Anakin came back to their room to find Obi-Wan huddled in the corner, crouching on a bag stuffed with what looked like all his belongings. Obi-Wan was too busy staring at a picture of them to notice Anakin had come in. He couldn't remember who had taken it. Anakin was shirtless, sitting on the ground in the Room of One Thousand Fountains, smiling down at an equally bare-chested Obi-Wan, who was laying across Anakin's legs, his head in his lap. It was his favorite picture. For those few hours, the war was someone else's problem. Anakin was the only person in the galaxy who mattered in that moment.

"Obi-Wan?"

He didn't look up. "I met with the Chancellor this afternoon."

That explained what had started Obi-Wan on this ridiculous decision to leave. Anakin wished he could say it had never happened before. Obi-Wan had confessed before that he felt Anakin would be better without him, but packing his bags was new.

"You do know he and the Senate are all being kriffing idiots?"

"I thought you were friends with the Chancellor."

"After what he was implying, he was lucky I didn't run him through with my lightsaber," Anakin muttered.

"Anakin…"

"I didn't say I did it."

"He was right."

Anakin put a hand on Obi-Wan's shoulder and lightly kissed his cheek. "No he wasn't."

"I was your Master for almost ten years. I am nearly twenty years your senior. I took advantage of you as my Padawan."

Anakin laughed. "Obi-Wan, if anything, I pushed you into this. You didn't take advantage of me. I want to be with you, Obi-Wan. I always have."

"You stayed because you felt obligated to. I am your Master and it is what you were accustomed to."

"I stayed with you because I loved you."

"Anakin, look at us." Obi-Wan gestured to the Holo. He was desperate to make Anakin understand. His decision was hard enough without Anakin stubbornly refuting him. "There is no relationship here. It is just an depraved Master inappropriately using his influence over his old Padawan. Force! The Chancellor and Senate have taken notice!"

"I have the man I want." He sat Obi-Wan down on the bed, prying the picture from his hand. "Obi-Wan, I trust you. Have you ever thought about being with me when I was younger?"

Obi-Wan looked revolted by the very thought. "No! Of course not!"

Anakin squeezed his hand. "Then stop worrying. If the Senate wants to waste their time looking into our love life, let them. I will not let them say a word against you."

"Anakin, you still – you don't understand. They will not so easily convinced."

"Then we will convince them. Nothing about us being together is wrong, they won't have anything to say against us. I will make them see reason."

"Anakin, please. It is their job to investigate this matters. Maybe - I think– I want you to leave." Obi-Wan was shaking, sitting so close to the edge of the bed Anakin was afraid he would fall off. Obi-Wan looked disgusted with himself. There was no way to prove he hadn't taken advantage of Anakin. A Master and his Padawan in a relationship, particularly when they were the great team of Kenobi and Skywalker, was highly unusual. They would undoubtedly find Obi-Wan guilt of several abhorrent crimes, at the very least separate him from Anakin. He would rather part with Anakin on his own terms, not because it was demanded of him.

Anakin knew what Obi-Wan was thinking, but there was no kriffing way he was going to let some stuffy Senators pull Obi-Wan away from him. They had a war to plan and planets that were suffering, but the best use of their time was to pry into his relationships? They didn't have a leg to stand on and if Obi-Wan was thinking clearly, he would know that. The older man just needed to relax and get rid of the stress and anxieties that were bothering him.

"You aren't thinking clearly, you need some sleep. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Anakin – "

" – tomorrow. You look ready to collapse. I'm not going anywhere tonight."

Obi-Wan slowly nodded and followed Anakin's lead in pulling off his boots and outer layers of his tunic. Once the pair had settled into bed, Anakin summoned a stack of blankets to cover them. He felt Obi-Wan wrapping himself tightly into a cocoon, still trying to put as much space between Anakin and himself. Sliding completely under the covers, Anakin did his best to drape his arms around the blanket mass that was Obi-Wan.

"I love you."

"You should still leave," Obi-Wan told him in a muffled voice.

"Not a chance."

"Listen to me." Obi-Wan pulled some blankets away from face and rolled over to face Anakin. "Even if the Senate allows this, do you want to wake up in ten years next to an overweight, bald, impotent, cripple? I am going to make you miserable, if not now, then in the future. I love you, Anakin. I will not stay and watch you suffer."

"Shhh. Obi-Wan, that is never going to happen. None of it. And even if it does," he tugged Obi-Wan closer to him, slipping into his nest of blankets so he could pull the other man into his arms, "I won't leave you."

"It will happen, Anakin, whether or not you want to admit it."

Anakin kissed him. "Stop that. It is not going to happen."

"It might."

Anakin smiled sadly. "My poor Master. One day I will make you realize you can't get rid of me that easily."

Obi-Wan wiggled closer to Anakin, burying his face in his chest. Maybe he was being ridiculous. Anakin had never once expressed a desire to leave him, as impossible as it was to believe. His lover even tolerated the continual outbursts that seemed to be happening more and more frequently. If Anakin had left every time Obi-Wan had told him he should, their relationship would have been over long ago. Obi-Wan never fooled himself into thinking he would be happier without Anakin in his life.

"Thank you," he murmured.

"I love you. I'll always be here when you wake up." He started to tenderly massage Obi-Wan's back, waiting for the older man to drift off to sleep. After ten minutes, he let the warmth of the blankets and Anakin's ministrations lull him to sleep. Anakin watched him for a long while afterwards.


A/N: Soo….I apologize if Obi-Wan-Wan starts getting a bit OoC. I'm trying. And this was going to be the last chapter. And then I realized as a last chapter, is sucks. So we are going to see Obi-Wan dealing with a Senate convinced he took advantage of Anakin when he was younger and….ye have been warned: angst and snuggles ahead.