"Why do Sith do anything?" She asks him, taunts him all the while searching his eyes, face, aura for anything that resembles that of her father.
It's not just seeing him without his life support that unnerves her. It's the fact he's alive, he's infront of her but that he doesn't know who she was.
Who she was to him.
And it hurts more than being left alone in her galaxy, in her time because he had been murdered.
"Because of power," Anakin answer immediately. And here she had been told that Sith only dealt in absolutes. She apparently had been missed informed.
Leia snorts. If her mother (the one who raised her during her early childhood, the one who lied to her) was here she would be so disappointed in her acting so unlike a Princess that she had once been. But she wasn't here. Her father (her real one - not the one who adopted her) had killed her along with her husband (Leia's adopted father) for such transgressions against him.
Anakin (she can only call, to think of him as Anakin because calling him father hurt too much even for her - who had once been a girl that endured her original family being slaughtered in font of her by her own father) looks ready to snap back at her but Obi-Wan sends him one look and Anakin holds back.
Her father had never explained why he hated Obi-Wan so much when he had been alive but if Leia had to make an educated guess it was because that Obi-Wan was a reminder -albeit a painful in memory and ass when it came to that Rebellion that he helped nourish and grow until it actually became a threat. A threat that only became worse when that smuggler/hired x-wing pilot Han Solo had destroyed the Death Star in one shot because of the purposeful flaw Galen Erso had created.
She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath in. Trying to draw strength so not be overwhelmed. The grief was bad enough without thinking of Solo; a man Leia might have loved in another life or if she had been given the actually chance to.
There had been something about that man...but even smugglers hired by the Rebels were given the same punishment as a Rebel with have been dealt with. Especially when said smuggler had destroyed such an important weapon to the Empire.
She snaps out of thoughts, of her painful past to listen to Obi-Wan speaking.
"and yet, so far at least we have yet to figure out what you gain from this." It's a question as well as statement. A chance to explain, to come clean on why she - a unknown Sith- had assassinated they're precious, beloved Chancellor (what fools). But how could you come clean when there is so much blood on your hands? Never-mind the sins and blood on Vader and Luke's when her family had been alive.
When she answers it's not because she's announcing her transgressions in hope that her heavy, dirty soul might be saved. One couldn't repent when they didn't feel guilt for their sin.
"For the love of a daughter." Leia pauses and looks back at Anakin and thinks: I did this to avenge you. After thinking that Leia says one more thing - the last thing actually because she nothing else to say after this.
"And you should have been more careful electing your Chancellor. You never know who is Sith." This has double meaning but she's the only person who knows it.
And she's fine with that (no, she isn't).
Leia wonders if her younger self and Luke will ever become the monsters like her Luke had and the monster she is.