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            he’s in hiding. part of him feels it should be obvious but he can’t except everyone to understand the DANGER he puts himself in now. charles runs his fingers through off-white hair, letting out a long breath and pulling his palm down his face.            “because i don’t trust the senate right now. i’m HIDING and the jedi and the only ones meant to be impartial enough to help me here. i don’t NEED you to tell the council, or the senate. if anyone, tell amidala.”             anyone with eyes can tell that the two of them share a friendship.

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            “she wants peace.”            charles had admired her once.             “i know that much. if she uses the information or not is at her leisure, but   ——   sometimes people really do intend to just do the right thing, master skywalker. even politicians.”

               HIS WIFE’S NAME on Xavier’s lips hews a heavy line between Anakin’s brows, all that volatile ferocity settling behind a dark frown. Generated by paranoia && lodged in his mind to fester like shrapnel in an open wound. But Anakin reassured himself that it was perfectly normal for another senator to know Padme; her cries for diplomacy in the passionate barbarism of war had put her on the map in more ways than one. 

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     ❝ You’ll have to excuse my suspicion, but this war has been good at proving otherwise. ❞ He almost wanted to deny his connection to Padme, but something told him that going on the defensive would only serve to solidify Xavier’s assumptions. ❝ I’ll pass your message along. ❞

 
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