Author's Note: Sorry it's been a couple of weeks since I updated. I've had a couple of busy weeks and didn't feel like writing when I got home. Thank you again to all of your reviews. All of them are greatly appreciated and keep me going with this story.

Just an FYI, out of curiosity, I bought Season 4 of the "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" cartoon series on DVD and also a used DVD that had 4 early episodes on it. I have to say that the cartoon series is very cleverly done and definitely geared more for teenagers and adults than kids. So I'm actually loving it! I love how an announcer comes on at the beginning of each episode to recap what happened in the previous episode. They sound like some of the announcers from the old TV shows from the 50s and 60s. I can't help but think of the 1960s "Batman" with Adam West or some of the old short movie serials that they show on the classic movie channels. Love it! I think that was George Lucas' idea as he mentioned in interviews that the original Star Wars movie started on episode IV because he fashioned it after the old TV/movie serials.

What does all of this have to do with my story you ask? Well, I mentioned to one of my reviewers who had asked if I was going to add Ahsoka Tano to my story that I thought her character was a little annoying from what fan fiction stories I have read here with her in it. I can see why she was written annoying because in the earlier episodes I watched she was, at least in my opinion. But in the Season 4 episodes she acts more mature and I actually find myself liking her.

So to answer the question, I'm not sure if I will be adding her to my story or not. It depends on if I feel she would fit into the plot and if I can figure out a good way to resurrect her. So no promises in regards to me adding Ahsoka Tano. We'll see how things progress and if something really sparks my imagination about her.

Ok...enough chatter...now on with the story.

Chapter 13

Coruscant – Strategy Room at the Senate Building

Leia looked back at Obi-Wan with shock. "Master Kenobi, it's so good to see you...alive."

Obi-Wan nodded at Leia. "Yes, Princess Leia, I heard that there was a rumor going around that I had been killed by Darth Vader." Leia looked over at her father, brother, and mother looking for guidance as to what to say. The lost and confused look on Leia's face caused Obi-Wan to look back at her with concern. "Are you ok?" He asked and then paused thinking he knew why she was acting the way she was. "I am so sorry to hear about Alderaan and...your father. Bail was a very good friend to the Jedi. He will be greatly missed."

Leia, who had been staring at her father the whole time, blinked and then brought her attention back to Obi-Wan. "Thank you, Master Kenobi." She sighed as she looked down and then back up at his flickering, bluish 3-D image with all seriousness. "Master Kenobi, I'm not sure how much Starkiller and Juno Eclipse have told you but...we believe you have been somehow transported into the future. Alderaan was destroyed 4 years ago by the Death Star, and I also sent you those droids 4 years ago."

Obi-Wan looked back at her with confusion and shock. "Yes...Starkiller tried to convince me of that. I did not want to believe it; but now that you are telling me the same thing, I supposed I must try to accept it." He paused as a sad smiled formed on his face. "It's a dream come true that the Empire has been defeated and a new Republican government is being formed."

Leia's eyes filled with unshed tears as she smiled back at Obi-Wan. "Yes, it is a dream come true. But we are not out of danger yet, Master Kenobi. The Empire is still trying to make a comeback; and we think that your arrival here may be the result of them finding a time travel experiment at one of the Emperor's secret bases."

Obi-Wan then became more serious. "Yes...Starkiller did try to explain that to me." He started. "Hmm...very curious." He stated as he looked away in contemplation and stroked his beard. But then he looked back at Leia with a sense of awe. "He also told me that Darth Vader killed Emperor Palpatine, risking his own life to save Luke Skywalker's life."

Leia nodded her head as she glanced up at her father and brother who were looking back at her with love. She then turned her attention back to Obi-Wan. "Yes, amazingly he did saved my brother, Luke, and at the same time the galaxy...before he died himself." Well, technically he did...then. Leia thought to herself.

Obi-Wan looked at her with surprise but with a hint of sadness in his features at the revelation that Vader, who had been his former friend and 'brother', was now dead. He then also realized she had called Luke her brother and looked back at her with caution. "So you know about Luke?!"

Leia smiled wide and nodded. "Yes, I know he is my twin brother, Master Kenobi." She paused. "In fact, I now know everything about my family." She told him as she looked at her whole family with love who were all smiling back at her with equal love in their eyes. "Including that our mother is still alive. I met her just now before you commed me."

