AN: Last chapter… I can't believe the success of this story. The popularity of it was beyond my expectations.

Anywho, some people said they saw the pregnancy thing coming, some say they didn't, some were in between, and some were upset that I did it in here but couldn't pull it in the extension story to my Dark Ahsoka story. Well, I was purposely trying to throw people off and that's why I got the mixed reactions. Second, the issue fit in here. I've seen stories where people throw in pregnancy for the hell of it and as natural and common as pregnancy is, it's become a real cliché in fanfiction. So while for my last story, it just didn't fit to me, this story had the perfect setup and more realistic (not ideal note. There's a difference. The situation was far from ideal) situation for the issue to come up.

Alright, there's a sneak peak of the next story at the end so read past the ending. Read, enjoy, and review!

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Chapter Nineteen

"You all are going to love the rebellion," Luke said as he walked down the hall with his new friends and newfound sister. "Just wait. And Mara's going to flip when she meets you Leia."

"Who's Mara?" Lana asked him.

"She's a girl me and Obi-wan found a long time ago. The empire killed her parents, and they were going to take her to the emperor but Obi-wan managed to get to her first," Luke explained before rolling her eyes. "She can be downright mean sometimes though."

"Then why do you hang out with her?" Abdul asked.

"Because she's the only other person on the base around my age right now. Most people try to keep their kids out of it. Well, there are a couple of people there around sixteen but they take their jobs way too seriously," Luke muttered before adding, "and I couldn't avoid her if I wanted to. We have force training together."

That snapped Leia out her thoughts as she looked at Luke.

"You know how to use the force?" she asked.

"Sure," Luke said and then hesitantly added. "I'm still training though."

"That's more that I can say for myself," Leia said sourly

"Then maybe Obi-wan can help you too," Luke suggested. "I'll help you if I can."

Leia's eyes lit up in anticipation of learning about the force as they came up on Ahsoka's room. Technically, she hadn't been officially discharged and being that her medic was a Falleen, meaning she was impervious to mind tricks, Vader had to convince her with other methods, ones that Obi-wan didn't approve of but didn't bother trying to reprimand his former student for. He was still dealing with a Sith Lord after all.

Leia stopped the group as she peeked into the room where Ahsoka was getting off the bed, Vader hovering protectively in front of her with his arms crossed, while Obi-wan watched with an expression that was a cross between amusement and bemusement.

"Be careful," Vader said as she stood.

"I'm pregnant, not invalid," Ahsoka said gently pushing him in the arm to make him move sideways and out her way. "I can walk from here to the shuttle."

"That does seem a little far," Vader muttered. "I'll tell one of the staff to bring a hover chair."

Ahsoka rolled her eyes. "Can you please go back to not caring about me? You were infuriating then, but this is just annoying."

"It's not you I'm worried about," Vader said coldly, but everyone knew he didn't mean it. He was keeping up appearances. "It's the baby."

"You two really need to stop it," Tamara said coming into the room. "All this faking when everyone knows you're crazy about each other."

"You'd do well not to forget who employs you Tamara," Vader warned.

"Yes milord," Tamara said with a smirk. "The shuttle's ready and the empire's almost here. We have to get a move on."

Vader turned to Ahsoka. "You sure you can walk?"

Ahsoka rolled her eyes again before walking out the room without Vader's help to the waiting shuttle.

"That's so not right," Leia said crossing her arms.

"What isn't?" Luke asked.

"I've been working for since I was five years old to set those two up and make them admit they love each other or at least stop denying it…" Leia said trailing off.

"Well you did manage to set them up," Lana reminded.

"But I never could get them to stop denying they loved each other," Leia grumbled and then sighed. "But in all of one day, my little sister who isn't even born yet managed it."

"They don't look different to me… They're acting the same as always," Abdul said. "Well, except your dad seems concerned about the baby."

"She's right," Luke said in agreement with Leia. "I can feel it too. They're just hiding it, but there's no more of that denial I was sensing from Ahsoka all month."

"Finally, someone who understands me," Leia said dramatically as she threw her arm around Luke.

"Must be a force thing," Abdul muttered.

