Star Wars: Cross Paths Part 3

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Chapter 37 – Home Sweet Home

The moment the Skywalkers entered inside their apartment, the elder kids ran right away towards the living room and jumped on the couch laying down, with a big smile on their faces.

Even the baby started to whimp and point his little arms towards the floor.

"Okay, okay little buddy," Ines said and putting the baby on the floor, she and Luke couldn't help but laughed when the baby started to crawl right away towards his siblings, being following by R2 as always.

Reaching the room, Luke looked at his kids.

"I see someone was really missing home," he laughed, shaking his head.

"Yeah I did," Ben said. "Home sweet home."

"I understand that buddy, I really do," he said sitting on the couch.

Alli started to go around the house, saying how much she missed everything.

"I missed you couch! I missed you pillow! I missed you kitchen!" then ran towards her bedroom and they could hear her screaming. "I MISSED YOU BEDROOM!"

Ines just shook her head while she sat down next to her husband, the moment her daughter came from inside and sat on the couch.

"Did you finish already?" she asked with a smile on her face.

"Yup!" the young girl said smiling.

"Good because it is time for all of you get your bath, and put your pajamas," she said laughing when the girls pout.

"That is something it will never change, no matter where you two are," Luke told them.

"I will give the girls a bath. Will you take care of the boys?"

"Sure. I will take the luggage and unpack too," Luke said while he gave Ines a small kiss on the lips.

"Gotcha," she told him, and standing up she clapped her hands. "Come on girls. Bath time. Move it young ladies." she said pointing the finger at them, while the girls got out of the couch and walked towards the bathroom, while Luke picked the baby and walked towards his and Ines bathroom, with Ben.


After bathing the girls, Ines was at the moment, combing Padmé's hair, while Alli was sitting on her bed, facing her mother and twin sister, holding one of their parents dolls, that Ines and Luke allow them to have only for sleeping.

Alli was looking at her mother, which made Ines looked at her 4 years old daughter with a question look on her face.

"What?" she asked after a while.

"Mama, how did your planet look like?" Alli decided to ask her mother.

Ines, who had finish combing Padmé's hair, put the brush aside and smile, when the girls sat in front of her on Alli's bed, waiting for her answer.

"Oh, why are you asking that now?"

"Well, we met Grandma's Padmé planet," Padmé started.

"Where you two and your older brother born actually," she smiled at them.

"And we met Grandpa Anakin and Papa's planet, too," Alli said.

"Yes you do, and I know someone who is not a big fan of it," she winked at her making the girl giggled.

"I'm sorry," she said, making Ines raised her arms, and the girls got up and came towards her.

"You don't have to say sorry sweetie. You don't have to like everything, as long you respect others opinions that are different then yours, okay?"

The little girl looked at her mother and nod.

"And the reason why Papa and I continue to take you two and your siblings there, is because we think it is good for you to see other systems and how they live. That not everyone live comfortable like you do."

"I understand that mama. But we can't see where you and aunt Leia lived," Alli said making Ines smiled and kissed her daughter's forehead.

"Sadly you can't."

"Because the mean people destroyed your planet, right mama?" Padmé said making Ines nod.

"That is right sweetie. They did."

"I wish we could see it for real." Alli sighed pouting.

"I wish that too, cause I'm sure you would love it." Ines told smiling sadly, thinking of the good times she had on her planet: the woods, the lakes with crystal water, etc.

"So how did it look like?" Alli asked again, making Ines understand why they asked that.

"Well, Alderaan, the planet that Mama, Grandpa Ken, Uncle Dan, Aunt Gracy and cousin Ken born, and where aunt Leia was raised was a very beautiful and peaceful planet. It had vast bodies of water where we swim a lot during the summer, and had covered in snow-capped mountains, that I could see from my bedroom balcony."

"What's snow?" the girls asked the same time.

Ines looked at them. She never realized that her kids didn't see snow yet.

"Well, do you know that white stuff that we see every time we open the freezer?"

"Yeah," the girls said right away.

"It is cold and melt when we touch leaving our hands wet and cold," Padmé said right away, making Ines nod smiling.

"Exactly."

"That's snow, mama?" Alli asked.

"Sort of. Snow fall from the sky when it is very cold, like rain. And sometimes it snows so much that everything is cover in white."

"Wow, I wish it would snow in Coruscant," Alli said pouting.

"Well I don't think we will see that happen here sweetie, sorry. But I miss snow too," she said kissing the top of her head. "But during the Spring and the summer the hills were all covered in green and so many flowers. And the palace was near the woods, where me and aunt Leia played a lot."

"Climbing trees?" they asked making Ines laugh.

"Yes, just like two little girls that I know," she smiled tickling the twins who laughed at that.

"You miss it?" Alli asked after a while.

"Yes, I miss it. Not all of this, but the people that I met."

"Like grandma Alli?" Padmé pout making Ines nod sadly.

"Like grandma Alli. But I have another Alli in my life," she said pulling her girls towards her and kissed the top of their heads.

Then the girls climbed on their knees on top of Padmé's bed and both gave a tight hug on their mother, which made Ines smile and hugged her girls back.

"We love you mama," the girls said at the same time.

"I love you two very much too. I love you since the moment I found out you were here in my belly," she said kissing their cheeks. "Now go brush your teeth, while mama will check Papa and your brothers."

"Okay," They said and left running towards the apartment bathroom, while Ines head to the living, finding her baby in his walker, laughing and "talking" to R2, and her older son was sitting on the couch, running the many channels on the living room screen, both already in their pajamas.

"Where is your father sweetie?" she asked to Ben.

But before he could asked, she heard Luke voice coming from the bedroom.

"I'm here."

Turning around her eyed wide open, which Luke noticed right away and knew why.

"I know, I'm all dry right. Something that never happens when I give bath to out baby, right?"

Ines couldn't help to laugh.

"Well that only happens when you give him bath, cause with his mother he doesn't do that, cause he knows which parent he respect," she winked at him, making Luke, wrapped his arms around her waist and pulling her close to him.

"Oh really?" he said kissing her.

"Eww gross," Ben said making them looked at him.

"By the way, you need to get ready to bed."

"Oh mom, let me stay only for a while," Ben said looking at him.

"Only for a while okay. I actually need to prepare your brother's bottle too."

"Where are the twins?" Luke asked, but before Ines could answered him they heard them called from the apartment bathroom.

"PAPA WE'RE READY?"

Luke looked at his wife.

"Let me guess, they are brushing their teeth?"

Ines nod with a smirk on her face.

"Well let help those two," he winked and walking towards the bathroom, he saw the twins already ready to spit out the water from their mouth.

Raising them with the force, the girls spit it out and smiled.

"Thank you very much," they said making Luke smiled.

"Just doing my job as your father," he replied kissing the top of their heads, before put the girls down again.

Watching the girls clean their mouth, he couldn't help but laugh when they ran away towards the living room, while he follow them shaking his head.

Watching his kids sitting on the couch, and the baby laughing out loud every time R2 beeped, Luke couldn't help but smile at the scene. He couldn't believe that those were his kids, that they were his own flesh and blood.

He hope the conflict that he knew sooner or later would happen, would end sooner, at least he would make sure that would happen for sure.

What did you think of the talk between Ines and the girls about her planet?