Memories
On the newly named Balance Luke and Leia breathed a sigh of relief.
"Balance?" asked Leia, sarcastically.
"Give me a break, it's the first thing that came to my mind!"
"You've known that your twins for 72 hours and your already fighting?" asked their father from the doorway, laughing.
"Hey," said Luke ,"You don't exactly win the award for prized parenting!"
"Touche," admitted his father in defeat, "What did you name my ship?"
"I named our ship, Balance." Replied Luke, " How did you know that I named it?"
"Standard protocol, and what do you mean our ship? I built it." Said Anakin, laughing.
"You built it?" asked Leia.
"Well, I designed it, I didn't actually put it together."
The twins stared at him in shock.
"What?!" he asked, "I built a podracer and a droid when I was nine."
"A podracer?" asked Luke, knowing about the races, "Who raced it?"
"Me, of course," replied Anakin.
"That's impossible!" argued Luke, "No human can race pods!"
Anakin remembered a similar conversation, from long ago. You must have Jedi refelexes, if you race pods.
Leia brought him out of his daydream. "Mind telling me what you two are talking about?" she asked, lost.
"Pod Races are races with pods, they go very fast, and they are very dangerous, and no human can race them." Answered Luke.
"I can" said Anakin.
Luke gave him a look, "Father, we are not having this argument! If you telling me, that a nine year old farmboy, raced a pod, fine, I'm not going to argue."
"I wasn't a farmboy," said their father softly.
"What?" asked Leia.
"I said I wasn't a farmboy, I was a slave."
Luke and Leia fell silent, with an eerie shock. It explained much, the anti slavery laws, his well known hatred for Hutts, and when he killed a Wookie slave owner when he tried to sell him slaves. A horrible past, producing a dark future.
"I didn't know," said Luke, softly.
"It wasn't meant to be known, someday, when I'm ready, I'll tell you my tale, but not know, returning to tatooine is already surfacing painful memories"
