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by eefkinnie

by eefkinnie

"In order to stay sane, you have to let go of everything you've ever cared about." -Natalia Schulter, Jedi Knight

"So what you're saying is you never told me the truth?! You lied to me the entire time!" Natalia yelled at Anakin, he looked at her in shock.

"Natalia I did this for my new Empire, for the galaxy. Join me and we could be so powerful." Anakin pleaded, he grabbed her hand but she pulled it out of his hand.

"No Anakin, not only did you betray me and impregnate my best friend. But you betrayed the Order and killed your entire family!" Natalia yelled, and for the last time she turned her back on him.

"Anakin I thought you loved and respected me. But I guess I thought wrong." Natalia said with tears falling from her eyes.

The sound of a lightsaber buzzed in her ears as his lightsaber pierced her abdomen, she fell over and Anakin caught her.

"I did love you, but you ruined me."

Natalia shot up and looked around, she was in her quarters. She got up and slipped on her Jedi robes, she clipped her lightsaber to her belt and walked out of her room. "Rex, I'm going back to Coruscant." Natalia told him, he nodded and opened the shields. Natalia jumped into her fighter and flew it out of the hangar, she flew into her hyperdrive ring and started the course to Coruscant, and she thought as she watched the stars speed past, she thought about Anakin mostly.

She had been troubled by Anakin's presence ever since the visions she's been having have come in with more detail, all the way to the point Anakin eventually kills her, every time she has one of those visions a wave of tears comes in. She loves Anakin very much but she knows there's a deep seed of dark evil in him, that she tries her hardest to hide.

She exited hyperspace over the city planet of Coruscant and she put her fighter in a nose dive, heading to the Temple. She landed in the Temple hangar and took a speeder to the Senate Building, where Anakin and Padme were waiting. "I'm coming now." Natalia said through her comlink, "Okay, we're still waiting." Anakin said with a light laugh. She stopped her speeder in front of the Senate Building and ran to Senator Amidala's office and let herself in, there she saw Anakin sitting in one of the chairs in front of Padme's desk and Padme looking through some reports. "Anakin." Natalia said with a smile, he ran up to her and hugged her tightly, just like he did every other time he saw her. "It's good to see you well again, Natalia." Anakin said before letting go of her. Natalia smiled at his eternal love for her, she smiled even though her heart cracked every time she saw his eyes. Her innocence and light gets smothered every time Anakin holds her hand. Her sanity leaks through her cracked smiles and tearing eyes. Her whole existence was falling through the cracks, he was ruining her inside out.

But she loved it.

She loved the internal torture that he brings upon her.

She loved the fights they get into, and the nights he begs for her forgiveness.

She loved him.

She truly loved Anakin Skywalker.