Sorry I couldn't post this Part yesterday but my computer decided to erase some parts and I had to rewrite it. Hope you guys enjoyed Part One and so here is Part Two. Hope you Enjoy.
I hope my bad writing skills aren't affecting the story too much.
Disclaimer: Star Wars the Clone Wars doesn't belong to me cuz if it did there would be some changes and I'm sure you guys know what I mean. :)
PART TWO
Ahsoka's POV
I gasped sitting upright.
Where am I?
It looked to be a medical room. Medical, where the needles were.
I clutched my head shaking all over trying to not let those memories surface. I didn't want to relieve them. It was too painful. Slowly, I let go of my head and began scanning my surroundings. There wasn't much just a bed a few feet from mine and a couple medical supplies near the wall opposite of me. The door was to my right which was next to me. What puzzled me was the cloak at the foot of my bed.
What's that for?
Cautiously, I stood up and fully looked at what I was wearing. I was still wearing my ripped up slave clothes, so I guess the cloak was for me to wear. (A/N the slave clothes she had worn in the episode Slaves of the Republic)
Who would show such kindness? Where am I? And...
My eyes widened and I felt frantically around my dress feeling for my lightsaber. I looked around the room and the desk next to me. Nothing. Now, I was in full panic mode. The lightsaber had made me feel safe, since it had saved me many times. It was my defense. Quickly, I grabbed the cloak putting it on as I ran out the door.
I didn't stop to think which path I should take, I just went right letting the force guide me.
Dead end.
I backtracked and sighed in relief when I ran into the first room I saw. Only it wasn't a room. It was a mess hall. And there were many clones. I shrieked in terror. Men. I didn't want the memories to resurface, so I began to turn but before I could leave someone grabbed my arm.
I breathed shakily turning around with my fist raised only for it to be caught by my captor. It was Anakin. I pulled on my arm hoping he would get the hint I didn't want him touching me. He did and releases me.
"W-Where's Obi-wan?" I stumbled out.
"I'm here, little one." Obi-wan answered standing a little behind Anakin.
For some reason, I felt better when he was near. Maybe it was because Anakin had said those words reminding me of that dark memory before I fell... Wait, what had happened? Didn't I drown.
Anakin must have seen my confusion.
"You're probably confused on what happened and how you got here." he stated.
I felt my anger rising. All the events leading me here were frustrating me. I could have been on some other planet, hiding from everybody just the way I liked it. I could have been free. I crossed my arms and glared at him.
"No..." I made the word draw out a bit. "I just wanted to stay here in some unknown place where I have absolutely no idea how I got here or where exactly here is. Nope, I don't want to know. I just want to live the rest of my life oblivious as to what happened." I said sarcastically.
Apparently, Anakin and sarcasm didn't go well together. That is, I guess, when someone is using it against him. He frowned, scrunching his eyebrows together, making him looked both cute and dangerous.
Wait, cute? What am I thinking?
"Now, listen here. I'm older and stronger, so I suggest you not get on my bad side."
I smirked. "Older, yeah I can see with all those old lines showing up on your face. Stronger, now I would rethink that description."
The reaction was instantaneous. The clones began to snicker a bit. Obi-wan chuckled. Anakin scowled and opened his mouth, probably to yell at me, but I didn't care. I was enjoying the moment.
Obi-wan placed his hand on Anakin's shoulder stopping him from saying anything. "Anakin, we have a job remember."
My smile and amusement froze and dropped.
"What do you mean job?" I asked slowly, backing up.
Obi-wan side stepped around Anakin and gently placed his hand on my shoulder making me freeze and tense up, alert. He smiled.
"Don't worry, little one. We won't harm you. Our job was to make sure that when you woke up, we take you to the council immediately."
I lowered my eyes and head. "It's about my lightsaber, isn't it?"
"Yeah. We're suspicious as to why you have one but maybe it's because your Sith scum." Anakin spat still angry.
I flinched.
"Anakin." Obi-wan warned.
I shrugged off Obi-wan's hand and looked up at Anakin defiantly. No way was I going to stand around and let him assume things that weren't true, well, fully anyway.
"What do you know? Nothing. Before you begin to assume things I suggest you get your facts right first. How I got the lightsaber is..." I trailed off lowering my head again feeling tears well up.
When I looked up, Obi-wan had stepped back motioning the clones to mind their own business. Anakin had moved to stand next to me, looking at me sadly.
