Author's note:
Huh, so that's my first fanfic. I had some problems with placing it here [the punctuations haven't appeared], but here it is again and I hope all right now. So, the usual things in the author's notes: Hope you will like that story [but I doubt], I'll be grateful for some reviews, blah, blah blah, the next chapter will be as soon I'll correct it and so on. Please, note that English is not my first language.
Peace, love and Sith,
Darth Moya ^^
"I still cannot believe it." Padme breathed out when she seen the holovideo of Anakin's behaving in the Jedi Temple again. She watched it all the way to Mustafar. Obi-Wan was a bit worried about her, but he was a much more worried about his former padawan. And about galaxy, of course.
They landed next to the black starfighter. It was Anakin's one, undoubtedly, but in the black colour, it looked much scarier. They saw the man in black slowly walking to his landing point.
Obi-Wan let the stairs down and went on the surface. Then he helped Padme down, too. The man was nearby, but he didn't even raise his head. He just walked calmly.
He was ten meters away when he raised his head. It was covered by cape, but one thing was easy to see. Brightly shining eyes with the colour of the melted gold. He killed someone recently. Obi-Wan felt it. Padme looked scared. She slightly snuggled up to Obi-Wan.
Man moved his head a bit. Then he threw his cape down. His eyes were…blue, like usual. It was like some kind of magical play where a magician turns blue scarf green. If you didn't get it, it was Anakin, of course.
"Padme? What are you doing here?"He said. There was nothing in his voice but a clear surprise.
Padme sniffed. "Ani, I have seen what you did to that people in the Temple." Her voice was shaking.
Anakin's face hardened. He looked at Obi-Wan. Did he see a gleam of yellow?
"You showed it to her, did you?" he asked. It wasn't a question at all, he just confirmed something what he knew.
Obi-Wan answered his ice-cold look with a calm of Jedi master. "She has to know who her husband is."
Anakin threw a short sight on Padme. "You told him?"
"Yes. He has a right to know it. I couldn't hide it anymore, not now, when these things are happening." She said. She sounded definitely, but deep inside she was terrified.
Anakin shrugged his shoulders. "If you think so, dear." He sounded normal, like they were talking about what they'll have on lunch today.
Padme raised her brows. He didn't call her like that often. But then she called back the look on the dying kids and peaceful Jedis and Jedi masters. "Why did you do that?"
It was back here-the yellow glare. The remembrance of killing called it back. "It was my master's will. I was just an instrument."
"Instrument? You are just an instrument? You do things just because he wants you to?" Padme seemed really agitated.
Anakin looked at her seriously. "I have no other choice."
"There is still another choice." She said.
"Not for me. If I try to leave, he will kill me. Maybe he can kill you, too. I cannot risk it."
Padme thought of a moment."We must think something out. We can make it together, I know it." She raised her head and looked straightly into his eyes. "Ani, you cannot leave the Republic…or the Empire… in Palpatine's hands! He's evil! I know we can't save Republic anymore, but I beg you, I cannot live with a knowledge that my husband is standing next to someone who destroyed law and liberty in the galaxy!"
"But...I need him, Padme! I need him to save you!"
"Save me?" Padme looked a bit uncertain.
"Yes, I…I had a vision." Anakin said slowly.
"Vision? What vision?"
"That you will die at childbirth."
"Die?!" She was shocked. Why he didn't tell her?
"With Sidious' sith knowledge, I can save you!"
"Ani, my life is nothing oppose to the lives of all that people! You must save them! I know you can do it for me, for our child." She looked down at her belly and gently touched it.
"I can't let you die, Padme. You. Should. Not. Die!" Anakin looked angry. He cut the words and spitted them out like they were dirty. „Not like my mother! Not like Qui-Gon, just not!"
"Ani…" Padme whined. She felt helpless.
"That's what you wanted, right?" Anakin turned quickly to Obi-Wan „That's why you brought her here, Obi-Wan? You think that she can mollify me? You want me to kill Palpatine, because he's too strong for you, because he unveiled the depravity of the Jedi order. First kill him, and then me. So no one can tell people about what you planned for years."
Obi-Wan looked at him with fatherly look in his eyes. „You yourself do not believe it, Anakin. I know you don't."
"Maybe you're a rather right in that. I cannot believe it. You all betrayed us and acted like saints!"
"You're blinded! You cannot see cleanly! The dark side has you in its power. Maybe they were right. You cannot be redeemed." With these words, Obi-Wan ignited his lightsaber.
"No! Obi-Wan!" Padme shouted and drew a blaster out from her sleeve. She shot at him. No one can hurt her husband, not even when he's turned to the dark side.
