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The Yellow Path {Branching Out - Book IV}

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Time 2h 12m

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Padmé's expression turned thoughtful, her eyes searching Anakin's face for answers she wasn't sure she wanted to hear. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice soft and uncertain, carrying more weight than either of them wanted to acknowledge. "Where does this leave us, Anakin?"

Anakin felt a pang in his chest, his heart heavy with the inevitable conversation he's been avoiding for a while. He smiled, but it was a sad, resigned smile. One that held more understanding than words could convey. "Padmé," he began quietly, "you've always been my angel. I've admired you since the day we met, and I always will. But..." He hesitated, glancing away for a second before meeting her gaze again. "I can't feel that kind of attraction. Not for anyone."

Padmé held his gaze, her brown eyes soft but full of questions. She didn't pull away from him, didn't flinch, but Anakin could feel her emotions swirling through the Force-disappointment, sadness, a tinge of heartbreak. She hid it well behind her ever-graceful smile, but the Force didn't lie. He could sense the ache beneath the surface, the sadness behind her brave face.All Rights Reserved

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Series

Branching Out

Season 1
6 parts
Season 2
5 parts
Season 3
4 parts
Season 4
5 parts
Season 5
7 parts
Season 6
1 part

Table of contents

5 parts

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Pull Me Out by CourtesyTrefflin

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Growing in the Storm by CourtesyTrefflin

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Show Me the Future and Let It Go by CourtesyTrefflin

When Obi-Wan goes to see Padme before leaving for Utapau, he discovers a secret. She is pregnant with not one, but two, Skywalker children. The unborn Luke struggles to get his attention, and unintentionally shows the Jedi Master flashes of the impending dark future, one which Obi-Wan promises to avert. If only he knew how.

By My Side by CourtesyTrefflin

Ahsoka left the Order, and part of him went with her. After Anakin dies only weeks later, he thought it would be the end, but the Force isn't ready to let its son die. Instead, Anakin opens his eyes to see Christophsis at the beginning of the Clone Wars. The Force has given him another chance, and he alone can decide how to use it.

Run Away With Me by calamity-queen

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Reversal of Time by CourtesyTrefflin

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After his death, Anakin awakens in his younger body at the beginning of the Clone Wars. He tries to reconnect with his once family while struggling to learn how to be human, if indeed he ever knew in the first place. For all that he longs to be around Obi-Wan, he struggles to trust him, and he failed Ahsoka once, so how can he trust himself to protect her?

Touch Starved by CourtesyTrefflin

They are two halves of a whole, two stars inexorably pulled together by gravity, forever rotating one another, forever caught up in each other's orbit. They are Anakin and Obi-Wan. They are Darth Vader and Ben Kenobi. It doesn't matter. Names mean nothing. Not for them. They should be enemies. They are a Jedi Master and a Sith Lord. And yet... nothing can truly keep them apart. OWK series time travel AU fix-it. NOT VADERWAN!

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An accident drops Vader into Obi-Wan's backyard on Tatooine. Literally. With Sidious dead, he can bring his family back together. Perhaps, he can even go to another timeline, to the past, to fix what he can't fix here. For her part, Ahsoka is... more than a little shocked when a Sith Lord and two children appear in front of her while she's on the run in the Underworld.

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The Green Bead {Branching Out - Book III}

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