Chapter 2

Anakin got on Padme's ship carrying Padme and Obi-Wan was right behind him. Threepio was the one flying the ship to their destination.

Anakin put down Padme who had begun to stir weakly.

"Ani?" She replied.

"Don't worry, my love you will be alright", was Anakin's reply.

Even though Anakin said this truth be told he didn't know anymore than she did about what to do.

Anakin looked at Obi-Wan still with some fury. "How could the Jedi betray the republic and try and overthrow it!"

Obi-Wan could not believe what he was hearing. The Jedi betray the republic? But instead of getting into an argument with Anakin, a mistake Obi-Wan was beginning to understand that he had been making. Obi-Wan replied, "Anikan, why don't you tell me your side of everything that has transpired, I want to know everything, from How is it you two ended up married, to how you ended up to where you are now."

Anakin was still worried some about his wife, but it would be at least 4 hours before they reached the destination.

"It all started near the beginning of the Clone Wars. Back then remember I wanted to return to Tattoine. I knew my mom was in trouble and the order would not let me go. During that time Padme and I were falling for each other, but we were trying to avoid our feelings for each other. Then I could not stay where I was anymore, we went to Tattoine and I met my mom's husband and found out my nightmares were true, she was captured. I took off at once to find her, and when I did I was to late, she was dead… I then was filled with rage and hate for the sand people, that I slaughtered the sand people, everyone there. I felt at the time that I was doing justice. It was minutes later that I realized that it was all in hate."

Obi-Wan who had been listening to this for a while said to him, "Anakin to be angry is to be human. I am not saying that I believe that what you did is right. But I will say that I cannot understand what you would go through, since I never knew my mother. But I will say this that I went to the council on a daily basis back then trying to reason with them on why I felt you needed to see your mother more often. You were a special case, who could remember his mother. But the council never could grasp this."

Anakin was startled at this. Could it be possible that Obi-Wan was on his side at one time?

He continued on, "Then when we went to Geonosis to save you, we declared our love for each other, we thought that there was no reason to hide it because we believed we would be dead then. But then we ended up surviving. On the trip back to Naboo we decided to get married and hide it."

Obi-Wan was not too surprise because when he thought about it he had suspected this for a while. "Anakin I always thought that was a dumb rule the council had. Love is at the core of a Jedi, but they cannot marry?"

Anakin's voice was beginning to calm down a little with some of Obi-Wan's words. "I would say that the rest of the story begins to take shape a few days ago, during our fight with Dooku. I had bested him and cut off both his hands and caught his and had him down with both sabers around his neck. I knew I should have not killed him like this. But then the Chancellor told me to kill him several times. So I did."

Obi-Wan thought, well no wonder you were being influenced by a Sith Lord, but he refrained from saying this, for now.

Anakin continued, "Then when I was put on the council and not made a master, I knew my suspicions about the way the order felt about me were true, so I began to seek the Chancellor's advice on this. He began to tell me about how a man known as Darth Plagues the Wise could save people from death. I was having all kinds of dreams of Padme dying in Childbirth. It seemed to good to be true. But he said it was a trait of the dark side. Then after this you were sent on your mission to capture Grievous. It was then that the Chancellor had revealed to me who he was.

Obi-Wan replied, "So that is when you joined him?"

Anakin shook his head, "No, I went to Mace Windu, and told him, and how I should have gone with him. He would not allow it. Then while I was in the council I heard Palpatine's voice tell me that if he died then all hope of saving Padme would be lost. So I took off to see for my own eyes what would happen. Because Palpatine told me that the Jedi were going to take over. Then when I got there it looked correct. Mace had the Chancellor on the ground, unarmed and he refused to take him prisoner. He was about to strike him down and I cut his hand off and then the Chancellor used his lightning to blast him out of the room. I had decided that the Jedi were evil, and the rest I think you know.

Obi-Wan just simply said, "So that's why… Anakin there is something you should see, this is another hologram I made sure to get of that encounter."

Obi-Wan played it and it should the Jedi and Mace coming into his office and trying to place him under arrest. Then he saw a very heated battle where the chancellor had easily killed all the other Jedi. Then the battle was not as easily won with Mace. Mace finally bested him, then Anakin entered the room.

Anakin stopped it. "So he did follow Jedi procedure, and he should have killed him…"

Obi-Wan nodded. "Anakin I am sorry we did not tell you everything on the council. And I am deeply troubled that you were used like that by the now Emperor.

Anakin nodded a few tears dropping from his eyes, Obi-Wan as soon as Padme recovers, I am going to confront the Emperor, and either arrest him or kill him for his actions. I place all the blood on my hands on his. But I still take responsibility for my part, would you come with me and help me to do this, then after we either have or kill him, I want you to kill me too, and please raise Padme and my child as your own and take care of her."