Author's Note: As usual enjoy! Oh and look for mine and LVB's co written fic….A Road Less Traveled…please review it!
Chapter Twenty-Eight:
Padmé quickly ran down the hallway towards the landing pad on the Bespin. She had just received a call from Anakin, who was with the Rebel Alliance at the moment. He told her that Kelista had Alyssa and Leia with her and was on her way back to the cloud city with them.
She couldn't believe it. Kelista had gotten her daughter back safely! But still Padmé feared for Luke's life. Where could her son be?
As she rounded the corner, she saw them. She saw Kelista, a young girl, and her Leia.
"Mom!" Leia called out running towards her mother.
Padmé and Leia met halfway in a running hug. Both of them held the hug for a long time.
"Where's dad?" Leia asked hopefully.
Dumbfounded for a second, Padmé finally spoke up. "How do you know?" she asked.
"Luke and I figured it out. Plus I've seen you looking at a holo of a young man who looked a lot like Luke. Also you told me that my dad was the 'Chosen One' and Luke knew that about his dad."
Padmé smiled and once again hugged Leia tightly as she began to cry. She couldn't believe it. Her children had met each other!
"Oh mom! This is Alyssa. I believe she is your niece." Leia said once she broke the hug.
Padmé turned and smiled at Alyssa, then also hugged her tightly. She couldn't care who she was hugging as long as it was someone in her family.
Luke didn't want to hear anymore! He didn't believe a word of it! His father could never have done those things that Emperor Palpatine was telling him.
"I don't believe you!" Luke yelled out.
Suddenly dark Force lighting struck him in the chest. "Believe what you will boy. But soon you will believe what I say," Palpatine said standing over the young boy.
Luke's body still shook from time to time as the electric currents the Palpatine had sent at him, still echoed through his body. He wondered how much longer the could hold out…
How could you dad? How could you kill all those Jedi? What made you do it? I doubt it's for more power like Palpatine has been telling me…what was it?'
Luke turned over on his back and stared up at the bleak ceiling of the room he was staying in. he wished he knew what caused his father to turn to the dark side. Even if it was only for a brief time. He closed his eyes and fell into a restless sleep…
He didn't know where he was…but he heard someone moving around. Luke slowly made his way through the dark hall. He came upon two young people standing on a balcony – a young woman and a young man. Luke moved closer so he could hear their conversation.
"I promise Padmé, that I won't let this nightmare come true! I'll protect you and the baby!" the young man said, pulling the woman closer.
"I know Anakin. I believe you will…" the young woman said wrapping her arms around him and laying her head in his chest….
The images Luke had been seeing faded out as he opened his eyes. His father had only been trying to protect his mother! Palpatine somehow had corrupted him…
He knew that he couldn't let Palpatine control him like he had briefly controlled his father. But how was he going to do that?