Whumptober 2020

Freezing [Day 21]

Darth Vader stared out at the snowy surface that was Hoth, where the Rebels were, where his son was. Frankly, he wasn't too concerned about the Rebels, they would be crushed and dealt with. But his son... He reached out and felt Luke's force presence growing dimmer and dimmer.

"Get me a shuttle and a medic now!" Vader yelled.

"Yes sir!"

Vader didn't run but he did walk faster towards the hanger where a shuttle and medic were waiting. Luke would NOT die, he would make sure of it. He quickly boarded the shuttle then took off. There was no time to waste.

Normally he would never be concerned about someone. But this was different. Luke was different. He was his son, the child he thought died with his wife for so many years, But he was alive. If he didn't do something his child would no longer be alive.

Vader reached out once more and followed Luke's presence. He soon saw a form laying on the ground in the snow. Luke. The sith landed the shuttle nearby then rushed out towards the figure on the ground.

He bent down beside the figure and to his horror he saw Luke's face bleeding and he looked like he was freezing to death. Stupid, insignificant Rebels couldn't even find a safe place, and make sure that his son was fine.

One of the various reasons Luke belonged with him. 

Vader took off his cape and gently wrapped it around his son then scooped him up into his arms. He walked back into the shuttle to see the shocked expression on the medic's face.

"Do whatever you have to keep him alive. If he dies your death will be very painful." Vader boomed as he gently set Luke down.

"M-My Lord this is Luke Skywalker, he killed my brother on the Death Star."

"I do not care unless you want to join him you will do whatever you have to do to keep him alive."

"Yes sir!"

Vader scowled under the helmet as soon as the medic was no longer useful they were dead for refusing him.

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Vader paced back in forth outside of the medbay as he anxiously waited on a update on his son. He had already killed three men for just approaching him about something that wasn't related to Luke's condition then the medic from earlier. 

A medic finally walked out with a datapad in her hands.

"What's his condition?"

"He was suffering from deep cuts along his face and hypothermia. We think the cuts came from a native species called a Wampa. You brought him just in time My Lord or he wouldn't have made it. But he's stable now and should be awake in a few hours."

Vader nodded and waved his gloved hand. "Dismissed."

The medic quickly walked away, clearly glad away from Vader.

Vader entered the medbay to find Luke on a nearby bed, wrapped up in blankets and with several bacta patches on his face. He slowly walked over to Luke's bedside. To think Luke would have died if he hadn't been there. But now...But now he would be alright and he was with him as it always should have been from the moment he was born.

He gently brushed a piece of hair out of Luke's face and genuinely smiled for the first time in over twenty years.

A/N: Yay! Dad Vader to the rescueeeee! I mean Han would have found Luke like normal but Vader got there before he did this time. XD Hope you enjoyed!