What if?: One Death

The truth

Satine looked at Obi-wan shocked, who looked equally shocked. They watched as Maul ran away. Obi-wan stood there for a moment frozen. He didn't feel like he could move his legs. After the moment, he regained feeling in his legs and his body and he ran after Maul.
Obi-wan's heart was racing, he felt happy, but he was also frightened about Maul. Obi-wan could feel his fear and the feeling of being rejected and alone. Damn it why did Maul have to do that?! Obi-wan thought angry with himself. He knew Jedi couldn't be in relationships. He thought he loved Satine, but after Maul came into his life everything had changed for him. He knew Jedi could not be in relationships, but maybe things were different as a Sith. Maybe they were allowed to make those connections. Those attachments that Jedi weren't allowed to have. Maul probably had no clue.
He heard Satine call for him when he started running, but he didn't care he had to find Maul. He tried to follow his apprentice, but as soon as they left the palace Obi-wan lost sight of his red Zabrak.
"Maul!" Obi-wan shouted out into the crowd trying to spot his black robed friend out of the crowd, but he had disappeared like a shadow. Obi-wan stood at the palace entrance for the first time in a while trying to catch his breath from running. Obi-wan was a fast runner himself, but put against Maul he had no chance in even catching up.
"Obi!" Satine called out on a speeder Obi-wan quickly ran over to her and hopped onto the speeder. They looked all around the city without success.
"Damn it Maul! Where the hell are you?!" Obi-wan said getting off of the speeder when Satine stopped.
"Obi, what in the galaxy happened back there?" Satine demanded for answers. "I thought Jedi aren't allowed to have relationships."
"We aren't, but isn't a Jedi." Obi-wan quickly said without thinking about what he said and he silently cursed himself once he realized what he said.
"What? Than what is he?" Satine's confusion was just furthered by Obi-wan's statement. Obi-wan thought quickly, he never lied to her before about anything except for Maul so he guessed she deserved the truth now.
"Maul is a Sith." Obi-wan started to explain. "Was a Sith. Maul was a Sith."
"A Sith?! But aren't they like a Jedi's archenemy?" Satine questioned him
"Yes! But Maul is different! He wasn't a Sith Lord when we found him. He was barely counted as an apprentice in the eyes of his master's master. There can only be two and Maul was going to be the apprentice replacement, but I ended up killing his master before his mater could kill his master." Obi-wan quickly explained to her hoping she could keep up and understand.
"Maul had place himself in my charge. Calling me 'Master!' At first I wanted nothing to do with him, but as stuff happened Master Windu and others wanted to just kill Maul or use him as bait for Maul's old master's master. Either way they all wanted Maul dead and when Maul heard about it he just seemed empty to it all saying he would do it if I so commanded it! I couldn't ever possibly push anyone to their deaths. Maul had panicked like a youngling when he was being examined and asked questions. He had ran Satine. Everyone in the Temple could feel his fear and his terror! By the time I found him he was in the middle of having a panic attack! By the time he was calmed and returned to the examination room something in him had shifted. He was a completely different person! He has multiple personalities Satine and there's no way he can control it. I-I-I think that's why he shakes so much! He tries to control it, but he just can't!" As Satine listened to Obi-wan she could hear Obi-wan's fascination about Maul.
"I've been the only one he will truly listen to because all of his personalities see me as their master. But when Plagueis came." Obi-wan's voice dropped and Satine was listening curiously about Maul. She didn't understand it all on why Obi-wan decided to keep him, but she always trusted his decisions.
"When he came, I was away being knighted, leaving Maul all alone. Plagueis threw Maul across the room that it forced something dark in Maul to come out of him to control his body. Like... it was the Sith Lord that everyone feared. Master Windu and I fought him, but during our fight something in Maul clicked and he back back to himself again. Master Windu was going to kill him as Maul's eyes were overflowing with the look of a terrified youngling who was just dragged into the middle of a war! I was able to stop Master Windu... but I had got hurt in the process. After Maul saw that I was hurt he defended me. He was trying to protect me after that. Than, after that, after I woke up from the bacta, after shortly seeing Maul the masters tried to pull us apart. They had reopened my wound and Maul quickly snapped into some kind of protective mode. I-I don't know how to describe it. It's like he made the air in the room thicker. Everyone's movement slowed down except for his. He managed to carry me away from them and he hid up in some warehouse. He had mended my wound, and gave me his clothes to wear when the air had became cold... he... I... at first I just thought it was because of the master and apprentice bond, but..."
"But it wasn't." Satine finished his sentence. "Obi, I never questioned your actions before, but are you sure this is good for you? You've seemed different when we met in front of the palace."
"I'm not different. I'm just..."
"Protective over Maul? I saw you touched his arm on our way to the hanger. Your face may have been stern, but your touch was soft and caring to him. Like you didn't want to break him. I should know, you use to touch me like that before when we met up secretly before you we out on missions." Satine said to him and heard thunder rolling.
"There's a storm coming." She said looking up into the sky watching the dark clouds roll in.
"We have to find him now! He can't stay out there alone." Obi-wan said to her sounding demanding. She couldn't help, but feel jealous towards Maul. She want Obi-wan to be this worried for her when something happened, but she smiled softly at him.
"We will find him Obi." She got back onto her speeder and turned it on.
"He has to be here somewhere, I don't think he would leave the planet." Obi-wan said thinking about the worst possible out come.
"We have to find him before Plagueis finds out where we are." Obi-wan said getting onto the speeder.
"We'll look on the outskirts of the town." Satine said speeding of to the edge of the city.

As they searched the edge of the city, Obi-wan could hear the raging river. He looked over and noticed that he could barely see the river from where he was. The heavy rain blurred his sight. He wished that they would just find Maul already. He needed Maul. He wanted to apologize to him for his reaction.