Chapter Three
New threat revealed cont.
Luke woke up feeling worse then he already had. They say a human has three bones in his ear, he believed it because he could count all three. He slowly shifted in the bed and felt pain shoot up and down his entire body; the only part of him that didn't hurt was the biotic hand, one bright spot he mused. He looked at 21B and asked if he did anything. The med droid replied, "Treatment is complete, you need to rest. Do you need help getting to sleep?"
Luke shook his head, "no." He knew he had to learn how to use Jedi healing, and fast. 21B replied, "If you need help then don't hesitate to ask."
The next thought caught up to him. Luke wanted to know how Wedge was; they had almost lost him. "How is Wedge?" He asked.
21B answered, "Fine sir, we were able to save his fingers, he will be up with in a day."
Luke nodded; wondering why an Imperial Governor would spend so many credits on a message. He suddenly remembered his father. "How is Lord Vader doing?"
21B reported, "It will take several days to heal, but he will be fine."
Luke sighed with relief as he heard this. Luke slowly sat up and painfully swung his legs off the bed, and stayed still for a few minutes trying to get the pain under control. Artoo squealed in alarm and 21B came around the corner, "Please sir, lay back down, your condition will become chronic if you do not lay back down and rest."
Luke shook his head and was not about to give up, he needed to talk to his father, and find out what that message was about. "21B I bet you got a repulsor chair don't you?" Luke asked ready to pull rank.
Mon Mothma walked in while Luke re-asked the question ready to use his status as a commander of the military to get a repulsor chair, she smiled inwardly wondering how much Luke and Anakin were in comparison to stubbornness. " 21B, I order you not to let Commander Skywalker out of your sights." She turned her attention to Luke who was sitting up. "Lay back down commander, you're in no condition to be up." Luke looked over surprised at the tone of her voice. "Leia told me your secret, actually yelled it out is a better word to use. You're as stubborn as your father. Lay back down or I will have 21B knock you out with Anakins consent." Luke sighed as he lay back down. Now Mon Mothma knows? How many more people were going to find out about this?
Mon Mothma saw the look on Luke's face at the mention of his father, obviously he was not ready to reveal in the relations quite just yet, she couldn't blame him, they probably wanted to work out some things before telling anyone. "I am not going to say anything, it is your secret and Leia's." She promised knowing that it was not her place to tell, unless she had permission first.
Luke nodded in understanding; this had to come by as a real shock to the Alliance leader, he felt unsure of this himself. Luke glanced at her as he said with complete sincerity. "Thank you--for taking him in. I am in your debt."
Mon Mothma nodded as her voice softened; "Don't mention it. Now I know why you and Leia were insistent on getting him medical treatment. Any child would want to do the same thing."
Luke listened in silence knowing that this was not an easy thing for her to say. Luke was surprised to hear the part about being stubborn like his father, but he quickly put that thought away, his father was not one for lying down and neither was he, or Leia, now that he thought about it. Leia would bleed to death, shooting down fighters if it came down to it. He told Mon Mothma as much. She was quick to agree.
Luke thought over the message, here was his chance to find out what it was about, "What about that message? Someone spent a quarter million credits."
Mon Mothma replied; " I will get you a data pad, so you can study it, there is an invasion army out in the Bakura system, they are taking prisoners, maybe your father might know something about it. We decided to send a small task force there; we are hoping they will defect over to the alliance. We are sending Leia as our chief negotiator. Wedge has been given command of the task force."
Luke nodded as she quickly added, "I will let you get your rest." She turned and walked out of the room walking to the nearest communicator.
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Mon Mothma sat back in her chair, she just sent off a report to everyone who was at the meeting earlier. She did not mention the part about Vader being Luke and Leias father, she promised Luke she would not say anything until the three were ready. She did not want to do the report live. If they saw the look on her face as she reported, they would know that she was not telling them everything. She was shaking as her thoughts lingered on the way Leia said that Luke was her twin brother, and Vader was their father.