"No," Vader said coming out the room to look at them with a glare and his arms crossed. "It's a Skywalker thing. Now what's this about some plan to set me and Ahsoka up since you were five, princess?"

The four teens froze, but all of them for varying reason. Abdul from sheer terror, Lana from shyness, Luke from wanting to get as far away as possible from Vader, and Leia because she knew she was busted.

"Long story…" she said. "One I don't have time to go over."

Vader pointed a finger at her, but Obi-wan came out with a laugh saying, "She's right you know. We don't have the time. It's a tale that will have to wait another time."

With that the four teens rushed past Vader to the elevator to go to the shuttle.

"She's got the patience, manipulative nature, conniving of Palpatine… the makings of a Sith Lady." Vader commented.

"You say that as though it's a good thing," Obi-wan muttered.

Vader shot him a glare. "We won't argue about our different philosophies right now and the only reason I'm not is so that I can protect them. We're still enemies Kenobi," he said and dismissed himself from the Jedi's presence.

"My my… If I might ask Miss Leia, what took you all so long?" Threepio asked as the teens went up the ramp. "The shuttle has been ready for an hour."

Leia stopped. "We had to take care of some last minute things Threepio. But we're ready now."

Artoo muttered something about Threepio panicking, thinking that something was wrong and Leia laughed.

"He's always like that Artoo," Leia said.

"Well excuse me then," Threepio said proceeding to go up the ramp arguing with Artoo.

"You ready Leia?" Ahsoka said coming back down the ramp.

"Almost," she said as she looked toward the doors where her father came out, obviously a little miffed at Obi-wan who was walking behind him.

Leia went down to meet him and wrapped her arms around him.

"Bye daddy," she whispered.

"It won't be forever Leia. I promise," Vader assured kissing her forehead.

"I know," she said backing away with a sad smile.

Vader then reached into his pocket and pulled out a lightsaber and handed it to Leia.

"Give this back to your brother for me. Tell him I'm sorry," he said as she took it from him. Leia nodded and went back towards the ramp to wait for Ahsoka.

Ahsoka approached him and smirked. "Any last minute instructions milord?"

Vader remained passive as ever although Ahsoka could sense his amusement. He turned serious just that quickly.

"I need you to do me a favor… Two things really…" he said trailing off as he got a distant expression.

"What?" she asked.

"The baby," he said reaching out to touch her lower abdomen. "Name her after my mother."

"Your mother?" Ahsoka asked. There had only been one time Vader ever mentioned his mother to her and even then it had been brief. "What was her name?"

"Shmi," he said caught up in memory for a while before he pushed them away.

Ahsoka tossed it around in her head. She could agree on that one. "Alright. As long as it wasn't something she would hate in the future," she added with a smile.

"I want you train her," Vader said not missing a beat.

Ahsoka was startled. "What?"

"Both of them. Train Leia and Shmi in the way of the force," Vader requested.

"But I thought…"

"Not as a Sith or a Jedi and don't teach them about light and dark. Just the force. They can choose their own path after that," Vader said. "I trust you to do that for me."

Ahsoka didn't say anything and if she was going to, Obi-wan interrupted.

"We have to leave now," he said with a hand on Ahsoka's shoulder before walking up the ramp.

"Okay," Ahsoka said as she started to walk away from Vader. "I guess this is farewell."

Ahsoka started to walk up the ramp and Vader was going to just let her go. He really had intended to, but as per usual, he could never just let Ahsoka walk away from him. He pulled her back to him and rubbed her arms as he pulled her into a kiss, but it wasn't the same as their past kisses. There was more fire behind it, no more trying to keep emotions out of it or denying that they were there.

When Vader pulled away, Leia came next to Ahsoka and together they went up the ramp, Ahsoka's arm around Leia's back. As they went to sit down, Ahsoka paused as she heard his voice through their link.

"Thank you for not turning you back on me."

Ahsoka smiled. It was the only thing she could do as he had closed the link again just that quickly.

"You okay Ahsoka?" Leia asked. "You looked a little absent there."

"I'm fine Leia," she said as they made their way to their new home.

