Homecoming.

Even from the approach, the planet looked beautiful. Naboo was a brilliant gem of green and blue against the black blanket of space. As the Jade Fire started its landing cycle, Ben Skywalker looked over at his father with concern. Although his mother had recently passed away and he himself was missing her terribly, this was going to be rough on his father.

His father guided the ship over the smooth grass plains and the blue glass like oceans as they approached the space port. Neither father nor son had ever visited this planet which has such a strong connection to them. It is the birth planet of the Emperor, but much more importantly, Padme Amidala's home.

Ben also noticed that there appeared to be something wrong with R2 D2. Maybe 'wrong' was incorrect term; Ben mused as he observed the little pepper pot of a droid. The droid was standing on his 'tip toes' trying desperately to see out of the canopy, whilst making mournful wooing sounds.

You'd think he was home sick or something, thought Ben.

The ship followed the flight path over the capital city, taking in the breath taking waterfalls and stunning marble like buildings, and put down in the cleanest landing bay Ben had ever seen. His father powered down the engines and took off the pilot headset.

"Ready?" Luke asked.

"Dunno," replied Ben, "But I reckon Artoo's been ready since we took off."

Sure enough, the little droid was already stood by the door bleeping loudly.

"It's not surprising really." explained Luke. "He was built here."

He walked over to the access panel and opened the door. There was an excited Bleep from the droid and it raced down the landing ramp and started to circle madly round the landing bay.

"Calm down Artoo. You'll break a servo or two." Luke called after him.

Ben smiled. R2 D2 had turned out to have quite a history attached to the Skywalkers, as did C-3PO who was with his Aunt and Uncle on Courscant. It was only now with the latest data retrieval techniques that they had discovered that both droids had known his grandfather and grandmother all this time. C3PO had received a memory wipe at some point and R2 D2 had received some nasty battle damage when the first Death Star had been destroyed. It took time to put the pieces back together again.

A custom official approached the Skywalkers with obvious trepidation, almost fear.

"Grand Master Skywalker..erm." He asked, not sure how to proceed.

"Yes Officer?" replied his Father.

"I've been ordered to inquire about the reason for your visit." Explained the Officer, "Is there a reason why a Jedi Master is visiting Naboo?"

Luke looked a little taken aback by this question and then realisation dawned. "Oh no, officer. I'm not here on any republic business. The Force hasn't guided us here to investigate any problems. I assure you this is a personal visit."

The officer looked relived for a second and then concerned again. "Personal?"

Luke smiled. "Yes. That's right. We'll be here for a few days and then be on our way."

Ben thought the officer was going to pry some more but instead looked satisfied with the answer. It was understandable. Ben had seen this happen a lot. If a Jedi Master turns up unannounced, then the locals would get nervous because they assume they're here to stop something bad and that normally meant some kind of trouble.

"Very well Sir." The Custom Officer replied, "I'll authorise you for five days. If you need to stay longer, you'll have to come back to me for an extension."

"That's perfectly fine Officer." replied Luke, "One final thing. Is there an address directory available somewhere? I've got a few places to look up?"

"Certainly." replied the officer looking intrigued, "The Ministry of Records. I'll give you this travel guide and highlight it for you."

Ben smiled. He knew the datapad would have some kind of tracking device in it. It was reported that Naboo was a bit paranoid when it came to force users. Maybe some kind of hangover from Palpatine but if his father was able to take it in his stride, he'd accept it.

"Thank you," said Luke, "Most helpful."

He then turned to find R2, who was still tearing round the Landing Bay.

"Ok Artoo, That's enough!" he called. "Come on Ben, we've got people to find."

It was very serine and peaceful walking round the capital city. There were a couple of people about but they didn't take any notice of the two Jedi and they're droid. Ben noticed that this world, people didn't really talk to each other; they just walked around as if they had the weight of the world on their shoulders. Something didn't feel right.

"Dad?" He looked over at his father who had the same puzzled expression.

"Yes Ben, I feel it too."

