‘Redacted’ Part One - Emotion Yet Peace, Chapter 1
Well guys, after five years of nursing this concept, I finally did it. Here’s the beginning. Huge thanks to @reydjarinkenobi and @star-caps for betaing this ever-evolving monster.
Title: Redacted - Part One - Emotion Yet Peace, Chapter 1
Pairing: Obi-Wan/Anakin Skywalker, Codywan (eventually) and Obi-Wan/Vader
Warnings: Graphic depictions of violence, some dub-con
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Memory Alteration, Hurt!Obi-Wan, Established Relationship
Summary:
If the workday is bad, the walk home is even worse. Tonight, the Coruscanti-populace seems to be particularly boisterous. Ben slips into the middle of the street to avoid the queues for innumerable clubs and pulls his dark jacket closer to hide his oil-stained shirt. His legs ache from crouching in the blasted ion tank all day.
He glances left, side-stepping an inebriated Togruta and sees her. Dark hair and a slight frame, slipping between the crowds.
The woman. The one he sees every night when he closes his eyes. Soothing, searching, scorching through him.
[OR]
Ben's nightmares are starting to affect his work - though he's never been much of a mechanic anyway. What if he's meant to be somewhere else - doing something greater? But then he wouldn't have Anakin. When Ben catches sight of something in the street, it seems like his dreams have come alive to haunt him, until an incident in front of the old Temple teaches him that he has no idea who he really is.
This is an AU inspired by the Total Recall remake (2012) in which memory schenanigans ensue.
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