AN: Sorry that this has taken soooooooooo long to get up. But school is done for the summer – all I have to do is workout, write for the school paper starting in June and work. Oh wait and visit my boyfriend from time to time…..so enjoy!

Chapter 18:

No one said anything for a long time.

There were many questions still to be asked, but no one knew how to go about asking them.

Galen yawned and snuggled closer to her daddy. Anakin smiled gently at her. At least one of his children held no ill will towards him.

As for the other two, that had yet to be determined.

Han felt it best that he and Chewie leave the room for a while.

"I'll put her to bed," Han said as he picked Galen up and carried her off to the room that she and Leia shared. Chewie followed behind him.

Wulfie and Leitz had been smart and hadn't made an appearance at all that day. They knew ahead of time that Anakin was going to tell Luke and Leia everything. And when Han realized this, he and Chewie tried and tried to find a way to leave, and with Galen falling asleep was the best way out.

After Han, Chewie and Galen were out of sight and ear shot, Anakin wearily again, tried to explain what happened in the past to his two oldest children.

"….so you see Master Yoda and Obi-Wan thought it best that we all be separated until the time was right to be reunited as a family."

"And you think that time is now?" Luke asked snapping somewhat.

"Who knows? The Force works in mysterious ways." Anakin calmly said.

"Well I don't believe that!" Luke said standing up and storming out of the room.

Anakin and Leia both sat there in shock.

Leia had never seen Luke do anything like that before. Usually he was so calm and collected.

And Anakin realized that his son was just like him - - sometimes he had a short temper. He sighed as he ran his hands through his hair.

"I understand that you had to do what you had to do father." Leia softly said moving next to Anakin.

He looked up at Leia and smiled slightly as he pulled her into a hug. "Thank you," was all that he said.

Galen tiredly rubbed the sleep from her eyes. She was tired but couldn't sleep. So maybe Artoo would be in the common room and he could show her some pretty pictures to help her fall back asleep.

Instead, she found Luke sitting in the middle of the room, still wide-awake.

"Why aren't you in bed?" he asked.

"I can't sleep. I wanted Artoo to show me some pretty pictures," she said sitting down next to him. "But why can't you sleep?"

"I have a lot on my mind," Luke said as he moved Galen up onto his lap.

"Is it about mommy and daddy?"

Luke nodded.

"You know that mommy and daddy had pictures of you when you were younger."

Luke looked at Galen funny for a second. "What do you mean?" he asked.

Galen took a small data cube out from underneath her nightclothes. "I these are pictures of you when you were younger," Galen said putting the cube in Luke's hand. "I stole it right before Wulfie and I had to leave mommy and daddy. I wanted Artoo to show me the pictures again."

Luke did nothing but stare at the data cube. Did his parents really have pictures of him when he was younger and actually knew how he was doing?

Luke stood up with Galen in his arms and set her down in a chair. Then he walked over to Artoo and slipped the data cube into him.

Pictures sprang to life in front of them and all of them were of Luke!

"See I told you so," Galen said yawning as she curled up into a little ball and fell back asleep.

The rest of the night Luke watched the pictures over and over again.

"So how do we go about rescuing mother?"

Anakin, Leia and Galen turned to look at Luke as he walked into the room.

Galen and Leia couldn't help but smile and Anakin was shocked.

What had happened during the night that brought this change in Luke?

Well none of that mattered.

All that now mattered was saving Padmé.

But something needed to be done first.

"We need to go to Dagobah first. Well Luke and I do," Anakin said. He turned to look at Leia and Galen. "I want you and Galen to rejoin the fleet, Leia. You will both be safe there. Have Han take you there."

"No daddy! I want to go with you!" Galen said starting to cry.

"I know sweetie," Anakin said hugging her. "But this is for the best now. You do want mommy rescued?"

Galen nodded yes.

"Then this is what we need to do."

Galen nodded yes again. Even though she had a very bad feeling that something was going to happen.