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Report on Current situation aboard the med frigate Star Dream
Reasons that Lord Vader has defected: he has turned back to the lightside and wants to make amends. Commander Skywalker says he owes Lord Vader his life. That is why he wanted to save him. We are not to judge Lord Vader's crimes, since he was a sith lord, his punishment will be up to a jedi. I already know the kind off punishment Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker will give. I can almost guarantee that he will give Lord Vader a second chance to fully redeem himself."
Signed
Mon Mothma
P.S. here is the message that was intercepted by Captain Antillies.
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Madine leaned back in his chair, something is going on and now Mon Mothma is being secretive about it. This is not like her to type up a report like this, it is way too short, even for her. He thought. What ever it was--he will eventually find out. He looked back at his data pad, he read the message from the drone, and then he watched the video that was attached. The blood drained from his face, taking prisoners was odd for an invasion force.
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Later that evening Luke sat up on the bed and used the force to locate all the pain in his body to one end while he stood up and used Artoo to steady himself, he leaned against the wall and slowly made his way to a repulsor chair someone had carelessly left out. Artoo followed him not about to let Luke out of his site. Luke gingerly sat down in the chair; it felt like his nerves were on fire. He activated the repulsor chair and started off down the hall searching for his father's presence, he hoped against hope that he was awake. Artoo followed him with nervous beeps as they entered his father's room.
Anakin glanced over as his son came into the room followed by a nervous Artoo; he smiled as he thought that Luke was like him in that retrospect. He was stubborn and like him probably now has a date with a sedative needle. His smile faded with concern in his voice, "You should not be up. I wonder what kind off words 21B might say."
Luke smiled as he rolled to a stop by his father's bed, "Bring it on. The reason I am here is because I need to talk to you about something."
"Go on." Anakin encouraged him.
Luke took a deep breath as he asked; "I need to know if you are angry with me for not letting you die?"
Anakin was startled to hear this, he turned away as he thought about what his son just asked him; he did not want Luke to think like that. But his son has also put himself into a position that is hard to explain. Well not hard, just unsettling. He glanced back in his son's eyes; "I do not want to hear you say that. Don't ever think like that for a second. I know that you and Leia are taking a risk on my behalf, and that I am truly grateful."
Luke resided as he heard this and then perked up as he thought about the drone message, "Wedge intercepted a drone message, from Bakura. There is an invasion army, and they are taking prisoners. Do you have any idea what that is about?"
Anakin shuddered at the thought; he knew all right what they were doing out there and the news was not good.
Luke watched him for reactions, as soon as his father showed recognition, "you know what they are doing with their prisoners. Don't you?" Luke prompted him.
Anakin nodded as he remembered what the emperor told him about the deal he made with the Ssi Rukk, and what they did with their prisoners. Anakin looked back at his son. "I need to talk to Mon Mothma and the rest of the Alliance leaders. Luke, the Ssi Ruuk, take prisoners and entech them to power up their technology and fighter droids with." Luke paled as he heard this. "The emperor told them that he would hand soldiers over for some fighter droids in return. But since the emperor is dead, the deal cannot go through."
Luke nodded as he thought over the situation, it sounded bad, he would have to somehow convince the Alliance leaders to hand the assignment over to him.
Anakin looked into his son's eyes and read what he was thinking. "You want to go? Don't you?"
Luke replied, "Yes, Leia is being sent as the top negotiator. I feel that I have to go. I am going to talk them into handing the assignment over to me." Anakin nodded, not knowing what to think, both of his children were heading off into danger, than again he knew they were capable of taking care of them selves.
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A doctor walked through the door with a disapproval frown on his features as he eyed the two conversing, "Commander Skywalker you should not be up. Your condition will become chronic if you do not lie back down and rest." Luke looked over startled at being interrupted, he wondered if his father would try and stop him after hearing about how his true condition was.
Anakin eyed the doctor and was concerned to hear this. His concerned gaze turned back on his son. "You better go back, before he decides that Sedatives are in order." Anakin half jokingly said. His grin grew even wider as he remembered that he should've been in bed and the doctor did have to use sedatives on him. Anakin turned his attention to the doctor and asked. "Could you leave us for a few minutes?" He needed to try and talk some sense into Luke about foolish ideas, and running off into danger while being in pain could only get him killed.
