[She's right. He knows it can't ever be that easy; nothing ever really is. Still, that doesn't stop him from wanting it to be. Is it so wrong to want something uncomplicated for once?
But again, she has a point... If things aren't complicated on their own, Anakin has a way of making sure they get there quickly.]
I'd appreciate it more if it were a different kind of difficult, then.
[He can't even drag up a self-depreciating half-smile at that. When he tries, it comes out as a grimace. He's just too tired and worn down to fake it.]
Luke and Obi-Wan already know the worst of it, more than even I do... You're right. If any of you were going to leave, you would have already gone. I'm glad you've stayed.
But Takashi and the others don't know anything. What is they agree with Leia? I don't know how to convince anyone when I can hardly convince myself.
[He hadn't meant for that to come out, but he's gotten too used to telling her the truth when he can that it slips out without thought. He's startled by the words, and he hurries to leave them behind and focus on her offer.]
And even though she wants nothing to do with me, you'd still do that?
[There's a desperate hope in his face, because he wants to know Leia so badly it hurts. If she ever found out what her mother was telling him, though, he's sure she'd be even angrier at the both of them. That Padmé would still risk it, knowing all of that, is worth more than all the money and powers in the galaxy to him right now.]
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Date: 2016-06-19 01:28 am (UTC)But again, she has a point... If things aren't complicated on their own, Anakin has a way of making sure they get there quickly.]
I'd appreciate it more if it were a different kind of difficult, then.
[He can't even drag up a self-depreciating half-smile at that. When he tries, it comes out as a grimace. He's just too tired and worn down to fake it.]
Luke and Obi-Wan already know the worst of it, more than even I do... You're right. If any of you were going to leave, you would have already gone. I'm glad you've stayed.
But Takashi and the others don't know anything. What is they agree with Leia? I don't know how to convince anyone when I can hardly convince myself.
[He hadn't meant for that to come out, but he's gotten too used to telling her the truth when he can that it slips out without thought. He's startled by the words, and he hurries to leave them behind and focus on her offer.]
And even though she wants nothing to do with me, you'd still do that?
[There's a desperate hope in his face, because he wants to know Leia so badly it hurts. If she ever found out what her mother was telling him, though, he's sure she'd be even angrier at the both of them. That Padmé would still risk it, knowing all of that, is worth more than all the money and powers in the galaxy to him right now.]