Chapter 46

Laetitia was flying the Comet. It was the first time she had been in her Starfighter since everything happened. She looked sadly at her belt, where her two lightsabers should've been. She had given them to Bail Organa to take to her funeral.

She set the coordinates in. Naboo. She had to see her mother for the last time. She wasn't gonna pay her respects and attend the funeral but that didn't mean she couldn't watch it from afar.

Leah took something out and stared at it with eyes full of tears. Anakin's lightsaber. Her father's lightsaber. She held the lightsaber, pressed in on her heart and sobbed quietly. She still couldn't believe that was how the Hero with no Fear's life ended. By his own daughter.

She came out of her thoughts when she noticed another ship was following her. She didn't even need to guess or use the Force to know who it was.

She stopped and landed. She saw the other ship do the same and saw the pilot coming towards her.

"Beeb, take control and stay here." She said and left the ship.

"What are you doing here, Obi-wan?" Laetitia asked impatiently.

"I thought you shouldn't be alone."

"Except that's exactly what I asked for."

"Leah …"

"The almighty Negotiator thinks I shouldn't be alone, so he decides to follow me." She added bitterly "Careful now. That's becoming your signature move, sneaking up on people."

"Okay. You are clearly still upset about what I did." He said, being embarrassed.

"Why would I be upset? I mean, it's not like my dad attacked my mom because of you showing up. Oh wait." She said giving him a death glare. Those eyes reminded Obi-wan of Anakin.

"I admit, that was not how I expected things to go down."

"Okay. And exactly did you think they were gonna go down? Quietly?"

Obi-wan heard some noises coming from Laetitia's Starfighter but she was too angry to realize.

"You went there to kill him! But when you couldn't do it, I had to!"

"What's that noise?" He asked suspiciously "It sounds like … cooing of a baby or something like that."

A wave of shock and fear hit Leah. She forgot what she was protecting. Or rather, who.

The look on her face was enough to convince Obi-wan to know. So he walked quickly to the Comet before Laetitia could stop him.

"Master, wait …!" But it was too late.

Obi-wan was numb from being shocked. He had expected to see anything but now what he saw.

Two blue eyes staring at him. It was Luke. He was sucking him hands and staring at Obi-wan.

"Hi, Luke." Obi-wan said casually, not wanting to show his true reaction to the baby. "Just a second."

He turned around and saw Laetitia sighing in giving up.

"So … Luke's alive."

"Yeah." She paused "I might have had something to do with his 'death'."

"Oh wonderful. Do tell."

"I overheard what you, Organa and master Yoda were talking about. About Luke's fate. I couldn't let that happen. I knew you would do whatever you want and use him for your wars … but you couldn't if you thought he was dead."

"So you faked his death to save him from US?"

"Not just you." Leah said quietly. She explained "When you knocked me out, thank you for that before I forget," She rose her eyebrow "I saw everything."

"What do you mean you saw everything?"

"I mean you effort to not let me see my mom's final moment was a waste of energy. I saw everything through the Force. Which leads me to ask, why didn't you let me say goodbye to her? She was my mom. I deserved that much."

Obi-wan just looked down. What was he supposed to say? He knew she was right but so was he.

"But I just didn't see mom. I also saw Palpatine" She hissed in anger. "or Sidious or whatever the hell he calls himself. He was there and sucked the life Force out of mom in front of me and I didn't do anything."

Obi-wan shook his head in understanding. It finally made sense why Padme suddenly died when she got her will back.

"There was nothing you could've done." He said in sympathy but knew it didn't matter. The girl blamed herself and there was nothing he could do to change her mind. She was so much like her father.

Then something hit Obi-wan and it scared the hell out of him.

"Do you think he knows? About Luke? That Padme lived long enough to give birth?"

"I don't know and that's exactly why I had to fake his death. I couldn't risk Palpatine knowing about my brother. I figured if he didn't see it, great! If he did, then I just had to convince him that he died. So I gave Luke something that put him into deep sleep and I used the Force to mask his signature, make him look like he was dead." She added "It was the only way I could think of to get both Palpatine and the Jedi off his back."

Obi-wan stared at the 5-year-old with shock and disbelief. She was a true genius. Her plan was great, convincing, so much so that even the 900-year-old grand master Jedi bought it and he was standing right there.

"Well, where are you going to go?"

"Right now? Naboo."

"Laetitia, it's too …"

"Don't worry. I just wanna see her from afar." She said sadly.

"And then?" Obi-wan didn't wanna press her. He figured he couldn't convince her otherwise and that was the least he could do since he didn't let her say goodbye to her mother.

"I'm gonna take Luke to Tatooine."

Done :)

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