Finally! The long awaited chapter of revelations is here! I know you're very excited. I was going to put this up about two days ago, but I decided to do a major clean out of my very messy room. I haven't finished, but I am now sitting on a chair instead of the floor.

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Chapter 13

"He needs a Bacta, right away!" Anakin shouted after the people carrying an unconscious Luke. Han handed him a towel, and Anakin buried his face in it, wiping away all the freezing water from around his eyes. When he looked back up, he saw, through his bleary eyes, Leia rushing towards him.

"You're alright!" she exclaimed. Anakin nodded.

"Yeah, they just took Luke to go fix him up. He'll be fine."

"I'm so relieved!" she said, putting a hand to her head, and turning around aimlessly. "I mean, not that you should have gone out there. That was still really stupid." She said, crossly. "But I'm so glad… I'm going to check on Luke."

Han elbowed Anakin.

"The heroic thing works great. Pity I didn't think of it."

Anakin gave Han a dirty look.

"I'm a happily married man, with better morals than you."

"That cuts me really deep."

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Anakin found something to eat, and then went to find Luke- who wasn't looking too bad. There was some scarring on his face, but nothing amputated.

"You feeling okay?"

Luke looked up, slightly nervously.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks."

Anakin grinned

"Seriously, no problem. You were pretty funny while your brain was frozen up. Kept rambling on about 'Ben', whoev-" he caught the look on Luke's face.

"Oh. Oh yeah…"

"I'm sorry about that." Luke mumbled. "I mean, I know you two were close."

Anakin managed a smile.

"Yeah, but if I ever get back, I know he's gonna have a long life, teaching more squirty blonde kids how to use a lightsaber. Well, one more."

Luke looked at him, sadly.

"What about you?"

Anakin caught the meaning immediately, for once.

"I don't know. I know that Master Yoda would just say it was 'the will of the Force', so would Master Obi-Wan." He shrugged. "Maybe if I just go along with that, I'll feel better about the whole thing. But Padmé…"

Anakin breathed in deeply.

"I'm so worried about her."

Luke looked concerned, but also very tired.

"You should get some sleep." Anakin said. "I'll get lost for a bit."

Luke looked like he was going to attempt to say something else, but his head rolled back into his pillow before he had the chance.

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"Well, he's not ignoring me anymore, but he's not exactly being a bundle of laughs." Anakin said grumpily to Han. Han nodded, sympathetically.

"He'll be back to his chirpy self soon. Her, on the other hand," he gestured his head towards Leia, who was striding towards them, "I doubt she's cracked a joke in her life. Probably doesn't know how."

"Han." Leia said, her tone urgent, yet controlled… as usual. "I need you to check something, we think it might be an Imperial probe." She handed him the coordinates, and Han took them, rolling his eyes to Anakin. Anakin smirked back, but Leia didn't notice any of this.

"Anakin, I really need to talk to you."

"Now?"

"Now."

"See you later." Han smirked, standing up and walking away. "Good luck!" he shouted behind him. Anakin sighed.

"Anakin, please." She said, tugging on his arm.

"Fine, I'm coming."

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"We've had thousands of leads, I don't see how can think this one is any different."

"But sir, Hoth is supposed to be devoid of life-" everyone froze as Lord Vader strode towards them.

"What have you found?" he inquired.

"Nothing of any relevence-" Vader held up his hand to shut him up. He resisted the urge to clench his fist. No point in causing a scene here, but Ozzel was incredibly annoying.

"What have you found?" he repeated.

"Some life forms in the Hoth system, sir. I believe it may be the Rebels."

"You are correct. The Rebels are there." Vader said, pointing at the screen. "We need to launch an assault, but be careful. Destroying their base is not enough, nor is destroying them. I need prisoners; keep as many alive as you can."

"Yes Sir."

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"Princess Leia, we are starting the evacuation; you must get to a hangar as soon as possible."

