EPILOGUE, 30 years later

Lake Retreat, Naboo

Anakin Skywalker stood on the balcony, waiting for his eldest grandson, Ben Solo or as he now called himself, Kylo Ren to show up, he had got his wife Padmé to leave and go to Han and Leia's Naboo house and after a lot of convincing, she had done so and left him. He sighed deeply, Ben had always been different from his younger siblings and that hadn't been more accurate than when Luke began his Jedi training on Alderaan, that was where the new Jedi resided, Anakin resolved to remain away unless it was urgent, Ben was arrogant, but powerful, strong with the force, yet crap with a lightsaber, that in particular had always angered Ben big time as he tried to prove his strength in combat, he had succeeded a few years back when he had taken up the destruction of the new Jedi with his Knights of Ren, though those Knights had fallen to the remainder of the Jedi. Ironically, they were all Skywalkers, 2 were assassinated by Leia, her daughter Jaina Mary Solo, Sword of the Jedi killed 3 of them, Cliegg Biggs Skywalker (Luke's eldest child) killed one and his younger brother, Riley Wulf Skywalker killed the last 2 during the massacre. Anakin felt Kylo approach a mile away and slowly turned his old, grey haired head to see the masked face of his grandson, along with his crudely assembled cross guard lightsaber in his gloved hand, Anakin shook his head.

"You want to play Ben?" Anakin asked tiredly, his hand coming to his lightsaber, Kylo snarled and ignited his blade, the red blade crackling like fire and the exhaust vents on the side suggested an amateurish construction, Anakin took his blue bladed weapon in his hands and ignited the blade. Unsurprisingly, Kylo made the first move, going for Anakin's side, Anakin didn't even twitch as he raised his blade to counter, they exchanged blows for little bit before their blades came into a deadlock, Anakin's strength hadn't diminished much and he swept Kylo's feet out from under him, making Kylo fall on his back as Anakin destroyed the mask with his saber, revealing the 30 year old face of the man underneath. From afar it was easy to identify this man as a descendant of Han Solo, the tall, lean physique, the black hair, the broad shoulders, this was basically Han's clone, but the differences were that while Han had hazel eyes, Ben had his mother and grandmother's deep brown eyes, he had inherited more than that as well as he had his mother's facial structure, however unlike the eyes Anakin was used to seeing, these eyes glared up at him angrily.

"I will make you pay for Snoke's murder!" Kylo shouted, getting back up and trying to put his grandfather on the defensive, he noted the differences in his grandfather since he had last seen him a few years back, his beard was now completely grey and his long hair still went down his back, except now only traces of blonde remained in the distinguished grey hair, there were more lines on his face though there hadn't been many to begin with and his Jedi clothes looked a little worn out on his body, though his skills said anything but, Kylo pulled back and slowly circled his grandfather.

"Your skills haven't dulled in the slightest, grandfather, Snoke was foolish to underestimate you," Kylo said, Anakin rolled his eyes.

"Indeed, he was, that is the main flaw of the dark side Ben, arrogance and overconfidence are flaws of everyone, you and I included," Anakin replied, watching Kylo's features darken slightly.

"That is the Jedi way of viewing things grandfather, you told us yourself that you don't agree with their way of doing things and wanted to keep us away from that way of thinking," Kylo growled, Anakin nodded, being unable to refute that completely.

"The Jedi I was referring to was the Jedi order I served with, I disagreed with them at every turn because they were ridiculous, Master Yoda agreed to that before his death and we both know what he was like. Your Uncle's order was different, it allowed families to remain together, students to find love and it didn't indoctrinate children from birth to be Jedi, in my mind they didn't deserve to be wiped out," Anakin countered, Kylo stood sill and silent, thinking about that, then he heard another lightsaber ignite and turned to find his younger sister, sword of the Jedi Jaina Solo glaring at him before an expression of sadness entered her brown eyes, she hadn't inherited her father's height and was significantly shorter than Kylo was, but she had the same strength their grandfather did and a similar connection to her father that Auntie Grace has with their grandfather, it made her wonder how she was doing as she and her husband, Louis Carrington had gone to live on Tatooine and that is where her children, James William Skywalker Carrington, Alexa Lucy Skywalker Carrington and her youngest, Beth Anya Skywalker Carrington were born and currently being raised, Jaina shook the thoughts away and stared sadly at her brother.

"Ben…why?" Jaina asked sadly, Kylo/Ben sighed deeply, thinking his answer over.

"I had always been put down and kept down mentally by the teachers on Alderaan, I was never built up, Snoke, under the guise of a Sabaac player at Dad's Sabaac house built me up and turned me against you from there, I didn't notice anything amiss until grandfather arrived at our ship 3 years ago and killed him, leaving me in charge of the dark side, my Knights fell quickly to our family and I panicked and fled, hoping to become more powerful, but when I left I felt weaker than I had in ages, I am not made for the darkness but some sick part of me wants to be and I cannot understand it nor why part of me wants to be fighting for the dark side, I can't explain it." Kylo explained finally, sadness in his voice, Jaina dropped her amethyst blade and ran for him, hugging her older brother while whispering pleas to come home, after a few moments Ben pulled back.

"I have your forgiveness, but no one else will forgive," Ben said sadly to his sister and grandfather, before he heard footsteps behind him and he turned to see his cousins (and there are a lot of them), uncles, aunts, grandmother, siblings and his parents, all of whom took turns hugging him and giving him their forgiveness, finally ending with his grandmother Padmé Amidala Naberrie Skywalker shaking her head in fond exasperation.

"It may have been 50 years ago, but I remember doing this for your grandpa over there, please tell me I won't have to do this again, or else I may go crazy from being jury of dark Skywalkers," Padmé teased lightly causing all of them to laugh.

This is the Skywalker family, and nothing will separate it.

THE END.