Obsession

Reflection

Maul and Anakin helped him back to the village while Savage carried the unconscious bodies of Ahsoka and Count Dooku. Mother Talzin meet them at the entrance of the village with a couple of Nightsisters.
"Take Dooku to the dungeon, Sisters. Savage take the young Jedi to the infirmary, a Nightsister is waiting for you. I shall take Maul, Skywalker, go and be with your apprentice." Mother Talzin said as everyone did what they were told. Maul stayed quiet holding where the blaster bolt hit him.
"You are troubled, Maul. What is bothering you?" She stated setting him down in her hut and started healing him.
"I've lost Kenobi to some woman called Ventress." Maul said in a quite hiss and looked up at Mother Talzin. "What do you know of this Ventress, Mother?"
"Ventress was once a Nightsister but we had to give her away in order to keep peace. She had been enslaved and once her master died the Jedi had took her in. She spent time as a Jedi padawan until bounty hunters killed her master. Dooku had found her and raised her to be a Sith apprentice. After many failed missions of hunting down Kenobi and Skywalker, Sidious ordered Dooku to eliminate her. She and Savage had a history together but se betrayed him after he failed in killing Dooku. After that she has become a bounty hunter with revenge for Sith and Jedi and now you and Savage." Mother Talzin tells Maul and his sadness turned into planning but than faded again.
"There is nothing I can do for Kenobi. Is there? Everything I do ends up hurting Kenobi." Maul says letting his emotions show in his voice. "I've hurt him so much that he refuses to be near me."
"Maul, my son," Mother Talzin placed a hand on his cheek when she finished healing him. "Have no worries about your and Kenobi's bond. Do not worry about what has happened, we will get him back. The longer she has him away from you will be worse for him and you. When you rescue him from her, he'll be happy." Mother Talzin told him and he looked into her eyes with sorrow.
"Rest Maul, the sooner you are better, the sooner you can get Kenobi back." She walked to the door to let him sleep.
"I need to take my time with my plans." Maul said and Mother Talzin stopped in the doorway
"A good plan can be ruined when rushed. Just remember Dooku and Sidious are going no where, only closer to their end. Even if it is slowly." She watched him
"Yes. Thank you Mother." Maul signed and laid down. He didn't feel well he didn't know if it was from being shot or if it was the bond. He took a deep breath as he stared at the stars through the hole in the ceiling.
Do not worry Kenobi, just relax. I'll be with you soon enough. Just hang in there. Maul thought as he counted the stars in the sky, calculating which ones had planets and thinking of the possible futures to take his mind off of what happened. Although his mind would flash images of Obi-wan whenever he relaxed. He kept trying to take his mind off of Obi-wan and what Obi-wan said before he stormed out and freed his master. Everything he ever did after seeing Obi-wan for the first time did hurt him one way or another and Maul had no clue on how he would stop it.
As his thoughts wandered he saw a green mist enter the room and it took an effect to him. His body and mind relaxed as the mist soothed him into sleep, but his body couldn't help but breathe heavily.