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Leia sighed as she got out of her bed and tiptoed down the hall to another room in the Alderaan Palace. It was only their temporary home until the new rebel base was built. Then she, Ahsoka, Luke, Lana's family and Abdul's family would go to live on the base along with the new addition to their clan. Leia slipped into the room that was adjoined to her guardian's room for convenience and went to lean over the crib where her little sister was laying in her back with wide blue eyes in the dark.

"What are you doing up again Mimi?" she asked little Shmi who only smiled at Leia even though it was too dark to see her face. "Didn't Ahsoka just feed you?"

Shmi began to kick her feet and punch her fist in the air out of frustration and Leia quickly picked her up before Ahsoka sensed the baby's distress. It was odd how Ahsoka could use the force and sense when the little one, just six weeks old, was about to cry or in some kind of discomfort. Therefore, Leia had never actually heard her sister cry for anything. She only did so when she was fussy or in a bad mood.

"And they call me spoiled," Leia said with a small smile as she softly patted Shmi's back to calm her.

Leia ran a hand over the girls head across brown hair that she had apparently gotten from their grandmother this time around and then across two smooth bumps that everyone now assumed would be where two montrals would start to grow when she hit puberty. It would be the only thing that would be a dead giveaway to her half human, half torgruta heritage, even the tinge of orange-red in her skin could be explained as normal if no one knew the truth. Shmi twitched when Leia ran her hand across them. The baby hated when anyone ran a finger over the sensitive spots.

"Sorry," Leia whispered. "I won't do it again."

Leia then heard voices from the other room and guessed her attempts to let Ahsoka sleep were in vain as she was already awake. Leia went to the door and, using her new abilities with the force, enhanced her hearing to hear what was going on.

"You still haven't finished filling out her birth certificate," Bail Organa, the man she found out would have been her adoptive father if Ahsoka hadn't taken her, said. She was glad he hadn't adopted her. Winter, the princess she had become friends with while at the palace, always looked uncomfortable with the hairstyles and dresses her aunts made her wear.

"I know," Ahsoka said with a sigh as she looked at the paper on her nightstand. "And I'm going to. I just don't know what name to give her."

"Well you have to consider that either way, her name is going to raise some questions if people find out," Obi-wan said and Leia scowled some. She wasn't exactly fond of the Jedi and that was partly because she had been raised to not trust the jedi and that Obi-wan was the one who left her father to burn and die. It was why for the first five years of her life, all she knew of her father was the mask of Vader.

"I don't want to give her my name. She's already not going to know him so she at least deserves his name. But…"

"The child of Anakin Skywalker, Shmi is not. Darth Vader, her father is."

Leia still remembered when they brought the green toad-like Jedi, Master Yoda, to Alderaan. He had insisted on it, in fact, upon learning who Shmi's father was. Leia still laughed at the memory of an obviously pregnant (but still quite small for eight months) Ahsoka being scolded on her irresponsible actions. It was like Ahsoka was teenager. Luke, Abdul, and Lana hadn't even tried to hide their amusement. Laughter could be heard for days in the palace at the memory of the incident. Leia and Winter had a little more tact, but even they couldn't deny it was funny.

"No sense, have you?" the old Jedi said and probably would have hit Ahsoka with his cane if it weren't for her delicate condition. "Dangerous enough this entire arrangement has been. Protecting two younglings of the chosen one, hard enough it is. But now three?" he asked shaking his head.

Ahsoka sighed. "It's not like it wasn't an accident," she muttered. "Do you know how uncommon this actually is?"

Yoda did hit her that time, on her swollen ankles. She winced and if her stomach hadn't been in the way, she would have reached down to rub it.

"No brains have you? The chosen one he is. Make the impossible possible, the uncommon common. Learn nothing from his action the years you have known him?" Yoda scolded before shaking his head. "The children of Skywalker one thing, but the child of Vader… Only trouble from this can come. Meditate on this I must."

Ahsoka had been mad at Yoda the remainder of her pregnancy at the slight at Vader and the way Yoda seemed to imply that her unborn daughter was destined to be evil. Apparently, she still hadn't gotten over it as she crossed her arms.

