Heyyoooooo, so I'm back with another Oneshot! :D
this takes place in the last episode of Season Two, where Ahsoka and Darth Vader finally have the face-off that we've been dreaming off ever since Ahsoka came back into canon.
I do hope you like it, this is my first time writing for Ahsoka's character :3
Thanks!
She Remembers
An Ahsoka Tano Oneshot.
Sometimes she hates it, remembering. Other times she embraces the memories, the good ones, and some of the bad. Because she remembers it all. Down to every detail.
She remembers meeting two of her heroes for the first time, Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Skywalker.
She remembers sneaking past the droids and saving her new Master's life, if only to gain his approval.
She remembers saving Jabba the Hutt's son and fighting Count Dooku, side by side with him, as an unstoppable team.
She remembers fighting and surviving against General Greivous many times, when she was supposedly too 'young' to do so.
She remembers the numerous missions they went on, the victorious returns to the Jedi Temple. She remembers her friendship with Barriss Offee. .
She remembers meeting her friend Lux Bonteri for the first time- and discovering that not all Separatists were cruel and the same.
She remembers being enslaved by the power of The Son's Dark side- being forced to fight her Master.
She remembers. . .The Daughter giving her the last of her own life force to save her. She remembers waking up then, no memory of what had happened, but a foreboding sense of wrongness. The memories would return later, but she did not tell Anakin that.
She remembers when she was taken by Trandoshan hunters, and her Master never stopped looking for her. Because of his training, she cheated death again, and saved the others there.
She remembers saving Lux, again, and he returning the favor. She remembers defeating Death Watch with him. She remembers fighting alongside him in the Onderon rebellion.
She remembers failing to save Steela, just as they had started to connect. .
She remembers how Steela and Lux and Saw had made her feel like she had actual friends, and non-Jedi friends. She remembers wondering what it would've been like if she hadn't been force-sensitive. Would she have still met them? Would they still be her friends?
She remembers being framed for killing by someone who she'd thought was her friend. She remembers running, desperate to find the true culprit.
She remembers being caught after the fight with Barriss, going through the Council's trial that shattered her heart and trust. And then in the middle of the Senate's trial, learning that it was one of her best friends who'd actually done it.
She remembers betrayal. Barriss, the Council, Plo Koon, and even Master Kenobi. She remembers walking away from it all, tearing her and her Master's hearts apart. But it had to be done.
She couldn't have stayed there any longer- not after the betrayal she had faced. She'd needed to get out, and she did.
She remembers the time she had only two places to go: Ventress would take her in, she was sure, and she knew that they would make a formidable bounty hunting team. And the other, Lux Bonteri, was one of her old friends who was on Coruscant for a short senators meeting. She chose the latter- no matter how much she may have owed Ventress, she didn't want to end up like her.
She remembers later, while she was still on Coruscant after visiting Lux, watching the Jedi Temple burn. It burned and burned as the Jedi inside were slaughtered by Darth Vader. By the person who she now knows was her former Master, who would never hurt any Jedi- let alone younglings.
She fled, then. She fled from Coruscant and hid until the Rebellion found her. Then she fought, as Fulcrum, to help the people take down the Empire. She made friends, she found other survivors. She befriended Kanan, who like herself, never truly became a Jedi Knight. She bonds with his apprentice, Ezra Bridger. She knows he has great power and potential.
She remembers her future self trying to warn her- telling her to leave her Master before it was too late.
Now in this moment, after so many years of wondering, she finally knows what her older self meant.
Now, as she stands before her old Master-turned-Sith, her eyes widen. Her eyes widen and her breathing quickens and her grip on her lightsabers slacken, but she is not truly surprised.
And that hurts. But she knows that he's always had this inside of him; knows that he had been always capable of this. She's seen it in him before, many a times, when his anger just overpowers him. She's held him back from his fury, before, but she left him, and this is what happened.
Something inside of her breaks, or maybe strengthens. She's not sure. She left him before. This is her fault. She caused the breaking point to stab him. She'd known full well that he'd been having troubles with the council, she'd known his struggles with his wife, but still she'd left.
And so she refuses to leave on the brink of the Rebel's escape; refuses to leave him behind again. Her fault. She has to try and fix her mistake.
And so she stands, tall and strong. "I won't leave you. Not this time." She ignores Ezra's confusion- ignores Kanan's pain. The only thing that matters right now is Anakin. One part of his face is exposed from her blow, and she sees that he does truly need the suit- that it isn't just to install fear. He cannot survive without it.
She locks her eyes onto his exposed one, pouring all of her grief and sorrow into her expression. His gaze flickers, and she could swear that his golden eye dulls the slightest bit. Silence reigns for a long moment, with the wind created from the Sith Temple blowing into her eyes. His eye hardens again, and she knows that she's lost him.
Hatred returns to his face, and the battle between Dark and Light inside of him ceases once again. Anakin is dead, She thinks as she admits defeat. Now is there is only Darth Vader, and myself.
. . .
". . .Then you will die!"
I hope you liked it! If you did, review! I'd love to hear what you think!
Until next time, Smokestarrules, Out!