"Can you just take me to the council, so I can leave?" I sighed out.
Anakin and Obi-wan exchanged a look. Anakin nodded slightly turning around and leaving the mess hall motioning me over. When I looked behind me, Obi-wan was there.
I began looking at my surroundings more closely. We were walking down a hallway where to the right were large windows giving me a great view of Padawans training together outside in the garden. As we walked further, the hallway stopped having countless doors. Except for one up ahead. Those doors were big and they were double doors.
Before I knew it, I was standing before the Jedi council. All the Masters looked at me distrustfully and I felt the need to defend myself. They didn't know anything just that I had a red lightsaber. Although, I knew I was kidding myself. I had done some bad things in my past. I just didn't want to acknowledge it.
Obi-wan took his seat among the other Masters while Anakin stayed by my side, but I got the vibe he didn't really want to.
Jeez that guy could hold a grudge.
"Red lightsaber, you had. Wondering why, we are."
I took a deep breath straightening myself and staring at them with determination. I would prove that I'm not a bad guy no matter the past things I had done.
"There's a reason. Not a pleasant one and you would have to hear a long story."
"Time, we have. Hear, we will. Judge later,we will."
All the other Masters continued to pierce me with their distrustful eyes except for Obi-wan.
"It all started when I had escaped from the pirates when I was eleven years old. I ran and actually managed to not get captured for about a month, but they found me." I shivered. "When they found me, they beat me and when I looked in the mirror all I mostly saw were bruises and cuts."
Gasps were heard and some Masters began to soften their eyes. When I glanced at Anakin, he had a strange look in his eyes.
"Then, they took me to Korriban." I saw Yoda open his mouth along with other Masters, but I continued. "The pirates had made a deal with the Sith and they had an alliance. The pirates would give the Sith potential apprentices but Count Dooku never deemed them worthy and killed the younglings."
Outrage spread like a wildfire around the council. Yoda silenced them. Obi-wan had a sad look in his eyes and Anakin had his hands into fists.
"That's where I come in. They knew I was force sensitive and they took me to Korriban. If Count Dooku deemed me worthy of making me an apprentice of a Sith, then the pirates would be rich for the rest of their life. Once I arrived, I saw Count Dooku. He made me take a test."
I stopped recalling the test.
"The test wasn't really a test but a meeting."
"Meeting?" Anakin asked.
I raised an eyebrow. "If you let me finish then you would find out."
Anakin scowled but it didn't reach his eyes. I think he and I could actually become great friends.
"The meeting involved meeting the mastermind behind the whole war."
Silence. The Masters now played close attention.
"Darth Sidious is his name. All the younglings were killed if not deemed worthy because they would tell you about him."
"Tell us everything you know about him." A black man demanded.
I raised an eyebrow. "Do you want to know how I got the lightsaber or Darth Sidious?"
Before the man could answer, Yoda spoke. "Both, continue."
"He was cold, calculating. It was as if he was reading my mind. Seeing my weaknesses, everything. He took one look at me and said I passed. I don't know what I did. I had just stared back at him. The pirates that brought me entered the room and... and..."
"Go on." Anakin encouraged me.
"It was a massacre. Darth Sidious, he killed them with no mercy. None. They begged, pleaded. He slaughtered them. There was blood everywhere. There was blood on me."
"Oh, young one. To see that at such a young age." An older Togruta woman said looking at me with sorrow.
"He took me as his apprentice. I agreed because I was scared. I had seen him fight. Agreeing was my biggest regret."
"Why, little one?" Obi-wan asked softly.
I looked at him and all the Masters.
"I learned the ways of the dark side. He told me to feel all the hate I had and I had so much hate inside me."
"How?" A Kel Dor spoke up. "You look like such a young innocent flower. How could you have so much hate?"
I blushed at the comment and smiled a bit at the Kel Dor.
"No love. I had nobody to love. Nobody to care for me and I felt alone. It made me hate the world. I saw people, couples, families showing their love and I hated it, since I never had any. At least, ever since my parents died."
Yoda looked deep in thought. "Hmmm, remove the attachment code, I will."
Surprisingly, well to me, nobody had raised their hands in objection.
"Go on Ahsoka." Obi wan urged me to continue.
