Hello, there!

Okay, so ... to satisfy everyone and make them happy, I've decided to do the best and only thing I can. Laetitia won't be 25 years old when Darth Sidious and Darth Vader die, that's for sure. But I can try to create some very small gaps in between. I've thought about this a lot, and decided to do this. A lot of stuff are yet to happen, and I feel like all of them happening in only a year is a bit ... rushed. I haven't decided the exact age yet, but I think Laetitia will be around 23 when the first story ends and Luke 18. That's the best I could do. I hope you guys understand :)

P.S. I know the timing of the Assault on Cymoon is different, but this was the best Mission I could find to use in my story :D

Anyway, enjoy this chapter and don't forget to review!


Chapter 155

Laetitia, Luke, Thexan, Han and Chewie were on Cymoon. Their mission was to destroy the Weapons Factory Alpha on Cymoon, and therefore, eliminating one of the strongest points the Empire had.

While Han was inside with Luke as his bodyguard, Leah and Thexan were monitoring the whole mission. That was their one job, which frustrated Leah even more. She knew she had a long way to go to be what she was, but she didn't like being treated with kid gloves.

She wasn't treated with kid gloves when she was a kid, why was she being now?

"This is ridiculous! I'm back. We need to start hitting the Empire big, and here we are! Monitoring another Rebel's teeny-tiny mission!" Leah muttered angrily.

Thexan sighed and turned back to her. He could relate to that, but ... he was worried about her. So he had to agree with the others.

"What's wrong with taking it easy?" He asked.

"We may be the two most powerful Gray Jedi ever existed, and we're sitting here."

"Come on ... Give yourself a break. You may not think you don't need it, but you really do." He softly said.

Leah exhaled to calm herself down. She knew he was right, but she didn't like feeling it. That vulnerability. She hated feeling like that. She wasn't weak.

"So, 'Thexan Tirall', huh?" She said to change a subject. She remembered Thexan being called 'General Tirall' between the Rebels.

"Yeah. I couldn't exactly use my 'Palpatine' name. People are kind, but … they're not that kind." He shrugged.

Leah scoffed. She knew very well what he was talking about and what he was going through. She was dreadful of the day when people found out about Darth Vader's true identity. The would disregard everything she had done and treat her like crap.

As she deserved.

"I guess … But why 'Tirall'? Did you just choose a name randomly?"

"No ... It's my mother's name." Thexan slowly said.

Leah blinked softly. His mother ... She knew nothing about her, and she wasn't sure she wanted to, either. What kind of psychopath would fall for a snake like Palpatine?

"You never talk about your mother." She stated, which caused Thexan to scoff bitterly.

"Mostly because I don't have any memories of her." He simply said.

Leah frowned. She knew that Sidious wouldn't keep the mother of his children near them, but how come he didn't know her at all?

"Unlike any two creatures in the Galaxy who want to have children, my father didn't even bother to sleep with her at least once."

Leah made a weird face when she heard that. That was ...

"Guess she got lucky." She sarcastically stated.

Thexan only laughed. That was true., not that he wanted to thin about it. It was disgusting.

"My father wanted children who inherited his power, so he could take their power and double his own. He wanted blood slaves, not family. So, he found a powerful Force-sensitive and extracted her egg cells using whatever disgusting method he did. Then he threw her aside after she was violated in ways she would never forget." He angrily said, being violated and disgusted for his mother.

Leah didn't say anything. That was ... truly disgusting! How did the poor woman survive after that? It was even worse than she imagined, if that was possible.

"If that's really what happened, then how do you know anything about her? I doubt Palpatine sat around the dinner table and told you stories about how he 'fell in love'." She stated grossly.

"I wish." Thexan laughed bitterly.

"A few years before I met you, when I was 6, she found us … Me and Arcann. She told us the truth and asked us to leave with her. I wanted to go with her so badly ... but Arcann hated her, because he was blind to see father for what he really was. So as much as I wanted to be free of my father, I couldn't leave my brother to have that life … At least not alone ... So I chose him over her." He sadly said.

Laetitia could feel how much he had regretted that choice, but the truth is he had no choice. That was the thing about Thexan. When he loved someone, he would stay with them until the end. That was one of the things she ... loved about him.

"So you have no idea where she is?" She finally asked.

Thexan sighed and kept 'monitoring' the Mission, or more specifically, the Assault.

"About 10 years ago, I accidentally found her in one of my missions. She gave me a line I could use to find her if I wanted, but …" He trailed off sadly as he remembered.

"You never used it, because you were afraid she wouldn't love you after you chose your brother over your mother." Leah said for him.

"Yeah. Something like that." He agreed.

If anyone could relate to what Thexan was going through, it was Leah. They both had the father they didn't deserve, and their mothers were lost to them. Padme was lost to Leah forever, but Thexan's mother ... still had a possibility of being reunited with her son. Leah would be lying if she wasn't jealous of that.

But she, better than anyone else, knew what it was like to not want to disappoint her parents. That she was afraid that they wouldn't love her anymore.

"I know you, and I don't exactly have the best track record with parents, but ... I don't think there is anything a child can say or do to make their parents not love or forgive them. Your mother is no different." She softly said.

Thexan smiled and looked at her. He appreciated her saying that more than she could ever understand.

"So what's the name of the creature that brought 2 Palpatines into this world?" She joked to break the silence, which caused Thexan to chuckle.

"Senya ... Senya Tirall."

Leah shook her head, smiling. She could bet that Senya was an ... interesting woman to meet. Someone who survived the big Palpatine and 'gave birth' to 2 mini Palpatines.

