songbird! c:
I actually had really hard time with this one considering how much it lends itself to an emotionally wrought conversation between a young man and an older man and that is literally all star wars fix-its.
Sith Dooku goes back and comments snarkily at a younger, but still old man version of himself (pre-Galidrean??)
Anakin having a nightmare about Padme dying and instead of, uh, you know, he ends up on Obi-Wan's floor crying and yelling at Obi-Wan because he thinks Obi-Wan doesn't love him?
Luke stuck in an elevator with Darth Vader, trying to convince him that they're not so different (no, not cause of all the people they've exploded, kriff, seriously, in a LIGHT, love is important way.)?
Time traveling post-empire Boba affectionately beating the crap out of pre-Kamino Jango because he loves his Dad but he literally fucked up the entire galaxy?
In the end, I think I like causality violating 'time traveling Anakin ends up on old Ben's desert couch, which is just a rock shaped like couch, kriff you live like this?'
Now, Ben actually remembers this—Anakin wandered off on a mission, got lost in a mysterious sandstorm. came back grumpy, covered in sand, and said an Old retired Jedi named Ben just spent the last 6 hours staring at him while not saying anything except vague 'the force willed it' nonsense. Ben stares at Anakin sadly for 3 hours, realizing that he just didn't have the words to fix everything that went wrong.
Old Ben: "The flow of time goes but one way. We are simply existing an eddy—meaningless, except to us...though perhaps not even that..."
Anakin: "Stop saying that."
In this time pocket, Anakin gets bored enough to poke around Ben's house. Finds a familiar lightsaber.
Anakin: "WHY DO YOU HAVE MY MASTER'S LIGHTSABER?!"
Ben: "I'm afraid I can't tell you that."
Anakin: "ANSWER THE QUESTION!! IS HE HERE? DID YOU KIDNAP HIM? ARE YOU A SITH?
Ben: "...why do you think I'm a Sith?"
Anakin: "BECAUSE YOU'VE SURROUNDED YOURSELF WITH SAND!!!"
Ben: "Oh, Anakin."
Anakin: *growing pale* "O-Obi-Wan?"
Ben: "...Oh, shit."
The next three hours involve...a lot of not-crying as Anakin ruthlessly employs his sad-padawan eyes to extract Obi-Wan's life story. He knows it has to be bad, because Obi-Wan lives on Tatooine.
Alone.
And now that Anakin's looking—there's another lightsaber here.
It's been tortured. By Anakin.
It's done evil. He can feel it.
Anakin's done evil.
Lullabies, look in your eyes Run around the same old town Doesn't mean that much to me To mean that much to you