The doctor nodded as he replied, "You have five minutes, after that I have to take him back to his room." He took one look at Luke and Vader trying to figure out what was going on as he walked out.
Anakin turned back to his son. "You are in no condition to go."
Luke shook his head stubbornly ready to argue the point, "I will be healed by the time we reach there. I will spend most of the time in a healing trance."
Anakin shook his head in disbelief. "You do realize that you are truly my son, one word can describe both of us, stubborn." Luke smiled while nodding in agreement. "Luke, you really should stay here."
"And why is that? Didn't you do something similar?" Luke questioned him further, "or is it because you do not want to be left on homeone without Leia or I for several weeks to back you up?"
Anakin felt shock roll through him, he was prepared to face any consequences the rebellion decided to throw at him and he was willing to stand trial, plus his remark stung. "Luke, I bet you can't even stand without having to lean against something, hence my concern for you." Anakin argued with concern in his voice. "You really should not go." Anakin eyed him and noted Luke was silently agreeing even if he didn't like it.
"I am going end of discussion." Luke finalized with conviction in his voice.
Anakin shook his head, ready to argue his point further but realized that Luke had made up his mind. Anakin thought over some things, if he was going to spend some time in a healing trance then he could at least give Luke some lessons in those areas. "Luke, connect up to me through the force and I will teach you how to heal yourself in a short period of time."
Luke did what his father asked him to do. Anakin demonstrated to him what Obi Wan showed him a long time ago. Luke felt his fathers joy of returning back to the lightside, but he also felt the pain of two decades. The darkness his father had endured for a long time. He also saw the way he was hurting after what he did to his family and friends, all the people he killed in cold blood for making one mistake, no matter how trivial it was. He saw what his father wanted him to know.
After the connection was broken, Anakin signaled for the doctor to come back in. When the doctor approached Luke, Anakin whispered, "You need to get your rest son." Luke suddenly felt tired and everyone split into two, he knew that he needed to get horizontal soon, the last thing he needed was to pass out and worry his father even more.
Anakin turned his gaze on the doctor "Please see him back to his room."
The doctor replied; "You have no say in this Lord Vader, unless you are a parent or blood relative."
Anakin shot back, "I am his father and I am looking out for my sons well being."
The doctor replied in defeat, so that is what they are hiding. "As you say sir." With that he walked Luke back to his room, he was shivering all the way down to the bone after Vader said that he was Skywalker's father.
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Instead of following Luke and the doctor back, Artoo rolled back to Anakin's bed and beeped some things at him. "What is it Artoo?" Anakin asked wondering if Artoo missed memory wipes.
Artoo rolled over to a com and plugged in bringing up some files on Anakin, and beeped in excitement.
Anakin sighed as he stood up and gingerly made his way over to see what Artoo was so excited about, he looked down and read the files and knew that somehow Artoo missed his memory wipes from a long time ago. He glanced over at the translation box.
// WELCOME BACK ANI //
And if anyone saw that they would try some way to make fun of him with his nickname. He sighed as Artoo moved under him and let Anakin lean against him.
// DOES LUKE KNOW ABOUT YOU AND THREEPIO? //
Anakin shook his head, "No and I would appreciate it if you kept quiet about that."
Artoo beeped an agreement. As he tweetled some rebukes, probably 21B left instructions with him to make sure he stayed in bed, if they missed memory wipes and he remembered the med room personal programmed in rebukes when he ended up in the infirm more then a few times and it hasn't been wiped, the thought hit him faster then a lightning bolt, oh force, the program was still in tact. "Ok, take it easy. I'm going back." Artoo slowly led him back to the bed, and waited patiently as Anakin lowered himself back down on the bed and lay down. Once Anakin was lying back down Artoo rolled to the door and hit the close button.
Anakin shifted around trying to find a comfortable position, but every move he made resulted in more aches in his body. He finally gave up, and just stayed still while he eyed Artoo, he didn't even realize he missed that droid until now. "I think you better head back to Luke's room before he decides to come looking for you."
Artoo beeped an enquiry at Anakin.
"I'm sure just go." Anakin replied as he guessed the gist of it.
Artoo rolled to the door and unlocked it, once outside he locked the door and continued to Luke's room.
