I was guilty.
To them I was.
The use of the reason, compassion or… humanity was missing in this room.
Big and grey room, filled with people who has my destiny in their hands.
Likewise before their destiny lay on my shoulders.
I gave everything so that my shoulders wouldn't break or my legs get weak.
I gave everything for them; but, they can't give me any reason of why they betray me this way.
Maybe, I just was another war weapon.
I was another replaceable Jedi.
If only I hadn't gone that day to visit Barriss this would never happened.
If only I hadn't finished my mission before or I had stayed cleaning up R2 as my Master told me, this would never happened.
But above all, I wish never to have been friends with Barriss.
Few days ago…
"Sure Skyguy, I didn't save your life" I said rolling my eyes when my Master didn't want to accept that I saved his life on Cato Neimoidia; but, it was the funny part on our relationship.
Isn't it?
"Yes Snips, sure, and so have earned the privilege to clean R2." He said smirking and winking at me.
My mouth opens, R2 is my friend but I must admit it, he is very exigent when it comes to giving him an oil bath.
He is worse than 3PO.
So let's just say that the idea wasn't like me.
R2 beeped happily.
"Master!" I say pouting, my pleading eyes going between him and R2. Anakin raised an eyebrow and laughed.
"Alright, you can clean him later." He said, punching my shoulder playfully. I smiled. Finally I could have a bit of time for myself.
"But this is just because you did great in the mission." He said after I turned on my heels.
At middle of my way away from him, I answered craftily, "AND because I saved your life Skyguy." He rolled his eyes and sighed, I almost can hear him thinking:
"I had everything under control, Ahsoka."
I smile one more time before keep walking towards the turbolift but before I can step in it, Anakin calls out to me. "Ahsoka, be careful and out of problems, come back for dinner time." He said as if I still had fifteen years old instead of seventeen.
Maybe he doesn't accept that I have grown up or it's just habit.
I don't know why but I like when he looks after me.
"I know Master, you don't have to repeat it again." I say sighing. Yes, I liked the idea that he cares about me but not that he treats me like a girl. "I'm sorry Ahsoka is just that… I cannot help but protect you." He looks at the ground.
"You are under my care and I hate just thinking that I would lose you because you are my little girl, Snips."
My eyes widen and I couldn't understand what my Master, Anakin Skywalker, just confessed.
Without thinking, I ran and I hugged Anakin, in this moment I wasn't thinking in the Code or in the attachments rule.
I just had to do it, I just had to hug Anakin.
After a few seconds, I feel my Master's arms wrapping around me, hugging me back.
There wasn't necessity of words, but in that hug I expressed how grateful I was with him, thanking him everything that he said and done for me.
He can be the most arrogant man in the galaxy but he has the biggest heart that any other man would have in a million of years.
After a few minutes, he eventually, let me go.
He whispered softly, "Don't forget your coat, I don't want you to be cold."
I laughed and answered. "Don't forget your sanity." I said walking away from him.
"Never." He sighed.
"I will in our quarters around seven o'clock." I yelled over my shoulder. He only waved at me and I lost sight of him when I entered into the turbolift.
Back to the present…
Ahsoka Tano's POV:
My Master was behind me, watching me with deep sadness and pain.
Pain that will be difficult of forget and will leave scars for life.
The holopad with the votes, with my destiny in it, was given to the Chancellor.
He reads it, and strangely enough, I couldn't read his thoughts.
Too bad, I would prepare myself for my inevitable death.
I turn to Anakin, my eyes filling with tears and with I can see that his eyes were filled with tears too.
Did he deserve this suffering?
Did I deserve this suffering?
This was the question that opened my eyes, my sanity again.
"Before enunciate the verdict of The Senate, Ahsoka Tano. Do you have something to tell us?"
I will do it, the consequences doesn't matter now.
"I didn't murder those people, someone else did it." I say with few hopes that I had of them believing in me.
"Do you believe that we will trust you, Tano?" Admiral Tarkin asked severely.
