"What happened?" Ahsoka asked him.
Leon had recovered from his duel with Palpatine who he now knew as Sidious, the chancellor turned out to be a Sith Lord and was manipulating the Republic, the Jedi Order and the war since the beginning. After Titan squad pulled him out of the battle and got him to safety they along with the Twi'lek doctor that treated Leon paid a freight captain to give them safe passage to the Togruta home world Shili. He didn't know how he felt, emotion completely escape him as he looked back. He tried to process it all to figure out how it happened, but it didn't matter even though he was recovered he still felt drained.
"They're all dead" he answered her as they sat together on a grassy hilltop overlooking the village where Ahsoka now lived, "Windu, Fisto, Plo Koon…even Luminara. They're all gone."
"How?" she gasped, "How can they all be dead?"
"Palpatine" Leon told her, "Turns out he was a Sith Lord the entire time. He was Dooku's master, he was the reason the war continued to drag on" Leon chuckled pathetically, "He manipulated everything from the start."
He hung his head, "Then he issued an order to all the clones, he labeled the Jedi as traitors to be executed on sight."
Ahsoka hugged knees to her chest, "What about Anakin?"
Leon felt his heart freeze as she mentioned her former master's name. He saw the security footage from the temple, he saw Anakin lead the 501st into the temple to destroy it and everyone inside and he watched as Anakin slaughtered the younglings hiding in the council's chambers.
"He's…he's dead" he lied, "Another Sith appeared, calls himself Darth Vader. He caught Anakin off guard and killed him."
"It can't be" Ahsoka muttered, "Anakin wouldn't be…he can't really be…" she looked at him, her eyes shining as tears flooded behind them.
"I'm sorry" Leon said, "If I was there I could have stopped it. I could have stopped all of it."
He didn't want to lie to her, he would never dream to lie to her, but he couldn't tell her the truth. Anakin had fallen to the dark side, he had turned against the Jedi Order and was solely responsible for its destruction. Her closest friend, the truth would destroy her.
"We have to do something" she told him, "We can't let it end like this. What are we going to do?"
"I almost beat Palpatine when we fought" Leon said, "If I can get to him again I could kill him and bring down whatever empire he's trying to build."
"I'll help you" Ahsoka said only for Leon to panic.
"No" he quickly gasped, "No, you need to stay here where it's safe."
"What? Leon no you can't do this alone."
"I have to" Leon told her, "Ahsoka this will be harder than anything either of us have ever done, worse than Dooku and Grievous, worse than Korriban. It's too dangerous."
Standing up Ahsoka argued, "It's even more dangerous to do it alone."
"I know" Leon admitted, "But I have to."
Raising her voice Ahsoka told him, "No you don't. I can help."
"Ahsoka" Leon began, his voice breaking, "I can't lose you to. I won't always be able to protect you."
She pushed, "I can protect myself."
"So could Edge, so could Thalia, so could Luminara" he told her jumping to his feet, "And they all died" he began crying, "I can't lose you to. You're all I have left."
He reached for her cheek, cupping it in his hand as he cried, "I couldn't protect Edge, I couldn't protect Thalia and I couldn't protect Luminara. If I lost you I wouldn't be able to keep going, I would just give up I'd be nothing without you."
The look in his eyes made his words stronger, the fear that accompanied his voice and tears. He had lost so much already, each time only being able to pull through because of her. If he were to lose her then there would be no one to help him recover.
Ahsoka raised her hand holding his against her cheek, "What about me?" she asked, "What if something happened to you? What do you think that would do to me? You say you can't lose me, I can't lose you either."
They stood there alone atop the hill, the wind the only sound their foreheads meeting as they wrapped their arms around each other a tight embrace in fear of losing the other. Having lived in the Jedi Order her entire life, she was already lost without it, losing him as well would leave her with nothing and as for him, he had lost everyone important to him and losing her would also take away his will to continue. What could they do other than hold each other, there were no more words to be said at the moment either of them too tired or afraid to say anything else instead they simply continued to hold on to what they had left.
She moved first tilting her head up pushing his up as she did before leaning in to meet his lips. The greatest sensation either of them had ever felt, no matter how many times it happened it was never short of bliss. Slowly he leaned back until he fell pulling her with him as he landed on his back with her on top of him. For a moment they gazed into each other's eyes still at a loss for what to say both of them still afraid of what the future would bring, but for now it didn't matter all that did was them and that they were still together. Again their lips met their tears dried and their worries silenced, for now they would enjoy what they had.