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Sometimesnormal/Hugs back/ Yea, lol, I though Ani was cute in that scene :)

Childish Whisper lol! An Ani puppy dog face is always cute!


Obi-Wan twirled the little river stone around in his hands. It was that very stone that Qui-Gon had given him for his thirteenth birthday. Thinking of Qui-Gon made Obi-Wan's heart ach a little. It was a dull ache now. Not the crushing pain that he had felt directly after his master's death. But it still hurt. He wondered if he should pass on the smooth, Force-sensitive stone to his own padawan. Obi-Wan remember his reaction with a bit of shame. He had expected something more fancy. Somehow he felt that Anakin would too and would feel cheated. And yet at the same time this felt right.

Obi-Wan put the little stone back down and then padded quietly to the kitchen to make himself some tea. It was late and Anakin was already asleep. 'At least he should be' Obi-Wan thought. Anakin and he had been getting a long much better lately. Though Obi-Wan did snapped often and, as hard as he tried to be good, Anakin seemed to attract trouble. But the rift was closing, slowly yet steadily. Obi-Wan found that he was becoming accustomed to having Anakin as a part of his life, and he even liked it too. The boy distracted him from his more depressing thoughts and there was something about the kid's innocents that brightened his day. And…

Obi-Wan paused with his mug of steaming tea pressed to his lips. He peered over the rim to find a pair of sky blue eyes watching him from the shadows. "I see you, Anakin" Obi-Wan told the boy, putting down his cup.

Anakin stepped forward. He looked rather disheveled with his spiked hair sticking every which way and his sleep cloths sticking awkwardly to his body. Obi-Wan's brows creased in worry. "Is everything alright, Padawan?"

"Well…umm…I just had a bad dream, Master. That's all," Anakin said quietly as he plopped down into a chair at the table.

Obi-Wan hummed. Then asked, "You want tea?"

"Umm sure," Anakin responded. He didn't exactly like tea but he was in the mood for something warm.

"So you wan to tell me about this dream?"

Anakin considered for a moment, then shock his head in a violent protest.

Obi-Wan eyed Anakin suspiciously. "And why not?"

Anakin seemed taken aback but recovered quickly. "It's just...I don't remember much of it anyways."

Obi-Wan picked up the second mug of tea and sitting down at the table plunked the mug in font of the boy.

"Well try then."

Anakin swallowed and looked at Obi-Wan, his eyes suddenly wide. "I saw…figures. They wee dressed in black and they had red lightsabers. Except these sabers were long and they seemed to stretch forever out into space. And there was a man on the ground. And one of those figures then lifted his hood and at first I thought that it was the Sith from…from two years ago…" Anakin faulted shivering. Obi-Wan knew how the boy must feel. Anakin had been seduced by a Sith when he was ten and had run away from the temple. The Sith that had taken him off planet had tried to kill Obi-Wan and Anakin, who had tried to save Obi-Wan, had almost died himself. Finally Anakin regained his composure. "But then I realized that it wasn't that Sith but it was someone else. Someone I know…but now I can't remember who…" Anakin paused, uncertain whether he should go on or not.

"There's more, Anakin. Isn't there?"

Anakin nodded. "I leaned down to see who the man on the ground was and…and…"

"Who was it, Padawan?" Obi-Wan asked. He knew Anakin would be better off getting it out then bottling up fear. Also there was this uneasy feeling in the Force. Could Anakin have had some sort of premonition? Obi-Wan shoved the idea aside. That was insane. It had to be.

Anakin was gazing at him wide-eyes now. Then, without warning, Anakin jumped from his seat and ran to Obi-Wan, wrapping his arms around the older Jedi's neck and burying his face in the knight's shoulder. "No one will ever hurt you, Master! I promise!" Anakin vowed with his face still buried into Obi-Wan's tunic.

"I promise the same, Padawan" Obi-Wan replied softly. A small smile had made its way onto Obi-Wan's face at Anakin's display of loyalty. "I make the same promise. Now, Anakin, how about we get you back into bed?"