Chapter 4
Anakin's perspective-
He had failed. He had failed his master. It was his job, among other things, to ensure his master's safety. And his master had gotten hurt. Oh, he was so stupid! Things had been going well, he had even slipped up, and broken protocol, and yet had not been beaten, and now he had gone and actually gotten his master hurt. This was bad. This would earn him a beating for sure. You didn't just forgive someone for hurting you like that. It didn't matter that he hadn't been the one to leave the toolbox in such a precarious position, only that he had allowed his master to be injured because of it. This was one of the downsides to being permanently assigned to a master, they couldn't just send you off if you displeased them. So you could either beat them half to death, or all to death. Neither of which was a particularly desirable outcome, but had to admit, he did deserve it. He would take whatever punishment came, and he would not complain, no matter what. It was hard to believe that he had already managed to mess up so many times. Him! He had always been a good slave, or at least he had always tried to be, and he'd believed he was good at it.
There was just something unsettling about this place. In the way he was being treated, most of all. It was disturbing, to say the least. And he had allowed it to get to his head. Pathetic. He was better than that. And now they were giving him medical attention. Honestly, he had been more interested in his master's health than in getting 'checked out' as they put it. As it turned out, his master had hit his head, and on a recently fractured spot, ensuring that his stay in the medical ward would be over night. 86205 berated himself on allowing this to happen. He was in for it for sure. Then a medic came up and informed him that he was to be put into a bacta tank.
Obi-wan's perspective-
Obi-wan awoke in the medbay with an unpleasant ache in his head, a burning pain in his leg, and a medic by his side. He was informed of what had happened, and, after inquiring after Anakin's health, asked for Captain Rex to meet him in the room where Anakin was being healed. The boy had been in the tank overnight, though the medics assured them that Anakin would make a full recovery. Soon after, captain and general were standing side by side, staring at Anakin's prone form. Obi-wan first broke the silence. "I - I hoped, dreamed that he'd come back, that we'd be together again, against all the odds. I never thought it would be like this. Rex, he won't look up, he only refers to me as 'master', and he won't go by anything but that number!" Obi-wan spat out 'number' as if it were a curse, as if it were something to be shielded from temple younglings, as if it were venomous. "Rex, I know that some clones only go by their numbers at first. How do you convince them to take names?"
Rex pursed his lips. "You can't really rush it sir. You just have to wait. And it's easier with us, because there isn't really a rule that says that you have to go by a number, at least casually. With him… I don't know. It's been pounded into his mind that he's just a number, and that kind of thing isn't removed easily. I suggest calling him by the number, at least until he warms up to his name or gets his memory back." There wasn't anything else to be said, so Rex didn't say it.
Obi-wan stared at the form of the boy who had been his padawan, his brave strong padawan… Now so broken. Not for long though. They didn't have the proper equipment onboard the Resolute, but there was a medical station nearby that had things that hopefully could restore Anakin's memory. Once they got there they would also be beyond the Farwan nebula, something that did a wonderful job of blocking all communications from either side of it. Aside from that, it was harmless, but they would have to wait to pass it before Obi-wan could contact the Jedi council. The nebula also made for a nice strategic stronghold, ensuring a very... interesting battle for Fargul. But now they would be passing the place soon, and Obi-wan had a report to put together.