"I'm coming!" Padme shouted to her mom. She left her room and joined her family for dinner. She did not want to have dinner. She wanted to be back upstairs, dreaming. She wanted to be with Ben. Padme felt the Force connection when they touched.

Luke was the last one to come to dinner. Padme felt his sadness. He had heard something before he came, and he wasn't sharing it with the rest of the family. Conversation was had, but he didn't talk.

"What's wrong?" Padme finally had the courage to ask. Luke gave her a look to be quiet. Leia and Han noticed the exchange.

"I guess I might as well say it," Luke began, blaming himself for what had happened. " Leia, your neighbor called while you were upstairs waking up Padme. The house was broken into."

"What!" Leia cried out in horror. Han had a concerned look on his face.

"Your neighbor found all the rooms except one a wreck. Your furniture was destroyed, stuff was thrown all over the place..."

"Thank the Maker we are all here, and not there to see it!"

"Luke, you said all but one of the rooms was a wreck," Han said to his friend.

"Yes. The neighbor said one of the bedrooms was barely touched. Just a bunch of dirty clothes on the floor, He found... he found a pink nightgown folded on the bed," Luke explained.

Padme gasped. It was her nightgown! Whoever broke into her home had gone through her dirty clothes and touched her nightgown. The nightgown she was in when she came face to face with Vader.

She wanted to ask the question, but her father beat her to it.

"This ex-student of yours, he did this, didn't here?" Han asked. Luke slowly shook his head in the affirmative. Han stood up from the chair, and pulled out his blaster.

"Han, sit down! This is not the time to be playing hero!" Leia snapped at him.

"I am not going to sit by while this guy harasses us. Especially when it affects my daughter!"

"Han, please!" He left the dinner table, with Leia following after him, and Chewbacca following her.

"That is why I did not want to say anything," Luke said to his niece. "I hope your mother can calm him down."

"I'm concerned about you," Padme said. "You have been so sad, since this student of yours turned to the Dark side. You need to tell us what happened. Who is this man?"

"I will not say. It is for your own protection."

"How can we feel protected if we don't know who's coming after us?"

"Padme, I will not discuss this, especially with you..."

"Luke, don't you see? You are keeping secrets from your family. Secrets that will come out one day, whether you like it or not. Look at what happened with me!"

"Leia kept you a secret to protect you from Vader."

"But did it protect me? No, it didn't! Mom realized the mistake she made. You are making the same mistake now, not telling us who this person is."

"Padme, for the last time, I will not tell you who he is!" Luke stood up and walked away.

"Well, I guess dinnertime is over," Padme glumly thought to herself. She headed towards the living room. She heard the voices of her family. She hid just outside the entrance, and used Force listening to eavesdrop on the conversation.

"Leia," she heard Han say to her mom. "We can't expose Padme to this danger!"

"If you force her to stay somewhere she does not want to, she will just run away. She will do what she wants, and then she will never speak to us again. Is that what you want?" Leia countered.

"Do you want me to talk to her?" Luke offered. "If I tell her to stay safe, to join us in this fight, she may listen."

Han nodded his head in agreement. But Leia disagreed. She knew even Luke would not be able to convince Padme to stay, once her daughter had made up her mind.

"She won't change her mind, unless..." Leia began.

"Unless what?" Luke questioned. It took a moment to figure out what she was going to say.

"I am not telling Padme about what happened with my student!" Luke scowled in anger.

"You have to tell someone, Luke. This is destroying you inside. It's taken you to a dangerous place. A very dark place. A place you have not been since Sidious' throne room."

Leia moved closer to her brother, and took his hand. He needed to say something. Luke nodded his head, and he and Leia sat down on the couch. Han sat next to them in a recliner.

"He was my best student," Luke began to explain. "I had rescued his mother from a dangerous political situation, as well as a personal one. I will not say who she is, because his life would be in danger if people from a particular planet knew of his existence."

"This student's situation mirrors mine," Padme thought to herself. She was relieved that Luke was finally sharing about what happened.

"I took his mother back with me to the Jedi Temple. The personal situation she was escaping was that she had been raped by an opposing political faction member, and became pregnant. I told her she could stay until the baby was born, and then I would help her find a safe planet to raise the baby."

Padme felt compassion for the woman Luke mentioned. It reminded her what a Stormtrooper tried to do to her back on her grandfather's Star Destroyer.

" What happened?" Leia asked, never hearing this story from Luke.

"She stayed at the temple until she gave birth. Unfortunately, it was a difficult delivery, and she died an hour after giving birth to a boy. She begged me to raise him, to train him to be a Jedi. She asked me to wait until he was eighteen to tell him the truth about his family. I promised her he would not know until then."

"So you kept this secret from this kid?" Han interjected in surprise. "This is kind of ironic, right?"

Leia gave him an annoyed look before asking her brother,

"Is he the one? Is he the student that killed the Jedi and turned to the Dark side?"

"He is," Luke sighed, still brokenhearted over what Ben had done. Chewbacca grunted in sorrow.

"I had every intention of keeping her promise. But..." Luke stopped, afraid of what the rest of them would think.

"But what?" Han snapped in frustration. "What happened? Why didn't you tell this kid the truth?"

"Because when he turned eighteen...that was when Padme was kidnapped," Luke confessed. No one said anything for a moment.

"I should have told him before I left. And now..." Luke moaned. Leia wrapped her arms around him.

"Don't blame yourself. How could you have know she was going to be kidnapped that day?" Leia tried to reassure him. But Luke shook his head.

"I had a bad felling about leaving him. But I could not turn my back on you, or on Padme, So I left, promising to him that I would tell him the truth when I got back. But he found out while I was gone..."

"And that is when everything happened," Han concluded.

"Please, do not tell Padme any of this." Luke begged them. "I don't want her to think it was her fault this happened!"

"Luke, I don't think she would..." Leia began to say. He raised his hand to silence her.

"Please, just don't tell her. I will tell her when the time is right."

"Ok. I won't say anything."

"Neither will Chewy and I," Han stated. "But won't Padme be able to figure out what happened, using her Force powers?"

"She may, but for now, I don't want her to know," Luke told him. "Now, we need to discuss about tomorrow's meeting with the Senate, concerning the threat of the First Order."

Padme slowly made her way back to her room. She was shocked at what Luke had said. This student, exactly two years older than her, fell to the Dark side because of a family secret. A secret her uncle kept from him. The worst part, Padme felt as she climbed into bed, was that it could have been prevented if Luke hadn't left.

But he did leave, to go and help rescue her from Vader. If she had not been kidnapped, Luke never would have left. Now she understood why her uncle did not want her to know.

"It's my fault," she whispered. "If I hadn't been kidnapped, he never would have left, the student would not have turned to the Dark side and the Jedi at the temple would still be alive."

No wonder this former Jedi was angry! Padme understood all too well the shock of finding out about family secrets. She wondered how the man found out the truth. She recalled the anger she felt when Leia told her she was her mother and Han was her father. She had forgiven her mother. But hearing this story of another young person not knowing who his family was made Padme cry. She ended up falling asleep, the tears still falling down her face.