Chapter 1
5:30 am. Five-year-old Leia Skywalker tiptoed silently down the hallway to her twin brother's bedroom door. Because the door was always open, she didn't have to stand on tiptoe to reach the knob. Carefully avoiding the model TIEs, X-wings, and Imperial Starfighters scattered all across the floor, she gently shook her twin brother awake.
"Luke, wake up!"
"Go 'way. I'm still 'sleep." Luke grumbled from beneath the covers. Impatiently, Leia pulled one of the pillows free and scrambled up onto the bed, wacking her brother over the head with the fluffy cushion. "Come on, Luke! Let's go wake up Daddy now. And I wanna go play!"
Pretending to be grumpy, Luke pushed the pillow away and sat up. "Okay, okay, I'm up," he grumbled, using a phrase he had often heard Daddy say when Mommy needed him to do something. Leia bounced energetically off the bed, tossing the pillow back as she scurried to the door. Suddenly optomistic, Luke scrambled up, saying hopefully as he retrieved his favorite model X-wing from under his remaining pillow, "Maybe Daddy will play with us!"
Suppressing giggles, the twins tiptoed quietly down the hall.
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"Waaake up, Daaaddyy..." Leia's little toddler voice whispered loudly. Anakin groaned, pulling the covers up over his head in what he knew was a futile attempt to escape his active twins. A second later a soft pillow attacked him viciously, wielded by an insistant toddler's hands. Reluctantly Anaking gave up all remaining hope of sleeping in and sat up, brushing the hair out of his eyes and yawning.
Whump! Another pillow hit him square in the face. Anakin grabbed the pillow, searching drowsily for the culprit who had hurled it. Seeing her chance, Leia pounced, whacking him over the head with her pillow, giggling as Anakin, now mostly awake, swung his pillow back, knocking her over onto the bed. Luke, scrambling up on top of the bed, suddenly found himself trapped as a giggly Leia tried to scurry past. Catching both of them in his arms, Anakin began tickling them mercilessly. Soon the three Skywalkers lay on the floor, laughing helplessly.