16BBY Naboo.
Anakin, Padme, and their four year old twins were strolling down the streets of the capitol city of Naboo, Theed. Padme was delighted to hear that the Senate would allow her a couple of weeks off to go on a vacation to spend time with her family and relax from the stress her job puts on her. Anakin and she decided to spend two weeks on Naboo and they would stay in the Lake country at the Lake house and visit Padme's family who lived in Theed. Anakin was excited also because he had wanted to teach both Luke and Leia how to swim and this would be the most perfect opportunity.
The family was searching for a store that sold swimming clothes for both Luke and Leia since they never had any. Once they found a blue and yellow striped swimming truck for Luke and a one piece pink with yellow flowers swimming suit for Leia they just decided to walker around and then get dinner later since it was already getting late. After about an hour of walking around since they bought the swimming clothes Leia began to get cranky from walking around for two hours and she was tired because she refused to take a nap earlier. Anakin bent over and picked his cranky daughter up and rested her on his left hip. Luke on the other hand didn't complain and was more interested than his sister about the place he was at and he held his mother's right hand as they continued walking.
A man who was hiding in the shadows and was watching the Skywalker family closely had direct orders to stun the young blonde headed Skywalker boy and possibly the young brown headed Skywalker girl and kill the rest of the family. The man pulled his blaster out of his holster and shot two stun bolts at the young boy.
Anakin's force senses flared and he quickly activated his blue lightsaber that he wasn't supposed to have on him and quickly deflected the bolts. The man quickly turned his blaster from stun to regular blaster bolts and shot two bolts at Anakin. His bolts were quickly deflected and one hit him on his upper right arm while the other went by his head. He quickly activated his red lightsaber and jumped out of the shadows and came at Anakin. The both fought for the longest time not one of them getting hurt until Padme took her blaster out of her holster and shot the man on his lower back twice and he fell to the ground weakened and his lightsaber deactivated as it fell to the pavement.
Anakin drug the Sith by his left arm into a nearby alley while Padme went to her Parent's house with the twins to keep them out of danger. Once in the alley he questioned the trained sith.
"Who are you and why did you shot at my son?" Anakin asked with a touch of anger evident in his voice.
"Tell me!" He yelled when the man wouldn't answer. He looked up and around wondering if the man would be shot by a poison dart like Zam Wessel was when he asked her to tell him.
The young man who looked to be around the age of thirteen years of age put his head in his hands and started crying. The young man continued crying for a while until he began to speak which his voice was barely audible.
"I was sent by my master to kidnap your son." He mumbled.
"And?" Anakin asked wanting to know more information.
"My master wanted your son because he knew that your son is extremely powerful in the force and he wanted someone young and powerful to be trained as a Sith and would help in destroying the Jedi as well as the Republic." The young Sith said.
"Tell me more about your master and the destruction of the Jedi and the Republic." Anakin said. He didn't use a mind trick because he knew that it wouldn't work on a trained dark side force user. He needed to know more because the more he knew the more he could report to the Jedi.
"A Sith lord named Darth Vader who took the title as Sith lord after Palpatine was killed and had been training many young children as Sith to fulfill his plan in destroying the Jedi and take over the Republic. We all have less than a year before the Sith will attack." The young man finally confessed. He felt like a hundred blocks just fell off his chest and he was able to breath. "I do recommend that someone needs to tell the Jedi and warn the Republic so that they would be safe and prepared." He wanted to switch sides and join the Republic for so long and now was a perfect opportunity. He wasn't able to because he knew he would be shot but he could say that he was killed while trying to kidnap Luke.
"I will bring you along with me when I report to the Jedi council about this." Anakin said helping the man to his feet and wrapped the man's shot arm around his head and started walking toward Padme parent's house.
"You might want to protect your children by sending them in seclusion sir."
"I might take your advice. What is your name by the way?"
"I'm Jack."
"I'm Anakin Skywalker as you might already know."
