Love and Destruction

Written by: Adventure-Seeking-Juliet

When: Listening to Paramore

Disclaimer: I do not own anything that had to do with Star Wars...yet. Just kidding.

A/N This is the first fic among three long, chaptered fics in my Star Wars AU storyline. It is set 18 years post ROTS, making Luke and Leia 18 years old. There are just a few notes I would like to make for these stories-One being that the law for no attachments for Jedi was destroyed, but it is highly frowned upon for a Jedi to marry or have children together. Two being that there will still be more, shorter fics in between these bigger ones.

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Part I- Bounty Hunter

Two figures stood outside the Jedi Temple. It was late at night on Coruscant, but the city seemed even more alive than it did during the day.

The first figure was that of a young woman, her blonde hair was loose, and flowing around her, her gray eyes scrutinized the building in front of her.

"Not much has changed," She remarked to her companion.

The second figure stared down at the rather short blonde," That is on the outside, my young Padawan. I fear that the world has grown darker since we left four years ago."

The Padawan and her Master quickly and easily grabbed their bags, and prepared to enter the Jedi Temple, meanwhile they continued their conversation.

"Father, exactly how much has changed since we left for Talus?" the girl asked.

Her father sighed. His hair was a grayish-white color now, but his gray eyes were just as vibrant as when he was young," It is believed we are once again on the brink of a Galactic Civil War, Ayslyn."

The thought struck Ayslyn hard, a war? Four years ago things had seemed as simple.

Ayslyn paused," I almost wish I would have kept in touch with the Temple while I was gone, I feel out of the loop."

Her father, Obi-Wan Kenobi, chuckled," Perhaps you should make up with Luke, you have not spoken for four years."

Ayslyn couldn't help but feel saddened by Obi-Wan's words, she wished she wouldn't have ignored Luke in the first place, but her pride wouldn't let her admit it. She wondered if Luke would even speak to her, he had tried to apologize, but Ayslyn had ignored him to the point of not seeing or hearing him since the day before she left.

"I wouldn't be surprised if didn't I recognize him at all, Master. In fact, I doubt he would recognize me, I have changed a lot in the past four years."

Obi-Wan scanned Ayslyn," You have changed, but in time I am sure the two of you will be just as you were before."

Ayslyn shook her head," We can never be the same, he forgot me, and now I have no need to speak to him."

Obi-Wan eyed Ayslyn warily," I thought you were above this juvenile fight, Ayslyn."

"I am."

Obi-Wan and Ayslyn entered their old apartment; it had remained vacant during their four years away. It still had some of their things exactly as they' left them, and a wave of an emotion Ayslyn couldn't identify overcame her. The two slowly entered the apartment, in silence.

Finally Obi-Wan turned back to Ayslyn," Then act like it."

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Two speeders zoomed in and around the traffic lanes of Coruscant, the first one happened to belong to the infamous bounty hunter, Gorm the Dissolver.

The second speeder held two occupants: Jedi Master Skywalker, and Jedi Padawan Luke Skywalker.

There was a huge resemblance between the father and son, both of them had wavy blonde hair, although Anakin's was a darker in color, but Luke's was getting darker with age.

They also shared many facial attributes such as their ice-blue eyes, the main differences between the two were only that Anakin was of a slightly bigger build, and was an inch taller than his son.

Anakin sighed in frustration," Luke, take the controls-I'll slow him down."

Luke shuffled over to the pilot seat as Anakin launched himself onto the back of Gorm's speeder.

"Why doesn't he ever let me do that?" Luke mumbled. He then found himself thinking about the speeder that his dad had 'borrowed' it was very nice, probably expensive too…

Suddenly Gorm's speeder dropped. It was going at full speed toward the Coruscanti ground.

"Sith," Luke cursed, and a swung his speeder downward at top speed, he was a better pilot than Gorm any day…

Luke felt a rush of excitement as his speeder neared the dark abyss that was the ground of Coruscant-no one knew exactly how far down it went.

Apparently Gorm didn't have the nerve to go down any further, and he pulled up, sending Anakin flying off the speeder, Luke rapidly pulled up, and caught his father safely in the cockpit.

"Nice flying, huh?" Luke grinned.

Anakin was too deep in concentration to notice," Don't get cocky."

Luke snorted," Me? I'm not the one who fell off of Gorm's speeder, Master."

Anakin glanced at Luke," Fine, if you think you can do it-then you try."

Luke smiled," Wait, you're letting me jump out of the speeder?"

Anakin nodded, and took over piloting as Luke bounded out of their speeder.

Usually Anakin and Luke were much closer, but the talk of another war had started to change the older Skywalker. Luke frowned when he thought about it, he and his father used to have loads of fun, but now all Anakin did was critize Luke for things both of them used to enjoy.

Luke landed on Gorm's speeder with a huff. Force, speeders were a lot harder on the outside than the inside.

Gorm grunted when he saw the Jedi Padawan on top of his speeder, and swerved left and right trying to knock him off. Luke gasped as his right hand almost slipped then Luke shakily withdrew his green lightsaber from his left pocket.

He ignited it, and jammed it into the top of the speeder, it created a smoking hole. Luke then began to create a circle of fried speeder with the saber. Unfortunately the saber dropped into the cockpit of Gorm's speeder.

Gorm growled," Jedi scum!" Gorm then hastened to throw the still ignited lightsaber out into the Coruscanti traffic lanes. Luckily Anakin managed to grab it before it was lost.

Luke glared at Gorm, and crawled into the hole his lightsaber had created. Then he made a grab for the controls of Gorm's speeder, but Gorm happened to be a cyborg and he easily threw Luke against the other side of his speeder. Luke winced...that was going to leave a bruise.