As much as Thexan appreciated talking about his own family, he knew Leah was mostly using it as a way to escape talking about what Thexan wanted to talk about.

"So ... Are you alright?" He asked.

Leah sighed in frustration and looked away. She was tired of being asked that and answering the same thing.

"Of course. Why wouldn't I be?" She tried to shrug him off, but it didn't work. Thexan gave her a look.

"You had a near-death experience." Thexan pointed out, trying to cover it up nicely, but Leah ruined his effort.

"It was a death experience. I'm over it." She simply and coldly said. She really didn't want to talk about it.

"Well, I'm not. We're not ... I thought you'd wanna talk about it ... You know, what it felt like." He persisted.

"Definitely didn't feel like a trip to Naboo or the Force 'land', if that's what you're asking." She sarcastically said to escape it.

"Which means it was something else." He stated, getting out everything he could.

"Look, 7 years ago, I was dead until you saved me. But anything I would've seen or felt was gone, thanks to you. I don't remember anything, but you do."

"What do you wanna know, Thexan?!" She snapped at him with irritation.

"What did you see?" He bluntly asked.

"Seriously?!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Why not?!"

"Crap!" She suddenly said.

"What?!"

"They're in trouble!" Leah said as she narrowed her eyes to try and see better.

Thexan did the same. Oh, they were in trouble ... As in 'Vader' trouble ... Because he had just arrived.


Laetitia and Thexan hurried into the Factory to find Luke and Han.

If Darth Vader found his daughter, who he thought was dead again, he would ... lose it. Besides, his apprentice, who had betrayed him, was there! He would definitely, for sure, mutilate Thexan.

And there was also the fact that Luke was there. The dead son of Anakin Skywalker, who became Darth Vader and almost killed his son before he was even born. If he found out Luke was his son ...

They both stopped when they hit a dead end. the only way out of there was through the trash system.

"Ew!" She thought grossly.

"Great! We'll just go straight into the garbage. Why not!" Thexan sarcastically stated in irritation.

"Yeah."

"You know ... you never really did tell me what you saw when you died." He struggled to say as he opened the trash can.

"Really? Now?!" Leah shouted at him in double irritation.

"Yes, now!"

"Is it because it smells like death in here?" She pointed out.

Thexan jumped into the garbage and looked at her. What the hell did she see that she refused to talk about it, no matter what?

"You saw something."

Leah sighed out of anger and stopped.

"You wanna know what I saw, Thexan?

"Yes!" He happily said.

"I didn't see you ... But don't let it get into your head, because all I saw was a black, never-ending hall. It was the worst feeling I'll ever feel, but I have a lot of those feelings to compare." She finally said, not caring that she just said that.

Thexan opened his mouth to say something but he didn't find the words. What could he say when it really was the worst feeling she'd ever feel? Oblivion to someone like her, to anyone ... was the worst torture.

Leah closed the trash can and jumped on it. Thexan took a look at himself. He was completely in the trash.

"You couldn't have thought of that before I jumped in the trash?" He asked, high-pitch.

"Where's the fun in that?" Leah smirked. That's what he got for making her say it.

She grunted as she jumped into the ventilation system. She could feel Thexan following her into it. That was reassuring. Th ventilation line was ... unpleasant, to put it nicely. It was a tight and dark space that smelled horrible!

Leah couldn't breathe because of smell. And she had a problem with tight spaces. With everything she'd gone through, she was claustrophobic. She had been ever since she got her memories back 10 years.

She exhaled to get air in her lungs once she jumped out of the system.

"Ugh!"

"Yeah!" Thexan had to agree with her on that one.

Leah was about to run and find Luke but she stopped. She felt something in the Force and it scared the hell out of her. Because it was.


Her father. Anakin Skywalker. Darth Vader!

Laetitia knew he was there, but she didn't expect that he would try to contact his 'dead' daughter through the Force. Did she let her guard down without knowing? How could she make that mistake?!

"Laetitia?!"

Leah could feel the shock and happiness her father felt when he called her. At that time, he was genuinely happy that his daughter was alive.

But Leah didn't care about that. All she felt was fear because the second she felt her father ... she could no longer see the room she was in. In her eyes, she was back on Mustafar, when Anakin Force-choked Padme and Leah cut his limbs off.

"Stop! Stop now! Come back! I love you!"

"If you're not with me, then you're my enemy."

"That's what you get for hurting my family."

"I HATE YOU!"

"You were my brother, Anakin! ... I loved you."

She just felt like there was a rock pressing on her heart, not letting her breathe. She put her hands on her chest, struggling to breathe.

Thexan, who was ahead of Leah, turned around and looked at her worriedly. Her face was getting red and she was forcing herself to not cry. She wanted to scream in pain but she didn't. She felt like she had been ripped apart by her father.

Finally, everything went black and she lost her energy. She was about to fall but luckily, Thexan was fast enough to catch her.

"Leah!"

"What the hell happened?" A voice demanded from behind.

Thexan tried to turn around and defended both of them, since Leah was completely out of it, but it was too late. Besides, it was Luke and Han.

"I don't know. She just felt like this." Thexan said in confusion.

Leah couldn't hear any of them. She was just focused on breathing.

"Well, we have to get out of here. Darth Vader's here and he cannot know Leah's alive, if he doesn't already." Luke said as he led the way to get his sister away from his father.

Done :)


Yep! Darth Vader found out about Laetitia! Damn!

We won't hear about him for a while. But in two chapters or so, he will make a legendary appearance right at the END of the chapter. Don't kill me, but yep! It's a cliffhanger :D

What can I say? They make the stories more interesting!