AN: In response to Yoda1976, I draw a distinction between Yoda's Younglings and a Master's Padawan.
To everyone: OMG. Someone actually read and liked my story. I'm so happy. Does a happy dance
Chapter 2
"Your father is he?" Yoda poked the figure with his walking stick. "Not much longer will you have him, should he continue to lose strength."
"We should get him to a healer." Luke said. "Or maybe a mechanic would be better?"
"Humph. Healers he shall see." Yoda walked over to a communicator, and spoke briefly with the person on the other end. Luke watched over his father with his eyes and with the Force. He bolstered his failing life force, hoping that he would be able to help him gain a new life here, wherever that was. So much had happened in such a short span of time that he was not certain that he knew what was going on. Am I dreaming? He wondered, not knowing if he had hit his head in the battle with the Emperor, I'm too sore from that lightning to be dreaming. Then there was the matter of Master Yoda. I watched him die, or rather, fade into the force. "Master Yoda, why are you here?"
"Humph. The wrong question do you ask. Why are you here?" he punctuated his words with jabbing motions with his walking stick.
Luke felt unsettled by the question and by Master Yoda in general. What has happened to me? He wondered, becoming alarmed by the question.
The healers chose that moment to step through the door, whisking Anakin away, muttering things under their breaths.
"To your thoughts I leave you, Jedi Luke." Master Yoda said, heading out the door after the healers.
Luke stood. Looking around the room, he walked over to the window, and looked out onto the bustling rush of Coruscant.
Yoda followed in the wake of the Healers, walking into the Healer's rooms about 5 minutes after they did. He sat upon a stool, out of the way, but high enough so that he could watch the proceedings.
The Healers had removed Anakin's helmet, and replaced it with a respirator. The scars on his head prevented any hair growth, and he'd been inside the suit so long that he had no color whatsoever. They gave him several shots of different things to help his body combat the damage that the force lightning had caused. Anakin remained unconscious throughout the whole of it. When the Healers pronounced him stable, one of them came over to Yoda.
"We have had no one who has survived as much damage as this man has put his body through." She said to Yoda, shaking her head. "As near as we can tell without getting him out of that thing, he's lost both legs near the hip, the better part of one arm below the elbow, the majority of the other arm above the elbow, and has been badly burned over about 90 of his body. His lungs show evidence of being badly burned as well, though the mechanics of his suit help him breathe. We have him on oxygen now, which will help him to recover faster, hopefully."
Yoda absorbed the information that she was giving him. He sighed. "A secret his presence here must be. Away he must be hidden, and carefully he must be watched. Darkness I sense upon him." Yoda looked at the young Healer. "Heavy this burden will be for you."
"I will see to it, Master."
