DISCLAIMER: The cast of the following story belongs to George Lucas yada,
yada, yada, you all know the drill by now.
AUTHOR: ihadanepiphany
SUMMARY: How do you make up for being Vader? I didn't know what to put this under since there's a bit of everything really, but the first parts kinda……I really don't know. You'll have to tell me in the reviews.
It has been brought to my attention that Anakin sleeps a lot in this fic, I put the fic so that it spreads out over around about, somewhere in the region of two possibly three days. (This could be why people who ask me directions also seem to get lost. Dunno why, makes perfect sense to me, kinda.) The kid IS going to sleep at least twice in three days; although if he's anything like my little demon, I mean cousins then obv he's going to try not to. This is my very roundabout way of saying, pretend the kid always sleeps and it'll much more sense, I promise. (crosses fingers) Enjoy!
It was a quiet morning in the Solo household. Leia was enjoying a rare and well-deserved lie-in, the kids were sleeping and Han was drinking a cup of coffee and reading the latest Smashball results, the Dreadnaughts had lost, again.
Han was mentally cursing this, remembering the bet he'd had with Lando Calrission on the game, when he heard his youngest child, Anakin enter.
'Good morning Ani,' he said, putting the coffee down and scooping the boy onto his lap. 'Have a good sleep?'
'Yeah.' Though it was earlier than the kids' normal waking time he looked highly energetic.
'Did you have any nightmares?' Anakin had become prone to them over the last few nights, waking up screaming at least twice a night for the last seven.
'Nope, not one.' Han heaved a sigh of relief, maybe it was the end of it. The nightmares were affecting everyone in the household, leaving them tired every morning and Leia and the kids pale and drained. Luke had tried to get to the bottom of it but came up with nothing. They had decided it was a phase to be borne out. Then Anakin said;
'The big guy kept them away.'
'What big guy?'
'The big guy in the black shiny helmet.' Han stared at his son in shock as the boy continued. 'And he had a light, light, light,' he looked to his father for the word.
'Lightsaber?'
'Yeah, like Uncle Luke's, 'cept it was red, and long black cloak and…'
'Anakin,' Han interrupted him. 'Are you sure about this? About the helmet?' Anakin looked at him.
'Yeah dad, it was black and shiny and had round eyes and a breather thingy with silver bits.' He saw his fathers' disbelief. 'It did!' he cried, close to tears.
'Alright, alright Ani,' reassured him, hugging him. 'I believe you.' His caught his son around the waist and swung him onto another chair. 'What do you want for breakfast?' he asked, getting up and going over to the food processors.
As he laughed and joked with his son over breakfast, Han's mind was still reeling from the shock of hearing Anakin calmly describe Darth Vader. One fact stood out, he had to get him to Luke.
Some fifteen-odd hours later he stepped off the Millennium Falcon with Leia and the kids to see Luke waiting for them.
'Han, Leia what brings you to this part of the galaxy?' he asked, welcoming them. His eyes flicked to Anakin. 'More nightmares?'
'Not quite,' Han replied. The twins pulled at Leia's arms, wanting to go into the Temple.
'I'll bring these two in Han,' she told her husband.
'We'll be in in a minute,' he assured her. He picked up Anakin who immediately began to doze off. The largely sleepless nights had as much of an effect on him as they did on the others. He saw Luke recoil and stare at something behind him. He turned; there was nothing there that he could see.
'I think,' Luke said, still staring behind Luke. 'That we should stay out of the Temple for a while.
They found a small empty clearing in the middle of the forest; Luke didn't particularly want his more Force-strong students panicking. At his request, Han put the now-sleeping Anakin lying down on the grass.
'You should stand back,' Luke advised. Han took one step backwards and stood there. Luke decided not to contest the issue.
Vader sat cross-legged and meditating by Anakin Solo's side, but could only be seen through the Force. Even to Luke's eyes, there was nothing there but grasses, but to the Force, Darth Vader was seemingly protecting his grandson, as large as life. But protecting him from who? Or what?
Luke reached out a hand and placed it on Anakin's shoulder, watching Vader closely. Vader didn't move, but Luke got the sense that Vader was watching him just as keenly. Luke withdrew his hand ad sent out a tendril of the Force directed towards his nephew.
Han was watching this, though he couldn't see Vader. He saw Luke touch his son's shoulder, for some reason he got even more wary. Luke suddenly cried out and threw himself backwards. Han reacted with all the lighting-quick reflexes of a smuggler pilot. He lunged forward and grabbing his son's shirt, yanked him towards him, jerking the boy from sleep. Anakin looked at his father crossly.
