A/N: I know that I said that this would be the epilogue, but I suddenly had inspiration to continue the story with another chapter or two. I hope that you enjoy the story.

Luke and Leia Skywalker had taken it upon themselves to keep a close eye on their father. Both twins sensed that he was up to something. His moods changed drastically from the lost jedi that they had first experienced as their father to the sullen and aggressive man that took over after he had woken up from the coma to that of a man with a purpose and a noticeable spring to his step. Something was up. They didn't trust his jovial mood. They had first became suspicious when they heard him whistling an unfamiliar tune. Obi-Wan had also noted the change but the old jedi only smiled triumphantly. Luke and Leia didn't consult him about their suspicions. They needed more proof. So the twins had started following their father, making sure to keep a distance. They saw him in flower shops ordering bouquets of exotic blooms to be delivered. They caught him in jewelry shops buying jewelry as well as other numerous places spending Vader's money like crazy but obviously none for himself. They've often followed him to restaurants to catch him having dinner in secluded booths with a woman that neither twin could make out due to their inability to get very close. Both twins could only draw one conclusion. Their father had found another woman to replace their mother. Neither twin wanted to inform their mother about this, for fear that it would break her heart all over again. But they knew that if they wanted to get their parents back together that they had to split their father up from this new woman. And who better to do the job than their own mother.

And so it was with heavy hearts and a determined purpose that they entered their mother's apartment to find her getting ready to go out. By now she had dyed her hair back to it's original color and it was beginning to get longer. Both twins froze when they saw her. She looked stunning. She was getting ready for a date. Cold dread filled both twins. Finally it was Leia who spoke up first.

"Mom? Where are you going?" she asked.

Padme smiled in the mirror looking at her children's reflections. "The opera house is reopening tonight and A Warrior's Heart is playing. I haven't been to an opera in so long and tonights show has always been my favorite," she told them.

"Who are you going with?" Luke asked.

"Just some old friends that I haven't seen in a long time. I'm eager to catch up with them," Padme told them.

Luke and Leia looked at each other. "Have you seen Dad lately?" Leia asked.

Padme frowned. "Why do you ask?" she asked.

"No reason," Leia lied.

"He seems different," Luke told her bluntly.

Padme turned to look at them. "Different how?" she asked.

"He's... chirpy," Leia answered.

"It's unsettling," Luke told her.

Padme frowned. "Your father wasn't always moody. What would be unsettling would be if he stayed moody," she told them turning back to face the mirror. "Look, the opera starts in an hour so if the two of you don't mind, I'd like to finish getting ready," she told them.

Both twins knew that now wasn't the time to drop the inevitable bomb. They wanted their mother to enjoy her night and she wouldn't be able to do that if she was constantly thinking about their father with another woman. So they said nothing and left their mother in piece. They each raced to the temple in time to see their father exiting dressed for a night out and knew that they had to break up whatever romance he was having. So they followed him growing alarmed all of a sudden when he landed in the opera house's parking lot.

"We need to spoil this now!" Luke yelled parking the speeder a fair distance away from where their father parked and stealthily followed him up the steps to the grand opera house before two ushers closed the doors on their faces.

"Do you have a ticket?" one of the ushers asked.

Luke and Leia shook their heads.

"No ticket, no entrance," the other usher told them.

Both twins looked at each other before seeing through the grand glass doors their father meeting a cloaked figure before gently taking the cloak off. But neither twin could see who the woman was due to the ushers standing in their way.

"We have to get in there," Leia whispered urgently.

Luke nodded. "I'll think of something," he assured her.

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"I feel guilty about keeping this from them," Padme said as she walked up the grand staircase to the opera house on Anakin's arm.

Anakin smirked. "You've got the easy part, those two have been trailing me like a couple of nexus," he told her.

"They're getting suspicious," Padme told him. "That's never a good sign. I fear an explosion coming," she finished.

"How often did we do this kind of thing when we were married?" he asked.

"What, sneaking around?" she asked.

"Well, that too," Anakin admitted.

"We were always sneaking around," she told him.

Anakin leaned in closer to her. "I have to admit, it is kinda exciting," he told her.

"It was like that in the beginning but having to keep our marriage a secret added a lot of stress on our every day living," Padme told him.

