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arielsojourner · 7 years

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I spent the last 10 hours a day writing things for work the last three days and I sit down for a little relaxation time and all my brain wants to do is write. more. of. this. AU. Not an actual fic, noooo. Not any of my WIPs that are so oooold. No. My brain wants to write bits and pieces of something that will never. be. ARG!

Part 3 of my mess of Time Travel AU daydreams and imaginings:

-Grievous thought the little Jedi was easy pickings. Short and puny, his lightsaber hardly worthy of seizing as one of his many trophies but then the Jedi moved and Grievous realized this one was going for a precision kill. There was no desire to capture him. There was no buried anger making him sloppy. There were no fancy flourishes with his lightsabers, the Jedi saved his flourishes for his whole body. Suddenly two of his limbs are on the ground, and oh, look, another one, is that a clone with one of his lightsabers? No, wait-----!

-Vader didn't like to admit it but wherever he played at being a Separatist Sith (it made his stomach turn every time, Kix had even tried to prescribe him something for the nausea) he did enjoy hanging out with the simple battle droids. He wanted to hate them. Hate came easy to him after all but even with their restrictive programming and short life spans they had such character and personality. They were funny. He tried to reprogram as many as he could. They may not be organic but he thought they too deserved better than their lot.

-Ventress was enjoying herself. She hadn't known she could enjoy herself. She had been angry and desperate and fighting and fighting for so long that she didn't even recognize the feeling until Luke had smiled at her and asked her if she was having fun yet. She had nearly snapped back a reply, (it had reminded her of Kenobi's needling) until she caught herself and realized he genuinely meant it. He wanted her to be having fun and she looked around and realized that she was. Ventress enjoyed every minute of undermining Sidious and Dooku. She was being freely taught all manner of new Force techniques and wasn't required to grovel or prove herself before some dark master or mindlessly obey some council. She wasn't afraid of being stabbed in the back. Vader would have the decency to face her head on if he wanted to and Luke didn't seem interested in either redeeming her or condemning her. She could just . . . enjoy.

Ventress' New Top Five Favorite Things About Life Included: 1. Making the Trade Federation cry when she destroyed their ships and stole from them. 2. Dooku's face when he realized she had tricked him and Luke and Vader had somehow beat him at his own game. 3. Terrorizing local planets only to say "Just Kidding!" when peace was declared. 4. Gambling on Luke and Vader with the locals whenever they went swoop bike racing, or pod racing or whatever speeder-they-could-get-their-hands-on-racing after they declared peace on a planet. She always made a killing. 5. Tortur--- ahem! helping train the Force sensitive clones.

Three Things Ventress is REALLY looking forward to:

1. Kenobi and Skywalker's face the first time they face Vader. 2. Kenobi and Skywalker's face the first time they meet Vader and Luke. 3. Sidious' face when his plans unravel and Vader and Luke put him down hard.

She has already used her gambling winnings to invest in a high class holocamera. Ventress prides herself on being prepared.

-Padme has met many Jedi but Luke has to be one of the stranger ones because he is just so . . . ordinary. There doesn't seem to be anything very special about him at first glance. He doesn't have that air of power around him that members of the Council do. He doesn't radiate danger or have that battle ready edge that sometimes seems to burn through Anakin. He doesn't command in that stated solemn voice of all knowing Jedi wisdom. Padme would have though him just another young man, untested, untried, someone that seemed so very young to her if it wasn't for that look in his eyes and the words he spoke. He declared peace, and people believed it. He said freedom, and she knew he would make it so. He spoke of the love and caring he had for his companions and his father (a Jedi with a father? If he was here, she never saw him) that she had never heard any Jedi speak openly and publicly about. She could see the love and caring in his eyes. He wore his feelings openly and without guilt. She wondered if someday Anakin would ever be able to speak of her that way, to anyone, without feeling like he was betraying Obi-Wan or the Order just by doing so. Whoever Luke was, he had her support and she strongly suspected Anakin would agree with her. She couldn't wait for the two of them to meet.

-Vader was not stalking. He wasn't! Padme had settled in for the night after she and Luke had had dinner and Vader just wanted to make sure there was no more assassination attempt or kidnapping or explosion to disturb her rest. He would just stay here and enjoy the quiet evening. The fact that he was under her window (which was open! Why wasn't it locked? Anyone could come in! C-3P0 was not useful as protection after all.) was purely coincidence. It was a comfortable spot though and there was room for Luke to sit too when he came out to join him. He hadn’t told Luke about his mother but Luke just knew. In the dark no one could see Luke lean against his father's shoulder. In the dark no one could see Vader leaning back.

