Love & War

In Need

Rexs POV

The door closed behind general Skywalker. I sighed with relief. I hadn't gotten time to check up on the commander since we got offworld on Coruscant it I lifted her shirt to above her bra and inspected her wounds they were bad. Really bad. She had a respirator mask on but even then her oxygen levels and her heartbeat were dropping. I grabbed a bacta rub and applied it to her wounds. As I finished up I cleaned my hands and turned to leave but as I did she moved her head slightly and moaned in pain I rushed to her side and attempted to hold her up but as I did she once again went limp. Once again sighing with disappointment I played her down and applied a pain killer to her IV fluids line. I leaned down and kissed her before leaving. I knew it was forbidden for jedi to make attachments but I wasnt so long as it didn't interfere with my duties as a clone trooper. Besides she was in a coma she would never know but I would and I was satisfied with that. I left to go attends to the controls. The pilot said we would arrive at the med station. I knew the General wouldn't hesitate to kill me for infatuating with his padawan. I left her room just as General Skywalker walked in. He nodded to me. I repeated the gesture and proceeded to the bridge. Obi wan was already at the bridge when I arrived and so was commander Cody. As I got there we received a transmission from the med station and General Kit Fisto.

"Greetings Obi Wan. How is your padawan learner fairing with her injuries so far."

"Master Fisto, so far Ahsokas condition has had little improvement. She hasn't awoken since the incedent. We treated her with bacta rubs and pain killers but again they haven't been very effective"

"Hmm... This is highly unusual I am sure we can figure it out just keep her comfortable until your arival."

"That will not be an issue Master Anakin has refused to leave her side since the attack even to accept medical treatment for himself."

"That may be a problem Kenobi he has not been vulnerable to his feelings to this point, lets hope he does not begin now. "

"Agreed Master"

Obi wan finished as the transmission faded. He turned to me and Cody.

"You may go get some rest if you wish men I have some thinking to do"

"Yes Sir!"

We responded. We headed and silently headed for our bunkers to sleep for the time we could.

Anakins POV

I stroked Ahsokas Lekkus as I had almost a week before when she had fallen asleep on my lap in the Chancellors ship to Naboo. I so desperately wished to go back to avoid this pain she was experiencing. It was impossible to describe the pain I was going through for her. I clenched my fists in anger and helplessness. I couldn't do anything for the one person I loved most the one person I was sitting watching die and all because... I had an idea. I might just be able to find a way to at least improve Ahsoka's condition. I got up but not before I bent down to kiss my gorgeous little padawan Prinsess in a promise to return. I rushed out and quietly slid the door closed behind me. I sprinted down to the brig. selecting a cell on the security holopad I watched as it floated up to interrogation room 7. I walked in and there sitting handcuffed to a metal table was count Dooku. I sat on the opposite side of the day shield divideing the room and the table in two. I thought again and rose once more from my seat. I snatched the chair and flung it across the room grasping the edge of the table I began to question the count.

"What did you do to her you hideous snake!"

"Why young Skywalker I'm sure I don't know what you mean"

"You know exactly what I mean. But just in case you really are that incompetent I will make it extra clear. What the hell did you do to my padawan Ahsoka when your freaking zapped the fuck out of her?" 

"Ah that"

He replied cooly increasing my desire to choke the living daylights out of the dirty bastard.

"I gave her a little tingle that's all"

He stated as a volt of force lightning jumped from one hand to the other.

"She was looking a little pale for a togruta wouldn't you agree. The humidity on Naboo isn't ideal for their kind."

My metal hand gripped the table so hard it bent the table. I pounded my fist against the table creating another dent.

"I should have killed your sorry ass when I had the chance."

"You still do. What is keeping you from your anger surely not your alegence to the jedi order..."

"SHUT THE HELL UP AND ANSWER MY DAMN QUESTION!"

I yelled at the very top of my lungs. It enraged me rinse that he wasn't even so much as shaken by the out burst.

"Forumus root"

He stated cool as ever. I turned out of the room to leave. And returned him to his cell. I ran to Ahsokas room. I enters her room as the clones were preparing her to be transferred to the med station. The ship jostled as we docked. I said my goodbyes to Obi wan and Cody as they were a signed to escort count Dooku to the Citadel that we had captured less than a month ago. I then followed Rex to the observation booth overlooking Ahsokas treatment room. Rex motioned for me to take the seat nearest the window. She was still lying peacefully on her med bed as Kit Fisto and 4 other medic troopers entered the room. They removed her oxygen mask and her shirt. Two clones checked her blood pressure and pulse as the other two attached monitors to her chest And got readings from a machine. Every single part of this made me cringe for Ahsoka.