Alright here's chapter two. I'll update every 2 days, that way if I miss a day it's okay, but you all will never have to go more than two days without the story. Bear with me on the plot, it'll all come together soon enough. And as you all know from the story summary Ahsoka isn't actually dead. I'm sorry if that's a spoiler and you somehow managed to miss that fact from the summary, but in hind sight this story is based around Ahsoka Tano, so there's really no way she can be dead. My characters may be a bit OOC, deal with it, and if it really bothers you, tell me about it. I'll do my best to fix it, but this is the way I see things so no promises. Disclaimer-I don't own Star Wars the Clone Wars or any of its characters.

Chapter 2

Anakin POV

"No. It's not true."

"I'm sorry Anakin, but it is." Obi-Wan put a comforting hand on his former Padawan's shoulder. The two of them stared down at the covered body of Ahsoka Tano. She died of major blood loss and her broken rib had punctured into her lung, eventually causing her to stop breathing.

The battle at the Jedi Temple had only ended an hour before. None of the Death Watch were taken captive and there here were no survivors on the enemy side. Now everything was just starting to be put back in order, after the victorious win.

Except Ahsoka.

She was dead and Anakin wasn't taking it well. Actually, he was a complete mess and only half showing it. It was taking everything he had not to cry because one of his best friends was dead and he couldn't save her.

Ahsoka was gone. The little snippy girl that couldn't follow an order for her life unless she saw it fit. She would never call him Sky-Guy again or give him one of those half smiles. She would never save his life again or be there to talk him out of doing something stupid on a mission. Anakin would never again hear her laugh or see that look in her eyes when she's determined to do something.

He turned away from his Padawan's covered corpse and willed himself not to cry. Instead he let out a strangled breath and felt Obi-Wan tighten his friendly grip on Anakin's shoulder.

Suddenly a new crowd walked into the infirmary. And by crowd, that means Master Windu and Master Yoda. Master Windu stood on the opposite side of the examining table as Anakin and Obi-Wan, while Master Yoda climbed up for there to be less of a height difference.

It was silent for a moment out of pure respect until Master Yoda broke it. "Suffered today, a great loss, we have."

"Ahsoka died a hero, and she will be remembered as one," Master Windu chimed in.

Anakin turned further away from the company. He couldn't bear to hear her name and the word "died" in the same sentence.

"Troubled you are, Skywalker-"

The infirmary door slammed open hitting the wall behind it with full force. It took a moment for Anakin's eyes to adjust enough to see…Master Plo Koon.

He marched up to the table and took a good look at the cloth covering Ahsoka's body. Slowly he grabbed the top of it and pulled it down. He only got halfway down her face before he rushed it back over her head and looked away. "The infirmary contacted me."

Anakin could've sworn he saw Master Windu's face fall a bit. "Plo…"

"Have you taken her lightsabers?" Master Plo Koon interrupted.

"Left intact, her body was." Master Yoda had the same concern in his voice that Master Windu's had.

Anakin knew that Master Plo was the one who brought Ahsoka to the Jedi Temple in the first place and that the two of them had had a sort of bond, but his reaction was still uncalled for. He looked gravely upset, and Anakin had never seen the Jedi Master this way before. To him, wasn't this…just another casualty of war?

Master Plo looked like he was going to say something else but was interrupted when even more people walked into the infirmary.

"Oh and speaking of Ahsoka, remind me, she has to come in again soon for another Ecto shot, we wouldn't want-"She stopped her sentence with a gasp that was more of a scream than anything. It echoed off the walls and caught everyone's attention.

She rushed over to the table and pushed beside Anakin. The young nurse pulled the sheet off of Ahsoka's body and confirmed what she was already suspected. The room of Jedi watched as the petite brown haired human nurse sobbed at Ahsoka's dead corpse.

The other woman she walked in with earlier made her way to the fellow nurse's side and put a hand over her shoulder. "Jardie, I just got the com a few minutes ago."

Anakin looked to his right to see that both of the women were now crying over his Padawan's death. And even though he didn't know who they were (which struck him as more than just strange), he was glad that someone could openly cry over her death. He only wished he could.