Obi-Wan deflected a shot with no problem, but Anakin utilized the situation, ignited his lightsaber too and made a lunge on him. It almost cut out his ear, but Obi-Wan was fast enough and avoided it. He got in gage quickly and started to push Anakin back.
Padme cleared up from shock and tried to follow them.
"No, Padme! Hold back! This is too dangerous! I can't risk that something should happen to you or the kid!" Anakin shouted at her and briskly blocked Obi-Wan's cut on his head.
First, Padme wanted to continue following them, but suddenly she felt something pushing her back. She fell on her back and quietly groaned.
Anakin and Obi-Wan drew back on the narrow board. It was about five hundred meters down to the hot, hot surface of the planet. They got to the middle of it, when Anakin suddenly jumped behind Obi-Wan's back. He turned and caught his blade with his own. They've got into the blade lock.
Obi-Wan breathed hardly. Anakin was good. Strong and fast, thanks to the dark side. All the anger he had in himself for years just spurted out now and pushed him on his limits.
Anakin pressed heavily. He wanted Obi-Wan to lose his balance and fall down. Obi-Wan repeated his press with difficulties.
Anakin lent forward and looked into his former master's eyes. "Feel it, master? It's all around us. The power. Just release your feelings and make them strengthen you. Just bend to it. You can't withstand it. You need it, don't you feel? The dark side. Why do we call it like that? Why not thepowerfulside? The right side? There's no dark in it. No hiding. No repression. Just freedom."
Obi-Wan's face showed total satiety. "You're insane, Anakin. It clouded your mind, you cannot think. Do not you see it's destroying you? It's destroying even everything you care for!"
Anakin smiled. But there was no madness in his golden eyes now. Just sadness, anger and regret. "No. Padme is still alive and now she is the only one I care for. She and my kid."
"Aren't you just a bit ashamed, Anakin? You broke the Jedi code when you married her."
Anakin laughed. It wasn't a nice laugh. "Jedi code? What does it mean to be a Jedi? Be a traitor? Be liar? It doesn't matter if you lie to the others or to yourself. It's just a lie. You know, I think that Sith are much more moral than Jedi. They act frankly."
"They are killing people with no mercy! They care only about themselves and their power!"
Suddenly, Anakin pushed Obi-Wan back with the force and freed himself from the lock. He didn't hesitate and jumped to his former master, who lost his balance and tried not to fall down. He felt Anakin's mind beating on his. He didn't know how he did it, but he still heard one word resonant in his head.
[Liars, liars…]
Blue blade whirled and severed Obi-Wan's right hand. Obi-Wan shouted in pain. His lightsaber fell down from board, but Anakin caught it with the force and summoned it to his left hand. He raised them to Obi-Wan's neck, as he did it to Dooku. Obi-Wan knew what should succeed.
After a few second of silence, Anakin leant his head on side.
"You should not ask me for mercy?" he asked. The strange tone in his voice was back again.
"You're Sith. I know you'll not give me any."
"Are you sure? You were my master. You taught me for years."
"That doesn't mean anything for you now. You can kill me without hesitation now and here, and you should not spend even a tear for me."
The blades advanced towards Obi-Wan's neck.
"Looks like you still think that you can understand me. But you don't, do you hear me? I am doing this just for Padme."
"No, you don't. You succumbed to the power. You like it. You enjoy being more powerful than people who showed you some authority."
"You deserve slow and painful death, Obi-Wan Kenobi." Anakin said and turned off both lightsabers.
Obi-Wan was clearly shocked. He didn't expect that. Anakin put both lightsabers to his belt. Obi-Wan slowly stood up.
Anakin's hand quickly stirred up and he started to force choke him. He lifted him nearly twenty centimeters above board.
"I forgot to say that maybe I'll give it to you." Anakin said with sadistic grin.
Obi-Wan tried not to swear. He tried to free himself, but Anakin's push was stronger.
[That's not possible…he can't be so powerful. Not even the dark side can give him such a power. Did he keep it down? Or is someone helping him?] Obi-Wan said to himself
His mind started to disappear.
When he almost fell unconscious, his feet touched the floor and the push on his neck slowly slackened. He fell on his knees and touched the cold metal board with his forehead. He felt a shadow of a tall man that fell on him. Anakin lend to his ear.
"You're right, master." He whispered. "I can't kill my master. Not now. I still have your Jedi filth on myself. But once I will be strong enough. One day we'll meet again."
Anakin stood up; turned over and walked slowly back to the place where they left Padme. "But this time will be the last."
Obi-Wan carefully raised his head and watched the man in black leaving him here. Without hand, without weapon, without a ship.
[You were the Chosen One, it was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them, bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness... ]