A/N: Answers to reviewers at the bottom!
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Chapter 2
I woke up the next morning, fairly calm, though not in a good mood by any means. I was just leaving my quarters when she appeared, again.
Now, since I had already convinced myself that she wasn't real, when I saw her, I ignored her and started my "Just a delusion" chant again. So I walked past her, my cape billowing behind me(I love my cape. It is wonderful and amazing and it billows. How many capes do you know that billow?) only she followed me. I could hear her shoes tap tap tapping behind me.
"I am not a delusion, Anakin. Sorry to break it to you." She said, her voice light-as-air and utterly annoying to my ears.
I growled something and looked at her sideways out of my mask. That didn't work very well, since I can barely see anything in this mask anyway, so I had to stop and turn to face her.
She smiled a sickening smile and pulled a piece of paper out of her pocket.
"Darth Vader's bad traits. Number one..." She began reading the list, and I groaned. Wasn't she ever going to go away? And was she actually real, or was she really a delusion?
"...very bad temper. Number four, very annoying breathing habits. Number five, extremely sick sense of humor."
Here I interrupted her by choking and hacking. Why does it seem like she always has that affect on me?
She was smiling. Again.
"Yes, Anakin. Getting a kick out of watching somebody trip, fall, split their skull open and die is not exactly proper."
I was choking, again. Who is this person? Whoever she was, real or imagined, I was ready for her to disappear again-permanently. And how on earth did she know about Random Storm Trooper #723?
"Number seven," she continued, and I guessed that I had missed number six while I was having my choking fit. "very full of himself. Number eight, extremely controlling, number nine..."
And so the list continued. By the time she reached number twelve, I was sitting down on the floor. By the time she reached number twenty-eight, I had my knees drawn up to my chest. By the time she reached number fifty-six, I was crying. Tears, falling down my face. Thank heavens she can't see through my mask. And it was by the time she reached one-hundred-and-seven that I realized she had listed some of the same things twice.
And that ticked me off. I mean, this girl had made me cry with her stupid list, so what do I do? Naturally, I jump up, take out my lightsaber, and kill her.
And what happens? She doesn't die. The blade passes right through her and she comes through without a scratch.
And since my evil plan has failed and she starts torturing me with the list again, I sink to me knees and sob.
Until, of course, a group of storm troopers walk down the hallway and see me. They died immediately.
"Now, Anakin, that is not good. Bad, bad, bad. Which is the opposite of good, in case you didn't know. And here I was, getting my hopes up that you were starting to develop a guilty train of thought after hearing all your worse traits. Oh well, I guess we'll just have to read through it again..." And so this girl, "Allie" as she calls herself, started in on the list again.
And since I obviously couldn't do anything in the state I was in, I went back to my quarters. But there she was. Hounding me with her list. Repeating it. Over and over and over. And over and over and over.
And the whole time she's reading it, I'm trying to get my "Just a delusion" chant going through my brain, only it's not working. Because by now I'm convinced.
She may wear strange clothing and she may be able to survive a lightsaber going right through her, but this girl is very very real. At least in my mind. And all I could think about was some way to get her to leave me alone.
And I thought I had a plan that would work.
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