Dark Legacy

Epilogue

Author's Note: Enjoy the ending! :D Like I said in the last chapter, this is not the usual kind of ending. It's happy, but it's also very bittersweet. I think it's fitting though, because it really ends how it started, I guess, and everything comes full circle. :P (More notes at the bottom. :)

Thank you all so, so much for reading, voting, and/or commenting on this story! :D:D:D

This is the end. There is nothing more planned in this universe, and it is soooo relieving to finally finish the first fanfic series I began (even if it's only a duology).  Lol.

~ Amina Gila

5 years later

"Leia, no!" cries Anakin in exasperation. "You're not supposed to stand on the table." He reaches for the four-year-old who lets out a high-pitched squeal and scrambles away from him across the dining room table. "Leia! That is highly improper. You're going to ruin your aunt's wedding." She ignores him, as she often likes to do. Obi-Wan always says that's he probably deserves it for all the gray hair he gave him when he was still a Padawan. Anakin disagrees.

"Force," mutters Anakin, stalking around the table to grab his mischievous daughter. Before she has a chance to run away again, he scoops her up, holding her tightly as he backs away from the table. This is insanity. Why does she do these things? He knew better than to walk on the dining table when he was only one.

A snicker behind him draws his attention, making him whirl around to glare at Obi-Wan. "You aren't helping the situation," Anakin grumbles, as Leia squirms around trying to get down to the floor. "You only encourage them."

"Oh really?" his former master comments mildly, cradling his two-year-old daughter, Mara Jade, who he and Satine adopted a year ago, since they decided that they didn't want to actually have children. Anakin didn't push for details, and Obi-Wan never explained why.

Anakin huffs. "She's an angel," he declares accusingly, pointing at Mara. She giggles and waves her arms in the air, but otherwise doesn't move from where she's curled in her father's arms.

"You always say that," Obi-Wan reminds him.

"I –"

"Daddy!" Leia's twin brother, Luke, screams as he runs into the room, grinning. "Grandpa told me to come find you!"

Anakin can't help but snort quietly. He'll never get used to his children referring to Dooku as 'Grandpa'. It's altogether too weird, even if it fits. "I'm coming," he replies, putting Leia on the floor.

She immediately races over to her twin, communicating with him silently before they race away together. Oh Force. He hopes they won't be getting into trouble again. With Padme being unable to keep up with them – especially now that she'll be giving birth to their third child in a couple months – all the babysitting has been left to him. Well, him, Ahsoka, and Dooku, that is, excluding the rest of their extended family which numbers in the millions if all the clones are to be included.

It is simply ridiculous how two four-year-old children can keep three Sith Lords – four if he counts Obi-Wan – on their toes all day long. "Where's Satine?" Anakin asks as he walks out to the courtyard of their Naboo estate with Obi-Wan right behind him.

"She was helping Padme finish the last-minute preparations for Ahsoka's wedding," Obi-Wan replies, rocking Mara gently.

"And Lux?" Anakin adds, mind drifting to his soon-to-be brother-in-law.

"Probably talking to Rex. I'm not sure," Obi-Wan shrugs.

Anakin smirks, remembering how all the members of Clan Skywalker-Tano had wanted to come to Ahsoka's wedding, insisting that she's their only sister, so they should be there, before agreeing to send only fifty men, selected at random. Rex, of course, was naturally going to be there, given that Sabe is there, and the two of them are now happily married. It's surreal how much life has changed since they destroyed Sidious' spirit five years ago. Anakin never could have dreamed things could be this... good for him, but then again, life has always had a way of throwing the most unexpected twists at them, this time for the better.