Double Drabble: "Sin"

A double drabble of the purple, "poor Obi-Wan" variety.

Obi-Wan is a sin eater.

He takes his former apprentice's actions into himself, absorbs them, protects Anakin from repercussions. He swallows Anakin's indescretions whole, because Anakin surges them towards him without thought.

Obi-Wan is a sin eater.

Anakin's wrecklessness and impulsiveness gets him into trouble, and how he gets out often contradicts the Code - not only of the Jedi, but of morals and ethics. Anakin does not view it this way - only wants to do the right thing. But Obi-Wan knows the ends do not justify the means, so he pulls Anakin's means away from the end, and defends Anakin's moral quagmire.

Obi-Wan is a sin eater.

He allows Anakin to slip away in the darkness, saying nothing and embracing his secrecy. Obi-Wan does this because it is Anakin, and Obi-Wan loves him above all else.

Obi-Wan is a sin eater.

With Anakin as he is now - a faceless, souless horror stalking through the endless night, Obi-Wan consumes the greatest of sins, the most terrible of secrets. He watches over the result of what seems now the most innocuous sin - and yet the one that led to so many more - and gnaws on the most painful of all sins.

His own.