“Nothing you promise or plead will with save you now.” Anakin
hissed at Palpatine, barely bothering to listen to the first words
the man had given him. “Did you think threatening mine would get me
you my sympathy?” Anakin dodged a cut towards his head as he kept
his voice low so no one but Palpatine would hear him. “Obi-Wan had
you pegged from the moment he meet you and he’s been keeping me on
my toes.”
Palpatine hissed, ready to attacked before his eyes widened, barely
dodging Obi-Wan’s blue saber as lighting sparkled around him.
“Nice try with the padawan-jack there little tiger but I’m afraid
the master position has been never been vacated.” Obi-Wan drawled
as he joined Anakin’s side with blood on his tunic, eyes sparkling
yellow as the Force pulsed with Obi-Wan’s steady darkness.
Dark or light, they still slotted together like the perfect puzzle
pieces, the very physical manifestation of their symbol fleet of the
open circle.
When Anakin went low, Obi-Wan went high.
When Obi-Wan went on the defense, Anakin was the offense.
Lighting sparkling over Obi-Wan’s frame and harmlessly bypassing
Anakin’s body to hit where Sidious had been moments before.
Anakin would give the man that, he was quick in both avoiding and
deflecting their sabers even with the two going after him with all
they could.
Well, Obi-Wan was doing his best even injured with blood on his
tunic.
It was making Anakin’s rage pump, Palpatine had attacked his
Obi-Wan, had almost killed him if not for Padme intervening and then
Anakin felt that whispering thrill of the dark that he sometimes
heard when Obi-Wan wasn’t hiding, seductive and quiet in his ears.
“Are you scared yet?” Obi-Wan hissed as Palpatine backed away
from them steadily. “Can you feel it yet Sidious? The quickening
pulse of the Galaxy? The racing fire of the dark side? The end of
your plans as we get ever closer to you? You can barely dodge anymore
or meet our sabers. There will be no escape for you, you wanted my
head? I will have yours.” Obi-Wan hissed in delight, the dark
delight suffusing the Force with Obi-Wan’s emotions.
It should scare him.
Obi-Wan should scare him but he knows how long Obi-Wan’s been
looking for revenge and Anakin understands revenge like no other Jedi
ever could. He himself has tasted it after the death of his mother.
He wonders, would it have tasted sweeter if he had waited for cold
revenge and plotted like Obi-Wan?
It did not matter.
The path from the past were set and now the future ones were in the
making.
The rise of an Empire at Obi-Wan’s waiting fingertips, his beloved
talon bird sitting highest among the mighty with their names being
shone on by millions of stars.
Because he knew his place in this Empire that will be built, Padme
and Obi-Wan’s husband, Emperor consort and bodyguard to a man who
attracted trouble like honey attracted bees.
And as his saber effortlessly slices through Palpatine’s neck as
Obi-Wan led the red saber down to the floor with his blue one, Anakin
knew they would be victorious in the coming days as Obi-Wan’s eyes
sparkle with the vindication and glee from almost fourteen years of
planned vengeance finally coming to its culmination.
And perhaps he can be forgiven in that moment of adrenaline and Force
maelstrom he’s caught in when he pulls Obi-Wan into his arms and
seals their lips in a deep kiss as lighting bounced harmlessly off
both of them until Obi-Wan stopped it.
Why should he deny himself anything anymore?
There was no need to hide anymore.
Obi-Wan’s eyes glittered as he pulled back with the darkness
leaving him to display only the green of his eyes with the edge of
terrifying yellow circling them, smile full of teeth on display. “An
Empire for us. No more yielding for the light, no more yielding to
the Jedi, no more yielding to Senators.” He whispered. “No more
waiting.”