the other companies with his wrist communicator, because they had corpsmen with them. Ahsoka, the former Padawan, laid still in his arms and was still unconscious when the others came. The Jedi Plo Koon and Obi-Wan Kenobi kneed down next to them and laid Ahsoka on the ground, so the corpsmen could check on her.

"She needs to get out of here, she needs medical treatment or she will die." one of the clones said and gave her an oxygen mask. They put her on a stretcher and three clones convoyed her outside.

They brought her to the ship and Skywalker asked his friend and former master. "Did you find anything else?" while he stood up and watched the clones leaving with Ahsoka.

"No, the other rooms were empty, but a ship started just before we arrived at the landing field." Kenobi explained and put his hand on Anakin's shoulder.

"She will be okay." Kenobi tried to comfort him, but Skywalker put Kenobi's hand away and followed the clones and his Padawan. Kenobi sighed and looked at Plo Koon who stood next to him.

Anakin sat next to Ahsoka and held her hand while a medidroid subserved her. The ship started a few minutes ago, but the generals Plo Koon and Obi-Wan Kenobi stayed at the building with some clone troopers to save the information which were on the computers. The others arrived at the Jedi temple minutes later and master Che did already wait for Ahsoka. Skywalker went out of the ship with the unconscious Ahsoka on the stretcher next to him. They went inside into the temple with master Che. They brought Ahsoka to the medical care unit. Anakin sat down next to her again after they laid her in a bed in a room. He held her hand and Jedi master Vokara Che, a Jedi healer, gave her medical treatment.

"She should wake up the next hours, but we don't know her mental status, so before she wakes up you better go out of the room and I can check on her alone." she said to Skywalker and left.

She didn't look like his young seventeen years old Padawan anymore, she changed and not just because of all the wounds she had.

She had been through mental, physical and emotional pain and she had gotten marks she will never recover from, he knew it, but he also knew how strong his former Padawan was. He tried to imagine what she has gone through the last months or even years, but he stopped, he didn't want to imagine how she went through torture and pain. He took her hand and held it up to him. He kissed her fingers which were wrapped around his hand.

Then he whispered "I'm sorry. I wasn't there for you the last years and I'm so sorry. If I had known what you were going through I would have come to save you, but after you left me I had to move on over you and now you're back and I promise you, I will do anything to make you feel better. I won't let you go a second time, Ahsoka; I will be here for you."

He kissed her hand once more and whispered even quieter "Now I'm here and I will always be there for you. You're not alone." he finished his little speech and Ahsoka opened her eyes, but closed them again immediately.

"I'm here for you, Ahsoka." he whispered and went out of the room. Master Che came in to check on her and Skywalker stood outside and observed everything through the glass wall. Time passed and it felt like hours waiting there to be allowed to go to her.

After what felt like forever Master Che came out and Ahsoka fell asleep.

"How's she?" Skywalker asked first. Master Che sighed

"She went through a lot the last months or maybe even years. She didn't get only tortured physically; she also got through a lot of mental pain. She isn't able to trust anyone, she's terribly frightened. She will probably not speak to anyone, but we will find out about the complete seriousness when she's awake. She has to learn to trust again. Marks will stay and she won't completely recover. We have to wait and look how she will do the next days. It will be hard for her." Skywalker listened, crossed his arms in front of his chest and looked at his Padawan.

"Can I go to her?" he asked after a while of silence.

"Tomorrow. She has to rest first and she should be awake when someone visits her.", she answered and left. Skywalker stayed there looking at Ahsoka. She looked horrible, to be honest. Her left montral and lek were broken off and it looked like burns all over the left half of her face. The white pigmentation was faintly visible. The complete left side of her body had burns everywhere. On her right side were smaller wounds. It hurt seeing her like this and not being able to help her anywise. He wanted to take her pain away and help her to see the good things in life or at least hold her in his arms and be by her side.

It's a special connection a master has to his Padawan and a Padawan to his master, but their line got broken years ago as she had left him and then seeing her again like this... it hurt a lot.

He watched her and time passed, but he didn't care even though he had a lot of other stuff to do. The only thing that mattered was Ahsoka to get better really soon. Skywalker sat outside of Ahsoka's room the whole night She slept peacefully and didn't move one inch. In the morning Master Che came and Skywalker looked up as he noticed her. He didn't sleep last night. He just sat on the chair and waited for Ahsoka to wake up.

"She will wake up every moment, but you will wait here!" she said before she entered the room Ahsoka was in. She put one of her hands on Ahsoka's head and the other on her chest. Then she closed her eyes, fell into meditation and let the force run through Ahsoka. Anakin watched how the Jedi healer tried to heal Ahsoka. He stopped watching her as he felt the presence of his old master and so he turned around to face him. Obi-Wan stood next to him and looked at Ahsoka.

"Did she wake up yet?" he asked worriedly.

"Yes, she was awake for a few minutes yesterday evening." Anakin answered thoughtfully. They both starred at her for a couple of minutes. Master Che opened her eyes again and let her hands go of Ahsoka. The next minutes Master Che stood next to Ahsoka's bed and Ahsoka started moving her head and hands.