"I don't think that that will be a problem now," Anakin told her. "Master Yoda was talking about amending the code a couple of days ago," he informed her as they reached the top of the stairs and walked in the direction of the opera box that they would be sitting in. A couple of usher opened the doors for them once Anakin gave them their ticket discs and they each took their seats with Anakin helping Padme into her seat.

"They've definitely remodeled the place," Padme commented.

"I wouldn't know," Anakin told her taking his seat. "I've never been to an opera house," he finished.

Padme looked at him not wanting to tell him about his visit with Palpatine at the opera house. To this day she didn't know why the evil man wanted Anakin to meet him there. "I don't suppose so," she agreed.

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Luke and Leia surveyed the area before dodging ahead in the crowd. Getting through the staff entrance was easier than getting past those ushers which neither had a weak mind so mind tricks didn't work. Now that they were in the middle of the grand foyer of the opera house they knew that they had lost their father. Now their only hope was to keep their mother from finding their father and to spoil their father's date.

"Should we split up?" Luke asked looking around.

"And leave you alone in here, no way!" Leia told him.

Luke frowned at her. "What is that supposed to mean?" he demanded.

Leia gestured to the females in the area wearing form fitting and sensual evening gowns. "You might get distracted," she told him.

Luke gaped at her. "Distracted! Do you even know me at all?" he demanded before a purple twi'lek walked past wearing a tight black evening gown that left her arms and back bare and had a plunging neckline. Luke stared at her curiously as she walked past, noting all of her curves then the sensual way that she held her self and walked.

"I rest my case," Leia stated pointedly.

"She was beautiful," Luke stated dazed. Then he refocused on the task at hand. "Where do we look first?" he asked.

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"I still feel guilty," Padme said as the opera, A Warrior's Heart played through the first act.

"About what?" Anakin asked.

"For not telling Luke and Leia what we're doing," she told him. "They were very upset when we divorced, Leia especially," she told him.

"They'll find out sooner or later. For now, lets enjoy the show," Anakin told her taking her hand.

Padme smiled and turned her attention back to the show, enjoying herself, but most importantly enjoying the fact that she had Anakin back, even if he didn't remember their marriage. She had vowed to help him remember. But for now, she wanted to enjoy herself.

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After sending the ushers guarding the door to the box away using the force, Luke and Leia crouched along two columns and surveyed the box where their father was in with his date. They still couldn't make out who the woman was.

"They're holding hands!" Leia cried growing alarmed. "Now he's whispering in her ear!"

"I think that it's time to break them up," Luke told her determinedly.

"What's your plan?" Leia asked.

"Would you want to be with a guy who had two nasty kids who would stop at noting to ruin everything?" he asked her.

Leia shuddered. "No way," she told him. Then she smiled evilly. "How are we going to pull it off?" she asked.

Luke looked around and spotted a serving droid carrying a tray of green champagne. Smiling devilishly he lifted his hand lifting two glasses of the champagne with the force off of the tray and floated them into the box after Leia opened the doors and before anybody could do anything, he dumped the champagne into both their father's lap and the woman's. The couple stood up fast. Their father cursed and quickly looked for anything to wipe up the champagne with while the woman grabbed her hand bag and pulled out a handkerchief, dabbing her dress with it. Luke and Leia gaped when they caught their first sight of the woman.

"Mom!"

Both Anakin and Padme turned to look at them each giving them an annoyed look. "Which one of you did it?" Anakin demanded.

Leia pointed at Luke who glared at his sister.

Padme turned to look at Anakin. "I told you that they were going to do something," she told him.

"So it seems," Anakin replied evenly glaring at the twins.

Neither twin wanted to back down. They both wanted an explanation for this deception. "What is going on?" they demanded.

Anakin and Padme looked at each other, neither happy about being found out this way. Both were at a lost on how to explain the situation. Finally the mother in Padme forced herself to explain in a way that the twins would understand. But before she could utter a word Anakin spoke up.

"Wewere enjoying a pleasant evening before the two of you pulled that little stunt," Anakin told them with a hint of annoyance and crossing his arms over his chest.

"Sit down," Padme commanded. Both twins did as they were commanded taking the back seats and waited. "What possessed you to drop champagne in our laps?" Padme demanded.

Luke and Leia looked at each other knowing better than to lie. Their mother never liked lying and they knew why. They also knew that their father, like Obi-Wan, could detect a lie. "We thought that Dad was on a date," Luke said slowly being the brave one.

