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crystal417
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The Music Box
Summary: As a parting gift Obi-Wan gives Padme a music box that plays a special song. Now nearly 30 decades laster the music box mysteriously makes it into the hands of Padme's only daughter. Now Leia is about to discover a startling, deep, dark secret about her mother's past.
Note: This is NOT an Obidala story. Its actually an Anakin/Padme story.
Okay to begin to the story:
Prologue
The tears clouded in Padme’s eyes as she handed Obi-Wan her only son. She gently placed the tiny infant in Obi-Wan’s waiting arms. She kissed the top of his head. He had blond hair just like his father’s when he was little. “I’ll never forget you.”
Obi-Wan reached over and hugged his dear friend, “I will take good care of him.”
Padme smiled through her tears as they broke apart, “I know you will.” Padme looked over at her daughter sleeping in her crib. Leia’s hair was extremely dark, just like her mother’s. Padme chocked back more tears. In a few hours Leia would be gone from her forever as well.
Obi-Wan reached over and handed her box, with intricate carving on the top. Padme gently took it in her own hands and opened the box. Beautiful music filled in ears. Music from her home planet of Naboo, not just music, music from Naboo Opera. Padme chocked back more tears as she smiled at Obi-Wan, “Thank you. This means the world to me.”
Obi-Wan gave her one last smile and left. He was leaving for Tatooine, with her son, her only son. Padme turned and picked up a picture. Another object that meant the world to her, a reminder of what used to be. She kissed the top of it and slid it into the secret compartment in the music box. Obi-Wan literally though of everything.
Leia gurgled and Padme put the music box away and picked up her daughter, “Nobody will ever know, will they?” Padme kissed Leia’s forehead, “Nobody will ever know.”
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crystal417
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Chapter One
Leia brushed some stray hairs out of her eyes and she walked down the dusty streets of Tatooine, a planet she had hoped to never have to see again.
“What exactly are we looking for?” Han Solo asked.
Leia smiled at her impatient companion. “Answers. Answers about my family, Luke’s and mine. We know nothing about our father, our mother; we know nothing about their history, about their lives. We don’t even know our mother’s name.”
Han laced his fingers through hers as he picked up her hand, “We’ll find those answer’s Sweetheart.”
“Problem is,” Luke Skywalker commented, “Is that we don’t know exactly where to start.”
The group continued walking until Leia felt an invisible hand stop her. She turned towards a small shop, a trinket shop of sorts, and headed in.
Luke and Han watched Leia wander through the crowds towards the small shop. Han looked at Luke with a strange and almost frightened look. Luke shrugged and they set off after the Princess of Alderaan.
Leia felt like she was being guided toward a specific object in the crowded tent. Leia picked up a small music box that seemed oddly familiar. “That will be 20 credits.” A nasally voice said. Unconsciously Leia handed her a handful of credits and walked out of the tent, still staring at the music box.
Han and Luke finally caught up to Leia just as she was leaving the tent. “What’s with the box?” Han asked.
Leia simply continued to stare at it. Something seemed familiar, oddly familiar about that box. Leia ran her fingers across the top and then slowly unlocked and opened the box. Music rang out of the box and Leia felt like every cell her body was being caressed. Something about the music seemed so relaxing and so familiar.
See-Threepio, being the nosy droid, commented, “That is music from the Naboo Opera, something so rare these days to hear.”
Han wanted to tell the droid to stuff it but from the way Leia was staring at the box it was as if she was mesmerized. “It seems so familiar.” Leia whispered.
“It cannot be,” Threepio said.
“Why?” Luke asked.
“The carving on the top and the music makes it clear that this music box originates from the planet of Naboo. However, Naboo culture and life was destroyed a little after the Clone Wars.”
Leia tried to shake the familiar feeling she was getting from the box but she just couldn’t seem to shake it. The box seemed so familiar somehow.
“Why don’t we find a place to stay for the evening and tomorrow we can begin our search?” Han suggested.
Leia shook her head, “Our search as already begun.”
Ice chills traveled down Luke’s spine at hearing his sister’s voice. She sounded almost processed or as if she really had seen the music box before. He shuddered and exchanged another confused look with Han.
