Disclaimer: I believe that honour goes to Mister Lucas, I am only borrowing them. Only own them on DVD, well the Prequels on DVD and the Originals I own are VHS. I am going to upgrade them eventually.

A/N: This is my first story to share with a tough audience. I do hope that you will enjoy it. It is AU and a time travel fic, so you have to enjoy it won't you. I won't add another chapter unless I get a decent response. If there are any mistakes, blame me for I don't have Beta Reader. Not sure if I want one, I will tell what I do want and it will be impossible to have for I am sure that everyone wants a piece of Ewan McGregor, am I right. Well that is enough chit chat for I am sure that you would like to read the story. I also hope that you like the title?

Summery: After being stabbed in his own hovel, by an unknown attacker. Obi-Wan finds himself in the past and is curious as to know why he is bleeding to death in front of the Council. The rest you'll have to wait and read to find out what happens to our poor Obi-Wan.

Brothers of the Force

Prologue:

Running a weary hand over his eyes, hoping, wishing, praying that all of this is one big joke and that tomorrow everything will be right once more. That there'll be more than two Jedi left behind to pick up the broken pieces, no more like the murdered pieces that the Emperor and his infamous apprentice, Darth Vader, had scattered across the galaxy. Engulfing all sources of Light into an insufferable Darkness. Destroying all in their paths. To destroy all those that opposes them. Taking away innocent hope.

His heart ached whenever the thought of the monster, who was once a man and someone worth trusting, but now that man is gone. Morphed into the very thing that he had sworn to destroy.

When did everything start to go wrong. When will the wrong be righted and balanced out, and could everyone wait for a hero to grow or will everything be destroyed before all source of hope could occur?

They must wait for the son of Skywalker to rise, giving all that have begun to lose hope for a hero to save them all from the approaching darkness, that is the Empire's doing.

But Luke is still far too young.

And Obi-Wan has made an oath that he'll look after young Luke. To train Luke to become a Jedi. . . .

Why does his heart cry when the mere word of Jedi is mentioned? Is it because of what was lost or is it due to something else.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, now known as Ben Kenobi in these parts of a desolate planet, has down nothing but to mourn for his friends long gone. Forgetting all about not being entirely alone in this Force forsaken galaxy, when Yoda is still alive, but that doesn't mean anything any more.

Nothing does.

All because of his failure to listen to those that were wiser then him. How could he not train the Chosen One, when he had made the heart felt promise to his dying Master, giving Qui-Gon something to smile about. Now Qui-Gon must be frowning, shaking his head in dismay of a promise turning into a huge failure.

Though there is no regret in his decision to train the boy for Obi-Wan had grown to care for Anakin.

Why didn't Obi-Wan get the chance to tell Anakin all of these things, instead of crying his heart out, pleading for Anakin to listen to the words he was so desperate hear, but those didn't reach the cold heart of the boy he had trained. Anakin was graving for love and affection and everything else that a growing boy needs or had needed. Obi-Wan should know what it feels for he had graved for such from his own Master.

But a Jedi isn't meant for love. They were trained to love yes, but to seek to possess something stronger, is not what they were trained to do.

Is that why Anakin had turned? Because Obi-Wan wouldn't or hadn't given him what Anakin deserved. Is that why Anakin had preferred to listen to the advice, given to him, by a dark lord of the Sith.

Shaking his head for nothing will come out of it. thinking about the past will not do him any good, only harm and Obi-Wan would like to continue on watching Luke to grow up to become a fine young man.

Luke, or his twin sister Leia, must give the innocent a reason to live in a place so dark and terrifying.

Turning off the lights, as he heads off to fall asleep once more in the tiny hovel, which has become his home and he will be doing the same thing as he did yesterday.

Keeping an eye on Luke Skywalker.

Than there came no warning, the Force didn't see fit to warn one of its own soldiers.

All the Obi-Wan could remember was the excruciating pain and then nothing. . . . . . . .

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Gazing out through the viewscreen, observing the world outside of the prison, which he was now trapped in. So many regrets and so many left unfinished to the point of no return. Nothing is what it used to be no more. The friends that he once had are no longer around to point him in the right direction, to tell him all that he needs to know and now he cannot go and ask his friends for some advice on how he must precede.

For he is the one. The one who had cut his friends out of his life for good, believing the word of Sidious, believing that he was doing good when he was actually doing the things he was meant to be fighting against.

