Author's Note: Its getting close to the end……and that makes me sad. So here is the next chapter! Enjoy!
Chapter Thirty-Three:
Padmé walked back into the apartment shortly after Anakin and everyone had left. She was looking for Leia. She wanted to make sure that she was all right.
But instead she found a note addressed to her sitting on her bed. It was in Leia's handwriting. She hesitantly opened it.
Mom, I have decided that I will be better off helping daddy and Luke then sitting around here and worrying. I have stowed aboard the Falcon and I am going with them. I don't care what daddy says. Luke needs me. Love, Leia
Padmé hoped that Anakin would find Leia in enough time before something went wrong. She would go and try to contact him, but she knew he was too far away by now.
Something wasn't right.
Someone else was on the Falcon.
Anakin stood up from the table in the common area and began to walk towards the back of the ship. No one paid any mind to him. Obi-Wan was meditating. Kelista was starring off in space, probably thinking about her daughter. Han was off napping somewhere. And Chewbacca was playing a hologame with Threepio and Artoo.
The further Anakin got back in the ship, the stronger the feeling got. He knew this feeling, but he couldn't place it. That was until he was literally right over it.
"Dammit Leia!" he thought to himself as he lifted up one of the various smuggling compartments that Captain Solo had equipped the Falcon with. Laying in darkness was his daughter, just as he had felt.
He stood there for a second and starred at her. Slowly she began to wake up and stretch. When she opened her eyes and saw her father standing over her, glaring down at her.
She slowly stood up and climbed out of the compartment, trying not to make eye contact with her very upset Jedi father.
"Just what do you think that you are doing young lady!" Anakin practically yelled at her.
"Helping Luke! I know something is wrong with him I can feel it! He needs me!" Leia said almost as forcefully back at him. Then when she realized what she had done, she pulled back.
Anakin stood there shocked for a moment. Could she feel something through the force that he couldn't? Possibly. She and Luke did have a bond that most didn't. They were twins.
He sighed as he pulled Leia into a hug. "I just hope you haven't worried your mother."
"I left a note."
Anakin laughed slightly. He could only imagine Padmé 's reaction.
"Come on let's get you something to eat." Anakin said, sensing her hunger.
"How'd you know?" Leia asked shocked.
"Just remember that your father is the Chosen One."
They both laughed.
Palpatine sat watching his two apprentices parry each other. The young Skywalker was very strong in the Force. More then his father was. That was why he had to upper hand against Etrak at the moment.
After a few more minutes, Luke had Etrak pinned down against a corner. And he also help both his and Etrak's lightsabers.
"Good. Good Luke. Now kill him."
The look on Etrak's face was one of shock and disbelief. His master was turning against him after so long! And all for a boy from a backwater planet. He would never make a strong Sith lord like he was.
"Yes Master," Luke said, decapitating Etrak without hesitation.
"Very good my apprentice. Your journey is now complete." Palpatine said coming and standing next to Luke as the stood over the lifeless body of Etrak.
"Thank you my master."
Obi-Wan couldn't help but laugh at Anakin's story of how he found Leia.
"It's not funny Master!"
"Yes it is Anakin. Leia is a chip off the old block. She is just like you and Padmé – reckless."
Anakin did have to agree with that. "Also don't Jedi twins share strong bonds that others can't feel?"
Obi-Wan thought about it for a second. "I would think so, since they bonded in their mother's womb. Why?"
"I think she senses something about Luke that I can't feel."
"Where is she anyways?"
"I think up in the cockpit with Solo and Chewie."
That was when they heard screaming.
"WHY YOU HALF WITTED, SCRUFFY LOOKING NERF HERDER!"
Leia came storming out of the cockpit and went into one of the bunks and shut the door. Obi-Wan and Anakin looked at each other a bit confused. Then Kelista came into view, laughing.
"What happened?" Obi-Wan asked.
"Han asked Leia for a date when this entire ordeal was over and she yelled at him. It was quite funny."
"HE DID WHAT!" Anakin demanded, storming off towards the cockpit.
Kelista tried to follow. She didn't want to miss this. But Obi-Wan held her back.
"Don't worry, you'll be able to hear it."
And sure enough they did. Han solo may have done some stupid things in his time, but asking out his 16 year old daughter was where Anakin drew the line.