Week 20: "Careful the wish you make. Wishes come true...not free." ~ Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim

(Various)

Milk

Sitting in the kitchen, Luke gulped a glass of blue milk to hide his rage. What right did Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru have to tell him that he couldn't go out with his friends? Everyone was meeting at Tosche station tonight - everyone! He'd be the only one there because he had stupid chores to do. Stupid vaporators. Stupid droids. Stupid farm. "I wish I didn't live here! I wish I lived with someone else!" He shouted in anger.

*

Staring at the scorched and broken skeletons in front of his burning home, he'd have given anything to have them back.

Fruit

Mara gazed listlessly through the viewport watching the stars streak by. One year. Her baby boy was one year old today. She remembered everything: the miraculous discovery that she was pregnant, the immediate and fierce protectiveness she felt for the tiny being in her womb, the agony and exhaustion of fighting her illness to keep him safe, and the joy - the pure, unadulterated joy she'd felt when they placed the healthy baby in her arms.

*

Discarding a tasteless dried berry husk, she sent a holo of her and Luke to the Maw where their son waited in someone else's care.

Meat

"Don't want to be a Jedi," young Cade Skywalker mumbled, picking at his gizka steak.

Kol looked up sharply. "What did you say?"

"I said I don't want to do this," he glared at his father. "It's hard and everyone else is better than me. I can't get it right."

"You have a duty, son. You belong here at the Academy."

"Kriff the Academy!" Cade shouted, throwing his plate against the wall.

*

A death stick rolled out of his hand in the belly of Rav's ship and he wondered if that wall was still standing after the massacre at Ossus.

Water

Jaina planted her fists firmly on her hips, facing down her twin brother. "You're a stupid head! A big, fat stupid head!"

"Oh yeah?" Jacen rounded on her. "Well...you're dumb! I wish I didn't have a sister!"

"You take that back!" She demanded indignantly.

"Will not!" He taunted.

Jaina felt her face twist to fight back tears. "I'm telling Mom!"

"Fine!" He stuck his tongue out. "Be a baby tattle-teller!"

*

She hadn't told her mother just to spite him. A children's quarrel a lifetime ago. Splashing water on her face with trembling hands, she slid down the wall and wept.

Cloth

Through the fog of pain and blindness, Anakin Skywalker felt his cape tear away as he fell to the floor. For a terrifying moment that lasted an eternity, he feared that Luke was already dead. If Luke was gone, then his life was for nothing. His death was for nothing.

Darkness beckoned him to surrender finally to despair when the gentle presence he'd learned to recognize as Luke washed over him and he felt his heavy helmet lifted. As he took his final breaths, his son knelt beside him and held his hand.

It was all he'd ever wished for.