"Is it the dark side?"

"No." Luke paused and sighed, "It's vague and fleeting. Not a evil feeling, just sadness."

"It's across the entire world isn't it?"

"I think so. It's as if the entire planet is suffering from some kind of malaise."

"You don't think its shame?"

"Shame?"

"Well, this is the old Emperor's home planet. Some kind of collective guilt?"

Luke smiled.

"No, it's not shame. There were so many who were fooled by him, there's no shame attached," He concentrated, allowing his feelings to stretch out. "No, this is a sense of loss, sadness which cover's this entire planet like a shroud."

At that moment, Artoo emitted a high pitch squeal of excitement. He turned off down an alleyway as fast as his servos could allow. Both father and son looked at each other, confused by their droid's behaviour, and started to pursue him. Artoo could move fast if he wanted to, but for a droid his age, he had to be careful about running his powercells down. Both Ben and Luke caught up with him at a crossroads in the alleyways.

"What's got into you?" Ben asked, slightly out of breath.

Artoo trilled a reply and his pepper pot home scanned his surroundings and then without warning, he shot off again in a different direction. He led the two jedi on a merry chase through the maze of narrow alleyways, sometimes even doubling back on himself until finally he came across a quite modest dwelling. Here the droid stopped and let out a small mournful chirp.

"So what's here?" Luke asked him.

"The datapad says this is the residence of a Ryoo Naberrie." said Ben.

"Naberrie?" said his father in surprise. "I wonder if she's related to Pooja?"

"Cousin Pooja?" said Ben.

"Only one way to find out."

Luke rang the bell, and waited. There was a shuffling of feet and an old lady, ten to twelve years Luke's senior, opened the door.

"Yes?" She asked in an unsure type of way.

At this point, R2-D2 almost exploded with excitement. Bleeping and whirring as if his head was going to pop off. The old lady seemed quite taken aback by the noise the droid was taking and then, ignoring the two people who'd rung the door chime, approached the droid.

"R2?" She asked.

The droid stopped making the noise and bleep a single affirmative.

"Oh My! After all this time!" She exclaimed, He bent down and to both Ben and Luke's surprise, gave the droid a huge hug. She then stood up and turned to face Luke and then staggered back in shock.

"You!" She exclaimed, and then paused and looked closer, "Oh, thank goodness, you're not."

"Erm, Hello. I'm Luke…" Luke started but the old woman cut him off.

"Skywalker. I know that." She smiled, "So nice for family to visit."

She walked up to him and looked at him, as if examining every facet of his face.

"Mostly the father," she said, almost to herself, "But I can see your mother in there too."

Ben thought it would be a good moment to interrupt, "Excuse me, are you any relation to Pooja…"

He got caught off guard with the interrupted reply.

"Sister. She's my sister, which makes your… " She paused looking between the two jedi, unsure how to continue.

"Father." explained Ben.

"Really? My my. The family doesn't stop growing does it." She smiled, "Well, that makes me your father's cousin and you my second cousin?" She seemed to loose her focus for a second, "or is it third. I can never keep track of all these extended family terms. Anyway, come on in. I suppose you have some questions and to tell you the truth, I could do with some company."

She shuffled into dwelling and called back, "Well come in, if you're coming. Oh and Artoo, the recharge socket and the caff maker are where they've always been."

Trilling happily the droid passed his stunned companions and entered the dwelling. Ben looked at his father and, with a shrug, followed the droid inside. Luke realised he liked pleasant surprises like this as he followed his son.

"I've kept it all hidden for years." said Ryoo, as she started to dig through a draw next to her comfy looking armchair.

They were all in a small, clean living room with a modest well used couch facing the slightly out of date holo projector in the corner. The back wall covered in holograms and photos of various family members, which Luke was quickly scanning over, trying to see if there was any reference to his mother. The family resemblance was startling, especially to his sister. He, however, must have inherited his father's features.

Ryoo sat down in her chair with a satisfying thump and took a deep breath, watching both visitor's carefully.

