Thank you to everyone who reviewed my last chapter. I'm finally back from overseas and I just finished polishing up this chapter. This chapter has a lot of answers, especially for questions that were asked very early on in this story. Anyways, I hope you enjoy and please keep reviewing, it gives me motivation xx

CHAPTER 21: One Messed Up Family

"Hello, Ben." The husky voice echoed through the dimmed room. Rey and Ben twisted, frantically searching for the source of the voice. A blue light began to focus in the distance, Rey had to rub her eyes to adjust to the light. She had only ever seen a Force ghost once, it belonged to Master Yoda, as Luke had told her. But this figure was too large to belong to Yoda.

Ben stepped forward, arm outstretched, "Grandfather?" He breathed heavily and then Rey froze. This was Anakin Skywalker, the Anakin Skywalker who was a War hero, a husband, a father, the Jedi who returned. Rey couldn't help but stare, he was beautiful. Not in looks- Rey was not going to deny that he was attractive, but rather in the way he held himself with a confidence she only ever saw in Ben.

Rey was hit back into reality by a trembling Ben standing beside her. "You've been here the whole time? I needed you and you didn't answer me. How could you do that to your own grandson?" Ben was bent slightly forward, fists clenched by his sides.

"The person you wanted me to be no longer existed. Are you telling me that if I came to you in this form, you wouldn't lash out?" Anakin's eyes softened as he pleaded for Ben to understand. "Besides, I was always there, watching over you. That guilt you felt, that pull to the Light was me trying to guide you back to your path." Anakin looked from Ben to Rey and Rey felt as though she should bow or something. The power and authority seemed to radiate from him. "Is that Padme's ring?" Anakin raised his eyebrow.

"Yes, Master Skywalker. Ben proposed this morning." Rey didn't know what to say, let alone call him. Anakin smiled so wide that Rey thought his face might break.

"Bloody Skywalkers, so impulsive" Another figure began to emerge from the dark. This one appeared to be a lot older, a little sterner. "You guys have been together, what three months?" He sighed like he had been through this before.

"You can't stand in the way of love, Obi-Wan." Anakin turned to the older ghost, still not hiding his joy.

"Yeah, I found that out the hard way." Obi-Wan rolled his eyes but there was a clear glint of amusement in them.

"I love her, what's the point of waiting if she is the one?" Ben said bravely to the ghosts.

Realization flashed across Anakin's features. "She's pregnant, isn't she?" Anakin turned to Obi-Wan "She totally pregnant."

"Yes." Rey placed her hands protectively over her stomach and looked sheepishly through her lashes.

"I knew it! Hey, I'm going to be a great grandfather!" Anakin turned to Obi-Wan looking as though he was ready to run and tell anybody who would listen.

"Great, more Skywalkers to screw up the Galaxy." Obi-Wan ran his hand down his face and sighed.

"Hey." Anakin and Ben said in unison and Rey and Obi-Wan just laughed.

"How did Leia take it?" Anakin asked, suddenly remembering his distraught daughter's last words to him. Father, I've lost Ben forever. He's gone completely, he's a monster incapable of loving anything.

"Well she doesn't know about the baby yet. We thought we should break one thing at a time. She was only just coming to terms with the fact that her son proposed to the 'enemy'." Ben smirked and Rey noticed the similarities between him and Anakin. With Anakin frozen in his young form, they looked as though they could be brothers. Anakin was just as gorgeous as Ben, with the curly hair and smoldering eyes. Rey shook her head, forcing herself to look away from the toxic Skywalkers.

"I agree but knowing my daughter, she will be over the moon." Anakin pulled a weak smile.

"Masters, what will become of our child?" Rey asked nervously, hoping they had the answers she seeked.

"We can't see the child's future. He was not part of the prophecy; we only can read what we are shown." Obi-Wan explained and Ben's head shot quickly to the side, making eye contact with Obi-Wan. His eyebrows furrowed and his fists clenched.

"What do you mean prophecy? Prophecy of what?" Ben questioned, his eyes darting between the three men in front of him.

"You're the chosen one, Ben." Obi-Wan spoke earnestly.

"Me? I'm the chosen one? But what about Rey or our baby?" Ben's eyes furrowed as he pointed weakly towards Rey.

"She is part of the prophecy. Your bond with her is vital in bringing down the Empire but you are the one who must kill Snoke." Anakin explained.

"So you're saying that we were destined to be together?" Ben's eyes dropped to the floor as he tried to understand what he was being told. "But she's more powerful than me." Rey smirked at his statement and felt an odd sense of pride. Ben didn't even have to look at her to know what she was thinking. "Yes, Rey I did just admit that, no need to rub it in." But he didn't have his usual smugness, instead he was filled with concern.

"That is because she is a descendant of one of the most powerful Sith in Jedi history." Obi-Wan spoke.

