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The Key ( NJO/AU: OC, Jacen, Luke, and More ) Updated 9/1 Chapter 9
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Title: The Key
Author(s): TheOnlyJediPrincess Beta: Aiel and NYCitygurl
Timeframe: NJO/ AU
Characters: OC: Sara Skywalker, Jacen Solo, OC: Obi-wan Skywalker, Luke Skywalker and others
Genre: Drama, some action/adventure
Keywords: OC, AU
Summary: In the great Jedi purge Obi-wan Kanobi locked away important information deep in the Jedi temple. Not really knowing what importance this key was, Luke Skywalker took this key in as his daughter. To protect her from all who hunted her, Luke hid his daughter away only to find that she has disappeared. While visiting a bar on Tatooine with his Father Han Solo, Jacen is captivated by a girl with many secrets.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Star Wars it belongs to Lucasfilm. This is my way to be apart if that world. I did not write the songs that are intertwined in my story, because I am musically challenged. I felt that there are other people that are more talented in that area then I.
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Prologue:
A long time ago, the clone wars corrupted the republic. The Jedi were forced into hiding. Before he fled the Jedi Temple, Obi-Wan Kenobi unloaded all the information into a electronic Holo-Recorder. The recorder held the history of the republic. Everything one would want to know. The fall of the republic, a love story gone horribly wrong, but most important the key to putting an end to the Sith: how to create a Thought Bomb. This information if in the wrong hands would be the end for the Jedi, the end for the republic and the end to peace in the galaxy. He was bringing the information down to the depths of the Jedi temple, down so far that only the elite of masters knew about it.
On his way down, Obi-Wan found a five year old youngling hiding behind a big potted plant. She had escaped the fate of the rest of the younglings. He picked her up and brought her with him.
After many secrete passages and locked doors, they stood into this big room. Status of Jedi masters long past filled the room. When even the strongest of masters need guidance, they would come here to get it. One particular statue was special to Obi-Wan. It was the statue of his old Master Qui-Gon Jin. Underneath the statue was a door, with a hand print on it. Obi-Wan put his hand on it and a bright blue light filled the dark room with light. The light faded and the door opened.
Inside the door was Qui-Gon’s lightsaber. It was the only thing in the statue. He grabbed the lightsaber and gave it to the girl. "Here this is yours now; you will need it to protect you."
"But master Obi-Wan, I don't know how to use one yet." the girls voice sounded scared.
"It's alright; I will show you how to use it." Obi-Wan said as he put the data he carried into the statue. He closed the door. To lock the data up he took the younglings hand and placed it on the door. A rainbow of Red, Purple, Blue and Green light filled the room. They walked out of the big room. When the door closed behind them, Obi-Wan stopped and turned. "Here put your hand here." The girl followed the order. Again the door locked the same way the door to the statue did. "I'm sorry to do this to you," he whispered to her. “You and the younglings you are now the key to the past."
"Master Obi-Wan I don't understand."
"It's alright; you don't have to right now." He answered her, and they raced out of the temple.
Obi-Wan sent the girl to live on the planet of Naboo, The Empire would not find her there.
Years Past, Obi-Wan was living on Tatooine. He was keeping and eye on the son of Darth Vader.
One day an elderly lady came to see him unannounced. In her arms was a tiny baby wrapped in a blanket.
"Are you Master Kenobi?" She asked him.
"Who wants to know?"
"I do," She stated. "The baby's mother ordered me to bring the baby to a Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Are you Him?" she asked again.
"Yes. Where is the mother?" Obi-Wan didn't sense any danger.
"She was buried on Naboo a few days ago. Before she died she left orders to bring the baby to you." She handed the baby to him, and left with out another word.
Obi-Wan went back into the hut he lived in. Inside of the blanket was a small note.
Master Kenobi,
Please take care of my little princess. She is now the key.
Chapter one:
Sara peeked threw the curtain, she didn’t see him. For the first time in three months, the stranger that had caught her eye would miss her sing tonight. Tonight was the night she was going to sing the song she wrote for him.
She stepped on to the small stage at the bar that she waitresses at. The boy wasn’t at his usual spot. She looked around everywhere for him, but couldn’t find him.
Sara sat on the stool on the end of the stage, in front of the microphone. She cleared her throat. “This song I wrote for someone who comes here every Thursday. I’ve always been to shy to introduce myself to him so I wrote this song.” She grabbed her guitar sitting next to the stool. She started picking at the strings on the guitar.
At the entrance to the bar on Tatooine, Jacen Solo was running late. He sees the girl that had caught his eye three months ago, when his father had taken him there for a sabacc game. She was just sitting on the stool picking at her guitar. She took a deep breath in and looked up. Just as she started singing she saw him standing at the door. She smiled a big smile so brightly it took Jacen’s breath away. After a few words in the song, he new that the song for him.
There you are again
I see you all the time
We haven’t really met yet,
But you know, I don’t mind
’Cuz I think today’s the day
I’m gonna go right up and say to you
Would it be alright
If I called you up sometime?
There you go again
I let you get away
At least I’ve got more time
To think of what I might say (like)
“Couldn’t we be good” (or maybe)
“Don’t you think that we should find
Some quiet little place where we’d make love all day?”
Come and talk to me
What are you waiting for
’Cuz I can see you passing every day and I’m always wanting more
Come and talk to me
What are you gonna do
’Cuz I can’t seem to get the nerve to get off my own ass
And come and talk to you
You know I love the type
You look like you’ve been up all night
And yet somehow still look beautiful
You do it all at the same time
Whenever you walk by
You always look me in the eyes
And in that moment I know
the same thing’s on your mind
It always seems to be that I let the good things pass by
because I let my fear stop me (but not this time)
Later that night, Jacen sat waiting. The bartender was kicking the last of its drunks out, as he cleaned up the bar he walked up to Jacen “Are you the boy from the song?”
“Yes.” Jacen replied almost fearing he was going to stay she wasn’t coming out.
“Sara will be out in a minute, she is just packing up her things.”
‘Sara’ Jacen repeated her name in his head. ‘Sara, what a gorgeous name. It fits her perfectly.’ Jacen daydreamed while he waited.
“Bye Sam,” her voice came from behind Jacen. Jacen turned to look at her, he was in awe. “I was wondering if you were going to stay.” Sara smiled at him.
Jacen couldn’t move all he could do was just stared at her. She was so pretty with her brown hair and green eyes.
“I’m Sara, Sara Walker.” She held out her hand to shake his, with a smirk on her face.
