My love, Mine all mine • Obi Wan Kenobi •

Chapter 31: Last Call to the Darkside

Obi Wan's Pov

I waited impatiently for the troops to return. I had heard of how much of a victory the mission was, I couldn't wait to see Alex and congratulate her. The ships landed on the ramp. One by one Clone Troopers walk past me. Then came Anakin and Ahsoka, but something was wrong, I could tell from their faces. The smile faded off my face. Alex never walked out.

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"You need to find her, Anakin!" I said, or rather, shouted. I was pacing around the control room, where everyone was trying to locate her ship. They weren't having much luck.

I knew it. I knew something was wrong. Everything in me wanted to stop her. I knew something would happen.

I walked back and forth, I ran my sweaty hands through my hair. "Master, calm down." Ahsoka said.

Everyone in the room saw my worry and concern, but I didn't care, I didn't care how exposed it was.

"We can't find her current location, but her last known location was back at the base, We could go there?" Anakin suggested.

"Okay, I'm coming with you," I said. Anakin and Ahsoka gave each other a worried look.

As I walked out the door I was stopped in my tracks by Mace Windu, "Obi Wan, I heard. I'm deeply sorry,"

"Deeply sorry for what? She is still alive." I said firmly, and continued to keep walking.

"Where are you going?" Mace Windu asked.

"To rescue her from whatever trouble she has encountered."

"Obi Wan, I do not approve of this, Solari is perfectly capable of protecting herself, We cannot prioritise her in the middle of a war!" He said.

"With all due respect Master, She's one of us, and we need her." I said and walked away. I need her.

Alex's Pov

Since my last Conversation with Dooku, I thought of everything he said, over and over again. But what I still didn't understand was why he was keeping me here, and why he said all that to me. Why didn't he kill me yet? Maybe I know why, and just didn't wanna accept it.

He hadn't returned to my jail ever since, I didn't know where he was, but I needed answers.

"You said you needed me, What did you mean?" I said, possibly into nothingness.
I didn't hear anything back. After a few seconds the door opened up. Dooku walked in.

"What do you need me for?" I asked.

"Alex, you are more powerful than you realise," He began. "All that hurt, anger, if you harness it, you can be more powerful than all the jedi combined."

"What if I don't want to be?"

"Oh you'll want to,"

"Oh what are you even talking about, stop speaking in puzzles," I said.

"I didn't realise you were so blind, So blind to see that your beloved republic, is corrupted, I expected more from you given they were the reason behind your parents' death, But here, You've joined them?" He said.

I wanted to defend myself, but I didn't know how. I didn't know how to justify joining the very thing that killed my parents. He was right, but I didn't want him to be. I stayed quiet.

"The jedi, all of them, you think they don't know what's taking place?"

"They're not all like that!" I argued.

"Oh. You mean Obi Wan," My face shot up at the mention of his name. Count Dooku noticed the shift in my expression and passed an eerie smile, "Oh you think I don't know? How you feel about him, How he feels about you."

"You're right, Obi Wan is too blind to notice. But you're not." He continued, "Join me, join us, you have nothing to lose, the jedi are not on your side, you mustn't be on theirs."

I considered it, I considered everything. I thought about everything he said. Half of me wanted to join him, half of me just wanted to go home, wherever that was. I was angry that I got dragged into all this. It hurt, every bone in my body hurt. Every time I thought of joining him, Obi Wan flashed before my eyes. I could never do that to him. Tears starting streaming down my face, Why me? Why not anyone else?

"No." I said softly.

"What did you say?"

"No."

"Very well," I looked up at him with bloodshot eyes. What did he mean? "I suppose you'll learn the hard way."

"What?" I whispered.

"Those dreams you had, they weren't dreams Alex, they were possible futures," My mind immediately went to the dream about Obi Wan laying dead in my arms. "Alex, join me, or I kill Obi Wan."

"You wouldn't dare!"

"Oh I will, don't think so less of me, I imagined you to be stronger, given the demise of your parents—"

"Shut up,"

"You're puny! A child!"

"Shut up."

"I suppose I thought you'd be strong,"

"Shut up! Shut up!"

"BUT YOU'RE JUST AS WEAK AS YOUR DEAD PARENTS, AND AS WEAK AS OBI WAN'S COLD BODY WOULD BE!"

"SHUT UP!" blood rushed through my body, I was angry, I was furious, I felt the force rise up, The chains around my hands broke, I got up and pushed Dooku into the wall, holding him by a force choke.

"Yes, Alex! Just like that! Harness the dark side! It runs in you! In your blood!" He said in a strained voice, gasping for air.

I held him a little longer, then I let him go. He fell to the ground trying to catch his breath. My anger hadn't faded, but it wasn't only towards him, it was towards everything, and everyone, It was rushing through my body.

"I'll join you."