Star Wars AU
So ages ago I posted some art of Sith!Leia and how Anakin found her and trained her, whilst Obi trained/protected Luke... I have started writing a scene and I just wondered if you’d take a minute of your time to read it and tell me if I’m onto something or just wasting my time
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SET ON KASHYYYK--- LEIA HAS COME TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HER PAST/BROTHER/FATHER
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“Hey Princess.” Han’s shadow covered Leia from where she was seated on the floor. “Whatcha staring at?”
Leia looked up from the flowers to him, not hiding her grimace. “Why would you want to know?”
Han slumped down on the ground next to her, on top of the bed of flowers she was examining, but facing the opposite direction, “Well, you did try to murder us not too long ago.”
Leia’s poker face fell for a moment before she looked away, pulling one knee up, holding it. “I was protecting my Father.”
“I geddit.” He somehow nodded both smugly and knowingly. “I suppose it’s hard to be you this week.” He was snarky but she was beginning to think this was just his nature.
“I understand it is hard for everyone because of the Empire, but for me it is not black and white.” She tried to explain. It had been hard this week for her! She had discovered she had a twin, and her father wasn’t the man she thought he was, and that maybe just maybe she was on the wrong side of a war. To top off all of that she had willingly handed her Lightsaber over to Luke, to prove she wouldn’t outright try to kill them, and she was on a strange planet where only a few spoke standard.
“I suppose not.” He shrugged, letting Leia stew before adding, “It’s red and green.”
Leia, loosing any patience she reserved for this man, scoffed. “You’re not funny.”
“I’m not tryna be.” He rolled his eyes, “Listen to what I’m saying. The war is red and green. Luke is green, Vader is red. You’re sorta purple now.”
That did make her crack a smile, but she shook her head. “That’s not how colours work.”
“At least you’ve stopped moping.” He raised a brow and winked.
“I wasn-”
"Leia." Luke interrupted her and Han's conversation, the former stood from her seated position looking up towards her brother. Luke was standing above them on an incline just to their right. "You need to come here, there's someone you should meet." He gestured for her to follow as he retreated into the trees. She glanced back to Han before heading off in Luke’s direction. Leia quickened her pace, when she lost sight of him momentarily, running up the incline following his trail.
"Who is it?" Leia questioned suspiciously, after a moment of silence, still slightly wary of Luke even though he'd been nothing but kind to her.
Luke glanced at her, halting just before a meadow. A circle of well planted trees hid the clearing to the naked eye. "He trained me. Me and… our father."
Leia stiffened before giving a curt nod and once again following her brother, he held a branch out of her way, once again trying to reassure her he was no longer a threat.
The meadow was as green as the rest of the planet, a sight Leia would never tire of being raised on a Destroyer or Starkiller or a Death Star. Nature was magnificent in a way machinery would never be. The grass met their ankles and a few orange and pink flowers were visible, just poking out of the brush. Leia trod carefully to avoid stepping on one.
"Leia." An authoritative voice spoke. Leia met the man’s eyes but the man wasn't a man. He was half a man. A quarter a man. Mostly just energy now. He did however resemble a man. He was aged if he wasn’t monochrome, he would definitely still have white hair. His features were relaxed but the remnants of wear and exhaustion. He had a slight beard which covered his face, but paired with his angular nose and piercing eyes he seemed non-threatening. He wore traditional Jedi robes and stood with his hands clasped, trying to be the epitome of JEDI. Leia had only seen him a few times prior, the last being when her Father struck him down.
"I don't know your name." Her brows pinched. "He called you General once."
"This is Obi-Wan." Luke informed, slightly confused as he was sure he'd mentioned his master beforehand but he supposed it had been a rather strenuous week for his sister. Forgiveness was granted.
"I'm glad to meet you, Leia." Obi-Wan nodded politely. "I prefer you over Darth Zus."
That did anger Leia slightly, "I am still Darth Zus..." Luke’s eyes widened, not very subtly. "There is a conflict in me. I miss my father, and my home, but he has lied to me about so many things."
"Anakin was troubled as you are. He tried to fight his troubles but looking to find trouble leads to trouble."
Leia made a face as she tried to digest that, giving Luke an opening to ask, "Master, if I may ask, is there any hope for Vader?"
"There's always hope." Obi-Wan smiled, gesturing to the children. "You and your sister prove that.
