AN: Okay, so there's one more chapter after this one and I can call it complete. I really am on a roll with completing my fics. This will be… six or seven done after the next chapter. There's so much to write in this universe so I figure next year in the summer, I'll backtrack a few years and go in depth to Luke and Mara's relationship since I kind of left a loose end with it. But I'm working on other things so it's an idea I'll put in my drawer and pick up later.

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Part Ten

She really had tried to stop the darkness when it reared its ugly head. But it had been so long since she had touched it, and right then, she needed the rush of power that came with the dark side, that gave her focus on the task at hand. Therefore, she grabbed onto it when she got the chance, but she didn't let it consume her. It was… refreshing. Still, she wasn't really Pesinoé… but Ahsoka was darn close to saying to hell with her denouncement of the dark side.

"Stop right there Sidious," she said to the sith master, who was threatening to cut off Ami's hand.

He and Ami slowly turned to look at her. Sidious smiled when he looked at her and let Ami go.

"Hm… I sense the dark side in you my former apprentice. It seems you haven't abandoned it as you so claim," he said.

"Oh believe me. For the most part I have," Ahsoka said twirling her lightsaber. "But I'll gladly take it back up again if it means defeating you again."

She charged at Palpatine with a lady-like grace she hadn't used in her duels in years.

Ami would be a fool if she said that this new dark Ahsoka didn't scare her. But it did because it showed her what she might be like if she let the darkness take over. On the surface, she looked like a woman who was in control and took charge, but with the force she saw the cruelty and harshness of it.

Logically, Ami should have been getting as far away from this as she could, but she couldn't leave Ahsoka like this.

"Ahsoka, this isn't you. You abandoned the dark side," she yelled trying to get the woman's attention, but who was she kidding. She wasn't going to hear her out… But she would listen to her grandpa.

Ami felt them coming. She felt all of them coming; her dad, uncle, and aunt. They were coming from the ruins. Ami ran into her grandpa who nearly stumbled from the force of her run.

"Grandpa," she said.

"Ami," everyone said to her.

"Where's your mother?" Han asked.

"Where's Mé?"

"Where's Ahsoka?" Anakin asked her trying to stop her trembling.

Ami took a deep breath and said. "It's Palpatine!"

Anakin picked Ami up in his arms and all the adults ran to where Sidious and Pesinoé had made a mess of the forest in their fight.

"That's Sidious?" Luke asked lighting his light saber.

"Long story," Anakin said putting Ami down starting to join the fight.

"No," Ami said. "He only wants me!"

"And that's not an option sweetheart," Han said raising his blaster holding her by the shoulder to keep her from going anywhere. She rolled her blue eyes.

"I know that, but Ahsoka-."

"Needs a little help over here," Ahsoka said glaring at Sidious who had her cornered and against a tree.

Anakin and Luke jumped into the fight without hesitation and Mara ran over to check on Mé.

"I tried to stop him mommy," the little girl muttered.

"I know you did baby," she said checking the cut on her head.

"Ami," Leia muttered from where she was.

"Leia," Han said starting to go to his wife but then looked at Ami.

Ami rolled her eyes. "Relax. I won't do anything dumb."

Han went to help his wife up who was trying to stand on a no doubt twisted ankle.

Meanwhile, fighting a much stronger Palpatine in a much younger body was proving to be difficult even for the 'chosen one'. It might have been because he was preoccupied with his lover who was obviously immersed heavily in the dark side.

"Let go of the dark side," Anakin said to her in his effort to take down Palpatine.

Ahsoka sighed. "Is it really so bad if I'm using to help?" she asked with a slight purr to her tone.

"Ahsoka," Anakin said in an exasperated tone. If the situation weren't so serious, he might admit he found this Ahsoka, heavily immersed in the dark side using all her seductive tricks incredibly… alluring would be the term.

"Listen love," Ahsoka said as Anakin tried to take her sword out the battle but only succeeded in almost getting his head chopped off if it weren't for Luke who took the battle away from the two quarrelling lovers.

"Desperate times cause for desperate actions and we're beyond desperate. Either way, is there really anything wrong with using the dark side if we're trying to achieve the same goal?" Ahsoka asked cocking her hip to the side as she rested her hand on it.

Anakin groaned. He really had no time for her games.

"We'll be talking about this later," he warned.

Ahsoka (who Anakin noted was acting more like Pesinoé and though he'd never admit it, he had to say he somewhat liked it) smiled and playfully licked her top lip before saying with her fingers crawling on his chest, "I look forward to it."

"Would you two stop playing around and help me?" Luke asked rolling his eyes at the way the two interacted. Really, they were acting like teenagers again.

But Ahsoka and Luke didn't remain in the fight for long. Palpatine knocked them out the fight and Anakin struggled to deflect the lightning he threw at him.

