Ahsoka details everything to a shocked Obi-Wan and Rex. They debate what to do with Maul when he wakes up. When he does, Ahsoka gets in a heated argument with Maul, but discloses her pregnancy and the situation of Luke and Obi-Wan to Maul. Maul's revenge seeking is neutralized, and he and Ahsoka have a painful reconciliation. Kenobi and Maul make a temporary truce.

Rex had arrived shortly after Obi-Wan, as the latter had called him as well to come to Ahsoka's aid. The scene that came into view was something Rex hadn't expected: Darth Maul unconscious and tied to a chair, Ahsoka's tear-stained face, and Obi-Wan burying his head in his hands as they were in the middle of an argument. It was all a lot to take in and very confusing.

"Please tell me this is not real," Obi-Wan said in disbelief.

"It is," Ahsoka replied sheepishly.

"How?!"

"Commander?" Rex said worriedly to both Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, interrupting their heated conversation. "What is he doing here?" he added, pointing to Maul.

"Good question, Rex. Why is Maul here?" Obi-Wan demanded.

"He was looking for you, master, and found me instead. I don't know how, I've masked my Force signature from him since I left," she murmured solemnly. Rex's eyes darted between them, his curiosity spiking.

"What do you mean 'since you left'?" Rex asked. I guess I have to come clean now, she thought nervously.

"Rex, Maul and I were… together, romantically," she murmured anxiously, as though she was expecting either of them to slap her for it, although she knew they never would. Not physically, at least. Rex's eyes widened in shock, and Obi-Wan only shook his head in shame and disbelief.

"And he's…" Rex stuttered, pointing at her stomach.

"Yes."

"How? Without giving me an anatomy lesson," Obi-Wan demanded exasperatedly.

"I don't know! I shouldn't be, but the child is his. Master Yoda confirmed it on Dagobah, and I haven't… you know… with anyone else. Something about the Force, I don't know! I left after I found out, I panicked..." Ahsoka explained. Obi-Wan's eyes narrowed.

"Anakin was born from the Force. You're saying this happened to you as well?" he asked her.

"It must be," Ahsoka replied solemnly. "I only want what's best for my child. She's a clean slate, and she's innocent despite her father's past…" she trailed off defensively. Obi-Wan couldn't argue on that, but the fact remained that Maul would wake any moment now. Ahsoka's curiosity got the better of her.

"What do we do with Maul?"

"Him being alive at all now is endangering everyone's life involved in Luke's existence, including Luke. I cannot allow that to happen. If he came here to duel, then duel we shall, but I will not lose," Obi-Wan said harshly. "Did he come for the child as well?"

"No, he didn't even know I was pregnant until right before you came. I wasn't planning on telling him at all but while we were dueling… Well, I worried about the baby.. I don't know what he thinks about it," she said. Ahsoka wondered if he would be angry, or delighted, or skeptical of the child being his. She felt incredibly worried, and even more so with his fate hanging by a thread if Obi-Wan were to battle him.

"I say this for the best interest of everyone involved, that I think it's best we execute Maul now while he is not a threat. I know, it's beneath us all to kill an unarmed and unconscious man, but given the circumstances of it being a Sith Lord…" Rex trailed off. Ahsoka's brow furrowed as she placed herself between Maul and her two friends.

"No, I won't allow it," she choked. Despite everything, she was still madly in love with Maul. If she had to duel Obi-Wan or Rex to protect him, she would. Even her words while she and Maul fought in regards to having to kill him were hollow- she didn't have it in her to hurt him anymore than she already had.

"Ahsoka, I might agree with you to let him wake, but so long as Maul lives, the lives of all of us are endangered. Think of Luke and your child most of all," Obi-Wan warned. He's right, and that's as good as it'll get, Ahsoka thought.

"I love him, Obi-Wan. He's the father of my child. Wait until he wakes up, please. Let me talk to him. You don't know him like I do. He's not who you think he is. Please," she bargained. Rex shook his head in disagreement, but Kenobi at least agreed on letting him wake. Killing a sleeping enemy was beneath him, even if it was Maul, the man who killed Qui-Gon Jinn and his lover Satine, among thousands of others.

"We will wait until he regains consciousness before making a decision, but I cannot promise that I will not take his life if he so decides on combat. You were naive in involving yourself with the likes of Darth Maul," Obi-Wan warned. Ahsoka breathed a sigh of relief, although she worried greatly about the man she loved. Please, Maul, don't try anything when you wake up, she thought. Even more so, she worried about what he'd think about her carrying his unborn child. Could there be any resolution? she thought.

xxx

Maul awoke not long after they waited, maybe less than an hour. His head throbbed painfully, and as he regained consciousness, his veins filled with a rage he had never felt before. Above him gawked the eyes of his former mate who abandoned him, the man who banished him to a decade of suffering and permanent disfigurement, and a clone who tried to kill him previously. Ahsoka could sense the spike immediately.

