anakin-skywalker

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

Space and time blurred and the void filled with explosions and shards and narrow misses and voices in the Force: his pilots, laughing and swearing and howling to their deaths. He laughed and swore and howled along with them, the silence unbearable.Kill, kill, and kill again, slaughter the starfighters, slaughter the Tuskens, every loss is the same loss, every pain springs from one source. Save Kothlis, save Coruscant, save Padmé. Save them all.

I think__ Anakin kicked his heel against the polished marble floor. __ think I hate it when I can__ stop my men from getting hurt. From dying. I think_

That__ because it is cruel, Obi-Wan,_ Anakin snapped. __ruel and unfeeling and unworthy of the Jedi Order._ He was so like Qui-Gon. This was like arguing with a ghost.

His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her, far away, alone in her apartment in the dark, a hand that felt the silken softness of her skin and the sleek coils of her hair, a hand that dissolved into a field of pure energy, of pure feeling that reached inside her__nd now he felt her, really felt her in the Force, as though she could have been some kind of Jedi, too, but more than that: he felt a bond, a connection, deeper and more intimate than he__ ever had before with anyone, even Obi-Wan; for a precious eternal instant he was her___e was the beat of her heart and he was the motion of her lips and he was her soft words as though she spoke a prayer to the stars_