Assaij put her ship onto auto pilot and walked back to the cargo bay where she locked up Obi-wan. She had heard him breathing rapidly and panicking before he passed out. He was shouting something but she ignored him until he passed out hours ago. Now she wanted answers.
She watched him breath heavily as he slept. She really had nothing against him, but if Darth Maul didn't want him to get hurt he must be important to the Sith's plans. She felt a bit lightheaded when she crouched down to him. She guessed it was her missing forearm and ignored it.
"Kenobi." Her calm, rough voice said quite loudly and Obi-wan kept sleeping.
"Kenobi. Wake up." She slapped his face. He groaned waking up and looking around with blurry eyes.
"Ventress?" He asked and went to stand up only to notice that he was handcuffed at a pipe.
"Ventress what is happening? Where's Anakin? Where is Maul at?" Obi-wan's voice was raised louder than normal and it caught Ventress off guard.
"Oh calm down Kenobi, I only have you on the ship." Ventress stood up from her crouched position.
"That doesn't help the situation, Ventress! Why do you have me handcuffed?" Obi-wan's voice didn't change as he notice that the handcuff were force sensitive. His chest grew heavy as he realized how far from Dathomir they were.
"I'm using you as bait, Kenobi and I can't have you running off." She waved her hand
"Bait?! If I was bait we wouldn't be this far from Dathomir." Obi-wan said breathing deeply. Ventress watched him carefully.
"Dathomir? You aren't bait for your Jedi friends, Kenobi. I need to you to lure out Savage and this so-called Darth Maul." Ventress couldn't help but wonder what had the Jedi like this.
"Maul? You do not want Maul coming here Ventress! I'm warning you. Let me go before he finds me with you!" Obi-wan could help, but feel panicked. He tried to hide it but his showed in his voice.
"Ha! You really think Darth Maul is a threat? He could hardly fight off Skywalker's apprentice." Ventress brushed aside the Jedi's panic. "Besides he seems to be a big part of Dooku's plans and I will do anything to stop them."
"Ventress, you don't understand." Obi-wan's voice lowered to it's normal volume, but his breath continued to stay heavy.
"What are you sick, Kenobi?" Ventress curiously asked wondering if that was the reason he was on Dathomir. "You hardly put up a fight back there. You're so... Unbalanced."
"Call it what ever you want, but I'm warning you if don't let me go you'll have more than Maul and Savage coming after you." Obi-wan said standing up as much as he could.
"A missing Jedi won't get much attention from the Jedi Council. Skywalker maybe keeping in contact with them, but I'll easily be able to intercept his transmissions. No one else will know that you're gone." She walked off closer to the cockpit. "Don't think about getting out of those cuffs, Kenobi. I may have lost an arm, but I'm not afraid to hurt you." She left the cargo bay leaving Kenobi alone with himself.
All he could hear was the pounding of his heart and his heavy breathing. He needed to get back to Maul to stop the weight and pain. He could get sick again and die because Ventress refused to let go of her revenge. He felt along the wall looking for a weak spot seeing that there was many in the walls of the ship. Ventress must have fought someone in here and stolen it or someone had an itchy trigger finger in the cargo bay.
Kenobi found a weak spot and broke the pipe. He was free to roam now, but his hands were still cuffed. A spot on his stomach burned like he was shot. He moved his robe and tunic to see his stomach, but saw no wound. He fixed his clothing and looked around. He has to find some thing to knock Ventress out with.
Finding nothing he concentrated on breaking the rest of the pipe out of the wall. He felt weak and tired. He wanted to just lay down and sleep until he gained his strength back, but he didn't know if he would gain his strength back. He could just be wasting time sleeping and slowly bringing himself closer to death. He had to get back to Dathomir. The weight and pain in his chest told him that Maul wasn't close by so he wasn't following them or he was but she jumped into star speed and got away from him. All Kenobi knew is that he only had one option and that was to fight.
He knew it would be a bad idea to leave the cargo bay and attack her. She would be expecting it, but he has to get back as quickly as he could no matter the risks. He calmed himself and quieted his heavy breathing as he snuck closer to Ventress.
He got right behind her and just before he hit her, she dunked and kicked his feet out from beneath him knocking the pipe out of his hands. He quickly got back up and landed a few punches on her. She grabbed the cuffs and kicked him in the stomach. She dodged the rest of his attacks with ease and quickly knocked him back down to the ground.
"You seem determined to leave, but you of all Jedi will not ruin my plan." Ventress grabbed the cuffs and  recklessly dragged him back to the cargo bay. As she looked for another place to chain him down to Obi-wan hit countless of cargo boxes. She chained him in a corner behind some cargo boxes to another pipe after making sure she herself couldn't break out of it than she left him there.
Obi-wan couldn't help, but feel alone and hopeless at this point. He curled up against the corner. He fought to keep his tears at bay and soon ended up falling back to sleep again.