"Come back!" Padme gasped, making a final, last-ditch attempt to get Anakin back.

Anak- Vader clutched his head. breathing hard.

"Ani?"

Vader seemed to shake it off, however, because he looked at her, murder in his eyes, and then he bliked, and his eyes were blue.

blue.

yellow.

blue, for longer this time.

Yellow. just a flash though.

blue.

And it stayed that way. "Padme." Anakin? gasped.

"Ani? what is it?"

"I don't have much time. this is my clone. I can't win over him again. find me."

And then the eyes went yellow, and Vader was choking her.

Obi Wan walked down the ship- he'd snuck on board?

"Let her go Anakin. let. her. go."

Padme's world swirled and went black.

19 YEARS LATER...

"Nineteen years, Skywalker. and yet- you must pay for you mistakes!" Sidious spat.

Anakin clenched his jaw, hands curling into fists around his chains. "I... will never... regret it..." He heaved, "Someday... you... will die..."

Sidious growled in rage, and turned to the stormtroopers, "Turn it on."

Anakin screamed as electricity coursed though his body.

After what felt like hours, Sidious raised and hand, "That's enough."

The electricity stopped, and Sidious paced around the man before him. his skin was shallow and this eyes sunken deep. his body had long lost any muscle tone it had and he was straved half to death.

"Join me." Sidious demanded. his voice promised the pain that would come with refusal.

Padme was long dead. Anakin had accepted that truth. but he vowed to never become someone she would hate.

"Never." He spat into the sith lord face.

"So be it." He motioned for Vader to come out of the shadows.

Vader ignited his lightsaber, holding it right against Anakin's shoulder, burning and boiling the skin.

Anakin screamed and Vader only drove it a inch deeper.

Obi Wan was in the death star, going to turn off the tractor beam when he heard it...

Anakin... screaming?

Vader didn't scream, not like that.

it brought back memories from mustafar.

He had to know what was going on.

Anakin closed his eyes and moaned lightly as Vader left. his body was covered in a fresh set of burns, and tremor were racking his body from the electricity.

Dread coiled inside him as Vader came back in.

"Skywalker scum. you're worthless- weak- you don't deserve to be saved." He murmured as he turned up the electricity to max. he then turned and left, leaving Anakin screaming, not knowing when someone would turn it off.

It could've been days, hours, minutes, but eventually someone opened the door. Anakin's breath quickened, particularly because whoever it was felt familiar yet unknown. he had stopped screaming a couple minutes ago, but moaned in pain. the electricity still raging though him.

whoever the person was, slashed the controll panel with a lightsaber. the electricity intensified, then stopped completely. Anakin whimpered, starting to panic as the person approached him with their lightsaber still ignited.

the figure was saying something under their breath, but kept their hood up. it didn't matter anyways. Anakin's body was trembling so hard from the electricity and pain, that he couldn't focus anyways.

The person raised their lightsaber, and Anakins breaths quickened. he blinked in suprise when the chains hold him up were slashed he fell to the floor, legs which hadn't been used in 19 years surprisingly not supporting him. Anakin tried to sit up without much success, and then realized the figure still hadn't put away their saber.

danger-

flared though him, and with a rush of adrenaline, Anakin thew himself into the nearest corner.

"D-don't come n-near me..." Anakin begged, trying to become as small as possible.

"It's alright. I won't hurt you." the figure promised, slowly inching foreward.

Anakin's tremors hadn't ceased, and he instinctually reached for the force to throw them back.

and almost immediately screamed in pain as the force inhibitor around his neck caused a reation in his brain.

he didn't know exactly how it worked, but all that mattered was that it caused the chip inside his brain send pain signals from everwhere for a minute.

the figure carefully removed the collar and instantly the force flooded his senses. Anakin's breathing instantly got heavy and he turned away, throwing up whatever little he had eaten last week. he only got feed weekly, after all. his vision blurred from the rush of sensations, but the chip inside his brain prevented him from passing out or sleeping. he only got rest when Sidious allowed it.

Anakin held his head in his hands, trying to block out the- well, everything.

"Can you stand?" The figure asked.

"No." Anakin rasped, "I haven't used any of my muscles in 19 years according to Sidious."

The figure carefully lowered his hood.

yes he was much much older- but-

"Obi Wan?" Anakin croaked.

The figure who looked like Obi Wan shook his head sadly, and Anakin's world drooped, "It's Ben now. Ben Kenobi." Oh. so he went by that strange nickname Satine had given him.

"Master?" Anakin tried again, hopeful.

"Welcome back, Anakin."