Really quickly I wanted to address an ability that I have Sidious using in this chapter since it's rare and not used in the movies or shows, but it's called 'force cloak'(in case you are curious and want to read about it) but it's an ability that makes the user invisible to the naked eye of its opposer. Just wanted to let you all know so you didn't think I was making up random abilities haha Im not sure if it's something that Sidious knows how to use, I didn't read that far into it. But I'm just trying to make things more interesting/different and it is still just a fanfic after all ☺️ hope you enjoy this chapter ❤️

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Anakin's POV
"Where is he?" I got to my feet and called my lightsaber back to my grasp.

The hand Ahsoka held out to me remained untaken and so she pulled it back with a disturbed look in her eyes, a look I chose to ignore. And it's because I knew why she was looking at me that way; she didn't like what she saw in my eyes, "Master-"

"I said, where is he?" I shouted and it came out sounding like a venomous growl. The anger in my voice shook the floor beneath our feet and flickered the lights back on.

Now that I had light to see, I spun in a circle, looking at every corner and crevice in the large room for the snake I came to tear apart.

But the only people I could see were Ahsoka, who was standing next to me looking around the room just as I was for our common enemy; and then Rex, Cal, and Fives who were near the entrance of the room.

Cal was eyeing me with a nervous glare, as if I was a bomb waiting to go off; while both Rex and Fives scanned the room with their weapons, ready for anything.

Where the hell did he go? I know he's here, but he's cloaked himself, making him impossible to see or feel unless he wants to be. His strategy is to stay as far away as possible and play mind tricks since he knows that's the only way he's going to win against me.

How pathetic.

(Remember that Sidious knows Anakin is much stronger than him. The only reason he didn't fear him before in the originals is because of his weakened condition, but unburnt and at his peak of power - Sidious does in fact fear him. I got that from a YouTube video and if it's not accurate then I don't care lol I like the idea of Sidious being afraid of him.)

"When I ran up and kicked him, I saw him fall down over there," Ahsoka pointed to a spot on the floor that only held a single drop of blood. Now the only thought in my mind was seeing more spill out of him.

I glanced up to the empty throne and eyed the five red hooded statues that resided behind it in a 'C' formation. But something about them felt off.

"He's still in here somewhere, hiding like a little coward." I slowly trudged towards the throne. I could feel a pull towards it and I was hoping it was the forces way of telling me he was near.

"Wait," Ahsoka gripped my shoulder, and I paused with a side-eyed glare that could kill, "Master I'm so sorry about (y/n), I know how much you loved her." Her voice cracked and I clenched my jaw at her words, the mention of my fallen love fueled more hate into my heart. Especially when I'm reminded that I'll never get to hold her again, or kiss her, or make love to her. She's gone forever and that reality crushes the remaining fractures of my soul, "But she wouldn't want this for you."

I attempted to pull my shoulder from her grip but she held on tighter, "Let me go, Ahsoka." I spoke slow and threatening through clenched teeth, "I don't have time for this, and I need you all to leave."

As I said before, I plan to bring the roof down and unless they want to be caught in the aftermath as well, they have to go.

She shook her head, "No, we came to help you, and you need to get a better hold of yourself," She pleaded, "Do you really think this is what (y/n) would want you to become? Because I know she-" She paused as her words got stuck in her throat.

My hand was raised and I was manipulating the force and wrapping it around her neck so she would be silenced. Her hands shot to her neck as she struggled to breath, my hold only tightening the more she fought.

"You know nothing." I growled, feeling a strong urge take over my body, one I wasn't used to. A part of me was screaming at myself to stop what I was doing, and I was trying to remind myself who this was in front of me. But this other part of me.. it was urging me to squeeze harder until her heart stopped beating; it was difficult to fight, "And I don't need your help. All you're doing is standing in my way."

"Let her go Anakin!" Cal yelled in a rage from across the room before he and the two clones were rushing in our direction to save her.

I waved my free hand in their direction, causing the three men to fly back and slam into the back wall with heavy force. All of them grunted in pain upon impact before falling down to the hard floor.

I squeezed harder and Ahsoka dropped down to her knees, "Ma-" Her eyes watered and she attempted to speak, to plead for me to let her go. And as much as I wanted to, I couldn't...it was like I wasn't in full control anymore.

"Kill her." (Y/n)'s voice edged me on.