It took a minute, but Jacen had to shake his head a little to come back to reality. “I’m… I’m Jacen.” He finally spit out.
“Jacen,” she repeated slowly. “It fits you well.” There was a moment of silence. All they could do was stare at each other. Then Sara broke the silence.
“Look… do you want to come over to my place and talk. I would love to go out but then I have to pay the babysitter over time.”
“Yea, sure” Jacen snapped back to reality again. He offered to carry her bag as they walked out of the bar.
***
Sara and Jacen strolled into Sara’s home. “I’ll be right back” Sara walked in to the other room leaving Jacen alone in the kitchen. Jacen looked around the kitchen. He noticed lots of pictures on the fridge. To pass the time he stared at each one of them.
Sara walked into her three year old son’s bed room. He was fast asleep. She bent over to kiss him on the forehead.
Obi-Wan’s eyes opened “Hi Mommy.” He whispered.
“Hi sweet heart. You’re supposed to be sleeping.” Sara smiled at him.
“Did you sing your song tonight?”
“Yes I did, and it worked.” Her son smiled at her “Now you go back to sleep.”
“Ok” Obi-Wan turned and fell back asleep.
Sara walked back in to the kitchen where Jacen was looking at the pictures on the fridge.
“Is this your son?” he asked when she walked in to the room.
“Yea. His name is Obi-Wan. He’s three.”
“He looks like someone I know. He kind of looks like you.” Jacen smiled at Sara. “Who’s-
“Where-“Jacen and Sara said at the same time. Sara knew what he was going to ask. And she didn’t want to answer that question.
“Sorry … go ahead, what were you going to say?” Jacen insisted.
“Where are you from?”
“Well I live on Coruscant,” Jacen took a seat on the stool at the kitchen counter. Sara grabbed a couple of glasses from the cabinet. She filled the gasses with water. She sat next to Jacen and placed the glasses in from of them, “but I have lived many different places growing up.” He continued.
“You’re a Jedi aren’t you?” Sara asked out of the blue.
“Yea. How did you know?” Jacen was surprised. He had not expected her to ask so sudden. He could feel her in the force, almost as strong as his twin sister. It was what made him notice her in the beginning.
“I just do.” She looked at her glass. Jacen could see that something was wrong.
“Do you have something against Jedi?” He asked suspiciously.
“No.” She said defensively. “No- no I don’t.” Sara got up and walked over to the sink and dumped out her water.
“You can feel the Force, can’t you?” Jacen asked her. Sara nodded her head yes. “So can your son.”
Sara whipped around and looked Jacen right in the eye. “You leave my son alone.” She said firmly.
“Look, I didn’t come here to take your son away. I came here to get to know you.” Jacen explained himself.
Relived, “I’m sorry; I just don’t want anything to happen to him.” She explained.
“I know. Look as long as I’m around, I’m not going to let anything happen to your son or you for that matter.”
Sara looked a Jacen and smiled. “Thanks.”
After a few minutes of silence, Jacen just had to break it. “So what is your story? How did you end up here?”
“My Story?” She rolled her eyes, “It’s long and complicated.”
“Well do you have to work tomorrow?”
“No, but Obi-Wan has summer camp in the morning.”
“Well we can stay up all night talking until you have to bring Obi-Wan to camp, then we can get some rest.” Jacen Smiled at her.
“Where do I start?”
“How about from the beginning.”
Sara chuckled to herself. “Ok, that doesn’t help much but…Well my Mom had me when she was really old. She never made it through child birth. I was sent to live with my uncle Obi-Wan here in this house.
“One day my uncle was called upon for help. We went to help and my uncle was killed by my grand father. But I didn’t know that he was my grandfather at the time. A young man that we were with took me in as his daughter. He became my dad. Someone was looking for me, someone bad, I don’t know why. My father sent me to live here with my best friend. Someone my dad trusted. …” Sara became very quiet for a little bit. Then continued. “I only saw my father maybe three times.
“I fell in love with him… my friend who I was staying with. But after living with each other for a year, we just got into fight after fight. He would hit me, hard sometimes, I couldn’t take it any more, I had to get out. So a friend helped me get away, he was sort of my hero, but his family didn’t want me with him and on top of that I found out I was pregnant, so I ran and hid here.”
“I never saw him, my father or my hero again,” a tear ran down Sara’s cheek, “I got my job at the bar, had my son, and here we are.” Sara finished her story with, “it’s hard sometimes, I look at my son and I’m reminded of my past,” Sara came back to the present. “What about you?”
“Well, my mom is a senator, and my Dad is an ex-smuggler, kind of a weird combo, but they love each other.”
Sara laughed as Jacen joked around with his story.
“I have a twin sister Jaina, and then there is my little brother Anakin, we went to my uncle’s Jedi academy, we were kidnapped a couple of times and rescued, a few years later I became an apprentice to my Uncle. My dad took me out to this bar and I fell in love with this waitress we had.”
Sara started blushing and the young man smiled, “I think it was love at first sight. So I kept coming back…” Jacen stop for a second, “well I tried to make it entertaining.”
Sara giggled “I liked it.”
Jacen stood up from the stool he was sitting in, he took a step closer to Sara, brushing a strand of hair from her face as she just looked up at him standing in front of her as he finally lent down and kissed her.
***
There was a knock at the door. Obi-Wan ran to open it.
“Hi! I’m Jacen.” Jacen bent down to greet the three year old. “You must be Obi-Wan.”
The boy just stared at Jacen.
“Where is your mom?” he asked.
“Obi-Wan, who is at the door?” Sara called from the other room.
“It’s me. Jacen.”
Sara came to the door, a big smile appeared on her face as she saw him and she pulled Solo into a hug, Jacen was filled with joy just having her in his arms.
“What brings you by? I wasn’t expecting you until next week,” Sara said as they walked into the kitchen.
“Well I couldn’t wait to see you,” Sara blushed and Jacen added, “that and I can’t make it next week. I have to help my family. I’m sorry.”
“It’s ok. Family is important.”
“I was wondering if I could spend the day with you today?”
“Well, I had planned to spend the day with my son, so you are going to have to ask him.”
Jacen knelt down to Obi-Wan. “So what do you say buddy? Can I spend the day with you and your mom?”
Obi-Wan was hiding behind his mom’s legs, he nodded a yes.
“So what are we going to do today?” Jacen asked the shy boy.
Obi-Wan shrugged his little shoulders, he didn’t know.
“We usually go run errands around town, or find a game to play here or read a book.” Sara answered for him, “but today I think we can alter our plans.”