Luke was really wishing he had his lightsaber now, when another thought occurred to him, using the Force he took control of Gorm's steering mechanism. First, Luke spun the speeder around in circles, hoping to disorient the cyborg.

Then with a burst of speed Luke headed straight for the power lines, he knew that it would hurt, but he would survive…unlike Gorm. The cyborg's entire system would be fried after they flew through this.

He had been right, the electric currents stung him, but Gorm was completely fried, Luke stopped the speeder on the landing pad of the Senate building, causing three lone Senator's to run in fear of being smashed. He couldn't help but think his mother might not be very happy with him for that...

Luke jumped out of the smoking speeder, and was followed by Anakin hopping out of the other speeder.

Anakin inspected Gorm," Well, he's electrocuted for sure."

Luke smiled," Told you I could do it. I mean, I understand that you can too, but I mean you're not as young as you used to be, father."

Anakin mock glared at Luke," Indeed."

The two hastily climbed back into their speeder," Unfortunately we can't be sure if Gorm was truly behind the attacks toward Chancellor Skywalker."

Luke rolled his eyes," Honestly, dad, you can call mom by her name."

Anakin smiled, a rare thing these days," No, son you must remember your mother is my elder, you must show respect for your elders at all times."

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Ayslyn decided against going with her father to the council chambers; instead she decided to look for anyone she remembered.

She settled on inspecting the Room of a Thousand Fountains. It was beautiful and vivid.

The water was cool and green. Light trickled down and made shifting patterns on the bottom. Ripples of gentle waves were formed from the force of the waterfall hitting the surface high above...

Ayslyn sighed and sat down in an area of mediation, there were so many memories in this room.

Her mediation didn't last long, and she stood, smelling the floral arrangements. Suddenly, she paused.

Ayslyn felt the familiar presence of Leia, but she had heard from her father that Leia had left the order to become a senator…

Curious.

It didn't take Ayslyn long to find Leia Skywalker, the senator in question was sitting next to the waterfall kissing the smuggler, Han Solo.

Ayslyn gasped, and Leia looked up, her skin was flushed a deep red color.

"Who are you?" Leia asked, trying to keep her voice calm.

"Ayslyn Kenobi."

Leia smiled," Hey Ays! I didn't know you were returning today."

Ayslyn shrugged," Well, I did, and do not worry I won't tell your father."

Han mouthed a short 'thank you' before he and Leia returned to what they had been doing.

Ayslyn continued on her way, the next place she visited was the Jedi Archives, maybe she would find someone who wasn't too busy to talk to her here.

She strolled into the room; the first occupant she saw appeared to be a tall, blue-haired, human Jedi Knight.

"Hello Ayslyn," She greeted the Padawan.

Ays smiled, she knew who this was," Hi, Meta. I see you've become a Knight."

Meta nodded, smiling," I did. I see you've grown…a bit. How old are you now, sixteen?"

Ayslyn nodded," Have you seen…"

"Luke? No, he and Anakin were looking for the bounty hunter who tried to assassinate Chancellor Skywalker."

Ayslyn frowned," I wasn't going to ask where Luke was."

"Who were you looking for then?"

"Um…" Ayslyn looked around," Well, who all is in here?"

Meta laughed," I don't recall. I think Iulio was in here earlier though."

Ayslyn resisted the urge to sigh," Thanks, Meta."

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Obi-Wan sat back in his Jedi Council seat, it had been four years since he had set there for a council meeting, and it felt good to be back.

Anakin was sitting next to him, and Obi-Wan could tell that he was pleased with something, but his old Padawan had become so brooding that Obi-Wan couldn't tell. It worried him, Obi-Wan hated when Anakin entered one of his 'moods.'

"First of all," Master Windu began," Let us welcome Master Kenobi back to Coruscant."

There was a round of claps," Well, you did on Talus, Obi-Wan, but need you here, we do," Yoda explained.

"In other news," Master Mundi cleared his throat," Master and Padawan Skywalker disposed of the bounty hunter, Gorm."

Windu turned to Anakin," Did you learn if he was the one attempting to assassinate the chancellor?"

Anakin nodded a no," I'm afraid we were unable to extract any information, but I am confident that Gorm was hired by a new government faction. "

Obi-Wan looked incredulous," A faction against the Republic? Such as the separatists?"

Yoda closed his eyes, he looked older than ever," Dark times, these are."

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The Skywalker apartment was quiet the next morning, which was an uncommon phenomenon.

Anakin was rubbing his eyes, and watching the HoloNet news in silence. Padme sat beside him buried in data pads.

Even stranger was the fact that Luke and Leia were also hushed. The former was stuffing his face with food that Threepio had cooked, and the latter was playing with her cereal whilst staring at the holovid.

Finally, Anakin stood up. "Luke, are you ready for the dueling games today?" he asked.

Luke mumbled incoherently.

Padme gave her son a stern look," Please don't speak with you mouth full." Luke gulped down the rest of his breakfast before answering his father.

"To answer your question, I'm ready to win."

Leia rolled her eyes," What if you lose?"

Luke shrugged," I won't. So who am I dueling today anyway, dad?"

Anakin smiled," It's supposed to be a surprise duel. I can't tell you."

Leia hid her grin, and glanced at her father, Anakin was also suppressing a smile.

"Let's get a move on Luke before they disqualify you for being late…again."

The Jedi Temple Sparring Arena consisted of white floors and walls, Luke felt oddly out of place with both his father and himself wearing black robes.

Luke took a deep breath, his back was to his opponent, his dad smiled at him encouragingly," Don't worry, you have trained hard, and you will impress the Council."

Luke winced slightly," Thanks."

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