1 Part one continued…



Leia Skywalker packed up some of the processions Luke wanted from the Alderaanian Manor and headed out. "Lady Vader we are sorry to see you leave so soon." The Viceroy said.

"Stuff it Viceroy." Leia snapped and headed for her speeder outside the Manor.

"Of course Lady Vader."

Leia spun around, "You know something. What I don't understand is why you are always so interested in my life and by business."

"Because you were supposed to be my daughter." Bail Organa said.

Leia narrowed her eyes at him, "Be careful old man."

"No seriously, Lady Vader. Your mother was going to entrust me with your care."

"You have some nerve, you know that?" Leia snapped and climbed in her speeder and headed off. What right did he have to tell her such things? The gull of that man to tell her that her mother, the great queen of the Empire, was going to entrust him with her care. That was absurd. Her mother believed strongly in the cause of the Empire. She would never have left her in the care of that silly, stupid Viceroy. Never.

Padme Skywalker was very happy with the Empire. She loved the cause very much and would have done anything to stop the Alliance from winning any battle against the Empire. She support Palpatine's cause more than anyone, even her father, had. Padme was known as Lady Vader, long before Leia was, and was very proud of that title. She would have given anything for the Imperial cause. Anything.

Leia stopped her speeder at the spaceport. Off she would go to Corscant and there, she was certain, she would find that her brother was gone. It always happened, when she left for a mission her brother would go on one too and his missions always took longer.

She missed the old days. When it was just her, Father, and Luke. When they were still little, before the Emperor had turned them into hired hands who made no money. They went from palace to palace and planet to planet. They saw the whole galaxy.

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"Father where are we going this time?" Young Leia asked.

"We are going to Ithor."

"Ithor?" Luke asked, "Why?"

"Why not?"

Leia laughed, "Ithorians are funny."

"Why's that?" Father asked.

"They don't believe in using wood or eating living things."

Luke shrugged, "That's just the way they do things."

"I suppose. It would be fun to learn about them too." Leia reasoned.

"Of course they will be Daughter." Father said, placing a hand on her shoulder, "It will also be a good place to train in the force."

Luke made a face, "Hey I have a question. The Ithorians don't like us why are we going there?"

"To make a point Son. They have to realize that we are good people in this and the Rebels are the bad ones."

Leia thought for a moment, "But the Rebels are just fighting for what they believe why is that horrible?"

"Its horrible because they are fighting for the wrong thing." Luke argued.

"But it's not wrong to them. Didn't someone once say that our Mother fought for something Father didn't agree with?"

"That's different." Luke argued back.

"How?"

"Alright, Children, that's enough of that. We have to get going if we are to keep our schedule."

"Of course father." The children chimed in together.

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So things weren't all that different. She missed her mother. She couldn't remember her mother. She had died pretty much before her time. But she still missed her.

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Darth Vader relaxed in his private chambers. He knew that somewhere Leia was missing her mother. She always was. He had told Leia that Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi had killed Padme. That's the way Leia and Luke were raised to know it and that's the way they would always know it. He didn't want them knowing any different.

He had lied to them so many times and in so many different ways about their mother. He had described her, as the queen of the Empire, loving, hated the Republic and believed strongly in Palpatine's cause. The only part of that description that had been true was that she was loving. Amidala Padme Skywalker was his angel.

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"Are you an angel?" Young Anakin Skywalker asked the mysterious woman.

"What?" was her reply.

"An angel. The live on the moons of Iego, I think."

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Amidala was his angel. How he missed her. He wished there was something he could have done to save her. He would have given his life her in a heartbeat. He just wished that she could have believed that.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi stretched out with the force. He could feel Leia's frustration, Luke's hate, and Vader's heartbreak. "Oh Ani why didn't you just listen to her?" He asked himself out loud. Anakin had given into the dark side and it had been his entire fault. If only he had done something to save Anakin from temptation.

Obi-Wan still didn't know how it had happened. It just had. There was no explaining it. It had happened so fast he and Amidala hadn't had a chance to help him or stop it from happening.

His final battle with Anakin had lead to disaster for Anakin and heartbreak for Amidala. After he had defeated Anakin in a lightsaber duel Amidala had broke to him the news about her being pregnant.