"Should I call you Aunt Ryoo?" asked Ben, with a smile.

"Young man," She replied with a smile, "of course you can. Although before you go, I'd like a holo of the two of you to put on the wall."

"Of course. Dad?"

But Luke didn't react, he was looking at the family he didn't know he had and was incredibly overwhelmed, just by the sheer scale.

"Dad?" repeated Ben.

"Yes. of course." He said bringing himself back into the present, "Sorry, it's just I never realised that my mother's family was so big."

"Yes, Let's see. That's my son and daughter, and that's they're partners and then there's my grandkids." said Ryoo, pointing to various images. "There are my Mum and Dad. You won't find anything of your parents up there, but these are your grand parents. Padme's mother and father."

Luke just stared at the image of his grandparents. This was the first time he'd ever seen it. He couldn't believe it, actual proof of his family. He could feel the emotion bubbling just below the surface. An uneasy silence settled on the room as Luke couldn't take his eyes away from them.

"Err." Said Ben "Are they still with us?"

"Oh no. They passed on just before the Death Star was destroyed. Padme's death hit them very hard. I always got the feeling that they kept going just for my mother's sake." There was a sad pause. "She passed on quite recently too."

"I wish I could have met them." said Luke.

"Oh the feeling would have been mutual." Ryoo smiled. "The one thing they loved was family and to find out that Padme had kids would have meant the universe to them."

"You were saying about my parents?" asked Luke, trying to fight back the emotion.

"Well, when your mother died, we didn't know who your father was but we had our suspicions. It didn't seem to matter though because the pregnancy she was buried with must have been a fake. We did a little investigation and found out that Anakin Skywalker had been listed under the casualties on the attack on the Jedi Council. That, however, seemed to gain the attention of Darth Vader."

There was an urgent look between father and son, which their relative picked up on straight away.

"Anyway, we hid all the evidence of any connection between Padme and the Jedi. We even moved her body, just in case. I take it that there's more of a connection with Vader than we realised?"

Luke hated this part. It wasn't well known outside of his inner circles of friends, even after all this time, that Darth Vader had been Anakin Skywalker all along. Luke didn't want his father's exploits and heroism of the clone wars to be diminished by his fall but this was different. Here in front of him was family and she had a right to know what happened to her Aunt.

Artoo broke up this moment by bringing in Kaff and snacks. Luke sat down and slowly, quietly explained what happened between his mother and father. How his father had turned to the dark side to try and save his mother from death in childbirth but instead destroyed everything he loved. Luke had suspicions that the Emperor had been able to plant images and dreams into his father's mind believing that his mother would die but he there was no way of knowing if they were correct.

Would things have been different if Anakin had not given in to his fear for Padme or if he'd never had the dreams in the first place? One thing was for certain, Anakin wouldn't have been in place to kill the Emperor, if he had resisted. But then would Mace Windoo have killed the Emperor and fallen to the dark side himself? In the end, this kind of questioning was a moot point. Although, as master Yoda would say, the future may always be in motion, the past is always set. After he had finished, he looked at Ryoo, scared that she would blame him, but all Ryoo did was wipe a single tear away and give him a small nod.

"When did you find all this out?"

"Properly? A couple of years ago. Artoo here was there to see it all but had suffered a lot of damage over the years."

"Yes, of course he would be. Always Padme's favourite pet droid."

"Really? My mother's droid?" Luke said surprised, turning his attention to Artoo. "That damage must have been worse that it looked!"

Artoo gave and innocent whistle and trundled off.

"Oh please don't be too hard on him. It must have been difficult for him as well." Ryoo said.

"Remember Dad that C-3PO was your father's droid all this time as well." interjected Ben.

Luke blew out his frustration but still the thought of having all these answers years ago was difficult to accept. Artoo nervously looked back through the doorway from the kitchen.

"It's Ok. Artoo." he said, "I'm not going to be angry about this."

"Did they swap droids instead of wedding rings at their marriage?" Ben asked innocently.

