ThoseEyes
GeneralKenobi. YearsagoyouservedmyfatherintheCloneWars. NowhebegsyoutohelphiminhisstruggleagainsttheEmpire. IregretthatIamunabletoconveymyfather'srequesttoyouinperson, butmyshiphasfallenunderattack, andI'mafraidmymissiontobringyoutoAlderaanhasfailed. IhaveplacedinformationvitaltothesurvivaloftheRebellionintothememorysystemsofthisR2 unit. Myfatherwillknowhowtoretrieveit. YoumustseethisdroidsafelydeliveredtohimonAlderaan. Thisisourmostdesperatehour. Helpme, Obi-WanKenobi. You'remyonlyhope.
Obi-wan leaned back and regarded the woman who was shown in the hologram. He scratched absently at his beard and looked at her. The eyes. She had her mother's eyes and he remembered those eyes looking out of a soft round face of a baby he had cradled in his arms so many years ago.
In a moment, he was transported back to that time when the galaxy had been so different. She was strong, just as her mother had been in those days. Padme had never given in, no matter what was happening around her. Obi-wan knew that Leia was just the same way. The resolve in her eyes was the same as Padme's had been as she stood up to so many people during the Clone Wars.
She was defiant, just as Padme had been when she was a young queen. Telling Master Jinn that she would go along when they were stranded on Tatooine. He felt the same kind of fire coming from the image now being played for him by the R2 unit. Obi-wan just didn't want it to be the same kind of fire that Anakin held within. That was the kind of fire that destroyed and did not empower.
He had grown older, being the only one left of the group of people who began their journey together all those years ago when it seemed the the galaxy was so new. There was no mistaking that she was Anakin's child. There also was no mistaking that she was Padme's daughter. He prefered to think of her as Padme's child because thinking of Anakin was far too painful even after all these years.
Did she know that he was the very first person to hold her? Of course she didn't. Neither did this boy who sat here now. There had been no hope that day and Obi-wan had often wondered if everyone involved, including himself had done the right thing with these children. It was so hard to see this far ahead and see what they would become and how important they both now were to the galaxy.
Obi-wan could see from the way Leia conducted herself in the holo image that Bail Organa had given her the upbringing she had needed. Luke too had been given a stable home, yet he had been told so much more than Leia. Leia had always called Bail her father, but Luke knew that Owen was not his father and that his father had been a pilot. Owen had agreed to at least tell the boy that much, but nothing more. Anakin was to be wiped away from everyone's memory, but Obi-wan still remembered.
He was sad that Anakin and Padme had missed all the times in their children's lives when they needed their parents. How he wished that Padme just could've held on for the children, but her heart was so deeply broken and she was injured from Anakin's outburst, that she couldn't stay, even for them. She gave them names and then could give them no more..
It was Obi-wan's turn to stand in for her. He would be the protector of her children and he had to get Leia away from her father. He had to make sure that the twins met again. They would be powerful, but they needed to find each other.
"You must learn the ways of the force if you are to go with me to Alderaan," he said gently and looked at Luke.