Chapter 10

The Dark Lord was walking to Luke's room when he heard a hiss from lightsabers clashing together.

'If that s who I think it is, he is going to be in a world of hurt,' Vader thought as he made his way in the direction of the noise.

It was exactly who he thought it was.

"Luke, I thought I told you to rest not train," he said in the coldest voice he had.

"Ah, hello father," was all Luke said and jumped away from Mara, but not before her lightsaber nicked him.

"I am sorry milord, he wasn't tired and wanted to train," Mara said in her most serious voice and bowing to Vader.

The next thing Mara saw was Luke flying into a wall.

"Luke!" Leia screamed and ran to his side.

It took Luke a minute to get his balance back and saw Leia running to him.

"Stay where you are and don't move," Luke demanded never taking his gaze off of Vader.

"By the time I'm done with you, you will need to rest," Vader commented walking forward a bit.

Now they were a few feet from each other, lightsabers in hand. It was so quiet, you could hear everyone breathing. The Dark Lord and Luke rushed toward each other and their light sabers met with a hiss.

"We need to change your name and nice choice in color for your light saber," Vader put in as he broke away and tried to hit Luke, but was blocked.

"What do you mean by 'change my name,' exactly?" Luke questioned as he pulled away and did a back flip.

"Will you please just stay still so I can talk to you?" Vader hissed as he used the Force to pin Luke to a wall so he would stop jumping around.

"Hey, no fair, I was having fun," Luke pouted.

"Luke, please go and rest, then we can talk. If you're still up to it, we can fight later. You can even choose either me or Mara to spar with," Vader conceded.

"Do you really mean it?" Luke asked, his eyes sparkling with excitement.

"I promise under pain of death," Vader swore.

"Okay, um… I kind of can't go anywhere if you don't let me go you know," Luke reminded him.

"Oh right, sorry."

Vader released his hold and let him go, but totally forgot how high Luke was.

"O shit, this is going to hurt," Luke yelled as he fell and landed on his feet which caused him to fall over as his knees gave out.

"He was right about the hurting part, you know. You could have lowered him to the ground," Leia growled out.

"Okay, I didn't realize how high he was until I released him. Can you stand?" he asked.

"I have no idea but I could try."

Luke was helped up to his feet only to fall forward when he tried to walk.

"I think you busted your ankle. Does this hurt?" Han questioned as he poked Luke's ankle.

"YES!" Luke shouted.

"You defiantly broke your ankle kid," he confirmed.

"Ya think, just a little," Luke barked.

"Lets get you to the med bay where we can fix you up," Mara said briskly.

"I'm going with you," Leia snapped as she took Luke's arm.

"Thanks you guys or should I say girls."

Don't worry about it," the girls said together.

They walked out and turned left. Luckily, the Executor had more than one med bay, so they went up one level and walked down some corridors and ended up at the door to the med bay.

"You stay here and I will go find a med droid seeing there isn't one here," Mara growled.

"No it's fine, I am just fine," Luke told the two girls that were looking at him, not buying his excuse.

"If you can stand on your ankle without falling down in pain or making any sound or expressions that resembles pain, you can leave. But if you do any of that, Mara and I get to take care of you until your ankle heals, deal?"

Luke looked at them with suspicion in his eyes.

'They're up to something,' Luke thought as he started to get up.

"Oh, and Luke. In addition to everything Leia said, if I ask you to do something you have to do it,"

Luke knew it, he so knew something like this was going to happen.

"I already know you want me to swear so I swear that if I do anything that looks like I'm in pain, you can take care of me and I will listen to you."

'This so sucks, if I do suck it up and walk out and to my room, I'll be in a world of pain, but if I do the opposite I'll never get a moments rest. Which one should I choose?' he thought.

So he got up and just decided whatever happens, happens. He took one step and started to fall to the ground. He was waiting to feel more pain when he hit the ground, but it didn't come. He looked up and saw Mara holding him around the waist.

"Maybe I lied about my ankle not hurting," Luke confessed.

"It looks like we get to take care of him," both girls laughed and helped Luke back up into a chair.

"Oh, happy joy, I just can't wait," Luke said sarcastically.

"Well, if he can't wait, I'll go get some bacta patches and then we can take him to his room," Mara said as she started rummaging around for them.

"Luke, are you okay because you don't look so good," Leia asked.

All the color left Luke's face. Without warning Luke darted out of the med bay and turned the corner.

"Luke, come back, you shouldn't be running on that ankle, you shouldn't be standing on it at all!" Mara yelled running after him. When Mara and Leia caught up to Luke, they saw him talking to the spirit of Obi-Wan.

"Ben, why didn't you tell me that Darth Vader is my father?" Luke asked looking up to his old master's face.

"I didn't tell you that straight out because I didn't think you were ready to learn the truth," Ben answered truthfully.

"You should have left that decision with me. If I asked you to tell me the truth, would you?"

"If you found out before you came back to Dagobah, then yes. But if you didn't know, then I wouldn't have told you until the time was right."

"Then it's your fault he turned."

