Regrets
Rated: PG for language
Characters: Obi-wan, Anakin/Vader, Luke, Padmé and mention of Palpatine...
A/N: for some reason this site won't allow me to add the extra spacing needed to make this easier to read so I guess pretend that after each paragraph is a space.
When this takes place: Right as Obi-wan and Vader fight for the last time.
Obi-wan reflects as he sees the living remains of what was Anakin Skywalker...
You were a wonderful friend but a terrible enemy. I've live in the darkest time of my life all these years. What about you Anakin? Are you living in hell too?
From the moment you turned there hasn't been a moment of regret coming from you. You ran headlong into desolation dragging the whole Galaxy with you. For what Anakin, empty
promises that could never be fulfilled?
I'm sure that you have wondered why I left you like I did. For years I wondered the same. But the truth of the matter was that I loved you and I could not put you out of my misery.
I thought the fires would do that for me. But no, Fate couldn't be that kind to either one of us.
Your tormented presence seeks to wipe the last of us away. To destroy what had been in existence for thousands of years. One terrible night your Master killed most of us. What
was left was broken by the double betrayal. But still we remain. You cannot erase us Anakin because you were one of us.
Your son believes there to be good in you but I doubt it. A good man could not, would not do the things that you do. But still your son believes, no doubt the belief in your goodness
was imprinted on him by his dying mother. I was there Anakin as they came into this damned galaxy, your children. I was there as your wife was dying. What about you Anakin?
Were you there in that connection that you shared with her?
It's not fair that you stole her away. You weren't the only one that loved her, you were just the last. I suppose Padmé couldn't live while your Master took over. None of us could. All
I can hope for as I know that my very existence is almost over, surely by your hand, that Luke can survive you. If he can then there may be hope left yet.
Vader's thoughts as he sees Obi-wan for the last time...
I felt your presence and for a moment I wanted to forget. But I can never forget. Every breath that is forced into my body I remember. You did this. You left me in hell.
I told you old man to stay away, to never come back. You ruined any chance to ever be near me after you left me, butchered and burning. You had the audacity to tell me you loved
me as the fire consumed me.
I blame you for my wife dying. I blame you for leaving me in this pitiful shell. I blame you for the death of my child. I will never forgive you.
I blame you for leaving me with this thing that calls himself my Master. You should know that he won't be my Master forever. One day I'll be the Master and he'll no longer be.
Oh I'm sure that you are wallowing in your memories of the good days…of how the mighty Jedi could do know wrong. That is where your pathetic order was wrong. Breaking families
up and killing the human heart, you tried to brainwash me into being that person. But I wasn't meant to be like that.
Instead of accepting me fully I was watched and feared. I did no wrong. I was innocent. But I showed you all. I showed you all just how wrong you were. I took everything away
and left nothing but a shell.
Now all I'm left are the tattered remains of your old robe. You were always losing your robes, how did you manage to keep this one all this time? You tried to kill me twice and you
lost. The last of you, wait, that young man that you were protecting, you were warping him into a Jedi weren't you? As soon s he is gone, you remain no longer.