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In The End
What are we, think you, Dooku? – Yoda
In the end…
He hadn't ever thought, dreamed, imagined that it would end like this. Not with this boy standing over with his life in his hands (actually between the humming blades of the lightsabers in Skywalker's hands, one of them his own – the last time he'd ever seen it's glowing blade this close had been the last time he'd sparred with Lorian), not with him on his knees before this disgrace that they called the Chosen One, not with him begging, begging (the Counts of Serenno never begged, others did) for his life which he knows will not be spared anyway.
…what we are is:…
He is nothing. Everything that he has ever believed in, dreamt for, desired, trusted is gone. And he realises now (now when it is far too late, and all he can do is die) that he lost everything when Lorian left. Or had it been when Qui-Gon died? And all he had been and done since then has been a lie, but it doesn't matter anymore because it's all gone…
Only betrayal (and it hurts – strange, because he thought he'd gotten rid of his heart) remains and that will die with him.
…alone.
He knows that he will die, it is inevitable; he can see the Dark in the boy's eyes as Sidious urges him on. Dead. There is a strange feeling in his gut, or is it his heart, it hurts, as though it knows that it is going to die and has already decided to give up beating. No one will mourn his death; they will celebrate it. I'd always thought that when I die, Qui-Gon would be with me. Funny, he'd always thought he'd be the first to go, it being the natural order of life. Qui-Gon is dead. Dead, dead, dead Master do you think it hurtstodieyoualwaysdiealonenononoyou
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Quotes : "What are we, think you, Dooku?" "In the end, what we are is: alone." belong to Sean Stewart (from Yoda: Dark Rendezvous).