I Am No Jedi: Ahsoka x Reader

Before-11

Ahsoka stared at y/n.

He gazed back, equally determined and unnerved.

They both declared at the same time.

"No, I slipped on it! If I hadn't, then we wouldn't have found it!" he said.

"What? No! There is no way that you found it! y/n, you couldn't even see a thing in this darkness!" Ahsoka argued back. y/n glared at her.

The sound of cracks and pops filled the passageway as the ice deep below the water began to crack under the pressure of the expanding steam.

"Well, I melted it."

She sighed in exasperation. "Well, I didn't have a lightsaber anyways!"

He didn't expect what was happening next.

Ahsoka pushed past him and jumped into the hole.

From seeing the erupting geyser of steam and bubbling water, she had expected the water to be boiling hot. She was determined to bear the pain, but instead the liquid that surrounded her was only slightly searing.

Ahsoka wondered how cold it really was in this cave.

She went limp and let her body weight carry her down into the pit, grateful that her thick parka was thick and drenched with water, pulling her down. The water became colder.

Sometimes the walls would scrape against her coat, and Ahsoka would have to prise the cloth off the uneven sides. The hole was the just large enough for a person to fit, a rough circular pit half a metre across.

The seconds ticked by, mounting into a full minute, then two, then three. The large block of ice that y/n's lightsaber had melted had been insulating and preventing the freezing of the water below.

The Togruta knew she was going down too slowly. She hadn't even reached the bottom yet.

Her lungs were being constricted. Black spots appeared in Ahsoka's vision. Her face and neck grew hot. She wanted to breathe. Desperately.

Ahsoka tried to use the Force to control her breathing.

Master Yoda had taught them how to numb the body's impulse to shut down after the organs and muscles were deprived of sufficient oxygen.

Ahsoka had easily mastered it in class. But now, under the immense pressure and the dawning reality that she was in real danger, she failed.