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New threat revealed cont.
Luke woke up feeling worse then he already had. They say a human has three bones in his ear, he believed it because he could count all three. He slowly shifted in the bed and felt pain shoot up and down his entire body; the only part of him that didn't hurt was the biotic hand, one bright spot he mused. He looked at 21B and asked if he did anything. The med droid replied, "Treatment is complete, you need to rest. Do you need help getting to sleep?"
Luke shook his head, "no." He knew he had to learn how to use Jedi healing, and fast. 21B replied, "If you need help then don't hesitate to ask."
The next thought caught up to him. Luke wanted to know how Wedge was; they had almost lost him. "How is Wedge?" He asked.
21B answered, "Fine sir, we were able to save his fingers, he will be up with in a day."
Luke nodded; wondering why an Imperial Governor would spend so many credits on a message. He suddenly remembered his father. "How is Lord Vader doing?"
21B reported, "It will take several days to heal, but he will be fine."
Luke sighed with relief as he heard this. Luke slowly sat up and painfully swung his legs off the bed, and stayed still for a few minutes trying to get the pain under control. Artoo squealed in alarm and 21B came around the corner, "Please sir, lay back down, your condition will become chronic if you do not lay back down and rest."
Luke shook his head and was not about to give up, he needed to talk to his father, and find out what that message was about. "21B I bet you got a repulsor chair don't you?" Luke asked ready to pull rank.
Mon Mothma walked in while Luke re-asked the question ready to use his status as a commander of the military to get a repulsor chair, she smiled inwardly wondering how much Luke and Anakin were in comparison to stubbornness. " 21B, I order you not to let Commander Skywalker out of your sights." She turned her attention to Luke who was sitting up. "Lay back down commander, you're in no condition to be up." Luke looked over surprised at the tone of her voice. "Leia told me your secret, actually yelled it out is a better word to use. You're as stubborn as your father. Lay back down or I will have 21B knock you out with Anakins consent." Luke sighed as he lay back down. Now Mon Mothma knows? How many more people were going to find out about this?
Mon Mothma saw the look on Luke's face at the mention of his father, obviously he was not ready to reveal in the relations quite just yet, she couldn't blame him, they probably wanted to work out some things before telling anyone. "I am not going to say anything, it is your secret and Leia's." She promised knowing that it was not her place to tell, unless she had permission first.
Luke nodded in understanding; this had to come by as a real shock to the Alliance leader, he felt unsure of this himself. Luke glanced at her as he said with complete sincerity. "Thank you--for taking him in. I am in your debt."
Mon Mothma nodded as her voice softened; "Don't mention it. Now I know why you and Leia were insistent on getting him medical treatment. Any child would want to do the same thing."
Luke listened in silence knowing that this was not an easy thing for her to say. Luke was surprised to hear the part about being stubborn like his father, but he quickly put that thought away, his father was not one for lying down and neither was he, or Leia, now that he thought about it. Leia would bleed to death, shooting down fighters if it came down to it. He told Mon Mothma as much. She was quick to agree.
Luke thought over the message, here was his chance to find out what it was about, "What about that message? Someone spent a quarter million credits."
Mon Mothma replied; " I will get you a data pad, so you can study it, there is an invasion army out in the Bakura system, they are taking prisoners, maybe your father might know something about it. We decided to send a small task force there; we are hoping they will defect over to the alliance. We are sending Leia as our chief negotiator. Wedge has been given command of the task force."
Luke nodded as she quickly added, "I will let you get your rest." She turned and walked out of the room walking to the nearest communicator.
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Mon Mothma sat back in her chair, she just sent off a report to everyone who was at the meeting earlier. She did not mention the part about Vader being Luke and Leias father, she promised Luke she would not say anything until the three were ready. She did not want to do the report live. If they saw the look on her face as she reported, they would know that she was not telling them everything. She was shaking as her thoughts lingered on the way Leia said that Luke was her twin brother, and Vader was their father.
