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Darth Vader used the force to choke his wife. His eyes were shining yellow and red in competition with the magma of Mustafar. He couldn't believe that she would turn against him. After everything, he had done for her! He had done all this to save her. Order 66, the younglings, Palpatine, everything. "Anakin, please…" Padmé gasped for air as she pleaded him to let go. You're killing her, a voice said in his head. No, I'm not, he replied. I'm saving her.
"Let her go, Anakin!" His old Master shouted as he came down the ramp. That's not my name! he wanted to shout back. "Let. Her. Go." Once again, a voice told Vader that he was killing his beloved wife. No, he wouldn't allow that. She couldn't die at his hand. He released her and she fell to the ground unconscious. For a moment, only a second, his eyes turned back to the old, blue color they had been since his birth. But then the darkness clouded him again. "You turned her against me!"
"You have done that yourself!" They began to circle each other like animals as Obi-Wan talked. "You have allowed this dark lord to twist your mind until now… until now you have become the very thing you swore to destroy."
"Don't lecture me Obi-Wan," Vader said with rage in his voice. How dared Obi-Wan to lecture him?! "I see through the lies of the Jedi. I do not fear the dark side as you do." He turned his back at him. "I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new empire!"
"Your new empire?"
"Don't make me kill you." Please Obi-Wan; don't.
"Anakin, you won't kill me." His voice was confident as if he really believed in his words. Vader frowned. "That name has no more meaning to me," he said and turned to face the red-haired man.
"It has to me," Obi-Wan said. "And to Padmé and your future child."
"Don't talk about them!" Vader screamed and ignited his blue lightsaber. At first, Obi-Wan were going to ignite his own but… The elder man shook his head. "I can't fight you. I love you too much."
"You know nothing of love! You're an emotionless Jedi! A droid!" If Vader hadn't been living the first nine years of his lives with his mother, he would have been just like any other Jedi. Emotionless. He would have let go of everything he feared to lose. Padmé. His dear, dear Padmé. He couldn't let go of her. That was why he had turned to the dark side. If that was what it would take to save her, he would do it. Everything for her.
"I am a Jedi," Obi-Wan said, pulling Vader out of his thoughts. "But I do love you. You are my brother and I could never hurt you. Please listen to me."
Vader screamed back that he would not listen and his grip around the lazer sword tightened. In desperation, Kenobi said: "Padmé did not bring me here." The Sith apprentice stiffened. "What did you say?"
"Padmé did not bring me here. I snuck into the ship without her knowing. She thought I was going to kill you so she wouldn't tell me where you were. She really loves you, despite all that you have done."
A little shock came over lord Vader. He had accused his wife for something she didn't do. Not only that, he had almost KILLED her for something she didn't do. A brief moment he felt terrible but control came back to him. "S-she should love me. I'm trying to save her." Vader's old Master could feel that he had hit a sore point. Maybe, if he just kept digging there, he could get Anakin back. The hope was tiny but it was hope after all. "Love is not something you can demand, Anakin. You have to earn that." Vader didn't correct him with the name and Obi-Wan took that as a good sign. He tried to go out even further. "And how is killing all the Jedi helping you save her?"
The young man shook confused his head, his eyes changing from yellow to blue all the time. "Palpatine demanded it. The Jedi was betraying the Republic…"
"But what did that have to do with Padmé? That was just a thing Palpatine wanted you to do for him."
Immediately, the eyes took a permanent yellow color. "SHUT UP!" Vader screamed. He ran toward Obi-Wan but the man didn't move. Vader raised his lightsaber, ready to kill, but the blade stopped only one centimeter from Kenobi's head. Obi-Wan talked, not afraid to die but to lose his best friend. "I knew you couldn't do it. You're too…"
"I am not too weak!"
"No, Anakin, no." His voice was very calm. "You are too strong."
Blue eyes. Beautiful, blue eyes appeared. Anakin dropped his lightsaber, which turned off in the process. He stood a moment, gathering his thoughts, before he ran to the little figure lying on the floor. "Padmé!" He kneeled down beside her; trying to wake her up. "Padmé, please wake up. Please, please please!" Tears floated from his eyes and his voice broke as he shook her carefully. She didn't move. Anakin pressed two fingers against her throat and sighed relieved when he found a weak pulse. Very weak in fact, but the important things was that it was there. What had he done? How could the hate, anger and rage have taken so much control over him? Slowly, he bent down and whispered something in to her, Obi-Wan didn't hear.
"Goodbye my love. Always remember that you are my world, my everything. But I'm not good for you anymore. I almost killed you and our baby. Stay away from me forever. I love you."
