|| Uninvited || An Anakin Skywalker Story

Chapter Twenty Six

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Trigger warning: violence

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I woke up to the feeling of cold stone pressed against my face.

I slowly blinked my eyes open, and the world was sideways. Muffled sounds of unidentified voices began to pierce through my consciousness and I remained still as my gaze slowly followed different sets of legs walking past me.

It took me much longer that it should have to realize I was laying on the floor of a place I had never been before. The bright sunlight blinded me in my still woozy state, causing me to snap my eyes back shut and let out an involuntary groan. I felt a gentle breeze dance across my cheeks, blowing my hair into my face.

Outside. So, I was outside.

My brain was moving as if it were suspended in molasses. The panic didn't even kick in until I had been conscious for a full minute. And even then, I had to rack my brain to remind myself why I felt fear edging at my psyche.

That was until the face of Rayme Tarro appeared above, staring down at me with a vicious grin. I tried to scramble away on instinct, but my limbs felt heavy and disconnected. I pushed myself up only for my elbow to give out, causing my head to slam back into the stone floor. I hissed and saw white as the pain seared through my head.

"Careful Astrid, you may hurt yourself." Rayme purred, crouching down next to me.

"W-where-" I murmured; it was a feat to form words.

"Where are we?" Rayme asked my question for me. I just looked up at him, wobbling my head into a nod. "We are at my family's private lookout. It's quite the incredible view really."

He then roughly hooked his arm around my body. I felt like a ragdoll in his grasp and couldn't do anything but groan softly when he sat me up and spun me around. The movement hurt my head, and it took longer than usual for my vision to focus. However, when it eventually did, I yelped and grasped onto Rayme's arm.

Just inches away was a sheer, deadly drop down into the city below. I then realized we must be on the roof of the casino. I gulped, thinking about how I could have easily rolled over to my death.

The jolt of adrenaline to my system managed to cut through the haze in my brain and my senses slowly returned to me. "W-why are we here?" I asked, doing my best to create distance between myself and the ledge. But Rayme held me still. The fear buzzed through my veins. This crazy mother fucker was going to throw me over the edge. His soft chuckle in my ear did nothing to ease my concern. 

"Because you are going to tell us why a Jedi is snooping around." Rayme said, grabbing hold of my chin and turning my head towards a table with four large men watching us. I recognized them all from Rayme's box last night.

Suddenly, Rayme stood up and jerked me to my feet, dragging me towards the table. And although I was glad to be away from the edge of the roof, the sight of these men sparked a new alarm in my gut. One of them kicked out an empty chair towards me and Rayme shoved me into it as one of his men quickly tied my hands behind my back before returning to his spot at the table.

I watched Rayme then pull up a chair, he spun it around and straddled it so that he was now seated directly in front of me. He gave me a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes and he slowly rolled his sleeves up, revealing his long, tattooed arms.

"So, tell me Astrid, what is Anakin Skywalker doing here?" He asked me.

"I don't know what you're talking about." I replied in a raspy voice.