IC Inbox: Empatheias

[bailedontheempire]

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[bailedontheempire]

Did he... he didn't harm you, did he?

[Because that would be far worse than anything Anakin might do to him. The room grows cold at the thought. He can take any threats to himself, just... leave Leia out of it.]

[oratorical]

No.

[Her response is immediate and forceful. Because Anakin hadn't physically harmed her, not here at least, and she doesn't want to worry him more than everything else going on here likely would.

She sighs before continuing. Because she knows just that answer won't be enough, not with something like this.]

He mostly yelled and paced around.

[Which was unsettling, particularly with the effects his emotions had on the environment around them. But that's not entirely the part that bothered her the most, as much as his anger wasn't quite like the anger she'd seen from Anakin in the past.]

He hunted me down, though. He's never done that before.

[bailedontheempire]

That's... troubling.

[It's hard for him to keep up a calm surface when the entire room betrays his anxiety. Nothing stays still.]

What did he say?

[What, exactly, was he facing here?]

[oratorical]

[Troubling, really, is putting it lightly. Because not even heading off to chill in the woods to escape drama will work this time, not when Anakin can and has used the Force to tack her down.]

He said a lot of things.

[Well, obviously. But as she gets into the specifics, there's a background buzzing of outrage and anger behind her words. Because Anakin has no right to claim any of those things when they were nowhere near the truth.]

He was focused on the idea of you stealing me and turning me against him. As if his own actions wouldn't alienate anyone with any sense.

[bailedontheempire]

I had hoped... he was still Anakin enough to understand why we had to do what we did.

[But that was not to be. He's... not mad, he's disappointed. Disheartened. The shadows creep rather than anything going cold or hot.]

That the decision was about you and Luke, not about any of us.

[oratorical]

[She understands that. As much as she would've liked to grow up with Luke, it's not hard to know why they did what they did.]

I doubt he's self-aware enough to realize that.

[Not that she's, you know, biased or anything.]

...He wouldn't tell me how he found out or who told him.

[Because somehow, him going months without realizing the truth made Leia suspicious about whether he would've put the pieces together without someone spelling it out for him.]