Star Wars PT- "Burn Brightly" - Anakin Skywalker - PG-13

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

Title – Burn Brightly.
Author – Sealgirl in seal_girl
Fandom – Star Wars
Prompt – The last thoughts of Anakin on Mustafar
Word Count – 365
Rating – PG-13
Summary – Anakin clings to life on the burning ground of Mustfar.
A/N – Written for the starwarsficfest, 27^th July 2008.

Burn Brightly.

Pain, there is nothing but endless, blood soaked, burning pain.

No-one else is there. His voice has gone, but his words linger, you were my brother, Anakin…

He might be gone but the anger still burned inside, just the same, twinned with pain.

Embrace the anger, anger turns to power. Power is the way to the Force. The Force still flows inside. Anger and the Force combine, and through the pain there is still life.

Heartbeat is thudding slowly; anger helps. Anger keeps the heart pumping and the blood flowing, pain keeps the mind awake to hate, and hate keeps the anger burning brightly.

The frail body lies in pieces around the stony slope, the river of molten rock hisses and spits behind, like a red viper. Anger and hatred, choking sulphur; they all adding a new dimension to pain. Burning. Pain. Red. You were my brother, Anakin…

There had been a moment, just a single moment, when the impulse had been there to reach out to the other man, to embrace as brothers and equals. Then anger, darker and colder than empty space itself soaked through the need and love. Rage filled everything with a dull roar. The thud of blood through the broken body echoed the thoughts.

You were my brother Anakin, and I loved you.

No words of pity were ever so cutting and hurtful as those. How dare he love? How dare he say that on the brink of destruction?

Blood thuds. Anger burns. Hatred sustains, and the need for revenge. Revenge was all there was left.

Death, as life, was now red-rimmed and doused in blood. No death was good enough for the betrayer. No death, only lingering agony as a mirror to his own suffering. There were images of torment, and the sweet sound of that man screaming in pain and desperate in loss. Only that would be sufficient to quell the urgent chorus inside him.

Revenge for betrayal, revenge for defeat, revenge for failure. That was all there was left to live for. Anger washes over in red waves, until all that was left was black.

At that moment, Anakin was gone and only Vader remained.

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Comments

[luminations.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, nice. "Hatred sustains" - yup, the mantra of the dark side!

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

Hatred sustains - the only thing that really bothers me about this is the total non-event that is their meeting on the death-star in Episode 4.

But I'm just going to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la about that!

Thanks for the comment!
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Sealgirl

[emavalexis.livejournal.com]

Ahh, so rich in angst. It really is a tragedy, and you've captured Anakin's true transition to his Vader person really well.

Good job.

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

Thanks :)

There was a bit temptation to let it run on - but it had to be short - a real "moment" when the Dark Side took over.

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the comment!
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Sealgirl

[flyinfaeries83.livejournal.com]

If you keep posting bits like these I'll never be able to talk again.

This blew me away.

"Revenge for betrayal, revenge for defeat, revenge for failure. That was all there was left to live for. Anger washes over in red waves, until all that was left was black.

At that moment, Anakin was gone and only Vader remained." - This is my favorite part.

flyinfaeries83

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

"If you keep posting bits like these I'll never be able to talk again."
*Hugs and fish for you*

I've only got one more left, for the 31st!

Glad you are enjoying the fics - this was an interesting one. The temptation was to let it grow in length. But I wanted to try and capture a moment only, so I had to keep in short.

Thanks for the comment!
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Sealgirl

[pronker]

"No death was good enough for the betrayer."

And it all starts here, the search for Obi-Wan that will take nearly half his life. Very good!

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

Yup!

Have to wonder what Vader would have done had he ever found Obi-Wan hiding one Tatooine (I think I spelled that wrongly... it's been a long day!).

Thanks for the comment!

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Sealgirl

[were-lemur.livejournal.com]

There had been a moment, just a single moment, when the impulse had been there to reach out to the other man, to embrace as brothers and equals. Then anger, darker and colder than empty space itself soaked through the need and love.

Oh, ouch. (On so many levels.)

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

Well, we can't have it all the Dark-Side's own way for the whole fic, after all he does *eventually* turn back to the Light :)
And it's nice to think that he did at least have (very, very, very slight) second thoughts when Obi-Wan spoke to him.

Thank you for the comment!

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Sealgirl

[alwaysanakin.livejournal.com]

I liked very, very much.:)

[seal-girl.livejournal.com]

:)
Glad you liked it - it was interesting to write.

Thanks for the comment!

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Sealgirl