"Yoda what about my suggestion in regards to the blaster lessons?"
"Taken well they were Skywalker, agree with you the council does and lessons continued and expanded they will be"
"Good to hear...let's stop here Obi-Wan and I need to get sleep, it's been a long eight months"
"Alive I knew you were, a bond between us we have"
"We know, unfortunately all it will ever tell you is if we're alive. Plus I get the feeling we're forgetting something important"
"Agree I do, unfortunate it is that our memories clouded they are"
"Hopefully the Force will allow us to remember in time"
The two head back to their quarters and then crash, Anakin's teachers had discovered he was alive and as such knew he had missed eight months of classwork already and had decided to get him right back into the swing of things. Sadly they didn't take into account that he had gotten home the hard way and after failing to wake the Padawan up for class they decided to go for the Master, not a good idea due to how long the mission had been overall
"I am not sending my Padawan to classes until he can stay awake for a full day and not oversleep due to sheer exhaustion. I will allow you to send any classwork you feel he will need but classes and lectures are out of the question"
"He's already missed eight months of classes Knight Kenobi, he needs to get back to work on his studies"
"You have no idea what we went through to get back home alive, I am not sending my Padawan to class when I can feel his exhaustion from here, I will wake him up if necessary but only for basic things like food, water and if needed any medication the Healers might give him since we're under mandatory watch the next few days, him more than me for infection"
The teachers then decided to get the Council involved, not knowing that while at the healers Obi-Wan and Anakin had sent a very detailed report to the Council awaiting tests and their results surprising everyone but Yoda about how detailed and accurate the report was coming from a Padawan. As soon as Anakin and Obi-Wan realized what was going on and what they were going to have to do to get back they started writing out their reports on a regular basis and storing them on data pads they bought on the way. Anakin and Obi-Wan amended each others reports at need so that the Council would have a complete and accurate account of their adventures and the changed mission from stopping a civil war to getting home. When the Council heard the request of Anakin's teachers they all looked at each other in surprise and when they heard what Obi-Wan said they didn't blame him one bit and actually considered the teachers stupid
"Okay, who's going to flay the teachers alive for thinking they could make Padawan Skywalker return to classes so soon without the approval of his Master after a long hard mission?"
"Better yet who's going to tell the teachers that Obi-Wan is getting commended for protecting his Padawan after such a harsh mission, and getting home was a mission even if it wasn't the original mission they had been assigned"
"What I want to know is how they gave us their reports so fast"
"Probably wrote them along the way home Master Kora"
"You have a point"
"And Padawan Skywalker's detailed reports?"
"Probably his Master teaching him a bit more about giving a report to the Council in writing, now then we were discussing how long the two of them were to be on vacation after this extended mission"
"So three weeks no missions at the least and no classes for one week in regards to Padawan Skywalker?"
"Agreed, the Healers and his Master have the final say though due to exhaustion"
"This is going to be a long report to go over, and I have a feeling that there are going to be people that aren't going to be too happy about the fact that we're giving Padawan Skywalker what appears to be a break"
"A break they have not had in months a break they desperately need right now"
"Eight month long mission, missing for six and a half of those and things not going too well from the start, the basics they gave us allow them automatic rights for a break for at least a week, according to the Healers Padawan Skywalker is on infection watch until further notice as well"
"Infection watch? I haven't heard that term in a while because of the fact that we have our Healing Trances which normally take care of those kinds of things"
"Read the report Master Windu and you'll see why Padawan Skywalker is on infection watch, a watch his Master is probably glad for"
As soon as they read the medical reports everyone is aghast at just how bad things currently were and they knew it wasn't a complete injury list either. The rest of the list would come from the reports
"Their shielding is...they might have to go to other Healers as well if these reports are true and they can't help themselves after a week"
All of a sudden they felt panic through the Force and quickly realized it came from Padawan Skywalker, they all started to move to see if they could keep others from feeling the affects and also to see what they could do to help Padawan Skywalker and possibly Knight Kenobi when Yoda simply blurred and was faster than any of them
"Okay I have a feeling Master Yoda can take care of Padawan Skywalker let's concentrate on any damage control we might have to do"
Meanwhile Obi-Wan was also working to deal with his Padawan's sudden alertness and panic, only when Master Yoda arrived did Anakin finally wake up
"What happened Padawan?"
