Obsession

Shocked and Unsettled

Obi-wan huffed as he sat on his bed. The sudden rush of emotions still stirred like a wild fire in him. It had confused him at why he was so angry at the young Padawan. He suddenly had just became defensive over Maul. He guessed it was because he hadn't been near Maul in such a long time. Still the emotions blazed wildly within him.
Maul watched as Obi-wan angrily sit down on the line bed. Maul could feel as Obi-wan tried to sort out his feelings, but fail time after time. He walked over to the bed and sat on Obi-wan's lap as he ran a hand on one of the Jedi's sides.
"Calm down Kenobi. That was nothing to get worked up over." Maul whispered to him and set his forehead one Obi-wan's.
"But he!" Obi-wan started before Maul cut him off.
"Is just a youngling. Jedi these days aren't recruited at birth like you and the others were. He still has much to learn." Maul added and Obi-wan sighed deeply.
"You're right Maul." Obi-wan looked into Maul's eyes as he calmed down feeling the Zabrak's touches. "I missed you so much Maul."
"I know, and as much as I would love to have you all to myself so we can finally end Sidious, I'm afraid that you may need those Rebels and their contacts to defeat him and his Empire." Maul said softly to him.

Ezra could help but feel like he had to apologize to Obi-wan for the way he had acted. He wanted his first impression to be a good one and everyone could tell that it didn't go well.
"We should apologize to Master Kenobi." Kanan spoke broke the silence. "We obviously hit some kind of cord in him. If we don't apologize we might lose our only key to stopping the Empire."
"Yeah Kanan, I think you're right. I did act out of place in saying that to Maul, I didn't expect him to react like that though." Ezra admitted looking down at the ground.
"Should we go with you to apologize as well?" Hera asked
"No, this is between Ezra, Master Kenobi and I. Hopefully Master Kenobi is still willing to help us." Kanan answered her
"Alright, well we'll go get the ship I don't think I can stand being out here any longer." Zeb commented and Hera nodded at him.
"I'll go along with you. Are you coming with us Sabine?" Hera looked at the Mandalorian
"Nah, I'll stay here with them, they might need my help with something." Sabine declined the offer and the Twi'lek shrugged.
"Alright than." Hera replied and the two of them walked off to their ship.
"Well than Ezra let's get to it." Kanan said turning to the hut when Chopper started making noises.
"What do you mean that we don't want to go over to hut?" Ezra asked him and Chopper gave an additional beep.
"Yet? Chopper, you're making no sense." Ezra said and started walking to the hut with Kanan and Sabine following him. Chopper made more noises, but the three ignored the droid. They walked over to the door and they heard talking from the inside of the hut. Sabine and Ezra had cracked open the door to see inside.
"I'm not doing anything without you Maul. If they want me, you will have to come along." Obi-wan said as Maul was sitting on his lap and laughed into the Jedi's neck.
"Now that's the Obi-wan I knew." Maul smiled as he kissed Obi-wan's neck. The two younger Jedi and Mandalorian could hear a purring noise come from inside the hut.
"Maul, don't get too carried away, I can still sense that the others are nearby." Obi-wan commented pushing Maul with barely any force.
"Well you're the one who said to show them my 'other' side, my little mate." Maul laughed and got off of the Jedi's lap after placing another kiss on his neck.
Ezra and Sabine quickly shut the door and quickly stepped away from the door pulling Kanan back with them.
"Can someone tell me if I was imagining it when Maul called Master Kenobi 'his little mate?'" Kanan whispered to the two of them
"You're lucky, you didn't see what was happening." Sabine quietly added
"Was that Maul purring?!" Ezra whispered to them with Chopper make noises. They heard the door open and either Maul or Obi-wan clearing their throat.
"I see that you all are still here." Obi-wan spoke calmly as he stood next to Maul. "Where's the rest of your group? I could have sworn there were two more of you."
"They went back to the ship." Sabine answered before the boys.
"I see." Obi-wan said and Ezra quickly cut in before anything else could be said.
"Listen, Master Kenobi, I wanted to apologize for my behavior earlier. I didn't mean to upset you." Ezra said and Obi-wan crossed his arms.
"You shouldn't be apologizing to me Padawan. You should apologize to Maul." Obi-wan said and Ezra's jaw dropped to the ground.
"Apologize? To Maul? He couldn't even apologize to us and I will never apologize to him for anything. How can you even stand to be next to him? He's hurt and killed so many people and deceived us multiple times and he blinded Kanan and he left us on his planet to be possessed by those spirits! If anyone here needs to apologize it's him!" Ezra said not even thinking about what he said and Obi-wan looked over at Maul. The Zabrak sighed and started walking back over to the hut.
"I told you Kenobi. They won't trust me. I've done too much to regain their trust. They won't even trust me to save their lives." Maul grabbed the door to shut it behind him.
"Wait Maul!" Ezra calls out to the Zabrak. "Before anyone apologizes, you have some stuff that you need to explain."
"And that is, Ezra?" Maul turned around walking out of the hut.
"You told me that your mate was dead. You showed me their grave." Ezra started
