LAST HOPE.
Luke and Leia weren't the first children of Padme and Anakin, Kennera Skywalker was born nine months after their marriage; raised by Yoda after Anakin turned, she is Anakin's last hope.
PROLOGUE.
"Time it is," Yoda told her as she woke, "Go now to your Father, you must."
Kennera felt her heart beat faster, she hadn't seen her Father in 19 years; she'd been three when he'd turned to the Darkside, old enough to know something bad had happened, old enough to remember her Father the way he had been before he had become 'Darth Vader.
All her life, Kennera had known that she was her father's last hope for redemption, Luke and Leia had no connection to him, no bond forged by love and trust. She had been trained as a Jedi, like her Father; now at 22 she was a Jedi Knight, Yoda had given her the Title a week ago, now he was sending her to do her duty.
"I will not fail," even now after so long apart, she could still feel her father; could feel the good in him, buried beneath the rage and hatred. "I will save him," that was her task, to free her Father from the Darkside and bring him back to the Lightside of the Force.
Yoda nodded, "good. Go now, you will."
Kennera stood and smiled, "I'll say good bye to Mom first." She didn't wait for a reply, walking into a separate section of the small hut; she knelt beside the 'sleeping' form of her Mother; she'd been 'asleep' for the past 19 years, having been placed in a healing trance to stop her from dying. Only one thing could save her though; her Father, Anakin Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Only he could give her Mother the strength to live again.
Smiling, Kennera reached out and brushed back a lock of her hair, "I miss you Mama." Closing her eyes, she sniffed and shook her head, "I will save him, I promise. It'll be ok, when you wake up, I'll have Dada here with me." Leaning forward, she pressed her lips to her Mother's forehead. "I love you, so much."
She emerged from the room a few minutes later and nodded "it was an honour to learn from you Master."
"Your feelings, you must trust." Yoda told her, "learned well, you have."
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Darth Vader stood beside the Emperor with his arms crossed as the Stormtroopers approached, marching the young woman towards him.
He saw her eyes widen before she closed her eyes and breathed deeply; he could feel the Force around her, she wasn't just Force sensitive, she'd been trained to use it. As he looked at her, Vader couldn't help feeling as though he had seen her before; something about her was, familiar.
"Who are you, girl." His voice was a stern rasp through the respirator as he stared at her.
She smiled and folded her arms in an imitation of him, "you used to call me Nera."
Vader blinked, "Kennera?" This was his daughter?
Kennera grinned, "Hello Father."