When they finally arrived back at their room Anakin plopped down heavily on a large pillow on the ground and closed his eyes, feigning meditation. Ahsoka on the other hand, wasted no time in running to the kitchen pantry.

"What are you doing Ahsoka? You're supposed to be meditating." he asked, trying to make his voice serious but instead it came out a little hoarse.

"I'm starving!" she cried as she continued to shift through the pantry "I haven't eaten since this morning, can't I have a snack before we begin to mediate for hours on end?" she turned to her master daring him to answer, a bag of chips in hand. Anakin just sighed in response. "Want some?" Ahsoka asked offering him the bag. Anakin's stomach churned violently at the thought of food, he turned his nose away from the gut wrenching chips and muttered a small

"No thanks."

Ahsoka just shrugged her shoulders and continued to finish off the bag. A few minutes later when she finished she joined Anakin on the floor and began to clear her mind.

Several hours later Ahsoka was growing restless. Never before had Anakin had them meditate this long, she knew for a fact from Obi-Wan that Anakin particularly didn't enjoy meditating, so why hadn't he let them stop yet? She squinted open one eye hesitantly to peer at her master. He seemed unnaturally still and his breathing was slow and deep along with a peaceful look upon his face. If Ahsoka didn't know any better, she'd think he was...asleep? Now that she thought about it, she never had seen her master so relaxed while they were meditating, but...would he really fall asleep?

"Master..." she asked slowly. When he didn't answer she reached forward to tap him on the shoulder, but pulled her hand back abruptly when it got close enough to feel the heat practically radiating off of Anakin. She looked a little closer at her master's face and noticed a thin layer of sweat had emerged, causing her concern to grow. She reached out again with her hand, in an attempt to wake him, but the second her fingers came in contact with his shoulder his eyes snapped open. Instantly jumping to his feet, Anakin was on high alert. His eyes darted back and forth searching for any possible threat. Seeing he was safely in his room with Ahsoka his breathing, previously quick and panicked, evened out. "Are you okay?" Ahsoka asked when he had calmed down from his mini panic attack.

"Fine. You just...startled me" he said. Choosing his last words carefully.

"You didn't....fall asleep, did you?" Smugness and curiosity laced within her question

"No, of course not!" replying so quickly that Ahsoka just chuckled in response. "I was just in very deep meditation".

"Yeah right Skyguy." Then remembering her previous concern, "Do y-"

"-It's pretty late you should get to bed." he interrupted before she could finish. Ahsoka crossed her arms and glared at him, 'obviously he doesn't want to talk to me' she thought grumpily as she huffed her way to her room.

Anakin let out the heavy breathe he had been holding when he heard the door to Ahsoka's room shut close. He'd gotten pretty lucky when Ahsoka obeyed him when she was sent off to bed, he had expected her to put up a little more of a fight and question him further. Letting his shoulders droop, he began to head to his own room. Halfway to his room, his head started to spin dangerously, he stopped and leaned against the wall for support. When he was able to walk again without the consequence of passing out, he started again, while reaching out with his hand against the wall to keep him steady. His vision started to double as it danced with black dots. He was just barely able to enter his room and close the door when everything went black.

TO BE CONTINUED

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