Here is your chapter as promised. Besides I finished homework early so I had time to post. Disclaimer- I don't own Star Wars the Clone Wars or any of its characters.


Chapter 26

The Jedi Knight saw the young girl look up at him. Her eyes were full of different emotions, one of which he recognized as fear. He watched as the black in her veins stretched farther than her wrist. They started to stretch up her arm now.

Anakin didn't understand. His Padawan was supposed to be fine.

Ahsoka POV

Anakin half carried half dragged Ahsoka to the medical bay on the ship. There he contacted Rex and told them to get back to Coruscant ASAP. When they finally reached the medical bay Ahsoka fell down onto the bed there and Anakin looked around for a medical droid.

"There's no droid Master. It's charging."

"Then what do I do?" He raised his voice.

Ahsoka saw him look back at her with his eyes wide. On the way to the medical bay she'd come to terms with her hand. It hurt yes, but torture hurt a hell of a lot more. Right now she had to put on a show for Anakin. He was the one who was freaking out.

"Go into the cupboard." He did. "Look for a red bottle. It should say Wetradine on it."

Back when Ahsoka used to spend all day reading a few of those were medical books. It was good to know that if being a Jedi ever stopped appealing to her she could be a nurse. Photographic memories are great.

Anakin fumbled around looking through all the bottles for what Ahsoka requested. After a minute, and a few broken bottles as well he pulled out the right glass. "This one?"

"Yeah," Ahsoka pointed over to the counter. "Now get a syringe." Anakin went over to where his Padawan pointed and grabbed the first needle he saw. "No, one of the ones still in a bag. It has to be sterile"

"You didn't say 'still in a bag.' You just said a syringe," he snapped back over his shoulder.

Ahsoka wasn't in the mood for games either. She may have been calmer than her Master but she was still on edge. It was her well-being at stake after all. She would've gotten the supplies herself is she though that Anakin would even let her stand on her own. "I thought it was implied."

Anakin walked back over to where Ahsoka sat. "Well it wasn't."

"Alright, you know what," something inside the young girl snapped causing her to nearly yell this.

"What Snips?" Anakin yelled back. He lowered his voice and filled the syringe with the Wetradine. "I never should've let you on the mission."

"That's not fair!" She yelled. Anakin shook his head and injected her with the needle. Ahsoka was about to argue more but didn't get to finish because right then, some serious shit went down.


Anakin POV

As soon as the needle came back out of Ahsoka's skin and all of the Wetradine started to course through her veins something happened. Ahsoka was propelled across the room. It was as if someone were using the force, but there was no one there except Anakin and Ahsoka and neither of them were doing it.

Anakin's eyes widened as he saw his Padawan shoot through the air and become pinned against the far wall. She was held there, a foot off the ground with no control over what was happening. Her body was straight as an arrow and confined to the surface as though she were a paper tacked to a board.

The only thing she was able to do was scream when she was being thrown through the air. As soon as her body hit the wall, she lost consciousness.

By the time Anakin made his way over to help his Padawan the unidentified force released her and she was crumpled on the ground. He tried to shake her shoulders but she wouldn't wake up.


When the ship landed on Coruscant Anakin was the first one off. With Ahsoka in his arms he sprinted to the medical wing. His legs complained at the weight but he ignored it and kept going. Ahsoka had been unconscious for half an hour and was still breathing as far as Anakin could tell. He didn't know if that would last.

He spotted Dr. Reed at the medical wing and she started yelling orders for Ahsoka to be taken care of. She was taken from him and brought into surgery. Dr. Reed stayed behind to ask Anakin some questions.

"What happened?"

Anakin started from the beginning and told her everything from the moment he saw Ahsoka's hand turn black. The entire time Dr. Reed nodded and wrote on her clipboard. When he was done she told Anakin to go tell Master Plo Koon (he had a feeling she told him this just so he would have something to do) (she could've just as easily commed the Jedi Master instead of Anakin going and finding him) and that Ahsoka would be out of surgery in a few hours.

