A Destiny Rekindled.
Vader finds Luke when he is sixteen, realising Palpatine's lies, he leaves the Empire and renounces the darkside. The Rebel Alliance won't aid him - because of his past serving the Emperor.
With no one he can to turn to, and enemies on all sides, Anakin still has his 'kidnapped' son to contend with - but when is doing the right thing ever easy?
OTHER INFORMATION.
_ Vader was healed after Mustafar and did not require the suit to survive.
_ Luke always knew who is father was - Anakin Skywalker, Jedi and hero - But was not aware that he had become Vader.
CHAPTER ELEVEN.
"So, where are we this time?"
Grinning at Luke, Anakin shrugged, "Ruac." Chuckling Anakin shook his head, "you really are getting around the galaxy. Tatooine, Galtea, naboo and now Ruac... If you keep it up, you'll have visited every planet in the galaxy before the years out."
Luke laughed, "only if you take me, otherwise I'd never have left Tatooine." His expression sobered, "I can't believe they never told me."
"Sometimes, we do things that seem like a good idea at the time," Anakin told him, "and we only learn how bad our decision was later when it's too late to take it back."
Luke shook his head, "I hate feeling like this." he'd wanted so badly to meet his mother, to have it be exactly like he'd imagined. "But I can't help it," he sighed and closed his eyes, "I used to lay awake at night and cry myself to sleep, because i wanted to know my mother so badly, I wanted to know if she would have loved me, if she would have been proud of me..." Choking on a sobbing breath, Luke leaned against his father, "she knew where I was, and I didn't even get to know she was alive!"
"That wasn't what I wanted," Padme stepped off the ship, "it wasn't my choice." Owen had chosen to lie to him, she had just tried to keep him safe. " I would never intentionally do anything to hurt you. I'm your Mother, Luke."
Luke stared at her, the he shook his head. "No you're not, and I'm not sure you ever will be!" the moment he said it, he wished he could take it back, but everything he had been feeling since he found out the 'truth' came surging to the surface. "You haven't ever been there for me, you haven't cared for me or had anything to do with my life."
"Luke, that's enough." Obi-wan stared at him in shock, Luke had always been laid back, to see him like this was, shocking.
Luke rounded on him, "don't you even try to talk to me right now, You're no better, you knew where she was all along!' he glared at him, "how many times did I come to you almost in tears because i just wanted someone to tell me something, and all I ever got from you was a name!"
"Stop it, just shut up!" Leia ran from the ship to stand beside her now crying Mother, "can't you see you're upsetting her?"
"I'm upsetting her!" Staring at his sister, Luke threw up his hands in disgust, "what about me?" his shoulders heaved as he tried to ease the agony raging within him, "she abandoned me, and couldn't even be bother letting me know she was alive, while she spent sixteen years with you!"
Anakin hooked an arm around Luke's shoulders, "come with me."
"Why!" Luke snapped, "I'm not saying anything that isn't true!"
"That may be so," Anakin told him gently, "but we're still going to take a walk before you say something you'll really regret."
x
"Why can't they understand?"
Anakin held Luke against him and shook his head, "I'm sure they're asking the same thing about you right now.'
Luke shook his head, "how am I supposed to understand when nothing they've said makes sense? She said it was to protect me, but then stayed with Leia?" Luke sniffed, "either it was so dangerous that I had to be separated, or it was safe enough for 'Mom' to stay and live with Leia on Alderaan, who was in the public eye every day."
Pushing his son back, Anakin took a deep breath, "there are three sides to every story Luke." He stared into Luke's eyes and shrugged, "your side, their side... And the truth, which is usually somewhere in between." Pulling his son close, Anakin rested his head on top of Luke's, "you'll understand one day." Anakin only hoped that in time, Luke would be able to forgive.