"Yeah I did."
"Well just trying to make a pleasant conversation here. It's great to meet you Jack." Anakin said as they were walking toward the front door of his in-law's house.
Padme opened the door when she saw Anakin coming up the steps of the porch carrying a man. When Anakin noticed the quizzical expression on her face as she stood in the doorway looking at the man, he gathered p his words and just said it.
"This is the man that shot at Luke."
Padme's expression changed from quizzical to a death expression.
"Please explain to me why you brought our son's almost killer or kidnapper or what ever he is here to where our son is!" Padme's voice went from calm to anger with every word she said and in the end she was half yelling at him.
Anakin motioned for her to sit in one of the four white rocking chairs on the front porch as he sat Jack in a char and tied his arms and legs to the chair with some rope that he found out in the yard and sat down in a chair beside Padme.
Anakin explained to her everything about the Sith and the upcoming attack to how Jack wanted to fight for the republic. Anakin didn't mention the possibility of that they might have to hide their children for safety purposes. He wanted to talk about that later with her alone.
After Anakin was done Padme just sat there in her chair stunned silence trying to comprehend everything that she was just told. When she finally understood everything she jumped out of her chair sending it falling behind her against the house and spoke.
"We must warn the Republic. We need to prepare the military. We need to tell the Jedi of this powerful Sith!" Padme exclaimed pacing back and forth across the porch.
"We could go back to Coruscant early and I can make an appointment to bring him before the Jedi council and tell them while you speak with the Senators and make the announcement." Anakin said running his left hand through his still long hair.
"Darth Vader said that the Republic wouldn't be able to stop them because both the Jedi and Republic are still recovering from the war and being under control by a Sith." Jack for the first time spoke recalling the past meeting with his master.
"Well at least we can be prepared by evacuating the Jedi younglings and padawans and most of the people on some of these major planets like Coruscant."Anakin said.
Padme nodded her head in agreement.
"When should we contact them?" Padme asked.
"As soon as we can, I recommend leaving to Coruscant today and while we are in hyperspace I can make the appointment with the Jedi council while you set the meeting up with the Senate." Anakin said rocking back and forth in the rocking chair he sat in.
"What are you going to do about him? You certainly are not going to bring him aboard our ship with us because personally I don't trust him especially around out kids." Padme asked still standing looking at Anakin referring to Jack who was rocking back and forth in the chair he was sitting in.
"I guess we can have the local law enforcements transport him to Coruscant." Anakin responded and Padme shook her head in agreement.
"I will go pack while you take him there." Padme said turning and walking in the house to collect the twins and take them back with her to the lake house to pack.
Anakin helped Jack up and walked to the law enforcement station to have him transported.
While they were on Padme's ship in hyperspace going to Coruscant, Padme was busy making numerous comm calls asking senators who were either on their way or on Coruscant at the time if they would be able to stop into her office for a meeting. Only a few were not able to make it mainly because they were too far out from Coruscant.
Anakin was also making calls to the Jedi council asking to set up a meting and saying that is was urgent. About an hour and a small argument later he was told that he would be able to after he lands speak with them.
While all this was taking place Luke and Leia was in their bedroom that they shared aboard their parent's ship. Luke was lying on his bed manipulating his force powers to fly his toy X-Wing around the room. Leia was putting on different fancy dresses that her mother had bought her and was going to ask her brother who was flying that blasted toy X-Wing around the room if he wanted to be the prince since she was dressing up as a princess but decided against it.
"You know mommy and daddy act worried." Leia said speaking with the best grammar she knew
"You now notice did you not see what that crazy guy awmost did to me? That guy awmost deep fried my brain." Luke stated jumping off his bed pointing at his head and losing all concentration on his X-Wing sending it falling to the floor.
"Yeah I happened to notice." Leia said turning to Luke. "And I was really worried about you." She said sarcastically.