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Report on Current situation aboard the med frigate Star Dream
Reasons that Lord Vader has defected: he has turned back to the lightside and wants to make amends. Commander Skywalker says he owes Lord Vader his life. That is why he wanted to save him. We are not to judge Lord Vader's crimes, since he was a sith lord, his punishment will be up to a jedi. I already know the kind off punishment Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker will give. I can almost guarantee that he will give Lord Vader a second chance to fully redeem himself."
Signed
Mon Mothma
P.S. here is the message that was intercepted by Captain Antillies.
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Madine leaned back in his chair, something is going on and now Mon Mothma is being secretive about it. This is not like her to type up a report like this, it is way too short, even for her. He thought. What ever it was--he will eventually find out. He looked back at his data pad, he read the message from the drone, and then he watched the video that was attached. The blood drained from his face, taking prisoners was odd for an invasion force.
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Later that evening Luke sat up on the bed and used the force to locate all the pain in his body to one end while he stood up and used Artoo to steady himself, he leaned against the wall and slowly made his way to a repulsor chair someone had carelessly left out. Artoo followed him not about to let Luke out of his site. Luke gingerly sat down in the chair; it felt like his nerves were on fire. He activated the repulsor chair and started off down the hall searching for his father's presence, he hoped against hope that he was awake. Artoo followed him with nervous beeps as they entered his father's room.
Anakin glanced over as his son came into the room followed by a nervous Artoo; he smiled as he thought that Luke was like him in that retrospect. He was stubborn and like him probably now has a date with a sedative needle. His smile faded with concern in his voice, "You should not be up. I wonder what kind off words 21B might say."
Luke smiled as he rolled to a stop by his father's bed, "Bring it on. The reason I am here is because I need to talk to you about something."
"Go on." Anakin encouraged him.
Luke took a deep breath as he asked; "I need to know if you are angry with me for not letting you die?"
Anakin was startled to hear this, he turned away as he thought about what his son just asked him; he did not want Luke to think like that. But his son has also put himself into a position that is hard to explain. Well not hard, just unsettling. He glanced back in his son's eyes; "I do not want to hear you say that. Don't ever think like that for a second. I know that you and Leia are taking a risk on my behalf, and that I am truly grateful."
Luke resided as he heard this and then perked up as he thought about the drone message, "Wedge intercepted a drone message, from Bakura. There is an invasion army, and they are taking prisoners. Do you have any idea what that is about?"
Anakin shuddered at the thought; he knew all right what they were doing out there and the news was not good.
Luke watched him for reactions, as soon as his father showed recognition, "you know what they are doing with their prisoners. Don't you?" Luke prompted him.
Anakin nodded as he remembered what the emperor told him about the deal he made with the Ssi Rukk, and what they did with their prisoners. Anakin looked back at his son. "I need to talk to Mon Mothma and the rest of the Alliance leaders. Luke, the Ssi Ruuk, take prisoners and entech them to power up their technology and fighter droids with." Luke paled as he heard this. "The emperor told them that he would hand soldiers over for some fighter droids in return. But since the emperor is dead, the deal cannot go through."
Luke nodded as he thought over the situation, it sounded bad, he would have to somehow convince the Alliance leaders to hand the assignment over to him.
Anakin looked into his son's eyes and read what he was thinking. "You want to go? Don't you?"
Luke replied, "Yes, Leia is being sent as the top negotiator. I feel that I have to go. I am going to talk them into handing the assignment over to me." Anakin nodded, not knowing what to think, both of his children were heading off into danger, than again he knew they were capable of taking care of them selves.
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A doctor walked through the door with a disapproval frown on his features as he eyed the two conversing, "Commander Skywalker you should not be up. Your condition will become chronic if you do not lie back down and rest." Luke looked over startled at being interrupted, he wondered if his father would try and stop him after hearing about how his true condition was.
Anakin eyed the doctor and was concerned to hear this. His concerned gaze turned back on his son. "You better go back, before he decides that Sedatives are in order." Anakin half jokingly said. His grin grew even wider as he remembered that he should've been in bed and the doctor did have to use sedatives on him. Anakin turned his attention to the doctor and asked. "Could you leave us for a few minutes?" He needed to try and talk some sense into Luke about foolish ideas, and running off into danger while being in pain could only get him killed.
