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This one-shot takes place during the episode "Twin Suns" of Star Wars: Rebels.
The song featured here is "Demons" by Imagine Dragons (I recommend listening to it; it's really good!).
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Obi-Wan Kenobi looked out at the barren Tatooine landscape and sighed. It had only been 17 years since he had survived Order 66 and the Great Jedi Purge, yet it felt like an eternity.
An eternity since his last battle as General Kenobi.
An eternity since Commander Cody attempted to kill him.
An eternity since Anakin fell to the Dark Side and became Darth Vader.
An eternity since the galaxy's last hope was born.
His eyes focused on a moisture farm in the distance, where a young blonde boy was looking off at the twin sunsets. Obi-Wan looked at the boy, and felt the Force laying dormant in him. He sighed as he remembered how Owen Lars refused to allow Obi-Wan to be involved in Luke's life.
Obi-Wan's mind focused on the name given to the Skywalker at the time of his mother's birth. Padme had obviously thought about it for a long time, and had kept it a secret from Anakin. Obi-Wan began to wonder, not for the first time, how much Padme held secret from Anakin before her death.
As the suns came to the horizon and the sky grew dark, Luke went back into the house, and Obi-Wan sighed. His heart felt heavy, and with no one to talk to, he began to sing to the empty evening air:
When the days are cold/And the cards all fold/And the saints we see/Are all made of gold
When your dreams all fail/And the ones we hail/Are the worst of all/And the blood's run stale
I wanna hide the truth/I wanna shelter you/But with the beast inside/There's nowhere we can hide
No matter what we breed/We still are made of greed/This is my kingdom come/This is my kingdom come
When you feel my heat/Look into my eyes/It's where my demons hide/It's where my demons hide/Don't get too close/It's dark inside/It's where my demons hide/It's where my demons hide
Curtain's call/Is the last of all/When the lights fade out/All the sinners crawl
So they dug your grave/And the masquerade/Will come calling out/At the mess you've made
Don't wanna let you down/But I am hell bound/Though this is all for you/Don't wanna hide the truth
No matter what we breed/We still are made of greed/This is my kingdom come/This is my kingdom come
When you feel my heat/Look into my eyes/It's where my demons hide/It's where my demons hide/Don't get too close/It's dark inside/It's where my demons hide/It's where my demons hide
They say it's what you make/I say it's up to fate/It's woven in my soul/I need to let you go
Your eyes, they shine so bright/I wanna save that light/I can't escape this now/Unless you show me how
When you feel my heat/Look into my eyes/It's where my demons hide/It's where my demons hide/Don't get too close/It's dark inside/It's where my demons hide/It's where my demons hide
The suns set completely, and Obi-Wan went into Beggar's Canyon and found the fire that he had been burning. Another young boy Luke's age had been there earlier, and he had left by then. Ezra Bridger, Obi-Wan remembered.
He then sensed a familiar dark presence drawing near, and he sighed and readied himself for battle.