"No you were not Weia, I know it." Luke said sitting on his bed with his X-Wing in his hands inspecting to see if there was any damage. Luke has always had problems with saying the letter 'L' since the day he first spoke. Everyone thought it was cute and funny and his sister would always pick on him because he couldn't say his name right nor her name. His parent knew that he will grow out of it and learn how to say it correctly.
"Okay maybe I wasn't that worried, but I was a little." Leia said.
"Sure you were, you always are." Luke said sarcastically.
"You know Luke I have put up with your sarcastic mouth, the way you act all goody goody, but now I have put up with it enough!" Leia exclaimed face all red from being angry. She walked over to where Luke was sitting on his bed.
"Okay, I'm sorry." Was all Luke said.
"I'm sorry, I'm Sorry! Is that all you have to say? I'm sorry!" Leia yelled. Before Luke could respond or even do anything he was lying on his bed unconscious.
Leia had sent all her force energy to her hand and punched her brother on the nose. When she took her fist away from his face she had blood all over her hand and looked back at her brother who was unconscious with blood on his face.
Leia quickly ran out of the room screaming for her parents. It was just then when she started to feel the pain in her knuckles and she felt so weak and tired and before she made it to where her parents were in the main hold she slumped against the metal wall and she saw he parents running toward her, her eyelids finally closed shut and she let herself succumb to the darkness, sleep.
"Leia! Leia!" Anakin screamed as he turned the corner to the hallway with all the bedrooms. He could feel his daughter slipping into unconsciousness but he couldn't figure out why thought but he knew it was something important because he heard her scream.
When he turned the corner he saw his daughter slumped against the wall with tears streaming down her face and her eyes slowly shutting. He watched as the tears became stains and her eyes closed. He finally gained the strength and knelt down beside her and took her bloodied hands that were resting in her lap into his hands. He slowly and gently picked her up as Padme just rounded that same corner he did earlier. Padme just stood there with her mouth slightly open stunned and in shock.
"Padme, can you go get some wet cloths?" Anakin asked. "I'm going to take her to bed and see what Luke is doing. I have a bad feeling something happened to Luke as well." Anakin stated feeling his son in pain but very much indeed unconscious.
Anakin turned away from his wife and started for Leia and Luke's room. When he turned the corner to walk into their room he would of almost dropped his daughter but he didn't. Anakin quickly sat Leia on her bed and tucked her in and slowly and carefully put her in a healing trance, something he never done to a four year old.
He walked over to his son who he could tell was vaguely aware of anything happening. H could also tell that both of Luke's eyes were turning black, nose was broken as he could see the bone clearly stick up, four baby teeth lying beside his head, and large amounts of blood on his face.
"Padme, I'm going to need a lot more wet cloths and some first aid utensils!" Anakin yelled down the hallway. He received a loud 'Okay' from his wife in response.
Anakin didn't know what to do other than try to stop the blood and keep his head in one piece until they landed. Anakin wasn't worried about the meetings he was more worried about his children being alive.
Padme came running in with a basket of warm wet washcloths. She did not ask or say anything about Luke but he could tell there were at least a million questions and statements or even facts streaming through her mind.
Anakin took a wet cloth out of the basket and motioned for Padme to do the same. Anakin knelt over Luke's small form and gently pressed the cloth to his face and gently started cleaning the dry and the wet blood off his face.
Padme who was done cleaning the blood off Leia's small hands noticed no cuts just large blackish bruises forming on her knuckles. Padme also noticed that she was pale all over her body.
Anakin was patting the cloth on Luke's face around his eyes still getting the blood off. Luke slowly opened his eyes and looked at his father above him. Luke barely held his eyes open because of the sharp pain. Anakin finally noticed his son was awake when he went to clean his eyelids.
"It's alright son, just rest." Anakin gently said as his son was moving his blooded lips and was trying to talk but no words came out.
Luke rested his head back and closed his eyes completely. Anakin went back to cleaning his sons face.
