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arrowheadpodracer Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 3/21/04 10:59pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!****** - Date Edited: 3/21/04 11:03pm (2 edits total) Edited By: arrowheadpodracer
	the galaxy didn't ask her what she wanted, and the Force didn't seem to care. Great line. In them, their father's legacy, the good man that Anakin had once been and always would be in her heart, would never die. sniff Another great post. Thank you!! -----signature----- just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe. (]####[]####[/(++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- I feel like a slice of butter melting on top of a big ole' pile of flapjacks bah rum ba bum bum
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leia_naberrie Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 3/22/04 12:18am Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	Another winner! It's good to see this one up again! -----signature----- Mortal Instruments {Palpatine/Padmé/Anakin} http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/27482874/r27847574
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jedi-solo-fel Registered: Jul '02	Date Posted: 3/22/04 9:52am Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	Awesome post, ladies! Oh, poor Padme! Poor Luke and Leia, too, being torn apart like that! sniffles Something inside of Padmé had shattered then, at the realization that her children, her twins, who were two halves of one whole, would be torn away from each other. Her heart had cried out in furious protest, and she'd wanted to curse him, to scream and kick and fight, but her head... her head had known that there was no other way. I had to pause there and get a tissue before I could finish reading the post! Bravo, you really pulled the heartstrings w/ that one! -----signature----- "None Shall Pass!"
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Shinar Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 3/22/04 12:44pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	In them, their father's legacy, the good man that Anakin had once been and always would be in her heart, would never die. Beautiful post! Well worth the wait! -----signature----- "Let's face it: armed combat beats unarmed combat any day of the week." Tom Clancy
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leia_naberrie Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 3/23/04 12:18am Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	Lovely Padmé/Obi-Wan dynamic. So wonderful and so sad. Poor Padmé. In her own, she’s the tragic hero of Star Wars, destined to live her life for others, to sacrifice so much for other people’s happiness and never have her own; the one time she tries to be selfish and seek her personal contentment, she is punished out of proportion to the crime: she loses everything - her position, her home, her family, her husband and children, and her life. -----signature----- Mortal Instruments {Palpatine/Padmé/Anakin} http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/27482874/r27847574
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Shinar Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 4/14/04 5:57pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	Up? -----signature----- "Let's face it: armed combat beats unarmed combat any day of the week." Tom Clancy
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arrowheadpodracer Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 5/23/04 7:33pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	(((force push))) -----signature----- just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe. (]####[]####[/(++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- I feel like a slice of butter melting on top of a big ole' pile of flapjacks bah rum ba bum bum
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bobilll Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 6/26/04 3:44pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	Hmmm... interesting... there's more to this, right? -----signature----- You'll have to buy him a sweater.
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leia_naberrie Registered: Sep '02	Date Posted: 7/21/04 3:17pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	Up! -----signature----- Mortal Instruments {Palpatine/Padmé/Anakin} http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/27482874/r27847574
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Jedi-Princess-Solo Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 7/28/04 8:45pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ******UPDATED 03/21!!******
	I am so sorry about the long hiatus, guys! I've had a crazy few months... my computer crashed, my best friend is getting married (they decided to only have a 5 month engagement, so as maid-of-honor I have been at wit's end helping her plan this thing), and I am finally about to start law school now (and so I am thrust right back into the endless cycle of education ), so it's been very hectic. On the bright side, I have several weeks of downtime before my classes start, and my schedule this fall will be much lighter, so I will be back to regular posts again starting this week Expect a new post here sometime in the next few days, definitely by Sunday. Thank you all so much for your patience! ~JPS~ -----signature----- "Fight until you can fight no longer, then exhaust the enemy chasing you, and turn and fight some more." -Leia Solo in SbS "Love can ignite the stars..." -RotS novelization "Even the stars die out, Anakin Skywalker..." -RotS novelization
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DarthJaina Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 7/28/04 9:11pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ***Author's note, July 28!***
	Welcome back, girls I look forward to the post -----signature----- "Do you want the short answer, or do you need someone to explain it to you with charts and diagrams?" -Jag and Jaina in DJ "You're a major now?" "I'm better than that, I'm a holovid star. Not to mention a goddess." -Jacen and Jaina in DW