Ami, who was watching from the side, right where she promised her father she would stay, felt the darkness creep up in her again as she watch her grandfather slowly but surely push Palpatine back. This fight had aged Palpatine a little. Now he appeared to be around twenty or so. Ami looked over to her mother's fallen light saber and called it to her.

Slowly she stood up and made her way to the Sith lord. Ami stood near him, enough to kill him.

"I hate you," she said and then to everyone's shock she lit the light saber.

It was one thing to see his lover let the darkness consume her and hold a light saber threateningly in her hands (Anakin had seen it before and through carefully talking to her, he could talk her out of it), but to see his little eight year granddaughter light one staring in contempt with it was the most terrifying thing he had seen on his near sixty years.

"I hate you!" Ami yelled raising her weapon. It would only take one swipe of it to kill Palpatine right then and there.

"Good," Palpatine said to her. "Good. Your hate makes you powerful Ami, but I'm not the only one you hate. You hate your mother too don't you?"

"Even if I did," Ami muttered. "I hate you more."

"Are you sure? I embraced your gifts Ami. I wasn't the one who held you back. Do you know why they're holding you back?"

Ami lowered the sword.

"They hold you back because they fear what you'll become once you reach your true potential. You have the power to become the most powerful force user in the galaxy. Nations will bow at your feet, and warlords will shake in fear at your power. I have foreseen it," Palpatine said to her. "And your family knows that. You want more than what they're giving you."

"Don't listen to him Ami," Anakin said pushing the lightning back. "He's lying to you. We're not afraid of you. You mother loves you. We all do!"

"Then why won't they train me. Why won't they teach me what I want to learn?"

"I used to feel the same way Ami and you can't blame them. They don't understand your power and you feel isolated, but you can learn from my mistakes. You have something I didn't have in the jedi temple. You can make them understand you. You can talk to them without worrying about them persecuting you. They're your family. Your actual flesh and blood," Anakin said to her.

"Amidala," Ahsoka said as she put her lightsaber in the line of the lightning along with Anakin and helped him push it back.. "Your grandfather's right. You have something we didn't in the Jedi temple. I know I'm one to talk, but old habits die hard. I'm too far gone, but you don't have to suffer this curse. Once down this path you start…"

"Forever will it dominate you destiny," Leia said leaning on Han for support. "Ami, baby."

Ahsoka, let go of the darkness.

"Ami," Luke said. "We're sorry we didn't understand how you feeling."

"We didn't mean it sweetheart," Han added.

"We promise," Mara said carrying a passed out Mé in her arms.

Ami sighed as she dropped her arm at her side looking down.

"They didn't mean it," she said. "They were only trying to help me. But how was cutting off my hand going to help me Matthew?"

"No," Palpatine yelled.

"I thought you were my friend," Ami said trying to keep herself from crying. "But you're the liar!"

"No!" Palpatine yelled and the lightning that was previously aimed at Anakin spread in the field shocking everyone in the vicinity, even Anakin who felt it through the ground.

He snatched Ami by the arm and ran through the forest while everyone was in a haze.

"Ami!" Leia yelled.

"Sith bastard," Ahsoka said lighting her light saber again. "You're not getting away from me again.

Anakin got up and followed her knowing that Ahsoka had a track record for doing irrational things when she was this immersed in the dark side (her initial turn was proof of that). In fact, she just had a habit of doing irrational things in general, light or dark (not that Anakin was one to talk as he was a lot more irrational).

Palpatine stopped when he got to the top of the large Yavin waterfall, one of the largest in the galaxy at half a kilometer high.

"Gotcha," Ahsoka said and cut off the arm still holding his light saber, preparing to take off his head. Palpatine but then he pulled one of the most cowardly moves Ahsoka had known him to pull. He dangled Ami over the side of the waterfall by her neck.

"It's either kill me, or save the girl Ahsoka. It's up to you," Palpatine said.

Ahsoka groaned as she held her lightsaber to his neck. As a Sith lady, the choice was easy. She would kill Palpatine at the cost of the girl's life, but it wasn't that simple when she was conscious of the light. The Jedi valued all life and if achieving their goal resulted in the unnecessary loss of life, the goal was abandoned.

"Ami, Ahsoka," Anakin yelled as he came up behind Ahsoka with his lightsaber at the ready before freezing when he saw Palpatine dangling Ami over the edge.

In any case, Anakin's voice made Ahsoka pulled her blade away from Palpatine's neck though it was still raised.

"Weak woman. Even as a cold all powerful Sith lady, you had a heart for one person. Anakin Skywalker," Palpatine snarled disdainfully.

"Ahsoka," Ami said and Palpatine started to loosen his grip.