Luke snorted, suppressing a laugh. Ryoo cackled as Artoo sounded offended by this remark. There was a knock at the door and after Ryoo had called that the door was open, a small boy entered the room carrying a small box. He was aged eight or nine and it was then the family resemblance between Ben and the newcomer was so evident to Luke.

"Hi Gran," Said the small boy. "I got the box you wanted."

"Thank you Gregory." Said Ryoo. "Can you stay a while?"

"Sure thing Gran. Mum had a little difficulty finding it but here it is."

"Give it here young man, and I'd like you to say hello to Luke and Ben. We've just found out that they're part of our family too."

"Really?" Gregory looked unimpressed by this statement until he noticed Luke and then recognition dawned. He just stared at him a little awestruck.

"Gregory." Ryoo called softly, "Its rude to stare, now sit up on this armchair while I show you some very important holos."

With a muted 'Yes, Gran', the little boy teared his attention away from Luke and Ben and sat on the armchair. Ryoo, reached into the box and took out a datapad. She activated it and a head and shoulder holo appeared of Padme Amidala. This was one of the first times Luke had seen his mother's face in so much detail. He could see where Leia had gotten her looks from. A beautiful, flawless face, you could see her intelligence in her eyes and her hair dragged up in a bun. She looked remote and emotionless. And then she started to speak, with a strange mix of trepidation and happiness.

"The chancellor was quite insistent about the increase in my personal security. It was only when he suggested that Jedi Master Obi-wan Kenobi be involved that I considered it. It would be nice to see him again and I wonder if Ani is still with him."

The message stopped.

"Ani!" Ben exclaimed.

He started laughing at the fact that one of the most feared Sith Lords of recent times had been called Annie. His laughter subsided in an awkward way when he saw his father's face. Luke was looking distraught. Pictures or recordings of the former senator were very rare. Luke had suspected that either his father or the Emperor had a hand in making sure that the galaxy forgot about the woman who'd been the Queen of Naboo. Seeing her talk hit him like a spice freighter.

"This is part of her diaries." Ryoo said, "It cover's a time just before the clone wars started. I'll upload it to Artoo before you go."

She reached into the box and produced about twenty holos, each showing Padme in a different situation, One of her as the Queen of Naboo, one on her first day as senator. In each there was a familiar little droid lurking in the background. And then there was a Holo of her wedding. A gold C3PO as there in addition to R2, but it was the man she was marrying who captured their attention.

Tall, strong and handsome, Anakin Skywalker had never looked happier. Any images they'd found of Anakin had always had some kind of grimace or a remote look of determination. This was the first time he looked relaxed. Padme herself looked stunning in the white gown she was wearing and she looked so happy. It made the recordings that they recovered from Artoo much harder to accept. How could something this beautiful, turn so ugly.

More holo's were produced, some of his father or both of them talking in her senate office. You could tell these were secret holos, not really for anybody apart from the couple involved. Luke knew because even at this point, had this relationship been discovered, his father would have been expelled from the Jedi order.

"Although, we've always been confused about this." said Ryoo, producing a braid of hair from the box.

Luke gasped, his father's padawan hair brand.

"In the old Jedi Order, tradition demanded that a padawan wear a hair brand. " Luke explained as he picked it up, "Once they passed the trials and became a knight, the brand was removed by the padawans master lightsabre."

This is something that Luke didn't expect, to hold anything from his father was astounding.

"Well, you can keep that." Ryoo said, "but I'd like to keep the original holo's for my wall."

"Can we have copies?" asked Ben enthusiastically, before Luke could protest.

"Of course," said Ryoo.

They stayed at Ryoo's for a couple of days, meeting new members of Padme's side of the family. They were all so welcoming that Ben thought that it helped his father deal with what he'd being going through lately. However, Ben knew that this time of reconciliation and peace wouldn't last too long. They were now included on Ryoo's family wall and messages were sent to Leia, Han and Jiana that they would be welcome to visit the extended family anytime they wanted.