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Jedi-Princess-Solo Registered: Apr '02	Date Posted: 8/8/04 5:21pm Subject: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo; Updated 8/8 - Date Edited: 8/24/04 2:39pm (2 edits total) Edited By: Jedi-Princess-Solo
	Thank you guys for being so patient and bearing with us lately- we've both been busy, so even once we got a post done it took a while to get it edited Hope you all enjoy, expect a new post sometime in the next week or so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It was always dark in his chambers now. The rooms had been equipped with specially designed lightning so that it would be dim, just a faint pale blue glow cast over the room, enough to see without losing the precious shadows that he clung to. Most of the time, however, he rarely turned the lights on at all. There was something he didn't like about the blue hue, it made something inside of him ache with a feeling he couldn't really define. It had taken him several weeks to realize that it was because that particular shade of blue was the color of his eyes, the color his lightsaber had once been. Palpatine had a rather sadistic sense of humor. Eventually, he would have to get around to changing the color filter, perhaps to a cool silver or a deep red, to match his current blade, but for now he was content with the dark. He had more important things to focus on. After three days of meditation, of submersing himself deep within the Force and attempting to bend it to his will, he was still no closer to locating his wife than he had been when he first entered the chambers. It wasn't surprising, he knew that Obi-Wan Kenobi was shielding her presence right along with his own, but his former Master's powers were no match for his. In time, he would pierce those shields and the hideous bond that they had once shared, which still lay dormant between them, would betray Obi-Wan by acting as a landing beacon, guiding him to their hiding place. In time, he would find them both, but he was beginning to lose his patience. Patience, he thought darkly. What does a Sith Lord need with patience? Sometimes it was hard to forget lessons learned and wisdom imparted from the Jedi, even as their numbers dwindled close to extinction. Despite himself, he found he respected those who faced him bravely, who fought and died as Jedi should. It had become a game of sorts to try and bring their anger to the surface, to get them to attack him out of hatred and fear rather than in self-defense, but those who were broken did not linger in his thoughts, rather the ones who went peacefully, like Adi Gallia. The Jedi Master who had been the closest thing to an ally he'd had among the Council, who, despite her reserved nature, had been a gentle advocate for his place in the Order, time and time again. He had served with her during the Clone Wars, and she had never chastised him for his impetuous flying. He'd found her on Dantooine, and she had been waiting for him. The fight was quick and there were no words exchanged, but he continued to see it replaying in his dreams as of late. She had been calm, almost serene, as she brought up her blade to cross his, and for the first time since the Purges began, he had felt neither anger, nor fear, nor hatred in even the smallest quantity from the Jedi he had come to murder. In fact, as his blade cut her down, the only thing he had sensed at all was a sad acceptance, a wisp of regret. Whether it was hers or his, he did not know, and that was, perhaps, what haunted him the most. Palpatine was right, there was still weakness in him. He'd felt it that day on Dantooine, just as he'd felt in on Agamar, when he'd allowed Darra Thel-Tanis to escape alive, a secret he continued to keep locked away in the very safest corners of his heart, where Palpatine could not find it. He didn't know why he had done such a thing, letting a Jedi go was unthinkable, and yet he'd done it. You are a Jedi, you've only forgotten. A low, bitter chuckle filled the room, deeper than his laugh once was, just as his voice was no longer as it had once been. Obi-Wan, perhaps, haunted him more than anyone, even his beloved Padmé. Lessons taught and learned would resurface at the most inappropriate moments, and at times he could almost hear his former Master's voice, whispering in his ear, calling to him. There was something therapeutic in beating it down again and again, just as Obi-Wan had always tried to do to him. You're gravely mistaken, Kenobi, he thought snidely. I am Jedi no longer. Maybe he never had been. After all, hadn't the Council said he was too old to be trained from the start? Hadn't they called him dangerous? He'd gone out of his way to test their boundaries in his youth, mainly because he had known they were only keeping him around because they were afraid they might need his power someday. He was like a battle-droid to them, something they were uncomfortable with and didn't really want around, but they couldn't afford to get rid of. Just in case they needed it for protection someday. In truth, only Obi-Wan had wanted him to be a Jedi at all, and even then, that was only out of guilt, out of obligation to fulfill a promise made to his own Master as the man lay dying in his arms. Do you see what they have made of me, Qui-Gon? Vader thought bitterly. This is what your precious Jedi Order has created. Some of them screamed and cried and cursed him when he finally hunted them down and cornered them, demanding to know why, always why. Why do you do this? Why have you come to hate us so? Why would you turn on the very people who took you into their fold? Why did the Council accept you in the first place? Why didn't Kenobi see you for what you really were? Why indeed? He never bothered to answer, there was no point in explaining to them that this was what the Jedi, the Council, had turned him into, that they had created the monster who now wiped their kind from existence. They were Jedi, they were blind fools who could never see the truth, could never accept it, even when it was right in front of their eyes. It was