Beating of your heart

Chapter Four

"You alright there, Obi-Wan?"

Obi-Wan groaned as his head felt like it had been split open, "did they have to shoot me six times?"

"You made them think they needed to with that prison and forest skint you did," Mace sighed.

"I tried to keep everything to a minimal," Obi-Wan groaned.

"Even the forest?"

"I either use the blaster that had no stun, or I used the explosives," Obi-Wan explained.

"It didn't have a stun function?"

"The bounty hunter who so kindly gave it to me thought it would not need it," Obi-Wan stated, slowly pushing himself to a seating position.

"You're closed off completely in The Force," Mace stated, "Anakin tried to reach you through your still existing bond, but he can not get to you."

"I just spent half a week around Dooku; I had to keep them up during my sleep," Obi-Wan grunted, "it will take a moment for me to take them back down."

"You do that while you explain everything," Mace stated.

Obi-Wan nodded as he briefly closed his eyes to focus on his shields before opening them again, "can this bug come out now?"

"Yes," Mace sighed as he grabbed the remote from his pocket and flicked the switch causing the droid to crawl out of Obi-Wan's throat.

"That's better," Obi-Wan sighed.

Mace looked over at him strangely.

"What?"

"Only you would be able to pick up an accent from using a droid," Mace groaned, rubbing his head from the impending headache.

"Should have expected it at this point," Obi-Wan grinned.

"We should have," Mace sighed before asking, "what was all that in prison?"

"That was a distraction to escape," Obi-Wan stated, shuffling back to lean against the cots headboard.

"He was a child."

"Technically not," Obi-Wan pointed out, "and what better is than two inmates fighting?"

"What?"

"Two Mandalorian's fighting after being called dar'manda," Obi-Wan grinned.

"I don't remember someone being called dar'manda," Mace stated.

"It was implied when I said that Boba was going against Jango's code and honour," Obi-Wan shrugged, "if I had truly called him it, then the distraction could have formed into a true fight to the death."

"You caused one of the most substantial riots we've seen in over a decade," Mace stated.

"That wasn't my aim; you must realise that."

"We do, but when we look closer, we saw you almost slip into a meditative trance as you swung that stolen staff," Mace expressed, crossing his arms.

"I did," Obi-Wan acknowledged, "but I did that accidentally when I was reaching out to see where Eval and Bane had got to."

"So, what did happen?" Mace asked.

"We got out through the morgue and headed off to Nal Hutta, where we got changed and got everything we needed. Anakin ran into us when we ended up fighting," Obi-Wan started.

"Is that where you got the lightsaber burn on your neck?"

"Anakin brought it to my neck so he could pin me to the wall to kill me, yes," Obi-Wan only just kept himself from growling, "Bane saved me, then we headed back off after I told Anakin not to follow us."