"Padme is there?!" Obi-Wan said with shock and then became a little nervous. "Then you know that Bail was not...your real father." He said more as a statement than a question as Leia nodded. Obi-Wan then became even more serious. "Do you know who your real father was?"

Leia nodded with a smile. "Yes, I know I was adopted and..." She paused as she looked up at Anakin who had a serious look on his face and was shaking his head no. This reaction brought a confused look to her face, but then she nodded in acceptance as she understood his hint not to say anything to Obi-Wan about Anakin, her real father, being there in the room with her or that she knew that he had been Darth Vader. "...that my father was a Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker."

Obi-Wan let out a sigh of relief before getting a haunted look on his face. "Yes, Anakin was a good friend." He sighed as he ran his right hand over his face and then pinched the bridge of his nose before looking back at her. "I miss him dearly and wish he was here to see all of this."

Leia just gave him a knowing smile. "Oh...I'm sure he knows." She told him causing Obi-Wan to look back at her with confusion as she continued. "In spirit, of course." She added.

"Ah..yes, of course." Obi-Wan replied as his shoulders slouched in sadness.

"Master Kenobi, I understand that you arrived here on the Millennium Falcon with Han Solo, Luke and Chewbacca." Leia began as Obi-Wan nodded. "I must pre-warn you that Chancellor Mon Mothma has requested that the Han Solo and Chewbacca of this time to rendezvous with the Rogue Shadow and your Millennium Falcon to escort you to Coruscant."

"Ohhh...that should be a very interesting meeting." Obi-Wan stated with amusement as he tried to imagine Han Solo and Chewbacca meeting the future versions of themselves.

Leia nodded in agreement and then snickered. "Yes, I can only imagine."

Obi-Wan also chuckled but then became reflective as he began to stroke his beard with his right hand. "So we are to go to Coruscant. Why I haven't been there since before you and your brother were born." He sighed. "It would be nice to return there...and perhaps to see the Jedi Temple again, even if it is in a state of disrepair."

Leia smiled again as she looked up at her family and then back at Obi-Wan. "I think that can be arranged. Luke, with the help of New Republic funds, is overseeing the renovations to try to restore the Jedi Temple to its former glory." She paused. "I understand it was quite beautiful during the Old Republic. I can see that it had been at one time." Leia then got a bigger smile on her face. "Luke is also in the process of rebuilding the Jedi Order, Master Kenobi."

Obi-Wan got a far away look on his face as a small, sad smile formed on his lips. "Yes, I once called it home...and the news of young Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order brings great joy to my heart, Princess Leia."

Leia just nodded in response with a smile. "We look forward to meeting you here on Coruscant soon, Master Kenobi." She then looked over at her brother. "And I'm sure Luke is anxious to see you again as well."

Obi-Wan nodded with a smile. "As do I. I look forward to seeing Luke and how he has progressed with his Jedi training. And I also look forward to seeing your mother again. It's been far too long. Until then, may the Force be with you all."

"Until then, Master Kenobi." Leia replied with a smile and a slight nod. The transmission then ended and Leia immediately looked up at her father with confusion as she stood and put her hands on her hips. "Why didn't you want me to tell him about you being alive and not being Vader anymore?"

Anakin walked around Luke and approached her at the other end of the table. "Because...I don't know if he would believe that I have really changed without seeing me for himself." He paused. "Besides...I want to surprise him." He sighed as he looked down and then back up at Leia. "I sense that he partially blames himself for my downfall and...he..." Anakin then paused again as he clasped his hands in front of him and looked down and then back up at Leia once more. "...he...believes that I still hate him for what he did to me...for injuring me so I had to wear that black respirator suit."

Luke and Leia looked at their father with surprised at this revelation as Padme looked at her husband with understanding, rushing to his side. "HE is why you had to wear that suit?!" Luke said with shock as Padme put her right arm around Anakin's waist in a comforting manner and Anakin put his left arm around her shoulders and kissed her hair.

Anakin then looked over to his left where Luke was standing. "Yes..." He paused as he looked down and back up at Luke. "But it wasn't like he had a choice. I had become a Sith." Anakin then sighed again. "He was just doing his duty as a Jedi." Anakin finally said as he looked down and then hugged Padme as she continued to comfort him.

