A/N In this Luke is 11

Lukes's head lay on his bedroom desk, his hand was on the datapad he was once reading for class. He had fallen asleep while working on an assignment, he was sleeping peacefully until someone entered the room. "Luke." It was a deep modulated voice said.

"Ahh!" Luke jumped awake, his eyes frantically looked around and landed on his father who was standing in the doorway.

"Did you sleep at your desk all night?" His father asked as he placed his hands on his belt. Luke ran his hands through his hair, his eyes wide.

"I slept here all night!? It's morning now!?" How had he fallen asleep here?

"Yes it is the morning, you must hurry if you wish not to be late for school." Luke jumped out of his seat frantically. He rifled through the pile of clothes on his floor and grabbed a clean pair of his school uniform and ran into the attached refresher in his room.

He quickly changed into his uniform and bounced out as he was trying to put on one of his shoes. "I guess I fell asleep on my desk, I was so exhausted yesterday." Luke balanced on one foot as he put on the next shoe.

"Yes, I remember how exhausting being eleven was." His father folded his arms over his chest.

"Ha ha." Luke said mockingly as he swung his backpack over his shoulder and walked up to his father who still stood in the doorway. "Did you want to tell me something?"

"Your school is putting on a performance at the end of the week." Luke looked at his father in confusion.

"You mean a play?"

"Yes."

"What about it?" Luke asked.

"The Emperor has requested for you to be a part of it."

"What!? Why!?" Luke asked, in Lukes's humble opinion, plays were stupid. Well, technically the only plays he had been to were at the Opera house. Every time he would fall asleep on his father or in his chair.

"The play is about the founding of the Empire, he would like it for you to be involved. He believes it would be good for the public to see you taking active admiration in the subject."

Luke groaned, "Ugh, I don't want to be in a play." He moped, he passed his father through the doorway and made his way down the hall, his father followed.

"It was a decision made by the Emperor, not me."

"I know." Luke sighed as he stood in front of the turbo-lift.

"Have a good day at the academy, Luke." Luke smiled up at his father and entered the lift, it descended to the hangar bay where he saw Lieutenant Lekauf. Luke ran out, his footsteps echoed through the large hangar as he made it to the speeder.

Lekauf sat in the pilot's seat, Luke flung the speeder door open and threw his backpack in and Lekauf looked at him with wide eyes. "Where have you been? We are running late!" Luke quickly jumped in the speeder and Lekauf lifted the speeder quickly out of the hangar before Luke could buckle. Luke deflated in the seat.

"I fell asleep on my desk." Luke rolled his head around, "I think I have a cramp in my neck." he mumbled.

"On your desk?" Lekauf laughed, "Geez, you must have been tired."

"Yeah well, ya know, being an eleven year old is exhausting." Luke shrugged, Luke looked out over the speeder the rest of the way to his school. Once Lekauf landed the speeder, Luke jumped out and yawned. "Goodbye Lekauf." Luke waved, Lekauf waved back with a smile and lifted the speeder.

Luke walked into his school and walked up to his locker, he swung the door open and put some of his datapads in his locker. He felt a tap on his shoulder, Luke slammed the locker shut and turned around. It was his friend Aaron, "Hello Luke!"

Luke smiled, "Hey Aaron." Luke walked down the hall to their first class, Aaron caught up to him and looked at Luke concerned.

"Is something wrong Luke?" Luke shook his head.

"No, I just had terrible sleep last night an-" Before Luke could continue he saw the signup sheets for the play, it was a paper pinned to the wall.

Imperial City Academy Presents…

The Founding of the Empire!

Auditions during Lunch

Sign your name down below

5th and 6th Graders only

"During lunch!" Luke whined, "They want me to act on an empty stomach!?" Luke shoved his hand in his backpack looking for a pen.

"Are you going to apply for the play?" Aaron laughed, "I didn't know you like plays."

"I don't " Luke stated as he wrote his name down for auditions, "But the Emperor wants me to do it."

"The Emperor!?" Aaron said in a hushed whisper, "Why does he want you to?"

"Something about looking good for the Empire." Luke shrugged as he clicked his pen and dropped it in his bag. "We should get going or we are gonna be late." Aaron nodded in agreement and they both walked off to class.

Class had ended, and usually, he would make his way over to the lunchroom, but today he had to audition for this stupid play. He parted ways with Aaron and walked down the hall to the auditorium, he had been here a couple of times for school announcements but that's it. The doors to the auditorium swooshed open.

It was large, rows of chairs filled most of the space and at the end of the room was a large stage with a large red curtain with a gold lining. Luke walked down the steps towards the stage, sitting around the first couple rows were kids holding a thick stack of papers reading intently. Luke made it to the end when an adult woman walked up to him. Luke recognized her as the school Director for Performing Arts, Mrs. Dellian.

"Are you auditioning for the school play?" She asked as she adjusted her glasses. Luke nodded, she pulled a packet of papers out from under her shoulder and handed it to him. "Read over some lines, when I call your name you will act them out on stage for me." She smiled.

"What characters are there?" Luke asked as he eyed the script and thumbed through the pages, Luke looked up but she had walked away already. Luke shrugged and squeezed into one of the seat rows and slumped down. He looked through the pages, he glazed over the many lines until his eyes caught on a word. No, not just a word, a name, Darth Vader .

Luke grew a small smile, his father was in the play? He could play his father? Luke couldn't help but laugh softly, seeing someone act out his father would be interesting. Luke flipped through the script some more.

Mrs. Dellian began to call out student names, Luke recognized some of the kids as they acted out scenes from the play. Luke found people trying to act out his father particularly interesting, a smile formed as students attempted to play his overly formal overdramatic father. "Luke Skywalker!" Mrs. Dellian called out, Luke suddenly felt nervous. He hadn't felt anxiety for auditioning up and till now, maybe because he had been making fun of this play the whole time. But now it was here, and real, and kids from his school were watching him as he walked up onto the stage.

