AN: So Darth Vader makes his first appearance in this chapter. Not a big appearance but he's on the chase now. It took me forever to find a planet that was already in GL's universe. I didn't want to make one up. Do you know how many worlds there are? It really is another universe. And hundreds of them didn't have real descriptions. Affavan was one of them and so it gave me some leeway to do what I wanted.

Anyway, I've got to do a lot of typing because I start school Monday. I'm taking five classes… well two of them go together so it's technically four but whatever. But I'm going to be typing thousands of words over the weekend.

This chapter is two parts. This is just the first one. Read, Enjoy, and Review.

Chapter Four

Affavan Part I

Darth Vader couldn't believe it when he was given a report about two criminal children. Children! Here he was trying to bring order to a galaxy, find the leaders of this new rebellion and forget that this was the week his wife had died pregnant and someone gave him a report on two children making trouble.

"So tell me," he asked the officer in front of him. "How difficult could it really be to capture two children who happened to kill an Imperial officer because they were being rebellious?"

"Well sir," the officer said nervously intimidated by the dark lord. His mechanical breathing didn't help. "They are very gifted children…"

"Gifted?" Darth Vader asked suddenly curious. Could the children be force sensitive?

"Yes sir," the officer said handing him a datapad with the recording of the happenings on Naboo. Darth Vader played it and watched at the two young teenagers, a boy and a girl. The girl was on the stage next to Senator Pooja and the boy was in the crowd. The two seemed to meet eyes just before they both shouted a warning as a man took out a blaster. Darth Vader sighed. If this was what they wanted to show him, he was going to throttle this officer and his superior for wasting his time. Just because the children got lucky and saw the gun didn't prove anything.

Darth Vader started to dismiss it, but then he said the girl deflect blaster bolts and the blaster fly into the boy's hand. The camera lost sight of them for a moment and then the view shifted to flying behind a speeder with the boy and the girl in it. Darth Vader almost thought the holo was tampered with. There was no way the boy could be flying that fast without losing control. Then he saw the girl turn around and cock a blaster and hit the three speeders immediately behind them, before throwing it into her seat and turning back around. Darth Vader was alarmed at how fast the boy sped up then. If it weren't for the force, it all would have been a big blur for him. He was positive the boy was going to crash before he made a sharp turn at the last possible second and the video abruptly ended.

"Were they apprehended?" he said curious about the two children. They could be a major threat to the empire with that kind of ability while untrained… Or, they could valuable allies.

"No, they got of planet."

"On a stolen ship?" Vader asked even more impressed now. They could navigate a ship too?

"Not just any ship milord. The Naboo found it to be a great disrespect. They took a ship that was laid to rest in honor of Senator Amidala," he said.

Vader felt his temper rage. Any thoughts of making these children allies left his mind. How dare those children? First they disturbed the celebration held in his wife's honor and then they steal her ship.

"Tell the commander to set the ship course for Naboo. We'll be doing a full scale investigation there. Contact the queen and tell her to gather everyone who made contact with these children so they can be questioned. We must find them. They are a threat to the security of the empire."

"Yes sir," the officer said and ran off.

Vader looked at the holovid again. As second in command and leader of the Imperial Army, it was his duty to find and eradicate all force sensitive beings. and he could use that as an excuse to go after the children for dishonoring the memory of his dead wife. He got a sense of satisfaction as he observed the power and skill of the children once more. They seemed more resourceful and a lot smarter than any of the jedi he had killed in the last thirteen years. Also, since they were teenagers, their pattern would prove hard to track if he assumed they were as impulsive and random as he was. He smirked despite the pain it caused his scarred tissue. It may well prove to be an interesting challenge.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Are you sure you're ready to do this?" Luke asked Leia holding the bottle over her head.

"Yeah," Leia said nodded her head and then stopping Luke's hand with her own. "You did read the instructions?"

"Yeah," Luke said holding a lock of her hair.

"And my hair isn't going to fall out or anything right?"

"Positive."

"And it's not permanent? It'll wash out with a dye remover?"

"Leia," Luke said rolling his eyes.

