Little Luke Skywalker was used to life threatening and unusual situations. What he wasn't so quite used to was having a sister to take care of. Though they've only known each other for four months they've grown inseparable, a feeling Luke had found hard to adjust to, since people in his life came and went as they pleased, some, if not most, trying to kill him in the process. You could say that the boy learned the hard way not to trust easily, that's why probably in the beginning he was weary of the girl with brown braids and intelligent chocolate eyes, but the feeling wasn't one sided. Leia Organa lived a happy life with her adoptive parents until six months ago. She used to be a happy, though sometimes strong-minded child. More than anything she loved her parents, though she knew she was adopted, the fact never really bothered her, not when her parents loved her and she loved them back. Besides, her real parents were dead, she knew that for a fact, could remember her real mother's face, how beautiful she was, how sad, but kind. Remembering that, she knew that if her mother was alive she would have done anything in her power to protect Leia from the horrors of the future that were to come, but she wasn't. Leia used to cry sometimes, for the mother she never knew, never got to know. But she was still happy, after all, she had her other parents, the ones that were alive and took care of her. Until they too couldn't. Until they were taken away right in front of her. You could say that after that she didn't find it easy to trust people, was afraid of getting attached for they will too be taken away. Until Luke. Both kids found solace in each other eventually. Reliving horrible thing before, then together did that to you. After all that their bond was strong, the only bond they trusted and needed. Especially when in the end, they were the only ones that survived.
Luke felt someone shaking his arm, but he wasn't bothered by it since he felt the familiar force signature, very much like his own.
"Luke?" he heard his sister's urgent voice "Luke!"
"What?" he moaned opening his eyes. He didn't want yet to except the reality, but there was his sister to consider and he didn't think he could hide forever, even though he wanted to. Ben would be disappointed. He sat up, then turned his head, looking around. He frowned as he felt Leia's panic growing. She was always quicker to emotions than he.
"Where are we?" Luke felt it was important to voice the obvious question.
"I don't know!" Luke could feel Leia's frustration and fear, knew she was close to snapping at him.
"Well how did we get here?" dark memories suddenly clouded Leia's mind just like it did his. They looked at each other wide eyed, then both shook their heads, agreeing not to touch that topic. Leia stood up.
"Come on, let's go." Said Leia, and started walking, expecting him to follow.
"Where?" asked Luke weary "Everyone is dead." Leia stopped at that, she knew what he meant. Everyone that could take care of them or once did, everyone that fought for the Rebellion were gone. Leia felt tears welling up in her eyes, but she didn't want to cry, she hated crying. Instead, she wanted to shout and scream at the unfairness of it all, but couldn't, since there was no one but Luke to hear. Luke sighed feeling her sister's pain and distress, she never bothered hiding her emotions from him. So he stood up, walked beside his sister and took her hand. Together he said trough their force bond, sending calming feelings in the process Together Leia agreed relieved, a small smile playing on her lips.
Padmé Amidala was going by her day at the senate as usual until she felt intense pain in her belly. An hour later at the medical centre they told her she lost the babies, not baby, but babies. No one could tell the cause, but one thing was clear - they were gone. The pain she experienced before was nothing compared to the deep, soul wrecking agony felt after hearing the news. So strong they had to forcefully put her to sleep.
Anakin Skywalker had seen, felt a lot of things, but never before had he felt such disturbance in the force. Like it was ripped apart by something strong and uncontrolled. By something that shouldn't be here. Of course the council then sent them to investigate. He along with Obi-Wan were walking trough Coruscant streets towards what felt like a gaping hole in space trying to mend itself.
"What do you think caused it?" Anakin asked Obi-Wan but he could tell by his former master's deeply disturbed face he wouldn't get his answer.
"I don't know Anakin, something like this, I have never felt anything like it before." They walked in complete silence after that, each deep in their own thoughts. Until Anakin noticed something strange or to be exact, something the Force urged him to notice.
"What are those kids doing here?" True to his words, there were two kids, a boy and a girl beside some trash bins peeking out, then ducking back behind it again.
"Are those…" Obi-Wan started. Anakin reached out with the Force and studied their Force signatures attentively then pulled back quickly. "Guess we found our force disturbers." Anakin said pulling out his lightsaber.
"I hope you're not thinking of hurting them with that." Said Obi-Wan half serious.
"It's just a precaution." Anakin answered offended. He would never hurt younglings and now that Padmé was pregnant… Well he would do anything to protect her and the baby.