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BrownEyes_Blue
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This is very intriquing now....please do continue! 
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crystal417
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Thanks! I hope to post another chapter soon.
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Looks good so far. I like stories where they find out about their mother.
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Very nice, you've caught my attention.
Keep posting!
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Leia curled up on a chair inside the Tatooine Inn. She continued to stare at the music box. Something was so familiar about it and she really wanted to know what was. Her hands ran down the sides of the box. It seemed as if something was calling her to it. But what was it? Leia ran her fingers down the front of the music box and trigged some sort of lock. Leia put her fingers on the edge of a picture that was sticking out and gently pulled it out.
Luke and Han watched all this, still confused. Han leaned over and whispered to his friend, “What do you think she has found?”
Luke shrugged, “I really don’t know. I’m just as confused as you are, old friend.”
Leia stared at the picture of seven people. Her eyes were drawn to the sad looking woman at the right, “Mom.” She whispered.
Luke bolted out of his chair, “What?”
Leia gently touched the young woman’s face. “This IS my mother.” She looked at Luke, “I mean our mother.”
“How do you know?” Luke whispered.
Leia’s eyes squinted, “I just do. She seems so familiar. I barely knew our mother, she died when I was young but I just know this is her.”
Han watched the twins silently for a few minutes and then he asked the question they were all a little afraid to voice, “How did a Naboo music box with your mother’s picture inside of it, get here on Tatooine?”
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Leia rubbed her eyes, she had been staring at the computer for hours. So far she had come up with little about the planet Naboo. Han handed her a strong cup of coffee, “Still nothing?”
Leia shook her head and swiveled to face her lover, “Not much. I remember Bail once mentioning how Naboo was home to Chancellor Palpatine but other than that I know nothing.”
“Aren’t Chancellor Palpatine and Emperor Palpatine the same person?” Han asked.
Leia nodded, “Palpatine was elected Chancellor and then used his power to create his Empire, at least that’s what I was told.”
“What do you mean, at least that’s what you were told?”
“Palpatine’s past is still a mystery. He had most of the evidence and facts surrounding him erased when he created the Empire.”
Luke entered the room looking as tired as the rest of the felt. He blinked his eyes in a chance to clear them, “Maybe Palpatine destroyed Naboo and all evidence of its existence in a chance to erase his own past.”
Han looked at the Jedi, “I don’t even want to know how you knew what we were talking about.”
Leia bit her lip, “Then why does Threepio have all that information on Naboo?”
“All that information?” Han asked, “Goldenrod barely knew anything.”
“He did know more than most though,” Luke pointed out.
Leia picked up the photograph again. “I wonder who the other people in this picture are?”
Han looked over her shoulder at the picture, “Family perhaps?”
Leia clicked her tongue. There were two males and five females in the picture. Who were they? Han’s suggestion of family was a good lead and a good possibility.
“Luke, what about the Lars family?” Leia asked. Luke never talked about his aunt and uncle. Where they really his aunt and uncle? And if they were that made them Leia’s family as well, didn’t it?
Luke sat down on a chair across from his sister, “There’s not really much to tell. My grandfather, Cliegg Lars, died when I was just a baby and I don’t really remember much about him.”
“How exactly were Anakin and Owen brothers?” Leia asked, “I mean were they half brothers or step brothers or something because they have different surnames.”
Luke shrugged, “I believe they were step brothers. Our grandmother married Cliegg, who already had a son, Owen.”
Leia pondered this for a moment, “What was our grandmother’s name?”
“Shmi,” Luke answered, “Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru wouldn’t talk about her much. I guess it was too painful for either of them.”
Han thought about this for a moment, “Is that all you know about them?”
Luke nodded, “I never really asked questions because they usually didn’t answer, they didn’t like to shake up the family tree.”
“Maybe we should start shaking that tree out at the old moisture farm ruins.” Han suggested.
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ENJOY!
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Very interesting! I will be looking out for the next post.
How long after ROTJ is this?
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This is really interesting I like the story line. I hope there is more 
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jedilady_th: This takes place about a year after ROTJ, its sort of an AU from the EU.
leia_amigirl: Oh there will be more!
