Long Past Dawn | Anakin x Reader

𝟏 𝟔 . 𝐓 𝐡 𝐞 𝐒 𝐭 𝐚 𝐫 𝐭

Y/n's POV

My eyes opened slowly as I began to regain consciousness, desperately hoping that the events of yesterday were just some sort of a bad dream. Surprise: they weren't.

As I glanced around Anakin's once operating ship, a slight pinkish color in the sky caught my eye. The sunrise was just barely visible on the horizon, but was still surprisingly beautiful. I hadn't seen a sunrise in a while, and the last time I can remember actually being awake early enough to catch one was when I was on a mission for Count Dooku. Even then, I didn't really take the time to notice the beauty of it all. Now, it was all I focused on. 

For a moment, I actually started to forget all about the mess we were in. But, as always, I quickly snapped out of the calmness of that moment. 

Our ship's door was clearly broken from the fall it endured the day prior, so R2 had to be on watch all night long in order to make sure no mastiff phalones, whatever those creatures were, would come and attack us while we were asleep.

As I glanced around the ship once more, I couldn't find Anakin anywhere. I realized that he was probably finishing packing up for our on-foot trip that we were about to take, which, as I found out the night prior, would hopefully only take a few hours. That is, if we were lucky.

After R2 had scanned the perimeter last night, he had detected a few life forms located at a small pond, which was far from us, but not impossible to get too. R2 said that these things he discovered resembled "monkey" like creatures, which Anakin believed to be the Lurmen. If they were near a pond, they were probably gathering food or resources, which meant their village was hopefully close by there.

As for the rest of the night, it was, to put it lightly, pretty awkward, and pretty boring. Anakin and I didn't do much talking after he- well- yelled at me. So instead, I kind of just kept to myself and rested as much as I could, while he tried to fix any part of the ship that he could. 

In regards to food, Anakin managed to gather some Burrfruit, which was a type of fruit that was native to Maridun. It was purple in color and pretty sweet, almost like candy. The only kind of drink we had was some stored water that Anakin always kept on his ship, so at least that was a small win in the midst of all of our losses.

The two of us both slept on small, separate beds located on opposite sides of the ship. For the most part, I actually slept pretty well. It was surprisingly peaceful on Maridun, and throughout the night I could hear the wind rustling through the tall grassy hills as the bright stars illuminated the sky.

Though, quiet groans and heavy breathing did awaken me during the middle of the night. These groans came from Anakin, and they sounded terrible, almost like he was in pain; like he was having some sort of nightmare. I contemplated waking him up, but before I could even manage to lift myself from where I laid, he had jolted upwards, and I had to pretend I was fast asleep.

After that, all I remember was him getting up and going outside the ship for a while. I did manage to sneak a peak at where he stood, but all I saw was him deep in thought, staring up at the stars in the night sky. I fell asleep shortly after, pretty much involuntarily, because my tiredness from the past days events had won over my body.

"Morning," Anakin's voice spoke as he interrupted my thoughts. I looked up at him, delivering a weak smile.

"You're up early," I responded.

A quick sigh escaped his lips. "Yea, well, we've got a long day ahead of us, so I was just packing up some of the essentials we might need." He paused for a moment. "How are you feeling?"