Niraha - you are going love this chapter.

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Also the next chapter won't be posted until Aug 8. Some my ideas for the story went out the window, so have rethink this story a bit. Plus I have been writing some the later chapters of the story.But it will get finish, just don't ask me when. :-)

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"So are we in agreement on this. ?" Shaak-Ti asked.

"Yes." The rest of the Council voiced

"Master Ki-Adi, will you please inform Master Obi-Wan of the Council's decision."Mace said.

"Certainly."Ki-Adi replied, getting up and headed for Obi-Wan

"Ok, where is that data pad."Obi-Wan muttered."There you are." Tossing it in his bag.His room was in a state of disorder. Not sure how long he'll be on Naboo. Obi-Wan decided to pack for a two-month stay. He already knew he was staying with Padme parents' house. There was no point in arguing with her on that. Then the door chime rang

"Yes."Obi-Wan opening the door.

"Ah Master Obi-Wan, more good news from The Council." Said Ki-Adi. As he walks through the door.

"Oh they finally accepted my resignation."

"No, you got a one year leave absence for Anakin's care and retreat." Agen answered back. "At the end of that, you can quit, if you still want too. I would say yes to that news. The Council was most generous."

Obi-Wan thought for a moment "Yes, tell them I'll agree to their offer. But I'm still going to leave the Council."

"Fine with me. Though Anakin might have a different opinion. He was very proud when you made Council." Ki-Adi, looking at Obi-Wan.

"Proud? Anakin? Really I didn't know. I was the butt of his jokes and teasing for a couple weeks. No, I didn't know, how proud he was. He never told me." Obi-Wan sitting down. "Lately I having been finding out. There is another side of Anakin's life. Not all is good. How did I miss it.?"

"Anakin, he is a riddle sometimes. But sometime I think Anakin doesn't know himself either. Maybe that drove him to take his wild gamble. When Anakin does awake from the coma, promise one thing for me. See he gets some help for this." Ki-Adi asked then added."Enough of the Jedi Order dealing with Anakin. We've done enough damage. Yes, it's better if somebody else deals with him. Personally I think the Council should kick Anakin out the Order. More to insured Anakin lives a long life. However, let's say nothing to his wife. She has enough on her mind. Actually, that will be your job. See that he gets his help. Even if you have to drag him in."

Obi-Wan thought and laughed at the thought of that. "I'll play it safe and keep his lightsaber under lock and key."

"Ah good to see you in a better mood Master Obi-Wan."

"I only have hope left in my life."Obi-Wan replied, looking at hands.

So a form sleeps the hours away. No name, no age, only a form. Shapeless in the grey mass of his new world. How content to stay there. There is a lull to it. Causing you not to move on.

Somebody is watching you, beyond all that is know. He too gambled to free you from the sands of Tatoonie. Forbidden to help you and Obi-Wan. He watched in horror as you drank the Galeriana. It was he, that cause the disturbance in the Force. So you could be saved.

Now, they listen to his pleads.

So this one time. You will enter Anakin's grey world and reach out to him. Not to free him but to get him to find his way out. By getting to take a step. After all, it was Anakin's choice and still Anakin's choice for life or his eventual death. Which it's black tendrils growing towards him.

The rest of the day was the same as yesterday. At dinnertime, Naporta order Padme back to Anakin's room for dinner and rest. Obi-Wan deciding he needed a quiet meal. Took his dinner in his room. Three bags containing Obi-Wan's life, wait by the door. What should be a heavy burden to bear was not. For once in his life, Obi-Wan was happy in life. Despite the future of unknown, he was done with Council. Depending on Anakin's outcome, he was looking forward to a quiet life. Where, he wasn't certain. But the choice will be his to make not the Jedi Council.

However, right now, he wanted to spend time with Anakin. More out of guilt than anything else. Taking up his book. He left for the Healer's Quarters.

"You didn't see me"Obi-Wan told the night staff. Most chuckled and left him alone. A couple just shook their heads. Obi-Wan was in their eyes, a disgraced Jedi. A black marked on the order.

"Hello Anakin. Oh that so much better to see you moving a bit more. Nice to hear that you're off the breather too."Obi-Wan brushing the hair off his forehead. Then he sent down, opened his book and began reading it.