"Well, by now, you should know where I got the lightsaber. I kept it after I ran away because it became my weapon, my defense." Seeing all the confusion on the Masters' faces I explained. "I left because Darth Sidious' ways were cruel and heartless. He trained me and when I didn't exceed his expectation he shocked me."
Some Masters winced including Anakin.
"Three months after being his apprentice I had ran away. I spent months making sure they never found me because they would kill me, but then the Sith just stopped looking for me one day. It had been five months after I had escaped and at first I didn't know why but then I found out. They left me for the pirates. Every time the Sith were near me, I ran away from that place and all that time they had been leading me on a trail straight into the pirates. Darth Sidious, I don't know why, but he let me live. Sure, I was tortured but he let me live like he truly believed I wouldn't make it out alive. But as you can see, I did get out alive. I escaped the pirates just yesterday."
Anakin spoke slowly, "Ahsoka, you were unconscious longer than a day."
I frowned. "How long was I out?"
"You were out for two weeks, little one." Obi-wan answered.
I nodded in acknowledgement and turned my gaze to Yoda.
"What happens to me now?" I asked cautiously.
All the Masters and Anakin swiveled their gaze to Yoda.
"Hmm, become a Padawan if you stay, you will. Tell us more of Dath Sidious then leave, you will. Choose, you must."
Everybody swiveled their gaze to me.
I breathed deeply and stood up more staring Yoda in the eyes. "I want to become a Padawan."
"Then become Anakin's Padawn, you will. If he accepts, that is."
Now everybody including me looked at Anakin.
Anakin looked me up and down and nodded. "I accept her as my Padawan."
I felt tears well up in my eyes. He accepted me even after I had treated him badly. I did something that shocked everybody. I threw my arms around his neck, though it was kind of hard. So, I stood up on the tip of my toes. What surprised me was that he returned it.
For once in my life, since my parents had died, I felt at home.
I looked around the room I would stay in for the duration of my Padawan training. It was simple. Nothing showy and everything clean and straight. Not a thing out of place.
I noticed a bed on the left and another to the right. I looked at Anakin, who was beside me, questioningly nodding my head to the two beds.
"Yours is the left one."
I nodded and went over to my bed setting my clothes down. They would be my Padawan clothes now. I was happy. No more dresses and no more slave outfits. It made me feel safe and happy. Tears began falling down my cheeks.
What was happening to me? I never cried as much as I had two weeks ago when I met Anakin and Obi-wan and today.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and turned to see Anakin now sitting next to me looking at me softly. I went to wipe my tears away, but Anakin was quicker. My eyes widened when he placed his right and left hand on my cheeks using his thumb to wipe my tears away. I gasped as I felt his right hand. It felt different but not a bad different.
"Thanks." I breathed out still shocked at his actions.
He nodded removing his hands and placing them on his lap.
"I guess, I should let you rest."
Anakin moved to get up, but I grabbed his hand pulling him back down next to me. I kept a hold of his hand.
"Why...Why did you accept me as your Padawan even after I was rude to you?"
We looked at each other in the eye. Blue to blue.
"I saw something in you that reminded me of me. My past, from what I know about you so far, isn't that different from mine. I didn't accept you as my Padawan out of pity. I accepted you as my Padawan because I felt something. A connection that I never felt for anybody else."
"What kind of connection? A-A romantic one or a friendship one?"
Anakin's blue eyes pierced me. I couldn't look away. They were such a beautiful color.
"I don't know. Right know I'm leaning towards friendship."
"Oh." I whispered.
"You should get some sleep and so should I."
I felt slight disappointment but why I don't know. Maybe, I did feel something for him but right now I just wanted to focus on becoming a great Padawan and then become a great Jedi Knight. So when Anakin moved to get up, I made no move to stop him.
He laid down on his bed turning to face me and I did the same turning to face him.
"Goodnight, Ahsoka."
"Goodnight, Ma-" I was cut off.
"Ahsoka." Anakin warned.
"Sorry. Goodnight, Anakin."
With that done, I drifted off into, for the first time, peaceful sleep. The last thing I saw was Anakin's face.
Again, I hope my bad writing and grammar didn't mess up the story too much. I like my stories and always go back to fix them and make them better usually.
Okay, so since I'm a big Anisoka fan I couldn't just leave it at friendship. So, that's why there is still a PART THREE. I don't know when it will be up but it will most likely be by either tomorrow night or during the weekend. Review if you have the time or if you want. They are greatly appreciated.
