𝕻𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗨𝗘
━━ 𝙋𝙍𝙊𝙈𝙄𝙎𝙀 𝙈𝙀

❝ 𝙎𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩? 𝙐𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙?❞

Lightning rages, she hears his screams, tearing her heart in two. And that laughter rumbling like thunder. Her hands are shaking and her chest is on fire, it hurts and hurts and hurts.

Suddenly it is all gone, she is floating somewhere distant, somewhere peaceful. 

"Selyn?"

She exhales, looking for the source of that all too familiar voice.

She finds it to her right, a boy with bronze skin and sun-kissed hair. Eyes so blue her breathing becomes uneven.

"Anakin?" Her lungs hurt.

"Hey there. Your little nap took ages." He smiles, the smile Selyn loves so endlessly and glances downwards. "Don't you dare push me off the roof again."

Confusion hits for a splitsecond, but then her eyes take in her environment: wide skies bleeding in gold and red, a landscape of dark metal skyscrapers reaching their crooked fingers up in the air, glass and polished steel flashing beneath them. The city reflects the sunset, its surfaces forming a mosaic of fiery tones so that there are golden skies below and all above them.

Coruscant.

Selyn feels the warmth of the roof beneath her, her feet dangling off it, so fearless of how deep below the ground is. Behind her she can see the narrow staircase they used to climb the Jedi temple's roof – it's forbidden, but so is everything that makes them feel alive, so is every touch of her lips against his.

Selyn's lips automatically twitch into a smile. "I would never."

"You already did," he reminds her, grinning widely upon this all too vivid memory.

"Oops," she says. "My bad."

His eyes are as bright as the sun over their heads. "Good thing I am pretty creative when it comes to surviving."

Selyn smiles slightly and leans back, letting the last sunbeams caress her face, feeling the warmth, the golden light behind her closed eyelids – and Anakin's gaze on her.

"You're so beautiful," he whispers, stroking a lost strand of hair behind her ear.

She hums gently, like a cat that lies lazily in the sun. One of her blue eyes open and she smiles at him. "And you're quite a charmer."

But her hand finds his, squeezing gently, his palm warm against hers.

"You know that I love you."

His grin is wide, like he is proud of being the man she chose to love, as he replies: "I always will."

Always.

The word resonates throughout Selyn's body, settling down in her bloodstream, a golden promise that fills her veins like sunlight.

And suddenly the mood shifts slightly, she doesn't even notice it at first –Anakin's tone has changed, his posture is different, more tense, more alert. But the sun is still burning down on them, speeders still zoom past far below and the warm air smells of summer and delicious streetfood and dust.

"I'll never leave your side." His hand tightens around hers. "So promise me to fight? Until the end? For us, for the good in this world?"

She feels dark clouds above her and electricity down her spine, but as she looks up the sky is still painted in richest orange and bright yellow.

"I will."

Anakin kisses her, but there is something desperate about it. Selyn leans into his touch, the feeling of his hands around her neck as she pulls him closer, every touch of their lips sealing a new promise.

She will ever forget this, she swears to herself. This feeling of utter peace and tranquillity, of how the force around her settles down in gentle ripples, the fire calming down and turning into soft, warm flames. She doesn't realize it in this moment, but this is what a home feels like.

Anakin's golden curls tickle her forehead and his eyes are as soft as a new dawn as he leans back, looking at her.

The sun wanders further down on the horizon, it explodes in bright red and orange where meets the silhouette of Coruscant's skyline. A soft breeze caresses Selyn's face and the rooftop is still warm from the summer's heat as the first stars appear above their heads.

They are a bit closer for these two than for everyone else.

I will fight.

Darkness gathers and consumes her again, but this time she lets it take her back to where she needs to be right now. To make a choice. To an end. And a beginning.

Selyn exhales, ribcage aching and opens her eyes.

✧･ﾟ:* 𝕬𝘜𝘛𝘏𝘖𝘙'𝘚 𝘕𝘖𝘛𝘌 *:･ﾟ✧

HHHH not gonna say ANYTHING about this but I LOVE THEM SO MICH THEY HAVE MY HEART OK BYE

but yeah...hope you liked this!! i know it was pretty short but pls lemme know what you think!! 💗

vv excited to get this story FINALLY going (sorry it took so long it literally took me AGES to get all that aesthetic shit and casting done for act one divider and epigraph) but here we GOO

...still not over how hot they look in this gif bye

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