"Ah, and I told you I hadn't found his body. You see. Kenobi had... died after Order 66 was commenced. I... how did you survive Kenobi?" Maul gave his mate a sad look and everyone's gazes shifted to Obi-wan.
"I'm not exactly sure, but I'm absolutely sure it had something to do with a potion Mother Talzin gave." Obi-wan replied
"Mother? The... the potion you had in the transmission?" Maul said barely digging into his memory and he reflexively held onto one of his wrists. His voice voice changed from calm and understanding to sad and soft.
"So you did find Satine." Obi-wan commented
"Yeah. Before he killed her and took whatever Mandalorian he could and hide them away from the Empire." Sabine cut in and Obi-wan looked shocked and saddened by the sudden fact.
"It was a lie. A ruse. Bounty hunters were hunting after her and I so Feral helped me in staging her death." Maul said only looking at Obi-wan.
"Stop your lying Maul! We saw her body!" Sabine snapped at him holding the darksaber in her hand.
"We had administered a drug to her that made her look and feel dead." Maul said not bothering to look over at the Mandalorian.
"You have no proof Maul and the people of Mandalore know what we saw!" Sabine shouted and ignited the darksaber pointing it at Maul. "You betrayed so many people and led them to their deaths! Men, women and children!" Maul snarled at her until a voice cut their argument off.
"That is enough! Put that lightsaber down you will show your respect to the General of my people!" Everyone but Maul turned to see Satine and Maul's brother running up to them. Feral had his lightsaber in hand ready to fight.
"It is fine Duchess, this Mandalorian wanted proof that your death was just staged." Maul commented and Satine had looked at the other side of the red Zabrak. Her jaw dropped with an overjoyed smile.
"Obi-wan! You're alive!" Satine ran over to the old Jedi and hugged him tightly.
"Ezra, I don't remember properly introducing you to my younger brother." Maul said after Sabine deactivated the darksaber. Feral had placed his lightsaber back on his belt after seeing how quickly the situation lightened.
"No, you never did." Ezra said holding off his questions for Maul for later.
"Well than, Ezra this is my youngest brother, Feral. Feral, this is Ezra." Maul held back the part where he nearly said 'my apprentice.' The situation they were in was already a delicate one, he didn't want to push it.
"It's nice to meet you." Ezra said with some consideration on how he continue to talk around Obi-wan. Ezra stayed on edge. Maul's story must be true if Master Kenobi is backing him up, Ezra thought, or Maul is using some kind of mind trick on us or Master Kenobi.
Feral looked at his brother before turning his gaze back to the Jedi padawan. "Same here Ezra. I have heard much of you from my brother."
Ezra felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know wether it was just due to the mechanical sound in Maul's brother's voice or if it was because Maul had talked about him to his family. The stature and build of the younger Zabrak almost seemed surreal to Ezra even though both Maul and his brother had the same stature. Maul's brother seemed to be some how more intimidating to Ezra. Maul is probably past his prime, but is still in good shape, Ezra thought, but if he and his brother had the same training and his brother is in his prime, who knows what his brother is capable of. Ezra finally took notice of the younger Zabrak's eyes which were a deep gold around his pupils and turned into a bright and searing yellow. Ezra guess that the double color of Maul's and his brother's eyes were just something their species had. Ezra also took notice of the similar black clothing that both of them wore. Than that connected to the yellow Zabrak's belt was a staff-saber similar to Maul's, but it was darker in color and the hilt seemed to be thicker than Maul's.
Ezra couldn't help, but feel much more intimidated by Feral than everyone else was. Just the basic similarities and differences between the brother is what unsettled him. Just the look or presence of Feral could unsettle Ezra and the young Jedi didn't like it, but if he and his friends wanted Obi-wan to help them, Ezra had a feeling Maul and his brother would be tagging along as well.
"If you are done questioning my mate Ezra, than shall we settle what your original mission here was?" Obi-wan cut into Ezra's thoughts.
"Yes. We came here to ask for your help in bringing down the Empire Master Kenobi." Kanan spoke for Ezra.
"Honestly, I was initially surprised at someone besides bounty hunters and mercenaries was able to land here. The Hutts recently made an alliance with a bounty hunter that also works for the Empire, which had increased the Empire's presence here." Obi-wan explained himself.
"So you're say that someone let us land here?" Feral looked curiously at Obi-wan.
"I think so because I've been keeping track of who lands here for many months and only mercenaries and bounty hunters landed here." Obi-wan further explained
"That could explain for that youngling's hostility towards us when the owner of that shop asked if we were bounty hunters, brother." Feral said and it reminded Maul of the Skywalker kid in the shop. Maul's aura took a shift towards the darker side.
"Which reminds me Kenobi. What do you know of a kid with the name Skywalker?" Maul seemed to glared at his name with a guttural growl slowly rising from his chest.