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Trust Me

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(Y/n)'s POV
"Think you'll be alright here without me for a few hours?" Anakin bent down in-front of Captain Typho who was laying across the couch with his legs up on the cushions.

He nodded as he pulled a blaster from the side where he had it hidden, "We'll be fine. And we have two clones stationed outside that Master Windu left behind."

I shivered at the name, I was glad to have missed him when he was here collecting Moteé. He's not a pleasant man to be around and his padawan Devin is no better — I still couldn't believe I made out with him and almost... well you know teenage hormones. But the important thing is that I stopped it, and he was not happy about it either.

I believe he called me a tease and—oh my favorite—a blue baller.

"Wait Ani before you two go there's something I've been meaning to give you," Padme rushed into the living room as she rolled in something that was covered under a sheet. She stopped just in front of my Master and stood up straight, "First I wanted to say thank you and I know we haven't had the best relationship lately-"

"No, stop," Anakin waved his hand to dismiss her words while he shook his head, "Thank you gifts aren't necessary, I was only doing what I was instructed to do." He shifted uncomfortably where he stood. That's another thing I've learned about him, he's not a fan of heart-to-heart conversations. In fact, he dreads them.

Padme sighed as she grabbed the sheet, "This isn't a thank you gift," She pulled on the fabric to reveal what was underneath, "Consider it an I'm sorry gift," She clarified with a soft smile as she caressed the shiny exterior of her gift to him, "I know this doesn't compare to what you lost, but I'm sorry that I let you down when you needed me. So consider him yours now."

Anakin and I both looked down at what she uncovered, and I swear the sound that came out of him resembled that of a squealing teenage girl, "You can't be serious, you're giving him to me?" He exasperated in disbelief as he dropped to his knees and admired the powered-down blue and white astromech droid.

Padme slowly smiled when she saw his excitement and nodded, "He hasn't been on in quite some time though, there's an issue with a few of his exteriors, but I'm sure it's something you can easily fix."

I didn't think him smiling this way was possible, he looked so happy, "Master, are you okay?" Was he even breathing?

"You have no idea how much I've been wanting him." He mumbled low as he ran his gloved hand along the exterior, "Ever since I was a kid."

Padme chuckled, "It's true, he tried kidnapping him once," She shook her head with an amused sigh, "But I was attached back then and didn't want to see him go, but now, I think it's time for you to have him. He has everything you could ever need to help you when you're out there. He'll be much more useful to you."

Anakin stood up and instantly pulled Padmè into a hug, "Thank you." He said quietly before pulling away from the embrace and looking down at her, "And I'm sorry too, I never should have blamed you."

Padme raised her brows in surprise and glanced at me, then back to Anakin, "Having a padawan is changing you Ani, you're much nicer."

He rolled his eyes and completely stepped away from the hug, "I'm still the same, I just realized I was angry with the wrong person." He raised his hand and used the force to gently roll his new droid into the corner, "But I will still be accepting this generous gift." He smirked, tossing a sheet back over it.

Padme and breathed a light laugh, "And how long till you two get back from the meadows?" She asked, glancing between us.

I'm not sure if Anakin noticed it, but I did. Her hands nervously rubbed together as she waited for a response and I could feel her loneliness that was also followed by a wave of sadness. Her emotions were so strong I could feel them as my own, "We're not sure-" Anakin began, but I cut him off.

"Do you want to come with us?" I offered.

Her once melancholic expression brightened up, "Are you sure I won't be imposing on your training?"

"Maybe a little-"

"No," I cut him off again with a stern glare. He smiled and I knew he was only trying to be an ass with his responses.

He shrugged innocently, "What?"

I rolled my eyes before smiling at who I consider to be a new friend, "You won't be imposing at all."

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"Alright, you," Anakin pointed at Padme who was seated on a blanket in the grass, "No distracting her, now is her time to focus-"

"Oh my god are these lilacs?" I completely derailed my attention to a patch of lilacs in the field. This place was even more beautiful than I anticipated it to be, and don't even get me started on the waterfalls. The water crashing against itself was one of the most relaxing sounds I have ever heard.

"(Y/n) focus," Anakin snapped his fingers and I felt my body turn and jerk up straight so I was facing him again. He raised a brow at me, "You'll have plenty of time to explore once we're done. But for now, I'm going to need your attention."

I nodded with a sigh, "Yes Master," The sooner we get this hard part over with, the sooner I can do whatever I want. Which really just includes me going through this field and finding as many plants from my book as I could that are in this vicinity. You'd be surprised by the kind of medicinal properties some of these plants hold that are overlooked. And it's also good to know the poisonous ones, it might just be life saving knowledge to have one day.

"Let's start simple," He waved his hand and a pebble flew in my direction. It landed in front of me and my eyes followed it until it became hidden between the strings of grass, "Alright, use the force to lift it up."

I looked at him in disbelief, "You can't be serious." This is training you give to a youngling, not a skilled padawan.

"Humor me." He insisted.

I sighed in annoyance and went ahead and did as he asked — I lifted the pebble with ease, "Happy?" I dropped it back onto the floor.

"Very, now do it again, but lift up two instead of one. And whichever ones don't matter to me, this floor is covered in them."

I nodded and again did as he said, raising two small rocks from the floor before dropping them back down. I sighed for what felt like the hundredth time as I wondered where exactly he was going with this.

"Easy right?" He asked and before I could give him an answer, he continued, "But do you have the skill to hold all of them?" He held both his hands out and slowly brought them upwards. From the ground came up every single pebble, rock, or grain that was in about a fifteen foot radius of us. I can tell by his smile that this was his way of trying to show off his Master skills.

