Assortions [Claim: Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader]
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NOTE:
Done for the sw_1sentence comm over on LJ. Funfunfun!
Assortions
By Mathematica
I. Bound
He once finds himself wondering, in a sudden fit of introspection, if he loves his son - and he begs and hopes and prays to the Force that that is not so, because everything he has loved has come to pass by his own traitorous hand, and he does not, never, want that to happen to his boy.
II. Break
He will break the Dark Side’s crushing grip on his father - even if he has to die himself to do so.
III. Chosen
They were both told that they were Chosen, but never what they were chosen for.
IV. Circle
It comes full circle: first he is the Master, teaching the boy everything of power and pain and the bittersweet taste of betrayal, and then he is the apprentice, learning how to love with his final, dying breath -
V. Continue
Even though his father is dead, he still continues to love him; he has nothing else to do.
VI. Do Not Want
He does not want to be redeemed, but the - his - boy has other ideas.
VII. Drive
He now knows where that mysterious Rebel pilot gets his skill from - and even though it is extremely unpatriotic, he can’t help but feel more than a little proud.
VIII. Enemy
He has long since deluded himself into believing that his father is Good and Vader is The Enemy - and then he can’t help but find himself at a loss when he realises that those two men are one and the same.
IX. Fact
He stretches where his lips are supposed to be into a mockery of a smile, because souring his son’s naïve, idealistic mentality will be far easier than he had ever hoped (“No - I am your father.”)
X. Friend
He looks upon his father’s face for the first and last time in his life, and the tears prick at the back of his eyes, because the man who is dying in his arms is not just his father, but also his friend.
XI. Ghost
On Endor, he sees what his father once was - is - and the knowledge makes him grieve even more for what he never had, and for what he never will have.
XII. Hallowed
He had always held the position of Father as sacred, and the irony is not lost on him when he discovers that his father is actually the Darkness itself.
XIII. Hold
He holds his father as he breathes his last, and wishes that he were courageous enough to cry for what he is about to lose.
XIV. Ignorance
He sweeps down into the trench on the Death Star, intent on destroying mysterious the Jedi boy who is about to loosen the stranglehold of an entire Empire -
XV. Knowledge
- only for a small voice in the back of his mind to berate him, because you don’t want to do that - and for the next year and a half, he tears the galaxy apart trying to find out why.
XVI. Map
He once tried to map the traits of his father’s personality, but he gave up on the first attempt because he had met his father only thrice before he died, and nothing that he knew of him was tangible enough to include.
XVII. Quick
The boy is passionate, he thinks, and so his turning shall be quick.
XVIII. Name
It is easier, he thinks, to refer to his father as what he is not - because, he recalls, they say that Anakin Skywalker could feel.
XIX. Pain
Throughout his life, many moments have caused him unimaginable pain - Tatooine, Geonosis, Mustafar - but, he realises as he watches the boy spurn his outstretched hand in favour of falling to his death below, no pain can - will - equal this.
XX. Plead
He knows that Anakin Skywalker is not, never dead and so he pleads and bargains and negotiates his sanity away, just because he knows that his father will rise from the ashes again - if only he can persuade him to do so.
XXI. Ready
He considers himself ready to die, but not without looking into the eyes of his son first.
XXII. Rebirth
The redemption, when it occurs, is dramatic, and powerful and painful and glorious and it’s the best feeling that’s ever washed over him, in all those meaningless years of passion and emptiness that he once dared to call life (and he has Luke to thank for that, the same Luke that will now have to see him die).
XXIII. Practice
He fights his father on the Bespin platform, and he keeps reminding himself that there’s no need to be panicked, just think of it like a practice - and damn, there goes his hand -
XXIV. Blade
As he watches his son’s green blade strike him down with the power of the Dark, he can’t help but wonder when good and evil became a question of colour.
XXV. TRAP!
He doesn’t understand why Leia considers Bespin to be a trap, because he already knows what awaits him there.
XXVI. Truth
“I am your father!” Yes, and I am your son.
XXVII. Untouchable
It is when he is in the agonisinggaspingtearing pain on the makeshift medbay that he gives into temptation and reaches guiltily for the bond between himself and - and - and then he draws back, because he remembers that everything in the galaxy has come to pass due to him, and he will not let a moment of childish selfishness obscure that fact.
XXVIII. Youth
It is so easy to fight his son, to know which buttons to press, because the boy is a reflection of a man he once killed - a man he once was - and the same man that he is now learning to become.
XXIX. Exile
He refuses to accept his sister’s hatred of his - their - father, because she was the one who stole his last words.
XXX. “You can write this s---, but you can’t say it!”
“My son, you have many admirable traits that I admire - but eloquence, sadly, is not among them.”