"You say that as though it's a bad thing," she hissed.

"Perhaps," Yoda said shrugging. "Conceived in darkness this child was."

"She has just as much a chance of falling to the dark side as Luke and Leia do. You don't know Vader. He's not that bad. He's done a lot of evil things. I can't deny that, but he's not completely evil. There's good in him and Shmi is proof of it," Ahsoka snapped.

"You can't avoid this forever Ahsoka," Obi-wan said before another argument started between the young mother and Yoda.

"I'm not trying to," she said. "But I don't want Shmi to be ashamed of who her father was. You've already convinced Luke. Leia's only recently been able to get him to call Vader his father."

"Luke's not ashamed of who his father was. He's ashamed of what his father became," Obi-wan pointed out.

"He shouldn't be," Ahsoka said. "Vader's not an evil person. He just does evil things because he thinks he has to. He's still a good man."

"Cloud your judgment your emotions do," Yoda chided.

"I'm not pregnant anymore," Ahsoka warned. "I was dead serious when I said I'd attack you if you told me that again."

Leia winced. She knew it was still mood swings and messed up hormones making her say that. But it didn't make it sound any less threatening.

"Either way people aren't going to react well," Ahsoka muttered. "If I write Skywalker, they'll figure out he's not quite dead and think he's been a coward all these years. If I write Vader, they'll judge Shmi before she can walk."

"No one has to know yet," Bail pointed out.

"But it can't be hidden forever and I accept that. But I still don't know which name to give her," Ahsoka said sighing before saying. "I know you've been listening Leia. You can stop hiding and bring Shmi in here."

Leia opened the door and stepped into the room, blinking her eyes at the brightness of the room.

"She's asleep again," Leia said still rocking the baby.

"Lay her on the bed," Ahsoka said nodding towards her bed.

Leia did so, putting the baby on her stomach, careful to turn her face to the side before looking at Ahsoka.

"Still can't decide her name?" Leia asked.

"Being stubborn and difficult, young Tano is. Influenced her much, your father has," Yoda said amused.

Ahsoka couldn't hold back a laugh at that.

"Then let me decide," Leia suggested and all the adults turned to look at her. "You all can't come to an agreement and Ahsoka looks stuck between a rock and a hard place so let me."

Ahsoka didn't hesitate to hand Leia the birth certificate and pen with the force. Leia took it and pressed against the other nightstand as she wrote the name, before handing it back to Ahsoka.

Ahsoka glanced down at it in surprise.

"Skywalker-Vader?" she asked.

"It's simple. You're still honoring Vader, but honoring the man he used to be. Shmi belongs to my dad no matter how he acts or what name he goes by. So let her choose when she's old enough," Leia said shrugging as though it were the simplest thing in the world.

Everyone looked at Ahsoka who was still looking at the paper. Then she folded it and handed it to Bail.

"File it. Shmi Skywalker-Vader it is," Ahsoka said and then turned back to Leia. "And back to bed with you. You have training in a few hours."

When Leia left Obi-wan turned to Ahsoka.

"You do know she's counting on Shmi to carry Vader's name when she's older, right?" Obi-wan asked.

"I know," Ahsoka said. "Vader always said she has the making of a Sith Lady."

"Or a very wise Jedi Master," Bail pointed out. "She knows people well."

"Sounds like a politician to me," Obi-wan said dryly. "She is her mother's child."

Ahsoka thought about it and then shook her head. "Not a politician… She's patient and manipulative, but I don't see her as the type to sit and debate all day long with people. But Leia's got to choose her own path. She'll decide."

Yoda huffed. "Chosen her path, Leia already has. No doubt, no conflict, I sense from her. But you young Tano… Your decision, you must make. Meditated on this I have. Intertwined with your decision, the fate of the galaxy is."

Ahsoka gave him a sideways glance before crossing her arms and looking out the window. She started to draw into her thoughts and ponder what Yoda said until she felt a distinct presence in the room.

"Padmé," she whispered with a smile and got the message. Ahsoka would let the future come as it may.

