Hey everyone!

I'm so glad that everyone got some amusement from Vader singing to baby Angel. Something worthy of GalVid. Although the posters and the camera people wouldn't live long afterwards. To clarify Vader is suitless in Dark Angel so he's suitless in this as well.

Again this takes place between the first and second chapter.

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Lord Darth Sidious watched as his loyal guards dragged Lord Vader before him. The ungrateful wretch had tried to run away from him and the Empire.

He had ordered his guards to hunt him down and bring him back; they found him quickly.

He had decided well ahead of time what Lord Vader's punishment was and he was quick to deliver it. A syringe sank into the runaway's neck and released it's contents. Vader yelped in shock and pain. Vader wouldn't realize until later what had been done to him and only he, Sidious, could reverse it.

Lord Vader glanced up from the floor and met his eyes.

"I am very disappointed in you Lord Vader. I should take the brat away from you if she has so unseated your reason that you think to defy me," he hissed at his apprentice. Vader held the child closer to his chest, as if to protect her from harm.

Sidious laughed at his foolish apprentice. "One day there will come a time when you can't protect her from me," he told Vader. He reached out and touched the baby. She howled in pain and Vader flinched. "Be grateful that I didn't decide to have you kill her. She will be of use to the Empire. I have seen it," Sidious felt the urge to laugh as he informed his apprentice. He knew Vader would not want to hear it.

Vader lowered his gaze, but Sidious could feel the fear and shame rolling off his apprentice. It was something that made him both angry and pleased. Sidious waved his hand and his guards reappeared. "Take Lord Vader to his chambers and make sure that he stays there." The guards nodded and hauled Vader to his feet and led him to the door of his private chamber.

"Oh and Lord Vader. Eat well and take care of yourself. And remember this: only I can remove what I put into your system." Sidious called after them. After Vader was gone, he allowed himself to indulge in the cackling laughter he had been holding back. No, Vader would not challenge him again. His attachment to that child was the chain that would hold him at bay for the rest of his miserable life.

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Well, I guess if Sidious wasn't evil before now then he certainly is now.

As for what he put in Vader's system . . . let's just not say but that it's embarrassing for a guy.