AN: My muse is still in high gear! So here ya'll go! Oh and someone asked me how Sabé found them so easily. She had received word via Bail Organa who first had to contact Yoda to see if it was alright. That's why it took so long for her to find them. So enjoy and review!
Chapter Seven:
All Anakin knew was that something heavy had just landed on his chest and woken him up from his sleep. He slowly opened his eyes and found that he was starring back into a pair of similar deep blue eyes like his.
"Hi Daddy!" Galen said with a smile on her face. She was lying across his chest.
"Galen do you know what time it is?" he asked, still noticing that it was dark outside.
"4:30 in the morning."
"Are you sure?" he asked his five-year-old daughter. She nodded yes.
"I had Wulfie set my chrono to wake me up then."
"Why?"
"I didn't want you and Wulfie to leave without me."
That was when Anakin remembered. Today he and Wulfie were making a supply run and he had promised Galen that when she was five that she could go with them. And she had turned five last week.
Next to him, Padmé began to stir. He didn't want her to be woken up. As he began to sit up, Galen scrambled off of his lap and stood next to the bed.
"Come on let's go get breakfast since there is no point in going back to bed now," he said stannic up and taking her hand as they quietly left the room.
"Where are we going today daddy?" she asked as she climbed into a chair in the kitchen. She reached for a piece of Natca fruit that was in a bowl in front of her. She took a bite from it as she watched her father make them some hot oats for breakfast.
"Alderaan." Anakin said with a smile on his face. This would be the first time in about ten years since he had seen Leia. The last time he had seen here was when he and Padmé had gone to Alderaan to meet with Bail about setting up Ronoco Shipping Company. And for days afterwards, Padmé had cried about the twins. This she wasn't going to go. It was just too hard for her.
"Do they have a King? I've always wanted to meet a King or Queen like the Queen in your stories daddy."
"They have a Queen, Prince Consort and a Princess." Anakin said as he set the hot oats in front of Galen.
"Really!"
Anakin smiled and nodded as he sat down next to her.
"Do I get to meet them?" she asked with her mouth full.
"Shallow your food first, then ask me again." Anakin said reprimanding her.
Galen finished her bite then asked her question again.
"Maybe," Anakin said. "Now hurry up and finish eating, then go get ready."
Galen sat in the seat behind the Captain's seat, bouncing happily. They had just dropped out of hyperspace near Alderaan.
She had been to other planets before, but they were never far from Kit'os. This was the longest that she had ever traveled away from home.
Her mouth dropped in awe as the light blue sphere came into view and then as the Desert Star descended into the atmosphere, Galen squealed in delight. Alderaan was so beautiful!
When they had landed in Aldera, the capital city, Anakin told Galen to make sure that she never left his or Wulfie's side.
"Ok daddy," she said as they disembarked the ship.
Two Alderaanian officials greeted them, and then had some workers unload the cargo from the Desert Star.
"Captain Ronoco, Senator Organa would like to meet with you briefly before you leave," one of the officials said to him. "Your copilot and daughter are welcomed to join you."
"Lead the way please," Anakin said as he took Galen's hand.
The official led the trio through that palace and up to a set of large doors. Galen couldn't believe it! She was going to meet someone important! Her daddy knew someone important that lived in the Royal Palace.
The doors opened and when the trio entered Bail's office, Anakin just about gasped out loud. Sitting in a chair across from Bail was Leia. Anakin couldn't help but smile at how beautiful she now looked. She looked so much like Padmé the first time that they had meet when she was Queen of Naboo.
"Ahh, Captain Ronoco!" Bail said standing up and walking towards Anakin.
"Senator Organa," he said bowing slightly before he and Bail embraced in a friendly hug. Then Bail went on to greet Wulfie.
"And who is this?" he asked kneeling down next to Galen.
"This is Galen, mine and Amy's daughter." Anakin said.
Galen tried to hide behind her father's legs. She hadn't met too many other people before. And no matter how excited she got, she was also really shy.
"Hi Galen. My name is Bail and that is my daughter Leia. She's fifteen. How old are you?"
Galen held up five fingers.
"Wow! You're getting so old!" he said with a smile on his face.
Galen smiled back.
"Leia, why don't you take Galen down to the garden, while I talk to her father and Wulfie." Bail said standing back up and looking at Leia.
"Yes father." Leia said standing up and walking over to Galen. She held her hand out to the little girl.
Not knowing what to do at first, Galen looked up at her dad.
"Go on Galen. We won't be long."
"Ok daddy," Galen said as she took Leia's hand and they walked out of the room together. Anakin watched them with pain in his heart. His daughters were together and they didn't even know it.
"She looks so much like her mother," Bail said once Leia and Galen had left.
"That she does." Anakin said still in somewhat of a daze. "But what did you need to speak to me about?"
"Oh yes." Bail said opening a drawer on his desk. He took out a holocube and placed it in front of Anakin. "This is from Obi-Wan. I haven't looked at it, but I believe that it has holos of Luke on it."
Anakin picked up the cube and placed it in his pocket. "Thank you."
"My pleasure. I just hope that Palpatine is defeated soon, so that you and Padmé can be reunited with Luke and Leia."
"Me too. Galen deserves to know her true heritage. But all she knows of the Jedi are the things I tell her in stories that she thinks are fairy tales."
Bail laughed slightly. "She seems so much like Padmé as well."
Anakin nodded. "She can be a handful at times. But she's such a innocent little girl."
"Can she touch the Force?"
"No."
"That's odd." Bail said.
"Yeah it is."
"I got to meet a Senator! And a princess! And I got to walk in the Royal Palace mommy! It was so much fun!" Galen said happily as she told her mother everything that she did on Alderaan.
"Sounds like it." Padmé said smiling at her daughter. She couldn't believe that Galen and Leia had met. "But it is way past your bedtime young lady. So off to bed you go."
Galen hugged and kissed her parents goodnight then ran off to her room. Once they heard her bedroom door shut, Anakin took out the holocube that Bail had given him.
"What's that?" Padmé asked.
"Its from Obi-Wan." Anakin said switching it on.
Pictures of Luke sprang to life. Neither of them could believe it. They had never seen pictures of Luke before. He looked so much like Anakin to Padmé. She softly began to cry.
Anakin pulled her close and let her cry in his arms. "Soon Padmé, we'll be reunited with them. I just know it," he softly said.
She nodded yes and continued to cry.
Galen slowly and quietly made her way back to her bedroom. She didn't mean to see it but she did. Who was that boy in the holos that made her mommy cry? And why was her daddy calling her mommy Padmé when her name was Amy? And who did they need to be reunited with? She was really confused.