Turned those, who may have stayed by his side and to whisper words of encouragement in his ears telling him that he still has friends, that he is still loved, no matter what his dark deed may do to them.

The woman he had loved above all others had died because of him and now he has to live on knowing that Padme is no longer in this life. Because of his big mistakes.

Mistakes that will never leave him in peace, forever making him to swallow in his grief again and again. Is this the life he must live in? if only he could overthrow Sidious, like he was born to do in the first place. He wasn't meant to turn, he was born to fight against such foes and to make his former Master proud.

Will he ever find his former Master again, after all that he has done to him, Vader has never forgotten the sacrifices that Obi-Wan had to make.

But why did he believe Palpatine's honeyed words over Obi-Wan's? When Obi-Wan has never lied outright and that is what Palpatine has done. Palpatine had lied about the Darkside of the Force being the greatest power to possess, to have believed that the Darkside could bring back the ones he had loved and cherished back to life.

The Darkside has done nothing, but to teach him pain, which he now has to live with.

Should he blame Obi-Wan for the past deeds that have cost Vader his limbs and everything else that Vader had once believed to be true. No that fault is his, all along the blame for his turning is now solely placed on to his suited shoulders.

Can he ever rectify and live again in a time when he was loved and not a feared monster of a man, who is now more machine than man, but what do people know. He still has a heart, which is being consumed by his grief everyday since he was forced to fight Obi-Wan, his brother. Believing that he is far stronger and mightier than Obi-Wan could ever hoped to be, but once again Obi-Wan had proved him right. Obi-Wan had never wanted to fight him, but Vader couldn't see past through his hatred, his confusion, and his lust for power that Obi-Wan truly does care and that he'll do anything to save his little brother from being consumed into a black hole of sufferance.

What can be done to rewrite history or even to find a way that could save him from this curse. The curse of remembering those that he have left behind him and not once has he looked back to see the scars of the past. When will he smile and laugh again.

There must be something that could turn back the clock. Could he live again and change the past? Could he trust Obi-Wan again? Could he have ear plugs to wash a way the words of deceit from Paplatine's deceiving mouth? Will he forever be damned in darkness for all eternity? Will he be able to kiss Padme one last time?

So many things are spinning around inside his head, so fast that he doesn't know which road to take anymore.

A slave to the deceiving darkness is what he can not live to be anymore.

He is the Chosen One and he demands to be taken back to a time, where there is no need to afraid anymore. To be with Padme, to rescue Obi-Wan from a nest of gundarks, to hear the words of wisdom from Master Yoda. Just to be the man he once was is all that Vader now asks for.

After nine years, it has now brought him to this. To dream about those wasted years of mourning, hating, lying, killing and any of those things that have turned him into a monster.

But he is not a monster. He is a man walking in a prison like a dead man walking and his heart is crying for the chance to take back those horrible deeds and to shove them up where the sun does not shine.

He no longer wants to be a slave to the Sidious's deceiving plans to rule the galaxy, no longer does he wants to see red, no longer does he wants to be consumed by darkness and no longer does he wants to hate his brother for putting him here or to leave him to burn on the lava banks on Mustafar.

Is it too late to apologise?

It isn't too late to ask for a second chance in life, is it?

Anakin Skywalker wants to breathe in the real air, not this artificial air, which he must now breathe in to keep him alive.

No longer does he want to be known as Darth Vader.

What must he do?

Must he kill himself here and now, in front of the Imperial Troops and to rid himself from this damned forsaken suit, which holds him prisoner. Keeping him away from the one person, Vader knows is still alive and may give him a second chance to live a normal life.

But where will that person be hiding. And will that person be glad to see the dark mask that once was his brother?

His artificial eyes that sees red is now engulfed in a blinding light. Spiralling him out of control, cleansing him from the Dark poison. So the Light Side of the Force hasn't abandon him after all, perhaps it has finally answered his prayers and that it will help him to find his brother, to find a hope and to find a true reason to live again with out artificial limbs and a black suit.

Will he be known as Anakin Skywalker and not remembered as Darth Vader.

He'll never know.

Not until he has opened his eyes and to see what is in store for him. Only to receive a shock like no other.

Standing before him was the Jedi Temple, like it once was before it was burned to the ground. No thanks to him. There is peace surrounding the Temple, his home and perhaps this is the place where he will find Obi-Wan, his brother.

To Be Continued. . . .