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Year 12
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Kat
Eight months later
Anakin appears in the doorway of the library, and I look up with a smile. He's been hidden in his office all day but it's my day off, so I've spent it in here. One look at him, though, and I sense he's anxious about something.
"I have a mission for you, Kitten."
"Oh?" I ask, pulling myself from my comfortable spot under a soft throw blanket. Anakin is in the Vader suit, minus his helmet—which tells me he had meetings.
"You will not like it."
"Okay," I say hesitantly as I near him.
"There's an event on Coruscant for Empire Day. I do not attend these things, but I want you to."
This is the last thing I expected. "What? Alone?" Send me to a battleship, send me to a desert planet...don't send me to a kriffing celebration on Coruscant!
"Thrawn will be there," he shrugs. "I suppose he could officially take you with him to give you an excuse to arrive with someone, but that's up to you."
This has to be a joke. A big fat joke. I'm awkward and quiet and sometimes too blunt—none of that screams Coruscant elite. "You're asking me to what, go to a party?"
"Basically."
"Anakin, I," I start but fade out. He wants me to go to a kriffing party! I wish I was still sitting down.
"Baby, I need a closer eye on my peers." Unfortunately, he's serious.
"Why don't you attend these things?"
"I just don't, kitten."
"Neither do I," I mumble.
"Please," he says softly.
As if I would ever actually deny him something like this. I almost scoff. "Fine. But you owe me big time."
The smile he cracks almost makes it worth it. "Deal. Say the word."
I think about it while eying him carefully. "First, I get to pick what I wear."
The man actually pouts. "I was looking forward to doing that."
It takes a lot to resist the smile that tries to break free. "Alright, you can do it, but I get the last word."
Anakin makes a dramatic show of debating it before nodding. "What else?"
"You can't criticize anything I say or do during this party."
"Praise kink, got it." I snort and push him away. Just the word kink has me thinking about sex. Which...
"I want to tie you up."
His face goes rather serious. "You do?"
No longer able to hold back, I giggle and tug his suit closer to me. "It's about time you beg."
"Hmm...we'll see about that. It'll have to wait for your return. You leave in three hours."
"Seriously? Anakin," I start, but he doesn't let me back up.
"It's tomorrow, baby. You'll get five hours upon arrival to rest and prepare. I suggest you sleep on the way."
My mouth hangs open as I try to calculate how much rest that gets me—not nearly enough. Anakin chuckles and pushes my jaw shut.
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Anakin's Fortress - Book II (temporary cover)
FanfictionA Darth Vader Romance Kat I am no one. A shadow. Insignificant. Or at least, that's what I was taught to be. I could not have predicted that it was exactly this, the shell I lived inside, that would one day cause Darth Vader to pull me into his wor...