"Their force signature is extraordinary." Said Obi-Wan in wonder, staring at where the kids were now hiding.
"Extraordinary or not, there is something not right about them." Said Anakin moving forward. Obi-Wan moved after him, pulling out his lightsaber too. "Be careful Anakin." He said.
Luke reached out with the force, checking if they were still there. What are we going to do now Luke? asked Leia trough their bond, terrified at the thought of getting caught. They don't feel like Sith. mused Luke. What else could they be? Sent Leia. I don't know. He sent back, confused.
"We know you two are there, just come out, we're not going to hurt you." Said a male voice. Luke and Leia stared at each other silently communicating, neither believing what the man said. Leia nodded and Luke half smiled. Slowly both of them stood and waked around to face the man. Anakin sighed, putting back his lightsaber. "Now, what you two are doing here?" He asked the two kids. They didn't look older than eight. The girl had long brown hair and brown eyes while the boy had sandy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. Both of them were dressed poorly, their appearances ruffled and dirty. The two glanced at each other, but stayed silent. "Are you going to answer me?" Still nothing. Obi-Wan, sensing his former padwan's frustration, stepped up beside him, resting a hand on his shoulder. "Why don't we start with our names, shall we?" The kids didn't answer, didn't even show any indication that they heard him. Anakin thought this was ridiculous, why not just take the children and drop them at the order, let the Jedi masters figure out what to do with them. "I'm Obi-Wan Kenobi and this is…"
"Liar," suddenly the boy spoke up "Ben is dead." The girl beside him shot him a look which he ignored, clearly angry.
Luke? Leia asked concerned, she could feel her brother's anger and pain. She knew who Ben Kenobi was, have seen him a couple of times. Luke had talked about him too, told her that Ben took care of him when his uncle and aunt were killed, he was also the one that thought him about force and how to use it. Luke, it's okay. Leia said trough their force bond trying to comfort him. No it's not. Luke cried, trying to take as much comfort from his sister's presence as he could. Luke's anguish fed her anger even more and she turned towards it's cause. "You can't trick us." she said scowling at the two men. Anakin and Obi-Wan glanced at each other confused. "Now…" started Obi-Wan holding up his arms in calming motion while taking a step towards them.
"No, stay back!" the girl shouted, her anger flaring like a storm. Obi-Wan looked back at Anakin with wide eyes. Anakin felt the raw emotion in the girl too, but what was more worrying was the uncontrolled force power under her command. He doubted she could use it yet, but it was still worrying. Obi-Wan, coming to that conclusion too, turned back towards the younglings and sighed. "I was hoping to do it the easy way." Then he moved towards the kids with quick steps intending to separate them "No!" shouted Leia as Anakin felt the force erupt out of her. Suddenly Obi-Wan was violently thrown several feet back by a strong Force Blast. Anakin's instincts abandoned him as he stared horrified at the little girl that just used the force intentionally, not only that but managed a powerful telekinetic exertion of the Force at such a tender age. It should have been impossible. He ran towards Obi-Wan crouching down to check on him.
"Are you alright Master?" Obi-Wan winced then nodded, clearly just as terrified of the power the kid just revealed. Anakin offered his hand to Obi-Wan which he took then helped him stand.
Luke had felt Leia's anger then panic, desperately tried to calm her down when she Force Blasted the guy that pretended to be Ben. Now she felt exhausted and on the verge of sleep, they were tired before and Leia hadn't helped the situation by using up all the energy that she had left for the Force Blast. Luke struggled to keep her awake trough the Force bond while also holding her upright as she leaned into him. The fake Ben and the man that approached them first were farther away now, talking. Leia? He asked What? She answered annoyed. Please don't fall asleep he worried. Leia, feeling how scared he was of being left to fend for the situation alone answered I won't. She could feel Luke's relief and it only made her more determined to stay awake. What now? She asked, trying to focus on the situation at hand. We could try to sneak away, but you're too tired and they would probably catch us. She could feel her brother losing hope and would have snapped at him if she hadn't lost it before sometime too. Luke was always the more optimistic one and she always held on to that and fallowed his lead on any bad situation she thought they couldn't get out of. But if Luke thought they had no chance of getting out then they probably won't. I thought you said they weren't Sith. She accused. Yeah, but they have lightsabers and can use the force like the sith or Ben, they're probably with the Emperor and are trying to trick us into willingly going with them. But... Luke's thoughts were cut short as he felt the other man approach them. Leia shivered and Luke wrapped an arm around her, giving a slight squeeze.
