SITH SPY.

He turned to the darkside. Slaughtered younglings. Has executed hundreds of people at the Emperor's order...

... But what if that wasn't true? What if the man the galaxy knew as 'vader' was simply an elaborate cover for the greatest hero the galaxy ever knew?

Begins during 'A New Hope'.

Suitless 'Vader'.

Padme is alive. Along with Master Windu.

Anakin had left Mustafar before Padme arrived, she went into labour and obi-wan took her to Polis Massa.

Luke and Leia were separated and Anakin found Padme after two years.

He didn't know Leia had been taken prisoner on the Deathstar - but knows she is his daughter.

Apliria is the planet Anakin took the younglings, it is the Jedi stronghold.

Once again, i would like to thank foreverwildfire2.0 for helping with this chapter.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

Anakin lifted his head as Luke and Leia walked in behind Obi-wan, he smiled, slowly sitting up. "This isn't really the way I planned to meet you," He winced in pain.

"What happened?" Luke asked, sitting beside him as Leia moved to the opposite side.

Pushing himself back into the pillows, Anakin shrugged. "One of the spies I have watching Palpatine, contacted me." He said softly, "He said he needed to talk to me face to face-"

"And you just left?" Leia shook her head, "You didn't think to have someone go with you?"

"I didn't think I'd get set up," Anakin sighed, "my spy is either dead, or he was forced to betray me."

"Either way, we don't know what he was going to tell you." Luke snorted, "Kind of worrying."

Anakin smiled at him, "Obi-wan told me you liked to race along Beggar's Canyon?"

"It's Tatooine," Luke shrugged, "there's not really much to do." Laughing, Anakin nodded, wincing in pain again.

"I loved Pod Racing," He told his son, his smile widening as Luke grinned. "It drove my Mom crazy though," He closed his eyes and sighed, "She hated it every time I was entered in a race."

"Uncle Owen told me how she died," Luke smiled sadly, "he told me how you tried to save her."

Anakin nodded, "I tried," He'd failed though. Seeing the grief on his father's face, Luke grinned. "He also told me that you were 'a navigator on a spice freighter'."

Anakin cracked up laughing before wincing and clutching his side. "Technically I was a General on a Republic Cruiser..." He grinned at their shocked looks.

Obi-wan rolled his eyes at Anakin. "Even if you were 'one of the best pilots in the galaxy', you were quite reckless and unpredictable."

Anakin began to snicker a little. "I seem to recall several times when that 'unpredictability' came in handy at saving lives. Yours included Obi-wan."

"Did I say it was a bad thing?" Obi-wan asked innocently, "I believe I was simply stating a fact."

"How long have you two known each other?" Leia asked, smiling at their easy banter.

"Since he was a nine year old boy," Obi-wan told her, "I trained him to be a Jedi."

"And now he's agreed to train you," Anakin said, looking at Luke. "of cause, only if you want to?"

Luke's eyes gleamed, "Of cause I want to!"

Anakin grinned and then looked at Leia. "I'm sure we could find a teacher for you if you want to learn."

Leia looked at Luke then back to her father. "I think it would be great."

Suddenly a voice started them as Jinn ran in. "Daddy!" He jumped on the bed and onto his father's lap causing his wounds to be jostled. Anakin hissed as the pain raced through his body causing his body to tense up.

Padme came racing into the room as Leia pulled Jinn off. Luke was trying to get his father to relax again, but as he was still in pain, it was kind of hard.

"Dad?" Jinn's voice was worried and high pitched as he pulled himself out of Leia's arms, "Are you ok?"

"I'm just sore Jinn," Anakin smiled weakly at him, "I'll be fine." Obi-wan gave him a small grin before looking at Jinn.

"Hey there big guy, how bout we go have some fun outside? I would like to see what you can do." Jinn smiled widely and ran outside.

Obi-wan nodded to the rest of the family before following after Jinn, leaving a very worried wife to fuss over her injured husband. Looking at Padme, Anakin rolled his eyes. "I'll be fine Padme," he told her, grinning. "We both know I've been hurt worse than this."

She gave him a hard look. "That's what I'm worried about Ani." Carefully she sat on the bed close to him. "We have both seen things during the war that not many see and live to tell about it. It has hardened us in order to bear the burden." She looked away from Anakin. "I'm just worried, that the next time I let you out of my sight... will be the last time I see you."

"That's never going to happen," Smiling, Anakin took her hand. "I'll always come back, I promise."

Luke snorted, "You two are just like Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru," he said as he smiled.

Leia smiled at them and shook her head, it was impossible to even imagine her father as 'Darth Vader' now. "How did you manage to fool anyone into believing you were evil?"

Anakin shrugged. "Let's just say it wasn't easy. I had to keep up a mask most of the time. Not to mention that several of the times I felt like rolling my eyes at Palpatine. Luckily for me... I didn't."

"And your father and I have experience in keeping secrets," Padme told Leia. When Luke frowned, she smiled. "Jedi weren't allowed to marry-"

"Wait," Leia stared at her parents incredulously, "you two had a secret marriage, right under the nose of the Senate and the Jedi, and no one noticed?"

Anakin grinned at her and Luke. "I guess we were really lucky. Especially since your mother was a Senator while she was pregnant with the two of you."

Padme lightly slapped his arm. "No thanks to you, Ani." She gave a small laughed. "I had some of my clothes custom made in order to hide my pregnancy from others. It worked the entire time too."

Luke smiled at his parents, he was glad Obi-wan had told them the truth and even more glad that he had brought them to meet his parents. It was the one thing he had always wanted, the one thing he had thought he would never be able to have.