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Anakin and Luke spent the next few days acclimating themselves to their new lives. The father and son learned everything they could about this new timeline they were in. They searched through the databanks in Jedi Temple archives, bringing up all the old mission reports and HoloNet newsreels involving the two Skywalkers. They also looked up everything they could think of have been important after Palpatine's defeat from the last twenty years. They listened in and had conversations with the people around them, trying to figure out what they had to know for their day to day lives as well as what had transfixed in recent galactic history.
With a bit of aid from slowly surfacing memories from this universe's Anakin and Luke, the father and son quickly fell into a routine of secretly gathering information while going about what appeared to be their daily lives. Luke spent time with his friends, trained under Obi-Wan, and spent his free time practicing the lightsaber demonstration for Republic Day with Mara.
Anakin was a bit more overwhelmed in his newfound schedule that his son. Apparently the Anakin in this timeline helped teach a lightsaber training class for initiates and an advanced engineering class for older Padawans. And since he was on the Council, Anakin had to partake in the meetings for the planning of the Jedi's contribution to the upcoming Republic Day. There was also the fact that he had a Padawan to train. The only thing keeping Anakin sane in all this turmoil was when he could go home at night and spend time with his wife, Padme, and the time he and Luke spent together researching this new world.
Luke fidgeted in his seat, trying his best to suppress the rising feeling of anxiety he was feeling.
Luke was currently in the Temple quarters of Galen's parents, Kento and Mallie Marek. Galen had invited Luke and some the others to his parents' quarters since they were away on a mission and he was still moving into his own apartment. Luke had been reluctant to accept the invitation, but he knew it would be suspicious if he didn't accept.
From the information he had gathered, Luke knew that the Skywalker family and the Mareks had been close since the end of the Clone Wars. Like Luke's father, Galen's parents, Kento and Mallie, had gone against the Jedi Code by falling in love and marrying in secret. After the ban on attachments was lifted, the Mareks had decided to stay with the Order. Since the Mareks had a son the same age as Anakin's twins, and because of Anakin's involvement in allowing attachment, the two families had become close and remained great friends throughout the years. With that sort of history, Luke knew he couldn't reject an offer to spent time with one of his 'oldest friends' without looking suspicious.
Luke sat silently in the chair closest to the door, carefully observing everyone else in the room. Galen and Ezra were having a heated argument about who had the greatest Master in the Temple. Jinn was meditating, blocking out the two older Jedi's pointless argument. Han had his feet propped up on the table, casually leaning back in his seat. Sky was making a few modifications to the plans another one of his engineering projects on his personal datapad.
"So Luke, what are you doing for Republic Day?" asked Sky.
Luke nearly jumped out of his skin when Sky asked him a question. All eyes turned to Luke, who gave a sheepish grin in response to all the prying suddenly looking at him. Rubbing the back of his neck, Luke tried to play off his jumpiness as nervousness about the demonstration he and Mara had to demonstrate on Republic Day.
"I don't really have anything planned. I'm dealing with enough as it is." honestly spoke Luke.
What Luke said really was the truth. He didn't have anything planned for Republic Day and he did have more than enough to deal with trying to grasp being in a whole new timeline.
Han smile at the kid he'd known for almost ten years. It was times like this that reminded the Corellian captain of the awkward fourteen-year-old he first met during that joint mission at the Republic Military Academy.
"Don't worry kid. I'm sure you and Mara will find something to do. I'm going to be hitting the streets with Leia after the whole celebration is over." stated Han.
Jinn opened his eyes, no longer able to focus on meditating.
"I thought Leia was going to be with the senators and the Jedi Council for all of Republic Day? She is the Jedi representative to the Senate. Chances are she'll be spending the entire day around politicians. And aren't all planet side military and Jedi forces supposed to be on guard encase of a potential attack? We're all probably going to be patrolling the streets and guarding politicians once those of us who had demonstrations to do have completed them." informed Jinn.
Everyone groaned, shooting exasperated and infuriating glares at Jinn.
Ezra over-dramatically fell back in to his chair.
"What is with these increased patrols and security details? I've heard the masters saying things haven't been this bad since the Clone Wars. If there's really a Sith Lord or some Dark Jedi causing trouble, then why haven't the Jedi found them yet? We've improved in finding and eliminating Darksiders since Master Skywalker defeated Darth Sidious. If there was a Sith or something out there, the Jedi would have found it by now." exclaimed Ezra.
Galen put a hand on his friend's shoulder. Ezra's head snapped up, electric blue eyes locking with the brown gaze of the slightly younger man.
"The masters have warned you on more than one occasion to be more cautious, Ezra. The Jedi can't follow every tip and lead we get, no matter how hard we try. There are just too many planets in the Core, Mid and Outer Rims for the Jedi to investigate every single one of them. But there is something out there, Ezra. Master Kota and I faced more than one unknown Force-user when we were on that four month mission before I was knighted." explained Galen.
Sky decided to put his two credits in the conversation.
"The Jedi didn't know about Sidious being the Chancellor for thirteen years. Even with all the Order has done to better defend itself from Sith and other Darksiders, there is still a chance for another to rise. I've been helping my father research Onderon's past and it is filled with the workings of ancient Sith Lords. A few items that were recently discovered on Dxun, the largest of Onderon's four moons, that were possibly of dark side origin. They were stolen, most likely by this new Sith." calmly explained Sky.
Luke had to keep himself from prying when he heard Galen had run in to a Dark Side user and some possible Sith artifacts stolen from Onderon. Whoever this Sith was, they were covering a lot of ground in a very short amount of time. And if this much up rest and tension had been caused from mere rumour, Luke didn't want to think what would happen if the Sith Lord really showed themselves.
Luke's comm. link beeped. He answered it and saw it was his father calling him.
"Father, what is it?" asked Luke.
"Meet me in my quarters. I think I might have found something." told Anakin.
Luke knew whatever his father had to say was too sensitive to be spoken of over the comm. The young Jedi excused himself and headed to his father's quarters.
Sorry that things weren't very exciting in this chapter. I promise things will pick up in the next few chapters. Please tell me if anyone seemed out of character. Comment if you like the story.