They were preparing to leave on the second day when Ryoo came up to them with two leaving gifts. The first a small jar of Kaff and the second was a datapad.

"This is Padme's favourite type of Kaff." Ryoo explained, "It was the only thing that kept her going on the long senate sessions."

She handed it over but looked quite hesitant about the datapad.

"This is difficult for me," She said pausing nervously but then she handed the datapad to Luke, "But this is the location of your mother's grave, after we moved her body. "

Luke took the datapad with a mixture of reluctance and excitement. Ryoo gave R2 a goodbye hug.

"I'd like to think she'd want you to visit at some point."

"I will." assured Luke.

"Oh and when you see him." said Ryoo, "Please tell him, it really isn't his fault."

"Who?" asked Ben.

But Ryoo never said, she just smiled as they left.

They arrived at a small graveyard, not far outside the capital city. Both Jedi could feel the oppressive feeling again, only this time slightly stronger than before. Artoo was managing quite well on the increasingly rocky ground. The graveyard was in a rather poor state of repair, with most of the gravestones or tombs a little shabby with the exception of one.

It stood not far off the main path and was the size of a small house. The datapad showed them that the tomb in good repair was the one they were after. For a couple of minutes, they walked round the mausoleum but found no entrance and no notice of who's last resting place this was. Ben looked over the datapad again and walked over to the south facing wall. He slid his hand behind a small rose carving and there was a small click.

Luke was taken aback by the door opening on the eastern side as it almost hit him. The curious thing was that he had no warning from the force. It was at that moment he retreated a little in panic.

"Ben, take four five steps back." He ordered.

As Ben did so, he suddenly became aware of the force again. It was as if the force didn't exist in that tomb. He looked over to his father.

"Yasimari?" he asked.

His father nodded, drew his lightsabre as a precaution, and began to venture back in. It was a subtle thing, the force retreated from the jedi's perception, like light slowly fading over a long sunset. You wonldn't really notice it if you weren't concentrating. There was no light in the tomb, it was so quiet and still. Ben produced a glow rod and began to shine it around.

The interior consisted of a single room, there were unoccupied shelves along each side where future generations could be interred. At the back of this room was a single stone coffin or alter and up against it was a small yasimari support cage. They approached with a little trepidation.

"There's probably only one in that cage." said Luke as he got closer.

"Should we leave it?" replied Ben.

"It looks new." said Luke, examining the cage when he was close enough. "This was installed recently."

"Well, somebody must care enough about here because it's much better than the others round here."

"We'sa care very much for m'lady." Said an old croachaty voice behind them.

They quickly spun round and faced the voice. Two Gungans stood in the doorway. One looked about Luke's age and was covering them both with a blaster. The other was tall, gangly looking but using a walking stick to support himself. He was obviously very old. Walking towards them, in a mannor that reminded Luke of Master Yoda, the gungan looked straight into Luke's face and asked in the same raspy voice.

"Who'sa are yousa?"

"Erm, Luke and Ben Skywalker" said Ben, trying to work out if he should smash the Yasimari cage and kill the reached thing, allowing his father to disarm the armed gundam.

The old Gungan snorted.

"A likely o tello." replied the armed gunman.

"My lightsabre's on my belt if you want to see." Said Luke.

"Give it to me slooowly." Demanded the old gungan and Luke obliged. Luke caught Ben's eye and Ben saw his father shake his head very subtly. Ben resolved to follow his father's lead and try and talk this one out.

The gungan walked in front of the two men and with someone who had some experience with lightsabers activated it, lighting up the tomb with an eerie green light. The Gungan looked relieved at this, closed the weapon down and handed it back. He nodded to his armed associate and he put his weapon away. The younger gungan, then felt around one of the walls and there was a soft click and the tomb was filled with a soft white light.

"Have we come to the right place?" Ben asked, "This is the last resting place of Padme Amidala?"

"Yes, of course it is." said the younger Gungan. "My father here makes sure it maintained and protected. He owed her a life debt and this is his way of paying it back."