Padme looked up at Anakin with a hint of anger in her eyes and shook her head. "But he did have a choice, Anakin. He didn't have to fight you and hurt you like that."

Anakin looked down as his wife who was now looking at him with sadness. "No...he didn't have a choice, Padme." He sighed. "I was a Sith. He had no choice but to fight me. It was the Jedi way. And I made the arrogant decision to jump over him, even though I knew he had the higher ground and he clearly had the advantage." He paused as he pulled Padme closer and kissed her hair again. "I was a Sith and had to be stopped. He knew it, despite how he felt about me personally. I don't blame him. I only blame myself. I have only myself to blame for ending up in that suit." Anakin told Padme and at the same time his family. I think I'll leave the part out about him letting me burn and leaving me for dead. That will just make them hate him, which is the last thing I want. Anakin thought to himself as he continued. "I deserved to be in that suit for all the horrible things I had done." He added as a tear started falling down his right cheek.

Padme looked up at her husband with shock, wiping the tear from his cheek with her right hand and then used both of her hands to bring his head down to her so she could kiss him on the lips. She gently kissed him on the lips and then looked straight into the sad, blue eyes. "Although, I don't totally agree with you, Anakin." She paused. "I do agree with you trying to forgive Obi-Wan for him injuring you." She then kissed him quickly on the lips again. "He always did love you like a brother, Anakin. I could see it in his eyes when he told me you were lost to us." She paused as a tear started to fall down her cheek as well. "He hated having to do what he felt was his duty." She finally stated as she looked away and then back up at her husband with love.

Anakin nodded. "Yes, he told me as much when we...parted ways." He sighed as he closed his eyes and then looked back into Padme's big, brown eyes. "He poured his heart out to me and I...screamed at him that I hated him." Anakin told her as he shook his head and he pinched the bridge of his nose with his right hand. "Maybe for awhile I did hate him...but now thinking back...I know how much fighting me and injuring me the way he did...it broke him...I felt it."

Padme nodded as Luke spoke up. "I could see that he truly cared for you, Father, even when he first told me about you being a Jedi and his friend." Luke paused. "He had a lot of fond memories of you."

Anakin looked over at Luke with understanding and nodded. "I just hope that he will learn to trust me again."

Leia who had been listening in silence to the exchanges taking between the rest of her family finally spoke up as she crossed her arms in front of her and cocked her head to one side. "If I can learn to trust you, Father, I'm sure he can." She told with a smile as the rest of her family looked back at her.

Anakin smiled as he looked at her. "I hope so, Leia. I really hope so."

"He will." Luke interjected as Anakin also smiled over at him.

Padme, who was listening to her children reassure her husband, started to get unshed tears of joy in her eyes as she looked at Leia, Luke and then back up at her husband, who she was still holding in her arms. "I just realized something." She started as they all looked back at her with curiosity and love. "This is the first time since before the twins were born...that all of us have been in the same room together."

Anakin got a huge smile on his face as he looked down at Padme with love and then gazed over at Luke and Leia. He let out a smile chuckle. "Yes, I guess it is! I never thought this day would ever come." He said as he became reflective. "All those years...that I thought I had lost all of you...I never in my wildest dreams thought this day would ever become a reality."

Padme hugged her husband tighter and put her head on his chest. "Neither did I." She paused with tears of joy still in her eyes as she looked back up at her husband who seemed to get a twinkle back in his sky blue eyes. "Well, you have us now." She stated matter of fact.

Luke and Leia also stepped towards their father, both putting their right hands on each of his arms. "Yes, you have us now, Father." Luke added as they all smiled at each other.

Anakin just nodded with a warm smile. "Yes, I do have all of you now...and it's made me the happiest man in the galaxy." He told them as they all nodded with smiles on their faces and tears of joy also forming in their eyes.

"So now what?" Luke finally asked as they started to come off of their emotional high from truly being reunited as a family again.

Padme gave Anakin one last squeeze and then backed out of their embrace. She looked over at Luke, then Leia, and then back at Anakin. "Well...I don't know about the rest of you but I am hungry. I haven't eaten anything since this morning" She paused. "3PO made us that lovely dinner and it shouldn't go to waste. We can go back to our apartment and have him heat it up for us." She said as she looked up at her husband.

