May the Fourth Be With You! Ever since I first posted this story I have not missed a Star Wars day and I'm not going to start now. So here's something that I hope you all can enjoy. Also please review this and the previous chapter, the feedback really helps me motivate myself to actually write more and improve my writing.
"Using the force in such a way, clearly the boy is touched by the darkness." Master Poof sighed dejectedly.
"Oi!" Anakin snapped, "He gave them fair warning and told them they wouldn't win! It's not like he just walked up and started snapping necks!"
"Anakin is right." Obi-Wan nodded, "All Luke did was respond to a threat with equal measure. Perhaps a bit brutal for my tastes but nothing absurde."
Windu grunted, "As much as it pains me to say it, I also agree with Skywalker."
Thankfully the next vision started before the Vapad user's words could fully register and send any of them into shock.
The galaxy once more saw the vintage of Leia appear before them looking to be roughly the same age as the previous time they had seen her and walking down an elaborate hallway lined with numerous sculptures and paintings. Bail Organa recognized it as the path to his solar back home.
"Okay seriously, does she ever leave that palace?" Anakin grumbled. Every time they saw his daughter it was always somewhere in the Alderinian palace and it was starting to worry him. Did she ever go out and do stuff?
Approaching her father's study Leia heard him talking to someone, a woman from the sound of her voice but she didn't know who.
"Ah, looks like I'm back." Ahsoka noticed.
"As long as you don't wander off with my daughter-" Padme began.
"Can we not talk about that please?" Anakin begged.
"Father?" Leia asked as she opened the reinforced door.
The Alderinian King and Senator looked away from his guest- a Togruta woman Leia observed- to focus on his adoptive daughter, "Yes Leia?" He asked her.
"I just came to tell you that my transport for the junior senate meeting is arriving soon."
"Takes after her mother she does." Yoda nodded. Senator Amidala was a good woman with a kind heart, not to mention she was a true advocate of peace and a close ally of the Jedi. Her daughter following in her footsteps could only mean good things for the galaxy.
Organa smiled at his adopted daughter, "If you give us a moment to finish up here I'll be there to see you off." He told her getting a small nod in return.
Ahsoka gave Leia a hard look "You look just like your mother." Ahsoka said quietly, almost too quiet for the younger woman to hear her.
The princess's head snapped over to the Togruta in shock, "You knew my mother? You know who she is?" She asked unbelievingly.
Ahsoka blinked in surprise before turning to face the senator "You never told her?" She asked her eyes sharp.
Organa didn't wither a bit, "It's safer if she doesn't know."
"I still call bullshit on that." Anakin grumbled getting an elbow to the side from his wife for swearing on an intergalactic broadcast.
"That's bullshit." Ahsoka deadpanned.
"Agreed!" Leia piped up, "I can keep a secret father!"
"Normally yes, but there are ways for the information to get out without you meaning for it to." Organa said gently.
Ahsoka grimaced, "Ah, good point." She acknowledged.
Leia however didn't seem to agree, "Why won't you tell me who they are?!" She demanded, "I have a right to know!"
The old senator's eye's hardened, "It is my duty as your father and as a friend of your mother to keep you safe Leia, and that is what I am doing and what I will continue to do! That is the end of it!" He snapped.
"I don't think I've ever heard you talk like that before Bail." Padme told her friend.
"I don't think I ever have." The Alderinian replied. He had always been a firm and steady person, someone who kept their voice steady and strong and wasn't one to snap even in some very dire and frustrating situations.
"Skywalkers tend to have that kind of effect on people." Windu grunted.
Leia was rendered speechless at her father's tone. She couldn't recall him ever using a tone like that in her entire life, not even when she was little and would occasionally act like a petulant brat. Clearly he wouldn't budge on the issue.
But maybe the Togruta would.
Leia turned to the still unknown- to her anyway- woman, "How did you know my mother?" She demanded.
Ahsoka smirked, "Through your father… the blood one." She told the young woman, "But that's all your getting out of me. The senator here is right, knowing who they were could be dangerous… though I guess not knowing who they were could end up coming back to bite you too." She mused.
"Enough Lady Tano. I said that was the end of any talk of my daughter's lineage and I meant it. You have the information and agreements you came for, now please leave." He told the former Jedi Padawan.
Ahsoka sighed but nodded. "Alright. Your house your rules." With a quick wave the Togruta walked briskly out of the office, giving an upset Leia a small nod as she passed.
"There I am!" Anakin smiled.
"What?" Obi-Wan asked.
"That look on Leia's face! That's all Skywalker." Anakin said proudly.
"... She looks like she wants to set things on fire with her eyes." Obi-Wan deadpanned.
"Like I said. All Skywalker. Padme's glare is more like 'you are an idiot and should feel bad about it'." He explained.
"This I can vouch for." Bail nodded.
Padme only demonstrated her glare in response.
The two Alderaanian royals looked at eachother with hard gazes neither backing down.
Leia was the first to speak up, "You can't keep it a secret forever." She told him.
"I don't plan to." Bail responded, "I am simply waiting for the proper time."
The vision faded to black.
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