“I have an idea,” Jacen tried to sound excited to get capture Obi-Wan’s attention, “how about we go for a ride in my ship?”
Obi-Wan’s eyes grew wide, “Yeah!” he turned to his mom, “please Mommy can we go?”
“I don’t know baby.”
“I won’t take you guys far, we won’t even leave the system.” Jacen tried to help Obi-Wan convince his mom.
“We are not supposed to be leaving the planet.”
“Mommy, we will be back before Papa comes for us.” Obi-Wan knew his mother’s fear of leaving.
Sara feared that she would leave and her father would come for her, she didn’t want to miss him. However, deep down the young woman knew he was not coming, she had already missed him long ago.
“I know, sweet heart,” she paused. “Ok we can go.” She gave in.
“Thanks mommy!” and Obi-Wan was already running off to get ready.
Sara looked over at Jacen, he had a happy grin on his face as he slowly leaned down and kissed her.
“Come on lets go!” Obi-Wan rushed back into the room, he grabbed Jacen’s hand no longer shy of the man and pulled him away from his Mom.
“Ok Buddy, we’re coming.”
***
When they finally arrived at the space port, it felt like Obi-Wan had excitedly pulled Jacen the whole way.
“Obi-Wan!” Sara lightly scolded, “stop pulling, we are not in a hurry.”
“It’s ok,” Jacen picked Obi-Wan up and put him on his shoulders, “you see that ship way in the back? That’s mine; It’s called an X-wing.
“An X-wing?” Sara asked, “is there going to be enough room for all of us?”
“Of course, this one has been modified for two people.” He smiled at her.
Jacen was showing Obi-Wan around his X-wing, Sara lost herself in watching them. He was so good with Obi-Wan, it made her like the Jedi even more.
“Come on Mommy, let’s go.” Sara’s son called to her, she smiled in response and walked over to them.
***
They spent the whole day flying around Tatooine, Obi-Wan sat on Jacen’s lap and the Jedi knight showed him all the flight controls.
It was late when they returned home, Sara was carrying Obi-wan, who had fallen asleep on the ride home into the house. She put him to bed and when she came back out of his room, Jacen was there waiting for her.
She hurried over to him and her arms around his neck, kissing him as if she was never going to see him again. He kissed her back just as passionately as he held her close to him.
Sara pulled back a bit and looked him in the eyes, “spend the night with me?”
Jacen paused a second and took in a deep breath, “we shouldn’t.”
“Please?”
“Alright, I’ll spend the night here, but we shouldn’t,” there was a moment of silence.
Sara nodded her head yes, “Come on, lets go watch some Holo-net.”
They walked in to the living room and sat down on the couch together. She rested her head on his chest and he locked his arms around her. She could feel the muscles in his arms, it made her feel safe, like no harm could come to her, after a while she fell asleep in his embrace.
Jacen picked her up and carried her to her bed, he gently laid her down and tucked her in, kissing her on the forehead as he turned to leave. Before he got far Sara stopped him.
“Please don’t leave me, I don’t want to be alone tonight.”
There was more silence and then he spoke, “Ok.”
Jacen crawled in the bed and curled up next to Sara, wrapped his arms around her and they both fell asleep together.
***
Sara was able to come home early from work. She was eager to spend time with her son Obi-Wan. When she arrived at home she found her home had been ransacked.
Books on the floor, chairs broken the table tipped upside down, there were markings on the wall that looked like blaster shots. She ran over to hiding place under the coffee table in the living room, the coffee table had been flipped over, and the door had been ripped off.
There was no sign of Obi-Wan anywhere.
Horrified she knelt down and started crying, she didn’t know what to do.
Then suddenly Sara noticed the type of marks on the wall and she knew who took her son. The Empire.
How did they find her? How did they know about her son? Sara wished Jacen was there. She felt so alone, she had no one to turn to, she didn’t even know where to find her father.
But Sara remembered what Jacen said before he left:
“If you need anything at all you can find me here.” Jacen handed her a card with an address on it.
That’s what I’m going to have to do she thought to herself, putting aside the thought of her father coming for her and prepared to leave Tatooine.
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 Yay! Congradulations on a first post my apprentice. 
A few mistakes here and there, but overall a great first chapter. (I'll send you a list of the spelling errors so we can correct them later.  )
Well done and if you're going to have a PM list, put your old Master on it. 
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Very interesting storyline....I'm intrigued. Will you add me to the PM list, if you have one?
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so far, it's really good. some parts I was hoping for a little more background but I'm really looking forward to see what happens next. Add me to the PM list.
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Master Aiel- I just have to say Thank You for all the help you have given me and all the help you will be giving me and Of course you will be added to the PM list.
Jedimaster_JainaSolo- Thank you for taking an interest. I will be happy to put you on the PM list.
voxynking- Thank You very much! I hope you will enjoy the next chapter.
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This looks really interesting! Keep up the great work!
This Sara intrigues me. Please add me to the PM List! 
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DanaeMariSkywalker-Thank you very much!  Of course I'll add you to the PM list.
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Chapter 2
A small sleek ship hung in the blackness of space just above Korriban in the Horuset system. Inside the ship two hooded figures sat in the cockpit watching a small blue Holo-message. An Imperial soldier appearing in the Holo-message spoke: “We have the child.”
“Good,” one of the hooded figures sitting in the captain seat said to the soldier, “we are on our way.” He turned off the Holo and pulled off the black hood of his cloak that hid his face in shadow, revealing small horns emerging from his skull that only a Zebrack would have.
“Are you sure this child is the key Master?” The second of the hooded figures, a thin, pale human with long dark hair, questioned his master.
“The Key is passed down from parent to child, of course he is the key” he scolded coldly, “now,” the tone in his voice was now calmer, “we have to hurry before the Yuuzhan Vong get too far in their invasion where even we can’t stop them.”
“Can’t we let Yuuzhan Vong take care of the Jedi for us?”
“Only if we have the information that has been locked away with the key and if the Yuuzhan Vong gets to Coruscant before we do, they will destroy the information with out even knowing its worth.” He lectured his apprentice. “You see time is running out. Now punch in the coordinates and let’s be off,” he ordered.
The human apprentice did as he was told and in a blink of an eye the ship disappeared into hyperspace.
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Sara arrived on Coruscant late the next day. The city planet was very different from the desert plains on Tatooine there were high-rise buildings all over the place, the young woman had forgotten the unique beauty of all the buildings and traffic as it had been from above Coruscant. How in the galaxy was she going to find Jacen in this vast place?
