Hey guys. Sorry for the little bit of a wait. Took longer than I meant it to. But it's up now so it's all good. It's a little short, but the next one will be good. ;-) enjoy!

"Ahsoka?" he said. "What's going on?"

"I…umm….." She just couldn't force the words out.

"She…" Rex hesitated, and then continued for her. "… can't see, Sir."

"What do you mean, she can't see. Ahsoka?" Anakin said, waiting for her to speak.

"He means, I can't see, Master," she responded, sighing.

No response. Talk people! she wanted to yell at them. Did they always have to think first? "What happened?" he asked eventually, his voice showing every bit of his shock.

Ahsoka sighed and dropped her head, though there was no point. She was just hiding her face. She was trapped.

"Master… we have to talk."

"Of all the stupid, reckless, irresponsible things you could ever think of, this has got to be a winner!" He'd been yelling for so long, Anakin wasn't even looking at her anymore.

Ahsoka wasn't looking at him either. Instead, she stared into space across her room. At least she could see the room now. A trip to the medical bay and a little treatment for her head injury had returned her sight. Though, at the moment, she suspected her hearing might be in danger.

"What were thinking keeping something like this from me?" Anakin yelled, but he didn't wait for an answer before continuing with his rant. "You weren't! That's what you were thinking!"

After Ahsoka could see again, she had told her master everything. Then, they had contacted Brianna and Atristian. Brianna said the blindness was probably a combination of the poison and the head trauma. It wasn't a natural effect of the toxin.

When they broke the connection, she and her master went to her room. Anakin was furious, and by unspoken agreement, they'd both decided that the bridge wasn't the best place to have the blow out. So they waited until they were in private. Which brought them to this moment.

Anakin was still pacing back and forth, yelling at no one in particular, it seemed. Ahsoka decided to wait for him to get it all out of his system before she would start yelling back. She was using his blow up time to plan out what she would say.

Eventually, his voice went down a bit and he stopped pacing to stand in front of her and stare her down. "Really Ahsoka. What were you thinking?" he said, still angry.

"I didn't…want you to worry," she said, telling him the truth for the first time in a while. "I didn't want you worrying about me while we were fighting. Which you know you would have."

Anakin didn't respond for a moment. Then he spoke as though he thought it through, careful to leave her with no loopholes. "You should have let me worry about that."

Ahsoka frowned. Though she expected an answer like that, she didn't like hearing it. Luckily, she had a different tactic ready. "Another reason is that you wouldn't have let me fight, and then you wouldn't have had any back up." Her voice rose as she got towards the end of her statement.

"Well you're sure right on one point," Anakin retorted. "I'm not letting you go into battle while you're sick."

"We don't have a choice!"

"You are not going out there!" Anakin repeated, carefully enunciating each word.

"And yet you wonder what I was thinking not telling you!" Ahsoka shouted, jumping to her feet. She became a little dizzy at the sudden movement and her head hurt, but she was so angry that it didn't slow her down. "Master, you know that would put us at a huge disadvantage!" Ahsoka didn't mean to sound so pompous, but it was true, and they both knew it.

"It doesn't matter! I am your Master! It is my job to teach you and keep you safe!"

Ahsoka saw a good opening. She wanted to say the words calmly but there was adrenaline in her veins, making her feel like she was in a battle. She couldn't keep her voice low. "You're right. You are the Master. And that makes me the Padawan." The amount of attitude in her voice probably hindered her words effectiveness, but she couldn't manage to keep it out of her voice. She took a step towards Anakin. "And it's the job of a Padawan to complete the mission. No matter the cost."

Anakin stared at her, his expression torn. And also upset. And lastly, angry. He didn't like her words. Because he knew they were true, and there was nothing he could do.

Ahsoka crossed her arms over her chest. She continued to stare determinedly up at her master's face.

Finally, Anakin let out a breath. Squeezing his eyes shut, he reach a hand up and rubbed them with his thumb and forefinger. When he dropped his hand, he looked down and Ahsoka with tired-looking eyes. "Fine. But you do everything that I tell you to do, exactly when I tell you to do it, no matter what is going on. Do you understand me?"

Ahsoka's eyes narrowed, but she figured this was the only way Anakin wouldn't lock her up somewhere. "Fine," she said sourly.

