Epilogue
Anakin and Obi-Wan had a simple wedding ceremony. They held it on Coruscant so there was no travel required for many of their friends. Anakin had suggested the park they both loved and Obi-Wan agreed eagerly. It turned out they needed to book the entire park for the ceremony as so many people wished to attend. All the Clones that had been in the 501st and 212th wanted to be there, as well as Dex, Padme, Palo, little Caleb and Bail. Dooku had also requested to be there. A request they had granted after much deliberation. It would be a god sign of trust. Obviously Ahsoka would attend and Anakin had his mother, Owen and Beru flown in. Plo Koon and his Wolfpack were also in attendance. Even Yoda and Windu were there. As Anakin walked down the middle of the crowd with his mother, he gazed around at the huge crowd and he felt his heart swell yet again. It was still strange to know so many people cared for him and Obi-Wan.
Obi-Wan was waiting for him with the clergyman. As Anakin and Shmi approached, Obi-Wan's face burst into a beaming smile. Shmi placed Anakin's hand in his and he clung on tightly. He simply could not believe this was actually happening. They both turned to face the clergyman and waited. Obi-Wan could see his mouth moving but he couldn't hear anything over the ringing in his ears.
"Do you take Anakin Skywalker to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
"I do." Obi-Wan said firmly. The same question was repeated to Anakin.
"I do." Anakin stated with a smile.
"Then I pronounce you as man and husband." The clergyman announced. Anakin didn't wait for an invitation before pulling Obi-Wan to him and kissed him deeply. The noise from the crowd was a mixture of cheering and wolf whistles. Reluctantly pulling away, Anakin glanced around at the crowd. His mother was crying but smiling. Ahsoka was smirking at him from her place next to Rex.
There was a banquet that was catered by Dex. The diner was too small for all the guests so they held it in the same park as the wedding had been. The guests all sat on the grass and feasted on Dex's finest. Anakin happily dug into his favourite pancakes with bantha meat. Obi-Wan sat on his left and his mother to his right. Ahsoka sat beside his mother with Beru and Owen next to her. Rex and Cody sat on Obi-Wan's other side with Fives next to Cody. They all chatted. Other groups were dotted around the place. Anakin and Obi-Wan made sure to move around and mingle with all of the groups.
As there was much to do and because they had only just had a year off, the two Jedi skipped a honeymoon. A week later, everyone who was going was ready to move to the chosen planet.
Over the course of a few months, Anakin and Obi-Wan formed a relatively large town on Kiros where they planned to form the new Jedi Academy. Rex and Cody were coming with them, refusing to take no for an answer, as well as many Clones from the 501st and 212th. Fives had been promoted to the General of the entire Republic army and had named Echo as his deputy. Hevy was coming with them though as he wanted no further part in fighting. Though, with no war, the Clones were mainly acting as peacekeepers or guards. Ahsoka also joined them, along with, to Anakin's surprise, Plo Koon and Aayla Secura. Plo stepped down from the Jedi Council as teaching at the Academy would take up a great deal of his time. This meant that all of the Clones from Plo's battalion also joined them. What was originally going to be just a small town was now rather large. While the Academy would be strictly Jedi territory and not subject to Republic interference, the Senate, under no small amount of persuasion from Bail and Padme, agreed to fund it, allowing the teachers to be paid a small income and for general maintenance.
As attachments and emotions were no longer forbidden, it was agreed that the Jedi would recruit children a little older. A Force Sensitive child would be identified as before and a Jedi representative was sent to speak with the family who were given two options. They could let the Jedi take the child there and then or they could wait until the child was eleven and send them directly to the Academy.
If they chose option one, then the child was taken to the Temple on Coruscant. They would stay there until they were of Academy age. Then they would move to Kiros and attend the Academy from the ages of eleven to sixteen before returning to the Temple for their final year of training. If they chose option two then once the child attended the Academy they would be allowed to visit home for one week once a year.
The Senate had given the Jedi authority to remove a child regardless if they found evidence of abuse. However these children were sent to Kiros where they could receive special care.
One of the other things Anakin had organised, once he and Obi-Wan got back from their year away, was to take all the Clones to Kamino so the Kaminoens could stop the growth hormones. The Clones would then age normally instead of double the rate of normal humans. Rex, Cody and the other batch of Clones that were the first created were technically only thirteen years old, but biologically and mentally they were twenty six. From then on they would all age at a human regular rate.