Padme held her hand up stopping anything that Anakin was about to say from leaving his mouth, a signal for her to handle this. "And that gave you justification?" she asked.

Luke and Leia knew that they wouldn't win either way that they handled this. "No," they said regretfully.

"It was a logical conclusion based on where we've seen Dad go lately," Luke stated to his mother, eying his father. "We had to break it up because you two belong together," he finished.

Anakin and Padme shared a look. "I knew that they were following me," Anakin told her.

A sudden thought occurred to Leia and she quickly looked at her twin sending him her thought before eying her parents. "Wait a minute, are you two dating?" she asked point blank.

Anakin and Padme shared another look, this time it was guilty, confirming Leia's question.

"Well this certainly isn't what we expected," Luke stated to his twin leaning back in his seat and stretching his arms, clasping his hands behind his head before stretching his legs out in front of him lazily.

Leia caught onto what her brother was thinking and crossed her legs, getting comfortable herself. "You know, I've never seen an opera," she commented.

"You can stop that line of thinking right now," Anakin told them.

"Hey, you deceived us, we should stay," Luke told him.

"How exactly did you get in here without a ticket anyway?" Padme asked once the thought came to her.

"The force works in mysterious ways," Leia answered cryptically.

"That doesn't answer the question," Anakin told her and both twins grinned mischievously.

"Ani, I think that they should stay within our sight, there's no telling what trouble they have caused and what they will do if we're not there for damage control," Padme said turning to Anakin.

Anakin groaned. So far, he hasn't liked this little taste of being a parent. Especially when the two kids in question sat there looking him and giving evil smirks. "Why do I get the feeling like they'll be the death of me," he replied to Padme.

Padme shook her head and turned to the twins. "I don't want anymore trouble," she told them.

"We wouldn't dream of it," the twins said in unison.

"It looks like the intermission just started," Anakin said noticing the closing of the curtain and the beings watching the show standing up.

"Good, maybe I can get this champagne out of my dress," Padme said taking Anakin's arm and allowing him to lead her out of the box with Luke and Leia closely following them, not letting their parents out of their sight.

They each ended up at a buffet where they were serving appetizers and elegant beverages. Luke and Leia each took a glass of emerald wine which Anakin quickly took out of their hands and handed them glasses of mistwater. Luke and Leia weren't pleased but they soon took up some dew cake and smiled when it tasted divine.

"The food on Coruscant is better than the stuff the Alliance serves," Luke stated looking at his twin.

"I'll say," Leia agreed.

"Are they always trouble?" Anakin whispered in Padme's ear watching the twins.

"Not always," Padme answered. "But they have their moments," she said taking a sip of the emerald wine that Anakin had handed to her after taking it from the twins. They walked over to where the twins were standing sampling the delicious appetizers. At that moment the purple twi'lek that Luke had ogled earlier walked by making Luke ogle even more.

"Leia, look! There she is!" Luke said excitedly and in awe.

Leia turned to look and rolled her eyes. While both And and Padme turned each widening their eyes as they realized that Luke was started to get infatuated. Luke stared at the twi'lek with the same glint in his eyes that Anakin had when he looked at Padme years earlier. Padme recognized that look immediately.

"I'm going to follow her," Luke said setting down his mistwater and appetizers and went after the twi'lek.

Padme turned to Anakin. "He's your son, go bring him back before he causes trouble," she told him.

"What trouble could he cause, he's just a boy and she's..." Anakin asked and then thought about it as a memory surfaced to his mind. "I'll go get him," he said setting his wine down and followed the path that Luke took ready to pull the teenager back.

"I never thought I'd see the day when Luke turned into a puddle of goo," Leia said smirking, finding her strong willed and controlled brother reduced to mush amusing.

Padme sighed. She had wished that Luke would stop acting older and act his age but this wasn't what she had hoped for. She only hoped that Luke could control himself.

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"Wellthat turned out to be an interesting evening," Anakin commented as he and Padme entered her apartment.

"Welcome to the joys of parenting," Padme told him with a laugh.

"I wouldn't call what we experienced tonight as joyful," Anakin grumbled.

"Yes, the twins do make things interesting. It's nice to see them finally acting like kids though," Padme told him.

"What do you mean?" Anakin asked helping her out of her cloak.

"They just grew up so fast. They started taking part in Alliance battles when they were ten, much to my horror. They did so without permission," she told him. "Leia had always been a spitfire and loved attention, she stayed the youngest but she shouldered a lot responsibility. Luke on the other hand had taken up the role as the man in the family believing that it was his job to take care of both myself and Leia," she explained.