not his evil that was eradicating the last of the Jedi, it was their own. All those lectures on arrogance from Yoda were of bitter amusement now, as it was the Jedi's own arrogance that had led to their downfall. Why had he ever put stock in them, when they were clearly nothing but a weak, decaying thing of the past? They had been serving the Empire for over a decade without even realizing it. The Jedi had lost their sight, and their touch with the Force, long before Palpatine, long before the boy they'd both revered and ostracized had even been born. It was impossible to pinpoint exactly when it had happened, but somehow the Jedi had lost their way, and because of it their time was now over. It was the Sith to whom the future belonged now, as some part of him had known long before Palpatine had revealed himself that day in his office. For years, a faint uneasiness had been growing in the back of his mind, ever since Naboo, ever since Qui-Gon Jinn's death. Some part of him had known all along that the time of the Jedi was drawing to a close, and yet he had never been able to voice that certainty to anyone, not even Obi-Wan. Of course, he doubted Obi-Wan would have listened anymore than the rest of the Jedi. As much as his former Master had claimed to have faith in his Padawan's abilities, in his superior connection to the Force, Obi-Wan had always sided with the Council, no matter how small the matter. And so your failures continue to stack against you, Kenobi, he sneered silently. It would be another failure on Obi-Wan's part that would lead him to wherever the Jedi were hiding his wife, he was sure of it. All he had to do was wait, wait for the man to slip up just a little, to make one tiny little mistake, and the answers he sought would come to him. The Force would ensure it. Now, seated in the center of his chambers, the holographic map of the galaxy shimmering around him, Vader knew that the moment was drawing near. Closing his eyes, he drew the Force tighter around him, letting the cold bitterness seep into his very core, flooding his veins with steel and black fire. Taking a slow breath, he turned his focus inward, and the hum of the power-sources in the chambers faded from his perceptions, along with the steady, rasping sound of his respirator, until he could picture himself perfectly in his mind's eye, whole and strong. From there, he pushed outward, sending his presence spiraling out into the Force, across time and spice, searching, calling... listening. It had been so long since he attempted such a thing, but he was certain he was still capable. And even more importantly, he knew that Obi-Wan would never suspect that he would use such a tactic to locate him. Surely the once proud Jedi had taken precautions against it, of course, he was no fool, but his defenses would be weaker during slumber. And even a Jedi as powerful as Obi-Wan Kenobi could not sustain himself on sheer meditation alone for more than a few weeks. Eventually, he would need to sleep, or at least submerge himself into a Jedi trance. Tonight, Vader knew, would be the night that Obi-Wan left himself vulnerable. His Force-sense stretching out through the galaxy, one gloved hand rose of its own accord, but he wasn't aware of the movement, not really. His being was no longer contained to the physical shell of what had once been his body, he was not trapped within hard armor or weak flesh, though he was certainly still connected to his body enough that he knew, on some level, that his arm had moved. Drawing on the place inside of himself that he had buried deep within durasteel walls, a place of loneliness and regret, of hurt and longing, he focused on the part of him that he could not rid himself of, no matter how furiously he tried, the part of him that was the man he'd once considered his father, the man who had betrayed him. With a flash of anger, he surged forward, traveling along the link that still existed between them, that couldn't be torn down, not after all of their years together. And for the first time since allying himself with Palpatine, Vader was grateful for that bond, because it would lead him directly to Obi-Wan, and, he was certain, to his wife. For Obi-Wan Kenobi was the kind of man who would feel obligated to protect her, even if she didn't want his protection, and wherever he was hiding, that was where Vader would find Padmé. Come out, come out, wherever you are, Master, he thought with a dark chuckle, reaching out with his awesome power, accelerating along their link, moving quickly and with the stealth of a Tusken wildcat, remaining hidden within the shadows as he drew closer to the distant presence that he still, he admitted with disgust, knew as well as he knew his own. All at once, he was there, just on the outskirts of Obi-Wan's presence, flickering only a breath away, but constantly on the move, knowing that if he stayed still in one place for too long, his former Master would begin to detect something was wrong. He pulled in the Force around him, using it to mask his presence, and sent a translucent tendril of his own mind out to dance across the outermost wall protecting Obi-Wan's mind. A warm sensation flooded back into his senses, like a gentle pool of water seeping outward to envelop him, and for a moment he forgot his purpose, so strong was the sudden urge to sink into that familiar water, to float in it and let it carry him off to someplace distant and safe, and that emotion was suddenly so intense that he ached with it. He was ashamed that it actually took several long seconds before he realized what he was doing and firmly shut down all of his shields, isolating himself from the temptation. He had been dangerously close to making a mistake that would not have been easily forgiven, that would have been a betrayal of everything that he had dedicated himself to since abandoning the decaying Jedi Order. This was the man who had been responsible for his expulsion from the Order in the first place, who had held him back out of jealousy and fear all those years. The man who had not bothered with so much as a single word to him after that argument