Luke and Leia were stunned by what they had just witnessed. They were still standing at the window minutes later when Han, Chewie and Lando came running down the hall looking for them. Han glanced between Leia and the window. "What's going on, where's Vader?"

"He's gone, they're both gone." Leia almost couldn't believe it. Vader, gone. Anakin, gone.

"Where, where'd he go?" Lando looked around them to look out the window as well.

"He fell," said Luke. "Anakin too."

"Anakin? I thought he was in the room," said Lando. Luke glanced at Lando a little confused by his presence.

"Well," said Han with a grimace, "I hate to break it to you, but there's still a bunch of stormtroopers here. We gotta get going before they find us." Han gestured to Lando answering Luke's unasked question, "He's with us now."

"I've called an evacuation of the city," said Lando, "we don't have long before Imperial reinforcements arrive." Chewbacca growled in agreement.

Breaking out of their shock, Luke and Leia left the window and the five of them raced through the hallways between them and the docking bay. The halls were flooded with others streaming towards the ships. People were carrying all they could take in one trip as they evacuated the city in the clouds.

Fighting through the confusion, they made their way back to Millennium Falcon. They almost tripped over C-3PO upon entering. "Wonderful news, the hyperdrive has been fixed, we can now safely travel back to the others."

"Great," Han barked as he slid into the pilot's seat. "Let's get moving." The Falcon revved up and Han took them away from the city at top speeds.

Days later at the Rebel rendezvous the story of Cloud City was starting to spread across the galaxy. Vader hadn't been seen since that day, nor Anakin. The place had been picked over by stormtroopers, but no clue had been found as to the whereabouts of either. Luke knew they were both gone. Since that day he hadn't felt either in the Force. Vader's presence no longer menaced the edges of his consciousness. Anakin's brief but powerful presence no longer magnetized the Force.

Leia found Luke as he was sitting in his X-Wing. She climbed the ladder and leaned over the side of the cockpit. "Everything okay?"

"I guess... I don't know." Luke sighed. "Vader's gone, but that's not the end, is it? There's still the Empire, we're still the Rebellion. It feels as if nothing has really changed."

Leia put her hand on Luke's arm. "But it has, the Empire is weaker now than it has ever been before. The Force brought Anakin to us because he had to be the one to conquer Vader. Neither you or I could have ever been capable of that. Now it's our turn to finish what he started."

"I suppose," Luke gave Leia a wan smile, "you know, I haven't thought much about relying on family over the last few years, I thought I didn't have any left."

"Neither did I," Leia said, "I thought the Empire had taken them all from me, but here we are."

Luke was silent for a moment, he contemplated the control panel of his X-Wing which he knew so well. Glancing up at Leia he asked, "Do you remember our mother?"

Leia gazed across the hangar trying to recall what she knew. "I think so," she said, "it almost feels like I'm remembering a dream. She was gentle and kind, and very sad." Looking back at Luke she said, "I wish we would have had more time with Anakin."

"Me too," said Luke. "Now what?"

"We have to keep fighting. We can't stop until the Empire is overthrown." Leia gave her brother a determined look. "I know it was what we were already doing, but Anakin opened up a way for us to actually win. The Alliance has a shot now, and you can learn more about the ways of the Force. You are destined to become a great Jedi, like our father."

Luke thought back over the tumultuous last few days. "I'm glad we finally know the truth." He paused and thought for a moment more. "You know, when I saw Ben in the snowstorm talking about a Jedi master, I thought he meant Anakin. But he wasn't, Anakin was never supposed to train me, he came to destroy Vader. There's still a Jedi master out there, waiting to train me."

"Another Jedi? How will you find him?" Leia said.

Luke thought hard, his brow furrowed as he recalled the conversation in the snow. "Dagobah. He's on Dagobah."

"You should go to him, the galaxy needs you more now than ever. As a Jedi you'll be able to free us from the Empire once and for all." New hope blazed in Leia as she considered the possibilities.

"It won't just be me this time, our father was a great Jedi and that lives on in both of us." He put his hand on top of Leia's and looked up into her eyes. "We should go, together."

The End.