[They'll never make it anywhere at this pace, but he finds with every stop that he cares less. This matters. They do. These redefinitions and reinforcements that move them both farther and farther way from their fears (that may as well be one shared, universal concern).
It becomes harder to dislike this situation, however dubious his consent to it may be, when (aside from the worst of it, the parts that still leave him shaken) it keeps giving him things like this: these second chances he doesn't deserve and is offered the grace of nevertheless.
Anakin's eyes slip closed for a moment, taking this feeling in, this warmth, and memorizing it so he can't ever forget. Padmé's touches have always lingered, and he carries the ghost of that warmth in her absence like a haunting, but it's so much different when remembered for what it is.]
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It becomes harder to dislike this situation, however dubious his consent to it may be, when (aside from the worst of it, the parts that still leave him shaken) it keeps giving him things like this: these second chances he doesn't deserve and is offered the grace of nevertheless.
Anakin's eyes slip closed for a moment, taking this feeling in, this warmth, and memorizing it so he can't ever forget. Padmé's touches have always lingered, and he carries the ghost of that warmth in her absence like a haunting, but it's so much different when remembered for what it is.]
I would have it no other way.
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He has, of course, but if he'd had a choice...]