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Chapter 14

Obi-Wan, Mace, Yoda and Bail Organa discussed plans as Padmé fed the twins.  She had named them Luke and Leia, after Anakin's two middle names, Leia's being the feminine form of his second middle name.  She cooed to them and held their fists in her hand.  Obi-Wan had taken a midichlorian count at their birth, and their fears had been confirmed.  Both had inherited Anakin's monumental presence in the Force.  This meant that they would have to be hidden away.

"Padmé, I must talk to you."  Obi-Wan had gotten the unfortunate duty of telling Padmé of the decision that the twins must be separated.

She looked up at him knowingly, her face a mixture of pain and resolve.  "I can't keep them, can I?" she said through tears.  "What am I going to do, I can't let them go."

Obi-Wan looked down through his own tears, he felt as if he would hurt forever.  "You will be strong Padmé, it is for their own good.  You will be able to keep Leia with you on Alderaan, but I'm afraid Luke would be too strong for the Emperor not to find him.  He will stay on Dagobah with Yoda."

"No!"  Padmé was determined her son would have a family.  "He can't stay on this place.  He needs to be with other children and have a home.  At least promise me that Obi-Wan, please!

"Anakin has a step-brother and step-father on Tatooine, please, Obi-Wan.  He should keep his father's name, and live near his father's home."

Obi-Wan thought about it and decided to approach Master Yoda.

It was decided that Luke could indeed go to the Larses, Anakin's family on Tatooine.  Obi-Wan would stay and look after him as much as he could, after taking care of what was left of Jedi business.  Padmé couldn't hold on for a long goodbye, she packed his stuff, and turned to Obi-Wan.

"I have something that I want you to make sure he has.  It's his father's lightsaber."  She handed the lightsaber reverently to Obi-Wan.

Obi-Wan felt a catch in his throat and felt the tears stinging behind his lids as he carefully handled the lightsaber built by his padawan so long ago.  He put it carefully in the knapsack.  He then turned and pulled out a pouch from his own knapsack.  He handed her the pouch, in it he had put an object he had picked up off the ground at Vjun.  She looked at him curiously.

"Open it when you are alone on Alderaan."  He smiled and closed her hand around it.  He then gingerly picked up the infant Luke.  Leia was wailing, sensing the presence that was her brother being ripped from her life.  Padmé was crying profusely now, and touched Luke's forehead with her lips.

"Your father would have been so proud, little one.  You have his heart," she whispered as she kissed him.  She then turned and Obi-Wan got in the ship with him and left.  Like so often these days, her heart was breaking in two.

Later she and Leia made it safely to Alderaan under Bail's protection.  She looked at her daughter, sleeping peacefully in her crib.  She turned to the window.  As she looked out over the gardens of the Viceroy's palace, she pulled the pouch Obi-Wan had given her out of her dress pocket.  She tilted the object into her hand and gasped, it was the japor snippet Anakin had given her so many years ago.  She closed her hand around it and held it to her lips.  She opened her hand and looked at the inscription that had been put there so long ago. 
Always, Anakin...

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On Coruscant, a lone figure looked out over the balcony of Imperial Center.  He pondered the events that drifted in and out of his consciousness over the past several months.  He remembered asking the Emperor to let him die upon waking after his "accident," no longer possessing the will to live without her.  But it wasn't meant to be.  He had heard upon waking that the Jedi had been purged.  This should bring him sadness, but it did not, as he had his hatred of them to sustain his living hell in the suit that now encased his body.

He was due for a holovid session with the Emperor on his private balcony.  He made his way out to the balcony to greet the crowds, as he stood by his Emperor, Palpatine lifted his arm and said to the crowd, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Lord Vader!"

The crowd hungry for control and peace after the long war, thundered their applause.

Darth Vader bowed and made his way back to his garden.  Under the mask, Vader's face became a mask of sadness, he put his hand in his garment and drew out a single gold band.  He put in the trunk of things he had saved from Naboo upon his return and slid it to the chamber where he meditated.  It was too late for such things.
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