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Chapter Ten: Bound

"So the three of you ended up in the past?" Luke asked confused.

"Yes daddy, for the tenth time." Caylee said getting a tad frustrated.

Caylee, Kyler and Salian had all just returned to Denon in the early morning hours. It had been a few weeks since Caylee and Kyler had gone missing. A few of the Jedi council members were suspicious, but Luke simply told them that he had sent them back to Zonama Sekot to meditate for a few weeks. Which wasn't a lie, since before the request of the Jedi council of old, Luke was going to do just that.

As soon as Caylee and Kyler had landed, Luke was waiting for them. He was relieved when they finally made it home and was also shocked when Alison Dube's older brother, who was thought to be long missing, was with them.

Upon returning to their apartment, both Jacen and Tara were up waiting for them. They too wanted to know what happened.

"Mesa glad mesa didn't go. Mesa be scared!" Tara said. Everyone laughed a little.

"Caylee how did you get that scar on your face? It looks like a lightsaber burned you." Luke asked as he studied his daughter's face.

"I rather not talk about that right now," she quickly said, turning her face away. He hesitantly dropped the subject. Hopefully she'll talk to him later about it or even her grandfather about it.

The small group continued their conversation well into the morning hours. And the six of them agreed not to mention what had happened to anyone. Well that was with the exception of Skywalker family members. Plus the time traveling trio didn't tell Luke, Jacen and Tara about what had happened to Caylee and having to take care of Padmé for a while.

The story that they told was that the ended up back in time, fought on Kessel, and then went into hiding on various planets because of the Empire. That wasn't a total lie. It just left out some important facts. Caylee would eventually come clean with her father, but she wanted to talk to her grandfather first.

"I want the three of you to rest and recoup today. Don't worry about the council. I'll figure out something to tell them. But Salian, they are going to want to speak to you about what you've been through. Just make sure you don't mention anything about time travel." Luke said.

"Yes sir." Salian said. "But what about my family?"

Luke smiled slightly. "Your sister is on Ossus. While your parents were forced off of Courscant during the Yuuzhan Vong war, they are now residing on Roon. You'll be reunited with them soon, I promise. But we just need to make sure of a few things."

Salian slightly smiled. Caylee had warned him about what the council was going to do. They had to make absolutely sure that he was no longer a Sith. And that meant many tests and interviews. But to be reunited with his family, he would do anything.

"Now I think its time we all get some rest." Luke said smiling. Everyone agreed.

"Wait, there is something I need to do first," Caylee said taking the small time travel device out from her belt.

"What's that?" Jacen asked.

"The little device that got us in this mess," Kyler said.

Caylee set it on the ground and then stomped down on it. "No one should be able to mess with time."

"Daddy I need to go to Naboo for a while."

Luke looked up at Caylee as she walked into the main room of the apartment a few days after their return home. The council had grilled Salian several times already. And so far they didn't see any reason not to believe him. Caylee had been present for all the interviews. And each time she felt a pang in her heart. Something was troubling her deep inside.

"Why?"

"I need to talk to grandpa."

Luke looked at her with concern written all over his face. "Is it about what happened in the past?"

Caylee slowly nodded yes.

"You haven't told me yet what happened."

She sighed and sat down next to her father. "Do you ever wonder why grandpa never went looking for grandma after he became Darth Vader?"

"Sometimes. Why?"

"I know why he never went to look."

"How so?"

Caylee went on to tell her father everything that she, Kyler and Salian hadn't told them the night that they returned. She told him from the feeling she got in her chest to saving her grandmother to facing Darth Vader and actually walking away from it with nothing but a few scars.

When she was done with the story, the look on her father's face scared her. "Daddy? Daddy are you alright?"

"I agree you do need to talk to your grandpa. We need to find out if all of this really did happen in the past."

Anakin knew who was coming up the river on a speeder of some kind as he sat out on the veranda. He could pick her Force signature out from anywhere. It was Caylee. Besides he also knew that she was coming to see him. Luke had called to let him know.

The closer Caylee got to the lake retreat, the better Anakin sensed her feelings through the Force. And he didn't like what he felt. Something was either wrong or really bugging her.

"Now here's a face I haven't seen for a while!" Anakin said happily greeting her, as she walked up into the veranda.

She didn't say anything as she pushed back the hood of her Jedi robe to reveal her face. When Anakin saw the cut near her eye, he dropped the glass he was holding. The glass shattered all across the stone veranda.

Tears were forming in the corners of Caylee's eyes as she stood there and starred at her grandpa. Anakin had no idea what to say or even what to do. He had done that to her. He had almost killed his granddaughter.

"Anakin! What's wrong?" Padmé asked rushing out onto the veranda. She had been in the house when she heard the glass break. She stopped once she saw Caylee standing there. It took her a second to register what was going on. She knew Caylee had been gone for a few weeks.

"What happened to your eye?" Padmé gently asked, standing inbetween Caylee and Anakin.

"I did that to her." Anakin softly said.

Padmé looked at her husband confused for a second, then took a step back as he moved forward and pulled Caylee into a huge hug. Immediately Caylee broke down and began sobbing into her grandfather's chest.

"I'm so sorry Caylee. I know that I didn't know it was you at the time. But still I'm so sorry." Anakin whispered into her hair.

"I know grandpa," she whispered back.

After a few seconds, Padmé joined in the hug. She knew something was horribly wrong, if Anakin was crying.

Once the tearful hug had ended, they all sat out on the veranda and Caylee told them everything that happened.

And finally a lot of things made sense to Padmé, especially in regards to who had saved her and protected her for a while until the Gungans came for her. But never in her wildest dreams would she have thought that it was her granddaughter all along. But there was just one thing that she wasn't sure about.

"When you said it was your fault that Caylee has a cut by her eye, what did you mean Anakin?" Padmé asked.

Anakin sighed. "Palpatine had told me you died and that I had killed you. But for some reason I knew you were alive. I finally found your signature in the Force along with another's. I went to Dantooine to take you from whoever was protecting you. There a young woman who was very powerful in the Force greeted me. She and I fought for a while and I would had killed her but she brought up mention of a dream that I had."

"A dream?" Padmé asked confused.

"Before I knew you were pregnant, I had a dream of a little girl running at me happily. I always took it as our little girl. That was why I was so insistent on thinking it was a girl that you were carrying. Every so often I would dream about this little girl. Then eventually I learned that she was my granddaughter and she was one of the reasons I reverted back to the light. I knew I had to save Luke's life from Palpatine so that she could be born. So when this young woman mentioned the dream, I was shocked. So I simply walked away. But there was a promise that she made me. She promised that I would see you again someday." Anakin said smiling at his wife. Padmé smiled back and gently squeezed his hand.

Caylee smiled at them both. She knew that the promises she had made them both in the past had come true. And that was the reason she made them. She knew that they were going to come true. Maybe that's why destiny had made it so that she was the one that saved her grandparents and also reunited them.

That had to be it. And that had to be why the bond between Caylee and Anakin was so strong. It was as strong as the bond between husband and wife or even father a son. But this one was special. It was a bond between a grandfather and his granddaughter.

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