goodbye old friend

okay so carrying on from my extremely outdated rec list here, I thought I could do an updated one, as I've been reading so much lately!!

saving your skin (for the eleventh time) - After Anakin is injured in battle, he and Obi-Wan finally confront the feelings they’ve been concealing from each other.

Redolent of you - Anakin and Obi-Wan are sent on an undercover operation as an alpha and omega bonded pair in the middle of the Clone Wars. Someone on Cantonica is funneling credits to the Separatists, and it's going to take infiltrating a top secret alpha-supremacist group of Core elites to find out who's upping the financial ante of the entire war.

This act of espionage is going to require some class A play at antiquated alpha and omega dynamics, only problem is Anakin has never submitted in his life and it's certainly not within his nature,or so Obi-Wan thinks.

A Study in Tears - Anakin is used to sinking into the comfort of Obi-Wan’s arms when he is in tears. Obi-Wan is used to offering it. Neither of them realizes the moment when habit tips into heat-haze, but their acceptance for each other is boundless all the same.

(or: five times anakin gets aroused by accident when he’s crying and being comforted by obi-wan… and one time obi-wan does)

Satellite Mind - Some doors, once opened, can never be closed, and some secrets, once learned, can never be forgotten.

or, Five times Obi-Wan heard Anakin’s thoughts, and one time Anakin heard Obi-Wan’s.

A Good Epithet - Obi-Wan should have been happy. He had fulfilled Qui-Gon’s final wish. He had trained Anakin, he had spent ten years teaching the boy and watching him grow, he had cared for him and scolded him and coddled him by turns. He had, for better or worse, been Anakin Skywalker’s Master. - Anakin gets Knighted, and drags Obi-Wan along for his traditional graduation party. Neither of them can handle this in the slightest.

Swear On It & The Sword Of Damocles - Anakin lets his feet take him a good ways from camp before he actually stops, breathing fast from the memory of his dream.

He squeezes his eyes shut tight against it and holds his breath for a moment, trying to get himself under control. Tonight it doesn’t seem to be working, though, because the images of people he knows and loves hurt and bloody and dead just won’t get out of his mind.

This was Obi-Wan - With how proper and refined his master is, Anakin just can't figure why he sits like that, all spread-legged and obscene. But after a mission goes awry and he sees Obi-Wan naked for the first time, the question isn't why, but more like how he's possibly going to survive with the knowledge.

Costume Party - Due to an administrative error, Obi-Wan is deployed on a mission that Anakin's been undercover on for the last month and a half. Which would be fine with Anakin if their solo-mission styles weren't totally, radically different from each other.

See, Anakin adopts a cover, goes to ground, and works the case through a series of subtle investigative procedures designed to not arouse suspicion from the local population.

Obi-Wan, apparently, swans into the nearest cantina and flirts his way into his suspect's bed through a process of indulgent trial and error.

Which would be fine with Anakin if he didn't have to watch it. And if it were some other Jedi flirting with a criminal sleemo and not his master. Oh, and if Anakin and Obi-Wan hadn't accidentally gotten too drunk and slept together six months ago and never talked about it again.

Then it would be fine.

The way he smiles at you - The end of the Clone Wars drags on at a limp with the Chancellor dead, though there are still battles to be won. But with the near end of the war the HoloNet has turned its sights on juicier news and traded rumors, like the supposed torrid and elicit romance between the galaxy's most famous Jedi Knights.

Where Anakin is plagued by galactic tabloids and gossiping clones, Sidious choked on a bagel during the battle of Coruscant, Obi-Wan hasn't had cell service, Order 66 never happens, and nearly everyone gets a happy ending.

giving ground, always - “Obi-Wan.” Mace stops him in the hall. Obi-Wan stops and listens attentively.

“Skywalker has requested he and the 501st be permanently reassigned separately to the 212th. Talk to him, get him to change his mind. For the sake of this war. Please.” Mace tells him.

Shock crashes through Obi-Wan’s chest like a wave. Anakin had done what?

“I’ll talk to him.” Obi-Wan manages to keep his voice sounding unaffected.

Mace gives him a short nod and heads on his way. Obi-Wan watches after him. He knows why Anakin’s done this. He’s emotionally reeling from the mission Obi-Wan has just completed as the bounty hunter Rako Hardeen.

baby teeth - During a mission, Anakin runs out of suppressants. Obi-Wan Kenobi is called in to tend to his former padawan.

