Poor Admiral

2 - kindness

Non-crispy Vader btw. He's one of my vader characters, so he has no mask but because of the hood/cloak you cant see his eyes or really much of his face at all.

I walked into Vaders quarters, for most people this was a death wish, of course I was still in that most people but at this point ever one of my superiors (except Vader) hated me or was jealous of me, so of corse I find myself delivering a report to Vader. I walked in and saw a bed that honestly looked like it had never been touched, there was literally dust on that bed, I heard a noise coming from a room next to me and walked in.

Vader was fighting someone, and that someone were top level training droids,
TOP
LEVEL
TRAINING DROIDS
PLURAL
WITH AN S
I mean they were clearly modified to be harder than normal too, I saw an inquisitor struggle to are down one of these, and here Vader was fighting about 10-20ish modified ones.

I decided not to interrupt and sat down on some bleachers (why did he have bleachers?) and waited. After a while I began to study his fighting, if what I had read in the books on Jedi was right, he favoured form five and was very good at it, there were some force abilities that didn't recognise but could understand. One was that he sent out a wave of force, and I think he tapped into different emotions to make it lo0k different; another was a force push mixed with some fire ability making a flame thrower, it looked hard to do and he had to get somewhere where he wasn't fighting so he could concentrate to do it so it must of been. His form five/fighing form was very good.

After a sitting down for a while I began admiring a diffrent form, his body, while I didnt like Vader I must say he looked gorgeous; he had toned muscles, so much so that even in a fast fight like this I could see them, he was covered in sweat. I sat totally waiting not watching when he force threw a droid back, I didn't think much of it, but then it focused on me. It ran at me and I dropped the pad and bolted, its lightsaber left a slash in the training stands but I was to scared to worry about that. I kept running and I was in good shape but it was still catching up. I tripped over some dismantled droid parts and spun around, I tried to get up but it put a foot on me and raise its saber to strike, it swung down and I prepeared for death but then a red lightsaber blocked it, Vader leaned over me with his lightsaber parying it.

This was the first time I had seen his face, he had messy sweat dreanched hair and fire eyes, he force threw the droid into a pile of broken ones, I stood up. "Not that I hate a change, but why are you here."
"I was sent to deliver the report." I searched myself for the datapad but didnt find it, then I remembered the droid slashed it "But, uh, I dropped it and the droid slahed it." to my suprise Vader actully snorted
"Thank the force, I did not want to read that." I looked at him for a moment before I realised their was a painfully looking scar on his face before I thought about my actions I reached out and grabed his face, he flinched "That looks painful." I said softly, at least some of it was new and none of it was treated
"I-" Vader said, he looked stunned
"Let me help." I said
"Help? I, uh- s-sure, yeah!" he said, I guided him over to the bed and sat him down, the reasoning in my mind was that maybe if the leaders of the empire were healthier they would make a better galaxy, but truely I didnt know quite what I wanted from this.

Vaders POV

I sat frozen as the Admiral leaned over me, I dont know what made me say yes, its probably because only Sidious ever touches my face and he is my master who I can't say no to. The admiral tilted my head back and I moved my head with her and when she let go I kept it frozen in place, I didnt dare watch her, no, what am I thinking, I moved my eyes back to watch her but still didnt move my head, years of sidious being the only one to touch my face and me not daring to disobey made me freeze, it was my instincts, my very blood.I looked over at the admiral had something in her hands that was just out of sight, I expected a needle.

When a soft towl covered in water toched my check and the admiral asked if it was too hot I began to remember what kindness felt like.