❐❝mad Love ❙ ❨anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader❩

chapter twenty two

"Anakin, wait" Obi-wan stopped him, "I need you to stay calm in there"

"What are you talking about, master?" He cocks his head in confusion.

"The council suspects that the attack on the temple may be the work of the red cobra, they have sent an alert to capture Freya"

"What?" Anakin snaps angrily, "she had nothing to do with it."

"Neither you nor I know"

"I trust Freya, she didn't, I know because I was…" Anakin broke off his sentence by looking away, jaw clenched.

Obi-wan looked at him suspiciously, "Where did you spend the night, Anakin?"

Anakin didn't answer and Obi-wan sighed, running his hand over his temples.

"Anakin, I told you clearly about your responsibility on your oath"

"I haven't cracked the jedi codes, master" he snapped, "we just talked"

"All night?" Obi-wan raised an eyebrow.

"All night" Anakin nodded.

Obi-wan knew that Anakin wasn't telling the whole truth, especially from the mischievous little smile that Anakin tried hard to hide, but he pretended not to see that.

"Let's go in," he told him.

"Are you trying to contact Freya?" Ahsoka asks, coming up behind him.

"She doesn't answer" Anakin sighed and ran his hand through his hair "she couldn't have done it"

"Well, the council thinks she's the red cobra, but people seem to think it's the Jedi. I don't know what the best option is."

Anakin's comlink came on and he hurried to answer it.

"Freya" his eyes shine when she appears.

Ahsoka decides to give them their space so he leaves the room.

"Is everything okay, Anakin?" Freya asks him.

"Something is happening in the Jedi temple"

Freya laughs, "and you called me to tell me?"

"Freya, you don't..."

Freya's smile fades and she frowns, "What are you hinting at, Skywalker?"

"The Jedi Council believes that the Red Cobra are involved"

"The Jedi Council always blames us for everything," she snorts angrily, "apparently you think so too."

"It's not that, Freya. I know it wasn't you, we spent the night together" Anakin smiles remembering it.

Freya wipes the angry expression from him and smiles back.

"Do you trust me, Anakin?"

"Yes, but I can't undo the suspicions about you"

"Do you support them?"

"I just want to get to the culprit"

"And while you do that, will you look askance at me and distrust me? In the end you are a conceited Jedi" Freya ended the call angrily.

Anakin sighed deeply, he hates when she's away, he's new to this, he doesn't know what to do.