"Okay," Leia said closing her eyes. "Do it."

Luke held back a laugh as he followed the directions and began sectioning off Leia's hair to dye it. She insisted it look natural and so Luke decided that he would use the hair dye that would essentially turn her hair back to the shade it had been when he first met her. The police were looking for a girl with a lighter brown hair and blonde streaks and a boy with blonde hair. Luke had already trusted Leia to dye his hair the same shade. He had no clue why she didn't trust him to do hers.

He was suddenly grateful he had accidently grabbed some dye along with the shampoo from the palace. No doubt the whole galaxy was on the lookout for them now. So they decided to dye their hair instead.

As Luke massaged the dye through Leia's hair, he couldn't help but think how incredibly lucky they were to get the ship they did. It had cabins, could seat six passenger and was fully equipped with a medical bay along with a small kitchen. The ship also had the rare capability to gather moisture from the atmosphere it was in to provide the ship with running water, similar to the vaporators on the moisture farm. There had to be some higher entity that was working for them.

"Leia," Luke said when he was done with her hair. Now she really looked like Senator Amidala. Leia had to be related to the woman somewhere down the line.

"Hm?" she said as she dried her long locks.

"I was thinking about what we did back on Naboo and Tatooine," he said quietly.

Leia raised her eyes to meet his and sighed. "Is that taking a life thing still bothering you?"

"No," Luke defended a little too quickly and Leia raised her eyebrows. "Yes… But that's not what this is about. I'm talking about… Our powers."

Leia froze and then nodded. "Oh. That."

"I wonder what they are," Luke said. "It only seems to work when we're in trouble. I wonder if we could learn to control it."

Leia shrugged. She wasn't sure. "Maybe we could do some research on it when we get to the next planet. Hey, did you ever ask Artoo what he meant about serving your father?" she asked. That was something else she and Luke had in common. Neither knew who their parents were, but if this droid knew Luke's father, at least he could have peace with knowing who one of his parents were.

"I forgot to ask," Luke replied as he passed Leia a bottle of water. "He keeps talking about some guy named Anakin Skywalker."

Leia dropped the bottle of water but Luke caught it before it hit the ground.

"Anakin Skywalker?" she asked.

"You've heard of him?" Luke asked curiously.

Leia shook her head. "Not until a few hours ago on Naboo. I was with Pooja. There was a man in a picture with Padmé Amidala and he looked just like you Luke. His name was Anakin Skywalker. He was a jedi she said. I've heard of the jedi before. They're like legend now. They could do some of the things we can, except much better."

"What are you saying?" Luke asked a little skeptical.

"I'm saying, maybe he really was your father," Leia said.

"I doubt it," Luke replied shortly.

"Why are you being so stubborn? It makes perfect sense. You could at least consider it. Even the Artoo unit knows something. At least don't dimiss it so quickly."

"Just like you completely dismissed the fact that Padmé Amidala looks just like you?" Luke pointed out.

Leia felt her cheeks heat up. Luke could be so frustratingly stubborn sometimes. Then she felt it, his amusement. He was doing this on purpose to make her feel how he felt when she acted the same way.

"You're a horrible person Luke," she said although she was trying to keep from smiling, what she was about to tell him before forgotten.

Luke laughed despite Leia's glare. He started towards the cockpit and Leia sat in one of the passenger seats. They were silent for a moment before Luke said, "Hey Leia I was thinking, if we're going to be on the run you're going to need a full name."

"Actually, we're going to need fakes names," Leia corrected.

"Still," Luke said. "I was thinking, since you don't know you last name we could really become brother and sister."

Leia tilted her head. "What do you mean?"

"I'm saying you can take on my name. Your name will be Leia Skywalker," Luke said snapping his fingers.

Leia rolled her eyes. "First you give me your birthday and now you're giving me a last name. Someone would think we want to be married or something."

Luke's face heated up in embarrassment and Leia smirked. Luke acted like he was seven more than he acted like he was thirteen. It was an innocent joke. If he couldn't take that, he'd die of embarrassment when they got to the next planet. The slave girls she knew were just awful about that kind of stuff and they used no tact.