Someone must have commed Obi-Wan because when Anakin came back to the medical wing with Master Plo Koon he was sitting in one of the waiting chairs. While Plo Koon went off to see what the nurses could tell him, Anakin sat down next to his former master and put his head in his hands.

"Don't worry Anakin. She'll be fine." Obi-Wan comforted when in reality he knew nothing of what was happening to Ahsoka.

"She's supposed to be fine. This is supposed to be over with."

Obi-Wan sighed and put his hand on his friends shoulder. "Anakin, you know that things like this are never forgotten. This is part of Ahsoka's life and history now. She was tortured for more than half a year; that's not going to change."

Anakin shook his head in his hands. "She might die." To that Obi-Wan couldn't say anything too. It was still a very real possibility that the young girl could die. Torture has a reputation for haunting even those who survive. "I never should have let her into the field."

"Really? Why not?" Obi-Wan raised his head at this. "You thought she was ready, whether you'd like to admit it or not. She thought she was ready. Is it her fault that this happened? I'd think not. It just happened. There's no reason behind it." Anakin hated it when Obi-Wan was right. "I understand that you're angry and confused but imagine how Ahsoka must feel. Everything that she's ever relied on has betrayed her in the past months. She saw everyone she's trusted turn against her. She lost control of her own mind and with what you say happened, her own body too."

"Anakin, this entire thing is just a test that has to be overcome."


Two hours later Dr. Reed came out and said that Ahsoka was stable. She said Ahsoka was still unconscious but Anakin could go in and see her. Obi-Wan and Plo Koon had to stay in the waiting room though-something about only one person can see her at a time? It was a stupid rule.

Anakin took the opportunity though. He got up from the seat and walked down the hall to where Dr. Reed said Ahsoka's room was. When he got in he saw that his Padawan really was still unconscious.

Quietly he walked over to the chair beside her and sat. The entire world seemed frozen at he stared at the young girl he'd come to know so well. He looked down at her still face and saw how much she'd changed over the past years he'd known her. She was even stronger now than she was back then. She was tortured by the Separatists; she had to be strong.

Anakin was interrupted in the middle of his train of thought by a small voice. "Am I in the medical wing again?"

She sounded annoyed as she put the emphasis on 'again.' Anakin couldn't help but laugh a bit, "Yeah Snips, again."

An irritated groan escaped his young Padawan. "I'm tired of being here," she complained.

Anakin put on a small encouraging smile for his Padawan. In truth he hated the medical wing as well. Well, he didn't hate it so much as he hated Ahsoka actually being a patient there. "Yeah it has a weird smell."

Ahsoka's eyes widened as she turned to her Master. "You smell it too?" She threw her head back on the pillow. "Thank the force. I thought I was going crazy…again."

The Jedi Knight was thrown off guard. He didn't like talking about the time Ahsoka wasn't in her right mind. He just tried to stray away from that topic. "Yes, I smell it too. It smells like hydrogen peroxide and decomposition."


Ahsoka POV

Ahsoka actually laughed at the truth in that. During the time that she and her Master were laughing she glimpsed down at the hand she'd last seen as black. The Padawan now saw that it was no longer a hand. Where her skin should have been there was only a mechanical hand in its place.

Another mechanical hand.

She sighed at the loss and then turned back to Anakin. She didn't bring it up to him. It was nothing to cause a fuss over. What's done is done; there's nothing anyone can do about it.

"So, when are you breaking me out of here Sky-Guy?"

Anakin frowned at his Padawan. "Sorry Snips, I can't. You have to stay here for a while. The doctors want to make sure there's nothing else wrong before they give you a clean bill of health."

"Yeah but-" Ahsoka thought about complaining but her mind told her not too. If anyone was insisting on keeping her in the hospital, it was Anakin. Trying to argue with him would be a worthless cause.

She would just have to stay in the medical wing for a while.


A/N- I just finished 2 seasons of Arrow and am now watching the current season online. There's an episode tonight. I'm way to happy about this. Anyway, relax all. Ahsoka is going to be fine...for now. There's only five more chapters left :,( -Saraphine