The taller Twi'lek woman tried to wipe her tears away. She straightened up and turned to Anakin and Obi-Wan. "I'm sorry for the interruption. I'm Rohdyn, and this is Jardie…"She let out another sob. "We knew your Padawan quite well Master Skywalker."

"How did you know Ahsoka?" Obi-Wan chimed in from behind Anakin.

Jardie was able to stop her wails momentarily to answer his question. "We were…" she wiped her tears and straightened up. "We were her personal administrative nurses." She took the sheet and covered up Ahsoka's body again. Anakin would never get used to saying that. Her body.

Obi-Wan raised his eyebrows. "Administrative nurses? For what reason?"

Rohdyn turned to Jardie. "I told you she didn't tell them."

"I knew she wouldn't. It would've changed the way they looked at her." Jardie responded wiping the tears from her face.

Anakin's eyebrows furrowed. "What is it? What are you talking about?"

They both turned to look at the Jedi Knight, but didn't respond at first. Jardie and Rohdyn looked back at Ahsoka and lifted the cloth from the lower half of her body. They began to take the lightsabers off her belt. Jardie handed the one she took off to Rohdyn and went down the table to fondle with Ahsoka's boots.

Rohdyn carefully twisted Ahsoka's lightsabers in her hands as Anakin watched closely, wondering what she was doing. She must've found the right spot because she muttered 'aha,' and the bottom of the weapon opened up.

The nurse shook it over her palm and out fell…an inhaler? The same with the other one, they both held inhalers inside. "Why?" Anakin meant to think but accidentally said it aloud.

Jardie was the first to answer, "Your Padawan had a very rare condition called Ectohazmith, where the air that isn't from her home planet is unbreathable." She was still meddling with Ahsoka's shoes only now from of the side of them she pulled out 3 needles… they looked like vaccines actually.

She turned fully to Anakin and Obi-Wan. "We managed Ahsoka's situation well. She took an injection of what we call Neyba every week. It adjusts the lungs to foreign air. Her inhalers contained the same thing, but she could use them whenever she had difficulty breathing."

"And every two months or so she would come in to the infirmary for the day and we'd do an Ectohazmith treatment." Rohdyn chimed in.

"How…" Anakin couldn't even ponder how he didn't know about Ahsoka's condition and from the look of it, neither could his former master. Obi-Wan was staring wide eyed at the nurses that had just shared the news.

But then Anakin remembered all the missions longer than 2 months that she wasn't allowed to go on. She would always have some quiz or test or meeting pop up coinciding with the dates. Was the real reason that she couldn't go because of this disease?

"Master Yoda and I found it best to keep from you Skywalker. It wasn't an immediate danger to her health and… well she gave a pretty compelling argument too."

Anakin turned his gaze to Master Windu and didn't notice at all that Captain Rex had walked in to the infirmary as well. "Best to keep from me? She had a disease that dealt with her ability to breathe, what if something had happened?"

He turned to Plo Koon. "Did you know about this."

The Jedi Master still seemed out of it but was able to nod his head. "I did."

He was starting to rage up at the thought of him not actually knowing something about his Padawan. What if something actually had happened where she needed her inhaler and he didn't know what to do? What if she her health had taken a turn for the worse on a mission?

"Captain Rex was aware of her situation and always had a spare inhaler and injection on him if needed."

Anakin turned to Rex, who was still obviously shocked at the sight of Ahsoka dead. He shook his head and pulled an inhaler and injection out of his front pocket. He handed it to Jardie. "Sorry General, I was aware of her situation from the moment you took her on as a Padawan learner. It was purely for safety reasons."

"Of course," muttered Anakin. He was back to thinking about Ahsoka. And how she was dead. His mind wavered and he didn't say anything else as he left the room.

He could vaguely hear Obi-Wan calling his name as he walked down the halls, but he didn't look back.

A/N- Thank you all so very much for reading. If you would like to, you may leave a review (I would greatly appreciate it). Tell me what you liked. Tell me what you didn't like. Tell me what you think should happen (even though I already have that planned out). Anything you want to say, I'll read it. Even if you just want to talk about how you thought it was a good idea to bring your pet turtle to a movie theater and he escaped and started biting the people in front of you's feet. That'd actually be a really interesting story to read. Until next time. -Saraphine