I heard footsteps. A few were regular and then there was a pause and someone turned around and went again a few steps. The rhythmically sound of the 'Vital Signs Monitor' matched together with the footsteps close to me. Someone started talking. I think ... a woman, maybe? Yes, a woman, but who?
He voice was quiet and calm. The footsteps became faster and yet slowlier. When she started to talk slowlier he went faster until they yelled at each other and the footsteps stopped. Now the other voicewas talking. It was a male, that's for sure. He started talking calm and slowly. I could not understand what they were talking about. Every sound around me was dull.
The man talked definately louder than the women. Like he was ... angry about something. Who are they? My ... parents? No. They're dead, aren't they? I need to stop thinking. Just ... relax. I heard them coming closer. I felt a hand laying in mine.
"It wasn't your fault." It was the woman.
"It was! I should have know that it is her!" It was the male. He was shouting.
"She blocked her force signature from you, that is what she told me. You could have never felt or know that it was her. You were just trying to protect me."
"Padmè, she is like a sister to me. We were so close. I could feel her the entire two years long even though she blocked me. I just did not paid attention."
He sighed and sat down on a chair or something else. So the female name is Padmè.
'"What am I supposed to do? The doctors says that she could have amnesia! And what the fuck happened in the O.P. As everyone was thrown back as they touched her arm?"
"Anakin … They say the probability that she has amnesia is really, really low and-"
"But it is still there."
"Ani … The reason why they all were thrown back is … I don't know how to explain, she did not even knew it herself, it is … She came to us to find help about this … problem."
"That's why she came to you?"
"Yes ..."
So ...The male is called Anakin and his friend, girlfriend, wife or whoever she is called Padmè. Who are they? My new parents? People I know? Seems like it. But what sort of power, about being thrown back, are they talking about? I heard him sigh deep, and … was he … he was sobbing a little. Maybe crying.
"This is all my fault ..."
"Ani ..."
"I promised her to never let anybody hurt her and now … I broke that promise. Her heart stopped beating for 13 minutes! What if it hadn't start beating again?! What if she never waked up again?!"
Now I could tell he was frustrated and crying a little. He breathed in deeply. He stood up and walked around. The same sound of footsteps.
But than I realized his words. I might never wake up again. But I am here … I can think and feel, but not move. They don't know that I am awake. I have to wake up, I cannot lay here and do nothing, can't I? I have to find out what happened to me. Who these people are. And who I am. I still heard him sobbing beside my bed.
I don't want to know what these two people are going through. Hearing this, as it seams, so strong tough man crying. It was strange somehow. Like I would know him. I just don't remember exactly.
"Those doctors were thrown back as they touched her arm ..." He said quietly.
"That's why she wanted to talk to you and 'kidnapping' me was the only way to make you come back as fast as possible."
What? I kidnapped someone? I kidnapped her?
"It was a dump idea, Padmè."
"I know now, but it was the only way you would find a way to get here as soon as possible, we did not know how much time she has before … You know."
"Before it may kill her."
"Right."
Both sighed. I tried to wake myself, trying to make my body move or show that I am here. I don't know who they are, but they seem to care about me. I don't know if I can trust them but I have to. C'mon body! Wake up!
"Do you think she can hear us?"
"I don't know, Ani. The doctor say that most people can hear what is going on around them. Ahsoka is a fighter, I bet she can."
Ahsoka? Is that my name? Seems like it … I … I like the name. It sounds … familiar.
"Do you think she will ever be able to forgive me?"
Forgive him? For what? What has he done that I have to forgive? Do I have to forgive when I know what he did? I felt a hand rapped in leather on my right hand and winced at its coldness. The hand disappeared as I winced.
"Did you saw that?!" the man asked.
"What?"
"Her hand winced under my touch. Maybe she is waking up."
"Anakin. That was just … a reflex or something like it. That's normal. The doctor said that, too."
I heard him sigh. She went closer to him and they seem to hug.
"I know you want her to wake up, to know if she is fine, but ...-"
"Padmè … What if she is really waking up? Or what if she already is and is listening to what we say?"
She did not said anything. I bet both of these people were out of words.
"But why did she came to you and not to me?"
"You know that she would not return to the Temple, not even actually getting close to it."
What Temple? Like a Temple where you can pray?
I heard him sigh again.
"What is actually wrong with her left arm? Why was it covered under a blanket all time?"
I heard soft footsteps walking around the bed to my left side.
"Let me show you. I don't know how to explain it, she just came to me and-"
"Show it to me."
I felt a warm hand lifting the blanket, which laid over my left arm and I heard the man gasping.
"Oh my … What is this?"
"She didn't know, but … It got worse. Don't touch it! Or you'll be knocked out."
"What do you mean, about 'It got worse' ?"
"When she arrived in my apartment these marking went from her hand over her elbow, but now it is on her shoulder and even darker. It was a bright red, but now it is darker."
He let himself fall onto a chair and sighed long and I heard a quiet sob.
"This is all my fault …"
"Ani …"
"I wish there would be a way to help her to wake up. To help her, to find out what happened to her, to- wait. I know who can help us."
"Who?"
"The only person I know who ever done this without a mistake was … " He sighed with and with pain in his voice he sat the name.
"It's Barriss Offee."
"What?!"
Who is that? …
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