Ahsoka One Shots

Calm Within The Storm

Crashing. All she heard was booming, crashing, horrible cracking thunder. When she heard the first crack, she was still asleep. Ahsoka bolted up in bed, instinctively reaching to her side where her lightsabers lay, only to realize that the noise she heard wasn't a gunshot.

Letting out a shuddered breath she willed herself to just breathe, but the relief wouldn't come, just her ever increasing heartbeat as the thunder and lightening continued. Head in her hands she muttered to herself. "Thunder, Ahsoka, it's thunder it's just-" Her sentence was cut off by a loud unexpected crash that sent a gasp from the girl's lips. "You're safe. It's thunder, it's just thunder." It wasn't doing anything. With the next crack she heard screaming, and it wasn't her own. It was clones, the clones she felt like she always watched die, the screams of dying men, the yells of medical clones barking, gunfire in the distance. She knew it was fake, she knew it was all in her head, and she shouted at herself to stop.

"It's not real, it's not real, it's not real. Snap out of it Ahsoka," She mumbled to herself.

"Snips?" She heard the voice in the pitch black of her flashback, the voice of her master coming to comfort her. "I'm here, breathe Ahsoka, breathe with me." She could make out the faint shape of his muscled figure as he sat down next to her on the bed, lifting her hand to his chest. She felt it rise and fall beneath her hand, slowly matching her shuddered, quick breaths to his calm ones.

"Thunder get you?" He asked, once she seemed to calm down a little. Ahsoka nodded. "Can I turn on the light?" Again, she nodded. The light blurred her vision for a moment, but when she was able to properly see, she also was able to see Anakin's flustered appearance with messed up hair and crumpled night robes.

"Did I wake you?" Ahsoka whispered.

"I was already awake, watching the rain." Watching. Just watching. Not crying, not scared, just observing.

"Watching?" She asked, timidly.

He grinned slightly and nodded. "When you come from a desert planet, rain is pretty important."

"I suppose." Ahsoka paused as she thought carefully about the next sentence. "Doesn't the thunder... Sound like blaster shots?"

Anakin frowned again, pulling her into a hug. "I'm sorry." His long arms wrapped around her small figure, sheltering her from the thunder he could feel was coming. It had been too silent. When the next crack sounded, the girl flinched underneath his grip. He shushed her and continued with the reassurance. "It's okay now. I've got you."

"I'm sorry, I really shouldn't-"

"Ahsoka, give yourself a break, it's okay. You don't need to be sorry for being afraid, I'd be concerned if you weren't." Anakin rubbed one hand down her lekku as he continued to talk to her, hopefully easing some of her worries with distractions.

"Do you remember when we woke up early and played in the rain?" He asked, pulling away slightly to look her in the eye. Ahsoka grinned.

"And you shoved me in the mud."

"You shoved me too, you know."

"It was revenge."

Anakin chuckled at her. "And then Rex found us and was all confused."

"The look on his face was amazing." She flinched, slightly less with the added comfort of Anakin's repetitive movements of his hand on her head. 

"What about that time we almost blew up Padme's microwave,"

"There was no 'we', in that," Ahsoka said with a laugh. "That was all you." She sniffed and brushed away the tear tracks on her face.

"Or when you got a droid to the face and got a concussion," Anakin joked. "That was priceless if it weren't on a battlefield." Ahsoka's smile turned down slightly; her master noticed this and was about to change the subject when she butted in.

"Remember when I had to take care of a mouse in your room?" Anakin smiled.

"Of course I remembered, you threatened to swallow the thing whole." He shook her slightly in faked annoyance.

"About that..." Ahsoka started, smiling sheepishly. "I may have ended up actually eating it. I swear, I was gonna just let it outside but I was really hungry, and I couldn't stop myself."

Anakin's face morphed into disgust. "Ahsoka, you're gross."

She laughed at that. "You're the one who eats roots and trees and stuff."

"You eat animals, I'd call that pretty gross."

"Ya, ya, whatever, human." She threw out the word with a joking heir of annoyance. She leaned back into his side, breathing out. This was the first thunder crack that she didn't flinch, only close her eyes. In a moment, Anakin had lowered her down to the pillow again. Before he could move Ahsoka's small voice spoke up. "Stay?" She asked.

Anakin smiled, more inwardly than outward, but smiled. "I wasn't going anywhere, Snips." He slid down into a laying position as she sighed contently. An arm around her middle and another stroking her lekku, the two fell asleep like that. Thunder rumbling, lightening crashing, and Ahsoka was calm, at least for tonight.

A short chapter while everyone waits for the 10k celebration chapter, which ended up being an extra long one I'm working on. I'm at 3k words rn I think, should be out this week.

Have a good night/day/whatever and I'll see you when I see you :)

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