"Very well, but there is something I need to do first" Leia said, continuing down a corridor, Anakin following.

"An evacuation?" he said. "That probe was Imperial?"

"Apparently so." muttered Leia.

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"Why have we come out of lightspeed so close to the system?"
"Well… ah, the-" Vader held up a hand to cut off the babbling man.

"I need those rebels. Ozzel's incompetence has caused too much damage this time."

The Imperial messenger took this as permission to leave, and gratefully rushed out the door as Vader called up Ozzel on the screen. Ozzel turned around, not looking as worried as he should have done.

"Yes, Lord Vader?"

Vader didn't bother to reply, tightening the man's windpipe as his response.

"You have failed me for the last time. Piett, you are promoted."

"Ah," replied Piett, as Ozzel fell down, dead. "Thankyou, Lord Vader."

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The found a deserted corridor, and Leia began pacing the width of it, as Anakin sat down, wincing at the cold ground.

"What's the matter with you?"

Leia stopped pacing, and looked at him, before slumping to the ground and lowering her eyes.

"Anakin, I really don't know how to tell you this and there isn't an easy way to say it but it's important that you know and I did some research and found some things out about Padmé Amidala and I discovered that she's actually my biological mother and I'm sorry this is so blunt but you needed to know." Leia finally took a breath.

"What?" said Anakin, simply. Leia looked up at him.

"Don't make me say it again. Please."

"You think th- that Padmé is…"

"My mother, yes."

"And so I'm…"

"I think so, yes."

"Woah." Anakin banged his head back against the wall, but didn't seem to notice.

"And you've known this how long?"

"I'm not positive, but… I guessed a while ago."

"And you didn't tell me why?"

Leia buried her face in her hands.

"I tried! I really did; but I kept getting nervous, or someone interrupted, or… it was difficult, okay? Do you know how difficult it is to tell someone something like that!?"

She was looking straight at him now, her eyes angry and distressed at the same time.

"Who else have you told?"

"Um, Mon Mothma… and Luke. And there's something about Luke as well…"

"Oh." Anakin said, standing up sharply and cutting her off. "So pretty much everyone except me. That's why you and Luke have been ignoring me the whole time we've been here. That's why I've had to baby-sit the idiot since we arrived-"

"That's not fair." Said Leia, standing up, angrily. "Han had nothing to do with this. And it really wasn't our fault it was so difficult to tell you; you could try to be a bit more reasonable about this whole thing!"

"It would be easier to be reasonable if people treated me like a responsible adult. Hey, I find out I've got a kid, and yet they still act like they're better than me?"

"What about me?" Leia yelled back. "I finally find out who my real parents are- find out one of them is alive- and they turn out to be the most immature brat I've ever met!"

"But I'm not alive, am I?" Anakin thundered. "I'm so sorry to burst you little bubble that we could now be a happy family- but I'm not supposed to be here, and I will be going back! You'll just have to make do on your own."

"You" Leia said, tears streaming down her cheeks, "are the most obnoxious person I've ever had the misfortune to meet." She stormed off. Over her shoulder, she shouted back; "Oh! And I won't be alone. Luke's part of the family as well. Seems like you have two children you can neglect."

"Right." Anakin scowled, darkly, and went the other way down the corridor, towards the hangar bay.

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"Lord Vader, we've captured one of the ships attempting to leave the system. A small starfighter; there was one man aboard. Will you be questioning him?"

"Later." Said Vader, turning away to look out at Hoth. "There is someone who I need more urgently. We will question prisoners after our search of the Rebel Base."

"Of course, my Lord."

End Chapter Thirteen

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Anakin is indeed in yet another spot of bother. Silly boy...

I took me a while to decide whether I wanted his reunion with Vader here or later, but I eventually decided it fit better here. And I'm now going to use the place where he would have had the reunion to put in another important point I was having trouble with. So all is well! (And I got to hint at exciting things coming in the future. Yay!)