Ahsoka groaned as she looked at the girl, eye meeting a pair of blue eyes just like the man she had gone to hell and back for. She then lowered her light saber and extinguished the green blade.

"Now let her go," Ahsoka said backing up into Anakin to give the Sith lord room.

Ahsoka discreetly handed Anakin her light saber and then squeezed it predicting the Sith Lord's next move.

You sure about this? Anakin asked her.

Positive, she sent back.

"I knew it. So weak…" Palpatine asked and then looked at Ami. "Consider this your first lesson in the dark side."

Ami screamed as Palpatine dropped her.

But Ahsoka had predicted the move and jumped after her as soon as Palpatine dropped her. She grabbed the girl in mid-air and pulled her to her turning to take the impact of their inevitable fall.

As Palpatine summoned his lightsaber back to his hand, Anakin lit both blades in his hand. Blue and green struck red as Anakin furiously fought back the Sith Lord.

"So she pulled something you didn't count on again," Anakin pointed out. "You were counting on her to use her anger to kill you, but there's one thing that you never calculate in your predictions Sidious."

"And what's that?" he sneered.

"Love," Anakin said simply. "And that's a power you'll never be able to fully comprehend."

Palaptine could only do so much with one good arm and in his moment of frustration at Anakin's declaration, he made a fatal mistake, leaving his front open when Anakin stabbed him in the chest and then cut off his head for good measure.

"I really do hope you stay dead this time," Anakin said as her then went to the edge of the waterfall to see where Ahsoka and Ami had landed.

"Ahsoka, Ami," he yelled as he saw where they landed, Ahsoka having taken the brunt of the fall on her right side. He let out a string of obscenities in huttese, worse than anything had used in years. Carefully he began to climb down the side of the steep ledge a few feet away to get to them.

Ami opened her eyes, having closed them and buried her face in Ahsoka's chest when he the woman grabbed her. She sat up and looked around, seeing her grandfather coming down the high ledge using the force to enhance his descent. Palpatine's cold presence was gone and she guessed her grandfather had killed him. Then she noticed that Ahsoka wasn't moving beside her.

She got on her knees and shook the woman.

"Ahsoka," she whispered. She didn't answer and Ami shook her again. "Ahsoka!"

She leaned her head down hearing the faint but steady rhythm of her beating heart, but to her horror, she didn't feel the steady rise and fall of her chest to indicate breathing.

"Ahsoka," she yelled shaking harder. "Wake up!"

"Ami," Anakin said almost to where she was. "What's wrong?"

"Grandpa, Ahsoka's not breathing!" she yelled.

Anakin's heart stopped as he came to Ahsoka's side and raised her limp body in his arms.

"Come on Ahsoka," he said, the same fear and grief gripping him that had done the same when he woke up to find Padmé dead next to him.

"What's going on?" Han yelled from the top of the waterfall.

"Ahsoka wake up," Ami said putting her face in her chest. This couldn't happen again.

"What's wrong?" Leia asked riding on her brother's back.

"I think something's wrong with Ahsoka," Han said but he couldn't see clearly from the top of the waterfall. "Stang it," he said and started to climb down the steep ledge, considerably slower than Anakin had.

Anakin buried his face in the top of her head trying to hold back his own tears as Ami let hers fall freely laying against Ahsoka's chest.

"Force," he muttered. "I'm not doing this again. If she dies, I'm kriffing going with her."

A weak cough was his reply as Ahsoka lifted her head and tried to pull herself up

"You can be so dramatic sometimes Skyguy," she muttered.

"Ahsoka," he muttered looking into her lively blue eyes.

"Who else?" she asked trying to raise her right hand to run her hand through his hair but found that it remained limp at her side. "Damn. There goes another arm."

"Ahsoka," Ami said throwing her arms around the woman.

Ahsoka sighed. "Now I can imagine what Obi-wan must have gone through with Anakin. You should have been your grandfather's child Amidala. But this just proves the Skywalker gene doesn't weaken over the generations."

Anakin laughed and wrapped both of them in his arms. The sith lord dead, the prophecy fulfilled (for good they hoped), and certain tragedy averted.

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Anakin hated med-bays and the only reason he was in one right then was because Ami, Mé, Ahsoka and Leia were there after suffering the brunt of the injury when they fought Palpatine. Ahsoka had stubbornly stayed awake for a while before the medical droid gave her a sedative to put her to sleep. After a fall like the one she had, she needed it. That was good though. It gave Anakin the chance to fix her messed up prosthetic arm. Ahsoka's arms were expensive to make and it was one of the few luxuries she had kept from her sith life. It really was a unique type of hand and a beautiful one. The problem was that they were just as delicate as a real arm and Anakin could count how many times he had fixed this particular arm. It was about time she replaced it. At least she wasn't replacing it as often as she claimed she used to. It amazed him how fickle she was when she was Pesinoé. She would rather toss out a malfunctioning hand and get a new one than fix the ones she had. The first time he suggested it after he moved onto the enchantress, it had been a foreign idea to her.