outside of his quarters in the Temple until the day that he had the audacity to show up on Sigma Vulcanus, preaching about forgiveness and brotherhood, shallow lies to try and regain control over the weapon he perceived him to be. The man who had put him into this horrendous black coffin from which there was no escape. No, the only thing he wanted from Obi-Wan Kenobi was to hear the man beg, on his knees, just before he was sent to rejoin the Force like the rest of his kind. Doubling his focus, and this time taking greater care to keep himself entirely separated from the peaceful warmth that was Obi-Wan, unwilling to risk alerting his former Master to his presence, or worse, letting the vile ache within him overwhelm his senses and lead him astray. Following the silent navigation of the Force, Vader found Obi-Wan's unique signature and reached out a tendril of himself, a ghostly echo that was nearly undetectable, and gave the gentle pool a brush so faint that not even a droplet of that calm water so much as rippled. Where are you hiding? Vader whispered. Dream of the moons, think of the cities, picture the sky overhead... Such tricks had little affect, as he'd doubted they would. Obi-Wan was a very well-disciplined Jedi, even in sleep he would resist probing, so there was no point in trying to pierce the high-fortress shields around the man's mind. Doing so would only draw attention to himself, and at this point, that would not only ruin any chance of success, it would also leave his own mind vulnerable to psychic backlash should Obi-Wan strike out at him. Of course, it might be worth the possible injuries he might sustain if it meant inflicting some on Obi-Wan, as well. Remember your objective, Vader chastised himself. Obi-Wan was not his primary concern at the moment, finding Padmé was. The pompous Jedi Master could escape his clutches yet again for all he cared, so long as he was able to be reunited with his beloved wife again. His wife, and their unborn child. While Palpatine knew he was searching for Padmé, he did not yet know about the child, and Vader rather thought it best to keep it that way, although he wasn't entirely certain why. He just knew that, for now, Palpatine did not need to know that Padmé was pregnant. It hadn't been much work to keep that knowledge locked away in the deepest corner of his mind, to safeguard it from even the power of his Sith Master, so there was no chance of Palpatine finding out by reading his thoughts. And for all his failings, Obi-Wan would have taken precautions to ensure that word of the child she carried, the only child of the Chosen One, did not reach the Emperor's ears. Touching the quiet pool that was his former Master again, Vader tried a different approach, and simply spread his own perceptions out around him, until Obi-Wan's presence became a single star, shining across some great distance. From there he envisioned the galaxy moving around that star, and things suddenly began to fall into place, everything much clearer than it had been moments before. Distantly, he was aware that his arm had moved again, towards Obi-Wan's star, searching... drawing closer, as if some magnetic force was pulling them together... There. Withdrawing back into himself, he let the galaxy slip away as his Force-sense settled back inside of his own body, but for once he didn't feel the bitterness he normally felt after returning to his armored prison, because today he had a prize, today he had won a victory. Opening his eyes, Vader looked in the direction that both the Force and his gloved hand were pointing, and a slow, feral smirk tugged its way onto his scarred lips behind his mask at the sight of the swirling blue and green planet amidst the holographic map. Alderaan. -----signature----- "Fight until you can fight no longer, then exhaust the enemy chasing you, and turn and fight some more." -Leia Solo in SbS "Love can ignite the stars..." -RotS novelization "Even the stars die out, Anakin Skywalker..." -RotS novelization
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DarthJaina Registered: Aug '02	Date Posted: 8/8/04 8:55pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ***New Post, AUGUST 8th!***
	Wow! That was awesome, girls! I loved it- the introspective onto Vader's twisted thoughts, from his view on the Purges to the small part of him that is still Anakin, the part that doesn't just want Padme back, but also feels the instinctive urge to shelter his children and the part of him that is still just a lost boy who wants his 'father' to make everything better I can't wait to see what happens when Vader gets to Alderaan! -----signature----- "Do you want the short answer, or do you need someone to explain it to you with charts and diagrams?" -Jag and Jaina in DJ "You're a major now?" "I'm better than that, I'm a holovid star. Not to mention a goddess." -Jacen and Jaina in DW
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Sword-of_the-Jedi Registered: Jun '03	Date Posted: 8/9/04 8:23pm Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ***New Post, AUGUST 8th!***
	Do you see what they have made of me, Qui-Gon? Vader thought bitterly. This is what your precious Jedi Order has created. You touched on the very heart of what I think Vader is really about- he has been brainwashed by Palpy to some degree, but really it is just all those years of resentment in the Order, of being aware that none of the Council approve of him and feeling the unease and even fear others have about him... it's sort of made him lose touch w/ reality and he's created his own sense of it to justify his actions. Nice work, ladies, as always SWORD -----signature----- "Always you shall be at the front rank, a burning brand to your enemies, a brilliant fire to your friends."
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Calen2kk Registered: May '02	Date Posted: 8/10/04 11:00am Subject: RE: Shadows (post-AOTC) in collaboration with Jedi Princess Solo ***New Post, AUGUST 8th!***
	yeah! Time to die Obi-wan. hah! Maybe when Anakin kills the git, he'll go back to the light. more soon!
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