About two hours later Leia had woken up and barely remembered anything that has happened. She looked over at the bed that was her brother's bed and saw her brother who was still asleep and then she remembered everything that had happened.
She slowly swung her legs over the side of the bed and jumped down to the white carpeted floor and she thought she would fall over because her legs felt like jello and numb. She looked at her reflection of herself in the mirror and noticed that her skin was a little paler then normal but still she had almost the same color. She also noticed the blackish bruises on her knuckles.
She slowly walked to her brother and sat down at the edge of his bed and brushed his long blonde bangs to the side of his face from covering his eyes. She ran her small fingers over the bruises and her shoulders started shuddering and tears started trickling down her face and fell upon Luke's face.
"I'm sorry Luke, I really am sorry." Her voice was barely audible but she still continued. "I'm sorry it's just sometimes you annoy me with your whining and also that force junk that you practice about everyday why cant you focus on something else, something your age? You most likely will never be a Grand Jedi Master especially with your whining. Well anyways I'm sorry and I feel bad for what I did and I regret it. I wish I didn't hurt you this much it was only to teach a lesson." Leia concluded.
She heard a faint sound of shuffling of feet from behind her and she quickly turned to see her father standing in the doorway leaning against the wall. Leia slowly stood up from the bed and walked over to her father with her head hanging down.
"We need to talk." Anakin plainly said showing no emotion but the tone of his voice was strict. He placed his left hand on the small of her back and guided her to the main hold where his wife was sitting waiting, like Anakin, for an explanation.
Leia walked in the main hole head still hung down with red rimmed eyes and a tear streaked face. She stood in front of her parents still unwilling to meet their gaze as her dad sat down beside her mother. She gathered up everything she wanted to say in her brain and nervously began to speak.
"I'm sorry I hurt Luke. I didn't mean to hit him that hard. I just wanted to teach him a lesson but I took it a little too far." Leia said gaining the courage to look up at her parents.
"Your mother and I had already discussed that you might have been the cause of this incident. Please delight up with more about why and how you did this." Anakin said. He had already put the pieces to this puzzle together her just wanted his daughter to admit it.
"Well I just got annoyed with his whining and him being such a suck up to you both so I lost it and punched him but before I punched him I felt so much energy in my hand and let myself go and punch him anyways then he fell on his bed and passed out. I saw what I had done and ran out to tell you both but I felt so weak and fell against the wall and that's all I remember." Leia said wishing none of this would of happened.
"I have been thinking that no matter that you don't want to learn to be a Jedi I just want to teach you how to control your force power. Your punch possibly wouldn't of done this much damage if you knew how to control yourself and your anger." Anakin paused thinking of a good punishment for her. He hated punishing his children but he knew they needed to learn somehow and sometime. "Sweetheart, you are grounded until your brother heals and is back to normal. That means you are going to spend more time with your mother and I and I will make the rest up as your punishment continues."
"Yes sir. I understand." Leia sadly said.
"We are getting ready to land soon. I was supposed to have a meeting with the Jedi when we landed but I had to move it to tomorrow. When we land your mother will have to go to her meeting with the senate while I take the both of you to the medcenter. I have already commed the medcenter to be prepared so go get dressed and your mother will help you." Anakin said getting up and walking toward the cockpit to bring the ship out of hyperspace to regular space above Coruscant and to safely land.
Padme got up and followed Leia to her room to get ready. Leia had asked to not get changed in her room but in Padme's room because she didn't want to see or be reminded of her brother lying helpless on his bed unconscious. Padme agreed and grabbed Leia's stuff and they both went to the largest room on the ship, Padme and Anakin's, to get dressed.
When they landed about an hour later, Padme quickly left to her meeting with the senate while Anakin took the twins to the medcenter. Anakin walked in the twin's room and carefully picked Luke up and called for Leia who was in her mother's room. Anakin walked down the ramp of the ship and carefully laid Luke in the backseat of the speeder that was parked beside the landing bay. Leia took this opportunity to sit in the front passenger seat.
