You Were My Brother
Obi-wan looked down at his padawan, burning. No, Anakin was gone. Something darker had taken over him now. He wasn't the boy he'd first met on Tatooine anymore. The boy who wanted to become the greatest pilot in the galaxy. The boy who wanted to be a jedi. The boy who'd become his brother.
His tears burned hotter than any volcano on Mustafar. He'd loved him, they'd been so much together, but Anakin was gone. After Coruscant, after Padme… There was no going back from this. Obi-wan had failed master Qui-gon. He'd promised to protect the boy, to teach him to become the greatest jedi in the galaxy. But he'd failed, the jedi order was shattered, the galaxy was in flames.
Obi-wan could no longer see the innocent eyes of the child who wanted to explore the galaxy. He wanted to just reach out and help him, but the dark side had fully taken over. Anakin had suffered so much; born into slavery, his mother taken from him by the Tuskan Raiders. If he could go back and change all of it, he would.
Had the council made a mistake? Maybe this wouldn't have happened if he'd become a jedi master. Hadn't he done enough for the Republic, hadn't they all done enough? But maybe he was wrong. Maybe the council had seen something in Anakin that Obi-wan couldn't have. Maybe he'd become too close to the boy to see the darkness form inside him.
Obi-wan listened to Anakin's hate filled screams. He didn't mean it, it wasn't Anakin anymore, it was some spawn of the dark side. Obi-wan watched Anakin slide closer and closer to the lava rivers of Mustafar. He wanted to end Anakin's suffering, to stop his cries of pain. But he couldn't the kill the boy he'd practically raised.
In the end, Obi-wan slowly walked away, ashamed to look back at his brother as he screamed.