A Masters Love

Star Wars: A Masters Love


It had been almost three months since the incident and the council had now deemed Obi-Wan healthy enough to go on a mission. The council were sending Obi-Wan and Anakin to a planet that was very much like Naboo, they even had a queen, except there was also a king.

They would be asked to stay on the planet for the next six months. It was their job to try and bring peace back to the planet and negotiate with the king and queen, to settle a peace treaty with their long time enemies, another royal family who lived and ruled the lands on the other far side of the border. And of course and persuade both families to a line themselves with the Republic.

Anakin was not looking forward to this, even if both royal families had no problems with same sex couples. That wasn’t the problem. The problem was that he would have to wait even longer to discuss and make arrangements with Padme in concerns to them getting a divorce, dissolving their almost five year marriage. Plus Anakin also suspected something was wrong. It had been over six months since they’d made love and twice as long since Anakin had even wanted to make love to her.

Anakin knew he was not in love with his wife, he had no idea if he ever had been. All he did know was that he wanted their marriage to end and for them to part so Anakin could pursue a relationship with Obi-Wan without feeling guilty about betraying either Obi-Wan or Padme.

Anakin sighed as he thought of what had occurred at the end of the previous month. Anakin had gone to see Chancellor Palpatine like usual. He discussed with the Chancellor how he was confused and stuck with a difficult situation. He explained how he was in with Obi-Wan and wanted to divorce Padme, he was tiered of feeling guilty and betraying Obi-Wan by continuing to be married to Padme. And betraying Padme by being with Obi-Wan whilst still married to her.

Palpatine had felt like a child in a candy store. This turn of events worked perfectly in regards to his plans to persuade Anakin to join the dark side as his apprentice. Also if he could persuade Anakin, then perhaps Obi-Wan Kenobi would join him. Palpatine saw it as gaining two for the price of one. Two apprentices would suit him just fine. If one screwed up then he would have the second to fall back upon in an emergency.

At first Palpatine had not been interested in Obi-Wan, but then after he heard of the incident that restored Obi-Wan’s youth, he figured why not have both Skywalker and Kenobi? He knew he would be better off for it. He knew he would be able to put all of his plans into action a lot quicker with the aid of Skywalker and Kenobi, they were truly a force to be reckoned with. Palpatine believed with both men on his side as his apprentices he would only become more powerful.

So Palpatine told Anakin he would help him file for a divorce and insure it went though all the official channels quicker. But only if he did something for him. He had insisted that the Jedi were trying to take over the Republic, that they wanted to control over the senate. That he believed them to be corrupted.

Anakin had looked at him in disbelief and insisted there must have been some kind of mistake that he must be wrong. Palpatine had insisted he wasn’t and had insisted Anakin help him by sitting in on the meetings of the Jedi Council. Palpatine promised Anakin he would insist the Jedi place him on the council.

Anakin’s senses had been screaming at him, telling him something was direly wrong with the current situation. Anakin silently decided he would follow though with what Palpatine had asked of him, even though he did not entirely believe the Jedi, especially the council were corrupted.

Anakin had told Obi-Wan what Palpatine had said to him and asked him to do. Obi-Wan had been horrified and had confirmed that he and the council did not trust Palpatine either. He had asked his lover if he believed in what Palpatine was claiming to be the truth.

Anakin had replied telling him that he did not. But still wished to go though with what Palpatine had suggested. That he wanted to keep an eye on the Chancellor, to see how he would react when given certain information.

So for the next month Anakin would sit in council meetings, even though he had not been made a Master like Obi-Wan was. He would report to Palpatine but would not give him anything of importance, nothing that he already hadn’t known.

Anakin would constantly maintain his mental shields to prevent Palpatine from reading his thoughts and emotions. The council had insisted that he was to be careful as they had no idea whether he was force sensitive or not.

It had all come to a head when Palpatine had started mentioning things about the dark side of the force to Anakin. Anakin had immediately been on alert, wondering what place a Chancellor had knowing about the dark side of the force, in less he had studied and practiced it.

Anakin had finally been convinced that Palpatine was not all he said he was. His suspicious had been confirmed when Palpatine had asked Anakin and his Master to join him and help bring back balance and stop all of the corruption. Anakin had not approved of some of the methods Palpatine had suggested in regards to reaching the goal of restoring peace to the Republic.

Anakin had immediately acted when Palpatine had revealed himself to be a sith, insisting he and Obi-Wan could be so much more powerful and successful if they were to join him as his apprentices, that they could prevent those they loved from dying.

Anakin had been horrified and had quickly left and gone to Obi-Wan. Telling him that Palpatine was the sith they had been searching for. Obi-Wan had immediately gone straight to the council with Anakin and had reported Palpatine.

Eventually Mace had accompanied Anakin and Obi-Wan back to the Chancellors quarters and had tried to arrest him. Palpatine had tried one last time to persuade Anakin. He had even tried doing the same with Obi-Wan. Claming him and Anakin could be great and would always be together fighting side by side, under his teachings and guidance.

Obi-Wan had informed him in so many choice words where he could indeed stick that offer. He claimed he would never turned against the Jedi and become a sith, become the one thing that had cost him his Master and what he had swore to fight against.

Anakin had also refused claiming he was a Jedi, a keeper of the peace that he stood for peace and lawful justice. And promised he would help to put a stop to the sith and restore peace and democracy to the Republic.

Naturally Darth Sidious refused to be taken without a fight, leaving the three Jedi with no choice but to take him by forceful purposes, especially when he had revealed and ignited a blood red lightsabre. The sight had sickened Obi-Wan, as it was the exact shade of red that Darth Maul’s had been and Dooku's

All three Jedi had fought against the sith Master. Sidious had been out numbered by three to one. Mace had succeeded in cutting of his right hand. Obi-Wan had followed suit by plunging his green and deadly sabre into Sidious’s chest.

Sidious still refused to go down. He was finally silenced permanently when Anakin had spun his sabre when Sidious had been distracted and swiped his head clean off of his shoulders with a single precise and deadly swing of his bright blue deadly sabre.