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Chapter 1
Ever since the events of Mustafar, all Darth Vader felt was pain. He felt pain from the injuries he received when Obi-Wan cut off his left arms and both of his legs before his body was set on fire. Vader's limbs had to be replaced with metal prosthetics and he would have to spend the rest of his life in a suit of armor that acted as a life support system.
But that pain was nothing compared to the pain he was feeling because of the death of his beloved wife, Padmé. When Vader was still Anakin, he had found out that Padmé was pregnant with their child. At first Anakin was nervous, but he was mostly overjoyed at the news. But that changed when he started to have prophetic nightmares about dying in childbirth. He couldn't go to the Jedi Order because it was forbidden for a Jedi Knight to be married. But Chancellor Palpatine who was really the Sith Lord, Darth Sidious, gave him hope if Anakin became his apprentice. Anakin agreed and became the Sith Apprentice, Darth Vader. Darth Vader did terrible things to save Padmé, but it was all for nothing.
Right now Vader had no option but to stay loyal to Sidious and enforce the law of the Empire that he helped create as the second in command and the commander of the Imperial Army. Right now Vader had to travel to planets that were part of the Empire to force the leaders of that world take the Oath of Loyalty. But Vader knew the real reason why Sidious had him do this, he wanted to see which leaders and senators were loyal and which ones that the Empire had to be suspicious of. He had just had a meeting with Mon Mothma, who Vader found very suspicious, and now he was traveling to Alderaan to meet with Bail Organa.
Vader couldn't help but notice that most of the planetary leaders that ended up on the suspicious list were close friends of Padmé. Even Queen Apailana, who was the young newly ejected Queen of Naboo who was endorsed by Padmé and was Padmé's protégé, ended up on the suspicious list. He was torn between protecting the Empire and keeping himself from doing something that he knew would end up breaking Padmé's heart. But in the end Vader knew that he had no choice in the matter.
Once Vader's ship landed, he walked out and made his way to the royal palace. Vader hated to admit it, but he was impressed with Alderaan, it was almost as beautiful as Naboo. But Vader also noticed a very strong disturbance in the Force. I must find this disturbance before I leave, thought Vader as he walked into the palace and the disturbance became a lot stronger.
Vader found Bail's aide, Sheltay Retrac, and grabbed her arm as she walked by him. "Tell Viceroy Bail Organa that I am here to receive his Oath of Loyalty to the Empire," growled Vader.
"Of course Lord Vader," said Sheltay before he quickly ran off to get her boss.
While Vader was waiting he felt the disturbance in the Force reaching out to him. It like it needed him and it was wanting him to find it. What are you, thought Vader as he started to walk to the source of the disturbance. But the only response was the disturbance beckoned to him.
He was led to a door, now that he was so close, he felt the disturbance really start to beg for him to come in, so he used the Force to rip open the door. In the room was Queen Breha who was holding a crying baby girl. Breha was trying calm the little girl down, but when she saw Vader a look of fear crossed her face.
Vader strode over to Breha and held out his hands. "May I hold her," asked Vader who was surprised by how gentle he was acting and sounding.
"Don't worry, I can get her to calm down on my own," said Breha as the baby was reaching out to Vader.
"Obviously what you are doing is not working. She wants to hold her, now hand her to me," snapped Vader. All Breha could do now was reluctantly was hand the baby over to Vader. The baby stopped crying and she started to smile as she reached for Vader's mask. She looks like Padmé, thought Vader in shock.
"What is her name," asked Vader.
"Leia," was all Breha said. At that point Vader knew that the baby Leia was his daughter.
"I have one question, why do you have my daughter," said Vader feeling anger rise inside of him.
When Sheltay told Bail that Vader was waiting for him to give the Oath of Loyalty to the Empire, he ran to where he was told that Vader would be waiting. Bail was shocked to find that Vader was no longer waiting there. He then feared that Vader found Breha and Leia and ran to the room where Breha took Leia. When he made it to the room, he Vader holding Leia while Breha was sitting there and crying.
Vader then used the Force to push Bail against the wall. "Tell me Viceroy Organa, why shouldn't I kill you for keeping my daughter from me," said Vader in a calm yet deadly tone of voice.
"Because as long as your Master is still alive, I am the only person who can keep her safe," said Bail.
"I am already planning on destroying my Master when I get the chance to, she will be safe with me," said Vader as he held Leia in a very protective manner. In spite of the darkness in Vader, he could tell that Vader loved Leia very much.
"Perhaps we can come up with a compromise," said Breha as she started to wipe away her tears. Vader was so shocked at hearing Breha speak up that he let go of Bail.
"What is this compromise," asked Vader.
"Leia will live with us as our adopted daughter and you can come to visit her whenever you want to. You can be a father to her too because I can tell that you both love each other very much," said Breha. Bail didn't know how he would feel about Vader coming by to visit whenever he wanted to, but he feared that this was the only option that he could take if he wanted to keep Leia on Alseraan.
Vader looked like he was thinking on the matter and Bail feared that Vader would say no and take Leia away from them. "You are right, Leia would be safer living here. I will also make sure that my Master will not be suspicious of you Viceroy," said Vader who was now holding Leia closer to him.
"Thank you Lord Vader, we owe you our lives," said Bail.
"I just have one more question, I was told that in my anger that I killed Padmé. Will you tell me if she is really dead or if she is alive," asked Vader.
"You didn't kill her, but I am sorry to tell you that she died in childbirth," said Bail who decided to not tell Vader that he had a son named Luke.
"Please, I need to be left alone with my daughter," said Vader. Both Bail and Breha quickly left the room. When the door was closed sounds came from that room that they could tell was Vader sobbing.
On Tattoonie Owen and Beru were taking care of Luke. Because Beru couldn't have children of her own, she was very happy when Obi-Wan brought Luke to them so they could raise him. While they didn't know Owen's step brother, Anakin Skywalker, very well they instantly fell in love with the little baby boy.
Even Owen who was usually so gruff and quiet gained a soft spot for Luke too. But the same couldn't be said for Obi-Wan who decided to stay on Tattooine in hopes of helping raise Luke. Owen feared that Obi-Wan wanted to make Luke become a Jedi Knight and it would make Luke fall to the Dark Side since he had blamed the Jedi Order for Anakin falling to the Dark Side.
Beru flinched thinking about the last time Obi-Wan came to check on Luke a couple days ago. Owen feared that Obi-Wan came there to start what he called the Jedi Brainwashing and started to shout at Obi-Wan as he waved his blaster rifle in Obi-Wan's face. Obi-Wan looked hurt, but he left without too many objections.
Both were quite surprised to hear the buzzer at their door since they didn't get very many visitors. "Do you think that Obi-Wan decided to take Luke away because of your recent confrontation with him," asked Beru fearfully.
"I won't let him take Luke," said Owen as he grabbed the blaster rifle and made his way to the door. When they opened the door they were surprised to see Padmé standing there instead of Obi-Wan.
