* Luke's Lies *

Mara cradled Ben in her arms. He was unusually quiet. It amazed her how she knew such a thing by just knowing him for just a few days. *Then again, I have known you for nearly a year my little one. * Looking up towards her husband, the older woman sighed.

He stood over next to the window where it revealed the vast space before him. Though he was facing away from her, Mara saw a tear slid down his cheek. He rarely cried, if at all. "Luke, why the tears?"

"He's right Mara."

"About what?"

"Jaina."

Frowning, the fiery haired mother strolled closer to Luke. "You're making no sense."

"When I was channeling to Jaina, I—"

Blinking back the shock, Mara gawked at her husband. "You lied?" she asked cutting off his explanation. When didn't answer a long dead silence lingered on for minutes. "Luke, I… what was it that you didn't want to tell Kyp? I know he's not the nicest being in the universe right now, but that doesn't give you any right to—"

"It was vision I had just before Kyp came in."

"Go on."

Taking a deep breath the Jedi Master contemplated on wither or not to tell his wife. "I don't know Mara. The future is always in motion and—"

"Tell me now Skywalker." She knew whenever she called him by his last name and in that certain type of tone of voice, he would let up and tell her.