A cab brought her to a big gray building, Well I guess this narrows it down a bit, she thought as she walked inside the building and into the enormous lobby, spotting a desk with a protocol droid sitting behind it. Relived, she walked up to the desk and asked: “I’m looking for Solo, Ja-“
“Room 81215,” the droid answered before she could get her question out.
“Thanks…um—”
“Elevator is on the right down the hall,” the droid pointed behind Sara.
About fifteen minutes later Sara found the room she was looking for. The name on the door read ‘Coronal Solo.’ Sara knocked on the door.
“Come in.” A female voice echoed through the door.
The door slid open and Sara entered into a spacious, plain room that had a large window that looked out upon a river. But something was wrong with the window, the view through it shouldn’t be a river, it should have been showing the cityscape. Just then the window changed into a bright blue sky with white puffy clouds hovering around the towering buildings, it was a hologram-view window.
She noticed the young woman, who had let her inside the apartment, was standing in front of a hologram unit in the middle of the room, she was dressed in a pilot’s suit, the brown haired woman finally looked up from the holograms of X-wing fighters she had been studying, “can I help you?”
“I’m looking for Jacen Solo, I was told I could find him here.”
“You’re Sara, aren’t you?”
“How do you know who I am?” Sara was even more confused then ever.
“My name is Jaina,” the pretty brown haired woman explained. “Jacen is my twin brother, Jacen is trying to find my family. My Uncle and Aunt were captured about six months ago,” she switched off the hologram, “my parents went to look for them about four months ago, but have been seized as well. My brothers went to go look for them just a few days ago, but have had no luck in finding them.” Jaina sounded very business like.
Sara’s heart, and her hope, were shattering, Will I ever see my son again? she thought, tears starting to weal in her eyes.
“Is everything alright?” Jaina asked her.
Sara shook her head and the tears started flowing. “No,” she whispered. ”I need Jacen’s help.” The young mother looked pleadingly at Jaina . “I have no one else to turn to, the Empire has my son.”
The eldest of the Solo children looked thoughtful for a minute, “I think I can help you” She paused and studied Sara with her brown eyes thoughtfully, “if you can help me get my family back, I promise I will help you find your son.”
“What if we don’t succeed? What will happen to Obi-Wan?”
“Actually it will be one and the same, it’s a safe bet the Empire has my family, as well as your son” Jaina explained to her.
“You think Jacen is with Obi-Wan?” Sara’s eyes brightened with hope.
***
In a small cell, three people sat quietly, the man and a woman sat on the bench in the cell, the middle-aged man had his arm around the women who had bright red hair, and the other person in the cell was a little boy of three, who sat on the floor holding his knees against his chest. After watching the boy for awhile, the man took his arm from around the women and moved to the edge of the bench, he lent down to the boy.
“What’s your name?”
The little boy lifted his head from his knees, “I’m Obi-Wan,” he whispered back.
“I’m Luke, this is my wife Mara,” the man motioned to himself and to his wife, “What is your last name, Obi-Wan?”
“Walker,” The boy whispered again.
“Obi-Wan Walker, it’s nice to meet you,” Luke smiled but the little boy didn’t reply, so he thought he should ask a few more questions, “where is your father or mother?” Obi-Wan shrugged, Luke glanced over at Mara, before trying again gently, “you don’t know...where are you from Obi-Wan?”
“Tatooine.”
“Really now? I grew up on Tatooine, I lived on a moisture farm with my Aunt and Uncle. Where do you live?”
“A cottage in the Desert Mountains.” The child answered brightly looking up at Luke with sad eyes.
Mara leaned around her husband and smiled, “how old are you, Obi-Wan?”
“I’m three.”
Luke moved off the bench to sit next to Obi-Wan, “are you a little scared?” He questioned kindly.
Obi-Wan didn’t answer right away, but lowered his head, “yes,” he finally whispered, Mara knelt down next to her husband as Luke put his arm around the boy to try to comfort him, Obi-Wan in return lent his head against Luke’s shoulder.
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When Sara and Jaina arrived at the station where their family was being held, Jaina had the idea of ambushing a couple stormtroopers and disguising themselves in their armour. After hiding the bodies in a storage closet they ran in to the detention area, the holding cell area was a star shaped building. The centre was the front desk and the points branched out to where the individual rooms were.
Jaina took care of the guards in the room, she walked around the desk and looked at the computer, she picked out the name Solo right away.
“Aisle five, room number 612,” she called out to Sara.
Sara ran down aisle five, room 612 was about half way down the hallway, she pressed the panel key and rushed into the room and spotted Jacen sitting with Anakin on the far bench. Sara threw off the helmet she was wearing and ran into Jacen’s waiting arms, “they have Obi-Wan, Jacen, I don’t know how they found us…I just don’t know…” Sara took in panicky breaths as tears streamed down her face.
Jacen pulled her away, holding her by the shoulders firmly as he looked down at her, “Who? Who took-“
“I found him!” Jaina yelled from another hallway, interrupting Jacen.
“Obi-Wan!” Sara turned from Jacen and ran down the hall towards the front desk where she and Jaina had entered, she could hear the small voice of her son coming down from another hallway.
“Mommy!”
Sara found the hallway that held her son, Obi-Wan emerge from a cell and she rushed up to him as he ran towards her, Sara fell to her knees so she could be at Obi-Wan’s height as her son jumped in to her arms. All Sara could do was hold him tightly, as she kissed him on the head and pulled him back to stare at him. “Are you alright?” She brushed his hair from his eyes, Obi-Wan nodded his head and she wrapped her arms around her son again.
Sara didn’t notice the people gathering around her as Jacen and Anakin followed her, Luke and Mara emerged from the cell after Obi-wan and Jaina came out of another cell from down the hall with her parents. Noticing that Luke was staring at Sara with a look of disbelief on his face, Jacen came up and stood behind her and placed his hand on her shoulder, Sara lifted her eyes and found herself staring at a face she had not seen in a long time, she stood up, lifting Obi-Wan with her, never taking her eyes off the person in front of her, passing Obi-Wan to Jacen, she walked slowly up to the man that had been staring at her. “Daddy?” She whispered.
“Sara, I”- Luke hardly know what to say, before he could continue, Sara wrapped her arms around his neck to hug him tightly, Skywalker put his arms around her and just held her.
Nearly a minute passed before Jacen’s father Han Solo spoke up.
“Hey if we don’t get moving, we all are going to be a pile of space dust.” He took the blaster Jaina handed him and headed for the exit.
