The Alternate
Written by: Adventure-Seeking-Juliet
When: Why do I even tell people when?
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars...*tear* *tear* *violin plays* Don't it break your heart?
A/N Sorry for long waits, but I am finally back to this story:) I'd like to thank, ilovenat1995, and It'SMeAmBeR, for reviewing Chapter two. And please remember that this story is AU for more reasons than the one already stated, but you see when we get to it( several chapters from now) what I mean, Enjoy:)
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Chapter 3-Vader's New Weakness?
The stupid gold protocool droid would not shut up.
Infact, Luke was alomst sorry that he'd ever found the thing, along with it's counter part, R2-D2.
However, Artoo wasn't half bad, Luke actually found him intertaining; much much more so than C3P0.
The twin suns were nearly done rising, and Luke took the moment to watch them. Both of the suns were glowing with a beautiful light that spoke of faraway places and adventure.
Luke sighed, Why was he so excited about the stinkin' suns anyway all they did was give him sunburns.
Luke finally stood up, only remembering that he had to be home when the sunlight caused the dull red finish of his T-14 to gleam, temporarily blinding the ten year old.
Luke didn't hurry up though, he moved as slow as he possibly could, examining even the grains of sand under his feet. He really didn't think that not spending another hour or so on the farm would hurt him all that much, he'd be there the rest of his life probably...he had plenty of time to fix 'vaporators.
As he bent down to inspect a lifeless rock his thoughts wandered to the events yesterday evening in the playground.
He was so sure that he'd done that; Luke could feel it, yet at the same time it wasn't possible to do that. No matter if it were possible or not he'd still caused it and if he hadn't then everyone else would still say he had anyhow.
Yet another reason that made him different.
Luke ran a sun tanned hand through his sandy colored hair, causing it to become more untidy than usual. The boy slowly drew himself up, dragging his feet the whole way.
Luke climbed into his speeder and with one fleeting look at the blinding suns, he sped away...
Into a future he didn't even know belonged to him.
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Vader stalked out of Mos Eisly, well if you could call driving at a crazy speed in a used speeder stalking.
He'd already had to stay at this dump overnight, and he was becoming more more angry by the second. The only reason he hadn't already gone and retreived Luke was because it might seem suspicious to Palpatine if he found the boy so quikley.
Vader knew exactly where to find his son, but upon his arrival had decided to ask around to see if anyone knew anything about Luke...for information purposes of course.
It was suprised to see that several locals referred to Luke as 'the weird one', Vader grew so angry that he "accidently" choked the second person who had said it.
He was growing more protective of Luke by the minuite; too protective.
As Darth Vader manuevered the speeder toward the destination he remembered to be the Lars' homestead, he began to fret over a fact that he had over looked.
Luke's dream.
Was it just a kid's nightmare, or a vision from the Force? If Luke had inherited that particular gene from his father then it was more than likely the latter.
Vader cursed himself mentally for both his over looking the problem and caring about it at all.
Vader understood how it felt to lose people you care about, especially when you feel as though you should have been able to save them in the first place. Infact, the Sith Lord was almost certainly sure that part of the reason he became Darth Vader was because of those things happening to him.
Vader's speeder slowly came to halt; smoke.
He could see smoke in the distance, Vader's heart froze, and with the Force to inhance his speed he raced on foot to the Lars farm.
It was burning. Vader could here the strangled screams as Owen and Beru's life force began to drain away.
"What have you done?" Vader roared at the head storm trooper, TK-234.
"The Emperor commanded us to destroy this home and kill the people, Sir," came the short reply.
"You insane, incompetent, bantha!," Vader yelled, choking the storm trooper," you have disobeyed me!"
Lord Vader whipped around, when he felt a strong presence coming closer. He panicked when he saw the form of a, speeding, speeder in the distance...
A/N Cliffy! Though, not really...anyway Obi-Wan won't be in the story until later, I'm not a huge fan of the Obi-Wan to save the day thing...but please, please, review! Merry, Happy Christmas!