I do not own Star Wars that is the genius George Lucas. This story starts off following the original story of Return of the Jedi with slight AU then goes completely AU. Enjoy

Do you remember your mother? Your real mother?

Reload

The windows of the Ewoks little huts glow and flicker from the fires inside. The sounds of the forest fill the soft night air. It would be a perfect night, if not for the terrible reason they were there.

As Luke wandered away from the Chief's hut he stood staring up at the Death Star. Leia realizing Luke had left the hut followed him outside, seeing him standing alone in the dark she walked over to him.

"Luke, what's wrong?" Luke turns and looks at her a long moment.

"Leia... do you remember your mother? Your real mother?" A little taken aback by the forward question, Leia sighs and takes a seat on the handrail.

"Just a little bit, she died when I was very young."

"What do you remember?"

"Just...images, really. Feelings"

"Tell me"

"She was very beautiful; kind, but...sad." She looks up at him questionable. "Why are you asking me this?"

Luke looked down, as if he's trying to remember something to. He whispers softly, "I have no memory of my mother. I never knew her."

Leia stared at Luke, he had always been quiet with a sort of lonely look about him, but never had she seen him look so much like a lost child.

"Luke, tell me. What's troubling you?" she asked him concerned, he glanced up at her, looking into her eyes.

"Vader's here...now, on this moon." He replied calmly, prepared for Leia's feelings of fear and shock to spill out of her.

"How do you know?"

"I felt his presence. He's come for me. He can feel when I'm near. That's why I have to go. As long as I stay, I'm endangering the group and our mission here. I have to face him."

"Why?" This couldn't be just a Jedi mission, Luke's loyalty was to the Alliance and the mission at hand. Granted he had often needed his own time to train, but he had never let it affect what was most important, and right now it was deactivating the shield. She prepared herself for the excuses of Jedi training and it was his duty to his father and Obi-Wan.

"He's my father."

That was not what she was expecting.

"Your father?" she replied, realizing it had come out more disgusted then she had intended.

"There's more." Luke didn't seem fazed by her reaction, he remained calm and serious. "He must have been preparing to tell me for some time," Leia wondered to herself as Luke continued. "It won't be easy for you to hear it, but you must. If I don't make it back, you're the only hope for the Alliance."

Shocked Leia was ready to deny that statement! "Luke, don't talk that way. You have a power I-I don't understand and could never have."

"You're wrong, Leia. You have that power too. In time you'll learn to use it as I have. The Force is strong in my family. My father has it...I have it...and...my sister has it."

Leia stared into his eyes. As it dawned on her what Luke was saying, Luke must have felt her understanding as he confirmed what she was thinking.

"Yes. It's you Leia."

"I know." She whispered looking down but not away "Somehow...I've always known."

"Then you know why I have to face him."

"No!" She declared had just found Luke, she was not about to lose him now, and not to Vader, her father? NO! Not her father, her father was Bail Organa the only father she knew, only father she needed. "Luke, run away, far away. If he can feel your presence, then leave this place. I wish I could go with you."

"No, you don't." Luke said calmly, standing up, looking down at her with those eyes of his, were they the same as Vader's?" You've always been strong."

"But, why must you confront him?" She answered almost sobbing.

"Because there is good in him, I've felt it. He won't turn me over to the Emperor. I can save him. I can turn him back to the good side. I have to try."

He held her close and looked at her kissing her gently on the cheek, he turned to leave. Leia watched her newly found brother turn to leave, to walk to his almost certain death, even if he did mange to bring Vader back to the Light, the Death Star was going to be destroyed and all who were on it!

"NO LUKE!" She screamed after him, running and throwing herself into his arms "You cant, I won't let you go, you mustn't, not yet, please"

Luke looked into the eyes of his sister, her big brown eyes, so different from his and from what he had been told, his fathers to. Did Leia resemble their mother?

"Ok Leia, after the mission, I promise" He smiled at her as she held him tighter. Neither noticed a figure that stood in the doorway to the little Hut, one whose heart had just felt like it had been ripped out by a Wookiee.