"Because I wasn't around?" Anakin asked referring to Luke's attitude.

"Yes," Padme confirmed.

"No wonder he resents me," Anakin commented. "I could feel it rolling off of him," he explained with Padme's curious look.

"When he sees that you plan on sticking around this time, then he'll get over it, Leia too," Padme told him wrapping her arms around his neck.

Anakin raised an eyebrow. "How can you be so optimistic?" he asked.

Padme smiled. "Because I have faith," she told him.

"Faith in what?" Anakin asked.

Padme placed a finger over his mouth. "I don't want to talk anymore," she told him.

"I can live with that," Anakin told her before they kissed, each moving towards the bedroom.

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Luke and Leia walked up to the temple in the dead of night. After leaving their parents at the opera house they had decided to prowl the streets of coruscant causing enough havoc on the undercitie's scum and villainy. They had received strange offers and come in contact with ruffians who decided to assault them in groups once they spotted their lightsabers. But aside from that, they had some fun too, racing their speeder with other pilots and winning credits with said races. Neither twin was exhausted but knew that they had to return to the temple to get some rest. Restoring the temple was top priority and they were woken up early by Master Yoda.

"We should race again, just look at all the credits we have," Luke said greedily counting the credits in his hands.

"Yes, we should," Leia agreed absently.

Luke looked at her. "What's got your mind in water?" he asked.

Leia paused and looked at her twin. "Don't you think that it's odd that Mom and Dad are dating?" she asked.

Luke shifted a little. "Sorta," he agreed. "I don't know if I'll get used to it, that is if he... you know... sticks around and remains a jedi," he told her.

"I know," Leia agreed. "I can't help but wonder what will happen when he remembers everything. I kinda like who he is now," she admitted.

"Hedoes seem to be making an effort, it's like he's trying to make up for what he did," Luke agreed. "I mean first he's building droids with me and coming after you to drag you out of a club then working on forms with us, and showing us different things that Ben hasn't shown us."

"And then there is Mom," Leia pointed out.

Luke was about to agree when he sensed someone approaching. On instinct he reached for his lightsaber a sight for Leia to do the same but before they could ignite their weapons a snap hiss was heard followed by a green glowing blade and a large frame coming out of the shadows. A tan skinned humanoid of muscular build dressed in a black leather vest, pants and tall boots came closer to them, his hair was was black and it was in dreadlocks down his back while a pale yellow band ran across his nose and under his eyes.

Luke and Leia stood their ground. "Who are you!" Luke demanded.

"The better question is who you are and what you are doing at the jedi temple," the humanoid replied tightly.

Luke and Leia relaxed some upon sensing the force around him and only a hint of darkness but nothing like Vader and Palpatine. "I knew that there were other jedi left," Luke said stepping closer to the humanoid. "I'm Luke Skywalker and this is my sister, Leia. We're jedi knights trained by Obi-Wan Kenobi," he introduced himself and Leia.

"Skywalker?" The humanoid questioned.

"Our father is Anakin Skywalker," Leia answered sensing the unformed question in the humanoid's mind.

"Jedi Master Quinlan Vos," the humanoid introduced himself. "Where are the others?" he asked.

"Master Yoda and Ben are inside," Luke told him.

"Our father is with our mother," Leia finished.

"Lead the way," Vos told them referring to Master Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi.

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Blaster bolts flew through the air at alarming speed and from all different directions. Anakin Skywalker rolled to the ground ending up with his right book clad foot pressed firmly to the ground while his left knee pressed in the ground as he crouched momentarily, his newly constructed lightsaber still ignited as he deflected more laser fire aimed at him. He stood up fast and arched his lightsaber upwards sending laser fire back to it's owner smoldering the remote. The remote hit the ground with a loud crash but Anakin paid it no mind as he arched his lightsaber behind him to deflect more fire at his back, smoldering yet another remote.

"We loose more remotes that way," Obi-Wan Kenobi said interrupting Anakin's practice, "Then we do when the younglings accidentally hit them with their training sabers," he finished.

Using the force, Anakin shut down the numerous remotes that floated in the air around him. "Perhaps," he replied. "But I always fix them," he defended himself.

"Why are you practicing with remotes when you have other jedi to practice with? Remotes are predictable," Obi-Wan asked.