"Maul, calm-" Ahsoka barely started.

"You," Maul snarled like a rabid dog after Kenobi. He tried to reach for his saber only to find it was gone, Kenobi holding it in one hand while his own thrummed as a warning. Realizing he was unarmed did nothing to calm his rage. "I have waited ten years for this moment, and even that you have taken from me!" he screamed.

"I have taken nothing from you you did not lose or give yourself. Speak with Ahsoka and your unfinished business with her first, then we will settle this," Obi-Wan retorted.

"My business with the Togruta is none of your concern-"

"Oh, but I disagree. I've known Ahsoka for far longer than you, and given the situation for her wellbeing it is entirely my business." Ahsoka could feel an immeasurable anger searing the bond with Maul. She tried to soothe the energy in her mind, to which Maul whipped his head to face her.

She's pregnant, how fucking dare she, he thought viciously. Maul knew given his situation that it could not be his, and now the betrayal of her leaving pained him tenfold. A biting need to know who shared her body behind his back gnawed at him. Even his hatred for Kenobi did not measure how volcanically angry he was at this moment. Someone got her fucking pregnant, and it wasn't me.

"How long was it going on?!" he snarled in a manic rage. The question caught her off guard.

"What do you mean?"

"It's Lux's, is it not?" he demanded. I'll kill him, I'll kill him, I'll-

"No, it's not-"

"Then which one of them does it belong to? Tell me!" Maul snarled. He felt a rage he'd never felt before begin to rise in him where his body visibly shook. Maul broke through the restraints on the chair with ease, standing up to face Ahsoka. Obi-Wan readied his weapon, but Ahsoka motioned with her hand for him to yield. Maul stood inches from Ahsoka's face, his yellow eyes wild with jealousy and hate. If it's Kenobi's…

"She's yours," Ahsoka replied flatly. She was beginning to feel angry that he doubted her faithfulness, although she fully prepared herself for his doubt considering his anatomical impediment. She, Maul thought with a pang. Ahsoka's having a daughter. Maul scoffed at her reply.

"Mine? Your lies have gotten lazier and lazier," he gritted. "Is it Kenobi's? Or the clone's? Or did you have them both at the same time? Do you even know who it belongs to seeing how you whored yourself out like a-" Maul seethed at her before Ahsoka's hand quickly made contact with the side of his face, interrupting his tirade.

Slap.

Obi-Wan and Rex's eyes widened in shock. They had their hands anxiously holding their weapons ready for Maul to kill Ahsoka right there.

How dare you, Ahsoka bit out in the Force. Maul's only response was acute rage. No one except Sidious had ever raised a hand to Maul like that and lived. Obi-Wan and Rex watched in awe, fully expecting Maul to kill Ahsoka. Instead they looked on at his restraint in doing so.

Maul was beyond angry. He was angry that she would lie to him blatantly like this against scientific reasoning. He was angry she was pregnant with another man's child. He was angry she wouldn't disclose the father. He was angry this was being hashed in front of Kenobi. Several seconds of his homicidal glare pierced into her. Obi-Wan was surprised Maul didn't retaliate whatsoever. Even he could feel the deep sorrow and pain emanating from his nemesis. Anyone in the room could see it on Maul's face. He loves her, Obi-Wan thought in awe.

"Whose is it," Maul's gravelly voice demanded lowly.

"She's yours. I promise. I'm not lying and you are the only one I've ever been with. I can prove it," Ahsoka reasoned.

"How is it mine? She can't be," Maul argued. Part of him desperately wanted Ahsoka to be telling the truth despite the impossibility. A possessiveness filled him with the thought of her stomach swelling with his child. On the other hand, he was immensely skeptical. Obi-Wan interjected.

"Anakin was born to a mother who never had… relations. He was born of the Force. It's so rare I've only heard of one case, but the Force works in mysterious ways. I believe what Ahsoka says is true, and if this is the case, something in the Force has joined the two of you together in this child," Obi-Wan said. Maul only gave him an icy stare.

"It doesn't change the fact that I will destroy you by morning," he snarled.

"If you kill me now, you will be endangering the only hope this galaxy has for destroying Sidious and Anakin," Obi-Wan argued.

"Who is the child?" Maul demanded to know, referring to Luke.

"The Chosen One. Anakin's son, who I will defend to my dying breath," Obi-Wan growled. Maul sighed, feeling as though the room were spinning. Ahsoka pulled his face gently back to face hers, which he swatted away angrily.

