Four Years Later

Ahsoka curled over, laughing. "You fainted?"

Anakin scowled, picking at the surface of his desk. "It's not funny, Snips. They made me Emperor of the galaxy!"

"You seem to have done a good job," Ahsoka remarked, then grinned. "Your majesty."

Anakin groaned. "You can't call me that anymore. As of three hours ago, I resigned. The entire galaxy has been united again in a Republic, and now politics is not my problem anymore." He put his hands behind his head and stretched out in his chair.

Ahsoka curled up in her own chair on the other side of his desk. "What happened then? I've been trapped in a Sith temple for years. I'm not exactly up on the times."

"Well, we destroyed a bunch of Emperor's hands that were knocking around the galaxy. Some dude that called himself Black Hole, some weirdo named Shira Brie that tried to creep on my son. There was one lady that claimed her son was Palpatine's illegitimate son, but I don't believe that for one second. Anyway, we wound up having to fight to the death with them, too. We blew up the Sun Crusher and Palpatine's asteroid ship, which had a Jedi ghost in the computer that also tried to creep on my son, got lost in the Maw and killed the Mother, destroyed Wayland and Byss, with a bunch of creepy Palpatine clones, defeated all factions of the Empire warring against me, built a Senate and transitioned into a Republic, and—oh! We got lost in the asteroid ship for a while and ran into an extra-galactic lizard species that can't touch the Force, but we accidentally lured them to a Sith planet, and after an army of Sith attacked the lizard people, the lizard people destroyed the Sith and their planet and the Sith, along with the Alliance and the Empire and the asteroid ship managed to beat their leaders and blow up the people that were in charge, so I convinced the rest that it would be in their best interest to make a treaty with us. I don't think they'll be coming back any time soon. Oh, and we cleared the Dark Side stain on the Temple, which took a lot of work, and killed the ghost of Exar Kun, he was harassing the Rebels on Yavin IV, and now we're restarting the Jedi Order. Want to join?"

Ahsoka laughed. "Who's we?"

"Me, Yoda, Luke, Leia, and Mara, for starters." It had taken Leia a while to warm up to the idea of Jedi training ("What if I turn to the Dark Side, just like you?"), but after they'd both had several consistent years of therapy, she'd become excited about it. Though, the therapy sessions had tended to be holographic sessions across the galaxy in between battles and crazy adventures, but eventually Anakin had cleaned up the galaxy and wasn't trying to run from his problems by getting into near-death situations anymore.

"Mara? The Emperor's Hand? I thought you said you destroyed them."

"Yeah, well, she wasn't too bad. She wound up surprisingly innocent. I don't think she realized most of the Empire's atrocities were real. Her and Luke are really close, even though she pretends they're not. I think you two will get along very well." Actually, Mara and Ahsoka unleashed on the galaxy together might create untold levels of havoc, but Anakin didn't want life to get boring.

"Father!" Leia strode into the office, Luke on her heels. Both were dressed as Jedi. Luke had his own lightsaber hanging from his belt. Anakin had his old one back, safe and sound on his belt. Leia hadn't gotten around to building one of her own, since she'd been swamped with political work.

"Is the Senate session over already?" Anakin asked.

Leia nodded and bent down to kiss his cheek. "Today was just a ceremonial session."

"The real arguing begins tomorrow," Han said, leaning against the doorway.

"How'd Mon Mothma do?" Anakin asked.

"She was—" Leia started.

"Uh-uh." Anakin raised his hand and gazed at Luke.

"I hate politics," was Luke's reply.

Anakin grinned. "No, you don't. What did you think?"

Luke shrugged. "Mon Mothma seemed to take to the office of Chancellor well. She had most of the other senators agreeing with her."

Anakin nodded. "She'll do well. Now, Ahsoka, what's your answer? Want to help us build the next generation of Jedi?"

The three kids turned to Ahsoka, as if they hadn't noticed her before.

"Who are you?" Luke asked.

Ahsoka stood up. "I'm Ahsoka Tano, your aunt. Of course I'll help, Anakin. What do you take me for?"

Anakin grinned and stood up, slinging an arm around each kid's shoulders. "Great to have you back, Snips. Come on, let's go to dinner. You know, attachments are going to be allowed in this new Jedi Order, which means you can go on dates now."

"I'm not exactly the dating type," Ahsoka started.

Anakin escorted his children, sister, and future son-in-law out of his office and to the turbolift. "Because the senator of Onderon has been asking about you for the past four years. You know, the kid that you fell in love with back in the Clone Wars?"

"Master!" Ahsoka exclaimed, doing her species' version of blushing.

"What was his name? Lux Bonteri?"

"Mas-ter!"

"Maybe you can have a triple wedding, with Han and Leia, and Luke and Mara!"

"Dad!" Leia hit him in the ribs. "Han and I are…barely official. Barely!"

Luke blushed furiously. "I don't want a triple wedding! Mara doesn't even like me!"

Han had his hand cupped over his pocket, where Anakin knew he had an engagement ring hidden. He'd asked for his blessing several weeks ago after Han and Leia had almost died helping destroy Exar Kun. And Anakin didn't need the Force to know that Mara had been staring at and sighing over Luke for over a year.

Anakin smiled. "Sure, kids. Sure."

And they all lived (mostly) happily ever after.

The End

Notes: And so we come to the end! It's been an interesting journey from the one-shot this was supposed to be into an actual fic! I'm not sorry for resolving forty years of conflict in just four years. Sometime after this, maybe Anakin'll stumble upon the future Darth Krayt and save his great-great-great-grandkids from misery as well. I know it should be "she and Luke", but the mistake is intentional. Do the Yuuzhan-Vong resemble lizards? I don't know. I, frankly, don't care all that much. It's been a fun ride, and thanks to everyone who took it with me!
The journey begins, so go! And may the Force be with you!