The group of nine ran down the hallway towards the docking bay, eventually they ran into a T in the road.
“Okay,” Jaina spoke up as she looked down each way, “the Falcon is this way and the Jade Shadow is that way, I think we should split up. Mom, Dad and Anakin I think we should head for the Falcon, Uncle Luke, Jacen and Sara can go with Aunt Mara to the Jade Shadow.”
“What about the tractor beam?” Anakin asked.
“I’ll take care of it, I’ll get out on the X-wing,” Sara spoke up.
Luke broke in protectively, “What?! No, I’m not losing you again.”
“I’ll be fine Daddy.” Sara defended herself.
“I’m going with you,” Jacen intervened.
“Ok,” Sara nodded. She set Obi-Wan on the floor. “Obi-Wan I need you to do me a favor. I need you to go with your Grandpa.”
“Mommy no!” The little boy protested.
“Please Obi-Wan, he’ll take good care of you. You remember the stories I told you, don’t you?”
Her son nodded his head. “But I want to be with you.” He whimpered.
“I know you do but right now it won’t be safe for you, I promise we will be together soon, okay?” Sara gave her son one last tight hug, and then gave him to her father. Together Obi-Wan and Luke, Mara and the Solo family watched Sara and Jacen disappear down the hallway.
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Sara and Jacen stealthily made their way down the hallway to the main reactor with no trouble at all. Upon entering the room Sara stopped dead in her tracks when she realized that they had to walk on a walkway that stretched out over an endless fall.
“What’s wrong?” Jacen tried to stop himself from running into her.
“High, this is very high.” She froze in her uneasiness from the height.
“Sara we don’t have time for this. We have to hurry.” Jacen took her hand. She had to remind herself that it was for her son, so he would be safe. With this in her mind her fear melted away. She took a deep breath and followed Jacen’s lead to the center of the room where the control computer lived for the main reactor.
They came up to the computer that controlled the main reactor and Jacen started to scroll through the different screens to find the command to turn the tractor beam off. Sara on the other hand, took off the panel that concealed all the wires for the computer, and started playing with the different colored wires. After a few pages of scrolling, Jacen had to bring up the topic of Luke Skywalker. “So that’s your dad? Why didn’t you tell me who he was?” Jacen sounded a little hurt as he started typing commands into the computer.
“It’s not something I like to advertise and I was supposed to be in hiding.” Sara answered as she sliced a set of blue and green wires and started to twist the ends to the blues wires to the green ones.
“What about us? He is my Uncle.”
“It’s not like I have his blood in me.” She was kind of short with him because he was distracting her from concentrating while she sliced a yellow wire and attached it to one of the blue and green wires. “He took me in when I had no one.”
A screen popped up on Jacen’s screen. “Blast! They found out...” the Jedi trailed off as he read that the tractor beam had been disabled. “How did you do that?” He asked know that it wasn’t him that disabled it.
Sara gave him a triumphant smile. “Let’s just say I was a bit of a handful when I was younger.” She grabbed his hand so they could hurry and get out of there before anyone figured out what they had done. “Come on les get out of-“
Blaster shots interrupted her hitting the pole right next to her head, scaring the daylights out of her. They both hit the floor fast, Jacen doing his best to cover Sara, shielding her from any other blaster shots being fired at them from the two Stormtroopers on the other end of the walkway. Shots filled the air like fire works both Jacen and Sara trying desperately to get some in themselves.
“Why were you not at the Jedi Academy?” Jacen asked her over the ear ringing blaster shots.
“I was, just not very long.” She shouted. “I had some trouble with some of the other students, so Dad had Obi-wan’s father give me some personal training.” Sara got off a blaster shot missing the Stormtrooper within an inch of his helmet.
“Who is he, Obi-Wan’s father?” Jacen asked boldly firing a few shots himself adding more to the chaos.
“Why do you want to know?” Sara was starting to get annoyed with all the questions he was asking her during this time. She wondered why he couldn’t wait for a more convenient time. “Do we really have to have this conversation right now?” She spoke before he could answer her.
“Ok,” The Jedi was looking for an opening between blaster shots so they could make there escape. “I was just curious.”
“Jacen,” She snapped at him. “Now is not the time.” She fired a shot at one of the Stormtroopers but only grazed his helmet.
Taking that as his cue to leave that topic alone he changed the subject. “I wish I had my lightsaber, and then maybe we could get out of here.”
“Here,” Sara unhooked her lightsaber, the one she inherited from her Uncle Obi-wan, off her belt and shoved it into the Jedi’s hands. “Take mine, I prefer the blaster anyway.” She took a few more shots and hit one of the Stormtroopers in the arm, but it wasn’t enough of a blow to get him to stop shooting back at them.
Jacen turned the lightsaber on and the purple light flickered to life as he jumped up and started to reflect the shots that were being thrown at them. Sara jumped up beside him and got few more good shots off hitting the Stormtrooper she had hit earlier square in the chest taking him out of play. The girl turned and ran for the exit on the other side of the main reactor room, Jacen following shortly after knocking the shots away from them. They both ran down the corridor that led to the docking bay where Jacen’s two person X-wing sat waiting for them.
They entered the enormous room that housed all different size ships. As they weaved threw the different ships to get to their X-wing, A coldness surrounded Sara when a dark sleek ship caught her attention that had two cloaked people standing at the base of the ramp. She stopped and stared at them like they had hypnotized her as her companion kept running to there escape. Sara had felt their presencs before, long ago when she was young. They were just one of the reasons Luke hid is daughter on Tattooine four years ago. The feelings she felt towards them busted, flooding her with anger, they where behind this whole conspiracy.
Jacen reached the ladder to his ship, spun around to let the girl he love climb up first and noticed that she was not behind him. He looked up at where he had come from and found Sara standing staring at the two people with her anger radiating out from her. He started to run for her when he saw that they had lit their red lightsabers and slowly headed for Sara. He got to her just as she was about to fire a shot at them and grabbed her arm making her shot hit the ship the figures arrived in. He pulled her as quickly as he could back to their ship as she struggled to free herself from his grasp.
“No, Jacen we need to stop them. They are behind this whole thing.” She desperately tried to convince him to let her go.
Jacen trapped her against the ladder to the X-wing “We don’t have time,” he looked her in the eyes and thought he saw a twinge of yellow in them, but brushed it off as nothing when she blinked and the yellow was gone and all he saw was the determined emerald green eyes staring back at him. “We need to catch up to your father and your son.” She didn’t argue with him, at that moment she just wanted to be with her son and her father to hold them both in her arms. She quickly turned and climbed up the ladder with Jacen closely behind her.