He stood center stage, he gripped the script tightly and felt his heartbeat rise. He looked out over the small crowd nervously, all watching him.

"You may start your audition," Mrs. Dellian said as she wrote something down in her datapad. Luke walked up to the stage mic and let out a breath. He nodded to her, Luke's heart thumped rapidly. He closed his eyes and spit outlines from the script, he acted the scenes out he had memorized and did the best he could.

After he finished he did a small awkward bow and looked back out over the stage, kids who sat in the auditorium clapped as they did after every audition. Luke awkwardly smiled as Mrs. Dellian wrote something down on her datapad.

"We will call you later this evening if you got the part." She said as she slid her glasses up her nose, Luke nodded and hopped off the stage. He walked up the auditorium and left, hopefully, he had enough time to eat something for lunch.

When Luke finally made it to the lunchroom he saw Aaron who was packing up to leave, Luke ran up to him. "Is lunch over already?" Luke asked as he checked his chronometer, turns out lunch had just ended. "Stars, I haven't eaten anything today," Luke grumbled and followed Aaron back to class.

"Anything!?" Aaron gasped, Luke shook his head solemnly. Aaron pulled his backpack around and shuffled through his bag and pulled out a nutrition bar. "Here, maybe this will help." Aaron smiled.

"Thank you Aaron, you're a lifesaver." Luke took the bar and took a small bite, it was dry and not that good, but he was hungry enough to eat it. Luke and Aaron made it back to their class and tried their best to pay attention.

Luke sat in the speeder with Lekauf, he held the script to the play in his hands, his eyebrows furrowed. "Is something wrong Luke?" Lekauf asked.

"I am just worried about this stupid play." His eyebrows furrowed.

"You auditioned to be in the play!?" Lekauf perked up, Luke nodded slowly. "Well, what are you so worried about?"

"What if I am cast as a tree or something?" Luke slumped down in his seat.

"Ever heard of the saying, no small roles, only small actors ?" Lekauf offered, Luke nodded.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Luke smiled, "I just want to get a good part." Luke didn't expect to have fun when he auditioned, and even though he was incredibly nervous, he had more fun then he expected.

"When did you start getting into plays?" Lekauf smiled, Luke shrugged. " You think you did well?"

"I mean, I don't know." Luke laughed awkwardly, "I've never acted before."

"I am sure you did well." Lekauf smiled, and they chatted about the play the rest of the way back to home. Once they landed in the hangar bay Luke ran to the turbo-lift, the lift doors closed and slowly ascended. Once Luke got to his floor he wandered over to the sitting room, which had large couches and side tables and a large viewport.

He sat his backpack on one of the couches when his com started going off, Luke answered it quickly. "Hello?"

"Hello, is this Luke Skywalker?" A female voice asked.

"Yes." Luke slumped on the couch.

"Hello, this is Mrs. Dellian, I just wanted to let you know you got a part in the school play!" She sounded excited, Luke shifted on the couch anxiously. A smile grew slowly, a part! He got a part!

"Oh thank you! Uh- what's the part?"

"You got Darth Vader of course!" Darth Vader , he got Darth Vader, his father. Yes! He got a really good part and he got his father, which he could play easily enough. He lived with the guy, he knew how he acted better than anyone.

"Thank you!" Luke smiled.

"Practice will be after school every day until this weekend, which is when the play will show. So make sure to study your lines!" Her enthusiasm was clear over the com.

"Okay, thank you so much again!" The com cut and Luke quickly whipped out his script for the school play. He pulled out a pen from his bag and began to underline all his lines, after a few minutes he sat back nervously.

"So many lines…" He mumbled, he knew his father was a major part of the Empire but how was he supposed to memorize all of this!? Luke stood up from the couch and walked around his home reading his lines. He held the script tightly and stared at it with intensity, he was going to be delivering these lines in front of the whole school.

He lapped his house over and over while reading his lines, his eyes started to grow tired from reading his lines over and over. When he was making his final lap he ran into a large figure, Luke looked up, it was his father.

"What are you doing?" His father asked, Luke blinked and looked around the home, he saw the sun was setting. He had been at this for a long time, he had no idea how much time had passed. Luke looked back at his father, then down at his script.

"I was reading my lines." Luke yawned.

"So you got a part in the performance?" Luke perked up slightly.

"Oh yeah, I did! I'm gonna play you!" Luke laughed.

"I suppose I prefer my own son portraying me then someone else." Luke smiled, "Congratulations on getting a roll in the performance, my son." Luke beamed at his father's praise, he then checked his chronometer.

"Stars, I should get something to eat. I haven't eaten like, all day." He laughed and was about to walk away when his father put a hand on his shoulder.

"You have not eaten all day!?" His father asked Luke, Luke turned around to face him.

"Yeah, I just forgot, I mean I had a nutrition bar earlier." Luke shrugged, "Come to think of it, it tasted expired." Luke mumbled.

"Expired!?"

"Yeah, it tasted pretty bad, but it was better than nothing." His father made a sound that Luke interpreted as a sigh.

"I do not want my son going around starving!" Luke deflated slightly.

"Okay, okay- I'll get something to eat now, don't worry." Luke smiled, "I'll eat something while I read over my lines. Kill a bird with two stones- or something."

"Its, Kill two birds with one stone ." His father corrected.

"Well, you get what I mean." Luke smiled "Hey can I practice my lines on you when the play gets closer?"

"Yes, if you think it would help." Luke smiled at his father then walked off to his room. He ordered something to eat on a panel by his door and sat on his desk, hopefully, he won't fall asleep here like the previous night.