The Academy officially opened in the middle of the year 7957 by the C.R.C calendar. Exactly two years after the death of Darth Sideous. They took all of the Younglings from the Temple aged eleven and over. It was decided to split them by age and go from there. They decided that the Academy intake would happen on that day every year. It would also be the day the Academy year ended and anyone aged sixteen would return to the Temple.
Once the Academy opened Anakin and Obi-Wan spoke with some medical experts and discovered that their DNA could be mixed to give them a child. Obi-Wan in particular was thrilled by this and, once he had assured him thoroughly that he would not be a terrible father, so was Anakin.
Almost a year after the Academy had opened, the couple were blessed with their first child. A boy they named Eydan Luke Kenobi Skywalker. Anakin had been most unhappy to find out that Obi-Wan had officially listed Kenobi as a second middle name instead of a joined last name. Obi-Wan had simply shrugged and said it was too much of a mouthful to be one joined name. Eydan was born with a small mass of red curls and stunning blue eyes. Anakin insisted he looked like a mini Obi-Wan. He was an incredibly quick learner and the two parents struggled to keep up with him, even with the help of Ahsoka, Rex and Cody. As he grew, it became clear that Eydan was Force sensitive.
A year and a half later they were once again blessed, this time with identical twin girls. Ria Soka Kenobi Skywalker and her twin Luna Shmi Kenobi Skywalker both took after Anakin in hair colour. They both sported dark brown hair but it was nowhere near as curly as their elder brother. However their eyes were the same blue-grey as Obi-Wan's. Both girls were also Force sensitive. Ria had an unusually good control of the Force. She was not above using it to frequently summon toys back if her parents confiscated them. Luna was more connected to the living Force and loved the company of living things like animals. She was often bringing home stray animals she wanted to help.
As the Academy allowed children to return home once a year, it closed for a week around the new year. Those who did not want to go home or had no home to return to, often stayed with the Clones. Many of the Clones ended up adopting the children, feeling a desire to give them a family and ensure they didn't feel alone or left out. While the children ended up adopted, if they wanted to be, usually the entire town would help to raise the children.
During the time the Academy was closed, Anakin took his family to visit Tatooine. There they were introduced to Cliegg Alaric Lars II, named obviously for his deceased grandfather and for Beru's father. He was a year older than his cousin Eydan and also Force sensitive. Once he joined the Academy, Owen, Beru and Shmi moved to Kiros. Owen and Beru set up a small shop there. Shmi had stayed living with them until she died of natural causes at the age of seventy. Her life was shorter than the average life expectancy but she had had a hard life, even once she had been freed by her husband. Anakin took the loss of his mother hard, taking a few months away from teaching after she passed away. With Obi-Wan's constant support he eventually accepted that nothing could last forever. He was glad she was no longer in pain.
Around the same time Eydan was born, Padme and Palo had a second child. This was a girl that they named Leia Sola Jemabie. Hearing the name made Anakin's heart ache just a little for the Leia he had never gotten to know.
Three years after the opening of the Academy, when she was twenty, Ahsoka ascended to the rank of Jedi Knight. She remained on Kiros and continued teaching. Three years later she took on her first Padawan, a human boy called Feyrun Harbour. He had been one of the younglings that had come to the Academy from the Temple when it first opened. Eventually she ended up in a relationship with Rex. They got married and she became Ahsoka Skywalker which had actually made Anakin cry. He frequently called her the little sister he had never known he wanted and now she actually was his sister by marriage. Once Feyrun had graduated to Knight status himself, eight years later, Ahsoka and Rex adopted a year old Togruta child who had been abandoned by his parents at the Academy when they found out he was Force sensitive. They named him Takryn Skywalker.
They had all made a life on Kiros and the entire town was pretty much one big family. Everyone was happy. Obi-Wan decided he could not have wished for his mission to have gone any better. He had succeeded completely. A wave of pride washed over him and he looked up to see Qui-Gon next to him.
"You saved the galaxy. It'll be their turn someday." He nodded towards the twins, where Luna was trying to convince Ria to spar with her. Obi-Wan smiled at his children fondly.
"The galaxy barely survived with one Skywalker trying to save it. I dread to think the trouble those three could cause." Obi-Wan muttered. Qui-Gon laughed. All was well.
A/N So this story is now at it's end. It has been an awesome journey. I will be posting a sequel, The Chaos of Skywalkers. However I will only be posting this to Archive of Our Own which is much easier for me. I'm very grateful for your support and hope you enjoy the journey as much as I did.