-Desperate, Palpatine sends Cade Bane to hunt down this rogue Jedi making peace of all things and take him out. He can’t have Jedi making peace. He is passively aggressively getting everyone to believe the Jedi are behind the war to gain power while using the war to kill them off. Given his past victories against the Order, Palpatine is sure Bane won't fail.

-Bane fails and fails miserably for several reasons. First, Luke being a long time Tatooine native and having been dealing with bounty hunters chasing Han (or sometimes chasing Luke himself due to the enormous bounty Vader put on his head) for the past 2-3 years in the future makes Luke prepared for all of Bane's tricks.

-"Vader put a bounty on your head?" Fives asked incredulously. Before Luke can answer Vader cuts in defensively "I needed to find my son quickly and at the time he had chosen to throw his lot in with unscrupulous rebels and criminals." Luke rolls his eyes. "My friends are not criminals." Even with his mask on it is clear that Vader is giving him a Look. "Leia says that rebelling against an illegal government is not a crime, Father!" “I should ground you for saying such treasonous lies! You sound like a-a Separatist!” “Father, you are pretending to be a Separatist right now!”

-”Do not get in between them when they start talking politics,” Rex advises Ahsoka firmly, as she nervously fingers her lightsaber as the two men argue. “Sometimes I don’t think even they know what side they are on other than each other’s side.”

-Second, Bane fails because Vader no longer cares about waiting to attack your enemy until he shoots first or giving fair warning to an enemy. Bane came for Luke. Bane had nearly killed Ahsoka and Padme before.

-Third, Bane also didn't expect Force sensitive clones, battle trained, unpredictable and protective of their teacher. They may not have been very skilled yet at saber play but the three brothers moved in sync with each other and with speed and vicious strength that would make even accomplished Jedi impressed. (Vader wants Luke to take away Hardcase’s second lighstaber. He’s going to stab the wrong person if he is not careful. He’s going to stab Luke and then Vader cannot be held responsible for what he will do. Luke asks Ahsoka for help.)

-Every time Luke talks to Ahsoka or asks her a question while he is near his father, Vader goes stiff and inches away as unobtrusively as possible. Which is not that unobtrusive. Is he . . . scared of me? Ahsoka wonders.

-Fourth, Bane also didn't expect Ventress. Bane ends up very very dead and Vader and Ventress wastes no time gathering further evidence of Palpatine's betrayal.

-Luke and Vader vacillate about when they can confront Palpatine. They take turns getting all ansy about just flying to Coruscant and killing him, especially after it was clear that he is behind most of the attempts on Padme's life when she is sent out on Senate missions and the chips in the clones heads and the whole kriffing war. But given that everyone still likes the Chancellor and not enough clones are free from the chips in their heads, they decide not to risk it until they are certain they can not only beat him but burn his plans down with him.

-Sometimes Vader argues that they should leave some of Palpatine's plans intact. The Republic is a corrupt bloated beast. The Jedi Order easily fell prey to the Sith and they are in need of reforms. The Empire wasn't all bad. They had some very nice capital ships after all. Luke usually stops what he is doing when Vader starts on those thoughts and grabs his father by the arm and suggest they go flying or racing or, oh look Father, have you seen a ship of this model in this condition before? Why don't we take it apart together and make it go faster?

-Luke is not interested in ruling the galaxy. Luke is pretty sure that if Vader thinks about it, Vader knows that Vader shouldn't be ruling the galaxy. He won't enjoy it at all, Luke is sure about that. Luke has realized that his father is happiest, is at peace, when he can protect the people he loves, when he can take action in the face of the things that threaten the people he love, when he can be open and accepted for being just that. Luke is also pretty sure after meeting his mom that she wouldn't appreciate being given the galaxy to rule by her future Sith husband either. (Vader argues that Padme would be great as Empress. He is sure she could see the wisdom of it and she would be so great at it. Luke breaks out the big guns and suggest the two of them soup up a starfighter with future technology). As much as the Republic has serious problems (Sith infestation being one of them and slavery and corruption and apathy for the needs of sentient etc. etc.) Emperors are not the solution.

Luke wishes Leia was here. She would know what to do.

#sw au #star wars alternate universe #luke skywalker sweet cinnamon roll #luke and vader #father and son save the galaxy #ahsoka tano #ventress

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