"You know it's not like that," Luke replied. "I'm just saying why not let that be our cover. The public is bound to think we're related, so we'll be orphan twins, Luke and Leia Skywalker."

"Why can't we just make up a last name for me?" Leia asked although somewhere inside her Leia Skywalker resonated with her.

"Because," Luke started not really knowing why himself except it just came to him, "It just sounds right."

Leia decided not to fight it. She was stubborn, but Luke was beyond stubborn when he set his mind to something. The birthday thing was proof of that…

"While we're on the subject of names," Leia added. "I was thinking about what we could name the ship."

Luke raised his eyebrow. "You have something in mind."

"Well, since we dishonored Padmé Amidala by taking her ship in the first place, I think we should name it after her."

"The Padmé Amidala? What kind of ship name is that? Can we drop her first name? How about just Amidala?"

"No. Amidala could be anyone. There's bound to be many more people on Naboo with that name. I want to be specifically talking about her," Leia determined.

Luke leaned back in his seat. Why Leia was so determined on naming the ship after a woman they hadn't heard of until two days ago, he didn't know. It was just as perplexing as this ship calling to him in the first place.

"There was only one Queen Amidala if that helps… or at least as far as I know," he suggested and felt Leia's approval and happiness.

"That's it. The Queen Amidala. That's what we'll name it, officially anyway," Leia replied. "We'll have to paint it of course. The first thing the Empire will look for is the color of the ship. We can paint it red."

"A red ship Leia? Really?" Luke asked her in disbelief. "How about blue or better yet, black? We're not trying to attract attention. A red Naboo star skiff just screams look over here."

"Whatever, we'll decide on it later. I'm tired. I'm taking a nap," Leia decided and Luke agreed with her. He told Artoo to watch the ship and found one of the cabins.

A few hours later, and a much more smooth landing than they had on Naboo found Luke and Leia, along with Artoo and Threepio on an outer rim territory planet in Hutt space. It was a dark polluted planet with a few forest and polluted water supply. Luke had turned off the vaporator on the ship for this reason. He doubted he and Leia would want to drink anything out of that air even with the built in filters.

"What is this planet?" Luke asked as they stepped out the ship.

"Hutt space. Affavan." Leia replied. "I was sent here once… only for a little while though. I wasn't really owned at the time. I was just kind of living with a trader in his house until someone could buy me. The older girls he owned took care of me."

"Owned?" Luke asked.

"A brothel," Leia replied. "I was only four or five. I don't think he had the patience to take care of me until I was old enough to be of use. He was a real bastard, but those girls… I'll always be grateful to them for having my back. I owe them something. I heard it's being torn up by civil war."

Luke looked at Leia in disbelief. "You mean you want to stop a civil war?"

"No!" Leia said alarmed. "Nothing like that. But I remembered that city that was in the middle of the war. I just want to make sure they're all right and just think. No one will think to look for us out here."

Luke tossed that around in his head. Leia was right. If someone was looking for them, the last place they'd expect them to go was here. They hadn't landed very far from the main city. Perhaps they could stock up some kind of supplies. The ship probably needed fuel and they needed paint. He had no idea how they were going to get their hands on that kind of money though.

As they walked the grassland to the next city Luke saw a few homes that made his homestead on Tatooine look like a palace. Since Threepio was a coward and they needed someone to watch the ship, the two left the protocol droid and then decided to leave Artoo for good measure.

"So it's a slave planet?" Luke asked to be sure.

"I guess you could say that. The Hutts got tired of it and left it for their slaves to populate although they still run it. It more of a stop for smugglers and space pirates," she replied.

"In other words," Luke said dryly. "The scum of the galaxy."

Leia nodded and when they got to the outskirts of the city, Luke suddenly had a vivid picture of the harsh life Leia had been through. Women were on the streets prostituting themselves. Violence was abound. If Luke thought that was bad, when they were actually in the city, it was worse. The streets were alive with all kind of vile activity on the planet that seemed to have a perpetual darkness. It wasn't that late, Luke was sure.