"Hey, second most." Anakin piped up, folding his arms across his chest.

"Yes, Anakin. No one was as powerful as you." Obi-Wan rolled his eyes at his apprentice's cockiness.

Ben took in a sharp breath. "The Emperor?"

"Who's the Emperor?" Rey asked, confused.

"The leader of the Galactic Empire and Darth Vader's master." Ben turned towards her.

"So I come from a line of homicidal maniacs, great." Rey rolled her eyes and clutched her stomach. "This child has no chance."

"Wait, Luke does that mean you knew who I was the whole time?" Rey turned towards Luke with a threatening glint in her eyes.

"No. It wasn't until you told me your parents' names that I came to speak to my Masters about them. They knew instantly who you were."

"I knew that Palpatine had a son but I wasn't aware that he himself had offspring." Anakin tried explaining why his son didn't tell her the truth.

"Offspring? I'm not the only one? I have siblings?" Rey was struggling to stand; how could all this be happening. Ben felt her distress through their bond and rushed to her side before she collapsed.

"We believe so."

"Oh my god." Rey looked as though she was going to be sick. Ben's grip tightened around her waist. "Who are they?"

"We're not quite sure." Luke rubbed his beard in thought.

"Luke, how did you know my parents?" Rey had her hand on her forehead, trying to ease the headache beginning to form.

"I only knew your father after he turned to the Dark Side. I knew he had a woman he cared about deeply before he turned but no one knew her identity. He was the first Knight of Ren, he was recruited to find others and of course, he came to me for my Jedi skills. I refused him multiple times until eventually he gave up, or so I thought. Turns out he found my nephew instead." Luke said hastily as he gestured towards Ben.

"Oh shit, I remember now." Ben cursed and Rey's eyes widened. "He took me to Jakku to retrieve you but something went wrong." He shook his head as though he was trying to shake the memory free. "Your mother, she wouldn't let you go, she wanted to take you somewhere else, faraway from your father. Your father, he got so angry, oh, I'm so sorry, Rey…he killed her. You ran, hid inside your AT-AT and I found you scared out of your mind. I told it would be okay, that I would get you out of there…"

"…like solving a riddle." Rey whispered and Ben nodded.

"I knew he wasn't going to stop, he was insane, Snoke had driven him mad. I had to kill him, I couldn't let him hurt you, you were so young. I stabbed him in the back with my light saber. I didn't know what to do so I persuaded Plutt to get rid of the body and continue looking after you and then I just flew away, leaving you by yourself. I even wiped your memory of what happened, your memory was of me leaving you on Jakku." Tears were streaming down Rey's face but Ben was too afraid to move, worried that she might lash out.

"That was you? I spent my life waiting for you to come back? How could you not remember that?" Her voice was raised slightly, anger began to seep through.

"Snoke was in my head for years. I can't remember what was real and what wasn't. He must've wiped my memory. I thought I was going mad the first time I started to remember, back on Takodana. I thought he planted the memory in my head." Ben began to rub his temples as Rey's headache began to affect him.

"Ben, you weren't even at my academy at that time. Was Snoke really following you for that long?" Concern washed over Luke and he stepped closer to his nephew.

"Since I was fifteen." Ben sighed.

"I never even knew. Why didn't you ever say anything to me or your mother?" Luke was standing in front of him now, his hand was placed gently on his arm.

"Leia never would have understood; she may be a Jedi but she was never exposed to that part of herself. You forget that neither of you told me what I was until I found out when I was 23. I thought I was insane; I didn't want more reasons to be alienated."

"I should've told you but I thought you would be safer if no one ever knew who you really were." Luke tried to explain himself but Ben was having any of it.

"Yeah, well look how that turned out. I turned into a monster because you couldn't handle the fact that your father was a psychopath." Ben grew angry and his voice was risen as he pointed between Anakin and Luke.

"Emphasis on the was" Anakin butted in and Obi-Wan shot him a look.

"Were you ever going to tell me or just let me feel like a freak for the rest of my life?" Ben turned his back towards Luke and began to walk away.

"I wanted to…everyday but I couldn't lose you. Ben, you were like my own son, I practically raised you. If I lost you, I would've lost myself." Luke called after him and Ben stopped in his tracks. "I didn't disappear because my academy was destroyed, I left because Ben Solo was destroyed and hearing you now, I know it was my fault." Ben raised his head slowly from the ground as he contemplated whether to keep walking or listen to his uncle. "Ben, I'm so sorry." Ben sighed and kept walking until it was only Rey and Luke left standing in tears in the dimmed room.

So Rey is a Palpatine- this is my theory, that or she is a Kenobi. What do you think her heritage is?

Next Chapter... Caught in the Act. (yes, it is what you think it is;) )