In Pursuit Of You - A deteriorating relationship is saved by health troubles and a healthy dose of jealousy.

Inexplicable fainting spells trouble Anakin. They strike at the most inopportune time -- as does the realization that he likes Obi-Wan worrying about him. He likes Obi-Wan in general. Unfortunately, Anakin has already developed the most embarrassing crush of a lifetime before he learns about the Duchess of Mandalore.

A Whole Lot of Nothing - Spice never fixed anything, but neither did war and they were neck deep in one, so Anakin figured he’d at least give spice its fair chance.

Invictus - "He is the balance, the other half, the completion to Skywalker’s soul, a perfect dyad in the force. But while Kenobi is a simple answer, the force also sees the difficulty of the pair coming together in balance. The foundations of the galaxy they exist in pull at them, threatening to intervene in their unity. But this is also a simple problem, for the force is far greater than the foundations of a single galaxy, for it is the foundation of all. So the force enacts its will, to bridge the pair over a span of moments, of years, of eternities, and Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi will fall in love, have fallen in love, and are falling in love."

The one where the force ships it and to get Anakin and Obi-Wan together, it must lead them through several orchestrated tropes in the name of kiss already to save the galaxy.

Unwrap, Wrap - After a rough battle late in the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi is on the verge of falling apart. Luckily, Anakin Skywalker is there to make sure that never happens.

Slow Learner - Four times Anakin tried to fit Obi-Wan's big dick inside him and one time he managed it.

or; the evolution of their sexual relationship.

SUBLIMINAL - When Anakin Skywalker's Force signature is badly damaged during a mission, everything changes.

His marriage falls apart, the Chancellor is less than impressed, Anakin has turned into the Jedi equivalent of a Force null, and he accidentally forms an unbreakable, Council-disapproved Force bond with Obi-Wan.

Also, he falls in love with Obi-Wan in a head-over-heels, totally-smitten, starstruck way.

In short, Anakin Skywalker is doomed. And he's just desperate enough to hope he's doomed for a happy ever after.

Speak No Blasphemy, Think No Heresy - Anakin is the Force.

Pure and simple, Anakin is the Force made manifest. It's Will made flesh. If they are all disciples of the Force what does that make Anakin to the Jedi?

Anakin is the divine.

Obi-Wan does heresies.

Lifeblood - The ancient people of the Zeffo contact the Jedi in a cry for help, they need force users who can connect to the living force, who can save something dear to them. But the price of life is itself something dear, and one Obi-Wan is not sure they can pay.

Suckerpunch - In this universe, Obi-Wan goes to check on Anakin about Clovis after Anakin's violent altercation with his rival, instead of before, and everything changes. Padmé has already kicked him out for scaring her, and he's in a crisis of loneliness and grief. He breaks down, and Obi-Wan is there to pick up the pieces, even if the weight of Anakin's crimes is too heavy to imagine.

Night Swimming - As they neared the shallows, Anakin stood, water streaming off him. Face-to-face with the swimmer, those blue eyes were even more mesmerizing. Anakin felt a flush creep up his neck.

"Well, I suppose I should thank you for your concern," the man said, running a hand through his wet hair. "Though I didn't expect anyone else here. That was rather the point."

"Yeah, well," Anakin said, rubbing his neck. "It's my job to be concerned." He pointed to the station. "I'm the lifeguard. Anakin. Is my name." He winced internally. Smooth, Skywalker. Real smooth.

The man's lips quirked into a small smile. "Ah. Well, don't I feel foolish." He held out his hand. "I'm Ben."

Anakin shook it, a jolt running through him at the contact. Ben's hand was warm despite the cool water, his grip firm. Anakin held on a moment too long before letting go, feeling oddly bereft when he did. He couldn't remember the last time a simple handshake had affected him so strongly. Probably because most people he saved were too busy coughing up seawater to shake hands.

Bloom the want - Upon being reunited with Obi-Wan after a number of months apart, Anakin struggles with his Master's continued distance, but perhaps there is something he can do to get his attention.

no space between stars - “There’s nothing for it, I’m afraid,” Obi-Wan says with an easy shrug, eyeing the completely empty cabin that’s supposed to be Anakin’s. Apparently two cabins doesn’t actually mean two beds. Obi-Wan claps one hand around the rise of Anakin’s shoulder, and Anakin has gotten pretty good at not overcompensating, at not pulling away too quickly because he wants too much to lean in. “There’s no time to arrange for another one to be put in. We’ll just have to share the bed in mine.”

