Anakin was catching the deliberate distance between them. But some things you could not go back to, he had to just leave that alone, no matter what part of him ached for a reconnection with this man.

"Embedded in the passivity chip of every clone trooper is a command activated order to kill the Jedi. The order can only come from Palpatine." He tried to stay present when explaining this, but he couldn't help but recall that night that was so long ago for him, when he knelt in front of Palpatine and the Sith had issued that order. And all the accompanying regret, guilt, and sorrow that came as a packaged deal with those memories. Everyone from Earth tried to say the lives they'd lived and passed on from were over and done, but that couldn't assuage how he felt.

"Every Jedi leads a legion of hundreds of troops... Because of their passivity chip leveling their- the clones' emotions, you won't sense it coming."