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Leia was playing in a space on the ship, whilst Anakin focused on flying it through the safer areas. As she spun around she saw a young boy in front of her, he was looking around a little confused. Leia arched her eyebrows, "Are you a ghost?" She asked him, confused.
"No!" The boy pouted. "I'm not a ghost, my name is Luke Skywalker and you're mean!" he told her in a grump, folding his arms.
"I'm not mean." She said back, furrowing her brows like Padme used to do.
"You look like my mommy." He said simply, ignoring their little spat.
"You look like my daddy." She said back, walking a little closer. "Why are you on our ship?" She asked again.
"I'm not on a ship, I'm in my home with my momma and Uncle Owen." He said looking at her. "Why are you in my home?!"
"I'm not in your home, I'm on a ship!" She said a little frustrated that he didn't understand they were on a ship.
"No you're not! Look there is my mommy right there." Luke said, pointing to Padme.
"I don't see anyone." Leia said, trying to look. "You're weird and you're definitely a ghost." She said again.
"No I'm not a ghost!" He said, stamping his foot slightly.
Anakin arched his brow as he heard her talking away to herself. Putting the ship in Auto pilot he went out to her.
"Leia?"
"Luke?" Asked Padme.
"Who are you talking to?" The adults asked at the same time.
"A girl, Momma." Luke responded.
"Just a silly ghost boy." Leia said with a shrug, before continuing to play. Anakin just put it down to imagination before going back to the cockpit.
"What girl? There isn't a girl here." Padme asked, a little confused.
"Well it doesn't matter, she has gone now and she was very mean. She called me weird and a ghost."
"Oh well that isn't very kind now is it?!" She asked, sitting down on his bed with him.
"No it wasn't. I was very angry with her." He said. "But she looked like you mommy." He said innocently.
"Oh she did huh?" She asked, not really thinking of it.
"Yep and she kept saying I was on a spaceship but I wasn't mommy, I was right here."
"You are right here sweetheart." She smiled. "You're going to stay here with Uncle Lars for a while okay?"
"Well, where are you going momma?" Luke asked her with furrowed brows.
"I need to go and find daddy and your sister. I need to make sure they are safe too."
"But I want to go with you."
"You can't this time, Luke. It is very dangerous and I need to keep you safe."
"If it is dangerous then why are you going?"
"Because it is what I must do." She whispered.
"But I will worry about you." He said with a pout.
"Remember when I told you mommy used to be a queen and a very important person in the government?" Luke nodded his head. "Well, those jobs meant I was always in danger because sometimes people didn't agree or like what I did, so they wanted to stop me from doing it." she said softly. "But, I always fought back and I always won because I know how to protect myself. I will do the same again this time, just like I used too and when I find daddy again, he will be able to help keep us all safe."
"Okay momma, but you have to promise to come back."
"I promise, Luke. I will always come back baby." she said, moving her hand to his cheek.
"I love you mom." He said with a smile.
"I love you too, so much." She whispered.
Anakin and Leia had been traveling for some time now, Leia was getting bored and was staring outside the window at the back of the ship. Trying to count how many planets, shooting stars and comets she could see as she flew past. She smiled big every time she saw a shooting star before seeing lots of them and then a few more, getting so excited she squealed. "Daddy! Daddy! Come look!" She said excitedly. Anakin instantly came through. "What is it?" He asked softly.
"Look, lots of shooting stars!" She said pointing to the window. Anakin arched his brow and went to look before swallowing hard, "Those aren't shooting stars Leia." He said concerned. "We're being followed." He said softly, taking her hand. "Strap yourself in." He said as they sat back in the cockpit, taking over the flying again.
"Are they going to get us?!" Leia asked, swallowing hard, gripping the seat tightly.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." He said simply, he was in focus Jedi mode.
They didn't manage to get away without some sort of fight and Leia didn't like the loud noises from the blasters and the explosions of the tie fighters but she did everything Anakin asked her before squealing when their ship got hit. "What was that daddy?!" She asked, holding onto his arm.
"We're hit." He said softly. "You'll be okay, just put this on." He said, handing her some sort of life jacket. Leia put it on and looked at him. "Where is yours?"
"I don't need one." Anakin said simply. She could see he was focused and didn't question her father. She was holding on tightly as she felt the ship begin to fall towards a planet, she watched as her father did everything in his power to control the ship. "Daddy, we're going to crash!" She said, as they entered the atmosphere of a waterworld planet.
"Yes we are, but we are going to be okay." He promised her. Watching as the large span of water got closer and closer. "When I say, hold your breath okay? It's going to be a little bumpy at first and you won't like it but I will keep you safe." He told her, Leia just let out a whimper and nodded. Anakin clenched his jaw before bracing for the impact. "Now!" He said, as they both held their breath and crashed into the ocean waters.
The ship began to fill up with water and Anakin instantly grabbed his daughter, before forcing his way out of the ship and swimming to the top. Leia held her breath but had swallowed a lot of water and had passed out in his arms. When he got out of the water he immediately found land and lay her down. "Leia! Leia!" he said, shaking her slightly. "Come on baby. Wake up." he said, trying to get her to wake up.