It was silent for a moment while they glared at each other, neither one happy at the other's words.

Eventually, Ahsoka grew tired of the silence. She felt weird asking questions but she wanted to know what they were doing now, and what had happened to Obi-wan. "Have you talked to Master Kenobi?" she asked, letting the irritation melt from her features.

Anakin, also, allowed the angry mask fade from his face, only to have a stressed look take its place. "Yeah I did. There's yet another issue."

Oh no! Ahsoka thought franticly. Had something happened to Obi-wan?

"Don't worry," her master told her, seeing her anxious expression. "Nothing happened. I mean, no one got hurt."

"Well, what did happen?"

Anakin paused, before responding. "One of the ships got through Obi-wan's attack."

Ahsoka's eyes widen. If one of the ships from Kallee got away too, that meant the Separatists had pieces from all three factories. Meaning that they had all of the pieces they needed to make at least one of their bombs. Not good.

"Yeah," Anakin stated, again reading her expression well. "We'll have to move fast. Come on," he said, resting a hand lightly on her shoulder, and pulling her to follow. He tugged a bit rougher than expected, making Ahsoka suspect he was still a bit mad at her for keeping her condition a secret. But now wasn't the time to comment. Not if she wanted answers. She would bring it up later.

Anakin led her back to the bridge, where Ahsoka realized that they were already moving through hyperspace. No doubt headed for Bestine IV.

"We're not far from Bestine IV now."

Knew it.

"What do we do when we get there?" Ahsoka asked.

"Well, like I said, we're going to have to be moving pretty fast," Anakin started. "Because of the positioning of the factory, we won't be able to go in unnoticed. We'll meet with a lot of resistance before we even land."

Ahsoka nodded. "Are we going in by gunship, or fighters?" she questioned. "Or are we dropping?"

"I want to go in by fighter," Anakin stated, but then continued. "But I think gunship would work better. We'll have fighters around though. We'll need someone to draw fire away from the gunships, or we'll be finished before we even get close."

"How soon?"

"We'll be launching as soon as we arrive. Rex should be getting the troops together now."

Ahsoka raised an eyemark. "What about Master Kenobi? Is he already there waiting for us?"

Her master shook his head, but said nothing, suddenly interested in the familiar blue lights of hyperspace.

"Master?" Ahsoka said, eyeing him suspiciously

"He's tied up at Kalee. We're going in without him."

Ahsoka paused for minute, then replied in a concerned voice "That's awful risky, going in without backup."

"We don't have a choice. This situation has gone from urgent to critical. We can't afford to wait." He sounded as though he had said all this before. It sounded rehearsed. She knew him well enough to know what that probably meant. Again, she looked at him through narrowed eyes.

"Does Master Kenobi know that we're going in without him?" she asked, already knowing the answer.

"Not exactly," Anakin admitted, but he was quick to continue. "I didn't say it outright, though... I'm sure he'd guessed it."

Ahsoka turned her eyes to the ground, her brow wrinkling. She felt her master's stare on her.

"Don't worry, Snips. By the time we get there, Obi-wan won't be far behind," Anakin said softly.

She nodded, but didn't respond.

"Hey," he said, trying to get her to look at him.

She lifted her eyes to his face.

"We'll be fine, Ahsoka. But listen, if something happens, and you get in trouble, run. Or if you're trapped, yell to me. I'm not going to be far away," he promised.

She couldn't resist smiling wryly at him. "Its okay, Master. I've been dealing with this for four days. I'll be fine."

Anakin sighed and stared at her.

Ahsoka decided 'later' had arrived. "Are you mad at me?" she questioned bluntly.

Anakin seemed to think for a second. "No," he said. "Not right now anyway," he expounded.

Ahsoka pursed her lips, then, due to his last statement, rephrased the question. "Are you going to be mad at me with this is over?"

"I don't know. Ask me again when you're cured."

"If I'm cured," Ahsoka added. Though she said it to herself in the softest breath, her master heard her.

"When you're cured, Ahsoka," he said firmly, if not angrily. "When," he said softly although, it sounded as though he was speaking to himself now. "When."

Like I said, shorter than the last few ones, but the next one should be a good one. :-) Stay tuned! Thanks for reading, and review please!