Padme approaches Obi-Wan to fix things with Anakin in ADHD!Obi. Anakin finds out his friend knew about his marriage and that Padme’s unplanned accusations have sent his master into the beginnings of depression. After all, who wouldn’t be depressed if they were told that they are “too needy” and “inconsiderate” when the other person is lashing out from frustration?
Mentally praying as
he raced around the corner with sweat on his brow, Anakin hoped to
Force that he wouldn’t be too late, that Padme had not already
found Obi-Wan and that he could divert a disaster in the making even
as he was mentally cursing himself, Padme, the galaxy and the sweat
currently dripping down his back from the sparring round he had gone
through with Kit Fisto.
But when Ahsoka had
called him that she had seen Padme in the temple…
Heart in his
throat, Anakin finally burst into the right hallway and tore down to
the door he was going for.
Slapping his hand
onto the lock, Anakin took a second to wipe his forehead with the
back of his arm as it opened and promptly almost lost his lunch at
the site of Obi-Wan sitting on the floor with his knees pulled up,
face buried in his legs and arms tight around them to pull them
closer to his body.
He was too late.
Padme, his
wonderful, diplomatic but frustrated Padme had opened her mouth and
things had come out wrong.
“Obi-Wan?” He
whispered, watching the redhead do a full body flinch in surprise
before lifting his head from his knees to show red rimmed eyes
despite the dryness of his face.
“Anakin?”
Obi-Wan croaked in a broken tone.
Heart tearing apart
in his chest, Anakin slowly moved into the quarters and let the door
close shut behind him as he made his way towards the older man,
dropping down on one knee while gently touching Obi-Wan’s knees.
“…What did she say?” Anakin questioned, squeezing the others
knee with care.
Obi-Wan clenched
his eyes shut and fisted his hands into his leggings at that
question, teeth gritted as he took a deep breath.
“Obi-Wan, please
whatever she said, she’s just frustrated.” Anakin continued,
trying to carefully pry the others hands loose. “Please Obi-Wan,
she didn’t mean it, whatever it is, it wasn’t tru-”
“So I’m not
claiming your attention like a needy kid?” Obi-Wan rasped out, eyes
till tightly closed.
Because of that, he
did not see Anakin’s face go calk white, then red and then resigned
before he wrapped his arms around the redhead. “No. I want to
spend my time with you, want to give you my attention. You’re
not taking anything I’m not willing to give you.” He whispered
into the others ear, pulling him in tightly. ‘I need to have a
karking conversation with Padme about this. Kark you can’t just say
things like that to someone not neurotypical! You shouldn’t say it
anyhow to anyone!’
So busy mentally
scolding Padme, Anakin almost lost out on Obi-Wan’s next words.
“But she’s your wife Anakin.” The redhead muttered resignedly.
Twitching a bit,
Anakin sat back a bit on his heel to stare at him before sighing and
nodding. “She is.”
At least the
confession made Obi-Wan open his eyes to stare at him, looking wary
and tired.
“But you’re my
friend.” Anakin added on. “Family.” He leaned in slowly and
tapped their foreheads together. “And she can’t decide for me and
I can’t decide for her who our friends are.” He quietly rubbed
their noses together, smiling when Obi-Wan quirked his lips a bit at
the gesture. “And I think its normal for couples to argue but she
can’t take my faults out on you, that’s not fair at all. You
haven’t asked me to spend my time with you, I choose to spend my
time with you.” Anakin said with affection in his eyes.
Peering back,
Obi-Wan gave a little shaky huff before he nodded, their foreheads
rubbing against each others at the move. “I guess you’re right…
I just… she’s right about you not needing to spend all your time
with me. If you want to go and smooth things over with her… I can
go hang out with Bant or teach Ahsoka…” He added, trailing
lightly off when Anakin raised both his eyebrows in disbelief.
“You promised me
caramel cake!” The blond huffed, pouting before grinning when
Obi-Wan started to laugh.
“Oh alright,
alright!” Obi-Wan waved his hands, chuckling warmly if shakily. “But you
need to go shower before you get any cake.”
Bouncing to his
feet and pulling Obi-Wan up with him, Anakin gave a giant grin and
nod before skipping off to the shower, feeling relief settle low in
his stomach as he heard Obi-Wan whistle to the kitchen, disaster
averted. For now at least…