The doctor nodded as he replied, "You have five minutes, after that I have to take him back to his room." He took one look at Luke and Vader trying to figure out what was going on as he walked out.
Anakin turned back to his son. "You are in no condition to go."
Luke shook his head stubbornly ready to argue the point, "I will be healed by the time we reach there. I will spend most of the time in a healing trance."
Anakin shook his head in disbelief. "You do realize that you are truly my son, one word can describe both of us, stubborn." Luke smiled while nodding in agreement. "Luke, you really should stay here."
"And why is that? Didn't you do something similar?" Luke questioned him further, "or is it because you do not want to be left on homeone without Leia or I for several weeks to back you up?"
Anakin felt shock roll through him, he was prepared to face any consequences the rebellion decided to throw at him and he was willing to stand trial, plus his remark stung. "Luke, I bet you can't even stand without having to lean against something, hence my concern for you." Anakin argued with concern in his voice. "You really should not go." Anakin eyed him and noted Luke was silently agreeing even if he didn't like it.
"I am going end of discussion." Luke finalized with conviction in his voice.
Anakin shook his head, ready to argue his point further but realized that Luke had made up his mind. Anakin thought over some things, if he was going to spend some time in a healing trance then he could at least give Luke some lessons in those areas. "Luke, connect up to me through the force and I will teach you how to heal yourself in a short period of time."
Luke did what his father asked him to do. Anakin demonstrated to him what Obi Wan showed him a long time ago. Luke felt his fathers joy of returning back to the lightside, but he also felt the pain of two decades. The darkness his father had endured for a long time. He also saw the way he was hurting after what he did to his family and friends, all the people he killed in cold blood for making one mistake, no matter how trivial it was. He saw what his father wanted him to know.
After the connection was broken, Anakin signaled for the doctor to come back in. When the doctor approached Luke, Anakin whispered, "You need to get your rest son." Luke suddenly felt tired and everyone split into two, he knew that he needed to get horizontal soon, the last thing he needed was to pass out and worry his father even more.
Anakin turned his gaze on the doctor "Please see him back to his room."
The doctor replied; "You have no say in this Lord Vader, unless you are a parent or blood relative."
Anakin shot back, "I am his father and I am looking out for my sons well being."
The doctor replied in defeat, so that is what they are hiding. "As you say sir." With that he walked Luke back to his room, he was shivering all the way down to the bone after Vader said that he was Skywalker's father.
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Instead of following Luke and the doctor back, Artoo rolled back to Anakin's bed and beeped some things at him. "What is it Artoo?" Anakin asked wondering if Artoo missed memory wipes.
Artoo rolled over to a com and plugged in bringing up some files on Anakin, and beeped in excitement.
Anakin sighed as he stood up and gingerly made his way over to see what Artoo was so excited about, he looked down and read the files and knew that somehow Artoo missed his memory wipes from a long time ago. He glanced over at the translation box.
// WELCOME BACK ANI //
And if anyone saw that they would try some way to make fun of him with his nickname. He sighed as Artoo moved under him and let Anakin lean against him.
// DOES LUKE KNOW ABOUT YOU AND THREEPIO? //
Anakin shook his head, "No and I would appreciate it if you kept quiet about that."
Artoo beeped an agreement. As he tweetled some rebukes, probably 21B left instructions with him to make sure he stayed in bed, if they missed memory wipes and he remembered the med room personal programmed in rebukes when he ended up in the infirm more then a few times and it hasn't been wiped, the thought hit him faster then a lightning bolt, oh force, the program was still in tact. "Ok, take it easy. I'm going back." Artoo slowly led him back to the bed, and waited patiently as Anakin lowered himself back down on the bed and lay down. Once Anakin was lying back down Artoo rolled to the door and hit the close button.
Anakin shifted around trying to find a comfortable position, but every move he made resulted in more aches in his body. He finally gave up, and just stayed still while he eyed Artoo, he didn't even realize he missed that droid until now. "I think you better head back to Luke's room before he decides to come looking for you."
Artoo beeped an enquiry at Anakin.
"I'm sure just go." Anakin replied as he guessed the gist of it.
Artoo rolled to the door and unlocked it, once outside he locked the door and continued to Luke's room.
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