Leia pulled Luke closer to her and put a hand on her blaster. Luke was dangerously naïve sometimes being that he was raised on a farm.

"Stay close," she muttered. "Be alert. This is a dangerous place for two teenagers…"

Luke looked around. "I thought you said this place was going through civil war."

No sooner than he had said it, a loud explosion rang in the city and people began to scream. Luke's senses went off and in the distance he saw Imperial tanks barreling into the city. Another explosion sounded and he and Leia simultaneously ducked between the crevices of two buildings.

"You just had to say something!" Leia snapped.

Luke sighed and looked around the corner and then abruptly pulled back as a series of blaster shots rang and then more powerful ones in retaliation.

"What's going on?" Leia shouted over the fire.

"Civil war," Luke said pointing out the obvious. "Come on. We have to get from in the middle of this."

"How?" Leia asked covering her ears as more blaster fire rang.

Luke looked around and then looked at the roofs of the buildings. It was pretty high, but if he lifted Leia up, she may be able to get away.

Luke instead bent down and gestured for Leia to climb on his shoulders.

"What are you doing?" Leia asked as smoke began to fill the area from the fight.

"I'm getting you out of here," Luke replied. "Get on my shoulders. You can hide on the roof!"

"What about you?"

Luke sighed. "Don't worry about me. Remember how I said we could really be siblings on the ship if you wanted? Well, if that's going to be the case, you're just going to have to trust your older brother for once."

Leia started towards him and then stopped. "Wait. How do we know I'm not older?"

Luke made an exasperated sound. "Leia!"

"Alright," she said climbing up on his shoulder to reach the top of the building. She was short by a few feet.

"I can't reach it," she yelled down as she started to cough from the smoke.

"You have to," Luke replied and grabbed her ankles as he closed his eyes. He felt something. He didn't know what, but it was trying to help. Normally he would have question it, but now wasn't the time. "Leia, do you feel that?"

"Yeah," Leia said knowing what he was talking about. There was that feeling again that she had on Naboo, but stronger. "What is it?"

"Let's find out," Luke replied. "Let's just trust it."

Leia nodded skeptically by nodded. "Okay. Okay," she said again quite terrified.

Luke paused for a moment and braced himself and then tossed Leia up by her ankles. She seemed lighter all of a sudden, so it didn't seem so hard. Leia felt whatever force it was propel her upwards, higher than she even expected and she manage to land on the edge of the roof. It knocked some of the wind out of her but she was okay. She climbed over the edge and turned to look back down at Luke.

"What about you?" she yelled.

"It's okay," Luke said coughing from the debris that had risen over the city. "Stay hidden on the roof. Find your friends. I'll catch up with you."

Luke ran back out into the crossfire to find somewhere safe for him to go. Leia sat on the roof. She didn't know how long she waited, but finally, the violence was over and she sat up to look at the now ruined street. The Empire had won the battle and were now taking prisoners. Leia carefully peeked over the edge of the building and gasped. They had Luke.

"Come on kid. Get a move on," the Imperial officer said.

"Where are you taking me?" Luke demanded.

"Doesn't matter kid. Get a move on. Just know you'll be doing a great service to the empire," he said and Luke glared.

"I don't want to go," Luke said defiantly. From the roof Leia shook her head.

"Just do it Luke," she muttered. "It'll be easier that way."

"I'm warning you kid," the officer said and Luke started to disobey. He stopped as he heard Leia's voice in his head.

Just do it Luke. It'll be easier that way.

Luke almost looked at the building where Leia was hidden, but stopped himself. He turned to the officer and scowled.

"Fine," he muttered.

The Imperial officer sneered and Luke got in the line of people that were being escorted by Imperial storm troopers. When they were all in line, they were urged to walk. Walk where? Luke wasn't sure. He just followed the line. When they to their destination, Luke peaked around the person he was behind and gasped.