It was then that Luke noticed the two women standing there.

"If you just told him, we wouldn't even be here. We could be back at the Rebel base planning our next attack!" Leia yelled with tears welling up in her eyes.

"She is right, if you only told me the truth about my father, I may have wanted to talk to him. I would've gone back, but since you lied to me, well you can see where that landed me," when Luke started talking, his voice was only a whisper but as he kept talking he ended up yelling.

"Luke, calm down," Obi-Wan said.

"No, I will not calm down. Since you lied to me, I have been nothing but angry unless I'm around my father, my sister, Mara, and all of my friends. I take my anger out on anything that threatens my new life with my father. If I could, I would take my anger out on you," he spat at Obi-Wan and walked away.

"Wait, did you forget you have a broken ankle?"

At those words, Luke felt the pain that was coming from his ankle, but continued to walk.

'I want to get as far away from his as possible,' Luke thought.

When he got two levels higher from where he talked to Obi-Wan, he fell to the ground. The pain was now unbearable. He felt more pain when he hit the ground. He laid there for a while and was thinking about getting up, but decided against it when he felt tired. The next thing he knew, he was asleep in the middle of the corridor.

Leia wanted to talk to Obi-Wan, but she sensed her brother in pain and ran to the lift. Mara obviously sensed it as well because she was right next to Leia.

"You sensed the pain too?" Leia questioned, waiting for the lift.

"Yeah, he's about two floors up," Mara informed her.

"Yeah, he is about two maybe three corridors from his room," Leia stated now able to sense where Luke was.

"How in the world did you know that?" Mara asked not believing what she heard.

"Well first off, I sense Luke not moving and his room is on this level. Plus, if I am correct, I do believe that Darth Vader is in Luke's room," Leia stated simply.

"Hey, you're right. Who taught you to use the Force?" Mara asked knowing it couldn't have been Obi-Wan.

"Well, Luke did. He trained me on how to sense things through the Force, but not on how to use the Force itself or how to wield a lightsaber."

The girls stopped talking now that they were waiting for the doors to open.

Vader really wanted to talk to Luke, so he went to his room. When he got there, no one was in the room. No Luke, Leia, or Mara.

'How strange. Oh well I will just wait until they get back,' he thought as he sat down in a chair.

"It's taking them way too long to get here," Vader said out loud and stretched out with the Force to find Luke.

'He just got off the lift and is heading this way. Goo- okay not good, major pain is coming off of him. Why did he stop, when he is almost to his room?'

Vader was imagining in his mind what Luke was doing. Getting up, he walked out the door.

"For Luke to stop for a minute or two is okay, but to stop and not move for more than five minutes with pain is not a good sign."

Right when he stepped outside into the corridor, his eyes immediately found whom he was searching for. Luke was on the ground, passed out on his back. He noticed the lift doors opening and two women running over to Luke.

The lift doors finally opened and they saw Luke passed out. They both ran at the same time and same speed to get to him.

"Why do you care so much for my brother if you don't mind me asking?" Leia questioned as they reached Luke.

"Well, I don't really know. When I'm around him, I get this funny feeling in the pit of my stomach. When I'm not with him, I realize I miss him so much. I never felt like this way with anyone," Mara replied thinking about it.

Leia chuckled at the thought that just came into her head.

"What are you chuckling about?" Mara demanded as she cradled Luke's head.

"I'll tell you after we get him to his room," Leia replied as she picked up Luke's arm.

"Well, are you going to carry just his head or are you going to help me?" Leia asked looking down at Mara.

"Oh, sorry."

Vader saw the girls exchange words and saw Mara cradling Luke's head.

'She loves him,' he thought as he heard what Mara told Leia about how she felt when she was near Luke and when she was away from him.

Then a couple minutes later, Leia and Mara, with Luke in their arms, were walking towards Luke's room.

"Oh, Milord," Mara said finally noticing him looking t them.

"What happened to him?" he questioned taking Luke in his arms and went into the room.

"Well, we were in the med bay, then Luke got up and ran around the corner. When we arrived we saw Luke talking to um… Obi-Wan," Leia finished sitting beside Luke on his bed.

"So, Obi-Wan wanted to talk to Luke. What were they talking about?" Darth Vader asked. If he could he would have raised a questioning eyebrow.

"Well, Luke wanted to know why he didn't tell him about you. He didn't really say why he didn't tell him," Leia answered.

"It's okay. I don't really care about why he didn't tell him anymore," Vader replied looking over to see Mara sitting with Luke's head in her lap and watching for any sign of him waking up.

"You love him, don't you?" Leia already knew the answer but asked anyway.

"Well, I don't know if I love, him but he is very cute."

"Your right he is cute," a voice said from the doorway.

There stood a woman who had brown hair and gray eyes.

"Callista, what do you want?" The Dark Lord asked in a cold voice.

"Milord, I was told to come and help Luke with his ankle," she replied simply.

"Fine. Leia, Mara, when he wakes up, one of you come and get me."

"Yes milord," they replied in unison.