The Apprentice || Anakin Skywalker x Reader

Chapter 17: Betrayal

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(y/n)'s POV
It was the next morning. I hadn't seen my Master since he left my room early last night. I didn't expect him to come back after everything we talked about. I felt like we both had things we needed to work through before looking into each others eyes again.

I sat in the training room alone with my own thoughts, I had come here initially to distract myself and work past some of the anger I still held over him being the Anakin Skywalker. But I ironically got distracted over my thoughts of that and therefore had little to no interest in practicing anything.

It was difficult to wrap my head around it. He said he didn't want me to see him differently now that I know, but how can I not? Though not in the way that he might think. Initially, I was shocked and pissed off—and still a bit pissed—but now I feel like I see him for who he really is.

Now, more than ever, I am convinced that him and I were always meant to find each other.

I know that sounds cringey, but ever since I was little I had dreams of a faceless Anakin, seeing him as some kind of beacon of hope that there was a way out of the life I was living. If it could happen to him, it could happen to me, is what I would think. So it's poetic to me that he really became the one to give me hope and save me.

The galaxy is a funny thing.

The doors to the room opened. I turned my head to look over my shoulder at him coming inside with his mask already off, "You don't have to stand." He held his hand out and spoke softly when he noticed me about to get up. He made sure the doors closed behind him before he sat across from me. Our eyes locked, "What do you want to know?"

My breath hitched in my throat, "What?"

He tilted his head with an annoyed glare in his gaze, "Ask me whatever you want, now and only now will be your opportunity to ask me anything."

I sat up and straightened my back from my previous slouch. I took a minute to think, I didn't want my questions to be so simple I'd get vague answers. I want stories, I want to feel like I'm being read a book, "How did you go from being Anakin Skywalker to Darth Vader?"

He took in a deep breath before exhaling slowly, "Betrayal. True betrayal. It can really damage a person and their outlook on life. Especially when you're betrayed by the one person you thought you could trust with the world." He fidgeted with his fingers nervously and for the first time since knowing him, he looked sad, "A light you once saw in your life turns dark, and it's the shittiest thing when it was your only light."

Flashback in Anakin's POV

(There will be some moments that you see words in "quotations" and they won't be written in italics, that signifies Vader currently narrating the story from the present time.)

I stepped into Obi-Wans room, my hands shaking as my thoughts raced a mile a minute, "Master," I whispered, tears streamed down my cheeks.

He turned in his chair and faced me. He furrowed his brows, looking me over with confusion and concern, "Anakin, is everything alright?"

I slowly shook my head, "I defied your orders and went to Tatooine to see my Mother."

He stood from his chairs, his eyes widening, "You did what?"