The Lucky One (a Star Wars fanfic)

Chapter 14

*Four days later*

Rider's pov

"Rider?" Anakin asks softly as the door quietly scrapes across the floor.

While slowly opening my tired eyes, I just hum in response, wishing that I was still asleep after a night without getting much.

"Are you feeling any better?" Anakin asks in his normal volume now that he knows that I am awake, even though it feels like I am still half asleep.

Despite wishing that I could sleep longer, the desire to see something other than the same cream-colored walls causes me to slowly sit up, hoping that doing so will help convince him to let me leave this room, even if it is just for a short while.

"A little. I know that doing any strenuous activities won't help me recover faster, but I have to get out of this room! You know what it is like to be confined to a bed, don't make me suffer this way any longer," I beg in an over-dramatic tone, hoping that doing so will help get my point across.

I am unable to tell if my tone helped convince him, but it did cause him to chuckle, making me smile widely.

"Calm down, Rider, you will be able to leave here soon enough," Anakin says as he sits beside me, his words causing me to sigh. I was hoping that not only I would be able to leave here, but also talk to Shawn, something that I haven't been able to do since the night when Anakin forgot to lock the door, a mistake that I doubt he will make again.

"I know, I just don't want to spend any more time in here, oblivious to what could be going on outside of this room. Are things still okay between you and Shawn?" I say quietly with another sigh, hating how much I might be missing while I am stuck in here. As far as I know, things between Anakin and Shawn have been good, but that could change at any second, yet I wouldn't even know because I am forced to spend every waking moment it here.

"Yes, things have been good," he says with a faint trace of a smile.

Instead of asking why he is smiling, I just say, "I'm glad to hear that. Do you have any idea what we should do about him?"

"No. I keep trying to come up with something, but I just can't seem to do so," Anakin says with a frustrated sigh.

For a minute I just sit here, debating if I should share my idea with him.

"If you have something in mind, just say it. After all, it can't be that bad," Anakin says with a small, encouraging smile, breaking me from my thoughts.

Not feeling ready to have my idea rejected yet, I settle for asking, "Does The Council still want you to train another Padawan?"

"They do," Anakin says in a monotone voice, not giving me any insight as to whether or not he will be open to my idea.

After working up the courage to finally speak, I quietly ask, "What if Shawn were to become your Padawan?"

When he doesn't say anything for a minute, I continue, "Think about it this way. If you make Shawn your Padawan, not only will The Council will be happy with you, but Shawn will also have someplace to go. Instead of dropping him off on a planet where he could get hurt, or continuing to keep him here against his will, he could live in The Jedi Temple where could become an amazing Jedi one day. I know that he could never replace Ahsoka, but would you at least be willing to give him a chance?"

When he still doesn't speak, I begin to worry that I said something that I shouldn't have. Maybe mentioning Ahsoka, his former Padawan who left the Jedi Order, was a mistake.

Right when I am about to suggest coming up with another idea, with a heavy sigh, he says, "I guess that it wouldn't hurt to ask Shawn if he would be interested in becoming my Padawan."