Legacy of the Force Bound (Anakin Skywalker X reader 2)

Chapter eight

Leia Organa was an intelligent young lady, and while the others enjoyed a peaceful dinner and caught up after years of separation, Leia was thinking. She was doing the calculations. A part of her was itching to reach out to the rebellion, to get word out about this terrible new weapon. And Alderaan, what had happened there? Was what she'd seen real?
Was it...gone..?
Leia felt her throat tighten and shook away the thought. It wasn't the time or the place, she needed to transcribe a secure message to the rebellion. Leia thought about what she needed to say most - they couldn't send a long message after all. Too much risk. She set a hand over her injured friend and rubbed her thumb against the back of the young woman's hand.
"What should I do...how do we even fight something like that..?" She mumbled in the makeshift hospital room. It was just her and the senators step daughter now. Leia had her hair down, which was rare accept when she was thinking. Like now. On her lap was a tray with a note pad. Versions flash phrases were underlined. Super weapon, weakness, plans. She couldn't decided what was most important to share. It had to be late now, past dark at least. Leia could no longer hear the children play outside. They had to be asleep. What a lovely place for them to be raised.
"She still out cold?" Kyra asked  as she came into the room. She had a larger than life blaster slung across her back, which was promptly unslung and placed on a chair.  Leia shifted and looked at the woman. She could've sworn they'd met somewhere before, though it might just be that Kyra had a very punchable face. Or maybe that was just the smirk on it.
"They've sadated her to treat the pain. They don't have advanced healing equipment, the best they can do is treat the pain and stitch the wounds. But, her injuries are extensive and," Leia paused, looking at the young woman laid tucked into the bed before them. Even with the bandages, even with her skin stitched and cleaned, Leia could still see the bloodstains. The bruises and burns. Lashes curling across her shoulder, the angry sears of red around her eye. Leia hated that she didn't even know what had been done to cause such scars. She hated that she couldn't even begin to understand the pain her friend had gone through.
"They don't think she'll ever fully recover," leia practically whispered this, as though she feared Ari herself might hear. But the blonde whose joke and smile was asleep, her breathing and heart rate little more than lines on a screen. Kyra frowned and held the blaster a little closer to her leg, the woman looked but for war, yet in that moment. Leia saw something soften in the green of her wild eyes.
"Gotcha..." Kyra replied, the words half mumbled. She stood and shuffled her feet by the bed. The princess did not miss how the woman with her battle scars glanced back to her, then down to Ari. She could t be so much older, a year or so, maybe two. Younger than Ahsoka and Master Kestis definitely. Yet, her face was worn with more mines than it should her been. Probably from being punched...
"Dammit Az...why couldn't you have called sooner..." Leia heard Kyra mumble. The woman reached towards the wide of the bed and with a tenderness Leia wouldn't have thought her hands capable of, took Ari's hand. The was a deep red around her wrists, purple and black blotches around needle pricks. It made Leia shiver to look at but she didn't dare look away. This was her fault. At least in part, this was her fault.
"She's a fighter, gave 'em hell back in Scarif before you turned up." Kyra said and Leia's chin darted up. She hadn't heard this story - there hadn't been time. Ari had always said the less she knew the better, and the fact she'd gone ahead to Scarif had left the princess with questions. They were meant to travel together, ari was a diplomatic senator for Naboo - or had been before the senate was dissolved. She replaced her stepmother after the event of her death. Ari Amidala was as feisty as they came but at the end of the day she was a senator. Not a soldier. But then, was it really so surprising she'd be linked to more volition rebel affairs.
"...you were at Scrif?" She asked instead though, sounding more surprised than she meant to, Kyra nodded and turned to face the princess. She looked more like Han now without the armour. Leia reminded herself with that though and the woman's stoned sort of smile that she was not to be entirely trusted.
"Yeah I was there, followed good ol' rogue into the fray with Korkie and Cherri, we were backup for when things went to hell - corse, we couldn't do much but, we made sure rogue squadron didn't go down without a fight." She said and patted her side where Leia now noticed a keychain of trinkets hung. Shrapnel was what it looked like to her eyes. Little pieces of ships and blasters.
"And, Ari?" She was curious now. Ari had seemed wild eyed - more so than usual - when they met on the craft but, Leia never imagined she'd come from battle. Then again, Leia wondered just how many secret her friend held from her. When they were young, they'd shared everything. Since Padme's passing though, Ari had stopped her idealistic rants and sharing her step mother's longing for the republic. She'd stopped using her true last name, said it wasn't who she wanted to be and that she was happy for her brothers to become soldiers and for her to stay back in the senate.
"Az was our wingwoman, she commanded from the skies and when things got rough, she pulled us out before it was too late. She's an amazing commander, shame she had to share a name with the most wanted ghost in the galaxy." Kyra sighed and plucked a cigarette from her inner pocket, then seemed to think better of herself and placed it back. Leia wanted to ask more but, the door slid open.
"Oh, you guys are still up?" Luke asked as he stepped in. His eyes looked half closed, fluppy blond hair bouncing over his brow a moment after he tried to push it back. Leia smile and gave the young man a nod. Luke was a good kid, and a Skywalker no less. Ari's brother. Well, they did look alike - though Ari's hair was a fair bit curlier. Maybe his would grow like that in time. Leia saw that spark in the blue of his eyes though. He'd make a fine rebel.
"Couldn't sleep." Kyra replied looking down at Ari again. There it was, that softened Leia with itching to ask about. She instead thought turned to the knew Skywalker and patted the seat beside her in offering to him.
"Yeah...me neither..." He said and came and sat a little shyly by the princess. "I keep think about Ben, I mean Obi wan, ah...life's suddenly all so confusing." The boy sighed and placed his chin in his hands. Leia couldn't understand that. She'd been in this fight since she was ten - that was when she'd first met Obi wan. She thought her was awesome and...she knew he was aware who her real parents were. She should really ask him about it that now they were all together....
"Yeah, s'pose you've had a hell of a day huh?" Kyra chuckled while Leia continued her pondering. Luke cracked half a smile and shrugged.