I absentmindedly squeezed harder as I tilted my head to the side, eyeing her like she was the enemy. Her eyes turning bloodshot as her orange skin faded into a violet from thelack of oxygen.

And just when I thought my padawan was going to die by my hands - she was no longer in front of me.

Her body had flown backwards with extreme force and she was heading straight for Cal who had his arms stretched towards her, a scared look in his eyes. As soon as she reached his grasp, his back slammed into the wall again as he caught her and held her tight to his chest while she almost coughed her lungs out.

"What the hell is the matter with you? This is Ahsoka, not your enemy." Cal yelled with fury as he comforted his love that was a mere second away from taking her last breath. Both Rex and Fives were looking at me with pure shock, like they no longer recognized me.

(Y/n)'s death truly ruined me, I can't recognize myself anymore either, "Leave now before I bring this building down on top of all of you." I seethed, turning back around and facing the throne, "Where are you coward?"

I had my lightsaber back in my hand and I tightly gripped the hilt while igniting the royal blue light, a color that didn't feel fitting for me anymore.

A deep and raspy cackle echoed through the air, "How does it feel knowing you could have saved your precious love? But you failed her time and time again, and now look at you, nearly killing your own padawan in a fit of rage - pathetic."

I snorted and remained in place, "Pathetic," I mimicked his word choose as twirled my lightsaber in my hand. My eyes slowly moved around the room before landing on the statues once more, "That's a funny word choice coming from someone who is too afraid to face me."

"I'm merely stopping you from making a mistake, I'm the only one who can bring your love back."

I shook my head, refusing to believe the same lies he used to manipulate her into following him, "You know, I may not know where you are, but I know you're here, in this room; and really, that's all I need to know." I raised one hand in the air, using my abilities to shake the building so I could make it tumble down on top of us - hopefully ridding this galaxy of him once and for all. "We'll go out together old man." I uttered as a single piece of the ceiling fell and crashed on top of the throne, turning it into nothing but scrap.

Either he appears now to stop me, or we die - it'll be a win-win no matter what.

"Master! Master please don't do this, let us help you!" I could hear Ahsoka yelling behind me, sorrow in her voice.

I couldn't understand why she wanted to help me after what I just did to her. But it doesn't matter, I refused to give her my attention again. My focus was now solely on the man I plan to drag to hell with me.

I closed my eyes and thought of only one person, helping my power to increase so the building shook harder.

"Anakin Skywalker, stop!"

I paused, shooting my amber eyes open.

The building stopped trembling and only one more piece of the fragile ceiling had fallen a few feet in front of me. Then, I slowly turned my head, meeting a pair of familiar eyes as the owner of them stood in the doorway of the throne room.

(Y/n)'s POV
I walked into a room that was filled with chaos.

Anakin was attempting to bring the building down on top of him and everyone else inside; including Rex, Cal, Fives, and Ahsoka who were all helplessly watching my love lose himself. They were trying to form some kind of plan to turn this situation into their favor, but I could see the defeat in their expressions. And I knew that at least two of them wanted to leave and they were going to drag the other two with them.

They couldn't stop him, and they knew that, I heard them try more than once. I even felt him as he nearly took Ahsoka's life and I can feel him now; the Anakin I once knew was slowly fading away - being replaced by his darker self.

I couldn't let that happen, I refused to see him go down the same path I did.

"Anakin Skywalker, stop!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, gaining the attention of the other four in the room who all shot their heads to me with stunned and confused expressions. But they're not meant to be my focus right now, the explanation of my survival will have to come later.

And luckily, their attention wasn't the only one that I got, because Anakin had paused his actions before slowly turning his head to glare in my direction. His fire red, rimmed eyes met mine and it caused a painful knot to form in my stomach.

"Ani stop this." I pleaded as I took a few step towards him with tears brimming my eyes.

His eyes followed my movements before he completely turned his body around to face me. There was no hint of joy as I expected to see when he saw me alive, instead his face was twisted into pure rage, "There you are," He growled as he quickly came towards me, "How dare you take on her appearance again," He tried cutting through me with his lightsaber but I quickly jumped back to avoid it.

"Anakin stop, it's me your princ-" I tried to reason with him, but he consistently kept swinging at me, not giving me any chance to really speak. Nor could I defend myself since I didn't have a weapon on me anymore, so all I could do was duck and avoid.