"Sorry I was remembering a mission during the Wars, Master Yoda we need your room again in order to make sure everything remains absolutely private"
"Understand I do, come talk we will the three of us"
So the three head to Yoda's room and once the doors are locked they knew that things were secured
"Yoda, Obi-Wan do you remember that three month period of time we had intensive fighting in the Chomell sector a year into the Wars?"
"Yes I do"
"Well there was one battle where I was drugged and temporarily lost my connection to you and Snips, it didn't help matters that we were all separated and had no rendezvous point set up. That day I lost over half my squad just trying to connect to one of you"
"I remember that day, all of a sudden it was like you were ripped from my mind and I thought you had died. It took two hours for comms to reconnect because of battle interference and I was beyond relieved to discover that you were alive but drugged. If I recall correctly Rex didn't let you out of his sight for several days after that incident"
"He also threatened to put a helmet on me if that ever happened again"
"He didn't"
"He did, don't forget Obi-Wan he and Cody were the ones who ultimately insisted on what armor we wore near the beginning of the war and he tried to convince Snips to put some on a few times as well without success"
"So that's what woke you up in a panic" (sighs) "I get the feeling we're going to start remembering the war through our dreams a lot more often now"
"Agree I do, another time Skywalker might panic if remember you do correctly Kenobi"
"Rattatak"
"Exactly, you were thought dead for a month, what you went through was only a drop of what I went through, it was not a pleasant time trust me"
"Especially because of the fact that I had no means of comming you"
"Exactly...we need sleep desperately and these memories are not going to help matters"
"Sleep here for the time being the two of you may, gradually return to your quarters you will"
"Actually I have an idea Master Yoda, we might not be able to tell the Council what we've been through yet but maybe if you explain that our eight month mission affected us and it has they will accept the need of shielding our rooms and gradually dropping the shields until we can sleep through the night ourselves"
"Speak of this to the other I will, and Yoda you will call me in this room or another lesson I will give you"
"Sorry Yoda, but I am so tired and can sense others so clearly at the moment that I slipped back into habit in regards to how to address you"
"Sleep Anakin, I'll be joining you after I talk to Yoda about another private matter"
Anakin went to sleep and Yoda simply looked at Obi-Wan and he could tell that Yoda had an idea of what he wanted to talk about
"I understand that my student is technically behind in schoolwork, however we just came back after I was forced to change our mission from one of negotiations to one of survival. There's also the fact that we've been given a mission by the Force and he's mentally a Knight. If I hear another complaint about him not being in school for at least a week I will take this up with the Council with at least one of his teachers there as a representative and spell out the consequences of their stupidity in front of the entire Council should it happen again"
"Happen again it shouldn't, already know of the situation the Council does. Anakin's teachers not like what you said to them they did. Interrupted a meeting your Padawan did, discussing things about that we were when woke up panicked he did"
"Very well at least I know it will be properly taken care of"
Obi-Wan goes back to sleep while Yoda makes sure the two of them are shielded, he knows that he himself still needed shields as well due to the fact that all three of them were not used to the hundreds of Jedi they felt. Obi-wan and Anakin had basically been alone during the eight months so didn't have to deal with what Yoda did in trying to reaclimate, but they were now officially worse off because Yoda had been forced to work on his shielding the entire time while the two other time travelers had two problems with shielding, they didn't have the time or the need to do so until now, unfortunately it was now affecting them badly. Yoda made sure the two were asleep and then returns to the Council meeting
"Well it wasn't as bad as it could have been but we lucked out on that one really, Master Yoda I presume that you're shielding them?"
"Yes"
"Good that should help things, at least for now"
"An idea Knight Kenobi has. Eight months on their own they were, affected by their changed mission the two of them are, shield them we will gradually stopping over time"
"So basically we shield their room and gradually drop the shielding so that they can learn to shield on their own again"
"That could work"
So that's what they do, then Skywalker's teachers are called into the Council chambers, the Council decided to let them know that they wanted to discuss the situation with Padawan Skywalker with them and didn't let the teachers know any more than that. It wasn't exactly Jedi like to let them think they were off the hook but the entire Council was appalled at the way the teachers acted and so decided to teach them a multi-part lesson and part one was to assume nothing when it came to the Council
