When Obi-wan woke up, Maul was half asleep leaning against Obi-wan's hospital bed. Obi-wan jumped when he saw Maul, his mind questioning itself about if Maul's death was just all in his head. Feeling Obi-wan jump, Maul's eyes snapped open and he half stood from his seat thinking that there was some kind of unseen danger, he looked around the room before his eyes settled on the still bewildered eyes of his mate. Obi-wan's eyes shook with new tears as he and Maul didn't say a single word. Maul sat down as soon as he sensed no danger in the room.
Obi-wan lifted a shaky hand to Maul's face and he cupped Maul's cheek. Maul nuzzled into the hand than placed a gentle kiss on Obi-wan's palm.
"This can't be real..." Obi-wan broke the silence with a worn out voice. His hand moved away from Maul's face. He paused for a moment before making another move. Obi-wan shifted a bit to the edge of the bed. A sting in his shoulder was still there, but he ignored it as he moved Maul's robes out the way so he could lift up the red Zabrak's tunic.
Maul watched as Obi-wan found and just stared at the scar that was left behind from Dooku's lightsaber after the Nightsister's magik healed him. Obi-wan gently touched the scar with his fingertips. It seemed like Obi-wan was inspecting Maul trying to tell if he was real or not.
"How?" Was the only word that escaped Obi-wan's mouth as he could stop looking at the scar.
"Fury found me not long after Dooku and his droids took you. Mother Talzin and Old Daka were able to heal me." Maul explained than placed a hand on Obi-wan's stomach and spoke softer. "If I had known you would have become pregnant I would have tried to look for you faster."
Obi-wan was silent as he looked at Maul's hand with fear. Maul looked at Obi-wan confused. Maul went to speak until Obi-wan looked at Maul dead in the eye.
"Maul," Obi-wan whispered his body shaking. "Don't leave me alone with them. Don't listen to anything they say. It's all a trick."
An alarm went off in Maul's head it yelled at him to march out of the room and to beat the life out of his brothers. Maul kept calm as he looked into Obi-wan's eyes.
"You mean Savage and Feral?" Maul questioned
"Please Maul. Do not leave me alone with them." Obi-wan grabbed onto Maul's hand tightly
"Don't worry, Obi-wan, I will never leave your side." Maul promised to him than Feral walked into the room. Maul could sense his nervousness.
"I thought I told Savage that both of you were suppose to stay outside." Maul snarled at his youngest brother.
"I wanted to talk with you brother and I can't say it around Savage." Feral spoke quietly as if he was afraid of someone else hearing beside them.
"What is it?" Maul asked keeping his voice a steady and calm tone, one that terrified Feral.
"Obi-wan, I never meant for anything to happen the way it did. You know I didn't want any of it. Beware of Savage, I suspect he knows that I'm doing this. You both need to leave now." Feral said his voice is laced in panic, but Maul couldn't sense any of it in his Force. Maul took truth to his youngest brother's words when Feral had told him that he couldn't say what he did around Savage, so Feral hadn't let Savage sense it either.
"Why should we leave? What threat is there?" Maul quizzically asked his brother, who rubbed his hands together.
"I can't tell you how I know this, but Dooku is relentless in achieving is goal and Kenobi is a vital part of it." Feral started to explain and Maul stopped him before he was able to continue.
"I see no reason for the urgency Feral, but I shall keep it in mind. It is understandable for Kenobi being a vital part of Dooku's plan, but everyone can see that Dooku is trying to use him to get to me."
"No, brother, you don't understand!" Feral cried out trying to make his stubborn brother understand.
"Feral," Obi-wan broke into the conversation. "It's OK. I understand. I know that you didn't want anything to happen, and I forgive you. I'll... explain it to Maul later."
"But we have to-!" Feral kept pushing to explain it until the door opened. Maul felt a little prick of Feral's fear leak through. Whatever Feral was afraid about, it had something defiantly to do with Savage and Dooku. Maul couldn't tell what exactly Feral was trying to say. If it had Savage working with Dooku, he wanted the proof before he condemned his brother. Feral let out an audible sigh when he saw Viclia walk into the room. Her weapons had been taken by Owen in a promise to stay peaceful around the Zabrak brothers that had caused Obi-wan's initial distress on Naboo. It was obvious by her stare at Maul and Feral that she did not trust them no matter who they said they were.
"Obi-wan, how are you feeling?" She leans on the bed carefully now just fully ignoring the brothers.
"I'm fine,Viclia, much better now that Maul is here." Obi-wan smiled softly at her.
"You should have ran off like that. You scared everyone back home. Owen had sent them a transmission not too long ago telling them that you were fine and safe." Viclia added
"That's right." Obi-wan said softly thinking about how scared they must have been to see him run away like that. Obi-wan then grew a smile on his face and looked at Maul. "You should come and meet my parents, Maul!"
"Meet your parents?" Maul's voice was hinted with nervousness
"Yeah, I mean, I've already met your mother, now it's time for you to meet my parents." Obi-wan explained and Maul was silent for a moment thinking. Maul had wanted to investigate Savage to search for any possible connection between him and Dooku.
"I'm not sure now is a good time Obi-wan." Maul spoke up
"What do you mean? Obi-wan is nearly fully healed from his wound and, with him pregnant, he won't be able to travel around in a few months. Now is the best time to make the travel back." Vilcia broke into their conversation. Her voice was full of sass and was just tempting Maul into a fight.
"As Feral had mentioned before your friend came in Obi-wan, Dooku is still looking for you. Us traveling to see your parents now would only tip Dooku off to where they are. He could follow us and use your parents against you." Maul explained "It would be best for us all to stay hidden for the time being."
"And when the baby is born then what?" Vilcia crossed her arms glaring at Maul. "It would be an even worse time then to be traveling around. With the baby born and traveling around it would inevitably get sick and possibly die from the sickness."
Maul contained his snarl at her and kept his appearance calm as she had contradicted his plan to stay put. Maul knew she was right though, the baby would have to stay put until it was ready enough to start traveling. Traveling around one world was enough to get a baby sick. Space traveling would only be 10 time worse.
"Alright then. I'll go and tell Savage that we shall be leaving once Obi-wan feel fit enough to travel." Maul announced as he walked over to Feral and quietly spoke. "Let no one else into this room except for Obi-wan's brother until I come back."
Feral nodded and Maul left the room. Maul knew that he didn't have much time before Obi-wan announced that he was ready to travel. Maul predicted that he had until tomorrow to find out as much information between Savage and Dooku as he could. Then he had to find out how they were going to make their way to the planet where Obi-wan's parents lived without attracting the attention of Dooku.
