so, ah. originally, this was a chapter. but then i started writing the second part with greti. and, well…i hope you enjoy. and review. but only if you want to.
Handful of Leftovers
or maybe it's just a handful of dust. hands-verse. drabbles.
Ahsoka Tano slips by humans and zabraks and aliens alike, racing towards Master Windu's quarters. He wanted to see her, and NOW would be a wonderful time, Padawan Tano. (She laughed once he disconnected. After all, he was the one who trained her, found her; Ahsoka is used to all his quirks.)
Finally arriving, she pauses before stepping through the door. Makes a small bow.
"Ahsoka. Sit down." She complies. Mace offers a slight smile. "We're waiting for Sugi Berj and Biggs Darklighter. They…need to hear this, too."
Ahsoka frowns. "Hear what?"
Master Windu bores into her. "You'll see."
Greti was born on Lanteeb, she will someday be told. An Outer Rim planet that no one's heard of.
("And you're mother's name was Bohle," Qui-Gon says. "We don't know—never knew—your father's name.")
She'll be seventeen when she is told this. Long after the galaxy has met its match, and the Organa Twins took different hands. Long after Greti has met a gang of smugglers, and with them, a Force-sensitive twenty year-old who was supposed to capture her. But ended up captured himself. Long after Greti left Tattoine leaving her Jedi protector behind.
("Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"You left, remember?"
"Not by choice.")
Vader visits his family one once after he leaves. and when he goes, he finds that nothing has changed. Beru still cannot get pregnant. Vader offers to help, in anyway. Pay money for them to get off planet; see a real doctor. Use the Force. But Owen blatantly refuses.
"We don't need your help, Anakin. We are quite fine on our own."
Beru stands in the background, still not used to conceding. To let someone else—a man—make most of the decisions. But she still loves him enough to forgo Mlioik traditions.
The couple let him stay the night. But Vader leaves before either wakes. He stops briefly before his mother's grave; kneeling in the morning light.
"I'm trying Mom. But they won't listen." Anakin abeyances. "When you died, I left. Almost right away. But I'm saving the galaxy so there aren't any more murders like yours. I hope you understand."
He leaves, becoming Vader once again. And when he arrives hours after the Alliance, at the rendezvous point, Padmé doesn't say anything.