Another time jump but let's face it; would you want to read a chapter or two with Vader chasing the desecraters down and some of Leia entertaining the little Jedi and co? Maybe you would.

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About two months later . . .

Vader growled in annoyance. After chasing the one that had been responsible for scattering his wife's bones and then stealing her Japor Pendant and their unborn child through about half of the galaxy only to learn that they had committed suicide. It angered him to no end knowing that now he may never get the pendant or his child's body back.

A strange ripple in the Force had him turning his head and scowling. It was one of those blasted echos again.

He wondered what the echos meant. They felt familiar but they didn't feel like Jedi.

The Force whispered to him that some time in the future he would learn the truth behind the echos.

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Leia was drained and her hair and the medical gown she was wearing were damp with sweat. However she could barely wipe the smile off her face. Her son was finally here and in her arms. He was snuggled up close to her and she could feel his love for her.

The door to her room opened and Bail came in with a little toy animal that had long floppy ears, big hind feet and soft brown fur.

"Hey," he whispered softly to her as the door closed behind him. Leia turned her smile to him and brushed a hand over her new son's face. "I was hoping to be here for the birth but I didn't know if I could not only get here in time but without suspicion." He told her as he sat in one of the chairs by her medical couch.

"It's not a big deal." Leia assured him. "I am just glad that you got here in time to be one of the first few people to welcome him into the galaxy."

Bail laughed and set the strange little animal on her legs before leaning over and examining the newborn.

"He seems to look like his mother in all the ways that count." He told her. She couldn't help but laugh at the statement. "I read the infants resemble their fathers for the first year or so. Supposedly this an evolutionary thing so that the fathers wouldn't abandon the child." She informed him.

There was some silence for a few minutes. Leia knew that the question of her son's name was going to come. She didn't how to tell the man that she had once had openly called father that she named her son a name that would raise eyebrows.

Finally the silence was broken by a soft wail.

Leia looked down and her son and smiled. "Father," she asked softly, "would you like to hold him?" "If you think that he'll let me." Bail replied and Leia could see the caring that shown in them. "He seems to like everyone." She informed him.

She pulled her sore up a little higher and set her son in the arms of the man that she hoped that he could call grandfather.

Leia smiled a little wider as Bail smiled at her son.

"So what's his name?" Her Father asked. "I named him Anakin Luke Skywalker." Leia stated. She smiled dimmed a bit when she saw Bail flinch slightly.

But then he looked at her and smiled, erasing her fears that he disapproved of the name she had chosen.

"Anakin would be proud to have a namesake." He said, his smile growing a little wider by the moment.

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Bail sighed as he handed little Anakin back to his mother and started to tell her about what was happening in the galaxy.

"Did you hear that a mausoleum on Naboo was desecrated about two months ago?" Leia asked. Bail felt cold can curious; he hadn't heard about this. "No, I did not." He said. "Some people went into the mausoleum that honors Naboo's heroes, opened the sarcophagi and scattered the remains of the deceased everywhere inside. They also stole some jewelery and the unborn child of Senator Amidala." Leia informed him.

Bail felt panic grip him.

"Are there any leads?" he asked. "The person responsible for desecrating Senator Amidala's grave committed suicide before they were caught. They are still looking for the child's remains so that they can return It to It's resting place." Leia told him.

If they knew that there was no child to be stolen in the first place they would have been knocking on my door long before now. He told himself.

"Father," Leia suddenly asked, "are you alright?" Bail smiled as reassuringly as possible at her. "I'm just upset that people have no respect for the dead." He said. It wasn't really a lie, he was upset that Padmé's grave had been desecrated so pointlessly.

There was a timid knock on the door which then opened. Standing there was Padmé, the girl that was a clone of the woman that he respected so much so many years later.

"Miss Mon wants to talk to you." She stated before hurrying to the side of the the medical couch and climbed up on it and smiled at little Anakin. "Friend!" she declared happily.

Bail laughed. "Yes, he'll be your friend when he gets older." He told the little girl who had turned four some time ago.

"Don't bother Leia too long." He told the young child, he had a hard time thinking many of the children as clones. They were so different from their templates that it seemed unfair to consider them the the same as them.

He smiled at the sight of of Leia and Padmé admiring the newborn before leaving to meet with Mon.

It didn't take him long to arrive at the room Mon was in she was looking at something on a datapad and scowling.

"Is something wrong?" he asked her with concern. Her head jerked up and he could tell that she was a little surprised.

"No," she answered too quickly for Bail's liking and turned off the datapad.

They talked a bit about Alliance business before it was time for him to say good bye to Leia since he had to leave soon.

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Mon watched as her friend and co-conspirator left.

She had planned on asking him so many questions. She had seen the holonet story about the desecration of Padmé's grave. She hadn't thought too much about it until she had decided to see to the documentation of Leia's newborn son's DNA herself. She had noticed something odd when the computer told her that she had put the DNA in the wrong slots. According to DNA, which rarely lies if not at all, the child Leia had just given birth to was not her child. However there was a match for Leia's Parental DNA. The child was her father for the lack of better words.

She then realized that the child's DNA was sort of in their files already. She had checked it out and discovered that little Anakin Luke Skywalker was a clone of Jedi Knight Anakin Luke Skywalker. Then the computer brought up a Maternal match for Leia: Padmé Amidala born Padmé Naberrie.

It was then that everything had fit together so perfectly. The missing remains of Senator Amidala's unborn child: there were no remains to be stolen. Bail's reluctance to talk about what had happened during that time period and why he seemed to think that it wasn't such a big deal that they couldn't clone Anakin.

She had been planning on confronting him on some of the subjects and informing him that the baby was a clone. Reason had set in though. If people knew that Anakin was a clone he'd be treated just like all the others: like tools or nuisances.

She wouldn't have that done on anyone. It was better for everyone to believe that little Anakin was Leia's son and it would probably be better for him in the long run.

Din had to have implanted the zygote and then arranged the rape to cover up what he had done. Her blood boiled at the thought that Din had descended so low to do such a thing.

"May you burn in all the Galaxy's Hells for what you have done." Mon whispered.

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So yeah Mon knows the truth now but she'll take the secrets to her grave first.