"Let the girl go." The man with the scar said. "No." Luke said. No way Luke was abandoning his sister.
"She's dangerous." The man tried reasoning. Yeah, and they weren't?
"So? I am too." Luke said. The man seemed to consider that for a moment then pulled his lightsaber and lit it up. It was blue, just like Ben's used to be. Luke felt his own fear. He was just a kid, how was he was supposed to protect himself and his sister? He wished Ben was here, he always seemed to know what to do at situations like these, or Yoda, he used to fight against the sith too. But they weren't here. So Luke did the last thing he could do with the energy he had left.
"Is that a Force Bubble?" asked Obi-Wan astonished, not really believing what he was seeing.
"Seems the boy has some surprises too." Said Anakin annoyed. These things shouldn't be possible. Here were two younglings that could do the very same thing a Jedi was thought how to do for years.
"It makes me wonder what they managed to do before, that caused such a rift in the Force." Mused Obi-Wan. Anakin wasn't so sure if he wanted to find out.
"The only question now is how we should approach this." Said Anakin. Obi-Wan glanced at Anakin then at his lightsaber. "For kiff's sake Anakin put the lightsaber away, they might be powerful, but they are still younglings."
"Powerful? This is unnatural." Objected Anakin but still did as he was instructed.
"Trying to exhaust him seems like a good idea." Offered Obi-Wan and Anakin looked at him weirdly.
"What? It had worked a bunch of times on you when you were still a youngling. " It was weird hearing Obi-Wan talk about Anakin's young days like that. Shaking off the memories Anakin considered that for a moment, but decided that patience just wasn't one of his virtues.
"Or we could just speed up the process." Said Anakin walking closer to the Force Bubble.
"Anakin!" shouted Obi-Wan but was completely ignored. Anakin who had now walked right in front of the Force Bubble stared for a moment at the boy who was now sitting down with the girl close to him, her head resting on his shoulder. He had to admire the boy's loyalty to the girl, they seemed really close.
"We're not going to hurt you." Said Anakin, but the boy only scowled and doubled his efforts on the Force Bubble. Anakin sighed, not understanding them at all. "Alright" he said then gave a Force Push of his own against the Force Bubble. After a minute or two Obi-Wan joined him, doubling his effort against the boy. Now, it was two against one and Anakin wanted to laugh at the absurdity of it all. Two powerful Jedi against one kid. What has the world come to. Finally, after a couple of more minutes the shield seemed to be weakening. The boy grunted in frustration, sweat covering his face. Three more minutes and the Force Bubble disappeared along with the boy and the girl who went out like a light simultaneously.
"What did you say Master?" Anakin laughed.
"Don't be arrogant Anakin, how was I supposed to know that the boy was mores powerful than you were at that age" Obi-Wan answered and Anakin scowled, not liking that at all.
"It's not the time for jealousy now Anakin," he said seriously "We have to take the younglings to the order as fast as we can, without both of them waking and causing even more trouble."
But it seemed easier said then done, since the moment Obi-Wan picked up the boy and Anakin the girl, separating them, they started to trash violently and cry out. In the end they had to be carried close to each other while the boy and the girl held hands. It was clear after that, that the pair had a Force Bond and a strong one at that.
When the children were finally lying safe in the ship's bay, on one of cots, Anakin thought about Padmé and their baby, hoping that the kid wouldn't reveal to be as much trouble as these two. Padmé. He was still worried about her, the dream from last night still fresh in his mind. The one that showed her dying at childbirth. But he wasn't going to let this one become real, not like his mother's had, no matter what it took he was going to keep Padmé and the baby safe. He glanced back at the two children sleeping peacefully, watching them now you wouldn't be able to suspect of the power they wielded. But Anakin had already decided it wasn't his problem. After dropping the younglings at the order he would go straight to Padmé. He couldn't wait to see her again.
So I wrote this in three days and it's one of those I-wanted-to-read-a-fanfiction-like-this-but-couldn't-find-one, so I wrote it myself. I'm kinda writing it for myself, but if anyone's interested in reading it, I could continue to update it on here also.
Note 2: So, if anybody noticed I kind of erased Ahsoka from this chapter, since I found out that when Padmé was pregnant she had already left the order. Ups. So I hope it's fine and the ones who had already read this chapter won't be angry. And the ones that just read it, well don't mind this message. Sorry.