Above Tatooine the crew and passengers of the Tantive IV had been subdued. Vader paced in front of the three prisoners that had been brought before him. Standing in front of him were the Princesses of Alderaan, and they had been caught red handed this time.
The shortest of the three, Senator Leia Organa, had dark brown hair and dark brown eyes and strangely resembled his mother in some way. The next tallest, Sola was practically the spitting image of his late wife Padme with Chestnut Brown hair and warm brown eyes. The tallest - Breha - had curly hair that was nearly black and blue eyes, features that he found familiar but couldn't quite place.
He tried to look at the young women as little as possible as he questioned them. The first two brought up painful memories of his wife and his mother, and he kept being distracted by the thought that the blue eyed one should have been named Sola for some odd reason instead of the one that was Padme's Look-Alike.
Realizing that he wasn't going to get anything more out of them while he was in this state, he ordered for them to be taken away.
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A'Sharad Hett watched as four rambunctious teenage boys played Flimsi, Rock, Saber to determine which one of them would go out and get the crazy R2 unit that had belonged to their father. He had no idea as to exactly how the droid had ended up on Tatooine, but the day before it had come to the farm in a Jawa Sandcrawler alongside a droid that according to Owen may or may not have been taken from the farm by Anakin Skywalker more than twenty years earlier. According to Rex who had drawn the short straw and was forced to clean the droids, R2-D2 was claiming to belong to Kenobi for some unfathomable reason.
Sixteen years earlier he had come to the Lars farm after he had been exiled from his people whom he had returned to three years before when he had believed himself to be the only survivor of Order 66, the only survivor of a dead order. After the Clone Wars had ended and the Empire took control, he had made his way back to the world on which he had been born and returned to the people amongst whom he had been raised. He soon led the Tusken Raiders in a fight against the farmers who would kill them all if given half a chance. He had called his people to follow him and reclaim the territory that had once been theirs, and they had listened. This crusade had lasted just over two years.
It had been just outside the Lars family farm that he had been stopped by Obi-Wan Kenobi who had engaged him in a lightsaber duel during which his face covering had been removed - breaking the taboo his people had against revealing one's skin - and his right arm was cut off, making him completely useless as a warrior as he could no longer wield a gaderffi. After his defeat, he was abandoned by his people before whom he had been shamed.
It was then that Kenobi had made him swear to leave Tatooine and never return before he too left. As he was no longer welcome amongst his people, he had been quite willing to leave his home despite feeling bitter and angry about it. He had been quite willing to leave, that was until he had met the boys. He had only been half conscious and in the early stages of shock when Owen Lars had dragged him back to his farm. He fell into a healing trance the instant he was safely inside and stayed that way for a good eighteen hours. The next morning, he was greeted by four small, curious, faces. He soon learned that the four boys that had greeted him upon his return to consciousness belonged to Anakin Skywalker.
The fact that Kenobi had tried to get him to leave several times had been what cemented his decision to stay, mainly out of a desire to get back at the man for the pain and misery he had caused him. And stay he did, watching over Skywalker's sons as he helped Owen and Beru raise them for the next sixteen years.
The game finally drew to a close and Luke - who was at least ten centimeters shorter than his father had been - was to go out after the droid. The boy was the runt of the lot and had clearly inherited his height from his mother (unbeknown to any of them, Luke was almost exactly the same height as his maternal grandfather Ruwee Naberrie). After the boy took the landspeeder and left, another quick game sent the other blond - Typho (who unlike Luke had brown eyes) - out to repair the moisture vaporators. The identical twins - a genetic test had proven that all of the boys had the same parents, their Y chromosomes had matched the Y chromosomes in the lock of Anakin Skywalker's hair that Shmi Skywalker Lars had kept since he was a baby and Owen had used as a reference sample, and that Qui-Gon and Rex [a pair of rambunctious brunets with bright blue eyes] had come from the same egg - went to finish up the rest of the chores.
An hour later, the boys - excluding Luke - had finished their tasks. The morning chores were done, and the vaporators were fixed in record time. When they asked, he joined the three of them on their trip to Anchorhead.
Because the chores were finished faster than usual, Owen and Beru had been able to head out to Eyvend and Ariela's wedding earlier than they planned. When the Imperials arrived they found a vacant farm. A thorough search of the farm revealed that the droids they sought were absent. Frustrated, the stormtroopers set the place on fire before heading out to find its wayward occupants.