This is basically how all of our training sessions are, it's him trying to show off, with me trying to do at least one thing better than him. That's his idea of training, beating him — how narcissistic.

But luckily for me, force use is where I excel. I'm good when it comes to lightsaber battles too, but the force has always been a strong ally for me whenever I really apply myself. So I smirked and raised a single hand up the way he did, but since he already had the rocks floating around us, I had to improvise.

Petals from flowers, leaves, and grass were pulled into the air. A few bunnies that were running through got caught in my hold as well, and I also levitated a significant amount of bugs that were burrowing in the dirt — those ones were unintentional and I kept them as far away from me as possible.

Anakin glanced around at what I had done and looked back at me, impressed, "Keep your focus." He said as he dropped his hands down, and I kept the rocks levitating with everything else. To hold up this much for this long takes a lot of patience, concentration, and discipline — so this wasn't easy.

He took a few steps closer and pulled his lightsaber from his belt before he pointed it in my direction and ignited it. The blue light went past my cheek and I could feel the warmth radiating against my skin, centimeters away from me.

He smiled when I gave no reaction, "Do you trust me?"

Is that what this is? A trust exercise?

I gently shrugged and continued to keep my hold on the objects around me, a bunny floated close to Anakin and he waved it off in another direction, causing Padme to giggle. Poor thing, but I'm not hurting it or anything, it's probably just incredibly confusing right now.

"Should I?" I responded with attitude, and can I really be blamed with how things have been going lately?

He nodded, "If we're going to be out there together, we need to start trusting each other." He removed the lightsaber from next to my cheek and rummaged through his cloak. After a few second he pulled out something I haven't seen in years — a round training device that shoots rays which are only strong enough to give a slight burn, "I set this one for you to be its primary target," He acted like he was going to drop it, but it floated in the air instead where he once held it.

My eyes widened, "Master I can't dodge those shots and keep my concentration. I'll have to drop everything." I was already starting to feel my energy slowly draining from me, so there was no way I could properly defend myself.

"And that is where the trust comes in, your job is to completely focus on what you're doing now and trust me to make sure you don't get hit." He spun his lightsaber in a way that I felt was meant to be impressive, but I've done better.

I sighed and nodded to agree, but I hated this idea. I was nervous it was another trick and he was going to allow that thing to actually hit me, it's not a crazy thought given things he's already done. But as soon as the training device fired shots and I never once felt a sting, my anxiousness started to subside and I moved as little as possible as I watched my Master deflect every shot around me.

I only found myself cringing maybe a total of three times, but it was only because he allowed some of them to get very close to me. And I was even thinking it was on purpose and he was trying to show off as usual. Which irked me and all I wanted to do was wipe the smug grin off of his face.

So of course, I concocted a plan that would do just that.

As I started to lose my hold on the objects around me, I used one last spurt of energy to jerk the device to the side, causing him to miss the shot that then hit me right on my cheekbone.

I yelled out in pain more dramatically than necessary and dropped to the floor, while also releasing everything around me. I heard Anakin gasp and rush to my side as I laid there with one hand over the area the blast hit. It didn't hurt that much, I was just milking it and fake crying to make him feel guilty.

"(Y/n) are you okay? I'm so sorry I didn't mean for it to-" He paused for a moment and I knew exactly why — because I'm a terrible actress, "Are you laughing?" He snapped and grabbed my wrist to move my hand away from my face that I'm sure barely had anything other than a small pink mark, "You little- I thought I really hurt you." He smacked me on the arm, hard.

I continued to laugh, "That's what you get for always being an ass, and for nearly getting me killed." I reached forward and smacked him just as he did to me before trying to sit up.

He pushed me down aggressively with narrowed eyes, "I thought you forgave me for that?"

Did he seriously just shove me like that?

I proceeded to sit up and hit his shoulder with mine. I feel like it hurt me more than it hurt him to do that, but I refused to make a face despite my shoulder throbbing, "Yes but that doesn't mean you didn't deserve a little something for it."

"Don't hit me," He threatened with another light shove.

"You hit me first," I hit him back.

"Stop being so immature."

"I will when you stop being so arrogant."

After a few hits back and forth, we started to be a bit more aggressive and I accidentally pushed him so hard that he fell backwards. He started to roll down the short slope and normally I'd be laughing my ass off at this. But instead I was screaming, because before he fell back — he pulled me down along with him for his last effort of revenge.

Anakin and I both stopped rolling once we reached the bottom of the slope and the position we happened to be in was a bit... compromising.

He was on top of me with both of his palms in the grass on both sides of me, which is how he aided in stopping our tumbling. Our eyes locked and the air felt thick as our noses brushed together while we breathed heavily to catch up on oxygen.

"Are you okay?" He whispered low.

I nodded because I couldn't find it in me to speak an answer. He subtly glanced down towards my lips before flickering his eyes back up. His actions brought on a heavy beat in my chest that momentarily stopped me from breathing.

"Oh my god are you two okay?" Padme shouted from above, pulling him and I away from the strange tension we were drowning in. Anakin and I snapped our heads in her direction and her eyes shifted between us, "Oh, I'm sorry, did I interrupt-"

"What? No," Anakin practically shoved me off of him and I landed with my face in the dirt and a pain-filled groan, "I was just making sure she was okay, come on padawan, let's finish up, I'm getting bored of this." He stormed up the slope to go back to where we once were.

Padme rolled her eyes at him as she helped me up to my feet and kindly wiped the dirt off of my face. My eyes drifted upwards to my Master who was looking down at me with an unreadable expression, and the second our eyes locked, he quickly turned his back to me.

What the hell just happened?

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