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I reach around the room trying to find the door to my bathroom so I can brush my teeth. I reach out with the force and I get a vague overview of my room in my mind. I never really mastered using the force to see and now I'm sincerely regretting it.
After a few minutes of stumbling around my room, I finally reach the bathroom door. I feel around the sides of the doorframe for the keypad with the button to open the door.
It takes me awhile to find the keypad but I eventually do and I press the button. The door opens and I walk in. I sigh.
Now I have to find my toothbrush, I think to myself. I put my hands out in front of me and feel for the sink. My hands brush against the cool metal of the sink and I grab onto one of the corners. I start feeling around the top of my sink to see if I can find my toothbrush.
I've been feeling around on the top of my sink and I still haven't found my toothbrush.
"Ugh," I grumble while my hands brush across something that feels like a brush. My hands instantly stop on the object that may be my toothbrush.
"Please, please, please, be my toothbrush," I say out loud. I pick up the object. I remember that Togrutas can feel the vibrations from an object in their montrals. The idea I've come up with is extremely weird but I don't really care right now.
"AAAAH!" I scream at the object in my hand. I just stand there for a second just listening for the vibrations. And then I feel them. Suddenly, I know the objects exact shape and I have a pretty good sense of what is around me.
"Yes," I say quietly pumping my fist slightly in the air. Now I am sure that the object in my hand is my toothbrush. Now I need to find my toothpaste. I groan.
Suddenly, I hear someone running into my room.
"Ahsoka?" I recognize the voice of my master.
"I'm in here," I say.
"Ahsoka, what happened? Why did you scream? Are you okay?" Anakin bombards me with questions.
"I'm fine," I say, "And I screamed so I could find my toothbrush."
"Huh?" Anakin says, and I wish I could see the probably hilarious expression on his face.
"It's a Togruta thing," I say with a slight shrug of my shoulders.
"Okay," he says dragging out the word a little like I've gone crazy," I guess I'll just go then."
"Wait," I say, "Can you get my toothpaste for me? I don't want to scream at my sink again." I rub the back of my neck. This is extremely awkward. I almost never ask my master for help and now I'm asking him to find my toothpaste, which is probably right in front of me.
"Sure," he says. I can tell this is awkward for him as well. I feel something being thrust into my hand and I close my fingers around the tube of toothpaste.
"Thanks," I say. I open the cap on my toothpaste and try and angle my toothbrush so that the toothpaste will actually go on the toothbrush. I squeeze the tube and feel the sticky toothpaste on the top of my hand. I sigh for what feels like the billionth time today.
"Um, can you, um, you know…," I trail off.
"Oh! Yeah," he says and he takes the two items from my hands and after a few seconds I feel the toothbrush in my hand again and I hear the toothpaste tube being put back on my sink.
"Thanks," I say.
"No problem," he says, "Just, uh, call me if you need any help." I nod and I hear him leave the room. I brush my teeth, which is a lot harder with me not being able to see. I reach out to find the sink. When my hand falls in the bowl of the sink, I reach around and find the faucet, which I grab onto and pull myself down so I can spit into the sink. I reach around for a cup and find one after what feels like an eternity and put it under the faucet, which my hand is still gripping. I still hold on to the faucet when I hear the swish of water into my cup. I gargle the water and spit if into the sink. I don't bother finding a towel and just wipe my mouth on my wrist.
Now I have to take a shower. I groan. This will probably be the hardest thing I'll have to do this morning.
After I take a shower, I go out into the kitchen, feeling the wall the entire time.
"Hey snips," I hear my master say.
"Hey," I say," What's for breakfast?"
"How about we go to the Mess Hall and get something there?" he asks. I feel my stomach drop.
"Sure," I say a little unsteadily.
"Well, come on then," he says, "Oh and the nurse gave me this cane so that you can get around a little easier." I feel the cane in my palm as he hands it to me.
"A cane?" I say in an annoyed tone, "I'm not as old as Yoda."
"Yes," he says, "But Yoda can see."
"I don't need a cane," I say, confidently while I hold the cane out in the air hoping Anakin will take it.
"Okay," he says," Suit yourself."
"I won't need a cane until I'm old," I say a slight chuckle escaping my lips. He laughs.
"Even when you're old you'll insist on not using a cane," he says and I can tell he's smiling even though I can't see.