"Tell me, under what reasons do you believe that we will think that you are telling us the truth because in my point of view, you are no longer trustworthy." He said raising an eyebrow and clasping his hands behind his back.
"I can give you names and where are all the plans and evidence that the person who did this wasn't me!"
I could feel everyone's intrigue even Tarkin's, floating in the air.
"So tell us now and we will make sure to send a group of clones and Jedi to investigate this while you are under custody."
I open my eyes and feel a lump forming in my throat and my strength slowly leaving me.
My dry lips open to pronounce the name of Barriss, but my words weren't coming out of me, I breathed deeply.
"The person behind this and my incrimination is…"
Before I can say another word, a shot came from the window, hitting my chest, leaving a track of fire in my skin.
I felt everything but at the same time nothing, my body falls on the platform's heavy and cold floor.
My body will be soon just another lifeless person in the ground.
This was all, there wasn't another chance for me to clear my name.
I wasn't going to dead as the brave warrior that I used to be.
That they used to call me.
I will die as a murderer.
Tears start to roll down my cheeks, the voices of the senators beginning to fade as well as my senses.
"Ahsoka!"
It was the last thing that I heard before drown in my little world of darkness that possibly was the Force or maybe just the death that was soliciting my name.
"I'm sorry Master, I won't be your little girl anymore."
My lungs ceased their movement, they stopped taking oxygen to just stay still.
My heart stopped beating, the memories flowed through my mind.
"I'm sorry Master, you didn't deserved this."
My life abandoned my body and I can feel a big force taking my spirit away.
Thank you Skyguy, for everything. I love you, big brother. I think to him before enter into a strange world.
The Force world.
Anakin Skywalker's POV:
When I see Ahsoka being shoot, everything was in slow motion. "Ahsoka!" I cried her name.
I Force jumped to her platform and I took her hand in mine.
"Please, please. Don't die in my arms, Snips." I say wrapping her in my arms putting my forehead on her forehead, sobbing.
Now nothing mattered, I didn't care who was watching me, I just wanted my Snips back.
"Y-you told me that you never will leave my side, w-we were Skyguy and Snips." I whisper to her still crying.
"Thank you Skyguy, for everything. I love you, big brother."
I heard Ahsoka's words and I felt our bond break. I clenched my hands into fists.
She was gone and I would never see her again.
I would never see her smiling or laughing again.
"I love you too, little sister." I say rubbing her now cold cheek.
I start to rock her lifeless body in my arms, not wanting to let her go again.
"We were Skyguy and Snips, we were that… Why did you leave me, little one?" I say trying to not fail one more time.
"Wasn't I was a good Master?" A tear rolls down my cheek.
"Wasn't I?" I say, still sobbing.
A gentle hand rested on my shoulder and I knew that it were Obi-Wan.
"Leave me alone." I mumbled, still rocking Ahsoka on my arms.
"Anakin," Obi-Wan said, trying to comfort me, "everything will be fine."
"Fine? FINE! DO YOU CALL THIS FINE, OBI-WAN? BECAUSE I SEE THIS AS KRIFFIN' WRONG! AHSOKA, MY SNIPS IS DEAD!" I yelled.
I sense all of the senators eyes on me, but I couldn't care less.
"Anakin, please." Obi-Wan says softly.
I looked down at Ahsoka and I think that she would like to see me doing the right thing.
I nodded slowing, taking Ahsoka's corpse in my arms.
The senators keep watching every step that I took.
I opened the door and a cold wind enter through it. A memory came flashing through my mind.
"Don't forget your coat, I don't want you to be cold".
Now, she is colder than ever.
"Don't forget your sanity."
Another tear rolls down my cheek.
"Never." I mumble, walking away with my little Snips in my arms, leaving a broken-hearted man behind.
A/N: Well I had a writer block in the other stroy so I'm writing this one for a while.
Don't worry, I will still writing the other one.
Please R&R and thank you, Katierosefun for Beta'ing this :)