"And if yousa knew about honour, you'd understand." The older Gungan shot back at his son.

The son sighed, "Father, you've been doing this for, how long now? Sixty years?"

There was an awkward pause.

"Sixty four years." The old one confirmed.

"By the force." Luke was astonished, "Sixty four years?"

"That's some dedication!" said Ben.

"Yes he's so dedicated to this, he's lost his dignity, his status and his family." The bitterness was evident in the son's voice, "All for some forgotten aristocrat."

"Padme Amidala, save my life and everybody's life on Naboo several times over. You wouldn't be here if it wasn't for her."

"Erm," Luke tried to interrupt," I got some questions about this tomb?"

It looked as if the argument between the two Gungans was about to get worse when Ben let loose an Ear shredding whistle. This had a worse effect on two Gungans who clutched their ears in agony.

"Right, Now that I've got your attention " said Ben, "Since you two are dealing with family matters we all have something in common. I want to know about my grandmother and his mother!"

"M'lady's child died with her." said the old Gungan. "I was there when we buried her."

"It was faked," explained Luke, "The children were Anakin Skywalker and Padme's. They would have been seen by the Emperor as a threat. Both myself and my sister were hidden. I only found out who my mother was recently and this is the first opportunity I've had to visit."

"I don't believe it." Said the old Gungan when Artoo entered to tomb. He trilled in recognition at the older gundam.

"Isa don't believe it." He repeated when he saw the little droid.

"Don't tell me," said Ben. "He knows R2 as well."

The old Gungan shuffled over to the little droid and examined it.

"Good to see you Boyo" he said slowly.

Ben turned to his father. "How come of all the millions of astromech droids in the galaxy, everyone remembers R2?"

"Well, it's hard to forget him, isn't it." Smiled Luke back and then turned his attention back to the other two beings. "Can you tell me your name?"

"He doesn't mention his name, "explained the son, walking over to them. "To be honest, he's shamed about his name and the dishonour that comes with it."

"Really? I would have thought that the dedication to looking after this place would have made him very honourable." said Luke.

"Not when your name is Binks."

The blank looks from the Jedi showed that name wasn't recognised, which the younger gundam looked relieved about. He looked back at his father who was still trying to talk to the droid. He lowered his voice so his father wouldn't hear.

"Jar Jar Binks?"

Still no recognition.

"This is ancient history now but when the clone wars started, you know that Naboo was the swinging vote when they wanted to approve the clone army?" Explained Jar Jar's son.

The two Jedi nodded.

"It wasn't Senator Amidala who made that vote. She was dead against it. However, she had to go into hiding due to the threats on her life. She left representative Binks in charge. She thought he would follow her lead and that the clone army act would be defeated."

"He obviously didn't follow her lead," said Luke, regarding the old Gundam with a little more respect.

"No, He was tricked or manipulated by the chancellor to give him the power to approve the clone army and that started the slide towards the Empire."

"Oh." Said Ben. "He thinks it's his fault?"

"Exactly, He thinks that the clone wars and everything since was caused by that one vote. When the senator died, all he could do was look after her grave." He paused and looked more sympathetically at his father. "It's the guilt really. It's driven him to despair sometimes."

"Ironically, if he hadn't won the vote then the Jedi, my mother and father would have been killed in the first battle of Genonsis." explained Luke, recalling the records of the time. "And Palpatine would have had his empire a lot soon than anyone would have expected and my sister and I wouldn't exist."

"Kind of makes your brain hurt when you think about it." Said Ben turning his attention to the gundam infront of them, "so you are?"

"Asbo Bar Binks." He said, "Long suffering son."

Jar Jar Binks, having finished talking to R2, hobbled over to the rest of the group.

"Jar Jar?" Luke asked, "When did you meet my father?"

"Hmm?" Jar Jar looked vacant as he recalled, "Oh he wasa little boy on Tantooine. He saved me and everybody on Naboo and then went to off to be a big bombad Jedi. He died when Vader attacked the Jedi and Vader killed M'lady."