It's clear to me that Sidious has been messing with his head, of course using a vision of me to do so. But as a person who was once a victim to that torment, I know what he needs - me, just as I used to need him to feel what was real again.

And speaking of Sidious, I bet he's enjoying the show - hoping one of us kills the other.

"Liar!" Anakin screamed and I could hear the anger and anguish in his voice and it nearly broke my heart.

The other four in the room were rushing to help me, but as I avoided Anakin's, I told them to stay back, "No!" I held my hand out towards them, causing them to freeze in place. Ahsokas eyes were darting between Anakin and I with uncertainty, "I can get through to him, but I need you all to leave, now!" If anything goes south, I don't want any of them here.

"But-" Cal tried to argue as I quickly gripped Anakin's wrist just as he was trying to cut through my neck.

"Trust me Cal, please!" I yelled while never taking my eyes off of the sickening yellow glow coming from my former fiancé.

And thanfully I could hear the rushed footsteps of my family exiting the building to get to safety. I have faith that I'll get through to him and that everything is going to end up okay, but I needed that pre-caution in place.

Anakin's eyes held a deep loathing as we stood there face to face; and instead of trying to pull himself away from my grip, he leaned into it. His lightsaber blade was inching closer to my neck and I fought against him as hard as I could, but I was failing. I may have beaten him in combat plenty of times, but when it came to strength, he always outweighed me.

There was really only one option I had before I no longer had a head, "I'm really sorry about this baby," I mumbled and instantly lifted my leg, kicking him straight between his legs. The one move he always told me not to do whenever we'd spar as teenagers, going into adulthood.

He groaned from the pain as his eyes widened. He still kept his defensive hold up, but it was weakened, and that's all I needed.

"Please work." I whispered as I tightened my hold on the lightsaber and pushed it as hard as I could towards the side, away from my neck and our bodies; before quickly crashing my lips to his.

This is what he needs, me, to truly feel me and my love so he would know that I was real and not some illusion brought on by Sidious.

Anakin froze in place as the lightsaber in his hand fell to the floor when his grip completely loosened. I took this moment to cup his face and deepen the the long-awaited kiss, before gently backing away and looking up into his confused eyes.

"I don't know if I should be happy or deeply disturbed." He mumbled so quietly that I almost didn't hear him.

I smiled after hearing a bit of his familiar humor that I haven't heard in so long, "It's me, I promise it's me," I kept my hold on his face and stroked his cheeks with my thumbs, "Did you really think death would be the end of us? Together forever remember." I reminded him as I removed one hand from his face and held out my pinky.

His once yellow eyes, were no longer yellow; and the anger that was once on his features was replaced with a strong happiness that came with tears as he wrapped his pinky around mine, "How?" He asked as a sob escaped his throat. Hearing those words from me was the only confirmation he needed.

"It's a long story, one I'll have to share with you another time." I sniffled, seeing him cry always brought me to the brink of tears.

Without saying another word, he gripped my neck and pulled our faces together again. Our lips met in a passionate kiss that was strong enough to shake the planet, and for the first time in so long - I felt complete, and I know he felt the same.

Our force bound souls were rejoicing our reunion and I could feel the force between us leveling into a perfect balance. Just as it's meant to be.

But our moment was interrupted by a slow clap.

We broke away from our embrace and turned our heads in the same direction - the place where a throne used to be.

Sidious stood there at the top of the steps with a sickening smile on his face, "Well isn't this.. nauseating." His smile fell as he dropped his hands down to his sides, "I was hoping for a fight that ended up with one of you dead." His disgusting gaze landed on me and I had a vivid flashback of the countless times I've peered into those eyes while enduring torture, "And I'm very curious to know how you're alive my dear."

The darkness inside of both of us right now was fighting for dominance, it believed it was the only way to defeat him. But thanks to my fathers final words of advice, I know there's another way.

I was confused at first, but now that I'm standing here; I understand what he meant when he said to kill Sidious with love.

I grabbed Anakin's hand and squeezed it tight, "Do you trust me?" I asked low.

He squeezed my hand back, "You know I do."

That's all I needed to hear, "I'm alive because of a fathers love." I responded to the pretender who lied to me for far too long, "Not that that's something you'd ever understand since I'm sure yours never loved you."

