Millennium Falcon

Main Common Area

In Hanger Bay 2 of the Resolve

1 hour later

"Are you Ok, Luke?" Solo demanded.

Luke looked up a trifle blearily. Leia was sitting on the bench next to him, and she had a similarly bewildered look on her face.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he said, then added indignantly, "Leia's just as surprised as I am. Why aren't you asking her how she is doing with this crazy piece of news?"

"She looks surprised, you look drunk," Han explained calmly.

There was an accompanying roar from Chewbacca the Wookie, who had been tinkering on the starboard engine of the Falcon when the newly discovered twins had made a hasty retreat from the med bay, where they had sworn the med droid to secrecy over the startling news.

Luke scowled, "I'm not drunk."

He wasn't. They had celebrated with one glass of the Corellian Ale, and it was more alcohol then he was used to, and he was on meds for his hand, but he was not drunk!

Leia sat up straight and slid over to him, putting a sisterly (!) arm around him, "Luke, I couldn't be happier to have you as a brother, and I'm just as amazed as you are. Han's just saying that this is a huge shock and we want to be sure you are doing Ok with it, especially after you were injured at Taris."

Luke sighed and eyed his hand. He had cracked a couple of bones in his hand, as it happened, and the infection was deeper than he realized.

He nodded, "I'm fine."

Leia smiled, even as her eyes filled with tears, "I can't tell you how wonderful this is, Luke. I thought all my family was gone and to find out I have a twin brother, and not just any twin but you! It's like a dream come true."

Luke returned the accompanying hug fervently, even as his mind dwelled on her last words. A dream.

When he pulled away from her, his forehead was furrowed, "So, about that dream…"

Leia nodded, "Yes, we need to talk about that. Obviously the dream either incorporated a memory of someone talking about our relationship or…it didn't."

"Like just a lucky guess?" Solo asked skeptically.

"More likely a Force vision," Luke said. The others looked at him and he shook his head, "I've never had one before, but Ben Kenobi mentioned them in passing. And actually…"

Luke furrowed his brow furiously as he worked his fingers of his (left!) hand through his hair, "…actually, I remember now! They said it was a Force vision!"

Han and Leia exchanged glances.

"Who said?" Leia asked practically.

Luke scrunched his eyes tightly and then looked up, "The people in my dream. And one of them was… me!"

Chewie harned at some length, while Han sighed, "You told yourself, in a 'Force vision', that Leia was your twin."

Luke nodded vigorously, "Yes, it's coming back! Or the end of the dream, anyway. It was an older version of myself. Like a few years older, dressed in black, with a different lightsaber. He and I were talking in this tiny cave and he said, 'You probably won't remember this, but it turns out Leia Organa is our very secret twin sister.'"

He blushed a little as he remembered the rest of his alter's statement. He didn't want to talk to Leia and Han about the warning against kissing his sister.

Han stared at him incredulously, "You sure you're not drunk, Kid?"

"Han!" Leia snapped indignantly, before turning to her brother, "Let's talk about the 'secret' part of it. Obviously it was kept a secret. No one breathed anything about this to me, which is incredible. Why were we separated at birth, whisked away to different worlds, raised by different parents? It's so crazy I wouldn't have believed it could be true, and yet it is!"

Luke shook his head slowly in bewilderment.

Surprisingly, it was Chewbacca who answered, though of course the twins couldn't understand him.

Han stared at his copilot and then translated, "Chewie says he knew of Anakin Skywalker, that he was one of the most famous Jedi Knights in the galaxy during the Clone Wars. He also said, and I didn't know this, that marriage and children were forbidden for the Jedi. So…maybe, I don't know, you were…"

"Mistakes?" Leia asked dryly. She sighed as she looked at Luke, "That would explain some of it. Maybe he got some hapless woman pregnant and they were trying to hide it from everyone."

Luke winced. The thought of being an accident from some fling was painful, and certainly not the picture he had of his father. And if it was an illicit relationship, how had he ended up with Owen and Beru Lars, his father's family? It didn't make much sense.

"Leia," he asked hesitantly, "Did your father or mother ever talk much about your birth mother? Did they give you any information at all about her?"

Leia shook her head, and he felt more than saw the heartbreak in her eyes, "They didn't, and perhaps it is my fault for not pushing it."

She stood up and paced up and down twice before turning to her brother, "I asked a few questions, but they always deflected me. And I was so happy with them, Luke. They were wonderful parents. They adored me and I adored them. I didn't want to push the question of my biological origins. I always thought there would be time later…"

The two looked at one another sadly, and then the princess tilted her head thoughtfully to one side.

"I do remember one thing, actually," she said, "When I was elected to the Senate, I heard my father quietly say to my mother that 'she would have been so proud of Leia'. And my mother responded with, 'Leia is even younger than she was.' I gathered from their demeanor and tone that they were talking about my birth mother. I was curious at the time, but I didn't follow up. I haven't thought about that in years."

Luke furrowed his brow, "That sounds like maybe she was a politician? Maybe even a senator?"

Leia nodded, "Maybe. I can poke around a bit, try to find out who she might be. So how about you, Luke? I know you've talked about Anakin Skywalker, but what do you know about his childhood, his family of origin, his extended relations?"

Luke shook his head sadly, "I don't know anything about his early years, Leia. Literally nothing. My uncle shut down all my questions and indeed he lied to me about him, saying that he was a navigator on a freighter. Ben Kenobi told me the truth, that he was a great pilot and a great Jedi, who was betrayed and murdered by…"

"Darth Vader didn't kill our father. Darth Vader is our father."

The memory came surging back into his mind, bringing with it the horrified despair he had felt in his dream.

No, no, it couldn't be true!

Luke bowed his head, struggling to control his nausea, before leaping to his feet and rushing to the Falcon's refresher.

He barely made it in time.

Han and Leia looked at each other, puzzled.

"Luke?" Leia asked.

Author Note: Thank you for the kind reviews and follows! I know this chapter is short. I'm working hard on Chapter 4 but it is fighting me :-). Someone brought up the issue of who 'knows' about Luke. Does Palpatine know his name yet? I understand that in canon, Vader knows but Sidious does not. However, for the purposes of this story, Sidious does know Luke's name as the destroyer of the Death Star, but he's allowing Vader to hunt him down.