Jacen and Sara took off in the X-wing making it to orbit with no trouble like no one had alerted the building of their presence. Sara sat in the seat behind Jacen with her back to him. She was quiet and the Jedi pilot could feel her uneasiness. “Are you ok?” his voice crackled through the speaker next to her.
“Yea,” she lied to him. She did want to talk about what had just happened in the docking bay. “Let’s just get out of here.”
“Ok,” He could feel the avoidance of his question and punched in the coordinates for Coruscant and in a flash they were taken in to hyperspace.
***
That night back at Coruscant, Luke sat on the edge of a bed where he was trying to get Obi-Wan to sleep.
“Do you think my mommy made it back, Grandpa?” Obi-Wan asked Luke. Grandpa, there was a word that fill Luke’s heart joy. The little boy he was with was his grandson and he was amazed by how much he loved him already.
“I hope so, Sar—your mom is a survivor, she doesn’t surrender very easily, besides she has Jacen there to help her.”
“I miss her.”
“I know you do…so do I,” Luke thought about how long it had been since he had seen his daughter, to talk to her and hold her in his arms, and now she has a child of her own.
Sara’s voice came from the door way, “I miss you guys too,”
They both looked up and Obi-Wan let out a happy laugh and his grandfather smiled, “You made it back,” Luke was more relieved then happy to see her standing there.
“Mommy!” Obi-Wan crawled out of bed and jumped in to her arms, “will you stay with me tonight?”
“How about I spend the night with you and let your mom catch up with her dad.” Another voice came from the door way, it was Jacen.
“Mmm…Ok” Obi-Wan sounded a little annoyed, but he agreed.
“Thanks Jacen,” Sara smiled at the Jedi Knight, “now Obi-Wan it is time for bed,” she placed her son back in the bed and kissed him goodnight, Sara walked over to Jacen and kissed him on the cheek, “good night”
“Thanks Jace,” Luke said, patting his nephew’s shoulder as he walked out of the door with his daughter leaving Jacen and Obi-wan alone in the bedroom. Jacen lied down on the bed next to Obi-wan resting his head on his hands and crossing his legs at his ankles in a relaxing position.
The child moved so he could mimicking the man’s position. “Did you guys run into trouble?” the boy asked curiously.
“A little bit.” He didn’t want to scare him with what really happened. “But it was nothing we couldn’t handle.”
“Is Grandpa a Jedi Knight like you?” he wondered.
“Sort of, he is a Jedi Master.” He tried to impress the boy with Luke’s ability as they lied there.
“I want to be a Jedi Knight when I grow up.”
“Really,” Jacen smiled at the boy. “I think your grandpa will like that.”
***
Sara walked into her fathers room, followed closely behind her was Luke.
“I’m glad your home,” he spoke softly.
Sara didn’t say anything, she just walked around the room looking at pictures on the shelf.
“Is it as you remember?” Sara looked at him and smiled as Luke continued, “I remember my favorite time spending with you. You would run in here, scared because you herd a noise in your room or you had a bad dream.”
As Sara listened to his story, she noticed a small holo of Luke and a woman with red hair, the same women that she had helped rescued from the Empire, they were all dressed up, Luke in a tux and the red haired woman in a white dress. Sara picked up the holo to take a closer look.
“…And you would fall asleep on my chest,” Luke paused “I miss that.”
“You got married?” Sara asked not really listening to the end of the story.
“Yea, I did,” he walked over to her, “her name is Mara, she is wonderful, she was there for me when I lost you,” Sara wrapped her arms around Luke waist and he just held her tightly, “I wanted you to be there for the wedding so badly.”
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You know I enjoyed this chapter already, but I'm just as curious to what will happen next like everyone else.
Thanks for the PM Padawan!
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This was a great chapter! It's interesting that Sara is Luke's daughter, but not by blood. That's pretty good that Sara and Jacen can love each other as more than friends since Sara isn't Luke's real daughter. Oh yeah, before I forget who are Sara's real parents and also who is Obi-Wan's dad? Will we get to find out soon?
The Sith or Dark Jedi, whoever they are, are really interesting and pretty spooky. I liked the scene in the prison center or whatever it was.
It reminded me of the first Death Star and this time no one dies. 
Keep up the great work! I can't wait for the next chapter!
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Aww, several sweet scenes in this post! I adore Obi-Wan. I'm glad they're all reconciled.
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Aww there is a real sweetness about this fic, with several cute moments that had me unashamedly going 'awww' hehe. I'm really interested to see where you go with this, there are a lot of links to be found here judging from the list of names you have given. Please add me to the PM list too
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Replies!
Master Aiel - Glad you enjoyed it! It was fun to write the addition for this chapter. Thanks for your guidance.
DanaeMariSkywalker- I like their relationship too . You don't find out too much about Sara's real parents. As for Obi-wans father, you are just going to have to wait  . I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter and hoping you will enjoy more chapters to come. Thanks for reading!
Jedimaster_JainaSolo- Thanks! Obi-wan is full of cuteness. You got to love him!
Blue_but_beautiful- Welcome Blue! Of course I'll add you to the PM list.
Blue_but_beautiful posted:
several cute moments that had me unashamedly going 'awww' hehe
I'm a sucker for feel good moment  . They make me happy!
Thank you All for taking time to read. Next chapter should be up in a few days!
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Chapter 3
“The Jedi are in grave danger. The Yuuzhan Vong has created a creature designed to hunt and kill Jedi.” Luke was speaking to a room full of people. Sara was sitting on the side of the room next to where her father was standing. Jacen was sitting across the room from her next Jaina and Anakin. The room was filled with many other Jedi and close friends. In the front of the room sat Han, Leia and Mara, Sara’s baby brother Ben was also there, he was sleeping in his mother Mara’s arms. Tahiri was sitting next to Anakin and behind the front row sat Tenel Ka, Ganner, Saba, Dannie, and many more faces that she knew and didn’t know.
As the discussion continued about the beast, the room got louder and more intense. Ben started to stir in his mother’s arms waking up from the noise in the room. Mara signaled Sara to come over to her. Mara gave Ben to her and told her to bring him to 3PO who was down the hall in the nursery with Obi-Wan.
Sara did her best to quiet the fussy baby in her arms. She hummed him a lullaby as she walked to the nursery that seamed to slowly calm him down. She arrived at the door and Ben had fallen back asleep. “That song would always calm Obi-Wan down too.” She spoke to the sleeping child. The door swooshed open and Sara walked in the room to find her son holding a plastic toy tube and whacking 3PO with it.
