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“You could have been happy by my side, Padmé…” Rush’s voice drops low as the proximity dwindles for her ears alone, so close that she can see naught but fire pool in those dull green eyes.
“You could have loved me, and yet?” His lips curl with disgust. “You chose to dwell over a dead man.”
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Luke is the first to straighten his spine when he studies this strange figure, eyes wide and searching, not afraid so much as overwhelmed.
It almost feels like he’s staring at the answer to a question — one he has carried his entire life without ever quite knowing how to ask it.
Lord Vader stops a few paces away.
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“It was your idea to walk beyond the gates.” He murmurs, voice low as the quiet accusation turns amused “Now, you regret leaving our bed?”
“I did not say that.”
“You do not have to, my love.” A large thumb and forefinger tilts her chin up to him. “I know every shiver that runs through you when I’m near.”
“You are presumptuous, good sir.”
“I am but your husband.”
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Padmé Amidala Skywalker weeps beside the flickering candle, night after night, until grief finally turns her prayers into something darker.
Now, he has come to answer them.
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She flings her shutters wide only to find him standing amidst the garden blooms below; cloaked in shadow before the shape of his gleaming helm lifts up.
The sight of him tears through her like lightning as always, awe and terror twined into a breathless storm.
“Come,” he says and though his voice is little more than a whisper carried on the breeze? It alone is enough to rival heaven’s command.
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“Do not presume to know what I can and cannot bear.” Her voice pitches low and in return, Vader draws her back against him; sudden enough to elicit a gasp.
“Then tell me.” He is devastatingly careful when dragging leather-bound palms along the slope of her hips — followed by a slow press against the stomach to anchor her there until she surrenders everything.
“Tell me what you would have of me.”
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“There is a Hell that clings to me still, Padmé…” he murmurs in an impossibly coarse tone when they break for air, foreheads touching “Do you not fear it?”
Gently then does she guide her husband further onto the bed, settling beneath him at last. Padmé wants him so terribly that she shakes with need now. “No Hell can compare to the pain of losing you, my love.”
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Shallow breaths drew more ragged as eyes burned.
Artoo was gone.
His men’s shouts were lost to the chaos.
He was alone.
Either way, he could not stop. Not now.
Through the pain, Luke and Leia’s faces began to swim before his eyes with distorted features, pure against the filth. Padmé’s voice rang clearer than a bell inside his head: “Come home, my love.”
“I’m dying,” he thought.
That was when Anakin saw it.
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