The view they had of the planet beneath them was breathtaking. Naboo was mainly constituted of water but the parts which were land were virtually green. Leia couldn't help but think of Alderaan. If this was their mother's home planet, she wondered how Vader could have destroyed it. When she and Mara had told Luke of what they suspected could be the truth, he only nodded and said "That's what the Force tells me. It's the truth, Leia. This is our mother's home planet." Since they left Coruscant and that she and Luke had had that talk, he had been more than quiet. He had been unusually quiet. Just like that day on Endor, when he had told her the truth and then wnet to confront their father and the Emperor. Something was bothering him. But they'd have to talk about that later. What mattered now was to find Anakin. Both of them.



Anakin had so much in his mind at that moment. Yet, he was bored. He decided to read more of his mother's journal. He missed her. He missed them. His family. But he wasn't ready to face them yet. How could he ever come back after what he had done? 'Better not to worry about the future yet' he thought. At least that's what his uncle would say. His uncle. How would he ever be able to face HIM of all people. Why did everybody in his family have to be so great? Why couldn't he have an ordinary life with an ordinary family? He opened the diary angrily, at random.

*HOW DARE HE???? The nerve of that man! I don't know how we could put up with him for that long!!! He makes me crazy like, let's say, all day long!!! What a nerf herder he is! How I hate him! He makes me so mad! He has no manners at all. I don't have words to describe how angry I am right now. How can a person thinks so high of himself? He has no respect for me. None at all. Why do I have to mind so much if he leaves or not? His only cares in the word are money and himself, anyway. I can't begin to understand him. He thinks he knows everything, he doesn't care about anybody. And that loapsided grin of his!!!! It always makes me feel like he knows something I don't! I could go on and on bragging about him, but I won't. I won't waste my time.

I've been in hell for so many days now. In a frozen hell, anyway. We've set up a base in a cold planet (cold is an understatement) called Hoth. The planet is completely covered by ice.

For days now, I've had this dreadful feeling that we're just waiting for the inevitable. I hate waiting!!! That's why I almost went crazy a couple of days ago. Luke and Han went on a recognition trip through the surroundings and Luke was severely injured by some ice creature. The fact that I had to wait the whole night for news of him and Han scarred me to death. Han went out again when Luke went missing. Thank the Force, Luke was brought back safely. Both of them. If something had happened to Luke I'd have freaked out. It's like, since we've been together, it's like the whole Alliance can't survive without him. I surely can't survive without him. And Han either. That scoundrel.

Luke stayed under bacta treatment for 2 days. It was awful, he had so many scars on his face when they brought them back. I thought he'd be permanently scarred but he managed to recover just fine. And it was when he came out of bacta, that that awful man that calls himself Han Solo made me lose my temper. Urgh!!! I hate him. But I gave him a lesson all right.

It was the most strange sensation when I kissed Luke. We've known for a couple of months that what we have is not at all like that, romantic. What we have goes much deeper, and we're the best of friends. It's almost as if we formed a bond of some sort. And that's why it was so strange to kiss him. Almost clumsy. It felt wrong, as if I was kissing my own brother or something. But it served to teach a few lessons to that scruffy looking man!!! *

When he finished reading that entry, Anakin was almost laughing histerically. He could picture perfectly his mother and father quarrelling like two small children. He had witnessed that a lot over the years. And when he read that his mother had kissed his uncle. Urgh! That was irksome. Kiss her own brother? He hoped that it only happened once.

Anakin suddenly looked up, surprised. He recognised a familiar Force signature in the distance. Actually, more than one. Three. His mother, uncle and aunt, at least, were coming for him. That thought sent shivers down his spine. After everything he had seen, after everything he had read of his family's past... How would he ever face them? What were they doing here anyway? How did they know he was here? And why here? He felt so small and insignificant at that moment. He could only sit and wait. And that was something he just hated doing.