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[uncondoned]

This endeavor is only being done to watch our suffering-- his suffering. It is cruel, regardless of the subject matter. I can't watch that, and it isn't fair if Anakin hasn't even committed the crimes I'll so harshly judge him for. You do this for some pleasure I can't fathom, and it will hurt him more than anything.

Please.

I come to you to seek reason.

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[maytheforce]

No, I... I could not, I would never hurt you. [He looks at her in disbelief. How could he cause the death of the one person he truly loved?]

[uncondoned]

You thought I had betrayed you, but I did not know Obi-Wan had come with me. [Her head dips again.]

I'm so sorry to tell you this.

[maytheforce]

I can't believe this, why would I ... you're all I ever wanted.

[uncondoned]

[She takes his hand with both of hers and puts it in her lap. One hand traces the skin over his thumb and up his first knuckle bone.]

You changed.

[maytheforce]

I just won't, I will remember and I won't take Palpatine's offer. [Little does he know that he can't remember if he ever gets sent home]

[uncondoned]

I wish it could be so, but it has happened for me. [Her fingers reach up to brush his face, touching the only thing she wanted.]

[maytheforce]

I won't let it happen. I won't. I can't lose you.

[uncondoned]

[His insistence is something that she has always loved, but it is still so childlike. Like he can change what has come to pass. Her hand drops and her eyes look down. She's lost too much.]

[maytheforce]

[His insistence is all he has left, he refuses to lose her. He just doesn't know his fate is set in stone.]

Look at me.

[uncondoned]

[She blinks, her lashes lifting and looking into his eyes. There's such a heaviness to her now. Everything is gone now, everything she has worked for and loved. It was so easy to just let go and die before. It's this pain she could not live with, knowing how wrong everything went. Her eyes burned with tears not yet cried, though her demeanor is so numb.]

What do you want, Anakin?

[maytheforce]

You. Only you. [He burns to kiss her, to hold her and make everything right between them again.]

[uncondoned]

It will take time to gain what I have lost. [But she is here, she is willing to at least try. Padmè could never give up on him.]

[maytheforce]

You will regain it, I will make you love me again.

[uncondoned]

Anakin, you cannot force this.

[maytheforce]

I can, I have to. You loved me before, you can love me again. [He is both desperate and earnest.]

[uncondoned]

Ani, I can never stop loving you. It is my faith in you that is broken. You've gone down a path I cannot follow. [And what if he chooses it again. She cannot fall again, not when she's already let it go.]

[maytheforce]

I won't follow it, I'll come back. I promise.

[uncondoned]

[She can't argue back, but his words do mean something. He is good. He is.]

It can't happen, Ani.

[maytheforce]

I'll make it happen.

[uncondoned]

Then you'll lose me.

[maytheforce]

How? I don't understand how my love for you can be a bad thing.

[uncondoned]

It isn't bad. Nothing so pure can be bad. Nothing that brought us our children is bad. It is what was done in its name.

[maytheforce]

[He shakes his head, unable to really believe that he would do that. Even if he took Palpatine as his master, he could never do anything to hurt Padmé. It went against everything he ever was or had ever been. Was it wrong to make the Republic a safer place for his wife and children?]

[uncondoned]

[She lifts his chin to look at her, to make him face this.]

Remember what you did when your mother died? What that anger made you do?

[maytheforce]

I slaughtered those Tuskan Raiders. That was different.