AN: Enjoy!
Chapter 19:
The plan had been set.
Luke and Anakin would head to Dagobah to hopefully find a wise Jedi master there. Then would head to Tatooine to rescue Padmé. Wulfie and Leitz would travel with them.
While they were doing that, Leia and Galen, along with Han and Chewie were to return to the fleet and wait there.
Yet, even though Galen had agreed to going with Leia and Han, she had a sudden change of heart right before everyone was going to leave Polis Massa.
"NO DADDY!" she screamed. "I WON'T GO!"
Anakin sighed. He figured that Galen was going to be like this. Especially since she had tried to talk to him earlier, but he and Leitz were working on the Desert Star, so he just told her to tell him later.
"But you have to," he calmly said, using all his Jedi skills to keep himself from simply picking her up and carrying her onto the Falcon, with her screaming the entire time. He had no time for this.
Galen sat there and starred at her father. Anakin knew that face too well. She was planning to do something mischievous.
"You know that Luke and I are going to rescue mommy," he said pulling Galen close to him.
She just shook her head no.
Anakin sighed again. He had no idea what he was going to do.
"Mommy's safe," she softly said. "That's what I've been trying to tell you."
The tone of her voice sounded uncertain. That caught Anakin's attention. But he wasn't going to be able to ask her what she meant.
"Dad!" Leia said bursting into the room. "We've got to return to the fleet now!"
"Of course you do," Anakin said standing up.
"No," Leia said. "All of us. Mon Mothma wants all of us there."
Anakin still didn't know why he was doing this. He didn't have time to rejoin the rebel fleet for who knows how long. But then again, something odd was lingering in the Force. Something was hidden from him.
As the Desert Star, Luke's X-wing, and the Falcon landed in the hanger bay of the flagship of the rebel fleet, Galen began to get antsy.
Anakin just thought that she wanted to see Leia again, who was on the Falcon.
But he was wrong.
As the gangplank was lowered, Galen ran down it as fast as she could and took off towards two older women who stood on the other side of the busy hanger bay.
He quickly ran after her.
A smile slowly spread across Mon Mothma's face as she motioned for the other woman to turn around.
"Mommy!" Galen cried out.
Padmé knelt down and took the full force of her little girl running into her arms. Padmé wrapped her arms tightly around Galen and held her close to her. She was never going to let her daughter go.
"I missed you mommy," Galen sniffled as warm tears slowly trickled down her cheeks.
"I missed you too," Padmé gently said beginning to softly cry as well. The tears fell into Galen's hair.
Anakin couldn't believe it.
He couldn't believe what he was seeing. His angel was alive and she was safe.
But how?
Padmé's eyes locked on his. She stood up from her hug with Galen and made her ways towards Anakin. And smile spread across both of their lips as they embraced and shared a soft kiss.
"How?" he softly asked. "How did you end up here?"
Before Padmé could get a word in edge wise, a tapping of a cane against the ground behind him as well as the clearing of a throat caught his attention.
"Mediation you need," a familiar voice said from behind Anakin.
Anakin turned around in shock. Master Yoda was standing behind him.
"What do you mean Master?" Anakin softly said.
By then, everyone else had joined them.
"Daughter knew everything," Yoda said. "Try to tell you she did. Listen you would not."
Then Anakin knew it. Galen was in deed beginning to tune into the Force.
Yoda took notice of the change in Anakin's face, turned, and walked away, as did Mon Mothma.
"Later we talk," Yoda said. "Family time now."
Immediately Padmé moved to Luke and Leia and pulled each of them into a hug. Galen too joined in on the hug.
Now Padmé was complete.
Anakin stood off to the side watching everything unfold. His family was finally reunited. It was the one thing that he had always wanted.
He turned his head and noticed that Han, Chewie, Wulfie and Leitz had all headed back towards the ships. Threepio and Artoo stood by though.
"Oh Master Anakin, it is time for Miss Galen's medicine," Threepio said in his nanny tone of voice. Anakin had told him to make sure that Galen always took her medicine.
"What medicine?" Padmé asked breaking up the hug. She starred at her husband, waiting for an answer.
"I promise it will all be alright," Anakin said, pulling at a tiny package from his utility belt. He opened it and took out a tiny pill then motioned for Galen to come over to him.
Padmé watched as Galen walked over to Anakin and took a tiny pill from him, put it in her mouth and swallow it down.
"Anakin Skywalker tell me right now what is wrong with my daughter!" Padmé demanded.
