Glancing backward at the sound, thankfully as many did, Ahsoka was able to pretend to just be another confused citizen. That lie alone was enough to mask the spike of alarm that struck her. Stormtroopers could be dealt with, and while she had killed Clones before it wasn’t ideal. To see a familiar face die always hurt, and they were hell to beat back.
They’d been trained too well.
As soon as she’d turned away Ahsoka darted for an alleyway, waiting just long enough to be out of sight before breaking into a full sprint. Her heart seemed to throb in her montrals and she felt the sickly familiar feeling of being prey rather than the predator and it was a sensation she hated more than most.
The sprint only bought her a few moments before she could hear the heavy footfalls of another following her down the narrow passageway. They were alone, thankfully, and as the path started to narrow Ahsoka made the choice to turn and stand her ground. Hips and shoulders squared, with a stolen imperial blaster in hand, Ahsoka leveled it at the running clone. “Stop! I’m not afraid to shoot.”
It was her! That momentary rise of familiarity and comfort burst as she turned and ran. He stood dumbfounded for a second before giving chase. His heavy pack bounced and rattled loudly. The weight of it slapping against his back as he stopped to look around.
Right. She went right. Or, maybe not. No. He’d learnt not to second guess. Even if his instincts led him into disaster he was going to listen to them, so he set back off, just catching sight of her running away down an alley.
“Commander, please, I think there’s a reason I ran into you!”
Skidding to a stop as she turned on him, momentum crashing and barely keeping his balance with the sudden change. His boots kicked up dust and pack fell halfway down his arms. Glitch fumbled at his waist for a blaster he didn’t carry, that he hadn’t carried in years and only missed on the rare occasion someone else raised one at him. Carrying one felt like asking for trouble from a universe that already had it out for him.
“Okay, I don’t need the part that bad.” Hands shot up in surrender, wide confused eyes stared at her, glancing to the blaster a moment later, could he dodge if she fired or get the blaster from her if he lunged? What was his best choice? Talk. If he didn’t want to fight, he had to talk.
“I want to repair something for my friend.” Slowly he ducked down, letting his bag drop to the ground at his feet and began to dig through it. He knew it was a bad position to be in, a nice clear headshot, but tried very hard not to think of it that way. A moment later he pulled out the broken saber hilt, not looking up as he spoke. “I don’t know if I can, maybe a Jedi needs to, and maybe that’s why I ran into you?”