'Why'd you wake me?'
'How much did you tell her?' Han looked uncomfortable. He and Luke were walking back to the Academy where Leia and the twins were waiting.
'What could I tell her?' he asked. 'As bright as Anakin is he's still a kid and kids imagine things. He might have seen an image of Vader somewhere and it appeared in his dream, you know what kids are like.' Even to his ears it sounded lame. 'I didn't want to worry her until we knew for sure, one way or the other.'
'Well, we know now,' Luke said, half-to-himself. Han just nodded. He let Anakin go to his siblings, where they were soon engaged in a game of tag.
Leia waited for them to join her. That they were ill at ease was easy to tell.
'Well?' she asked when they were seated at the bench. 'Can I have an explanation for being dragged all the way here? Not that I object to visiting you Luke,' she added hastily.
'Anakin told me that he had no nightmares last night,' Han began.
'I noticed, he didn't have any on the ship either.'
'We think we know why.'
'He's gotten over it, hasn't he? The stage is over, enough said.'
'Not quite,' Luke told her. He paused, picking his words. 'I saw a, disturbance beside Ani when he was sleeping earlier.'
'What kid of?' Leia paused. 'You saw a disturbance beside Ani? What does that mean exactly?'
Luke explained. As he told her how he saw Vader first follow Han as he carried the sleeping Ani then sitting beside Ani when he was lying down, she unconsciously sought out Han's hand with her own. When he told her how, when he directed the Force towards Ani, Vader had lunged for him, lightsaber drawn and activated she turned away.
'I thought we were free of him,' she said after a while. 'Force-dammit I thought we were free of him! And now the son-of-a-bitch is after my son.' By her voice Leia was close to tears. Han put his arms around her.
'Leia listen,' he said. 'Anakin says he only showed up last night and last night the nightmares stopped. And Vader only attacked Luke when he used the Force.'
'So what are you saying? That Vader's protecting him?'
'Well, yeah.'
'Even if I believed that, which I don't by the way, what's after Ani that's so terrible to make Darth Vader protect him?'
So whaddaya think? Lets put it this way, you think its great, I'll put more up cos you enjoyed it. You think its utter bullcock, I'll put up more just to spite you. Either way I win. Review anyway, cos I'm kinda cold, I need the flames.
AUTHOR: ihadanepiphany
SUMMARY: How do you make up for being Vader? I didn't know what to put this under since there's a bit of everything really, but the first parts kinda……I really don't know. You'll have to tell me in the reviews.
It has been brought to my attention that Anakin sleeps a lot in this fic, I put the fic so that it spreads out over around about, somewhere in the region of two possibly three days. (This could be why people who ask me directions also seem to get lost. Dunno why, makes perfect sense to me, kinda.) The kid IS going to sleep at least twice in three days; although if he's anything like my little demon, I mean cousins then obv he's going to try not to. This is my very roundabout way of saying, pretend the kid always sleeps and it'll much more sense, I promise. (crosses fingers) Enjoy!
It was a quiet morning in the Solo household. Leia was enjoying a rare and well-deserved lie-in, the kids were sleeping and Han was drinking a cup of coffee and reading the latest Smashball results, the Dreadnaughts had lost, again.
Han was mentally cursing this, remembering the bet he'd had with Lando Calrission on the game, when he heard his youngest child, Anakin enter.
'Good morning Ani,' he said, putting the coffee down and scooping the boy onto his lap. 'Have a good sleep?'
'Yeah.' Though it was earlier than the kids' normal waking time he looked highly energetic.
'Did you have any nightmares?' Anakin had become prone to them over the last few nights, waking up screaming at least twice a night for the last seven.
'Nope, not one.' Han heaved a sigh of relief, maybe it was the end of it. The nightmares were affecting everyone in the household, leaving them tired every morning and Leia and the kids pale and drained. Luke had tried to get to the bottom of it but came up with nothing. They had decided it was a phase to be borne out. Then Anakin said;
'The big guy kept them away.'
'What big guy?'
'The big guy in the black shiny helmet.' Han stared at his son in shock as the boy continued. 'And he had a light, light, light,' he looked to his father for the word.
'Lightsaber?'
'Yeah, like Uncle Luke's, 'cept it was red, and long black cloak and…'
'Anakin,' Han interrupted him. 'Are you sure about this? About the helmet?' Anakin looked at him.
'Yeah dad, it was black and shiny and had round eyes and a breather thingy with silver bits.' He saw his fathers' disbelief. 'It did!' he cried, close to tears.