"Why bother fixing that thing? It's time for a new one anyway?" she said not surprising Anakin as he had felt her stirring before.

"You won't be able to do anything about it until we get back to the Enchantress so we might as well fix it," Anakin said messing with one of the fingers. "Can you feel that?"

"Somewhat," Ahsoka said and then lifted her arms. "But this will work for now."

"Why don't you just go get a normal replacement arm?" Anakin asked her.

Ahsoka reached for his right arm with her own and said, "Why don't you get a normal new replacement for this ancient thing?"

Anakin laughed. "This is different. Your arms are too delicate and expensive."

"Not like I can't afford it," Ahsoka said referring to the millions of credits left in her accounts from when she was a Sith Lady.

"You never told me the story behind why you chose this material," Anakin said looking over the jewels on the arm.

Ahsoka frowned as she thought back on it. "Well, I had just become Darth Pesinoé and at first, Palpatine was insistent on giving me some cheap prosthetic with a glove to cover it, but I told him it was only a temporary fix, that a Mistress of Seduction needed something better than that. So I went to some engineers and got to doing a little research on it. I knew what I wanted from the beginning. Something like a trademark, that would make people sure of who I was if they didn't know on first glance. The jewels showed status and the pretense of being mysterious and alluring… Delicate on first glance, but enduring and strong."

She raised the hand and inspected it.

"So it was a representation of Darth Pesinoé?" Anakin asked and Ahsoka nodded. "Then why did you keep it?"

Ahsoka sighed as she put her arm down. "As a reminder of who I used to be and who I have the potential to become again. Part of me is always going to be Darth Pesinoé and no matter how hard I push her away, the circumstances to bring her back always come up again. Today proved that. This whole visit has proved that."

Anakin reached over and grabbed her real hand with his own before saying, "If anything, this visit proves that you have more control of that side of you than you give yourself credit for. To call on your darkness and then push it away for the good of someone else proves that."

"Is your arm better?" Ami asked appearing in the doorway.

Ahsoka was startled by her, even though she didn't show it.

"For now," Ahsoka said raising her hand to demonstrate, even though the feeling in it was limited.

Ami nodded and started to make her way out, but Ahsoka stopped her.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

Ami sighed and began to twirl a lock of her blonde hair through her fingers. "I talked to my grandma today," she admitted.

Anakin raised an eyebrow. It sounded odd, but he believed her. He had talked to Obi-wan from the grave, but he hadn't been aware that a person who wasn't force sensitive could pull it off.

"The force isn't that cruel," Ahsoka said reading his thoughts as she repeated what Padmé told her years before.

"What did she say?" Anakin asked.

"I need to talk to my mother," Ami grumbled in discontent.

"That's probably a good idea," Ahsoka agreed and Ami rolled her eyes.

"I don't have to like it," she said and started to walk away before stopping and turning to look at her grandpa. "And if you're wondering why she hasn't appeared to you yet, I think it's because she wanted you to let go… She wanted both of us to."

With that Ami turned on her heel and went to find her mother leaving two somewhat bemused Jedi in her wake.

"I sometimes wonder if that girl is eight or eighty…" Anakin muttered. "She acts her age most of the time, but sometimes she seems so coy and elusive like she knows something we don't."

"She can hear the whispers of the force more clearly than most people her age. That's why she's so hardheaded. She's been raised to listen to the force and that's what she does," Ahsoka pointed out. "Were you like that?"

"I raced pods even though my mother hated it, got married secretly even though it was forbidden by the order, didn't kill you like the Jedi wanted me to on Mustafar, dared the council to change the code or at least reinterpret it, saved you from the dark side when no one thought it could be done, and took you as a lover seven years later knowing my children wouldn't like the idea and that the rest of the galaxy would think I was had lost it if they found out," Anakin explained dryly. "So what do you think?"

Ahsoka hissed at his sarcasm but she got the point.

"So do you want to explain this about talking to Padmé to me?" Anakin asked when he figured Ahsoka got the point.

"I guess it's time," Ahsoka said leaning back as she began to explain.

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AN: A reviewer made me go look up the ritual with Palpatine returning and it made me realize a hole in this story. Oh well… It's done now. For now, he's gone for good and I won't write another story on where his spirit went. Let's just say the force called him back for good. This chapter was actually much longer but I cut it, much to my sister's dismay. So there's one more chapter. Ami talks to her mother and vacation's over for Anakin and Ahsoka.

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