Chapter 3
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Vader could not understand the princess's reasons for trusting him but at the moment he could not give enough concentration to the mystery. He could hardly breathe, with his adrenaline and heart pumping the respirator couldn't keep up. His son's life force is draining so fast that it seems as if he is on the edge of death. "Oh God no I've just found my son and now I'm going to lose him." "Padme, please give me the strength to keep him safe, to save him." He was attacking rebels left and right even while this internal struggle was continuing.
He finally got into the area where Luke's like force was pulsating the strongest. When he entered the room his heart would have stopped if not for the machines he was connected to. His son was strapped on a table, bloodied, bruised and burned. His leg was bent at a precarious angle and his breathing was so slow that without his heightened senses he would have thought him dead.
He bent over Luke and tried to heal him enough for transfer to his ship. Luke's eyes suddenly opened and within a few seconds they were filled with fear, the cornered animal type of fear. Vader could feel his son's anger and it was centering towards the cabinet on the left side of the room. The restraints holding down Luke shattered into pieces and the doors on the cabinet opened and fell off their hinges. A metal cylinder was summoned into Luke's hand and he started attacking Vader.
Vader slowly backed away and tried to sedate Luke. "Luke, your anger needs to be directed at the rebels that did this to you, turn you weapon toward them and make them pay." Yet Luke still came closer with the same look of pain that he had when Ben died. "Luke" Vader continued "come with me rejoin the family that the Rebels have destroyed." At the word family Luke seemed to snap out of his anger. "Father, Help me theirs something controlling me, I don't want to hurt you." At this Luke again passed out falling into a fitful world of pain.
Vader ran out of the compound with his son in his arms. About half way to his ship Leia and Solo came into his path. "Let us come with you" began Leia "We love Luke and the Rebels betrayed us." Vader read his son's emotions as he had been doing periodically and found that Luke's emotions had leveled out while with his friends. "Fine, but if you make any mistakes I will forget all you've done for me and kill you" Threatened Vader.
They continued on their way toward the ship Leia and Han keeping a safe distance away from the two Skywalkers. They entered the ship and right as Vader felt a disturbance in the force he was knocked out.
As he slowly regained consciousness he overheard the Emperor talking to himself. "If Vader betrays his duties to me for his son then he is the enemy, end all my enemies must die."