I Know↠Obikin

Chapter 5

As Obi-Wan watched his lover kneel before Lord Sidious of the Sith, he felt his heart fracture.
Not shatter. Not yet.
As he watched him slaughter younglings, the crack grew and grew, spreading across his heart like vines over a crumbling wall.
He could almost hear Anakin say
"I'm doing this for you Obi-Wan. I can't live without you."
Anakin had been plagued with visions of Obi-Wan being strangled to death by an unseen hand.
"I will not lose you like I lost my mother."
Anakin has said.
If only Obi-Wan had listened.
Yoda closed the hologram.
"Fight the Sith, we must."
"Master Yoda, do not make me fight Anakin"
"No match for the Lord of the Sith, you are. Fight Anakin, you must."
Yoda spoke gravely.
"I will not kill him."
"Corrupted by the dark side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained, gone he is."
"But...But..." Obi-Wan stuttered.
"Do what you must." said Yoda.
"The hologram said that Skywalker has gone to Mustafar. There you must go. Fight Sidious, I will" Yoda spoke.
Obi-Wan knew he could not kill Anakin.
Not the man he loved so dearly.
That he had raised, befriended, and then fallen in love with.
He held on to the slight hope that Anakin was still good deep down inside his once-beautiful heart.
As Obi-Wan climbed into his fighter to fly to Mustafar, his hopes flickered and faded like a candle in a gust of wind.

The anger inside Anakin's heart burned hotter than the lava around him.
The Jedi were traitors. All of them.
Including Obi-Wan.
As Anakin murdered the Separatist council, he thought of only Obi-Wan.
His love.
Surely Obi-Wan would join him in the dark side. For love.
The powers of the Sith would stop him from dying.
"Please!" Nute Gunray had pleaded.
"The war is over! We have won! Let there be peace!"
Fear filled the Nemodian's voice.
Anakin's yellow eyes glimmered with a cruel humor, and he laughed as he sliced through Nute's neck.
"There may be peace, but you will be left in pieces."
Droids and Separatist leaders alike fell to his cold, blue blade.
Then he sensed it.
The warmth and light that was his lover.
Obi-Wan had arrived on Mustafar.

Obi-Wan climbed out of his ship.
The molten planet burn around him.
The air reeked of sulfur.
Then he saw Anakin, cloaked in a black robe from head to toe.
He couldn't help himself, he rushed into his love's arms, and they held each other in a tight embrace.
Obi-Wan placed a sad kiss on Anakin's lips.
his lips were salty with tears.
But Obi-Wan then pulled away.
"Anakin, my love, what have you done?" Obi-Wan says, his eyes brimming with tears.
Anakin looks Obi-Wan in the eye.
Obi-wan looks for the warmth and love that is usually in Anakin's eyes, but they are yellow with hatred, and only the reflection of lava shows in them.
"I have done what I must. I cannot lose you."
"All I want is your love, Anakin. You don't have to do this." Obi-Wan says. But deep down, he knows. It is too late. He already has.
"Love won't save you." Anakin spoke.
"Please Anakin, we can still go back. We can return, rebuild the Order, Yoda will have to accept our relationship. We can make things they way they should be. The way we want them to be. "
"The Jedi Order?" Anakin growled dangerously.
"They are TRAITORS. They must be destroyed."
Obi-Wan stepped away from Anakin's loving arms.
Anakin's hatred and fury burned more fiery than the lava that surrounded them.
"Yoda was right then." Obi-Wan said, his voice cracking. "What I saw was the truth. You've changed. You are a murderer. I don't know you anymore."
"Because of what you've been told?" Anakin spoke with a deadly calm.
"Because of what you've done. You killed children! And What you plan to do."
Anakin now paces around the landing pad, his cloak billowing in the warm wind.
R2-D2 beeps nervously by Anakin's ship.
"You can come with me. Together we can rule the galaxy side by side. As friends and lovers. We will be the dictators of our new empire!"
Anakin says. His eyes have a wild look in them, crazed with power and blood lust.
"Your new empire?" Obi-Wan cried out.
"Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic. To democracy!"
"If you are not with me, then you are my enemy." Anakin growled.
Obi-Wan realizes how this will end.
He will have to kill Anakin.
He still wasn't sure if he could do it.
"Anakin Please! Come back! I love you!"
Obi-wan yelled. He let the tears flow freely down his face. They got caught in his beard.
"LIAR!" Anakin yelled.
Suddenly Obi-Wan couldn't breathe.
In that moment, Obi-Wan saw Anakin reach out his hand to choke him.
That hand that he had held countless times.
That had been there for everything.
Every intimate moment.
Every laugh, kiss, touch.
The hand that had reached out to save him so many times.
The one that belonged to the love of his life. 
Now reached out to choke the life out of  him.
To end his life.
To kill him.
Obi-Wan in that moment realized the vision Anakin had had truly were of a Sith Lord choking Obi-Wan.

But Obi-Wan never expected the Sith to be Anakin.

Obi-Wan clawed at his throat, trying to remove hands that were not there.
The edges of Obi-Wan's vision were tinged with black.
His lungs screamed for oxygen just out of his reach.
Obi-Wan summoned the last of his strength to Force-shove Anakin away from him.
He could breathe again, and fell to his knees, gasping for air.
Anakin had tried to kill him.
This betrayal burns hotter in Obi-Wan's heart than any sun ever could.
He would have to kill Anakin.
Anakin had gotten up from where he had fallen.
"Anakin, please don't do this!"
Obi-Wan said, between gasps.
He wanted to forgive Anakin, but he knew he couldn't.
"TRAITOR" he yelled at Obi-Wan.
"I will not kill you!" Obi-Wan yelled.
"THEN YOU WILL DIE" Anakin screeched, his temper at a boiling point.
Anakin shed his cloak, and Obi-Wan did the same.
He flipped in mid-air towards Obi-Wan, his light saber drawn.
As their light sabers crashed together, Obi-Wan felt weak.
The man he loved was dead.
Consumed by Darth Vader's hatred and fury.
Obi-Wan should have done something.
He should have seen or noticed the growing darkness inside Anakin.
But he had not.
He had chosen to ignore it for the sake of love.
And this was Obi-Wans fault.
All of it.
Order 66.
The attack on the Temple.
The slaughter of innocent children.
Obi-Wan bore this burden to the best of his ability.
It took everything in him to not collapse in a heartbroken heap.
Anakin attacked again, his burning hatred fueling his moves.
He hated Obi-Wan.
And the Jedi.
He felt so hurt and betrayed, that Darth Vader had consumed his soul.
But it was too late for regret.
Anakin Skywalker was dead.
As their sabers met again, Obi-Wan looked into Vader's yellow eyes and saw nothing.
Anakin was truly dead.
The crack in Obi-Wan's heart grew wider.