#current plan is fay/arla

[blackkatmagic]

Fay fic??? 👀

There's a shadow waiting for her when Fay leaves the building, lurking beneath the heavy overhang where a valet would normally be. Expected, usually welcome, but in these specific circumstances Fay halts her steps on the ornate stone, tips her chin up with something that might be defiance.

“Hello, Master Antilles,” she says evenly.

Jon looks at her for a long, long moment, half-hidden beneath the heavy drape of his cloak. Then, precise, he inclines his head and says, raspy like he hasn’t spoken in a while, “Master Fay. Should I see to the body?”

“The man,” Fay corrects without mercy, for herself or for the man she just walked away from. She left a man behind her. Hopefully a man who will make better choices this time. He’ll at least make different ones. She made sure of that.

Jon inclines his head, accepting that. He doesn’t say anything, still waiting for the answer, and Fay breathes out, closes her eyes for a moment.

She didn’t want to get involved in any of this. She didn’t want to come back to Coruscant, or set foot in the Core again as long as she lived. She doesn’t even want to live, particularly. It’s been so long, and now—

Now the Force is as loud and disturbed as it’s ever been, and if there was a chance for her to lay down her duty and rest before this, it’s vanished into the ether along with the peace of the galaxy.

“Please,” she finally says, precise. Jon is deeply embedded in all the shadows of the Republic, with contacts everywhere. If anyone can hide a person, it’s him. “Make sure he won't be found, and that he has the resources to start a good life. Somewhere peaceful, preferably.”

Jon nods, just once. “Do you want to know where?” he asks quietly.

“I don’t particularly care,” Fay says. It’s not her business now. She gave the man a chance to be someone new, someone better. Someone without the blood of children on his hands.

Anakin Skywalker is no more. What the man who used to be him does now is none of her concern unless he starts killing innocents again.