CHAPTER TWELVE
REST AT LAST
A month and a half after Anakin's accident, things were alright. I'm not saying again, because they were never alright at all. There was always something going on in the Skywalker's life, always an assanination attempt on one of their lives, danger was always present. They always had to look over their shoulders to check if somebody was following them or trying to harm them.
Always battles to be fought.
Nowadays, battles didn't involve assasins, or evil Sith lords trying to turn them to the Dark side. Now, battles involved trying to make the twins sleep, trying to keep Padmé's cooking away from any mortal on Naboo, discovering new ways of making Anakin busy so that he didn't talk all the time. This was the easiest thing to do, because he had a lovely wife and children to keep him busy.
Visits from master Yoda became more often every time. He liked to call himself the children's "Force guardian", kind of like a godfather. Little Luke loved when Yoda would move him from side to side in the air, making him levitate. Leia was becoming, at such a young age, quite a charmer, like her father. She loved to smile at Obi-Wan and giggle when he was around, as if she was flirting with him. Though Anakin wasn't crazy about this, he couldn't help but smile everytime he saw her little girl play with his old master. He loved to mention to Obi-Wan he was like a grandfather to his children, that way he made him feel old.
As for Padmé, she couldn't ask for anything better. She had her children with her, and used every minute she had free on them. She was working at home now, until the babies were older. Anakin was beside her every time she needed, and they talked all day long. At night, they had other buisness to attend…
It went this way to the Skywalkers for another six months.
After the ninth month of Anakin's vacation, his comm link beeped. He looked at it with a puzzled look, because it haven't beeped in quite some time. Padmé looked at her husband's comm link with a sad look. After turning the beep off, Anakin looked at his wife, with an equal sad look on his face.
"Skywalker here", he said with a serious tone. He watched as Padmé walked to the garden with her chin up. He looked back at Obi-Wan's hologram.
"Anakin, we have a mission for you".