A teaser from @hellomelusine‘ fic, You’re the Love I Know:
“Anakin Skywalker,” she speaks the name slowly, tongue rolling over every syllable.
He tilts his head, standing up and brushing at his knees. “It’s curious, that you haven’t asked about him at all.”
“More curious that you never reached out to him, when he was so desperate for it, but you’ve shown yourself to me twice now.”
“I can’t change the past, and Ben found his way just fine on his own, maybe with a little help,” he tells her pointedly, “so we’re going to change the future.”
She gapes at him, mouth opening and closing and she’s sure she looks ridiculous, but he just smiles an easy smile.
“You know, don’t you,” he says stepping closer, drawing up to his full height, foreboding even as a ghost. Rey takes a step back, reaching for her staff. “You can’t fight me, you know that right?” He asks, still sounding amused.
“We’ll see,” she answers, the beam of yellow light splits the air between them, it’s sister blade igniting seconds later. “Tell me.”
“Not very Jedi like,” Anakin says with a disdainful sniff before smirking, “probably why I like you so much.” He waves a hand. “Put the weapon away Rey, I only have so much time left and we need to discuss my grandson further...The Jedi order of old is not who the Jedi became, in the beginning, there was the acceptance of balance within oneself, not the twisted thing it became before Palpatine and I destroyed them all. Balance. The force desires it, creates it. Was for a fleeting moment perfect.”
The silence stretches between them, he doesn’t need to say the words, but Rey knows them in her heart...and then Ben died.
“I can’t fix it,” she mourns, growing frustrated when Anakin smiles once more.
“Rey, I told you. Your journey wasn’t done. You and my grandson. You’re powerful, yes, but you exist in balance. Ben isn’t here.”
Rey glances around the room and gestures, agitated. “Tell me something I don’t know,” she snarls.
Anakin rolls his eyes. “You still have a lot to learn. Get your books.”
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