Archive: Yes to WWoB, CKoS, Britslash, SPEB and the RSA [of
course
[Me re: 'Young and Insane'] I was originally planning to add Neil/Angel
to the mix [...]
This will never go anywhere. Both of us know that, yet we are strangely
drawn to one another.
He taught me everything he knows about politics, how to force, how to
manipulate, how to scheme, and when to do which. He awoke within me a
love for this game. Because it is game, no less so than a game f chess.
I am a Sith, could take this universe by force and be done with it. But
it is so much more fun to seize the power legally, to have them ask me
to take command.
It will happen. I will one day be Supreme Chancellor. After all, he
is, and he has taught me everything he knows. Soon I shall be where he
is now. Soon the student shall surpass the teacher. Soon the apprentice
shall slay the master.
I have always known this would never go anywhere.
He knows it, too. He told me, said I was bad for him. That if the public
ever found out that Finis Valorum, the most respected member of the
Senate, was sleeping with a barely legal runaway fortunehunter from
Naboo, his career would be over.
But that didn't stop him.
Nothing ever stopped us, not even my return 'home' and beginning
political career. I should've put an end to it then. If word ever gets
out about us, they'll say I slept my way into the Senate, that I bought
his support. Both our careers would be over then. But I still can't stop
this. I tell myself he's an easy lay, that I do it to keep a hold on
him. Truth is, whatever hold I have over him doesn't need to be cemented
in bed.
Yet I'm still here.
If I don't do this now, everything will have been for nothing. All my
plans, my sheming, everything I've worked so hard on. I know that, but
I'm still reluctant to bring him down. I remember over and over again
our time together, the way he was in the beginning, so long ago.
I was very young then, still a boy according to society's standards. But
I am a Sith, and Sith do not live by society's standards. I was
well-trained by my master in both fighting and pleasuring, and I used
that knowledge to my advantage. He fell for me hook, line and sinker and
me, I was infected by his enthusiasm for this game called 'politics'.
When my master found out about my plans, he forbade me to execute them,
preferring the ancient ways. There was no solution but to strike him
down in order to become the one to restore the Sith to their former
glory, throw over the senate and destroy the jedi.
It lasted longer than I thought, but soon, it will be over. I have
always know this moment would come.
As I stand in the senate listening to the Queen bickering with the Trade
Federation, I look at him, wishing, hoping against better judgement that
he won't do what I know he'll do. I know him too well though, he
appoints a committee, exactly as I knew he would. And as the Queen moves
for a vote of no confidence, I know that I've lost him forever, that he
knows I'm behind this and that he will never forgive me.
I have known all along that this was never meant to last. But that
doesn't ease the pain, or soften this strange feeling of ... regret,
perhaps?
P.S. Let this be a lesson to you all. Squick and ye shall receive. *g*
C'me on, I dare you!
Archive Date: January 27, 2000
Author's Webpage: http://homes.arealcity.com/thesailorsarms
Category: POV
Dedication: To Ide, cuz she deserved this.
Defense strategy: Blame the dentist and her painkillers!
Disclaimer: **whine**
Notes: I'd promised this to Ide about a month ago, but it wasn't
until a friend and I got to discussing Palpy's age and motives for going
into politics that the plot bunnies showed up. And then I'm in the
dentist's chair and she tells me to think of something else. So this is
what I throught of. :-)
Pairing: Palpatine/Valorum
Rating: PG for implied slash?
Summary: Senator Palpatine remnisces on the past.
Warnings: Not beta'd. All mistakes are mine.
[Ide] Make it an un-threesome. Add Marvin.
[Me] Ewww! You squicked me! Oh ick! Congrats, you deserve a reward. Any
requests?
[Ide] What sort of reward? Palpatine/Valorum would be lovely...