"I guess....i mean, this morning all I was worried about was having scratched Kira's speeder, now Ben's injured and we've all relocated to an island of secret Jedi, I never would've guessed at any of this happening." He said and leaned back in the little bench seat. Leia looked at him after watching Ari's chest rise and fall a few more times. There were bags under those blue eyes of his, a slump to his shoulders.
"...that's often the way it goes with these things." She said softly and offered him a blanket.  "One day, you're going about your life, the next, the reality of everything we're in and you're suddenly thrown into things you never thought you'd have to learn." Luke nodded at the wise words from the woman far too young to have found them. For luke, the main thing he felt was relief. Relief that they were all alive, that Kira was alright. 
"Yeah, something like that," He said and offered Leia a little smile, then looked up. "Um, you're the one master Kestis sent after Kira right? Thank you for looking after her." He said, but Kyra didn't turn around. Luke wasn't even sure he could remember her name. When she didn't reply, he held his hands together looked down at them. He wasn't used to being around this many new people. The princess made him feel comfortable, but all the rest was a little, too new.
"It's alright Luke...we're all safe here, Master Tano and Master Kestis and kept this place secret for years, we can rest and then, you can go home." Leia set a hand over his, but luke shook his head.
"...I don't think I can go back now, not after seeing what the empire's been doing, I, can't sit by and do nothing - and Kira," He gulped, remembering how she'd thought of the battle station. Luke pulled his fingers back through his hair with a frown. "Darth Izar won't leave her be for this will she? Even on the dust bucket I'm from we've heard stories of what's happened to those that defied the emperor's dog...I won't let Kira become another casualty." Luke mumbled the last part, and Leia thought it awfully sweet. It was also a sentiment she could get behind. She would do the same for Ari, had done the same. Ari Skywalker was like her sister, she'd do anything to protect her. Maybe it was even the reason she'd become a rebel in the first place, because some part of her had known Ari was fighting the good fight. Ari was a Skywalker after all, and from what Leia had read, they always went on to fight the good fight.
They seemed spectacular, if only they had stayed around long enough to lead the rebellion too. Leia couldn't deny, she somewhat resented them for disapearing. Sometimes, it was easier to beleive they'd died. At least that was a reasonable excuse for leavng the galaxy in disarray and Ari without her real parents. It was Ari she mostly felt sorry for though. The girl hadn't just lost one parental figure now, but all of them. Even Padme, who would be greatly missed across the entire galaxy not just by her sons and stepdaughter. Sometimes, Leia worried this crusade of Ari's was in search of the woman, to find what had been lost. A body was never discovered for the senator nor her loving husband. She was getting more and more reckless. Leia was scared for her.
"Princess?" Luke's voice brought her back tot he room. Leia blinked and rose her head, looking up and seeing two newcommbers had entered the room. A tall woman she recconsied from the battle station....and somewhere else, beside her a little girl with her like running honey. The girl was half hidden behind the leg of the other, hand holding the bandaged one of the brunette. It was as she looked back up at the woman's face, she realised this was Luke's friend.
"This is Kira Acaina, my, friend." Luke introduced and Kira gave a crooked sort of smile. Acaina, that name rang a bell too. Leia pushed the thoughts back however and focussed herself to greet the young woman back.
"Pleasure to meet you." Leia said and stood herself up to shake Kira's hand. This one was also bandaged, and Leia could just see little patches of red at the knuckle.
"Likewise Princess. I always hoped our paths might cross." Kira said with a shimmer ot her blue-green eeys that reminded Leia of Ari's when she had any sort of 'interesting idea'. The little girl tugged Kira's sleeve before she could say more and Kira gave Liea this look of 'more about that later'. Raising the girls hand, Kira smiled down to her and poked the side of her head.
"Anyway, this is Aurora and she's been just dying to meet you ever since you landed, she's a big fan of your wardrobe." Kira teased as the young kenobi's cheeks tinted a rosey pink. Leia's smiled brightened as she cast her eyes down, electing to crouch so that she wasn't looming over the girl. Aurora tried to hide again.
"is that so?" Leia asked, trying to abandon all the traces of a commander she'd previously had in her voice. The girl, Aurora, shyly nodded with a nervousness to her expression Leia found adorable. With her smile softened beyond the usual politeness, Leia smoothed the wrinkles from the front of her dress. "Well then you, but I think with hair like yours, you'd look way prettier in it, you're Satine's daughter yes?" Leia asked after the compliment that made the little girl blush again.
"Yeah." Aurora replied and clung against Kira's elbow again. It made sense now why the little girl looked familiar. Leia had studied the Duchess I school, another relic of the clone wars long since lost, yet there had never been a death certifications for the woman. She was listed on presumed records like the rest of the lost Jedi but, Leia didn't entirely trust those. Not after discovering Obi wan was alive and well.
"Ah well, you have an amazing mother." Leia said as she followed the girls gave back up to Kira's face. She truly did look familiar, right down to the flecks of ice blue stars gone super-nova in her eyes. A chill swan down Leia's spine.
"Right, come on trouble, time for bed, or Obi wan's gonna kill me." Kira said shaking the girls hand above her head the way people playfully did with children. In an instant, the chill was gone, and Leia felt her heart filled with a warmth.
"I'll come too, gotta get some rest...who knows what tomorrow will bring." Luke mumbled the last bit more to himself than anyone else. But Leia heard, and it reminded her they weren't out of the woods yet. Watching the Skywalker Kenobi and Acaina leaving, Leia sat herself back with her notes. There was a super weapon on the horizon, Alderaan was already gone, and Leia had this itch in the back of her mind that she was missing something.
"Kyra do you-
Leia looked round and stopped. In the time she'd spoken with Aurora - of perhaps even before that, Kyra had vanished. Given the amount of weapons she carried, it had seemed impossible for her to disappear without so much as a sound. Yet she certainly was no longer in the room. Leia sighed and looked back at her pad of paper. Death Star...Skywalker's, Jedi...
Where was she even meant to beginning?
As night passed peacefully over the islands of Ach-To, none of our heroes did sleep peacefully. They lay awake thinking of what days were to come, of the wars they all were to face. For those that had fought before, blaster fire lit up behind their eyes with every blink. Heartbeats began to play a death march, calling them back to the battlefield. The stars seemed darker than they should in the land of dreams, and the children of the force found their slumber swept with feelings they could not yet understand.

