Chapter 9

With mother and daughter having finally recomposed themselves, Padme couldn't help but just stare at her daughter blankly for quite a while as she was just of the fact what beautiful young woman Leia had become over all these years and wiped away the last left tears. She then finally asked: "What career path did your brother decide to take?" She somehow could imagine really good, that Obi Wan had made arrangements to train him in the ways of the Jedi as he gets old enough but she somehow wanted to hear it from her daughter herself. After also Leia had wiped away some of the last remaining tears from this very emotional reunion with her biological mother, she took one deep breath and replied: "He became a Jedi Knight just like our father and since he had been very busy with rebuilding the Jedi Order we didn't have much opportunity to talk in the past weeks."

Even if she tried so hard not think about it, knowing that Luke had become a Jedi Knight just like his father stirred up some painful memories again: On his former home world "her" Anni had slaughtered a lot of Sand people to avenge the death of his mother and it scared her so much that his voice had been so much full of hatred and Padme didn't know at this moment how to react: Should she comfort him or be angry at him because of letting his negative emotions take control over him? All she did want was his unconditional love and not an almighty Jedi because she surely didn't want him to betray the principles of the Jedi Order. She couldn't help but think that she had already lost him to the Dark Side at this point and there would no escape for him out of this fatal downward spiral. She quickly banned those thoughts about Anakin out of his mind, because she didn't want to think about what it would do to her if he didn't live anymore. Padme was only sure of one thing only: Hearing about the death of her husband would still definitely devastate her emotionally, because she somehow knew that deep was still some good left inside of him.

"That's very good to know, I really need to see him next even if I'm sure that this whole thing will probably be also very hard for him to comprehend." Padme said and sighed shortly as she somehow hated the fact a lot, that all of this emotional weight seemed to be so heavy that it felt like it was going to crush her any moment. Deep down she knew, that she wouldn't be able to run away from the truth forever at some time she needed to ask that question or either the fact that she didn't know about Anakin's destiny would definitely destroy her.

Leia could see that something was clearly bothering her mother, even if she tried so hard to keep up a happy masquerade but she clearly didn't want to push the subject right at this because she figured that her mother would definitely tell her it sooner or later on her own terms. Padme of course realized that her daughter was looking at her with a worried expression on her face, so she quickly looked away stared at a painting on the wall for some minutes before Leia finally got her out of her little trance: "Luke is at the Jedi Academy on Yavin IV, he has trained a few Jedi of the New Order there and of course it will certainly shock him that you're still alive."

The trio then finally made their way out of the office of the Chief of State, after Padme and Mon Mothma had said their goodbyes and made their way back to Space Port of The Capitol of the New Republic. The whole way to the space port of Corcusant Leia couldn't help but think about the reaction from her brother to this news, it certainly would be hard to believe for him at first as it had been for her and she didn't really know if Owen Lars did actually tell him something about his real mother when Luke got older.

They had never really talked about their real parents in general, Leia just had managed to Luke randomly such a long time ago what she got in her mind from the things that Bail had told her about her biological mother: she was very beautiful but somehow also very sad.

Of course she had asked herself for quite a while: What had made her so much sad? She didn't know much about her real father, only that he had been killed by another Jedi that had turned to the Dark Side of the Force that magical thing that had a lot of impact on what happened in the galaxy apparently. As Leia was kind of busy with her own thoughts, another question popped in her mind: She figured that she somehow had to introduce Han to her mother, because she certainly wanted her to meet the man she had felt in love with but what she would think of him?

Leia choose to forget about this one little problem for the time being as she could also deal with that at a later time and somehow she was pretty sure that her mother would love the man by her side. Padme meanwhile was thinking about her future in this New Republic a little bit: Should she return to being a politician in the senate or just focus on being a mother to her grown up children? Maybe she would return to Senate, because she deep down knew that she wanted to make her contribution to this young state. She would also definitely stop by her home world, a place that surely must had changed a lot all over these years and she still had some memories about some good times there when she actually had no political crisis to worry about. Like it had been yesterday she still could vividly remember the wonderful time she had spent with Anakin in the lake country on Naboo and all this trouble of the Separatists crisis had been so far away at this time.

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