possibly I shouldn't call it the chapter of unending agony

[bedlamsbard]

I didn't mean for the Chapter of Unending Agony to be actually unending, c'mon, if I hit another 1.5K I'm going to have to split this in two. Which I might want to anyway, because it's really weirdly balanced, but I'll deal with that in edits. If I ever reach the end.

“How touching,” Palpatine observed. “You see, young Anakin, but you don’t understand. Shall I show you?”

He strode forward before Anakin could retrieve his lightsaber and caught Obi-Wan by the throat, thrusting out his other hand to pin Anakin to the floor with the Force.

Obi-Wan shouted in surprise, flickering in and out of existence as he scrabbled at Palpatine’s fingers. Years fluttered by as he changed form – a youngling with wide blue eyes, an old man with a white beard, a Knight with his padawan braid freshly shorn, and everything in between before Palpatine flung him into the far wall as the Master Anakin knew best.

He hit it with an audible crack, sliding down to the floor in a mess of brown fabric, and didn’t get up again.

Palpatine turned toward Anakin, smiling. “You Jedi may use the Force, but only the Sith can truly master it,” he said, and caught Anakin by the hair, hauling him up to his feet. “Now you will see what Obi-Wan Kenobi truly did to Anakin Skywalker.”

There's a lot of crying and screaming and Anakin and Obi-Wan on their knees in this chapter, and some seduction, but sadly, not like that.