Author Note: Well this is it folks...the last chapter. Boo hoo. Thanks so much to all of you who've dedicated a little of your time to reading this and sending your marvelous reviews, especially LadyKelina, Linwe-Amari and anakinluver92. I can't thank you all enough. So enjoy...
Oh and I've included a cast list of everyone I thought would be good to play each character. They were just ideas, but I hunted high and low for ages before coming up with suitable matches. This does, however, mean that some of the original actors have been replaced by younger (or older) ones who seem more suitable to the character, so enjoy (as always!)
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Opening her eyes, she saw two hands grasped tightly round her wrist.
Padme smiled down at her as she began to pull Leia back over the ledge. When Leia was safely back on solid ground, she looked at Padme questioningly.
"Why?" was all she could bring herself to say.
"I couldn't do it. I felt the change in the force and knew that you had come back. When you said that you loved me, I truly knew it was you."
"I...I..." Leia was speachless, but Padme understood. She pulled her into a tight hug and the two cried into each other's shoulders, Leia promising never to do anything like that again and Padme promising never to ignore her again.
"One question though. What truly happened to the others?" Padme asked as she helped Leia down the tiny ledge.
"I reversed order sixty six. The clones are with the Jedi now, not against them. After all, thats what made them turn in the first place. They were only following the orders that no-one had reversed. So I ordered the others to be rescued and they should now be on their way to the hospital on Onderon. I also sent a message to King Theodus, explaining what had happened, so they will be in good hands...all of them."
"But what about Luke?"
"Him too."
"He's alive?" Padme stumbled with shock and Leia had to grab her sleeve to stop her tumbling over the edge.
"Yes. He did get shot in the side, but he didn't die. Just passed out after he was stunned by one of the clones."
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"Hey Luke," Anakin said brightly as Luke finally woke up in a hospital bed, later that day. He had a huge bandage round his waist that was covering the wound in his side, but apart from that he seemed unhurt.
"Hi Dad, how long have you been here?" Luke asked sleepily as Anakin helped him sit up in bed.
"Well, your mother and I have been taking it in turns to sit by your bedside each hour, so I'de say about five hours in total. Mum's with the medical droid at the moment, getting her hands dressed. Apparently, aggressive negotiations give her terrible blisters!"
Luke chuckled at this and so did Anakin after a few moments. Then Anakin turned serious again.
"So, I know what everyone's given you as get well gifts," he said casually and Luke cocked his head inquisitively.
"How?" he asked, curiously. Had his father suddenly developed some mysterious mind reading powers? But then a broad grin spread over Anakin's face.
"I felt your presents!" he said before collapsing into a fit of hysterics. Luke didn't get it at first, but he was soon in fits of laughter too.
"Oh no, he's not doing more of his stupid force jokes is he?" Padme smiled as she walked in. "Earlier on, I was trying to eat some Onderonion noodles with chop sticks and I kept dropping them so he told me to 'use the forks'!"
"Thats a good one!" Luke howled, practically crying with laughter and even Padme couldn't help but laugh. It was so good to see everyone in such a good mood again. The atmosphere was completely the opposite to twelve hours ago.
"So what happened after I passed out?" Luke asked at last, wiping a tear from his eye. Anakin and Padme looked at each other and nodded. They had wanted to wait a while before telling him, incase it was still to early, but now seemed as good a time as any. So they took it in turns to fill him in on the events of the past twelve hours, both telling their versions of it and correcting each other when something was said wrong. By the end of it, Luke looked thouroughly dissapointed.
"I wish I'de been there. That fight between you and Leia sounds awesome. I wish I could have watched it. I've never seen you fight before," he said to Padme.
"Yes you have. Remember in tha temple with Ronteza?"
"Oh yeah. Where are the Princes by the way?" Luke asked, looking around as if expecting to see them.
"They're with their father in another room, but both are fine. Just a bit wet. Luckily Lomas managed to yank the wire up in time, otherwise it might have been a different story."
"And Scotty? Serena? Han and Chewie?" Luke was eager to know about all his friends.
"Scotty and Serena were let out earlier today, although you have to be nice to both of them because they now have terrible colds...and Han and Chewie are fine, although Han did manage to break his wrist when trying to jam the walls with a large pole. Chewie won't let him out of his sight incase anything happens to him. Apparently he now owes Han a life debt because Han was the one who got them out of the trash compactor," Anakin answered, slightly amused at Han's version of events.
"Apparently he was sitting ontop of the rubbish pile and the idea hit hit on the head - literally. A bit of rope had been dislodged from the door and he used it to climb up then pull Chewie up."
"That was lucky," Luke said.
"Actually, the clones had thrown it down to him and pulled them both up," Anakin revealed and Luke gave an evil little smile. Now he had something to teaseHan about!Then he looked at Padme who was staring out of the window at something down below.
"Mum?"
"Huh?" she turned round, slightly startled, but then smiled when she saw his worried face. "I'm just watching the four lovebirds down there," she motioned down to the gardens below. Anakin helped Luke over to the window and they saw what she meant.
Scotty and Serena were walking hand in hand down the garden, chatting to each other, and close behind them were...
"Han? Leia? Oh my god!" Luke was in shock. He had seen Leia and Han following the other two, but Leia's head was resting on Han's shoulder and he had his arm wrapped around her waist.
"I thought they hated each other!"
"So did we all,"Padme sighed.
"Yeah, there's a double wedding in a few weeks time. You've been asked to be Han and Scotty's best man," Anakin smiled, resting a proud hand on his son's shoulder.
Finally everything was turning around, and things seemed to be going perfectly for once. Anakin knew it couldn't last, but he was determined to make the most of it while he could. Wrapping another arm around Padme, the three of them watched the others with contented smiles on their faces. It seemed like they were all going to be one big happy family again...with a couple of extras!
The End
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The Great Escape - Star Wars style (the name says everything!)
Dream Come True (An AU story in Luke's POV)
Incognito (A Casualty Fan Fic)
And many more when I've written them! (If I ever get time to write them!)