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AN: It's over… But it's not. Okay, the next story takes place about five and a half years after the ending of this. And it deals with a lot more than just the romance. It's a lot more action packed. Ahsoka has to come to a final decision about her loyalties, Leia has to come to terms with her mother, Luke with his father, then there's always the issue of the Jedi, Palpatine plays his manipulative game, and Vader… well, he's got to deal with his own issues on top of everyone else's. Shmi also makes her actual debut, and because I liked Ventress' character in relation to the Nightsisters so much, guess who makes an appearance. Yeah, this story is packed and it's no wonder it's longer than this one.

Now that I got that aside, here's your sneak preview:

"First rule of manipulation daddy. Never underestimate your victim. That's why you're so bad at it and can't stand politics."

Vader didn't know whether to admit she was right or to feel insulted and put her in her place.

"Palpatine is toying with us dad and he's only bidding his time. He knows about all three of us and he knows you're not crippled under that suit anymore. He also knows he doesn't stand a chance against you in a fair duel and so he's trying to get to us before you do and Shmi's the key. If you find her, it's over and he knows it. So he tried to use Shmi to attract me and Luke so he'd had leverage over you and Ahsoka. It's that simple."

"You're speculating all this," Vader said. "You don't know-."

"Dad," Leia said pointedly. "This guy orchestrated a war to get into power. And even if he hadn't, it's always best to overestimate your enemy than underestimate because when you do that, you can't be taken by surprise."

"Where did you learn all this?" Vader asked suspiciously.

"Politics is a game of manipulation dad. Why do you think I liked the subject so much?"

"It's in your blood. That's why," Vader commented.

"Mother was a politician wasn't she," Leia said as a matter of fact.

"Now the question is though, why are you still wherever you are?" Ahsoka pointed out. "You don't seem distressed."

"Because Palpatine forgot one thing when he calculated this plan."

"What's that?"

"Shmi hates to be toyed with and if she knew they were trying to get a reaction out of her or she thought she was being mocked, it's only natural that she shut down on them."

"Shut down?" Vader asked looking between Ahsoka and Leia who seemed to know something he didn't.

"Remember that intolerance for mediocrity I said Shmi has?" Ahsoka asked and then continued without waiting for Vader to respond, "She also has an intolerance for being toyed with and so she's mastered the art of ignoring things she doesn't want to react to. I think that's why she doesn't have a bad temper."

Vader frowned. "You mean to tell me you think she consciously ignored what was going on to keep us from finding her?"

"Oh yeah," Leia said. "She knew exactly what she was doing."

"Do you think so?" Ahsoka asked a little skeptical.

"Why do you ask?" Leia replied.

Ahsoka bit her lip before saying. "Well… Because she's… Well she's Shmi. She's nothing like you were at that age Leia. A grown woman trapped in a seven year old body. She's so…"

"Unassuming… Like you are," Vader said with a smirk.

"I guess you can call it that. But she's just so childish… like she should be," Ahsoka added.

"I think you're underestimating her strength," Leia suggested. "What you call being hardheaded is her incredible resolve not to bend to anyone's will and if she barely listens to us, then she's not going to give anyone else the satisfaction of playing into their hand if she knows what they're doing. Shmi was protecting us alright… So it's likely she's still on Bespin. But I don't think the emperor would risk you all getting to her."

"We're already on the way."

"But I can get to her faster," Leia replied.

"And then you'd be playing right into the emperor's hands," Vader said firmly. "No. You stay where you are. We'll take care of this matter."

Leia sighed. "Fine…"

The scenery began to fade and soon Vader and Ahsoka were back in their quarters on the Executor, Ahsoka's com beeping in the background.

"Yes," she answered curtly.

"We're about to drop out of hyperspace ma'am," Piett said.

Yeah, so obviously this leaves a lot of questions and speculations about what's going on, but you'll find out. I don't know when this will be up. I won't give a date. I'll take my time… focus on school, write my research paper and then I'll see. I'm not going to school this summer so that's three whole months of… Well I'm not sure. But I should have more free time. I'll probably had Arc III of LoL up again by then. I'll see.

Until next time, Lady Dae out! Hope you enjoyed. Review Please!