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"Obi-Wan I'm pregnant."

"Pregnant? But Amidala how can that be?"

"Right before he turned my child was conceived, apparently."

"Okay. I'm going to take you to Master Yoda. He will know how to help you."

"Obi-Wan that just cannot happen. I know that you and Master Yoda are going to want to take my child from me."

Obi-Wan thought for a moment, "Children."

"Excuse me?"

"Your having twins, honey."

"Twins? How do you know that?"

"I can tell with the force." Obi-Wan concentrated for another moment, "One boy and one girl."

"So I suppose your going to take them away from me and split them apart."

"It would be the safest thing. If Anakin were to discover that you are having his children Amidala the havoc he would cause. He would either kill them or turn them to the dark side."

"He wouldn't!" Amidala exclaimed in her husband's defense.

"Search your heart Amidala. Look at the pain and destruction he had caused in the short time he's been with Palpatine. He would and he will."

Amidala sighed, "I give. Alright well what do you want me to do?"

"I will take you to Master Yoda and we will decide where to put the children."

"I know exactly where to put them." Amidala said with a realization.

"Where?" Obi-Wan asked, his curiosity at the max.

"Owen and Beru Lars want a child of theirs so much and Viceroy Bail Organa said if I ever need help he was there for me."

"Well you two grew very close while you were a part of the Senate."

Amidala nodded, "Yes. And the stronger of the children, in the force I mean, will be placed with Owen and Beru. Owen make dislike you because you took Anakin away from his mother."

"That's not nearly the half of it."

"What do you mean?"

Obi-Wan sighed. "Owen believes that Shmi died out of despair. And that despair was caused by me when I took Anakin away from her."

"But you didn't take Anakin away from her. Qui-Gon did and besides Shmi wanted the best for her son."

"I know. She only wanted what was best."

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Obi-Wan pondered this memory for a second. Amidala's twins were causing mayhem all over the galaxy. Leia and Luke were powerful assassins for the Emperor, very powerful. He needed to stop them. He knew that it wasn't time yet. Not nearly time but he wanted so much to just stop it.

Patience. Obi-Wan reminded himself. Patience. Master Yoda was insistent that everything takes its course naturally. Obi-Wan was growing frustrated, even in his old age. Master Yoda was powerful and could stop Palaptine in his tracks without a problem but he didn't. Yoda was intent on making sure that Luke Skywalker was the one to stop Palaptine, just as Luke was meant to do. But what of Leia? Master Yoda had never shared that piece of prophecy with him.

Emperor Palaptine would soon realize that Obi-Wan was alive and would send one of his

assassins to take him out. Obi-Wan had been waiting for sixteen years for Palaptine to realize he wasn't dead. Only a little while longer. "Yes. Let nature take its course." He mumbled, "Let nature take its course."

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Emperor Palpatine felt that strange tingly sensation run through his bones again. He'd been having that feeling for sixteen years and didn't know what it was. It happened every now and then. It had started when Vader brought his children before him.

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"My Master." Vader said, bowing before him, "I have brought you two new apprentices."

The Emperor glared at him, "What is this my friend?"

Lord Vader glanced down at the two infants, wrapped in cloth, on the floor beside him. "These are my children. Luke and Leia Skywalker."

"Ah. And you wish me to train them." The Emperor said. A sudden tingly running up and down his brittle bones. It made him cold and warm at all the same time. He glanced at Darth Vader and knew that he wasn't feeling anything.

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He knew it had something to do with Vader's children, he just didn't know what. He pondered it for a second. Someone was testing him, seeking information on his assassins. He had concluded that long ago, but whom? Every Jedi Knight, Padawan, and Master had been killed by either Vader or himself. Jedi Master Yoda had been the only real threat to him and he had died of old age.

Or had he? The Emperor pondered this for a few minutes. Yoda had been out of contact with the force for almost two decades. He was dead. There was no other explanation to this. Yoda could have taken him down in a single sweep. The Jedi Master was dead, he had to be.

And that's when the truth hit him, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Kenobi had disappeared from site and the feel of the force but he had never been killed. Now that he thought about it, it made perfect sense. But Kenobi surely would have returned to face of his old apprentice and to save the children. There was just no way Kenobi would have allowed them to warp the children to the darkside.