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BEACH BAD, BEACH BAD [OPEN]

To say Vader was out of his element was the understatement of the millennium. He'd taken refuge under a large umbrella and was seated in his his chair as though it were the Emperor's own throne. Under the pretense of meditating, he was keeping a three-foot radius of space around him sand-free.

His beach towel would stay immaculate until he got someone else's blood on it.

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"I AM HIS FATHER! I LOVE HIM- HE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT! THE JEDI DO NOT LOVE HIM! THEY DO NOT LOVE, THEY CANNOT LOVE-- I AM THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN!" Vader is breathing heavily in between outbursts, worn but still furious.

Nanoha said nothing. She just gave him a Look.

Unfortunately, Vader doesn't burn out easy once he gets started.

"I HATE THEM, I HATE THEM FOR TAKING HIM FROM ME!" he fumed, "I WILL SEE EVERY ONE OF THEM SUFFER FOR WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO HIM!"

"Causing more pain never solved anything," she said quietly but no less resolutely. "And it will never win over your son's kind heart. He'll just see you as cruel."

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"Luke would not see justice go undone," Vader growled, resuming his seat and steepling his fingers. "He will know that I only care for him. He and his sister..."

"You're contradicting yourself," Nanoha pointed out. "You say he wouldn't see justice go undone, but that he'd let you lock him away from helping carry out that justice?"

"Of course I would be the one carrying out said justice!" Vader snapped. "He would merely not like to see criminals escape their punishment."

"So you want to try to twist his viewpoint to match your own? You want to lock him up and not let him do as his heart tells him?" Nanoha shook her head. "That's not love. No parent should wish that for their child."

"You are like the Jedi! You do not know the first thing about loving someone, yet you feel free to preach about it to the masses! I can love my son! I am capable of it! I can be his father, you would cast me aside as Kenobi did and I WILL HAVE NONE OF IT!" Again, Vader slammed his fist into his thigh for emphasis. "I CAN BE EVERYTHING HE WISHES ME TO AND MORE"

Nanoha's eyes flashed in the first genuine expression of anger she'd worn in the conversation thus far, her calm, gentle demeanor cracking. She stepped in, leaning close to Vader and raising a finger. "What makes you think you could ever have the right," she said in a low voice that brimmed with emotion, "to tell me what I know about loving someone? About loving my partner and our daughter?"

"You don't know me at all. You haven't even tried to understand a thing. You've just been ranting to me about what you want, not about what Luke wants! What sort of a parent is that?!"

"I know that Luke wants you in his life, but that doesn't mean you get to tell him how to live!"

"You would see them dead!" Vader shouted back. He understood anger. He knew anger inside and out. "You would see the one you love and your child with their throats torn out to appeal some sort of Utopian philosophy rather than do what must be done! You live in a world of fantasy while reality creeps closer and closer, waiting to snatch your loved ones from your arms and you will do NOTHING TO STOP IT!"

She took a breath, willing herself to calm down. Getting angry wouldn't help anything.

Nanoha's eyes stared at Vader's. "I would die first."

"The world is against me," Vader snarled, "and I will not stand by while it swallows my son, my children whole! Do whatever it is you wish, it does not concern me in the slightest- but I will take back my son and he will never leave me again!"

Nanoha shook her head again. "He doesn't want that, Vader. You can't force him to want it, either."

"And as long as he doesn't want it, I can't let you do that either."

Vader shot her a poisonous glare.

"You can try," he said, hissing with every word, "to stand between Luke and myself, but it will end with your innards spread out across this beach. I will utterly destroy you."

And Nanoha answered that glare with a smile, her momentary flash of anger utterly vanished. "I will only try to help Luke do what he chooses. Nothing more, nothing less."

"I'd hope you wouldn't choose to fight someone who was helping your son do what he wished."

"I see through you. I see through every one of your lies- I will not be deterred."

"Oh? That's funny, because I'm not lying." Nanoha shook her head.

"I'm no Jedi. I don't care about them - I'm just a mother, and Luke's friend."

"I do not care. Come between me and Luke, and I will make the last moments of your life a screaming hell," Vader hissed.

If she was cowed by his threats, she didn't show it. "Then you really don't care what Luke wants? His happiness is second to your own?"

"Do not put those words in my mouth! You cannot fathom how deeply my fatherly affection runs!"

"You're right, I can't. Because all I see now is a man who threatens someone who wants to help his child in what he wishes. A man who would rather chain his child up than let him live a life."

"I will hear no more of this. I know what is best for my son- I will not be usurped by anyone seeking to worm their way into his good favor."

"That's a really strange way to describe someone being friends with him, you know." Nanoha pointed out.

"Vader, he wants you in his life - I know he does. But you're going to have to listen to him, too. He's a strong, wise, and responsible adult now."

"He is not in his right mind! Not if Kenobi has been feeding him lies, and I do not trust you any more than I trust him. I am stalwart. I will see him brought to true freedom."

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