Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars or The Clone Wars. The dialouge in section five is from Star Wars The Clone Wars Season 1, Episode 22: Hostage Crisis.
Author's Note: The idea came after I noticed that Padme and Anakin sit on the same side of the homestead dining table in AOTC as Luke does in ANH.
1.
When Luke was old enough to sit in a big boy chair and not a highchair, he moved his spot at the table from next to Beru to across from her. At first she thought nothing of it. Then one day he said to her, "Mama and papa was here."
"Were," Beru corrected automatically as set the table for dinner. Then she realized what he had said and looked at him quizzically. "What? Where?"
Luke patted his chair. "Here."
The most frightening thing to Beru was that he was right. The only time she and Owen had ever met Luke's parents, the two had sat on that side the table. The side Luke had picked.
2.
Luke liked to work in the garage. Sometimes he took his homework there and fill out worksheets on the fall of the Republic and math. Sometimes Owen was there, sometimes not. Beru went out one day to ask Luke to take a look at one of the droids and asked him why he didn't do his homework in his room or at the table.
"I like it here," Luke answered simply. "It feels like mom and dad."
Beru didn't tell Owen about this.
3.
Luke wandered off a few times when he was out with Owen checking the vaparators. Owen found him each time before he needed to tell Beru, thankfully.
Each time Owen found the little boy, he held a fist full of mushrooms. They grew on the vaparators and could be a bit of a nuisance if they grew in the wrong spot. More than once, Owen had lost some moisture because a tiny growing mushroom allowed the hot desert air to evaporate the water. But Owen had never collected mushrooms since his stepmother was kidnapped and died at the hands of the Sand People.
The first time he did it, Owen spanked Luke, an instant need to make sure that Luke never ever did that again. It was dangerous! "You leave those alone, you hear me?" Owen told his nephew.
Luke cried. "But grandma picked them!"
Owen felt cold. "How – how did you know that?" They had removed the tombstone for Shmi long ago, they'd not spoken of her. Speaking of her brought up Anakin, brought up Padmé…and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
"I see her. She picks them and looks up at the sky and says she misses papa."
Owen called Kenobi that night to ask how to keep Luke from seeing or sensing things.
4.
Once upon a time they went to Mos Espa. It was a big trip and Luke had been thrilled at the opportunity.
They needed a part for a droid, but no one closer to Anchorhead or Mos Eisley had the specific part. His aunt had suggested they make a little holiday of it and his uncle had agreed. There wasn't much in terms of activities, but it was still a trip. No city on Tatooine had museums or zooparks like Luke read about on other worlds, but Mos Espa had a spaceport.
While his uncle shopped for the part, Luke and Beru went to the spaceport to look at the ships. The pilots and repair crews answered Luke's questions with the patience only those who'd baked in the Tatooine suns could ever have. It was the first time Luke got to see ships up close.
Beru had her own questions but she always waited until Luke had asked all of his before asking any. When it was time to meet Owen for dinner, she took Luke's hand and half led, half pulled the boy from the docking bays. They walked down one of the streets and Luke stopped for a moment.
He watched a beautiful young girl with long brown hair stop and stand outside a rundown, closed shop. She seemed to be speaking to someone, but there was no one around her who appeared to notice her. She looked unhappy and her voice sounded as clear as an alarm in Luke's head, "Well I don't approve." The girl sat down and vanished.
Luke stared at the spot, feeling the same feeling of excitement and comfort as when he had sensed his mother's presence in the homestead. He was certain that had been his mother. His aunt had never told him where his mother had come from, but now he had an idea: she had lived in Mos Espa!
"Luke?" Beru asked, noticing he'd stopped walking.
Luke blinked and shook his head. By now he was old enough to know not to mention ghosts or seeing his parents. "Just a mirage, Aunt Beru," he squeezed her hand and gave her a smile.
She smiled back. "Let's get you something to drink."
5.
"What is it?"
"Your father's lightsaber," Ben explained. He continued on and Luke pressed the power button. The saber emitted a beam of blue light.
This weapon is my life.
Luke pretended he didn't hear that as he swung the humming blade around, content to just look at it and know for once that he held something his father had. He wondered if Ben would be ok with Luke seeing ghosts and sensing remnants of his parents' presence around him. He decided not to tell him, in case Ben didn't like it.
When I finished constructing my lightsaber, Obi-Wan said to me, 'Anakin, this weapon is your life. This weapon is my life.
No, Anakin. I can't. A Jedi lightsaber is – wow, it's heavier than I thought.
It's yours. Believe me now?
His parents had held this lightsaber. Ben had given it to him as his father's lightsaber, but Luke knew that it had belonged to both his parents. And now it was his.