Spiraling out of control chapter 14
Anakin was feel must better after a couple days and he was able to walk around now. Obi-wan came to check on him often but now Anakin wanted to get out and find Ahsoka. During the three days he had to spend in the medical room after he was pulled from the bacta tank he felt something. It was sudden, a explosion of anger in the force, someone close to him gotten extremely angry and after meditating on it he realized it was Ahsoka.
Anakin walked out of the medical room and caught up with Obi-wan "I need to be out there helping Shaak ti and Plo Koon find Ahsoka" he said. "Master Shaak and Plo both returned to the temple late last night Anakin" Obi-wan replied. "Did they find Ahsoka, is she here?" Anakin asked quickly. Obi-wan shook his head "Yes they did find her but when they tried to convince her to come back to the temple she refused not believing that you were here and she attacked them" Obi-wan said.
Anakin shook his head "Ahsoka wouldn't do that master" Anakin argued. "She did Anakin, left some nasty marks on both of them. Shaak ti said that she tried to convince Ahsoka that she wasn't lying but she wouldn't hear her out. She said that Ahsoka was determined to find you and prove us wrong" Obi-wan replied. "Prove us wrong about what?" Anakin asked. "That you were alive, we thought you were dead Anakin and when I first told Ahsoka about it she was devastated. She spent a long time inside of your guys room refusing to see anyone or even come out, after a while she came out but she wasn't right…" Obi-wan said
"What do you mean?" Anakin asked concerned, Obi-wan sighed and looked up at him for a long moment. "She took the news of your death a lot harder than I did Anakin, she looked almost lifeless and completely dead inside, then she said she felt you faintly through the force and at that point became obsessed with finding you. I also told Senator Aimdala because she is a close friend of yours" Obi-wan explained.
Anakin almost forgot about his wife, he had been so concerned about Ahsoka that he had neglected to contact her. He would go see her quickly before he went and searched for Ahsoka. "Where's my lightsaber?" Anakin asked, Obi-wan smiled slightly. "I gave it to Ahsoka figured you would want her to have it. She clings to that thing tightly, didn't go anywhere without it" Obi-wan replied.
Anakin turned to head out of the temple to see his wife but stopped as Obi-wan spoke. "One more thing Anakin…Ahsoka killed Count Dooku and when she attacked Shaak ti and Plo Koon she was using a strange kind of magic" Obi-wan said. Anakin thought he didn't hear his friend right the first time, Ahsoka killed Count Dooku that was that was just unthinkable. But the second part was even more confusing than the first, Ahsoka using some form of magic. The closes thing Anakin could think off of the top of his head that was magic was Sith sorcery but that just didn't make sense to him.
Padme sat in her apartment holding onto the necklace that her husband had given her so long ago, her thumb caressed the simple yet special design on it. Her heart and mind where both heavy not just on Anakin but on Ahsoka as well. The poor young girl sounded so sure that her master that Anakin was alive but Padme just couldn't believe it. She looked up as she heard a speeder stop outside of her apartment when she went out to see who it was she went pale and stiff.
The first thought that ran through her mind was that she had gone insane and began seeing things because there at the entrance of her apartment stood Anakin. Padme blink three or four times trying to discern if she was seeing things or if this was real. "Ani…" she said softly. "Padme" Anakin replied running up to her and hugging her tightly then kissed her lips. Tears flooded Padme's eyes and they flowed down her cheeks, Anakin was alive he was right in front of her, this was him. After was seemed like for ever she spoke "I thought you were dead…" she whispered. "I thought I was to Angel" he said still holding her tightly in his arms.
Ahsoka had to stop, she had to rest her body just couldn't go on like this. Days with out resting or a proper meal for that matter, her muscles still ached from the exertion of energy that she had used when dueling with the two Jedi masters. Part of her felt bad for attacking them but the other half told her that she had done the right thing by doing that.
Ahsoka sat down on a bench as the moon rose over the massive structures. Her legs hurt from the miles upon miles she had treaded trying to find her master, she had grown fed up with asking people nicely where the missing pilot from the crashed ship went when they had no real information about him. So instead she resulted to demanding and threatening them, they were either giving useless information or the said they didn't know anything.
Ahsoka did however find herself back up at the upper most level of Corusant again, where her search first began. After thirty minutes of resting and rubbing her tired feet Ahsoka pushed her body back to its feet and dragged them along the streets. She couldn't give up hope and she wouldn't, he was her master and she was his apprentice. They would stick by each other through thick and thin no matter what. Even when the entire Jedi order would give up on him she would not, she would search no matter how far or how long it took her until she found him.
"Padme I can't stay I need to find Ahsoka, she is somewhere on Corusant and I'm getting worried about her" Anakin said as he tried to pry his wife's arms off of him. "Ani please don't go" Padme begged not wanting him to leave her even for a second now that she had him back. "I promise I will come back angel but I need to find Ahsoka, she attacked Shaak ti and Plo Koon when they tried to bring her back to the temple" Anakin replied.
Padme looked up at Anakin confused "Why…why would she do that?" she asked. "She thinks they were trying to trick her and keep her at the temple, she doesn't know that the Jedi realized that I am alive" Anakin replied. "She was right you know, I even thought you were dead even through she tried to tell me you were alive I just wouldn't accept it. I didn't believe her when I should have" Padme said softly. "It's ok angel, once I find Ahsoka and explain to her that the Jedi did find me it will be ok" Anakin replied standing to his feet and headed back to his speeder.
"Please Ani, be careful" Padme said giving him another hug and kiss "I will angel" he replied getting in the speeder and flying off. As Anakin flew his speeder through the city he was growing more concerned for Ahsoka, he could feel a mixture of emotions coming off of her emotions that Ahsoka could easily be suppressing but they seemed to be dominating her at the moment driving her forward.
Anakin parked his speeder outside of the temple and jumped out, he began to follow Ahsoka presence that lingered in the streets. The only problem was that Ahsoka presence was practically everywhere, she must have search most of the planet trying to find him. Anakin followed the strongest and newest presence that Ahsoka left behind which lead him deep into the city. It took him most of the night to follow his padawans force signature but he could tell he was getting closer.
Anakin couldn't help but feel so grateful to have a padawan who would clearly search the entire galaxy for him, to the ends of every planet and probably into a different galaxy if she had to just to find him. She was his best friend and he knew it was likewise with her as well, they shared a very close bond with one another. Anakin knew that if Ahsoka was in his shoes he would be doing the exact same thing she was at this very moment.
Anakin must have walked for nearly twenty miles when he finally heard screams coming from a block away and his padawans force signature led that same direction. Anakin began to run as he saw people running in fear clearly something had frightened them, as he drew close her heard a female yelling. "Where is my master!" Ahsoka screamed loudly as she held a man up to the wall with the force chocking him. "P-please…i-I don't know" the man chocked out. "You said you heard something about the pilot who crashed the ship, where is he!" Ahsoka said tightening her grip around the man's throat.
Anakin crept along the corner of a building as he heard the shouting that was just on the other side. The voice sounded tired, frustrated, sad but above all angry. Anakin turned the corner and he saw Ahsoka holding a man to the wall with the force chocking him. "Tell me where he is!" Ahsoka yelled making the invisible hand clasp even tighter around the man's throat. Anakin's eyes widened at the sight of this, his padawan was attacking a innocent person. Anakin quickly analyzed Ahsoka's words, under all the tiredness, all the frustration under all anger one thing stood out. Shear desperation, she was desperate to find him, desperate to see him, desperate to be by his side again.
Ahsoka was about the silence the man's pleas when a familiar voice shouted her name "Ahsoka."
