AN: Just to clarify... I do not own Star Wars. Never have, never will...

Just a short one shot that kept repeating in my mind over and over and over and over again. Hopefully now that it is down on paper it'll stop.

Not my favorite, but my sister asked me to post it anyways... So if you like it thank her.

I watch as you try to kill him, and I wonder who has failed him most.

I, The man who had refused to train him, and then had ceded only after he had offered his life to save the life of others, proving, unintentionally that he had the heart of a Jedi.

I, The man who had allowed him to heal my own heart, but for the longest time withheld it from him, and made him think that he was not worthy of it.

I, The man who had in the end pushed him to the trials without explanation, and allowed him to think that it was only for you. That I was willing to throw him away and replace him with you. And surely a part of me had known that was what he would think; I knew him as well as I knew myself. I was the one who led him to believe he was replaceable.

I, The man who with his dying breath spoke only of you, who ensured your future with my last breaths. The man who hadn't even said goodbye to the boy who might as well have been his son.

Yes… I failed him.

But so did you.

You, The boy who in your darker moments wished that he had died that fateful day in exchange for me.

You, The boy who demanded that he be me, and made him believe that he was not enough, never enough.

You, The boy to whom he gave his heart only for you to hide yours away.

You, The boy who betrayed nearly every ideal he tried so desperately to teach you. Every ideal he himself had sacrificed nearly everything to follow.

You, The boy who killed his family.

You, The boy who blamed him for your own fall.

And he will take it all. He will accept your fall as his own failings, just as he accepted my failings as his own.

He will accept that you were my chosen one, and that he has betrayed us both by allowing you to fall.

He will accept that he was never enough. Not enough for me, and not enough for you.

He will accept that his love was not enough. Not enough to be loved in return. Not by me and not by you.

He will take the blame for both of our failings, and then an a good deal more for his own.

He will never accept that perhaps it was us that failed him.

No, he won't. And that is why we both have a chance.

He will always believe that I always did what I felt was best. That I always gave my all, even if that is not always truth. And so I will be redeemed by his love

And you, you he will always hope, no matter what he might say, that you are not truly dead, he will always hold out hope that the boy he raised and loved is still in there somewhere fighting for a chance out. He will love your son, and because of that you will be redeemed.

No, we have failed him.

He will never fail us.

AN: In case you missed it Qui-Gon is talking, about himself and Anakin in regards to Obi-Wan.

It might be obvious, but I really like Obi-Wan. (I am aware of his faults, although that's not quite shown in this little one-shot.

I actually like Qui-Gon and Anakin too... Just... Not the focus of this one-shot.