The characters in this story belong to George Lucas and his gang, not me. This chapter is in response to the requests for more from the responses I've gotten so far. (Does that make any sense at all? Oh well.) Enjoy!




He held his beloved for what seemed like only a short time before he felt her hug weakening. It was then that he noticed a quiet humming between his ears. Pulling back to face her again, he gently wiped away a tear that trickled down from her left eye.
She smiled at him, covered his hand with her own, and nuzzled it. He smiled as she kissed his thumb, but was puzzled when she stood.
Holding out both her hands to help him up, they stood face to face. As she reached up to kiss him, the humming grew louder. Her lips were gentle and the kiss was just as he remembered it before the lava pit had claimed most of the feeling in his face.
"I must leave you for a short while, Anakin," Amidala said, startling him out of his reverie. "There are others who wish to see you." She smiled, and the humming increased along with his first feelings of fear that the humming was linked to her leaving.
"Will you be bac-" Her slim finger covered his lips, silencing his question. Once he quieted, she dropped both hands away and spun around in the field, laughing. As he watched, she turned transparent and then invisible, but her answer whispered in his mind. "Of course I will, my love…we will never be separated again."

He stood watching the place where she had stood moments before, and noticed that the humming was closer. He turned slowly and saw the source of the noise.
An older man was climbing up the hill towards him, the metal cylinder attached to the belt at his waist. Unlike Amidala, the breeze sent both his hair and robes swirling around him.
Even from this distance, Anakin could see the large grin plastered to the man's face as he approached. The hum emanated from the man, who was practically shimmering in the Force.
Biting his lip nervously, Anakin began to walk towards him. Obi-Wan looked just as he had when they last met on the Death Star; only this time Anakin wasn't seeing him through optical sensors and a facemask.
He stopped a few feet in front of the grizzled old man, and they stared at each other for a heartbeat before Obi-Wan spread his arms and closed in to envelop Anakin in a hug and a hard clap on the back.
"It is very good to see you again, old friend." Said Obi-Wan. "I knew he would find a way to bring you back to us." Momentarily confused, Anakin could only nod, and then an image of Luke looking down worriedly at him flashed before his eyes, and he understood.

"He's a good boy. A Skywalker whose legend will precede him." Obi-Wan said, proudly. "After all, he managed to turn the great Darth Vader." Anakin blushed slightly, and found an interesting flower to look at near his right foot.
"I was angry, Ben..." He began. "And nobody understood. I thought Palpatine could help me, but he kept the cloak over my eyes for such a long time that I, I..." Anakin spread his hands apart, trying to make Ben understand.
Obi-Wan placed a comforting hand on Anakin's shoulder, but didn't say anything. "I shouldn't even be here, in this wonderful place." He continued. "All those people, gone because of me. I was so angry at what was happening to me, and then I lost her." He swallowed against the lump that came to his throat whenever he thought of that last tearful goodbye.
"I did nothing to deserve this place. You should understand that." Anakin felt his heart lift when Obi-Wan simply shook his head and said, "No." Curiously, he looked up to see what was meant by that simple word.
The old Jedi master was gazing down thoughtfully at his former padawan. "Anakin, your life is very special. No one else has ever had the chance to take back his or her life; but you did. And you saved many more lives in the process."

Anakin stood for a moment, digesting what his master said. Finally, he nodded, accepting. Obi-Wan cleared his throat, and caught Anakin's distant gaze. "But there are still people that you can help, Anakin. Your son needs you, and whether or not she knows it, Leia does also."

Frowning, Anakin wondered how he could help them now. Obi-Wan interrupted his thoughts. "The Emperor may be gone now, Ani, but Luke and Leia will still need to fight. Knowing that they have your support will be important." He cleared his throat. "Time lasts much longer here than in their world, Anakin, but now Time grows short, and there is another that must speak with you before Amidala returns."
He drew back, and Anakin looked for the now familiar transparency that would soon take his former mentor away from him again. "Goodbye Ben!" he shouted to the disappearing form.

Already he could hear small grunts coming from his next visitor over the edge of the hill...