Anakin just nodded and smiled down at her. "Then I'll take a look at 3PO to see if his memories of us are still in tact and maybe just in a hidden directory somewhere."

Padme smiled. "I hope so."

Leia at this revelation got a look of confused awe on her face as she crossed her arms in front of her chest. "What?! You knew 3PO before?"

Anakin and Padme laughed. "Yes, I build 3PO when I was 9 to help my mother." Anakin told his daughter.

Leia just laughed. "Wait until Han hears this?!" She said as she continued to laugh. "I can only imagine what he will say about that."

Luke, who was also laughing, spoke up. "Yes, 3PO has annoyed Han since day one. Wait until he hears you built him." He said as he looked over at his father with a hint of mischief in his eyes.

Anakin then became a little sheepish and then chuckled. "I'm sure he will add it to his long list of reasons to hate me." He stated with humor then paused as he shrugged and they all looked at him with amusement. "What do you expect? I was 9."

Padme also chuckled. "I have to admit. He always had the worst timing and seemed to get himself in the worst trouble possible."

Anakin just laughed. "That he did." He paused as he continued laughing along with the rest of his family. "But other times he would come through for us."

"Yes, he did. Poor 3PO." Padme said. "He does mean well, though."

"Yes, he does." Anakin replied with a nod. "So shall we go get some dinner?" He said as he held his right arm out to Padme and then looked at his family.

"Of course." Padme replied as she took his arm. "You know the way, Master Jedi."

It was then that Anakin remembered that he was going to talk to Luke about that, but Luke picked up on his father's thoughts before he could ask the question. "Father, I know you weren't granted the rank of Master...before." He paused. "But considering you and I are it as far as the Jedi Order is concerned, the rank of Master is yours if you want it. I think you've more than earned it by now, especially since you helped the Alliance to win the war against the Empire."

Anakin just smiled at Luke while putting his left hand on top of Padme's left arm. "I don't know if I earned it...but thank you, Luke." He replied with sadness.

Luke looked back at his father with understanding. "If the old Jedi Order was still in existence, I'm sure you would have had the rank of Master by now, Father. You have earned it whether you think so or not."

"It just doesn't seem right after all that I've done." Anakin retorted with sadness.

Padme put her right hand on top of Anakin's left hand, squeezing it. "Luke is right, Ani. Accept the rank."

Anakin just shook his head but then sighed as he looked down at Padme and then over at Luke. "Very well. I accept it, Luke, but with a humble heart." He paused. "I have yet to truly earn it."

Luke just smiled at his father. "You already did when you saved my life."

"And when you saved the galaxy." Leia added with a smile as she tilted her head at her father. "You have to remember that."

Anakin smiled at Luke and then Leia, still not believing how far Leia had come in just a few hours with accepting him as her father. "Thank you, Leia." He replied with a warm smile. "That means a lot coming from you...considering...everything that...happened between us."

Leia just laughed. "Yes, well, I still can't believe it myself." She paused as she continued to smile at him. "I can't explain it...but it just feels right."

Anakin nodded and smiled at his daughter as he looked back down at his wife. He then pointed his left hand towards the door. "Shall we all go get some dinner?"

They all smiled at him as they nodded their heads. "Yes, let's go." Padme replied. "I'm also eager to find out if you can fix 3PO's memory."

"Me too." Anakin replied with a smile as they walked over to the button that opened the door and Anakin pushed it. "After all, he was a witness to our wedding. I want him to definitely remember that."

"What?!" Luke and Leia exclaimed in unison just as the door swooshed open.

Anakin just winked at them with a smile. "Don't worry. We'll tell you all about it." He told his children as he and Padme while smiling at each other walked out into the hall arm in arm.

Luke offered his right arm to his sister who took it while smiling back at him. "This should be a very interesting evening." Leia told her brother as they walked arm and arm into the hallway.

"Yes, and we all get to have our first meal together as a family too." Luke replied with excitement and a twinkle in his eye.

Leia just laughed. "Yes, I guess that's true. This should certainly be the most interesting meal of my entire life." She declared with happiness and equal excitement as they followed their parents down the hall and the doors closed behind them. Very interesting.