"Anakin," Padme protested. "All I want is your love."
"Love won't save you, Padme!" Anakin replied, his voice full of a dark heat that matched the Mustafaran surroundings. "Only my new powers can do that!"
"At what cost?" Padme asked him.
Anakin was silent.
"You're a good person," Padme went on, to which the entire CIS leadership might have protested had they not recently been slaughtered. "Don't do this."
"I won't lose you the way I lost my mother!" Anakin said. "I've become more powerful than any Jedi has ever dreamed of and I've done it for you. To protect you."
Padme tried one final appeal. "Come away with me. Help me raise our child. Leave everything behind while we still can."
Anakin stared at her.
"...sure, okay," he said. "Where should we go? Fair warning: not Tatooine."
Padme blinked.
"I… don't know?" she admitted. "I hadn't thought that far."
"Um," Obi-Wan said.
Anakin whirled. "What are you doing here?"
"I wanted to make sure Padme was safe!" Obi-Wan said, quickly, before Anakin could skydive to any more conclusions. "Since she was flying towards a literal lava hellscape occupied by the leaders of the enemy government, at least one of whom tried to assassinate her in the past. And also you. And she only had the droids to protect her."
"Are you saying I might hurt Padme?" Anakin asked, his eye twitching slightly.
"I'm saying you brought R2, and he's extremely capable!" Obi-Wan replied, soothingly. "But R2 and C-3P0 combined could probably stop maybe a dozen battle droids."
Anakin paused, and thought about that.
"...okay," he said, reluctantly. "Fair. C-3P0 is a net negative there. But – seriously? You didn't think I'd protect her?"
"Anakin, you fell to the Dark Side less than six hours ago," Obi-Wan pointed out. "I'll be honest, I thought we'd be trying to kill one another by this point."
"Six hours?" Anakin repeated, comprehensively distracted. "It's been, what, two, three days? Maybe? Admittedly I've lost track of time myself but it's got to have been more than six hours."
Obi-Wan made a face. "I'm no good with space travel, or how long it takes."
Padme had been looking back and forth between the two Jedi… the two Force Users? The two Republic Generals?
She'd been looking back and forth between the two men as they talked, worried that a fight was about to break out, but ultimately she had to speak up.
"Can someone explain what you two are arguing about?" she asked. "And hurry it up, because we now apparently have a dictator who is a Sith in charge of the Republic."
Anakin blinked.
"...we do?" he asked.
"Anakin, I love you, but you are terrible at politics," Padme sighed.
"No big deal, babe," Anakin replied. "You want him dead?"
Padme stared.
So did Obi-Wan, for that matter.
Eventually, Padme managed to reboot her brain to a point where she could actually put together a sentence again.
"Wait," she said. "Is it actually that simple?"
"Everything I do has been for you, Padme," Anakin replied, with total conviction. "Everything."
Obi-Wan made a curious noise.
"You know, honestly I never thought through that side of the whole Sith obsession thing," he said. "Well, I'm not exactly in a great negotiating position, but I've worked with worse… how about a deal?"
"What kind of deal?" Anakin asked.
"Well, right now I'm doing a great deal of compartmentalization," Obi-Wan said. "But, as far as I can tell, we will all be considerably happier about this if Palpatine is dead. Correct?"
"Yes," Padme said. "We'd never be safe from him trying to hunt us down otherwise."
With that explanation provided, Anakin got a murderous expression on his face.
"Very good," Obi-Wan declared. "So – Padme, you go somewhere with excellent medical care where you'll be safe. I suggest Alderaan. Anakin, you and I will go and sort out Sidious. Then, once that's done, I will probably go and have some sort of nervous breakdown and you can go into hiding. Does that sound acceptable?"
"If Padme wants him dead, he dies," Anakin declared.
"I am so glad I don't have to give you morality lessons any more," Obi-Wan admitted. "Well, we'd better get going…"
AN:
The thing about someone with a single-basis morality is that you just need to find the basis.