Chapter 4: A Slight Change in fate for the chosen one
A man with sandy blond hair looked at the same words, his thoughts a mess. He had been starring at the same words for the last 5 minutes. Having just got back from a campaign he had been hoping for some down time and relaxation, especially with Padme. But that wasn't to be.
Anakin Skywalker, famed Jedi General and proclaimed as the 'Man With no fear', was certainly in that moment feeling just such a thing. It had been Rex that had called him to a secure comm call that had come in for his person.
After accepting the call in his room, alone, he had been surprised when instead of possibly a new mission from the high council or maybe the supreme chancellor he had instead gotten static. Frowning at the time, it had soon changed to curiosity when his personal data pad had pinged a response.
Having suddenly found a new function labeled [Consol] on his device, to say his suspicions were high was an understatement. He knew every program and system installed on nearly all his equipment this wasn't one of them.
Lack of fear had led him to open the program and find out what was going on and that lead him to this moment now. If he noticed he was clenching his robotic hand in anger, he didn't show it as his face was a mask of seriousness.
Only a few words preoccupied his mind as he stared at what [The Counselor] had written. The main two parts being,
(...happy life with your wife...)
and
(…. get manipulated by your father figure and become a Sith lord...)
The mention of 'Padme', or rather the mention of his 'wife', though no name was written, was a huge red flag. Whoever this [Counselor] was, 'knew', he had a wife. He still held out a small hope that his own reply might have given the scumbag doubt, but he clearly seemed deranged and irritable.
It was unlikely he would fall for his small trick, that was what worried him most. His second worry was the fact he couldn't bring up his new worries with anyone close to him, it would make it all that harder to track down and find this guy.
'Though I could at least tell Padme, someone suspects or even knows about us, she might have more ideas on who might have found out.'
The finale cause for worry was what he had mentioned about his 'father figure' and him becoming a 'Sith lord'. The Sith lord comment clearly showed whoever this was, is clearly out of their mind, there was no way he would ever fall to the dark side, it was unthinkable.
But his mind for some reason couldn't help but latch onto the 'father figure' comment. It was like a part of his mind or even a memory was telling him to concentrate on those words as if they were true, though that couldn't be possible.
Though in the past he might have been able to say he had two such figures in his life, training with and fighting with Obi-wan in the war had squarely changed his designation to sworn brother.
That only left one person that he felt a grandfatherly bond towards. His mind was in turmoil as he tried to instantly refute what was before him. There was no way Palpatine could be manipulating him, he was kind, caring, the only person that seemed to encourage him (Other than Padme), that tried to make the republic a utopia for all.
He wanted nothing of war, and he knew that if he could, he would have ended the war through negotiation and peace in a heartbeat. He'd known him since he was a kid, he couldn't be mistaken.
But....
There was still that intrusive memory and a small voice in the back of his head, the voice could have been called an intuition, but Anakin knew better, it was the force, and it wanted him to look at the words, to think on them.
A scowl was now on his lips as he continued to stare at the words. He might have starred at them longer had there not been a beep from the door. Opening automatically, Rex, his most trusted clone walked back into the room.
"General, I hope the call wasn't anything important."
Snapped out of his stooper he considered if he could tell his most trusted man about the new information before him, but in the end, he knew he couldn't, not when it involved Padme. Shaking his head, he forced a laugh out as he turned off his data pad, keeping it close at hand still.
"No Rex, just some classified information about the war effort, nothing that concerns the 501st."
Rex looked at his general, quickly noting the still clenched hand to the side and irritated mood, but said nothing. He made a small mental note to remind the commander later. She would probably have better luck helping the general out with whatever had happened, and if she thought it was too much for them, she would have the mind to come get him and his brothers for backup. With those thoughts he gave a firm nod and motioned towards his wrist unit.
"You wanted me to inform you, when it was getting close to your appointment with the Supreme Chancellor."
Those words gave Anakin pause as his eyes flickered down to the data pad again, the words repeating in his mind. (You get manipulated by your father figure and become a Sith lord.) Looking back up with Rex, he found it surprising when the next words came easily out of his mouth.
"Sorry Rex, could you give the Chancellor my deepest apologies something has come up that I can't miss, I'll schedule another meeting with him later this week."
Not thinking too hard on his general's words and knowing that he wasn't in the best of moods, he quickly left the room to deliver the message.
Back in the room, Anakin looked at the retreating back of Rex for some reason feeling lighter. Though he was still worried about whatever this [Consol] program was about and whoever [The Counselor] person may be, he now had his afternoon free.
And in that moment, he couldn't think of any better place to be than with his wife, who was expecting him much later in the night. 'Hopefully she likes the surprise visit'. Quickly making his way out, he pushed his disturbed thoughts to the side and started to think about what they could both get up to with the extra time.
He could worry and talk about this new development tomorrow.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
Zevren
Zevren You know thought i would get atleast another 'characters' reaction in on this chapter, but want to keep it breezy, 1 k words is already pushing it. Just means you'll get more chapters if i taking it easy and actually want to continue writting.
Yes i will be doing a chapter for each of thier inital reactions, (probably not as indepth as this, but the MC did drop quite a lot of Anakin last chapter,) then back to MC.
Then it'll get to the 1v1 Counselling stuff so won't have to do this sort of thing again, or much. (I'm just assuming people will complain about the next 2 chapters being atleast about the characters intial response to the chat group and how they got said chat group.
Dropped a few little hints on what part of the time line he is at, but nothing concreate.
Zevren out.
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