He got up and turned to the Jedi Master with tears on his cheeks. "Don't let me find her. I'm going to regret, letting her go and I will look for her. Keep her and the child hidden." Obi-Wan nodded well knowing that this was the right thing to do. Anakin was showing a great deal of strength by keeping himself from his wife and child.
Padmé was on the ship and Obi-Wan came out. Maybe to say goodbye, maybe to try to change things or maybe just to look at Mustafar one last time. "Take it," Anakin said and handed him his lightsaber. "Give it to Padmé so that she will have something from her old life with her."
"Anakin, I can't…"
"Just take it!" The shout came from Vader. Shocked, Anakin listen to his own, angry voice. How did he get so annoyed, so quickly? He tried to calm himself down but it was hard. Why couldn't Obi-Wan just take it instead of starting a fight about it? Typically Kenobi. "Please…" Anakin whispered before he got too angry.
Obi-Wan took the lightsaber and went back inside the ship. He couldn't bear to say goodbye. Not after all they've been through. Ha had lost his best friend, his brother, to a faith worse than death. And the worst part of it: Vader wanted that faith. As R2D2 started the ship, the Jedi sat next to the unconscious, former senator and he didn't look back at the planet once. "R2, we're going to Polis Massa. Padmé needs medical attention." The little astrodroid beeped in respond but even his oh-so-cheerful beep sounded depressed now. Maybe he and C-3PO were droids but they had souls anyway.
After a short among of time, the four of them arrived at Polis Massa. Padmé was very weak as Obi-Wan carried her inside. Yoda and Bail Organa greeted them in the hall and let them to a medbay. On their way, Padmé suddenly screamed in pain. "The c-child is coming!" she screamed and placed a hand over her belly. The rest of the journey to the nurse-droid took place in a running pace. When Padmé was placed on a medbay, and the nurse-droid tried to calm her down, Yoda asked a question he had had on his mind for a long time. "That the senator was pregnant, I knew. The father, who was?"
"Anakin," Obi-Wan replied with a sad voice.
Yoda did and did not look surprised. He had always known that Skywalker and Amidala were close, a little too close, but he had never thought that they had an actual relationship. Especially not one like this. "They have been married in three years," Obi-Wan added.
"Lives in the body, only Vader does. Skywalker, gone he is." The green, little aliens' voice grew sadder and sadder for every word. "Along with the rest of the Jedi."
"You knew I didn't kill him?"
"Felt it in the force, I did. But something else, also, hmmm?"
"He… he let us go." Obi-Wan's thoughts traveled back to Anakin's act on the volcano planet. "He had a moment where he was free of the darkness and he asked me to take care of Padmé. To never let him find her or the child… Master Yoda, I believe there's still good in him." He hadn't dared to say this out loud until now. Now, where he couldn't see the the yellow eyes, sense the dark side and hear the angry voice. Now, where he just couldn't believe it again.
The old Master closed his eyes and bowed his head. He didn't agree with Kenobi but before he could say anything, a painful scream was heard. Obi-Wan left Yoda and Bail, and walked in to the birthing woman.
"Obi-Wan, w-where is Ana-Anakin?" she asked between her crying.
What should he reply? He's not coming? He has turned to the dark side? He's dead?
"Padmé… Anakin can't be here."
"Of course he can! It's his child!"
This was so hard for Obi-Wan Kenobi. Cause every word he was going to say would bring him closer to truly believe Anakin had turned completely. But maybe it was best that way after all. If they could forget Anakin Skywalker and see him like a dead person, the sorrow wouldn't be so hard to deal with. Like if Padmé could hear his unspoken words, she cried even more. "NO! No, you're all wrong! This isn't him! Anakin is still there! Nooo!" Her sobbing increased and before anyone had the time to calm her down, the nurse-droid told her to push.
Twins. Who would have thought that? Twins. They were named Luke and Leia, just like Anakin had proposed. The day of their birth would always be a bittersweet memory to Padmé Naberrie Amidala Skywalker. She had delivered two babies and though she had recovered fully, something inside her had broken beyond repair.
"Where is Kenobi and your wife, my apprentice?" His voice was cold and the nice man Vader once had seen was long gone. But he had great power and without power, you are nothing. His Master could even tell that Obi-Wan and Padmé had been here not long ago, without concentrating at all.
Anakin took a deep breath and did what he had told himself to do. Protect Padmé and the child. "They're dead. They turned against me and I killed them." The words were pain in his heart cause what he told was almost true. But they had turned against him and they had tried to take his new power from him. He would fight for his power forever. Even against his old friends.
With the emperor believing that Obi-Wan and Padmé, along with the child, had died, Vader would never be able to look for them. That was the last act that Anakin Skywalker was going to do in many years. Vader was now alone in the body.
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