“Oh my!” the golden droid exclaimed. “Mistress Sara I’m sorry but I don’t understand the game he is playing.”
“Obi-Wan, what are you doing?” she asked her son as she laid Ben in the playpen to sleep.
“I’m Jacen off fighting the evil Vong,” he wacked 3PO in the leg again.
“Master Obi-Wan that it quite enough, I am done playing your little game.” The droid quickly shuffled over to Sara.
“Victory is mine!” Obi-Wan yelled in triumph.
“Ok buddy, we need to be quiet because Ben needs to sleep.” She picked up her son. “You can be Jacen some other time. How about you read a book for the time being.” She set him down in a big cozy chair.
Obi-Wan looked up at her, “Mommy?”
Sara sat down next to her son and pulled the boy onto her lap wrapping her arms around his waist, “what’s on your mind baby?”
“Can I go to the Jedi Academy so I can be a Jedi Knight?” He asked hesitantly, not knowing how his mom would feel about him going away.
“Well baby, that’s your decision,” She explained, “if you really want to go, I’ll talk to Grandpa and he can make it happen, I’m sure he would love it if you went to his school.”
The child looked surprised by his mother’s answer, “you won’t be mad?”
“No, why would I be mad? I’ll miss you terribly, but I could never be mad at my baby.” Sara smiled at him and gave him a big hug.
“Thanks Mommy!”
“Ok, I have to get back to the meeting.” She stood up and set her son back on the chair, “Give 3PO a break.” Sara ruffled Obi-Wan’s hair and headed out of the room.
***
When Sara returned to the meeting, the room had gotten so tense that you could cut it with a butter knife. She walked over to the empty seat next to Jacen, but he was so involved in the conversation that he didn’t even notice she had returned. Han was yelling about how he was not going to loose any of his children to the Yuuzhan Vong on a mission that would bring them deep into the enemies territory.
“Alright!” Luke tried to silence the room, “let’s have a vote,” he said as the room quieted. “If you vote yes we are going to send a strike team of young Jedi to Mryrk to destroy the Queen, raise your hand.”
Sara noticed that Jacen didn’t raise his hand, she was relieved that her loved on would not be going on this suicide mission.
“All who disagree with the mission raise your hand.” Luke continued with the vote, the rest of the room raised their hands, but it was not enough to stop the mission.
“Then it has been decided, Anakin will lead a mission to Myrk,” Master Skywalker confirmed the vote.
Jacen got to his feet and announced slowly, “I know that I do not agree with the mission, but as Anakin’s brother I feel I should be the first to volunteer for it…”
Sara’s heart sank and she interrupted, “Jacen no,” she stood up next to him to protest.
The Jedi Knight stared at her seriously, “we’ll talk about it later Sara.” Jacen cut her off firmly.
Sara was shocked and speechless; as she sat down in her chair her heart sank along with her, the young woman couldn’t believe that Jacen would do this.
The conversation continued in the room, but Sara didn’t pay any attention, she was trapped in her own thoughts of the fear of loosing Jacen, he was the best thing that has happened to her and Obi-Wan. If he had not walked into her life she would still be on Tatooine, far away from her father and raising Obi-Wan on her own.
The thought of loosing him made her sick to her stomach.
Luke was sitting at a desk in the front of the room. He was paying attention to the conversation, listening to something Jacen was saying to his father, until he noticed that something was wrong with his daughter, she was breathing kind of hard, and sweating as she looked around the room and swallowed hard. Right before Luke’s eyes Sara’s face turned pail white and she ran out of the room.
Luke motioned for Mara to come over to him. “See if Sara is alright.” He whispered to her, Mara kissed him on the head and went to find Sara, after she left he finally quieted the room. “I think we are going to end the meeting for today. If you are interested in helping with the mission talk to Anakin after we are done, then I will sit down with Anakin and go over the details carefully and thoroughly. Thank you everyone and may the Force be with you all,” he finalized the meeting.
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Luke was in his office with his nephew Anakin going over the planes for the mission, Han, Leia and Jaina had insisted they be there also for the planning, they hovered over Luke and Anakin like vultures trying to give their input on how the mission would progress, Mara had returned earlier with no luck finding Sara, she had taken Ben and Obi-Wan to get ready for bed.
It was during this time Jacen walked into the room, “Uncle Luke can I talk to you?” He nervously interrupted, at first Jacen didn’t notice his family standing next to Luke, “it will only take a minute.”
Master Skywalker looked aside at Anakin and he nodded his head, Luke looked back at his other nephew, “certainly,” he finally answered, “do you want to go into the other room?”
Jacen finally noticed his family standing behind Luke, looking at him curiously and the young Jedi decided that they should be apart of this conversation too, “no, my family will want to here this as well.”
“Ok go ahead.” Luke encouraged.
The Jedi Knight took a deep breath to clam his nerves, he’d never believed that asking this simple little question would be harder then facing a Rancor on a bad day, “I’m asking you this not as your apprentice or your nephew. I’m asking you this as someone who is in love with your daughter,” Jacen began, the young man glanced at his twin and saw Jaina knew what Jacen was going to ask, and she could hardly contain her excitement as she grabbed her little brother’s arm to help hold her back.
Bringing his attention back to the question Jacen wanted to ask, “I love your daughter very much, I love Obi-Wan as if he were my own.” He explained and then took a deep breath “May I have your permission to ask Sara to be my wife?” Jacen finally spat the words out of his mouth; he looked over at his family and saw his mother holding his fathers arm on the verge of crying. Jaina had a huge smile on her face, Han and Anakin had a dumb founded, jaw dropping look on their face, not believing that Jacen just asked that question.
There was an uneasiness silence as the entire family waited for Luke’s reply, but before the Jedi Master could say anything the door swooshed open and Sara stormed into the room.
“Daddy I need to-“she looked around and saw everyone standing around starring at Jacen, “what’s going on?”
“We’re just going over the mission.” Luke replied right away.
“Daddy, I need to talk to you. NOW privately” Sara said firmly.
Luke held out his hand leading to the bedroom door, as she stormed into the room Luke turned to Jacen, before he followed his daughter into the room, “I’ll have your answer when I get back.”
When the door closed behind father and daughter, Jaina ran over to Jacen and wrapped her arms around his neck, “I never thought that this day was going to come.”
As Jaina let go of her twin, Han spoke up, “son, do you know what you are doing?”
“Jace, are you thinking straight?” Anakin likewise demanded of his older brother.