Anakin had no easy answer for this. He hadn't wanted to duel another jedi for a while. He feared it, he feared that he might remember if he fought another jedi in a mock duel. "I'm comfortable with the remotes," he answered.

"And you're not with a living being?" Obi-Wan questioned. Anakin looked away. "You're afraid," Obi-Wan deducted. "Of what? Of loosing control or of remembering?" he asked.

There was no point in denying it. "Both actually," Anakin admitted.

Obi-Wan didn't know what he could say to ease Anakin's fears but her would try. "You should trust in the will of the force. The force has it's reasons for your not remembering and when it feels that you are ready, you may remember. However there is the possibility that you may not remember. Further more, you have already conquered the dark side, I sincerely doubt that it will consume you again," he told him.

"Can I ask you a question?" Anakin asked.

"I believe that you already did," Obi-Wan replied seriously.

The corners of Anakin's mouth twitched slightly. "What do you see when you look at me, a jedi or a sith?" he asked seriously.

Obi-Wan was taken aback by this question. "I see you, Anakin. Not Vader," he told him. When Anakin said nothing more, he continued. "Darth Vader wouldn't have hesitated to kill me or any of the other remaining jedi or lash out in anger. Further more Vader was a heartless beast who cared for no one but himself and fulfilling his lust for revenge and for power," he continued. "That is not the man I see before me now," he finished.

"I don't think that I'll ever come to terms with what I had become," Anakin admitted.

"No one expects you to," Obi-Wan told him.

Anakin took a seat on the floor with his back against the wall, his right knee bent upwards while his left leg stretched outwards and rested his right arm on his knee, clutching his lightsaber in his right hand while his left hand rested on his left leg. He examined his right hand for the millionth time. "When did I get my arm replaced? I actually have feeling to it," he asked. "I mean, I kinda, I think that I lost it."

"That's because it's flesh and bone and you did loose it in a battle with a sith," Obi-Wan told him taking a seat next him, mimicking his pose. At Anakin's confused look he explained. "It was Dooku, you remember him, the jedi master who trained Qui-Gon and then turned his back on the jedi. He became Palpatine's apprentice for thirteen years before you killed him. Months ago, after you abandoned the dark side, you faked Vader's death to fool the emperor by commissioning a clone of yourself. To pull it off, you had your prosthetic arm switched with the arm belonging to the clone."

"And that worked?" Anakin asked skeptically referring to the clone part.

"Well, yes and no. The galaxy was fooled into thinking that Vader was dead but Palpatine somehow knew better and managed to capture Luke and Leia to draw you out," Obi-Wan told him. "That is when you destroyed him," he finished.

"What would make me think that being cloned and killing said clone would work in fooling a sith?" Anakin asked skeptically.

"Because it worked in faking Padme's death," Obi-Wan told him. At Anakin's sharp glance he elaborated. "We faked her death to protect both her and the twins from the empire."

"More to the point, from me," Anakin stated pointedly.

"And from Palpatine who would have no doubt destroyed them due to their connection with you," Obi-Wan told him. "Luke and Leia were born just two days after the empire was formed and the order was destroyed. It was a struggle keeping them from being detected due to their prolonged stay at the medical facility both on Polis Massa and on Alderaan."

"Why the prolonged stay?" Anakin asked.

"They were born premature," Obi-Wan answered and sighed. "I already had this conversation with you," he breathed.

"That may be so, but I don't remember it," Anakin told him.

"I know that you don't," Obi-Wan sighed. "I don't want to be the one to tell you this," he said.

Obi-Wan's reluctance could only draw one conclusion. "It was because of me, wasn't it?" Anakin asked hollowly. When Obi-Wan didn't say anything Anakin got his answer. "What did I do?" he asked.

"You don't want to know, Anakin," Obi-Wan told him.

"Tell me," Anakin commanded dangerously.

Obi-Wan glanced over at his friend and old padawan. It was inevitable that he would know. "You attacked your wife in a fit of jealous rage," he told him regretfully. "She and the twins are alive because I stopped you."

Anakin didn't say anything after that. He couldn't even imagine hurting Padme, he couldn't even imagine turning to the dark side. More and more he was putting the pieces together and the more he learned about himself the less he liked himself. Hastily, he stood up and not saying a word he left the training room.

Obi-Wan watched him go and sighed, having regretting telling Anakin at all.