All this time, one figure watches this scene. Standing, waiting for a moment to enter the room.

Two hours later

Obi-Wan felt a little tired. Between the pages, he would glance over to Anakin. Allowing a smile when he noticed movement. Frowning, when he heard a cough.

"Remember Anakin. You are to get better, not any more sicker. Ok, that's the deal, if you want any extra lightsaber practice today."Obi-Wan softly said. Closing his book for the night but not ready to leave. Obi-Wan decides to meditate for a while. "Just like old times, you sleep soundly while I meditated. Waiting for your next screaming session." he said to himself.

A few minutes past and the figure coaxes Obi-Wan to sleep.
Then walks into the greyness -

Why are you here?

Caught in the greyness netted by blackness. You are an unshaped form. Waiting for something to give you a name. Right, some movement is needed. It has call out but have no voice. You can't hear. You can't see. You are nothing but greyness.

You're all alone.

Yet, only that one, that could come to you. Has come. It too has no form or real color. Just another dark grey mass. With only one allow trip, it has prayed to all the Gods it has ever heard of. Not a word was said. Just stand before you. Beckoning you to move.

Then something touches you.

Not of pain but something else. Which right now, you can't name. It swirls around your reforming form.

Then in a that moment, you move.
Not sure if your are walking or flying.

Something was sparked.
A man was form again.

Again, you're not tethered to time.
Only tethered to the gamble you made and its outcome.

But all is up to you
again.

And again
you must find
your Life.

Qui-Gon stood before a sleeping Obi-Wan. Where other have fail. He has reach Anakin and jolted him with Force. Qui-Gon wanted to tell his old padawan that Anakin would pull through. But even he didn't know. It was Anakin, who threw that gamble and will be up to Anakin, to collect his bet.

"Ah Master Yoda."Palpatine as he opened the door. "Tomorrow is the big day! Two paths of lives will be change forever."

"Yes, Yes. Seem everything has been thrown out to disorder." Yoda replied. "Ready to see Anakin, as you requested."

"Yes, if tomorrow does not go to plan. At least I have said my goodbye to him."

They talk as they walk and soon they were back in the Healer's Quarters.

"Hmm. Seems like somebody has fallen asleep, watching his old padawan. I'll get him back to his bed."Yoda chuckling at the sight of Obi-Wan.

With his gimmer stick, Yoda poked him three times and said. "This not your room. Bed. Bed. Big day for you tomorrow."

"Sorry Master Yoda"Obi-Wan stretching out and getting up. "For once, this room is a bit peaceful."

"Yes. Yes, he off that breather. Noise down a bit. Still, no Anakin telling his stories. Later, he'll tell us where he has been."

"Good Night Anakin" Obi-Wan giving his hand a squeeze. Then it hit you, not some majors jolt but a slight presence.

You sense Anakin- in the Force.

"Master Yoda, check for me please. But do you sense Anakin in the Force now."

Yoda reaches out. There, in the shrouded edge of the Force. Anakin!

"Yes, he is there finally. I can sense him." Yoda said, finally taking some comfort in this. "Best not to reach out to him. He's there but weak or hiding on us. Yes! that's Anakin way. Hide from us when he is in trouble. In time, he'll walk back to us."

"Thank You Master Yoda." Obi-Wan slightly bowing to Yoda. "I needed to make sure. Yes it's better to wait a bit before trying to reach out him."

"Now, you off to bed."Yoda order, giving him another poke.

"Goodnight Master Yoda."

Qui-Gon watched as Obi-Wan left the room. Only Anakin's connection to the Force was really there. Anakin was still out there, caught between his life and his death. Walking the along the edge of blackness, that's holding his gambled fate.

Palpatine stepped through the door and stood before Anakin. "Well Anakin, will I see you again. Or will fate makes us meet another place. Much to the heartbreak of Padme. However, if you live and I don't. Everything of mine, is now yours. And if we both don't survive, then it will be Padme's. Anakin Skywalker, you're the son I never had. Let history be fair to your action of this past week. Ah my son, I wish now we had formalized that part." Palpatine quietly said, leaning over and giving Anakin a kiss goodbye. "Goodbye, my son." and left the room.