Chapter 19: Meet Grandma & Grandpa
"Ryoo, call your father, tell him to meet us at my parents' house," Sola told her oldest daughter, who quickly obeyed.
Leia looked nervously at her aunt. "Wait here, you two," Sola ordered.
The twins nodded silently while Sola went inside. "Mom, Dad, I know we were told that the child that Padmé was carrying with her had died with her, but that was a lie," Sola told her parents.
"Our youngest grandchild is still alive?" Jobal asked hopefully.
"Actually, it would be youngest grandchildren," Sola corrected.
While the twins waited, they commed Han and told him that they were going to spend some time with their aunt, cousins, uncle, and grandparents.
"But didn't your aunt and uncle die on Tattooine?" Lando asked. "Before you two were reunited?"
"That was our step-uncle and step-aunt," Leia explained, "on our father's side. This aunt and uncle are blood related to us on our mother's side."
Han said, "Have fun and be safe."
The twins ended the call then.
"Luke, Leia, come on in," Sola called.
The twins nervously entered and waved. "My grandchildren," Jobal stood up and hugged the twins.
"Grandma," Luke whispered.
"You two look so much like your parents," Jobal murmured. "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were them, coming from the past."
The twins laughed sheepishly. If only Grandma and Grandpa knew, Leia thought to her twin. Ruwee grinned at the twins. "Jobal, stop fussing over the twins and let them sit down and eat. I hope the two of you are hungry," Ruwee added.
"We are hungry, Grandpa," Luke admitted, as his stomach growled.
Leia giggled and added, "Actually, in Luke's case, it's more like starving."
Luke rolled his eyes at his twin sister.
"Then you're at the right place at the right time," a second man said, as he entered the room.
Leia and Luke waved. "So, what's the family meeting about?" The second man continued.
Sola turned and said, "Darred, meet your niece and nephew, Leia and Luke."
The twins quickly hugged their uncle—their real uncle.
"I have a question," Darred stated, as the family settled down to eat. "Why were neither of you placed with us?"
"I think the most probable reason is because of the close proximity between Naboo and Tattooine," Luke began. "They wanted me and Leia as far from each other as possible and probably never wanted us to learn about the other. In fact, hiding either of us with you would have made it far too obvious as to who our mother had been."
In fact, I bet they were thinking that the greater the distance, the harder it would be for us to find each other. I was lonely as a child. I missed someone or something. Luke thought to his twin.
I felt that same way, Leia replied.
And now I know why, Luke responded, glancing at his twin. I was searching for my sister, but I couldn't find her because she was so far away.
My dreams were trying to tell where I could find you, Luke. Leia gasped in delight.
"But Naboo would also be the most obvious place to hide either one of you," Sola responded immediately. "You would literally be hiding in plain sight."
"I think that Master Yoda, Master Kenobi, and Bail Organa wanted the galaxy to believe that we had died," Leia began slowly. "If either of us were here, it would defeat the purpose and someone could accidentally discover that Padmé's child didn't die, and then that someone possibly would have told the Emperor, who would come and kill whichever one of us was hiding here."
Sola nodded reluctantly.
The twins were allowed to spend the night at their grandparents—Luke stayed in Sola's old room while Leia got Padmé's old room.