kyraneko:“One moment, please, Anakin,” said Dooku, and it was enough: the rage that stormed within t
kyraneko:“One moment, please, Anakin,” said Dooku, and it was enough: the rage that stormed within the young Jedi abated, leaving a vague sense of unreality and the edge of what felt like illness, and Anakin stared down through crossed blades at the older man—Sith Lord, enemy, betrayer, kidnapper, hated—and fumbled for his own bearings. Jedi do not kill in anger. Jedi do not execute in rage.Dooku stands, and Anakin feels the Chancellor’s alarm, hears “Anakin!” from him, fear and urging and something that feel very unlike the Chancellor—had Dooku done something to him? Warped him with darkness? He shifts the sabers, ready to strike at the first hint of duplicity.But Dooku only bows—to the Chancellor.And says, quite clearly and succinctly, “I quit.”Anakin feels his own eyes widen. What?Then Dooku is leaping back from him with more grace than someone his age ought to have, and lashing out with the Force—Anakin parries, and nearly falls over when his efforts meet nothing, it wasn’t aimed at him—He turns, frantic, to the Chancellor, but the Chancellor isn’t harmed; he’s … fighting. With the Force. Fighting to maintain shields that Dooku is expertly stripping away.Anakin stares, just stares, as all is revealed: the Chancellor, a skilled Force user and a corrupt and crackling ball of maliciousness and hate and power …I quit.Ohhhh.The other Sith Lord.Obi-Wan comes barreling into the room. He can feel it too. Probably every Jedi onplanet can feel it.Anakin and Obi-Wan eye each other and join in the attack, and Palpatine turns his attentions to Anakin just long enough for Anakin to pick out the shape of his hopes.It is enough to spark Anakin’s rage, and enough to quell it, and Anakin puts Dooku’s lightsaber and his own into his former mentor’s heart with only a great disappointment shading his emotions.He does not object when Dooku gently takes his own saber back; the former Jedi says, “I shall prepare a testimony about his role in starting this war; if you will make a request to the Senate for peace talks?”The ride down to the surface is strangely anticlimactic; the Senate is shocked and the Jedi are grim and the populace is stunned, but there’s a groundswell of support for peace and Senator Amidala is nominated for Chancellor, which she suggests she only hold until peace can be attained and then it be granted to someone from the Separatists, a move which leads to much approval from the other side of the war.She also tells Anakin she’s pregnant, and intends to resign after the peace talks, hopeful to spend more time with her family.Anakin nearly sobs at the feeling of peace, of love, of escaping some impossibly terrible fate, that rings through him via his connection with the Force. He nods a lot, emphatically.“So … do you think it’s a boy or a girl?”“I quit” this is fucking HILARIOUS because Dooku totally would, too. He’s like, the worst fucking Sith Lord, he apparently doesn’t understand what “only two” means and he fucking became a Sith not because he lost his shit and turned evil, but as like, a political affiliationSidious would never see it coming, because Sith Lords don’t just quit the Sith. But Dooku does because he’s such a SHIT SITH -- source link