That won't happen to you

Chapter 11

When Ahsoka opened her eyes again, she experienced a small shock.

There was something green-blue in front of her that she couldn't quite put in place.

It was blurry but she saw it.

And then the pain came back, too.

Not as bad as it had been before.

Just a reflection, an echo.

Even her eyes didn't hurt as much anymore.

She recovered. when she tried to get up and fell back exhausted.

A soft whimper escaped her lips as she hit the ground again.

"Ahsoka?" Lou asked. So that was the blue-green blurred spot in front of Ahsoka's eyes.

Lou. With some help, she sat up and leaned against the wall.

For the first time, she could see the room she was stuck in.

Well, a bit, at least.

It was a mixture of gray wall and grey ground. The light from the lamp was bright and white. Clearly not a nice environment.

Unclearly, there was a darker spot on the wall. Of course.

The picture of her master. "please hurry SkyGuy," Ahsoka breathed heavily.

She felt like she hadn't eaten or drunk in days, and her limbs were still strangely numb.

Only when she saw another spot on the wall did hope begin to grow in her. A control panel for the door. Locked of course, but why had Anakin taught her.

The first problem was just to get there. With difficulty she came on her knees, leaned up against the wall. Her whole body resisted the movement. Pain shot up.

Ahsoka palpated her legs, where several scabbed cracks were found in her skin.

"You have those everywhere. The electricity tore them into your skin," Lou explained to her.

Ahsoka bit her lip. Now the guy had made sure that even if she escaped, scars would always remind her of her captivity and weakness.

Only by willpower did she make it to the door, ripping the control panel from the wall and tinkering with the cables.

"You should learn one thing, dark idiot. Never underestimate my will," the young Togruta murmured to herself.

It was an exhausting job.

Her vision was blurry and she had to separate each cable from the others first so she could look at them individually in the light and assign them.

But her effort paid off. And her will, which, she was quite sure, could not be broken by anyone.

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Meanwhile Anakin had found Granré. The slaver was pressed against the wall behind him and hardly got air.

"Where is my Padawan?" Anakin hissed. "I... I don't know" Granré continued to lie.

But Anakin knew he was lying, of course. He squeezed the slaver's throat even tighter.

"Where is my sister!" Anakin yelled at him, then he realized what he had said.

He had called her his sister.

And all of a sudden he realized how much that was true. "If you have harmed my sister..." he hissed.