"I don't believe all the evil is father." Luke folded his arms, remembering their encounter. "There was a slither of light. I felt it. When he saw me, he paused, he didn’t strike me.”
"It is mostly the Emperor that orders him around." Leia agreed. “I don’t think the Emperor is entirely honest with Father. I know he didn’t know about you. He would’ve come for you.”
Obi-Wan started to walk, stroking his beard in thought. “I did cloak Luke for his first fifteen years, but he was strong with the force and eventually I couldn’t. I also hid us on a planet I knew your father would never visit again.”
“You knew he wouldn’t visit Tatooine?” Leia and Luke simultaneously questioned; both their brows furrowed in confusion, their faces made Obi-Wan halt his movements and try to suppress a chuckle.
“He was my Padawan for many years and my friend for more. We fought side by side in the Clone Wars.” The ghost informed them, a smile pulling at his lips. “I know him. He was lucky to find you Leia.”
She considered that for a moment, “elaborate.”
“You were sent to live with Bail Organa, a dear friend of your mothers. You were a Princess for five weeks before he tracked you down.”
Leia again took a moment before she sadly smiled at her brother, “Don’t tell the smuggler about that.” Luke nodded silently, understanding it was what his sister needed. “So, Bail and Mother were close?”
“Yes. They often agreed on Senate business, so were often together.”
“Senate?” Leia questioned, eyes darting from Luke to Obi-Wan. Luke, yet again gave her another sad smile. “Father, doesn’t talk about her. I don’t even know her name.”
“Padme Amidala, one of the finest Senators this Galaxy had to offer. She often plead for peace, especially if no one else did.” Obi-Wan stared at Leia before commenting, “he dresses you like your mother. You share an uncanny resemblance.”
The wide smile that split Leia’s face didn’t hide the tears but she found she didn’t care, she felt safe in this meadow, with cracks of sunlight shining through onto these men she would’ve killed less than a week ago. “Were they in love?”
“Annoyingly so.” Obi-Wan huffed a laugh, “To convince the Jedi Council Anakin and Padme were just friends became a lot harder when she fell pregnant.”
Luke even chuckled at that, despite having heard it before. With Leia here it was as if he was hearing this all again for the first time. Leia’s eyes were glassy as she asked the next question. “And was he a good man? The Emperor told me most of the atrocities he’s committed but before all that, when he was Anakin.”
Hearing Leia say ‘Anakin’ shocked Luke more than he thought it would. His sister snarled when she first heard the name and barely came to accept it, simply calling him Father or Vader when appropriate. It just proved how much she trusted them, now. How much she believed.
“As I said he was my friend, but he was also a brother to me.” Obi-Wan looked above their heads, memories clearly captivating the ghost. “There is too much for me to tell, he was the best of us.”
The distant flap of a wing and the constant chirp of crawlings was all that the three allowed to enter the meadow; each too afraid to break the tranquillity. Obi-Wan and Leia were reminiscing but Luke had nothing of his father. He was denied his father by his mentor, which he was of course grateful for but seeing Leia did cause jealousy to claw at him.
“Was he a good dad?” Luke eventually spoke. The question physically hurt to ask and he knew the answer would too but he had to know.
Sensing the turmoil Luke had, Leia chose her words carefully. "He often had to sneak away to be father and not Vader… There were times where even I questioned, he was truly part of the Darkside.
“We used to plan to run away. We would live in a cabin on some backwater planet and just be father and Leia. It was hard to be loyal to me and to the Emperor, as it was hard for me to follow my fathers’ orders and to serve Sidious. All I know is he treated me kindly, despite everything. He would tend my wound and tuck me in at night, even when I was too old for that.
“I used to think I was not all bad because of mother but now I think I am not all bad because he is not all bad.”
Luke nodded, his face a mixture of emotions. The boy didn’t know what to feel but he felt a lot, it was overwhelming.
"He was so angry." Leia continued, not wanting Luke to be upset. "I didn't know why the name Skywalker caused him to destroy the Hull. We had to evacuate our vessel. Now I know, you weren’t a villain or a traitor. He was upset that you were hidden from him."
Luke’s eyes glistened and without warning he was hugging his sister. A hug wasn’t foreign to Leia but a public show of affection certainly wasn’t the norm, despite this she still patted his back and tried to awkwardly comfort him.