#dualweilding

     luke isn’t used to his cybernetic yet. it’s easy to use and close to painless, but the weight and strength and sensitivity, those are all different. it presses hard into ahsoka’s back when he hugs her. it feels like years since he saw her.

     he doesn’t say what’s wrong. when luke gets upset, he talks the way a smuggler flies with imperials on his tail. it’s always been like he can’t stop, or he’ll choke to death on what he feels. but this time he can't find the words.

     they’ve already talked about his father so many times.

     is it true? did you know? before, he would never have wondered if ahsoka was hiding anything from him. he doesn’t like what the questions stir in him. confusion, resentment, anger... especially the anger. she must be able to feel it.

HE’S GLAD TO HAVE HER   back safely. Anakin had feared for her safety after she’d disappeared, worrying that she’d never come back. And, luckily, the pair had been given two weeks of leave, at Anakin’s request, for Ahsoka to recover from her ordeal. 

“ so, anywhere you’d like to go? ”   he asks, sticking close by her side as they return to their shared chambers.   “ or would you rather just stay here on coruscant? ”

His anxiety, fear, and premature grief still lingers in his veins, making its way out as it’s washed away by a wave of relief. He was terrified that he might have lost her. While he’s always feared losing her, when those fears are realised, it becomes so much worse. 

It isn’t the first time he’s lost someone. 

But this time he tries to hide it better (though it’s still nearly impossible), knowing that the strength of his attachments could cause him to be seen in a negative light. 

“When I left the order,” he says, taking a step forward, “I did it out of rage. Because I knew I was meant for more. The Jedi were far too limited and their views of the Force were... annoying.”

HE PACES ENDLESSLY   before the cell block, red-tinted energy fields mostly empty, aside from the one containing the Jedi Padawan. Back and forth, back and forth, as the transport barrels through hyperspace, heading back to Korriban.

Though the Togruta is likely barely more than an initiate, she’d clearly been old enough to be out on some kind of mission. Far enough away from Coruscant to be noted on Vader’s radar, and for the young Dark Lord to make a brief stop to snatch up one of the little Jedi. 

This will be the first time that a captured Jedi has been brought to Korriban. Usually, Vader doesn’t bother. But right now, he’s interested in more than just killing Jedi. He was named a Dark Lord of the Sith only recently, and as such, he thought, it was high time to select an apprentice of his own. The war rages across the galaxy, and the time will soon come for the ultimate defeat of the Jedi and the rise of the Sith-- if Vader wants a strong force-sensitive as an apprentice, he’d best find one now.