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In Dark Fields by JarsOfIt
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
12 Dec 2024
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“What,” he said softly to himself, to no-one. His daily morning rage was replaced by a kind of bemusement. He knew nobody on Bandomeer. Really, he could amend that statement to 'he knew nobody', at all. Not the friends of his childhood, not the teachers of his youth, not the woman coming into the kitchen, dark curls bound up after her shower and wet at the nape of her neck. As for support, he was perhaps the last person in the galaxy anyone should ask for that, unless they meant it in a military vein. He was in a beautiful chateau in a beautiful country on a beautiful planet, and he could hardly support his own weight: not the weight of his body, nor of his memories.
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Anakin receives a summons from the High Court of Bandomeer requesting his presence as a Testimonial Support Person.
Unfortunately, the person upon whose behalf the request was made has absolutely no interest in seeing him.
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Bookmark Notes:
Ch2
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“I’m here to support you so that you can do that,” Anakin managed, but he was almost bowled over: Anakin, Anakin. Nobody in the galaxy said his name like that, only Obi-Wan, the long, warm vowels, the curl of his tongue on the ‘n’. Even annoyed with him, Obi-Wan could not deliver the name sharply or angrily, his mouth did not allow it. Anakin all of a sudden realised that, had he not come here, had Obi-Wan not been summoned for witness duty on a random planet they had never visited, he very well could have heard Obi-Wan say Anakin for the last time and been none the wiser.
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They liked to do things properly, which involved bureaucracy and white-collar caution and red tape and long, long wait-times – things that Obi-Wan hated, things that he knew Anakin hated as well. It was easy to forget that they had, in all honesty, agreed far more than they ever disagreed. The disagreements were just bigger. They didn’t do stakes by halves.
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Moments that seemed so inconsequential in the face of the true action of his life, which was – and likely would always be – Anakin.
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He lifted his head and they looked at each other in the thinning light, Anakin standing there with Obi-Wan’s robes and canteen and ‘sabre in his arms. Such an unusual arrangement for the pair of them – Obi-Wan remembered Anakin’s protectiveness, but he had never before given Anakin a rational reason to exercise it. It had manifested solely as possessiveness, not whatever this was – this kind of responsibility.
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Bookmark Notes:
Read ch. 1