'Alright, alright Ani,' reassured him, hugging him. 'I believe you.' His caught his son around the waist and swung him onto another chair. 'What do you want for breakfast?' he asked, getting up and going over to the food processors.
As he laughed and joked with his son over breakfast, Han's mind was still reeling from the shock of hearing Anakin calmly describe Darth Vader. One fact stood out, he had to get him to Luke.
Some fifteen-odd hours later he stepped off the Millennium Falcon with Leia and the kids to see Luke waiting for them.
'Han, Leia what brings you to this part of the galaxy?' he asked, welcoming them. His eyes flicked to Anakin. 'More nightmares?'
'Not quite,' Han replied. The twins pulled at Leia's arms, wanting to go into the Temple.
'I'll bring these two in Han,' she told her husband.
'We'll be in in a minute,' he assured her. He picked up Anakin who immediately began to doze off. The largely sleepless nights had as much of an effect on him as they did on the others. He saw Luke recoil and stare at something behind him. He turned; there was nothing there that he could see.
'I think,' Luke said, still staring behind Luke. 'That we should stay out of the Temple for a while.
They found a small empty clearing in the middle of the forest; Luke didn't particularly want his more Force-strong students panicking. At his request, Han put the now-sleeping Anakin lying down on the grass.
'You should stand back,' Luke advised. Han took one step backwards and stood there. Luke decided not to contest the issue.
Vader sat cross-legged and meditating by Anakin Solo's side, but could only be seen through the Force. Even to Luke's eyes, there was nothing there but grasses, but to the Force, Darth Vader was seemingly protecting his grandson, as large as life. But protecting him from who? Or what?
Luke reached out a hand and placed it on Anakin's shoulder, watching Vader closely. Vader didn't move, but Luke got the sense that Vader was watching him just as keenly. Luke withdrew his hand ad sent out a tendril of the Force directed towards his nephew.
Han was watching this, though he couldn't see Vader. He saw Luke touch his son's shoulder, for some reason he got even more wary. Luke suddenly cried out and threw himself backwards. Han reacted with all the lighting-quick reflexes of a smuggler pilot. He lunged forward and grabbing his son's shirt, yanked him towards him, jerking the boy from sleep. Anakin looked at his father crossly.
'Why'd you wake me?'
'How much did you tell her?' Han looked uncomfortable. He and Luke were walking back to the Academy where Leia and the twins were waiting.
'What could I tell her?' he asked. 'As bright as Anakin is he's still a kid and kids imagine things. He might have seen an image of Vader somewhere and it appeared in his dream, you know what kids are like.' Even to his ears it sounded lame. 'I didn't want to worry her until we knew for sure, one way or the other.'
'Well, we know now,' Luke said, half-to-himself. Han just nodded. He let Anakin go to his siblings, where they were soon engaged in a game of tag.
Leia waited for them to join her. That they were ill at ease was easy to tell.
'Well?' she asked when they were seated at the bench. 'Can I have an explanation for being dragged all the way here? Not that I object to visiting you Luke,' she added hastily.
'Anakin told me that he had no nightmares last night,' Han began.
'I noticed, he didn't have any on the ship either.'
'We think we know why.'
'He's gotten over it, hasn't he? The stage is over, enough said.'
'Not quite,' Luke told her. He paused, picking his words. 'I saw a, disturbance beside Ani when he was sleeping earlier.'
'What kid of?' Leia paused. 'You saw a disturbance beside Ani? What does that mean exactly?'
Luke explained. As he told her how he saw Vader first follow Han as he carried the sleeping Ani then sitting beside Ani when he was lying down, she unconsciously sought out Han's hand with her own. When he told her how, when he directed the Force towards Ani, Vader had lunged for him, lightsaber drawn and activated she turned away.
'I thought we were free of him,' she said after a while. 'Force-dammit I thought we were free of him! And now the son-of-a-bitch is after my son.' By her voice Leia was close to tears. Han put his arms around her.
'Leia listen,' he said. 'Anakin says he only showed up last night and last night the nightmares stopped. And Vader only attacked Luke when he used the Force.'
'So what are you saying? That Vader's protecting him?'
'Well, yeah.'
'Even if I believed that, which I don't by the way, what's after Ani that's so terrible to make Darth Vader protect him?'
So whaddaya think? Lets put it this way, you think its great, I'll put more up cos you enjoyed it. You think its utter bullcock, I'll put up more just to spite you. Either way I win. Review anyway, cos I'm kinda cold, I need the flames.