"No, you've lost that right to touch me so freely," he snapped before his tone turned a bit softer in his curiosity. "How do you know she is mine? Tell me everything, now."

"I went back to Dagobah after I found out. Master Yoda foresaw her… Zabrak features," Ahsoka murmured.

"For the sake of argument this is true, which I cannot reasonably fathom, you left me knowing you were carrying my child? My child?!" Maul snapped. Ahsoka felt guilty.

"I didn't know what to do, I panicked! I never even thought about being pregnant until one of the medical droids tested me for it when I was sick. I took six more to confirm, and then Lux told me about your little 'plan' for Anakin… How could you? How could I have a child with someone who lied to me like that? How could I tell you without you going nuclear or not believing me? I didn't know if I would keep it. I didn't even know if it was yours, I didn't think it could be yours, I thought someone had done something horrible to me and I panicked," Ahsoka cried. Now it was Maul's turn to feel guilty. He wanted to reach out to her, but the pain and anger inside him were still too raw.

"I am sorry, but I have only ever had your safety in mind. If I had to destroy the entire galaxy and everyone in it to keep you safe, I would, and if that meant starting with Skywalker against your wishes, I will not apologize for that. But I am sorry for everything else," Maul murmured hoarsely, trying to keep his emotions at bay. He was still doubtful of the whole situation, which Ahsoka could sense.

"I have my first ultrasound this week. Come with me and you'll see I'm not lying," Ahsoka murmured. Maul eyed her intensely, but only nodded in response. Suddenly, Obi-Wan coughed and interrupted the former couple's heart wrenching argument.

"I cannot have Maul on Tatooine, and I cannot have him leave either. Regardless of your interpersonal relations, however foolish I know them to be, he is evil. He is not to be trusted, and his knowledge of Luke makes his being here inevitable- dead or alive."

"I have no designs for the child. If he is the Chosen One destined to bring down my master, so be it- you are the only one I will see dead. Furthermore, I will not leave Lady Tano until I know for certain whether the child is mine, and I shall go wherever I please without your blessing," Maul snarled at him.

"Stop, both of you. No one is going to kill each other," Ahsoka snapped.

"That is none of your business," Maul growled at her.

"It is as long as you are here. Obi-Wan, Rex, and Luke are off limits," Ahsoka argued. Maul's eyes narrowed.

"Kenobi's head is all I want unless that child is mine. If it isn't, I will take my revenge and leave never to be seen again. Do you understand me?" Maul gritted.

"And if she is yours like I know she is?" Ahsoka challenged. Maul had not processed the reality of Ahsoka carrying his child enough to make a decision. He said nothing, his body relaxing slightly with a deep exhale. He did not respond, but the way his eyes bored into her answered Ahsoka's question. She could feel the wild protectiveness burning inside him. He wants it to be his, he wants me, she thought.

"This is madness!" Obi-Wan argued.

"Maul will not harm you or anyone on this planet until he sees my child is also his. If it isn't, you two can duel as you please- and if it is like I know she is…" Ahsoka trailed off, not knowing what to say. Maul wouldn't leave, and I would not allow him to kill Obi-Wan or vice versa.

"You're proposing a truce," Maul scoffed.

"Yes," she replied adamantly. This caught everyone off guard, the three men shuffling uncomfortably at the proposal.

"I refuse. This is reckless," Obi-Wan protested.

"There isn't any other choice until this is sorted," Ahsoka retorted. "If you both wish to fight one another, you would also have to fight me." Obi-Wan and Maul differed in every aspect of life, but if there was one thing they had in common was a love for Ahsoka- and fighting a pregnant woman they both cared deeply about was not an option.

"I will not leave her," Maul growled at Obi-Wan.

"I will not allow you to," Obi-Wan retorted.

"Fine, then. It's settled," Ahsoka muttered. Obi-Wan shook his head irritably, as did Maul. They discussed details and decided to keep Maul away from Luke, leaving Ahsoka and Maul alone together in Aunt Beru's vacant hut off property. Obi-Wan and Rex left shortly after with Luke, leaving Ahsoka and Maul uncomfortably alone together for the first time in over a month. His eyes glassed over her, and Ahsoka looked sheepishly at the floor.

"I'm sorry," Ahsoka murmured after a while. Maul only exhaled deeply. She didn't know whether he had accepted her apology or not, but decided on leaving the silence between them. Ahsoka got ready for bed, laying down tiredly on the bed. Maul took the couch, both of them secretly wishing to be in each other's arms again.

"Goodnight, Maul," she whispered from afar.

"Goodnight, Lady Tano," he replied tiredly.