D.V and Senator Amidala

Two standard days later, Darth Vader ordered his men onboard the Executor. He smirked under the mask at seeing his former master in handcuffs, although there was a a time in another place, he shook the thoughts from his head as he watched Anakin stand beside his former mentor as if to protect him, and Padme met Obi-Wan's eyes with a sad smile. Why did everyone seem to betray him? Things had been so different, if only he had chosen differently. No, he wouldn't think of the past it was irrelevant to his life now. He looked over at Anakin and Obi-Wan, "You may go with Obi-Wan, I want a word with my wife."

"Fine," Anakin stated and then began whispering to Obi-Wan. Darth Vader led Padme to the meeting room.

"Anakin, what happened to you?" she asked him.

"What happened to me? What happened to you? I would have never dreamed you would have betrayed me. You brought him to kill me. You were my wife, you were my life."

"I didn't know he was aboard my ship. But that has no bearing on the situation, how could you have not trusted me. You attacked me."

"I didn't mean to. You are my wife, we took vows before a holy man, you belong at my side."

"I am not property. I fulfilled my bargain. To death do we part, Anakin. You and I both died on Mustafar."

"No. I can't lose you. I brought you back. Your life...belongs to me."

"Will you kill me again?"

"He took you from me."

"No, Anakin. As I told you on Mustafar. You were a good person, but you've gone down a path I cannot, and willnot follow. What you have done goes against everything we once belived in. You let them die in vain."

"I will not stand for this line of questioning."

"And no one questions you but the Emperor is that it?"

"That's it."

"Then why bring me back?"

"It is of no concequence."

"Bravo. You won your freedom only to have willingly allowed yourself to become enslaved."

"I am the second most powerful being in the entire galaxy."

"And you are still a slave. You are Palpatine's lapdog. He barks and you say how high, am I getting warm? What has he done to you, to our love."

"I...it's not important. It's nothing."

"What happened on Mustafar?"

"You know what happened you were there."

"You mean I was unconscious and going into labor."

"Obi-Wan and I fought. He turned me into this. The End."

"Anakin, how long will it take for us to be honest with each other. This isn't you. This is who he wants you to be, but this isn't you."

"He cut off my arm and legs. My right arm was left," at one point is his life he would have found that a joke but it wasn't any more. "I caught on fire, part of me will always remain on Mustafar."

"Then what happened?"

"Palpatine found me and saved my life, there was no way I could make it out of the lava. My mechanical hand...it just couldn't the ash kept slipping through my fingers."

"Then you were sedated?"

"No, I wasn't."

"Anakin, how could you have such extensive surgery without sedation."

"It's not important. You are dismissed," Vader stated as Anakin came up behind Vader.

"Don't talk to her like that."

"I thought I told you to wait with Kenobi."

"Obi-Wan doesn't want me to know, he doesn't know what you were thinking when he fought you. You ripped his heart in two."

"Kenobi doesn't have a heart."

"Yes, he does. He was like our father, our brother, and you betrayed him. You might as well have stuck a lightsaber in his chest."

"That's no less than what he has done to me."

"Yes, it is! You are so blinded by the Dark Side you can't see the truth. Obi-Wan loves us...still. Even after all we've done, he loves us. Why else would he have gone to Tattooine?" Vader didn't respond for a moment.

"He knew I would never set foot on that Force-forsaken planet again. I told him I hated it often enough."

"No, he went there to try and understand you. And why are you being so mean to Padme. I love her," he ran to her and hugged her. "I'm not going to let anything happen to you...ever. I'm going to protect you, even if I have to protect you from him...from myself. If I married you then I would have promised that and I'm keeping my promises."

"You don't understand anything, youngling."

"I understand that you are lost. You are confused, and conflicted. You've been lost in the dark so long that you can't see the light."

"And what did the light ever do for me?"

"Force sake, you are selfish. You are a Sith, the Sith only think about themselves. No wonder you lost everything." Darth Vader was speechless. Was the youngling right? He watched as Anakin led Padme away, his hand snaking up to grab a blaster from a Clone Trooper. "Leave her alone."Padme looked back at him, her eyes pleading as she left with Anakin.