When they arrived at the medcenter the doctors quickly took Luke to the back and a nurse took Leia to a room to be checked out. Anakin went with his daughter since he wasn't allowed in the back and he was not going to sit in the waiting room. After doing a couple of tests on Leia the doctor came in saying that she is just extremely exhausted and weak and that she really needs to just rest for a while.
Anakin and Leia went to the waiting room waiting on news on how Luke is. Leia fell asleep with her head resting in his lap while Anakin stroked her hair with his left hand.
Six hours passed and still no word from the doctor. Leia woke up about two hours ago and Anakin took her down to the cafeteria to get some dinner. Thirty minuets ago they came back and sat down in the same chairs they sat in before. Leia once again fell asleep with her head in his lap and Anakin fell asleep soon after.
Padme walked in the medcenter and turned the corner to the waiting room to find both her daughter and husband asleep. She walked over and sat in a chair beside Anakin and rested her head on his shoulder and closed her eyes to possibly get some rest.
"How did the meeting go?" Anakin asked eyes still closed.
"Went well, were gong to make the announcement when the Jed knows." Padme said still resting.
"Did Jack make it here safely?" Anakin asked remembering asking for Jack to be transported.
"Yep, he has a nice holding cell too." Padme sarcastically said.
They just sat there in silence enjoying the peace until….
"Mr. and Mrs. Skywalker." A tall skinny black haired man said standing in front of Anakin, Padme, and Leia.
Both Anakin and Padme opened their eyes and sat up at the sight and voice of Doctor Wathenburk, Luke's doctor.
"Any news doctor?" Anakin asked. Doctor Wathenburk moved a chair in front of the Skywalkers and sat down in it.
"Well Luke has been in surgery for a couple of hours as you can tell. It normally doesn't take this long but we had to take extra cautions because of some of the things I'm about to list and because he is so young." The doctor said taking his datapad out of his jacket. "We were able to repair his shattered nose bone, his broken right cheekbone, part of his skull was crushed so we had to carefully as possible remove the pieces from his brain, and we had to cut some of his hair to get to some places. He of course as you probably have noticed he is missing some teeth from whatever happened to him." He said and when he was finished he put his datapad back in his jacket pocket.
"How is he now? Will he be able to make a full recovery?" Padme asked holding her husband's right hand for assurance.
"He is fine and he is sleeping. For the recovery it may take a couple of weeks but he should make a full recovery. We will need to keep him here for the rest of the week to monitor his conditions." The doctor said
"Can we see him now?" Anakin asked
"Yes and you both will have full visitor access as well as your daughter. Now let me take you to his room." The doctor said standing up and placing the chair back in its original spot.
Anakin picked Leia up and helped Padme to her feet and followed Doctor Wathenburk down a hallway, in a turbolift that took them up ten floors, then down two more hallways, and finally they walked in the room where Luke was sleeping. Doctor Wathenburk left after he had confirmation that Luke was settled.
Anakin laid Leia in a chair and covered her up with a white blanket that was in the closet of the room. Padme sat on the bed beside her son and stroked his forehead where there was no blonde hair hanging over his eyes.
Luke had scars all over his face and the top of his head was wrapped up. His nose had a clamp on it to keep the bone in place.
Anakin sat in a chair opposite of Padme beside Luke. Anakin was thankful his son was alive and wasn't critically injured. He had a bad feeling that this would be the last time he would be able to spend peaceful time with his family for a long time.
A/N: The next chapter I hope will be when the Sith strike, just to let you all know! Also I don't understand this Beta Reader thing so if someone would be kind enough to explain to me what it is I would like that. Also the next chapter should be updated a lot sooner hopefully I have been focused on trying to get my grades up at school so that's why it takes me some time. Please Review and I accept reviews on errors just don't send me suck errors I want decent ones. Okay well Thank You!