It was an Imperial outpost situated outside a mining facility. The Imperials were taking them to become slaves. Luke scowled. Maybe this was where some of Leia's friends were. They pushed him along until they were at the entrance to the mine where another man, a trader maybe or someone who helped run the mine, was. The officer gave him some orders in another language and left.

"Does everyone here speak basic!" he asked in a gruff tone that reminded Luke of his uncle.

Everyone around him nodded and Luke took in his surroundings carefully as they led him inside. They went through a series of complicated tunnels and then they were led to old style detention cells, ones with her bars, but a security lock. Perfect, Luke thought to himself. He really wished he was as proficient in opening locks as Leia was right about now. The man pushed them into their cells and place tag bracelets on them as they went in, transmitters Luke bet.

When the door closed, Luke looked around the small cell looking for anyone who might be able to tell him what was happening. His eye found a Twi'lek woman in a revealing outfit sitting casually with her head against the wall. She looked bored, almost like sitting here in a cell was the norm. He sat near her, careful not to make it obvious that he wanted to talk to her, but she noticed.

"You enjoying the show honey?" she asked and it took Luke a moment to figure out what she meant. When he finally did figure it out, he blushed scarlet.

"No," he stuttered. "I mean… I wasn't looking at… you know."

The woman laughed and sat up straighter.

"You're a cute little thing. I bet you'll be quite the looker when you're all grown up. I might have to hide somewhere and come back and get you in a few years," she teased.

Luke blushed more if it was possible and turned his head. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea…

"Oh come on cutie," she said and sat closer to him. She squeezed his thigh making Luke feel a little uncomfortable. "I'm just teasing. What is it? Lonely? Need a hug? Some warmth?"

"No thanks," Luke said nervously. "I just wanted to know where I was."

"I'm going to say this easy darling, and you may not like it," the woman began. "You're a slave to the empire now."

"The Empire?" he asked.

"Yeah," she said playfully. "You know the big guy in the black suit and the ugly emperor? Those guys."

"What are they doing?" Luke asked in hushed tones.

"I don't know. They're mining something, for this huge Imperial project. It would cost a fortune to pay people to do this kind of work, so they made a deal with the Hutts who run the planet. They declared the whole planet enslaved to them."

"I thought slavery was illegal in the empire."

The Twi'lek laughed. "Yeah it is, but these guys have a job to do and the emperor won't take the excuse that they didn't have enough men for a job well. So they came up with some ruse that there was civil war and that they were going to establish order when actually, they brought the war and enslaved our planet. Not to say that it was all peachy with the hutts, but we weren't dying in these mines."

"So what's going to happen to us?"

"They'll brand us and put us to work in the mines like they did the rest of my friends. They didn't expect us to fight back. The rebellion's put them behind schedule whatever it is they're doing."

Luke set his jaw in defiance and looked around.

"Well I'm not going to be branded for anything. I'm getting out of here."

"And how are you going to do that?" the Twi'lek asked.

"A friend of mine is coming to get me," Luke replied confidently.

"I doubt it baby," she said. "You might as get used to this. But don't worry. I got your back."

Luke looked at her and decided Leia was right. He needed to get out more. "No, you don't worry. I won't be here long. Leia will come to get me."

"I don't know where you're from cutie, but there is no such thing as escaping from the empire around here."

Luke looked at her with a small smile. "Then I guess you wouldn't believe we've just recently escaped from them."

The woman looked at him curiously and then scooted closer to him, if that were possible. "Alright then cutie. If what you say is true, I'm not letting you out of my sight. When you get out, I'm going with you and then I'm going to hold you captive. You're going to be so handsome in a few years and you're so polite. Never been with anyone as nice as you."

Luke figured by the time he got out of there, he was going to be a permanent shade of red. Silently he prayed that Leia came to get him as fast as she could before looking at the Twi'lek again. Whenever she got there, it wouldn't be soon enough.

xxxxxxxxxxxxx

I really enjoy writing Leia in this because I have to keep her personality intact while taking into account the things she's been through; Luke too, but his little changes don't come until later in the story which is why Leia's changes are so apparent early on in the story. Alright, next chapter Monday. Hope you enjoyed. Review please!