Leia elbowed Han lightly in his gut, “Oh quiet you two, Jacen I’m so happy for you,” she walked over and gave her son a hug, “do you have a ring to give her?” she looked him in the eyes.
Jacen looked down to the floor. “No, no I don’t, it just kind of came to me that she is the one I want to spend my life with, and I will do anything to protect her and Obi-Wan.”
“I know you will sweetie.” Leia took the white gold band off of her finger, and placed it in to his hand, “your father gave me this ring when he asked me to marry him, we would be honored if you ask her with this ring.”
Jacen looked at the ring, there were three diamonds set close together in the band, along the inside of the ring was written: You are the one I love. He clutched the ring tightly in his hand then looked down at his Mother, “it’s beautiful, thanks mom” He gave Leia a kiss on the cheek and hugged her tightly.
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Inside the bedroom, Luke sat on his bed watching as his daughter stood at the window, looking out at the city of Coruscant, the orange light from the setting sun spilled into the room making Sara look like she was covered in gold, “what do you want to talk about?” Luke asked her.
Sara turned to her father and looked him straight in the eye, Luke could see her eyes were glossy with tears, “Father, you have to call off the mission.” She spoke very softly.
Luke knew that it was not the answer she wanted to hear, but he said it as gently as possible, “I can’t do that sweetheart, you know that.”
“Then order him not to go!” Sara raised her voice suddenly.
“Sweetheart-“
“It’s suicide!” she yelled louder.
“Sweetheart I know” Luke exclaimed back trying to match her volume, then seeing tears run down her face, she was trying so hard to hold her composure, he took a deep breath to calm down, in a quieter voice Luke continued, “Sara, it’s not my decision.”
Leaving all her composure behind, Sara ran to her father and knelt down in front of him, “please Daddy, he can’t go, he can’t,” she begged as she placed her head in his lap and started sobbing, “I love him so much.”
“I know you do sweetheart,” Skywalker placed his hand on his adopted daughter’s head and stroked her long brown hair, “I don’t like this mission just as much as you do but I’m sorry, there is nothing I can do.” For a moment there was just the sound of just Sara crying, her father’s heart ached to see his daughter so scared for the life of the man she loved. He wanted nothing more but to calm her fears, so Luke formulated an idea in his head, “Sara look at me” she slowly lifted her head; Luke held her head in his hands. “I promise you that he will come back.”
Sara nodded her head in surrender, she wasn’t entirely happy with the out come her father gave her, but she didn’t know how else to persuade him to not let Jacen go on this mission, slowly rising to her feet she ran out the door before Luke could stop her.
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Jacen saw his love run out the door, right before she ran passed him; he grabbed her by the arms gently, Sara didn’t resist his stop but she wouldn’t look at him, she couldn’t. She just wanted get out of there.
“Sara what’s wrong?” he whispered to her, she didn’t say anything; she just stared at the door she was heading for. “Sara?” Jacen said again, he could see the river of tears that had been running down her cheeks.
After a moment Sara slowly brought her eyes to meet his eyes, Jacen couldn’t believe what he saw; Pain, hurt, horror, and loneliness. He wanted to wrap her in his arms tightly and make it all go away.
Tears started to fill her eyes again, her body slowly started to shake from trying to hold them back, Sara pushed the man she loved away and ran out the door, all Jacen could do was watch her run out the door, he wanted to run after her but couldn’t, he was stuck waiting for his answer from Luke.
Jacen turned to look at his uncle, who was standing behind his desk again, Luke saw the concern in his nephew’s face and sighed.
“She’ll be fine,” the Jedi Master assured him, “but that did break my heart.” He paused for a moment, “after talking with her, I saw how much she loves you, I wouldn’t want anyone else taking care of my daughter and my grandson the way you have, and the way you will. I would love for you to marry her.”
A smile ran across Jacen’s face ear to ear as relief came over him, “thank you.”
“I gave him the ring that Han gave me when he asked me to marry him,” Leia came up next her eldest son and wrapped her arms around his waist.
Luke smiled in approval, “go,” he said softly, “go be with her. She needs you now.”
Jacen exchanged one last smile with his uncle, he spun on his heal and swiftly walked out the door to be with the one he loved.
Luke watched his nephew leave the room, when the door shut he picked up some papers on his desk and straightened them, addressing his niece and youngest nephew as he did, “Anakin…Jaina…I made a promise to my daughter, I promised he would make it home.” He looked them both in the eyes. “Will you help me keep my promise?”
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Sara was lying on her bed, facing the window starring at the cars zooming past randomly. Jacen crept over to her and lay down next to her, wrapping his arms around her pulling close to him. He rested his head so close to Sara’s that she could feel his breath caress her cheek.
“I know you’re mad at me,” Solo whispered in her ear, “I’m tired of this war, we have lost so much already, I don’t want to loose you or Obi-Wan or anyone else, I love you both so much.” He stopped for a moment searching for the right words to say.
He pulled out the ring from his pocket, he slid it gently onto Sara’s finger, “this ring was given to my mother when my dad asked her to marry him. Now I’m giving it to you in the hope that you will marry me.”
Sara didn’t say anything; she just took a deep breath in, trying so hard to keep the tears from falling, but had no luck.
“Please say something,” Jacen pleaded.
“You didn’t get on one knee.” She finally spoke softly.
Jacen busted out laughing with relief, he jumped over Sara onto the floor on the other side of the bed, “you have to sit up,” He smiled at her.
Sara did so and whipped the tears from her cheeks, Jacen took her hands in his, she smiled at Jacen and it took his breath away, the young man could hardly believe that he was going to ask this beautiful woman to spend the rest of their lives together.
“Sara Skywalker” He joked with her, then turned serious. “Will you marry me?”
“Yes!” Sara replied instantly, she threw her arms around him and gave him a deep, passionate kiss.
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RE: The Key ( NJO/AU: OC, Jacen, Luke) Updated 12/16 Chapter 3
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“I know you’re mad at me,” Solo whispered in her ear, “I’m tired of this war, we have lost so much already, I don’t want to loose you or Obi-Wan or anyone else, I love you both so much.” He stopped for a moment searching for the right words to say.
He pulled out the ring from his pocket, he slid it gently onto Sara’s finger, “this ring was given to my mother when my dad asked her to marry him. Now I’m giving it to you in the hope that you will marry me.”
Sara didn’t say anything; she just took a deep breath in, trying so hard to keep the tears from falling, but had no luck.
“Please say something,” Jacen pleaded.
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