I watch Anakin fly away with a hard, heavy feeling in my chest. It's a feeling I've become all too familiar with these past few days. But only now do I feel like it has a reason I can grasp.
What's the matter with him? I saw it in his eyes again tonight, heard it in his voice, felt it in the way he kissed me. This wrongness has flitting about his for so long, since that day in the desert, the day his mother died. I thought it was grief, I thought it was anger. But now I know better.
Because something has changed tonight. I don't know what it is, but suddenly with blinding certainty I know - there is no going back.
"Well, he has been under a lot of stress." Says C3PO, sounding vaguely bemused.
Oh, Threepio. If only it were that simple. If only.
A.N. Four chapters in one day! How awesome am I, huh? Doesn't that deserve a review? Really?