Anakin opened his eyes. He had hoped dearly that everything that had happened was just a dream, and that he would wake up in Padme's apartment. Of course though, everything was not a dream and he woke up on a hard metal floor feeling pretty worse for wear. Y'know, standard stuff.

Anakin had been thinking about what the woman had said to him, about the Jedi Order ruining people's lives because of not liking what their profession was. To Anakin at least, he thought this meant she or someone close to her was a bounty hunter. At one point, they must have crossed paths and he had really ticked her off… Maybe it was something else entirely, who knew? Anakin's head was starting to hurt from thinking about it and he decided to try and get a feel for where he was.

The room (cell is probably a better description for it) he was in was made completely out of metal,with one window at the back of the cell high up on the wall. Some damage was done by who-knows-what and there was a small slit traveling from the window to the floor. From the window poured in red light. What that red light came from, Anakin had no idea, all he knew was that whatever was making that light had to be hot because it felt like a million degrees in his cell. There was dust and other little particles floating around in the air

Uggghhh. Anakin thought. Now my head really hurts. Just about every part of his body was sore and even just thinking about sitting up sounded like torture. Still, Anakin propped his arms up and although they were shaky, and practically screamed and burned in protest when he put weight on them, he pushed himself up against the metal wall behind him. Once up, Anakin let his head fall against the wall and he closed his eyes.

Wait a second. He put a hand into his robes and pulled out his black comlink. The connection it had to Ahsoka's link had cut off some time when he was unconscious so he had to call it.

"Tano here." He heard. Her voiced sounded like it was trying to be strong but he could hear the worry behind it.

"Ahsoka," Anakin said, "it's me." He coughed. He hated how pitiful he sounded, with his voice strained and sounding weak.

"Master! Are you okay?" the padawan said, her voice high pitched like always. Anakin thought for a moment.

"Well, if you count feeling like I got ran over by a giant bolder then...yes I'm fine." he coughed again, albeit bit harder

Anakin heard his padawan sigh with exasperation before hearing a new voice come on the comlink.

"Anakin, it's Obi-wan, we are trying to trace the signal from your comlink but…" Anakin couldn't hear the rest of what Obi-wan said he was coughing so hard. It was on the verge of a fit. It hurt to breathe and he noticed that when he did breathe it was ragged.

"Anakin, what is wrong?" Obi-wan said.

Anakin wasn't really sure how to answer if he was okay or not. Was he okay? Was he not okay? Having trouble breathing probably was not the best thing for one's health (especially for someone in his situation) but it wasn't going to kill him. Right?

"What were you saying about tracing a signal?" Anakin asked, deflecting the question.

Obi-wan, knowing the type of person Anakin was, knew that since Anakin had not answered his question, he was definitely not all right but he pressed on.

"The Council is trying to trace the signal from your comlink but there is interference and we cannot pinpoint your position, you need to find out where you are so we can rescue you."

Anakin was about to say that was not going to be easy but he heard footsteps outside his cell.

"Shh," he said before stuffing the comlink in his belt and hoping his captor wouldn't notice the bulge. Trying his best to look like tired and beaten the Jedi half closed his eyes and looked as decrepit as he could. Really, it wasn't such a hard feat considering he already looked that way but seeing as nobody else was in his cell, Anakin wouldn't know that.

The door opened with a loud creeaaaaak and in walked his captor. From what he could see, she had high cheek bones with a thin face, and small, pointy chin. Her skin was blue (not all that different from Cad Bane's) and had thin head tails which were held back with a pair of goggles. And to top it all off, she had big brown eyes. But not the cutesie kind, oh no, they were harsh and filled with hate, most of it headed toward the man below her. That man being Anakin Skywalker.

"Hello Anakin," she said sinisterly "do you remember what you did yet? Or do I have to help jog your memory?"

"What do you want from me?" Anakin demanded. The woman came closer and Anakin could see the sickening sliver glint of a knife. . She slowly dragged the knife point against his face, but not hard enough to do any damage.

"I want revenge!" She yelled before she slashed the knife hard against Anakin's chest. Anakin didn't yell out but he gasped in pain. Wanting more of a reaction, she did it again. Again. And Again. Anakin didn't actually cry out until the woman took the hilt of the knife and smashed it hard against the deepest slash.

By the time she was done, Anakin had felt like hours had gone by, like each second had crept by slower than a snail, and the front of his robes were a dark sickly color. The whole time the woman had repeatedly asked if 'he remembered what he had done,' and kept saying 'this is rightful punishment!'

Panting, and bleeding heavily, Anakin wished (for the millionth time) that he were back safe and sound in Padme's apartment with her by his side, but every time he had felt another slash, he was brought back to the reality, the reality that he might never see Padme again. He might never see Snips or Obi-wan. He might not ever see the clones he had befriended and he might never again feel the rush of battle or the satisfaction of liberating another planet from the Separatists.

"So, Annie," that made Anakin mad, only Padme was allowed to call him that, "do you remember yet?"

"How am I," Anakin coughed heavily, "supposed to remember what I s-supposedly did, if I don't know your name?" Anakin was trying to get information, Ahsoka and Obi-wan were still listening (though Anakin wasn't sure if he wanted his padawan to hear what he was going through) and probably part of the council.

The woman scowled.

"The names Isha." She said. Then Isha walked out.

"D-did you guys get that?" Anakin said trying to get the words past his mouth while he was panting.

"We got it Anakin, just hold on." Obi-wan said. Anakin coughed before talking again.

"Hold on. Hold on…" Anakin trailed off at the end as the black abyss of unconsciousness consumed him.

O.O Wow, I just wrote some…weird stuff here man. I kinda creep myself out at times… Anyway, I think that the best and LONGEST chapter I have ever written! YAY!

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