"Mother!" Leia exclaimed, as Luke stood shocked.
Anakin just watched. He could already sense the bonds forming between his wife and their children,
"You are exactly the way I remember you." Leia informed Padmé.
"You remember me?" How do you remember me?" Padmé asked her daughter. "You were only a few seconds old when I died."
"I don't know. I…I just remember." Leia told her.
"Do you remember me Luke?" Padmé asked her son.
"No." Luke replied.
"But you were born first. Surely you should remember me." She continued.
Anakin knew why. He took this opportunity to tell his family.
"The bond between mother and daughter is always that little bit stronger. Much like the one between father and son." He smiled at Luke as Padmé smiled at Leia.
"Luke, Leia I am so happy to be with you again." Padmé told her children. "I have not been this close to you since the day you were born. I have missed you greatly."
Anakin looked guiltily down at the floor. That was his fault. His fault that Padmé never got a chance to know their children. His fault Luke and Leia grew up without their parents. His fault they were never a family like they should have been.
Both Luke and Leia picked up on their father's negative feelings, but it was Leia who first realised the truth.
"You!" She yelled. "You killed her."
"Leia." Padmé shouted at her daughter. "Do not speak to your father like that."
"No Padmé." Anakin intervened. "She has the right to be angry. You want an explanation." He stated.
"I think I deserve one." Leia angrily replied.
"You both deserve to know the truth." Anakin informed his children. "Shortly after your mother told me she was pregnant, I had a nightmare vision of her death. I saw her dying in childbirth and it scared me. I loved her more than anything and I didn't want to see her die. Chancellor Palpatine,"
"The Emperor?" Luke asked.
"Yes. He told me that he knew how to save Padmé, that the Jedi wouldn't be able to help her. I would do anything to save her so I stupidly believed him. I only wanted to stop her from dying. He manipulated me. He mad me believe things that I would never normally have believed. I was no longer myself, but I couldn't see it. I killed the padawans the Jedi even one of my masters and I was truly gone. When your mother found me on Mustafar, Obi-Wan was with her. I knew why he'd come-to kill me. I was angry with Padmé for bringing him. I choked her" He cried. Padmé consoled her husband.
Leia could see that her father was sorry. She even began to see that it wasn't really him that had done those evil things.
"This story is mine to finish." Padmé began. "Shortly after, Obi-Wan took me to a medical facility. I was in so much pain. I lost the will to live. I should have lived for you, but my husband was gone. He was my whole life. I didn't even know that I was expecting twins. Obi-Wan was by my side during your birth. It took so much out of me. I named you. I could feel my life slipping away, but I couldn't die yet. I had to tell Obi-Wan that I could feel the good left in Anakin. I had to make him understand before I died." She finished.
Tears slid down Luke's cheeks and Leia's anger faded as their parents finished their heart-wrenching story.
"Leia." Anakin addressed his daughter. "I know that you are angry with me. I can feel your hate, but you must let go of those feelings. I do not ask this for myself, I ask it for you. Those feelings are of the Dark side, if you harbour them you will not become the Jedi that I know you can be. Please can you forgive me?"
Leia looked from her brother to her m other to her father trying to find the words to explain what she wanted to say.
"I'm sorry." She started. "I can't forgive you." Anakin looked at his daughter, tears in his eyes. "But I can start." A smile spread across Anakin's face- he hadn't failed his daughter. Padmé was happy that her husband would be able to get to know his daughter. Luke was glad that his sister was finally seeing the truth about their father.
They were truly together. The Skywalker family was whole at last.
So that's it everybody. Hope you liked it.
Fear not. I am working on several other stories. There are 3 sequels to this called:
Reunited Through Demise: New Beginnings
Reunited Through Demise: The Next Generation
Reunited Through Demise: A Jedi's Legacy
In these stories I have changed a lot of stuff from the EU. Well the same stuff has happened, just at different times.
There's also another story called:
Brotherly Devotion
I also have an idea for another story, but I gotta get the minor details sorted out for it first. No title for it yet.