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25 year old Anakin Skywalker awoke with a start.

His eyes darted back and forth furiously in an attempt to identify his surroundings. And finally after a few second he recognized himself to be in bed. In the sleeping quarters of the starship that he and Obi-Wan were taking to Vurdon Ka' for their latest mission.

It was then that he realized he had suffered from yet another nightmare. 4th one this night. The very same one every single kriffing time. Padme's death.

Anakin propped himself up on his elbows and tried to take a few deep breaths to calm himself. He allowed himself some time to let his eyes adjust to the darkness of the room. He looked over to the wall chrono above his head.

6:42 AM

Anakin sighed. He really had to start taking control of these nightmares, they were wearing him out more than he cared to acknowledge.

"Anakin?" a soft exhausted out voice called through the dark.

Anakin turned his head towards the sound and saw Obi-Wan pulling himself to sit up his bed which was across the room. Anakin cursed for a moment, knowing he had woken his former master. And even though he knew Obi-Wan would never yell at him for something like that, he still felt his heart sink.

"Yes master...?" Anakin replied quietly.

"...Are you alright?" the thick fog of sleep still clouded Obi-Wan's voice, as though he wasn't even fully awake yet "I felt a disturbance coming from you...."

"I..." Anakin took a deep breath. He could just lie to Obi-Wan like he always did about his nightmares. Or he could cut the man some slack and just admit there's something wrong. "I had a nightmare....."

"You had a nightmare?" Obi-Wan's voice suddenly snapped into awareness and he quickly sat up "Are you alright? Would you like to talk about it?"

Anakin took another deep breath. He could just lie, or he could tell the truth. Desicions, Desicions. He wanted nothing more than to tell Obi-Wan about everything....but what the older man's reaction might possibly be....it scared Anakin just thinking about it...."No, thank you master..." he answered softly.

"Oh...alright. Are you going to be ok then?" Obi-Wan asked in concern.

"I...it's just that...." Anakin stuttered with his words. He did want to open up...let the older man know how he felt...."Things have just been so hard...."

"I know Anakin...I know" Obi-Wan replied queitly. The response made Anakin content. For once he had recieved an hones answer instead of a suggestion on how to fix it. "You should probably meditate on it" Obi-Wan added. These words made Anakin's mood shoot from calm and content to angry and annoyed. How foolish of him to think that Obi-Wan would let him off without giving him some "advice."

"Force Obi-Wan, why can't you just give me an answer from your heart instead of something that the Jedi drilled into you?!" he burst out.

"We've been through this several times Anakin, please don't-"

"If we've been through it several times then why on Coroscant do you still do it?!" Anakin cut the older man off.

There was a significant silence before Obi-Wan spoke. All the compassion and care ha left his voice, leaving it cold and rough.

"What exactly do you want me to do Anakin?" He retorted "Do you want me to tell you that's it's ok and that everything will be alright, just so you can come and accuse me of lying to you and building up false hopes when things don't end up ok?"

It was a sharp response and it made Anakin shrink back a little. That was harsh. And yet so true.

Anakin heard the shuffling of his master getting off his bed and drawing closer to him before the edge of his bed sank lower as Obi-Wan seated himself there.

Anakin flinched a bit as Obi-Wan placed a hand on his shoulder "I hope you know I always have your well being at heart."

The younger looked down "I know..." he lied. He really didn't. It wasn't like he had any real proof.

"You know...every time I sense a disturbance coming from you...I stop breathing and I everything stops processing except making sure you are alright" Obi-Wan choked up after a while. Anakin looked up at him. "You're a bit reckless, so it's hard not to worry. You are ok now, right?"

Something inside Anakin went off. It was rare for Obi-Wan to show his emotions this way. To actually tell the younger that he care about him. And Anakin felt he should savour every word of it.

"Yeah...I'm good..." he lied quietly.

He was taken a bit by surprise when he felt a single powerful arm come around his shoulder and pulled him close to the well built torso of his master "Anakin, haven't I raised you better than to lie to me like that?"

Anakin chuckled in his master's strong hold. Though his dry laughter faltered as a lump formed in his throat and he immediately choked up.

It had been so long since Obi-Wan had shown that kind of fatherly emotion directly. Just the thought of feeling it again made Anakin feel like crumpling up and giving into it. He felt like he was nine again but he really didn't care. There was something so deep about gaining Obi-Wan's care, Anakin couldn't even describe it. It was different from the way that the Chancellor made im feel. When the Chancellor called him "Son" or gace him hugs, Anakin felt a sense of triumph. As if to say "Ha! Look Obi-Wan, someone does care enough to give me a hug." But when Obi-Wan hugged him, he thought of no one else. All he felt was pure bliss and happiness that spread to the core of his very being.

He loved it.

"Tommorow's going to be a long day Anakin..." Obi-Wan said softly "You should rest." He said pulling away from the younger, and genly pushing him back to lay down. He began to softly stroke his former apprentice's hair, in a very fathery gesture.

It lifted Anakin's spirits even more. And before long, he had drifted into a deep, peaceful sleep. The first in several weeks.

And it was only when Anakin woke in the morning only to see Obi-Wan on a chair by his bed side did it really strike him. Obi-Wan had stayed up with him all night. That really meant so much. And it filled Anakin up with so much joy. That if he could get that wonderful feeling inside every time Obi-Wan did something comforting then, Anakin decided, that the aloof, over worked man that he called a master, wasn't so bad after all.

~Fin

Yup, that was the end =] This was originally supposed to be a one-shot but it just sort of ended up as a two-shot =] Hope you liked it and please pleaaaase

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