Star Wars Fanfiction

Chapter Three: The Child

Notice: If you do not know what goes here, see chapter one or two.

"Master, Bail, we have something to tell you two in addition to getting married, and this we just found out today," Anakin said, the words gently flowing from his mouth.

Padme spoke up, "We are to have a child. We just found out today when I fainted."

There was silence in the room as Anakin and Padme waited for someone to say something. Nobody said anything, until Obi-Wan said the most unusual thing, "So, what will you name the girl and what will you name the boy?" Now, Anakin knew that Obi had been able to sense the future before, but not that clearly. Anakin hadn't even thought about having twins.

"What do you mean, a girl AND a boy?" Padme questioned the Jedi knight, clearly not understanding him or thinking she had misheard him.

"Well, I sense two bodies growing in there, two connections to the force. I just have a feeling that one will be a girl and one will be a boy," the wise man replied.

"I think that whatever you name them, they should have the first letter of their first name be the same.such as Luke and Leia or something along those lines." Bail spoke up for the first time in a long time. Anakin looked at him with sincerity in his eyes.

"I think that would be great names for the little ones," the husband said to the wish-to-be husband.

Padme smiled to herself, she hoped that the two would get along through all of the tough times they've been through in the past day.

(9Months later)

"ANAKIN! NOW!" Padme shouted from the kitchen as Anakin heard a knife drop to the floor. He had taken a month off from training to be with Padme in her final month before the due date of the two children that were to be named Luke and Leia.

He raced to the kitchen to find her curled on the ground, holding her stomach and screaming in pain. He quickly picked her up, using the help of the force due to the fact that she was so heavy from carrying two children with her. He carried her to the bedroom and laid her carefully on the bed. Then, he reached out with the force to call Obi and a Jedi Doctor they had been using. They answered almost right away.

After a long labor and the babies were clean, they were being looked over by their father. He looked at Luke first, just looking, not touching as if he were as breakable as glass. All of the sudden, Luke reached out with his tiny little hand and Anakin took it. Right after, Obi-Wan came in, when the father and son were still holding hands. Obi didn't say anything because the pair hadn't noticed him come in yet and the moment was just too perfect.

It wasn't too soon till Anakin did realize that Obi was in the room and looked up, never letting go of Luke's hand. Anakin said, "I'm a father, a father! I'm the thing I never had. No, I'm wrong, I had you. I always had you!"

Obi-Wan walked over to Anakin and put his arm around his shoulders and said, "And I always will be."

"Now," Obi-Wan continued, "what are we going to do with this little guy? No doubt that he will be able to use the force, maybe not as strongly as his father, but still very strongly."

"I think that I shall train him in my spare time. I am planning on taking the trails as soon as possible."

"Very well, it is true, you are ready, but I will miss you. I'm sure the council will grant you your wish of training your son," Obi finished the day by saying.

(Ten years later)

"But dad, I don't want to practice lightsabers again! I want to go back to the flat! It is early and I want to sleep again!" It was unbelievable, but true, Luke was now a 10 year old!

"Son, just one more round and then we will leave, I promise, you have someone to meet," an aged Anakin replied in a calm, soothing voice.

It was true that Anakin had never told Luke about his mother. His mother had stayed in the senate and taken care of Leia while also helping to stop the clone wars and ride the galaxy of Count Dooku who also happened to be Lord Tyrannous and of ex-Supreme Chancellor Palpatine who had corrupted the senate for his own use. Sure Luke knew about Senator Amidala, but not that she was his mother. Anakin and Padme had decided that each parent would take one child and teach and take care of them. They had a lot of work to do themselves and wouldn't be able to see each other, but the promised to bring the twins together when they were ten years old. It would be then that they would send the children off to Obi for the night and the older couple would spend another magnificent night together. And then, they would all live together, and that hopefully the clone wars would be over, which they were. Today was the day that they would leave for Naboo.