Blue
I am a Jedi, and so is she

Green
Don't you dare give up now!

White
I won't leave you! Not this time...

Purple
No...that's impossible!!

Red
You took everything from me, now I'll do the same to you.

OKARIUS

(Y/n)'s pov

A chumming breeze swept in and battled against the crackling fire I sat beside. I didn't tune to look. It had been ten years now, after a while, you give up on fearing the worst. Still, I had listened for his return, and when the cold winds of outside woke me, I knew the day had come...
Anakin leaned in the doorway as he often would. He hadn't changed much, a little more rugged perhaps, silver highlight accenting his still perfect hair. Obi wan would likely be infuriated by how well my husband aged, then again, I doubt a man like Obi wan aged poorly. Dear force I missed our old friend. I missed the antics and bustle of the city, our little girls and the nursery on Coruscant. Watching the fire, I tried to warm my hands.
"Did you have the dream again?" Anakin asked, his voice low and steady, if it weren't for him, I'm not sure where I'd be. He's been my rock and I his,,,though there has been more of first instant since giving up Kira. I don't believe the same things I used to, needed time to recover after reuniting with what had become of my old master.
"No...the force is showing something new now." I replied and I feel his presence in the force shift. We both know what this means, we both know we've been preparing for this day. Anakin pushed himself from the doorframe and came over to sit on the arm of my chair. His hand takes mind and gives it a squeeze and he leans to kiss my temple. After all these years, he's still so gentle. Sometimes, I imagine we're still on Naboo.
My shoulder lurch as there's a knock at the door. Anakin squeezed my hand again. Ten years, and there's never been a knock at that door.
Yet neither of us reach for our weapons.
"I'll go-
"I'll come too." I interrupt so he knows I'm not afraid, and together was approached the rickety old door with its patchwork of repairs. Anakin reaches for the handle and I took a deep breath. He pulls the door back, and again a gust of wind threatens to sniff out the fire. But there's a sweetness to the wind that doesn't belong, a flowery scent that I remember from the mid rim. From Naboo.
"(Y/n)!" A voice that warms my frozen bones calls, and all at once I'm pulled into a hug. Looking over her shoulder, there's a man with dark hair and patched white armour, no sign of any other soul behind. She pulls back, and I realise the time has touched her face nearly as little as Anakin.
"Padme...Fives...it's so good to see you again." I say, and thought my voice is tired, I'm ready. Anakin shifts at my shoulder and I can feel him smile too.
"Well, you sure didn't make yourselves easy to find." Fives jokes, and it's now I notice the grey in his hair and the wrinkles around his eyes.
"Well, had to give you something to work for hey Fives." Anakin chuckles and folds his arms over his chest. Padme's smile brightens, but I sense there's more lurking behind her eyes.
"Can we come in? There's a lot to discuss..." she says and I can hear the drumbeat pounding in my chest already. The thunder of steps, pounding of hearts. The call to war.
I look to Anakin and we both smile.
We've missed this.