What The Heart Desires

Anakin Skywalker – the little pet project he'd nurtured to one day become his ultimate apprentice since the boy was only nine years old – is close to falling. Chancellor Palpatine can feel it in his bones. However, what he didn't account for when during an official gathering he pulls him aside to seduce him to the Dark Side was that, as befitted an unruly teenager such as himself, the boy would hit the wine and paying absolutely no mind to the power being offered to him, start to pour his heart out to him.