“It’s not even big enough for you,” Anakin grumbles, his jaw tense, because he’d seen the thing over Obi-Wan’s shoulder as his former Master stowed his small travel bag away. It’s narrow and sleek in the way of most ships’ bunks, suited for practicality and an efficiency of space rather than comfort—or Anakin’s sanity.

Ready Stance - Sometime during the Clone Wars, a very bored Anakin asks his old Master to do a little sparring during a long hyperspace flight. Obi-Wan agrees, and quickly discovers that he finds his former apprentice far more distracting than usual.

on the other side of him - Soul transference, or the act of one's consciousness traveling along a Force bond and switching places with its partner, isn't unheard of among the Jedi. But it does take an unshakably, unspeakably strong training bond for such transference to occur--and so the master-padawan pairs that admit to the experience are separated for their own good, to try and correct the beginnings of dangerous attachment.

The first time Obi-Wan had blinked and opened his eyes in Anakin's body, his padawan had been all of ten years old. They'd both lost too much to lose each other, and so they'd stayed quiet about the experience. And the next one. And the one after that.

So it's not terribly shocking that the soul transference has happened once more in the wake of the Battle of Geonosis.

What is rather shocking is that when Obi-Wan opens his--Anakin's--eyes, Padmé Amidala is standing before him--Anakin. Dressed in white lace, holding his--Anakin's--hands.

Saying her wedding vows.

Cross-Wired - In the midst of battle Anakin's prosthesis takes damage and with no backup arm, it's a problem that needs immediate fixing .But crushed durasteel and fritzed wires equals all sorts of curious nerve responses while his master tries to disconnect the neural receptors.

Warm Blood - Anakin's suppressants fail in the middle of a disastrous battle late in the Clone Wars. He retreats to a cave, falling farther and farther into an intoxicating heat, protected only by his loyal squad of clones. Meanwhile, Obi-Wan loses a battle with his instincts, giving into his worry—thousands of droids stand between him and his vulnerable former Padawan. He feels a need to protect Anakin and soothe his pain, a need that proves stronger than any dedication to the Code.

Aggressive Negotiations - Obi-Wan is called The Negotiator with good reason. He's very good at reading a situation to best work it to his advantage. Sometimes, surprisingly, Anakin can be a great help.

Or a great hindrance.

Or, five times Obi-Wan makes use of Anakin's beauty in a negotiation, and one time someone turns the tables on him.

Good Form - Obi-Wan needs help shooting a training video. What could go wrong?

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or, Anakin and Obi-Wan make a porno.

Shades of Crimson Rapture - When Queen Amidala of Naboo arranges a political marriage between her omega cousin Prince Anakin and the powerful Sith Warlord Obi-Wan Kenobi, neither expects to find a genuine connection behind their masks at a royal ball. But as assassination attempts and political intrigue threaten to tear Naboo apart, Anakin must confront not only his growing feelings for his intended, but also the seductive call of the Dark Side. With betrayal lurking in every shadow and power singing in his veins, Anakin's choice becomes clear: resist the darkness, or embrace it alongside his alpha.

In other words, take Bridgerton, Phantom of the Opera, and Pride & Prejudice - but make it Star Wars with Sith, arranged marriage between an alpha and omega, and a dash of dark romance.

That's My Type - Still, Anakin had to ask. He turned to Vos and said, “Long-legged and mouthy?”

Vos faced Anakin and considered him for a moment. “Yeah,” he said, gaze flicking over Anakin’s frame. “You know. His type.”

Anakin’s brain short-circuited. Long-legged. Mouthy. His type.

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OR, Anakin learns that Obi-Wan has a type. He's totally normal about it.

Body Language (Anakin Sucks) - Anakin likes to suck on things while he’s thinking, a frustrating oral fixation that he’s never grown out of, and Obi-Wan begins to find his mouth distracting in a new way over the course of the Clone Wars. Their relationship grows and evolves over those years, but Anakin’s desire to put things in his mouth never changes, until it drives Obi-Wan insane.

or, five times that Anakin sucked on something, and one time that Obi-Wan did.

Sticky - Anakin Skywalker has been hiding for as long as he can remember, but all of his hard work comes crashing down as a result of the Council’s latest mission. Exposed and paired with Obi-wan, Anakin comes to grapple with his identity and his growing feelings for his former master.