#romantic fluff

Early in the day you get word that you are to go on your first mission with your new master. You listen to the details intently. You want nothing more than to do a good job and prove that you are worthy of being his padawan. 

You’re ready for this. You’re no stranger to fighting. Yet somehow it feels different. It’s your first mission without master Cera. You do your best to push away thoughts of her and focus on the present. You do your best to see your new master as a leader and nothing else.

As the transport ship takes off to its destination you meditate to focus your energy. It’s a simple mission. New intel revealed the location of a secret communications base nearby. Taking it out quietly is the goal. That’s why you and Anakin are being sent out with just Rex and a small group of clones. The base is not thought to be heavily guarded. It should be a pretty simple mission. 

As you get closer to the destination something starts to feel off to you. Before you can mention it a proximity alarm goes off in your transport ship. “Brace for impact!” You hear someone scream right before the ship is rocked and you feel it going down. Across the ship you feel Anakin using the Force trying to protect everyone from the crash. You join his efforts doing your best to create a bubble of protection around the soldiers while still holding onto the bar above your head as the ship becomes more unstable in the freefall. 

In your effort to help everyone else you neglect to make sure you are fully protected. As the ship comes down you collide hard with the durasteel wall. In a second everything goes black.

***

When you come to you are in an unfamiliar place with a splitting headache. You go to touch your head and are horrified to discover that your hands are bound together in front of you in thick metal cuffs and the smell of smoke is still on your clothes. A small room slowly comes into focus around you.

“Hey, you ok?” A familiar voice cuts through the blur of your thoughts and your pounding head.

“Where are we? What happened?” You ask desperately as you notice Anakin is kneeling in front of you and also has bulky cuffs on his hands.

“We were ambushed by a bounty hunter. Someone knew we were going to be here. Luckily for us she wants us alive. We’re in a cell on her ship now,” he explains. 

“What about the others?” You’re uncertain if it’s a good or bad sign that only the two of you are here.

“They should be ok. We got separated. I couldn’t leave you there alone.” It dawns on you that if you had just been more careful and didn’t get knocked out Anakin might not have gotten distracted enough to get captured. Your heart sinks feeling like maybe this was your fault.

“Hey, it will be ok,” he reassures you, likely feeling your sudden sadness. “All we can do now is wait for Rex to find us or for something to change and give us a chance for escape. But right now with these Force-blocking cuffs on we don’t have a lot of options. And with that injury you really should rest.” 

“You’re probably right but I don’t see how I could possibly get comfortable in this tiny metal box.” You look around the cell and assume, based on the size, that it was only designed for one prisoner at a time. The walls are stark black with no control panels and the only view to the exterior is a barred panel in the heavy metal door. Without your weapons or the Force you clearly are trapped. 

“I’ve got an idea.” He sits down up against the wall. “Come here, sit in front of me.” You assume he knows what he’s doing, he usually does, so you follow his orders. Once you sit down he reaches his arms up and over your head placing his cuffed hands in front of you. He pulls you into him and his warmth feels comforting, like being wrapped in a soft blanket. He slowly lowers his body to the floor with you leaning on him. The cuffs make it a bit awkward but it’s still better than laying on the floor. You’re able to use his shoulder as a pillow which helps your head hurt less. 

Your body still feels a little awkward so you squirm around trying to get comfortable. Your hip feels uncomfortable unless you elevate it so you rest your right leg on top of his midsection and ask “Is this ok?”

“Yeah. Whatever you need,” he reassures you. Despite the chaos around you, the uncertainty of your situation and the imminent danger you find yourself feeling safe. Anakin is like a beacon of light in the fog. You can trust that everything will work out since you have him. 

***

“Oh how cute.” You’re woken up by the bounty hunter's voice, surprised that you actually fell asleep. “It looks like we captured two love birds instead of Jedi.” She laughs wickedly behind the anonymity of her helmet. It’s only then that you notice where your leg is placed and quickly move away. As your thigh moves over his hips you feel something but maybe that’s just your imagination. However, it certainly wasn’t his lightsaber since the bounty hunter has both of your sabers attached to her belt like a trophy. 

Anakin helps you sit upright and releases you from his grasp. You’re not sure how much time has passed but at least your head is hurting less and you’re feeling more focused. Focused enough to feel a familiar presence nearby. 

“I thought Jedi were supposed to be as passionless as droids,” she muses in a mocking tone and you see her dark eyes flash towards you from the horizontal slit in her helmet. 

“You wanna see passion? How about you let the kid go and then you and I have a fair one on one fight,” he taunts.

“That macho pride nonsense won’t work on me Skywalker. I don’t care about beating you. I just care about the price on your head.” As she says that the sound of an explosion can be heard nearby. She spins around to the direction of the sound and runs off. 

The ship rocks and for a moment you worry it’s going to crash but you feel it stabilize. You hear the sound of blasters being fired nearby. The distinct odor of fire and smoldering metal fill the air. You start to get nervous thinking this tiny cell might end up being your tomb. If the ship goes down and you can’t use the Force then you really don’t have a chance of surviving. 

You hate how helpless you feel in that moment being trapped with no real options. But moments later Rex appears in front of the cell as the door opens. It seems Anakin was right to put his faith in him.

“Rex, cuffs!” Anakin yells as he puts his hands up above his head. Without missing a beat Rex shoots at the cuffs breaking them so Anakin can free himself and then free you. “I’ve got the hunter,” he says as he runs off in her direction.

“Come with me, we need to get control of the ship.” You follow Rex to the cockpit where the door is locked tight. You used the Force to pull the door open and Rex quickly shoots the pilot. Taking the controls you reroute the ship to base. It isn’t long before Anakin enters the cockpit and hands you your lightsaber back. He managed to capture the bounty hunter and will bring her back for questioning. So much for an easy first mission with your new master. But this might not be a total failure after all. If you can just get the bounty hunter to talk, maybe you can figure out how she discovered your plans.