Ben and Luke exchanged glances again. Maybe in this case, it was better to leave it that way. It was true from a certain point of view.

"Why the Yasimari, Jar Jar?" It was Ben's turn to ask.

"Vader came to Naboo once." Jar Jar explained, looking pained. "I think he was looking for m'Lady. I heard that a Yasimari would stop the Sith from finding her, so I bought one and there's been one here ever since."

"Vader was here?" asked Luke.

"He killed the Queen at the time and she was replaced by an Imperial governor." explained Asbo.

"Bad Times," agreed Jar Jar.

"But Vader's gone now." said Luke, "The Yasimari can go."

"I suppose." Jar Jar agreed reluctantly. "But I thought it gave M'lady peace."

"Father, I can take it away any time you like." offered Asbo.

The Gundam nodded, Asbo lifted the cage and carried it out of the Mausoleum. As soon as it was out of range, then the feeling that had been nagging at both Jedi for their entire visit here was unleashed. Overwhelming sadness and loss with a small bright light of forgiveness, hit both jedi, causing them both to stagger as if a huge weight had placed on his shoulders.

Mother? Luke thought, Its Luke!

There wasn't a verbal response but the feelings of sadness retreated, to be replaced with one of confused hopefulness.

My father saved me, Luke thought. In the end, he remembered who he was and he saved everyone Mom. There was good still in him.

The feeling of loss was replaced with a massive burst of forgiveness, which hit both the Jedi. Both Luke and Ben found their legs gave way under the intensity of the emotion and they collapsed to the floor. Jar Jar remained in place but also appeared to be in some kind of trance.

This is your grandson. Explained Luke Ben, named after Obi-wan. Leia is fine and she has a daughter as well. Your granddaughter.

There was such a warm feeling of love and comfort, that Luke didn't want it to end.

I had a wife but she died recently, I really wish you could have met her as well. I didn't know where or who you were for so long. He paused, unsure what to say. I wish I could have met you, known you, just for a little while.

Just for a second, he felt a brush of contact, a soft gentle hand stoking his cheek as only a mother can to her child. It was alright, everything was going to be all right and then it was gone. All of it, the loss, the sadness, the love and forgiveness. The two jedi recovered, Luke trying to stand found that tears were flowing unbidden down his face.

"Dad? Dad!" Ben's voice brought him back to the present. He focused on his son and gave a weak smile.

"That was intense." Ben said.

"I believe that your grandmother had a reputation for being intense." replied Luke, getting to his feet and wiping his eyes.

"Jar Jar?" he said, turning to the Gundam. "I'm sure I can speak on my mother's behalf. You're life debt has been paid for several times over. You can go in peace."

"I thinksa, you maybe right." Said Jar Jar, "I gotta that feeling from her just then."

Nodding to R2, they left the tomb, the droid closed the door and sealed it.

"Jar Jar?" Luke said, "It wasn't really your fault."

"I knows that now. m'lady just told me." he paused, looking over both Luke and Ben, and grinned goofily. "You really are Ani and Padme's boy."

Asbo joined them and then his father said. "We'sa done here boyo."

"Really?"

"Yes, Really." confirmed Jar Jar, "Now I could really do with some goober fish pie."

With a shake of the hand, the two gundams left Ben, Luke and Artoo outside the Tomb. They looked at each other but not a word was said or needed. Clapping his son on the shoulder and then giving the little droid a pat on the dome, they walked away. Feeling so much better about life as they walked through the meadow and hearing the distant roar of the waterfalls.

She watched them go. Her family and those she loved. She was satisfied and at peace. A woman with red hair appeared next to her.

"Luke always knows what to say because he always speaks from the heart." said the woman. "And that's why we all love him."

Padme nodded, she knew who this woman was the moment she appeared.

"But it's time to go." The woman said as she turned and walked away, "There's someone I'd like to take you to meet. He's so very sorry."

Giving Luke and Ben one final glance, she smiled and then followed her Daughter in Law into the light.