#particularly politicians with legs from here to tatooine

[tideswept]

WIP Wednesday

Still deciding on whether to split this into two chapters or post as one whole thing BUT BEHOLD: age reversal Obikin with PadObi and Senator!Anakin for 🎇spice.✨

"Do you have a death wish?"

Skyewalker blinked one eye up at Obi-Wan, the other hidden under a gingerly held ice pack. "Not particularly,” he replied nonchalantly. 

“Then why the kar—” Obi-Wan’s teeth snapped shut, face fraught and rigid with frustration. He couldn't swear at a Senator. No matter how much of a menace, a travesty, or a ridiculous man masquerading at respectability he might be.

Skywalker wisely chose to remain quiet. A dark smear of blood marred the corner of his mouth on the opposite side of the blooming black eye. Outraged at losing the race, that same Trandoshan who’d thrown the first punch had followed up with a jab. If Obi-Wan hadn’t intervened, Skywalker would have been in trouble—and for what? The thrill of a race? Boredom? Restlessness?

All of the above?

And to think that all this had been meant to be a straightforward assignment while Qui-Gon attended to personal business. Adrift, masterless, Obi-Wan had been itching for something to do when Master Windu had asked if he would be willing to provide protection for a new Senator who had been receiving death threats.

Obi-Wan, more fool he, had agreed. But he hadn’t known. There was no way he could have known that his biggest headache would turn out to be the man himself.