A/N: Hey guys! Sorry it took such a long time to update!
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Dusk. The lights of Caruscant lit up in their glorious glow, reflecting off of the glassy impending skyscrapers, and streaked into the lower streets in colorful rays.
Annaline followed Obi-Wan silently, no wishing to break his concentration. The young Jedi knight walked purposefully, winding his way through the numerous alleys and streets. Yet his eyes were clouded as though he was sleep walking. His face was tranquil and so was his mind.
Annaline gripped the handle of her lightsaber and looked around anxiously as she followed Obi-Wan into an alley in the lower levels of Coruscant. The passage was claustrophobically narrow and barely penetrated by light. "Obi-Wan?" she whispered nervously. The padawan felt a menacing darkness here. A darkness that wasn't at all to her liking.
Obi-Wan stopped abruptly. His eyes cleared and he turned to stare at Annaline in alarm. "It's gone."
"What's gone?" she asked worriedly. She was extremely apprehensive of this place.
"Anakin's Force signature" Obi-Wan explained, patient as usual, "where Anakin's Force signature should be there is only…"
"Darkness" Annaline finished grimly.
Obi-Wan shuddered. "There is something terribly wrong here" he murmured. "Who ever was here left a lingering imprint of darkness."
The two young Jedi stood side by side for a while in silence. "It's going to rain" Annaline finally announced in a quiet tone.
Obi-Wan nodded. "You should go back to the temple" he told her. Just then, as if on cue, a drizzle started and a downpour swiftly followed. Annaline and obi-Wan took shelter under a bettered canopy of what probably once was a makeshift garage.
Obi-Wan leaned against the wall of the building and slid down to the ground. Annaline settled next to him. "This is all my fault isn't it?" Obi-Wan asked keeping his eyes on the rain splotched ground.
"There's no use in beating yourself up over it now" Annaline said in a vague attempt at comforting her friend. The pair fell silent for a moment before Annaline broke the mournful silence by asking "What happened Obi-Wan?"
"With me and Anakin?"
"No" Annaline said shaking her head, "with you. You've changed. I just hope this can knock some sense back into you."
"I know I was wrong" obi-Wan admitted grudgingly.
"When you came back from Naboo I tried to find the boy I once knew in the man that stood before me. The boy that was so bright, the boy that would never throw his anger at the world on an innocent boy of only nine, the boy who would be flattered by his padawan's admiration and longing for friendship, not annoyed, the boy who would never allow THIS to happen!" Annaline ended on a dramatically accusing note.
Obi-Wan only looked at her.
"The boy who loved me" she finished, now shy.
"I still do" Obi-Wan assured her softly and put his arm around her waist. She scooted closer to him and dropped her head on his shoulder. Silence followed, a more comfortable one this time. The two young Jedi sat, as though spellbound, listning to the rain song.
"It isn't safe to keep him on Coruscant" Darth Sidiouse was saying.
"Well then you will have to take him off planet. I can't leave just yet. We don't know how much the Jedi know. It will look too suspicious" Sidiouse reasoned.
"That fool Kenobi might actually be looking for him" the other answered.
"Keep it down, apprentice, he might be practicing as he was told or he may be eavesdropping or trying to anyways."
Out in the hall Anakin was walking back to his room as it was ten and he was suppose to be in bed by then. He was still slightly confused but maybe he could find out more the next day. Suddenly he herd sounds of conversation from somewhere further down the hall. Curiosity flared within Anakin. Maybe he could pick up something from their conversation.
Anakin crept along the hall and stopped a few feet before the door of the room and pulled up his shields up to his best ability to conceal his presents. He listened.
"But which world should we take him to?" Sam was saying.
"Rejeh I suppose" his new master supplied.
"We will have to get out of here soon. I don't want Jedi trouble right now."
"We won't. I will make sure Kenobi will have a bounty hunter on his tale by dawn. It will rid us of a lot of trouble. There's no way he can fins the boy if he's dead." Evil laughter followed.
Anakin's eyes went wide. Was he really hearing what he thought he was? Were they going to try to kill Obi-Wan? Anakin returned to his room quickly and went to bed. He couldn't fall asleep, though, no mater how hard he tried. Anakin tried to forget what he had heard but questions piled up and he grew restless.
"He can't find the boy I he's dead."
The phrase echoes over and over in his head. Did that mean the obi-Wan was looking for him? But h had been told that Obi-Wan WASN'T looking for him. 'Maybe the council made him' Anakin though, then dismissed the thought. Ether way he didn't want them to hurt Obi-Wan. He thought he should, but he didn't. Feeling utterly confused and little scared Anakin finally drifted into an uneasy sleep.
"Do you really think Anakin's a pathetic life form?" Annaline asked.
"Oh please don't bring that up" Obi-Wan moaned, they were still waiting for the rain to stop.
FLASH BACK
"Annaline, please talk more quietly. We don't want the whole temple to hear!" Obi-Wan begged as he looked into Annaline's frustrated blue eyes. The two were standing outside of Obi-Wan's quarters after Annaline had witnessed a fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
"Really Obi-Wan? Why? Because you don't want people to know what you've been saying?"
"It's not about my pride Ann!" Obi-Wan countered.
"He's NINE Obi-Wan! He doesn't deserve you giving him the cold shoulder. Besides, he adores you! Why can't you just TRY to see the good side of him?"
"I said I would train Anakin. Yes, I promised Qui-Gon and I will fulfill my promise to my master. That doesn't mean I have to like him."
"And you called HIM a pathetic life form?" Annaline scoffed.
"What?" Annaline and Obi-Wan both turned to see an extremely miserable looking Anakin.
"Anakin I thought I told you to go to your room" Obi-Wan snapped, instantly receiving a glare from Annaline.
Anakin ignored him. "Did he really call me a pathetic life form?" Anakin asked Annaline.
Obi-Wan looked at Annaline. She shook her head. "I can't lie to him Obi-Wan" she said sadly before walking away.
"Anakin…" Obi-Wan started but Anakin didn't want to listen and ran back inside. "Anakin come back here!" Obi-Wan ordered but he was ignored. Obi-Wan swung open the door to his padawan's room, determined to sort things out. "Anakin, we WILL talk about this rationally" Obi-Wan demanded.
"Go away" Anakin said through suppressed sobs, "I don't want to talk to you ok?"
END FLASH BACK
"Obi-Wan are you alright?" Annaline said bringing Obi-Wan back to the moment.
"You were wrong…"
"About what?"
"I did see the good side of him. It's impossible not to.I was just…scared I guess. No, not scared, confused is more like it."
Annaline sighed. "I'm sorry…I know he wasn't suppose to hear that" she apologized, sure of what Obi-Wan had thought about.
"It's fine" he muttered "I deserved it."
"Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are"
(Green Day "Wake Me Up When September Ends")
A/N: So what'd you guys think? Tell me please! I hope to update soon!