Part 3 - Ben Kenobi
Luke is safe, that's all that matters now.
The future of the Jedi will reside with him and his sister.
Tatooine isn't my favorite of places, but it will serve its purpose. Anak - Darth Vader won't look for me here.
I knew he survived. I sensed it, I sensed he lived.
I can't imagine how much more he hates me now that he'll inevitably never be like he was before. Half machine and half human I imagine.
I know him. I knew him. But even then, I doubt he'll come back here considering he's still haunted by the life he had here.
Even if I'm supposed to let go of my emotions, I can't help but have these feelings of pain and loss, knowing my fellow Jedi have died under such, ridiculous, conditions.
I can only hope my message will save a few of them. Someone other than Yoda and I must've survived, right?
Well, it's not like I can go searching for them, Luke needs me in case something goes wrong.
Not to mention he will need training.
Training.
My first and only apprentice has turned to the Dark Side, and now, I want to train his son, and daughter if Bail allowed me.
Where did I go wrong? Maybe I wasn't strict enough, or maybe I wasn't there for him when he needed me the most.
I saw him getting angrier, but I didn't do anything about it. I didn't do enough.
At first I took him on as an apprentice because that's what my master wanted, but I grew an attachment to him. He was my brother.
And even like that, he didn't tell me about his wife.
Did he think I would tell on him? Even after Satine?
But would I have told the council? Even I don't know the answer to that. No wonder he didn't say anything to me.
And now I lost him. I lost the Jedi. I lost the only way of life I've ever known.
All because I couldn't sense the darkness in my own apprentice, my friend.
Thinking it over, I can't even blame him.
The chancellor was there for him when the Jedi weren't. And then we asked him to spy on the chancellor. How were we so blind?
How was I so blind?
It ashamed me how such a young man, a good man, could fall so far because I didn't see what was right in front of me. But Luke doesn't have to know.
Luke doesn't have to know his father is a murderer. A slave to the Dark Side.
Luke will know his father as I did. As Anakin Skywalker. One of the greatest Jedi, no person that I ever had the honor of meeting. Of fighting besides, and of calling family.
Because deep inside, I know there's still good in him. Good that someone will be able to dig out from the deepest depths of Vader. Because Anakin still lives inside him, I know it.
And I have hope that I will meet him again.
Enough to apologize to him.
A/N: I can imagine Obi-Wan regretting his actions as a Jedi right after fighting Anakin. I hope you enjoyed and thanks for reading!