As before…this is only fanfiction. George Lucas has it all! Nothing is mine.
The tydirium shuttle was sucked into the Star Destroyer...
Luke tried to maintain calm but the anticipation of seeing his father again gave him the chills. He was thinking in ways to calm down the dark one, but he knew better he could not lie, Vader would know. He was thinking in saying that he would willingly join the dark side, but his soul still resisted to the dark call. He only came back to save his friends, his sister. He could already sense the presence of his father even before the door was opened.
Vader came with the stormtroppers but Luke opened the door willingly, stormtroppers surrounded him. Luke humbly knelt before his father. "My lord, this will never happen again." Luke said in a low voice. He was dreading what punishment he was going to receive for running away.
"I am sure of it." Vader said dryly. Luke was taken to a cell and Vader stood by the entrance. He was bound on his hands and feet attached to a bunker with another binder around his chest.
"Father…please I will not escape." Luke mumbled. Vader probed the young man's mind and knew it to be truth. Luke was surprised when Vader waived his hands and the binders came off. Luke slowly got up. "Thank you, father."
"I will not ask a second time, Luke. Where did you friends took my daughter?"
Luke was still juggling with his feelings but he was way too afraid. He closed his eyes and spoke. "Ord Mantell." He felt his mind being probed he immediately allowed the dark lord to freely to probe his mind. He knew better that any resistance would be the results of more pain, which he wanted to avoid.
Vader placed his hands on Luke's shoulders. Luke stiffened a little preparing himself for some kind of punishment but to his surprise nothing happened.
"You have not lied, Luke. There is no need to fear me when you tell me the truth." Vader replied answering to Luke's inner feelings.
"What will happen to me?" Luke wanted to know.
"It depends what choice you make."
"Choice? I didn't think I had one." Luke replied.
"You do now." Vader replied.
"Why?" Luke was not believing what he was hearing. The dark lord was giving him a choice?
Vader tight his hands on Luke's shoulders and stared at the young man with the black mask. "Luke, learning of your existence made me think about my own choices, I almost killed you. Now I also learned the existence of my daughter. I have lost everything, I want my family back." Vader's voice was soft. Luke was breathless. He could never imagine his father talking like that. He dared not to enter the dark lord's mind but he felt drawn to his words, he wanted to tell his father that he wanted to stay beside him.
"Father, I always wanted to know about you." Luke reminded the many unanswered questions uncle Owen would leave him. "Somehow I feel that you are right, father." Luke opened his heart to his father. He felt compelled to accept his heritage, but the price was too high. To join the dark side was never an option he considered. Then again it was his father who was beckoning him, he felt compelled to comply, he wanted to belong…
"Luke, I want you to join me and we will rule the galaxy as father and son."
Vader offered Luke his hand. He looked at Vader's dark mask and to the hand that outstretched meant that he was offering the galaxy to him. To rule by his side, the side of his father. Luke hesitated for a moment, what would happen to him if he denied his offer? Luke thought. Vader answered immediately to Luke's thoughts. "If you don't accept your destiny I will have no choice but to make you accept it by force." Vader replied with his usual coldness. "My master would not allow you to live," Vader added.
"Would you kill me father?" Luke felt cold.
After a brief silence, Vader spoke out. "No, Luke. I would not kill you, but my master would hunt you down and have you executed."
"Hunt me down?"
"I would try to protect you, my son buy but my master would feel your presence."
Luke was somewhat relieved. His father cared about him. He felt proud.
Vader once more offered his hand "Now, Luke, what is your choice?"
Ord Mantell
Leia could not stop thinking about her brother. She kept for herself her feelings and she was almost not paying attention about the second death star that was being planned according to the Bothan's spies.
"You are still thinking of Luke." Han asked.
"I can't imagine what he must be going through, Han. We have to get him back."
"The kid went back on his own." Han replied . "I like the kid, I know he is your brother, but how did you find out?"
"I'm not sure you will be able to take it, Han?"
"What are you saying?"
Leia smiled. "It is very complicated. Luke is my twin brother, we were separated at birth.."
"Just tell me, Leia why?"
"Because of who we are."
"You are being too mysterious, your worshipfulness." Han smiled.
"Don't call me that, Han."
Han kissed her passionately.
"I am sorry. I am not sure I should be telling you yet, I am not sure you are ready to know."
Han held Leia on his arms. "I will do anything to get him back. If you love me you would trust me."
"Luke went back to Vader to save us."
"But I thought Vader was dead. I saw him lying on the ground in Dagobah, Luke said…"
Leia interrupted him.
"Luke wouldn't allow you to kill him."
"Why?"
"There is no easy way to say this, Han. Darth Vader is my father."
Star Destroyer.
Vader waited silently for the answer. Luke's heart was racing. He had to make a choice that would change his life.
"Join me, Luke we can overthrow the emperor and we can rule the galaxy."
The offer was so enticing. He would not have to worry about punishment, pain and suffering, he would become someone of importance.
"But what about Leia? What would happened to my friends?"
"If you join me we will rule, Luke. Your friends would no longer be my concern. Your sister would be another powerful ally." Vader replied.
Luke closed his eyes and the memories of the past flashed inside his mind.
/Don't give in to anger, Luke…it leads you to the dark side./ He tried to reach to the force to gain the strength, join his father…or run from persecution, join the powerful Sith and learn from him the powerful strength…rule the galaxy and pilot instead of fixing vaporators and ships…his mind was racing with the possibilities and the great challenges…join his father and kill the emperor…join his father….join him….his father…yes….
Luke opened his eyes and held Vader's hands.
Vader thought to himself …/All too easy/
