Author's Note: I really don't know where this fic came from. I'm not quite sure how much I wanna expand it so there miht be some plot twists. As it is this defyes a nice neat summary but there will be plenty of mush. Obi-Wan and Anakin on a mission during CW that's all you really need to know :) I hope you like it and pease reveiw.

Disclaimer: As much as i love the boys they are not mine but are the property of George Lucas as is the whole Star Wars universe.

The snow fell all around them, covering the ground with a white blanket. The wind was cold and piercing, granting no mercy to the two Jedi who plowed forward relentlessly through its blockade.

Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi had gained a reputation for being one of the best teams in the Jedi Order. Now, even after Anakin's knighting, the former master/padawan team were endlessly assigned joined missions. There really was no use splitting them up.

Anakin, for one, hated the cold. And it seemed that lately all they had gotten were missions to ice balls. The Mid Rim planets rarely had the temperate climate of the Core Worlds. The separatist base which they were suppose to be locating could be anywhere in the north sector of the planet. There had been so little intelligence on the base that Anakin had to wonder why in the world did they have to rush them on this mission when they could have stayed on nice warm Kalay. Of course no planet, or mission, was exactly pleasant these day due to the raging war but there were shades of grey. For example a colder planet was a deeper shade of grey then a warm one. It was that simple, in Anakin's perception.

"Master, do you have any idea why they had to build their base some where up here? In SNOW?" Anakin whined, drawing his thermocame and robe tighter around himself.

"I suppose the snow could serve as a nice camouflage don't you think?"

"Well…yes. But it's cold!"

Obi-Wan looked over at Anakin quizzically. The cold could still turn the young Jedi knight back into the complaining twelve–year-old padawan who had once upon a time driven Obi-Wan nuts.

"How are we supposed to find this place anyway?" Anakin continued fussily. "All we know is that it is in the North West sector."

"Actually, Anakin, if you had been listening to me this morning you would know that the latest information update has supplied us with a broad set of coordinates. About two to three square miles. Not a short distance but better then a quarter of a planet don't you think?"

"Yea, yea ok you caught me," Anakin admitted under his breath. "It's not my fault that you like to wake me up at five thirty in the morning to talk about coordinates."

Obi-Wan decided to ignore that particular comment and looked to his tracker instead. "We should be within the territory by dark tonight so keep your senses sharp," Obi-Wan advised his now moodily silent partner.

Anakin regarded the information with nothing more then a grunt. Obi-Wan shook his head a bit at the young man's dark mood. Anakin had a way to take to brooding these days. He was constantly withdrawn, it seemed, and his mind was often somewhere else. A place to which he wondered often, especially when things got hard. A place into which Anakin would not let Obi-Wan follow him. Every time he withdrew his shields were as tight as Obi-Wan ever saw them and any probing would be repented harshly. Once Anakin had even told him to get out of his head and give him some privacy. That was not a fight Obi-Wan wanted a repeat of. But them maybe he wasn't giving his friend enough privacy. Anakin was a knight now and not his padawan. The fact that their bond remained as strong as it did was a miracle all by itself.

Ever since they got this mission to Halena to locate the separatist base and steel their secret research files, Anakin had been as silent as ever. The young Jedi had been looking to ending the mission on Kalay and then returning to Coruscant. Instead they were ripped from Kalay right before they were at the point of getting the two sides to concur and told that another team would replace them there. They were to conduct a different mission. And when Anakin had heard where they were going his mood did not improve.

Anakin's recent longing for Coruscant was puzzling to Obi-Wan. Anakin had always been eager to go on missions. His padawan had always being confined in the temple and had always searched for an opportunity to get off world but lately Anakin had been yearning to return to Coruscant whenever they were away for more then a month. It was puzzling if not concerning. Not that Anakin spent a lot of time in the actual temple though. The young Jedi was usually no where to be found.

It took Anakin and Obi-Wan almost the whole day to reach the territory in which they were to conduct their search. They were about to call it a day when Anakin held up a hand to stop Obi-Wan's rant about finding shelter.

The too stood quietly for a moment, all senses on high alert. "What is it?" Obi-Wan asked after a few minutes of silence.

"I could swear I heard something…"

Obi-Wan could feel Anakin submerging in the Force and dove into its currents after him. With the Force helping to intensify their hearing the two Jedi were now clearly hearing the soft electric hum that had caught Anakin's attention. 'That boy wouldn't miss a mechanical something or other no matter what the circumstances' Obi-Wan thought. Anakin seemed to have an eye, ear, and anything else you'd think of for mechanics.

"Sounds like…like…a generator…like from a power core," Anakin muttered, more to himself then his partner. He started moving toward a near by cliff face, toward the source of the sound. As he got closer the hum became more distinct and the snow became deeper, slowing the Jedi's progress as his boots sank into its sappy depths. At the foot of the cliff face Anakin dropped to his knees and started rummaging in the snow, sending puffy clouds of snow into the air around him. "A-ha!" he exclaimed triumphantly when the last layer of snow yielded to reveal a control panel and several metal trap doors that seemed to lead underground to where the humming was coming from. "By the looks of it,' Anakin said looking up at Obi-Wan who was now contemplating the control panel over his shoulder," this thing should be large enough to power up a base."

"Yes but we can't sense anyone through the Force," Obi-Wan reasoned. "The base could be several miles away."

Anakin grinned a lopsided smile. "Master I think the cold is getting to you. These trap doors lead to the generators underground. They are due to get broken at times. Wouldn't it only make sense for there to be a service tunnel leading from the generators hold to the base?"

"True but then why the trap doors out here?"

"I precaution I suppose," Anakin shrugged. "I mean you don't think that the workers would go several miles through this cold and snow just to fix a minor problem do you?"

Obi-Wan considered it for a moment then nodded. "I suppose that makes sense."

Anakin smiled his self satisfied smile and reached for the lightsaber hanging comfortably on his belt. Obi-Wan put a hand on his shoulder to stop the intention. "Anakin, why don't you try to override those codes before we do anything loud and destructive?"

Anakin rolled his eyes but took his hand off his lightsaber and turned back to the controls. Several minutes later he had broken through and the pair slid through one of the trap door into the generator hold. The hold was almost completely dark except for the blinking lights of monitors. It took them several minutes to find the tunnel but once they did Anakin gave another triumphant "A-ha!" which echoed down the passage.

"Well it sure is warmer in here,' Obi-Wan commented as they started down the tunnel with their lightsabers held in front of them for light.

"Thank the Force," was Anakin's only response.