in ‘freeforme’… while setting up the meeting does Vader tell Padme/Obi Wan how he just ‘happened’ to be at the right time and place to grab Obi Wan? Luck? Force? Rebel traitor? (slipped in because the same traitor could betray Vader’s KIDS!) I am veeerrry curious as to how this might have happened? Give? Please?
Settling into the small shuttle with Waxer strapped to his chest,
Obi-Wan watched Vader order the troopers around with a tight
expression on his face.
For once the helmet was left behind and he was actually wearing an
outfit very similar to his old Jedi outfit.
‘An attempt to look nonthreatening for the twins most likely…’
Obi-Wan would guess. Dark brown leggings and boots with a black tunic
over what looked like a red undershirt and a red brownish belt that
held the mans saber.
It was honestly a rather handsome outfit and left Obi-Wan feeling
rather bare and under-dressed in his own outfit of brown leggings and
slippers combined with a thin blue shirt over that.
Vader seemed to realize that suddenly because he grabbed a man
Obi-Wan had called the Sith call Piett and said something to him,
both glancing in Obi-Wan’s direction before the Admiral nodded and
left.
When he returned he had a coat in hand, a pair of boots and luckily
some warm socks that he handed off to Obi-Wan. “Put those on
please, you’re going to be cold if not.” The Admiral murmured
before glancing over to Vader and lowering his voice quickly. “And
don’t do anything stupid, Lord Vader won’t hurt you and this crew
is loyal to him but the Emperor has his own agenda. Just listen to
the Lord and nothing bad will happen.” He stepped back before
Obi-Wan could respond.
Blinking after the man Obi-Wan carefully slipped his feet out of the
slippers and into the socks then the boots with a relieved noise. He
hadn’t looked forward to walking around on foliage or potentially
wet ground or gravel on slippers and the boots would keep him dry and
protect his feet.
As he slipped on his coat, Waxer snuffled into his chest and seemed
to wake as he whimpered at him.
“Its okay baby, give me a few moments.” Obi-Wan crooned and
shifted his new coat around the baby to give him shade.
There wasn’t really much he could do at the moment and he counted
himself lucky that Waxer didn’t seem hungry or wet. Changing the
baby now was not an option.
There was a thump and Obi-Wan looked up to see Vader enter and find
his own seat, the Sith watching him with a focus that some might have
found intimidating.
Obi-Wan just found it familiar as he peered back at him.
“…I’m curious, how did you find me? I was hiding very well on
Tatooine, a place you would never think to search or so I thought.”
He murmured quietly.
The Sith crossed his arms over his chest as a single trooper joined
them, heading to the front to take the cockpit. “… You went for
medical attention. You were recognized even if you didn’t use your
original name and the informant that noticed you stuck around to hear
when you were suppose to come back for a secondary checkup
appointment.” He offered with his lips pressed together.
“Medical atte-oh… Waxer was sick.” Obi-Wan sighed with
understanding.
If it had just been himself then he would never had gone but Waxer
had contracted a form for pox, the fever had gotten scarily high and
had sent Obi-Wan running to the medic for help.
“…The informant didn’t say that. Only that it was you.” Vader
stared at him for a long moment then flickered his eyes down at the
top of Waxer’s head. “…Was he alright?”
“A…high fever from a local pox on Tatooine. It made me worried
but the medicine took care of it all happily.” Obi-Wan shifted his
attention to the doors as they were sliding shut and got one, last
glimpse of Cody.
And then it was just him, the pilot, Waxer and Vader on a small
shuttle on his way to meet with Padme.