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All You Mean To Me
By Aiko "Kitty" Skywalker
Chapter Nine"...I don't know if I can forgive you..." Padmé paused momentarily to look into Kun's eyes. "You did some terrible things, Ani, and not just to men, but to women and children too. How could you?"
"Anakin Skywalker does not exist anymore - only I, Exar Kun."
Padmé merely ignored Kun and continued. "I can understand that you were angry Ani, I really can, it's just that you went too far. Naboo was my home; it meant so much to me. You destroyed it Ani! You destroyed Theed and with it the heart and soul of the planet." For the first time it looked like Padmé was almost in tears. "You butchered them in that damned costume Palpatine gave you! You hid your face behind that damned cloth so that you didn't even let those people know who hated them with such a passion that he would kill them!"
"I don't know what you're talking about Lady Skywalker!"
"Yes you do! All you have to do is look inside yourself and you'll see everything. You'll see Queen Jamillia beg for the mercy of her people. You'll see the faces of the children who lay cowering in your grasp. You'll see the women and the men collapse in death. Worst of all you'll see the people who loved you, who raised you, who took you in and trained you, the Jedi, fall in the agony of your dark power!"
Yoda closed his eyes softly, holding them closed as though he were caught in sleep. Without moving from his drowsy position, he spoke. "Remember well do I. In pain the people were. Reason, I did not see to do it. Lost to the dark side you were. From us you turned when Madam Adi did you scar."
Padmé looked towards Yoda for a moment before turning her vision viciously back to Kun.
"Since I met up with you again, Ani, after ten years, I have been forgiving and understanding. I forgave you when you slaughtered all of those Tusken Raiders. I stood beside you when you came home telling me of what you did in war. I was understanding when you first told me that you were thinking about leaving the Jedi. But when you came back and told me you were leaving the Jedi, I just couldn't be forgiving and understanding. I sometimes wonder if I had been more supportive then that maybe, just maybe, I could've saved the lives of all those people." Padmé could no longer hold back the tears from falling. "Oh Ani, up until the point where you attacked Naboo I was willing to forgive you for walking out on us. But Anakin all the way through my pregnancy you weren't there for us. I often wondered if you even cared. You walked out of me when I was pregnant!"
"I am not Anakin Skywalker!"
Padmé again ignored him as her expression lightened to a state of near pleading.
"Anakin I could forgive you leaving Tatooine. I can forgive the fight you had with Obi-Wan on Coruscant after you left me. But the moment you decided to go to Naboo and attack my people and battle the Jedi, scarring the order for all of eternity, you lost me."
Kun held his ground and glared at Padmé, his frustration boiling. "What makes you think your talking to Anakin Skywalker?" Kun snapped angrily.
"Because you haven't killed me yet!" Padmé snarled back. "I know that if it were really Exar Kun controlling that body that I would all ready be dead because I know that Palpatine would love nothing more but to have me dead."
"I could kill you if I wanted to." Kun stated defiantly.
"Than do it! Get it over with!"
Exar Kun stalked towards her, and glanced towards Yoda momentarily as he did so. He saw no look on Yoda's face that would show that he was about to stop him. His eyes were still closed in a look of slumber. Kun smiled to himself and reached forwards towards Padmé's neck. No reason to do it with the force, it was much more fun to do it physically, to watch her squirm as she ran out of breath, feeling the hand she had loved so much break every bone in her neck before suffocating her.
Padmé continued to look bravely on, any trace of sadness and fear escaping her features.
"Do it!" she commanded. "Do it! End my life!"
Exar Kun's smile brightened as he leaned towards her to grasp her neck.
Padmé merely continued to glare. Deep inside something told her to be afraid, yet the rest of her, the whole of her strength, the inner beauty of her heart, told her not to be afraid. It told her that everything would be all right.
Kun continued to push his hand forwards, reaching towards her neck. Nothing would stop him now.
However, Padmé was too caught up in her thoughts and feelings to notice Kun's hand reach her throat and Luke began to cry.