Padme was talking to Owen when Luke began gasping for air, choking and turning a little blue. "Luke!" Padme called out in concern, running straight to him. She grabbed him and rubbed his back, "Try breathe baby, try breathe." she said, so worried as Owen rushed over too.
"Leia, Breathe!" Anakin called to his daughter seeing her turn blue. He turned her on her side and rubbed her back slightly trying to get the water out of her body. "Come on baby." He whispered doing everything he could whilst trying to remain calm.
"Luke!" Padme said in worry, she was panicking.
"I've got him." Owen said, taking hold of him and bending him slightly so he could rub his back. After a few seconds, Luke began coughing and vomiting up ocean water. Padme arched her brows confused, but relieved that her son was okay.
Leia took a breath and began throwing up the water that she had swallowed. "That's it, good girl." Anakin said in relief, rubbing her back still. He knew she would be okay and she had regained a good color again. When she was done she coughed a little more before taking a few deep breaths and then clinging to her father.
"Oh my Luke." Padme whispered, pulling him to her as she began breathing normally again. "You scared me." She whispered.
"How did he choke on ocean water? There isn't a sight of water for miles." Owen asked curiously.
"I don't know…I don't know." Padme said softly, holding Luke close.
After finding a small hut to stay in, Anakin set a fire and dried off their clothes making sure that Leia was warm by wrapping blankets around her and letting her rest. She was laying on the small and only bed in the hut in front of the fire as Anakin stepped outside to do some things. Closing her eyes for a second and then opening them again she saw the ghost boy. "You're back again?!" She asked curiously, sitting up slightly.
"I'm not back, you're back." He said softly. Luke was in his bed too, with blankets and bottles to keep him warm.
"A scary thing happened today." She told him softly, sadly. She just wanted to tell someone.
"What happened?" Luke asked curiously.
"My daddy's ship crashed into the ocean today and I started being sick with the water, it didn't taste very nice and now my tummy doesn't feel very good." Leia said softly with a pout.
"I was sick with water too! My momma got really scared." He said softly. "I couldn't breathe and Uncle Owen said I went blue."
Leia laughed slightly, "Blue? But you're not blue, how could you go blue?!" She giggled.
"I don't know, I just did." He giggled back.
"Well you must have been very brave." Leia said with a smile.
"I tried to be. I try to be all the time. It's just me and my mommy."
"I try to be brave too, it's just me and my daddy."
"You don't have a mommy? Where is she?!" Luke asked curiously.
"She got lost a long time ago. My daddy and I are trying to find her." She said innocently.
"My daddy got lost too and my mommy wants to leave me with my uncle to find him and my sister too."
"You have a sister? I have a brother but he is lost as well." She said with a frown, right now they didn't think anything of it. They were still only very young and sometimes it was hard for them to understand their situation.
"Maybe we can help each other find our families?" Luke suggested.
"Oh yes and then we can help other people who got lost find their families." Leia said excitedly.
"Okay, I can tell my mommy to help too."
"And I will tell my daddy!" Leia said with a smile.
"Where are you now?" Luke asked.
Leia looked around and shrugged, "I don't know. In a hut on a water planet, there isn't much land."
"I am on a sand planet, there isn't much water." He said softly before Anakin walked back in and they disappeared.
"Momma! Momma!" Luke called out running from his room to find Padme.
"What is it?" She asked concerned bending down to him.
"I saw the girl again, she said she lost her mommy and brother and so I said I can help her find her family and she can help me find mine and then we can help other people too." He said with a smile, the thought of helping people made him so happy. Padme's eyebrows arched.
"Wait, she has lost her mommy and brother?" She asked softly, putting the pieces together. "And this girl looks like me?" She asked. Luke nodded his head and held onto her arms slightly.
"Yes and she said that her daddy's ship crashed into the big ocean planet and she was sick with lots of water like me." He said, speaking a little fast, "She said she is in a hut on a small island because there is no land and it was a big cold water planet." He said softly. Padme swallowed hard knowing there were a lot of water planets in the outer rim.
"Luke, you are so wonderful. We will do everything we can to help this little girl find her mommy and brother." She smiled softly, kissing his cheek before turning to Owen who had heard it all.
"Daddy, I was talking to the ghost boy again." She said with a smile, watching him walk in with more wood for the fire.
"Oh you did huh?"
"Yes and guess what, his family are lost too just like ours." She said softly. "He said he will help us find my mommy and brother and I said we can help him find his Daddy and sister." She said with a big smile.
"He has lost his dad and sister?" Anakin asked, arching his eyebrows.
"Mmhmm." Leia mumbled with a nod. Anakin clenched his jaw before walking to her bedside sitting on it.
"Then we have to help him."
"Yes, he said he was surrounded by lots of hot sand." She said softly.
"What else did he say?" He asked, wanting to find the answers.
"That he was sick with water too, just like me." She said softly. Anakin's heart began to race, he knew what this was, any user of the force knew what this was.
"He looks like you daddy."
"Leia…I don't think that boy is a ghost." He said softly. "I think that boy is your brother…"