"Come on then," he says. He puts his hand on my shoulder and pushes me forward a little. Anakin keeps his hand on my shoulder the entire walk to the mess hall and even though it is a little weird at first I know I'll have to get used to being helped this much. A thought suddenly pops into my head, if I need this much help to just get through the morning how will I continue as a Jedi? I'm not sure if the Council is aware that I'm blind but I know that they will find out eventually. I bite my bottom lip. What will they do when they find out? Will they kick me out of the Order? Send me to the Agricorps? I have no idea but I can't think about that right now, I have to focus on what is happening now.
We reach the mess hall and Anakin leads me to a table and let's go of my shoulder. I feel around for the chairs that surround the tables and sit down in the first one my hand touches.
"I'll get your food," he says.
"Thanks," I say, resting my chin on my hand. I sigh as I wait for Anakin to come back.
"Good morning, Ahsoka," I hear Obi-Wan's accent and instantly recognize him.
"Hey," I say a little gloomily.
"How have you been?" he asks," I haven't seen you in awhile."
"I've been better," I say the gloominess still evident in my voice.
"I heard about what happened and how you were blinded," he says his voice is soft like he's trying to comfort me.
"Yea," I whisper," It hasn't been easy." I look in the direction I think is down. I really don't want to talk about how I became blind.
"Is Anakin helping you?" he asks.
"Yea, he's been extremely helpful," I say, wishing Anakin would come back so that we can stop talking about this.
"Well, if you ever need any help and Anakin isn't there, you can count on me," he says.
"Thanks," I say but my tone isn't really thankful. I know Obi-Wan means well but I really feel helpless with all this talk about helping me. Even though I'm blind I can still do some things on my own, they just are a little harder and take a little longer to do.
"So how have you been?" I ask hoping to veer away from the subject of me being blind. I sense Obi-Wan is about to answer when Anakin returns.
"Here you go Snips," Anakin says and I hear the sound of a tray sliding across the table.
"Thanks," I say and I reach down and feel for a fork or some piece of silverware. I use the force to help me but it doesn't really do much. I grumble under my breath as I continue to feel around my tray for some silverware.
"Here," I hear Anakin say and I feel the cool metal of some piece of silverware in my hand.
"Thanks," I say for about the millionth time today. With all this help I'm getting "thanks" is now a habit of mine. Now I have to use this piece of silverware to pick up food, I think to myself. I wonder what piece of silverware this is too. I feel around the top of it and feel several pokes in my hand. It's a fork. I'm a little nervous about eating now because I have no idea where the food on my tray is and with Obi-Wan being in the Council I'm sure he's watching me like a hawk and is getting ready to tell the Council all that he's learned about how I live while being blind.
I decide that if I'm going to eat I might as well get it over with and use this fork. I reach out on my plate and find a bowl of what I think is fruit. I hold on to the bowl and I place my fork in the bowl and hope I have snagged a piece of fruit. But instead of fruit I feel pain in my hand. I suddenly realize that instead of getting some fruit with my fork I've basically just stabbed my hand.
"Ow!" I say sharply and drop the fork and pull my hand to my chest.
"Are you alright?" I hear Obi-Wan ask.
"Yea," I whisper through clenched teeth. Truthfully, I'm in a lot of pain. I stabbed my hand hard. Suddenly, I notice that my hand is wet with blood.
"Ahsoka, you're bleeding," Anakin says, I hear the worry in his voice.
"I'm fine," I say," It's just a scratch." No one says anything and I realize Anakin and Obi-Wan are talking to each other through the force and I know that it is me they are talking about.
"I'm fine," I say again and I get up. I still cradle my hand to my chest and a reach out my other hand to try and find my way out of the Mess Hall. I suddenly bump into a wall and my hand isn't enough to stop me from completely hitting it. The Mess Hall has gone quiet now and I feel everyone's eyes on me. I push myself away from the wall and feel along the side of it to the door. I hear whispers now. Whispers like "That's the girl whose blind", and "Poor thing, I feel so bad for her", and worst of all "How is she still a Jedi? Jedi can't be fumbling around during battle". I hold back tears and continue out the door still keeping my hand to the wall.
A voice inside of me tells me not to listen to them but another voice says, "What if they're right?" I bite my bottom lip. What if they are right? How can I still be a Jedi if I can't see?
A/N: Well I hope you enjoyed the second chapter of Blind but Strong. :) If you did please review, favorite and follow! Also, I said in chapter 1 that this story would probably be about three chapters long, well, it might end up being four of five chapters but it might not so nothing is set in stone. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Thanks for reading and have a magnificent day! :D
Disclaimer: I do not own Star Wars: The Clone Wars.