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It was a dark and cloudy night when Anakin Skywalker left Coruscant to head to Naboo. It had been four days since he had left his beautiful wife Padmé for the last time. She had thrown him out when he had announced his turn to the Dark Side.
He had returned to Coruscant soon after to see Palpatine and explain that Padmé had not taken his turn to the Dark Side as well as he had hoped she would.
But when he had reached Palpatine he had not the heart to tell him of her pregnancy.
Yet that was the last thing on his mind. All that he could think about was what happened after his meeting with Palpatine.
After the meeting with Palpatine, Anakin had been assigned a mission to meet with an Imperial Agent on a planet near Naboo.
But when he had reached his ship Obi-Wan had been there waiting for him.
"Your leaving everything you said you wanted," he had said.
"Wants change,"
"So do responsibilities,"
"'What?"
"Your family Anakin."
"They mean nothing to me. Now get out of my way old man."
"No."
"Get out of my way!"
"No!"
Anakin had lit his lightsaber and the two had fought. Both had received plenty of punishment. By the time Anakin finally pulled out of the fight and into his ship
Anakin rubbed his face lightly as he watched the blood from his cuts on his face drip down onto his clothes.
Damn Obi-Wan for this! But Anakin would have his revenge. The galaxy would pay for his pain.
Quickly, Anakin set the ship to anti pilot and left the cockpit to go to his cabin.
In there was his destiny.
The uniform of Darth Vader!
Vader looked from side to side watching the bodies writhed in pain. Vader's breath had lodged in his throat as he knelt beside the corpse of Queen Jamillia of the Naboo. He had taken out his pain on those from Naboo, leaving none alive in Theed.
As he looked at Jamillia, he did not see Jamillia in her torn regal clothes of the royal court of Naboo. All that he saw was Padmé lying before him as Queen Amidala in her celebration dress, he throat slit by his blade.
He knew right then that he had destroyed a piece of Padmé that he could not give back.
"What have I done?" Vader asked softly so he could barely even hear himself.
He couldn't pull his eyes away from her. He just kept staring.
Darth Vader thought he was afraid of nothing but when Padmé's eyes opened wide he knew he was wrong. Her pink and white dress disappeared and in its place was a long dark black robe with a black dress beneath it. The cut on her neck disappeared and in its place were red marks from somebody's hand choking her. He could hear a baby cry in the distance and feel Padmé's unforgiving stare on him. Although he knew he hadn't done this yet, something told him he would.
Vader could feel a soft tear trickle down his cheek.
"What have you done?" a voice commanded from behind him.
"I thought I told you to leave me be?" Vader cried. Without turning he knew who it was.
Vader stood and turned. His hunch was justified. Obi-Wan stood there with five other Jedi, two of which were Padawans no older than seventeen. One of the masters was Adi Gallia and the other two he recognized as friends of Obi-Wan.
A battle had raged then. Anakin's left hand had been severed end his right's circuitry had been damaged. His armour had gashes through it on his legs, going through to his skin.
However, before he turned to leave, Vader had left his mark. One of the Padawan's corpse lay amongst the bodies of the Naboo Citizens'. Adi Gallia had also suffered during the battle. Vader had managed to embed his initials, DV, with his lightsaber into the back of her neck.
Vader turned quickly to retreat. But before he did, he chanced one last look at Padmé. "They made me do it, Mé. They drove me to it. However the body just continued to stare, pupils dilated in post mortem.
Once he had fled, Obi-Wan chanced a glance to where Vader had been staring. The body of Jamillia laid there, eyes wide with pupils fully dilated.
End of Chapter Nine
That's it for now. But hehe, we now know what Anakin did. Bad Anakin, I mean Vader. I hope I didn't confuse anyone there, but the flash back scene was supposed to make a point. You'll see what it is next chapter.
An important thing to remember: Humanity can never be destroyed it can only be hidden.
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May the force be with you,
Aiko "Kitty" Skywalker