Are Your Words Still Valid Tomorrow?
Set 9 - 10ABY
(kinda extremely important to the main plot I should add)

Kat had found Luke slouched on the sofa again, with his bare feet up on the centre table piece and watching a melodrama on the HoloNet. He hadn't bothered cleaning the apartment. Belongings and what-nots were scattered around. His lightsaber tossed lazily on the sofa next to him.

It was dusk as she walked into the apartment. Clouds had swallowed up Coruscant and loud rain pattered down the windows. It had been like this the past few days.

"This is a weapon," Kat walked over to the sofa and picked up Luke's lightsaber. "you shouldn't leave it lying around."

"I know." Luke rubbed his eyes. He had become lazier and lazier recently, much to Kat's concern.

"What have you even been doing all day?"

He didn't respond.

"Luke, is this to do with- …?"

"Of course it has to do with it." He suddenly snapped. He rolled his head back and let out a soft sigh. "I don't want you gone."

Kat slumped her shoulders and felt the weight of the world upon them once again. She placed his lightsaber on the table and sat down next to her husband, letting the black silks of her dress flow against the fabric of the couch, trying to at least keep her back straight. "Before you know it, I'll be back."

"A whole year, Kat," Luke argued, looking at her straight in the eye. "You signed up for the most dangerous and longest mission possible-"

"It might be a year." Kat corrected. "It depends on how long the political tensions on Naboo are."

"Just because your mother came from there and the fact she served under Queen Ami-…"

"Just because your father was Darth Vader doesn't mean-…"

"My father," Luke sat up straight now, fuelling the fire between them. "was NOT Darth Vader, he was a good man! Don't suppose you would know anything about fathers, would you."

Kat knew that time Luke was intending on hurting her. It worked. Kat no longer felt the heartbeat within her as she stood up, feeling the life from within her drain and the tears falling from her eyes. She stood up again, attempting to keep her back straight and walked to the glass walls of their Coruscanti apartment, watching the rain fall and the lightning strike.

A storm was overhead of them.

"Don't suppose you know anything of mothers, don't you." She spat with a shaking voice, and quickly strode through the living room to their quarters.

She didn't imagine their last night together like this. She couldn't even imagine having an argument like that with him. She plopped herself onto the edge of the bed and let the tears flow, not wishing to see Luke's face, and hoping to the Maker he wouldn't come in and see her crying at his words.

She didn't hear the melodrama on the HoloNet turn off, so the door to the quarters opening nearly scared her, though she kept as still and silent as possible.

Though it caught her by surprise when he sat down next to her. When he didn't speak she dared to turn her head and see him staring right back at her, watching her every breath with red, puffy eyes.

"Have you been crying?" she asked, nearly stuttering over her own tears.

"Yeah." He admitted. "I was an absolute prick for using your family like that."

"So was I." she looked at the ground. "Anakin was an amazing person."

Luke shrugged. "But he ordered your Uncle and his wife-…"

"No." she shut him up. "That wasn't Anakin. That is not what you inherited. You're both beautiful men."

"I don't deserve that after what I just said."

"Luke, dammit, for all we know my dad was a-…"

"Don't even say it." Luke hushed her. "He gave the galaxy you. That's worth recognition."

Kat twisted the black fabric of her senator gown between her fingers, feeling relieved that their spill was over. Even if her waters were feeling something else.

She had been busy making preparations for her trip. She'd even been serving as Naboo's representative to get a feel for the decoy position she'd taken up, something she had never seen herself doing. She barely even had the time to sleep anymore.

"You shouldn't leave your lightsaber lying around like that." she still couldn't look at him again. "Say if we had a kid by now…"

She heard Luke chuckle next to her. It was beautiful to hear. She would miss his little laughs whenever she did something completely stupid.

"One day, maybe…" he put his arm around her, letting her head fall to his shoulders.

They had been trying for a child for over a year. No matter where or how, they couldn't conceive a child for themselves. Kat had even seen doctors and med droids. She wasn't barren and had no reason to not hold a child. There was no reason for Luke not to give her one, either.

"Perhaps it's the will of the Force." Kat said.

"For us not to have a child? Wow, the Force is mean."

Kat laughed and managed to look at Luke again. "I promise, when I come back, I will try to give you a kid again."

Luke stared back at her sympathetically, stroking the back of his hand down her cheek. "I wouldn't mind a few…"

"Give me a number and I'll see if I can put the order through."

Luke chuckled again and kissed her forehead. "Look, it's our last night together, let's just… be together, not have another argument and not worry about kids."

"Challenge accepted." She smiled deviously at Luke, before getting down to business.

And for the rest of the night, Luke made Kat go completely speechless with love, as the rain outside pelted down and the storm raged on.

Yeah I know I really should write about Nadae. Oops.

The titles to these stories mean something I swear (also excuse the occasional German). This one for some reason sounds like the name of a Fall Out Boy song?

- yoda-is-cool