His face scrunched into an expression of vexation as he raised his hand and a familiar light shit through his finger tips. But before the deadly lightning could hit me, Anakin had called his lightsaber back to his hand and he held it out in front of me - deflecting the lighting back to Sidious who quickly dodged the returned attack.

"You can't hurt either of us now, not when we have each other." I smiled, squeezing Anakin's hand tighter.

"Is that so," My past tormenter growled and as if on cue, the five hooded figures behind him spun around slowly. They were all made of machines and each held beskar spears in their gloved grips - prepared to fight us to the death.

"Can we take them all?" Anakin asked with concern in his voice. Normally he isn't one to be worried, but these heavily armored droids were well over ten feet tall. And they had a powerful Sith Lord behind them.

I nodded, "We have an advantage they don't. Our love and our bond makes us stronger. That is all we need to win; just never let go of me." I made sure our fingers were tightly locked.

"I'll never let go again." He whispered as the bots descended down the steps with Sidious cackling behind them.

As if we were one mind, both of us raised our free hands towards the droids, stopping each of them in their place. Then, we squeezed and watched as the beskar bots crumbled easily under our grasp. Usually to crush something as strong as beskar takes immense skill and practice,  but with both of our powers combined as one - it was more than easy.

Every single bot fell to the floor as nothing but scrap, but we didn't stop there. The building shook violently as we both used our powers to crumble Sidious down to his knees.

"This will bring the whole place down." Anakin informed me over the loud sound of the walls shaking. Sidious was fighting against us as much as he could, and all three of our powers combined in this room was too much for any building to handle.

"I know, but just trust me and don't stop."

He responded by closing his fist tighter and everything around us started to cave in more as Sidious screamed from the pain of his bones crunching. He tried his hardest to fight against us, even going as far as to shooting his lightening in our direction or using the force to push us away or apart. But nothing he did worked, and that was because of the force shield that was now surrounding us.

Love is the strongest power of all, it's limitless.

I closed my eyes with a smile, listening my fathers voice in my head and I felt that it was him to thank for this extra protection. He was right, he will never truly be gone, because he will always be living in my heart and his energy will now stay bonded with mine forever.

I felt Anakin's hand tighten around mine as a loud crash boomed around us and I felt us start to fall as the floor lost it's structure. Anakin wrapped his arms protectively around my body as we both fell with the ground below.

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3rd Person POV

Ahsoka, Cal, Rex, and Fives all watched in horror as the building their loved ones were in collapsed before their very eyes. And it wasn't long until Yoda, Crosshair, Cody, and Mando joined.

Hours later... and no one wanted to leave as they watched the heavy rain drench the grave of their fallen friends.

Crosshair, Cody, Rex, and Fives stood at the edge of the rubble, saluting the sacrifice of their fallen generals, who were also their friends.

Yoda learned of the news of (y/n)'s survival when Ahsoka had sent a transmission to their ship, but any hope of a reconciliation was crushed as he sadly stared at the debris. His ears dropping as a tear fell down his cheek.

Ahsoka was on her knees, crying with a broken heart over losing so much in less than twenty-four hours; her mother, her mentor, and her friend. But thankfully, she had Cal hugging her from behind, giving her the comfort she desperately needed - even though his heart was broken just as much.

Then there was Mando who was walking through the ruins of the destroyed building. He moved large pieces around, trying his best to find their bodies so they could have a proper burial instead of remaining crushed under pounds of cement.

But just when he was about to give up, something caught his attention from the corner of his eye. There was a blue light that shined through a few cracks in the debris. He worked quickly to remove the cement and even gained help from the clones who approached him after getting curious of his actions.

But when they saw the light, their intrigue grew and soon everyone was helping to remove the debris out of the way. And the final large piece that weighed more than any of them could lift was raised by Yoda with the force, and he threw it aside into a pit of mud.

The source of the light was finally revealed, and they all stood there stunned.

There, protected by a blue force shield, were Anakin and (y/n) laying side by side with their hands still joined together.

Yoda felt through the force for their condition since the force shield wouldn't allow any of them to check for a real pulse. And his heart nearly burst with glee when he came to the realization that although they may be suffering from a few minor injuries...

They were both alive.

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Omg this took me SO long to write, like literally an entire day. I just wanted it to be perfect for you all and I think I'm finally happy with it. Ahhh, let me know what you thought and I'm so excited to share the Epilogue soon ❤️
It's titled "Our Happy Ending" 🥺💕
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