END.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4640805/1/
NOTE:
Done for the sw_1sentence comm over on LJ. Funfunfun!
Assortions
By Mathematica
I. Bound
He once finds himself wondering, in a sudden fit of introspection, if he loves his son - and he begs and hopes and prays to the Force that that is not so, because everything he has loved has come to pass by his own traitorous hand, and he does not, never, want that to happen to his boy.
II. Break
He will break the Dark Side’s crushing grip on his father - even if he has to die himself to do so.
III. Chosen
They were both told that they were Chosen, but never what they were chosen for.
IV. Circle
It comes full circle: first he is the Master, teaching the boy everything of power and pain and the bittersweet taste of betrayal, and then he is the apprentice, learning how to love with his final, dying breath -
V. Continue
Even though his father is dead, he still continues to love him; he has nothing else to do.
VI. Do Not Want
He does not want to be redeemed, but the - his - boy has other ideas.
VII. Drive
He now knows where that mysterious Rebel pilot gets his skill from - and even though it is extremely unpatriotic, he can’t help but feel more than a little proud.
VIII. Enemy
He has long since deluded himself into believing that his father is Good and Vader is The Enemy - and then he can’t help but find himself at a loss when he realises that those two men are one and the same.
IX. Fact
He stretches where his lips are supposed to be into a mockery of a smile, because souring his son’s naïve, idealistic mentality will be far easier than he had ever hoped (“No - I am your father.”)
X. Friend
He looks upon his father’s face for the first and last time in his life, and the tears prick at the back of his eyes, because the man who is dying in his arms is not just his father, but also his friend.
XI. Ghost
On Endor, he sees what his father once was - is - and the knowledge makes him grieve even more for what he never had, and for what he never will have.
XII. Hallowed
He had always held the position of Father as sacred, and the irony is not lost on him when he discovers that his father is actually the Darkness itself.
XIII. Hold
He holds his father as he breathes his last, and wishes that he were courageous enough to cry for what he is about to lose.
XIV. Ignorance
He sweeps down into the trench on the Death Star, intent on destroying mysterious the Jedi boy who is about to loosen the stranglehold of an entire Empire -
XV. Knowledge
- only for a small voice in the back of his mind to berate him, because you don’t want to do that - and for the next year and a half, he tears the galaxy apart trying to find out why.
XVI. Map
He once tried to map the traits of his father’s personality, but he gave up on the first attempt because he had met his father only thrice before he died, and nothing that he knew of him was tangible enough to include.
XVII. Quick
The boy is passionate, he thinks, and so his turning shall be quick.
XVIII. Name
It is easier, he thinks, to refer to his father as what he is not - because, he recalls, they say that Anakin Skywalker could feel.
XIX. Pain
Throughout his life, many moments have caused him unimaginable pain - Tatooine, Geonosis, Mustafar - but, he realises as he watches the boy spurn his outstretched hand in favour of falling to his death below, no pain can - will - equal this.
XX. Plead
He knows that Anakin Skywalker is not, never dead and so he pleads and bargains and negotiates his sanity away, just because he knows that his father will rise from the ashes again - if only he can persuade him to do so.
XXI. Ready
He considers himself ready to die, but not without looking into the eyes of his son first.
XXII. Rebirth
The redemption, when it occurs, is dramatic, and powerful and painful and glorious and it’s the best feeling that’s ever washed over him, in all those meaningless years of passion and emptiness that he once dared to call life (and he has Luke to thank for that, the same Luke that will now have to see him die).
XXIII. Practice
He fights his father on the Bespin platform, and he keeps reminding himself that there’s no need to be panicked, just think of it like a practice - and damn, there goes his hand -
XXIV. Blade
As he watches his son’s green blade strike him down with the power of the Dark, he can’t help but wonder when good and evil became a question of colour.
XXV. TRAP!
He doesn’t understand why Leia considers Bespin to be a trap, because he already knows what awaits him there.
XXVI. Truth
“I am your father!” Yes, and I am your son.
XXVII. Untouchable
It is when he is in the agonisinggaspingtearing pain on the makeshift medbay that he gives into temptation and reaches guiltily for the bond between himself and - and - and then he draws back, because he remembers that everything in the galaxy has come to pass due to him, and he will not let a moment of childish selfishness obscure that fact.
XXVIII. Youth
It is so easy to fight his son, to know which buttons to press, because the boy is a reflection of a man he once killed - a man he once was - and the same man that he is now learning to become.
XXIX. Exile
He refuses to accept his sister’s hatred of his - their - father, because she was the one who stole his last words.
XXX. “You can write this s---, but you can’t say it!”
“My son, you have many admirable traits that I admire - but eloquence, sadly, is not among them.”
END.