P.S. I WRITE for reviews.  I should have another post up before Friday.
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Good work Crystal!!!
A very interesting concept. Luke and Leia need to know anyway 
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The group arrived at the Lars farm later the next afternoon. Chewbacca, the big furry Wookiee everyone loved, was already complaining about the sand in his fur.
Luke swallowed tightly; he hadn’t been back here since he saw his aunt and uncle’s dead bodies. He closed his eyes to shut out the images but they just wouldn’t seem to leave him alone. He blamed himself for their deaths, even after all these years the guilt wouldn’t leave him alone.
Leia walked down the ramp of the Millennium Falcon and already felt sad being there. She walked over the four headstones off to the side of the farm. Leia fell to her knees at her grandmother’s grave and closed her eyes. In pain she grabbed and clenched some sand that was by her knees. As soon as she picked it up she could hear the painful cries of death in her head. There was also a woman crying and some man screaming “Anakin! Anakin!” Her body pulsed with pain and she through the sand up over her head. Hot wind rushed around her and her hair picked up in the flying warm breeze.
Luke knelt down beside his sister and gently put an arm on her shoulder, “Leia?”
Leia opened her eyes and looked at her brother, “He murdered her. Its very possible our father murdered our grandmother.” Leia’s body trembled and two hot tears slipped out from under her eyelids.
Luke swallowed his own tears and wrapped his sister in his arms, “I’m sure that’s not true.”
Leia didn’t answer as a strange, melodious voice filled her head. “You need to be calm, honey, you MUST find your mother’s secrets. Your future depends on it.”
Han down the ramp of his ship to see the twins embracing and even from as far away as he was he could see Leia shake. What was wrong? Han slowly walked over. “What’s wrong?”
Luke pulled away from his sister and brushed himself off. Han helped Leia up and she too brushed the sand from her clothes. “We need to find my mother’s answers. They key may very well be here. If we split up we may be able to find something sooner.”
Luke looked Han with a confused expression. Han shrugged and mouthed, “Do what she says.” Luke nodded and the group split up.
As soon as Luke and Han left her, Leia pulled out the picture again. “How well did you know my grandmother, Mother?” Leia headed towards one of the burnt buildings and felt the pains of death invade her system again. Something was here, pain, more suffering.
Han and Luke wandered through some wreckage. Han sighed, “Kid, I really don’t know how much we will find. It looks as though Jawas have stolen just about everything.”
Luke nodded, “And what they haven’t stolen sand storms have probably ruined. We used to get some nasty storms through-” Luke was cut off by a blood curdling scream.
Luke looked and Han and they both cried, “Leia!”
It didn’t take the two men long to catch up with Leia. Leia sat crouched on the ground outside the main house, “Leia, Sweetheart, what is it?” Han asked.
Leia didn’t answer, she simply rocked on her heals, “Pain, suffering, death.”
Han looked up at look and raised his eyebrows, “What exactly is going on here, Kid?”
Luke was deep in thought for a moment, “I really don’t know. It seems that Leia has a deep connection with our family. A strong connection with our mother, perhaps even our grandmother. Something I do not share.”
Han brushed back some stray hairs that were sticking to Leia’s forehead, “What do you think we should do?”
“Maybe we might find some answers at Ben’s old hut.”
Leia looked up at her brother with a wild expression, “No! The answers are here. OUR answers are here, somewhere. We just need to find them. That music box was here on Tatooine for a reason, we are here for a reason.”
“But what is that reason?” Luke asked.
Leia looked at him with an expression that almost scared Luke, “We need to find that reason.
~Crystal~
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Whoa...Leia seems like she's snapped. O_O;;
Very nice update, keep writing!
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Wow that was great! I love the descriptions of Leia. She seems really intent on finding the secrets of her past so much so that she is acting weird! That was really great (wait, I think I said that...) anyways, keep up the good work.
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I'm enjoying this. Keep up the good work.
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Whoa! Its been a LONG time. Sorry guys, I've been so busy with graduation stuff. I AM SO SO SO sorry. I'll have another update hopefully this weekend (i have to transfer the file from my old computer to this one)
See you soon and thanks for the reviews!
~Crystal~
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