In feral child after Anakin destroys the hutt palace does he get a cuddle pile from the lineage or comfort in general?
The
palace is rubble.
Just
a smoking pile of duracrate and steel, twisted beyond recognition and
Anakin can’t bring himself to feel anything but a burning kind of
numbness as he stares at it, sitting on a crate as the wound in the
Force continues it mournful song to anyone that can hear it.
He
did this.
He
killed an entire palace of people, brought it down around his own
ears as Gardulla confronted him with the truth.
That
his mother was gone.
Dead.
By the
orders of Jabba.
All
for breaking a plate.
Around
him, rocks vibrated on the sludgy ground, toxic waste and slime doing
nothing for his mood as he continued staring at the broken former
palace.
He had
slaughtered them all, his men he had pulled close to him and kept
them safe with the Force but the rest of the palace had been brought
down around their ears as Anakin slowly and steadily choked the life
out of Gardulla the hutt.
She
was dead.
But
Jabba…
Anakin’s
hands twitched in his lap, several rocks rising from the mud only to
drop just as sharply when Rex suddenly sat down beside him, invaded
Anakin’s space without a care for himself. Before Anakin could
demand an answer, he was pulled into Rex lap and held tightly, a hand
ungloved hand buried in his hair.
Fingertips
rubbed at his scalp, nails gently scratching as Rex held him as
tightly as humanly possible while still in most of his armor,
Anakin’s breather mask pressed to the captain’s shoulder with how
tightly he was being held.
“I’m
here commander. I’m here.” He whispered out.
He
didn’t promise things would be alright, he didn’t say things were
alright.
But he
was there.
Breath
coming out in a deep whine, Anakin wrapped his arms around Rex,
burying himself as best he could against the clone captain’s body
as he trembled and shuddered, great gasping breaths being taken in as
best he could with the breather mask.
He
wanted to be off Nal Hutta, he wanted to be back on the Morti, he
wanted to curl up in bed and scream and he wanted Jabba in chains or
even better, he wanted his head.
But
right now there was nothing he could do about any of that.
They
had to prepare to leave but even more than that, they had to get the
planet under control.
Because
it was clear now that Nal Hutta belonged to Obi-Wan.
But
Obi-Wan was also down, settled onto a stretcher with Cody guarding
him jealously, the commander oozing with worry and protective care as
he prowled around.
That left it to Qui-Gon to ensure that the planet
would be under their rule.
Setting
up troopers around, making sure the remaining hutts answered to them,
that the populace understood their new situation.
A
whine escaped Anakin when Rex hand left his curls only to let out a
confused noise when the captain stood, the man walking in a steady,
rocking motion as he carried Anakin bridal style. “There’s a
shuttle that will bring us up, I had Fives and Echo prepare it, we’re
leaving the planet under orders of General Kenobi.” Rex murmured
quietly.
Forcing
his head up from the man’s shoulder, Anakin shot a look at Obi-Wan,
finding his old master watching him mutely from the stretcher, golden
honey eyes saddened and worried as Obi-Wan reached out weakly in the
Force in a mental hug.
It was
the best he could get from the other right now, his ghostly army had
left Obi-Wan too weak to do anything and Anakin settled back into Rex
grasp.
His
mother was gone, dead, the woman he had tried for so long to find,
the woman Obi-Wan had tried every year to find, exhausted every lead
he had on.
And
Jabba had taken her from them.
Tightening
his grip on Rex, Anakin swore he was never going to loose another
like this, these troopers were his, Obi-Wan was his, Qui-Gon was his
and no one was going to take them away from him ever again.
Anakin
would make sure of that, he was, after all, the chosen one,
wasn’t he?