Author Note: HAHAHAHAHAHA TURNS OUT THAT PART OF THE STORY WAS THE SAME WHATEVER I CHOSE! OH WELL, LETS SEE WHO WAS RIGHT...WAS I MEAN?...WAS I CRUEL?...DID I KILL OBI-WAN? I ACTUALLY KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS THIS TIME!
AND NOW WE SEE ANGRY ANAKIN TOO!
HIDE BEHIND THE SOFA LITTLE KIDDIES! ANAKIN'S ON THE WARPATH!
Atop the wall, Yoda clutched his chest and reeled backward as though it had been him who had received the blow.
Anakin, on the other hand, pressed forwards, gripping the edge of the wall so hard his knuckles turned white. The crowd all around them groaned and Sabe clamped her eyes shut, stuffing her hands over her ears while baby Ben stared up at her in bewilderment. He was still too young to realise that his Daddy would never be coming home.
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Down on the battlefield, Obi-Wan lay on his back, watching the clouds above as Jango walked back to his speeder. Obi-Wan blinked as the sun rose higher and higher into the sky, blinding him. He wasn't dead, but he wasn't fully aware of what was happening either. He seemed to be in a state of shock, or hibernation.
All around, there was silence. No cries of victory from the Imperials, no hysterical sobs from the Nubians...just silence.
And then Jango returned on his speeder, jumping off with a coil of rope and tying it round Obi-Wan's ankles. Then he tied the other end to the back of his speeder and remounted.
All those watching Anakin, saw that something seemed to harden in his face and whatever naivety had been there before had gone and was replaced with hatred now as he watched Jango abuse his brother's body. Yoda stood beside him, watching in horror.
"My boy...my boy..." he groaned.
At his feet, Sabe sat against the wall, her knees tucked against her chest, her face in her hands, which rested on her knees. Ben, sensing something was wrong, began to cry, so Padme knelt beside Sabe and picked up the baby, soothing him with her soft and gentle voice. Then she took Sabe's hand and Sabe looked up. Her eyes were a terrible thing to see.
"Let's go inside," Padme said softly, and Sabe nodded, allowing Padme to pull her to her feet. Then, holding the baby in one arm, Padme helped Sabe away from the wall.
As she walked past Yoda, Padme noted that Anakin was missing.
"I hope you're not doing something stupid," she muttered quietly to herself as the three of them went back inside.
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Down on the battlefield, Jango kicked the speeder into life and began to speed away, dragging Obi-Wan's body through the grass, leaving a small trail of blood behind him.As he rode away, he heard shouting and turned in the saddle to see Anakin running as fast as he could after him, yelling and waving a vibrant blue blade. Anakin was in a state of rage like Jango had never seen before. A red mist had fallen around him, and Jango knew that if he didn't get back to within the range of the imperial snipers, Anakin would kill him.
Reving the speeder faster and faster, Jango eventually began to increase the gap between them, but that didn't stop Anakin.
Even when he had come into range of the snipers, he carried on, dodging and weaving so that aiming became almost impossible for the snipers.
Jango carried on, further towards the camp, and so did Anakin, his rage and the force carrying him at an impossible speed.
And then a single shot rang out and Anakin stumbled, tumbling into the soft grass and allowing Jango to finally escape.
Anakin hadn't been hit, but the shot had hit so close to his foot that he had pulled it back to avoid being hit. However, his momentum had continued to carry him forward, tangling his other foot in his stationary leg so that he went crashing to the ground. Now he looked up and watched in dismay as his brother's body dissapeared. At last, he decided to admit defeat and retreat before he was wounded by the snipers. The snipers realised his intentions and allowed him to go.
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On top of the wall, Anakin's suicidal run had proved too much for Yoda, and his legs had given out. Two of his bodyguards had caught him before he fell, and carried him back towards the shade beneath the blue canopy.