Epilogue

The years passed, and Anakin healed. The progress was slow, and there was a fair share of tears and regrets, but the bond of love in the small family was strong.

Padmé helped to lead the senate, alongside Bail Organa, and was later elected as Supreme Chancellor. She – in the years after – was remembered for her strong will and sense of compassion. It was she who brought the Outer Rim territories under the Republic's wing and created stronger Anti-Slavery laws.

Obi-Wan rebuilt the Jedi Order, though he was far from alone. The Jedi Temple was rebuilt and students began to fill it once more. Yoda was convinced to come out of hiding, and with him came other Jedi who had escaped the purges. A new council began to form, and Obi-Wan and Yoda stood at it's head.

Luke trained under his father for years, but when he turned sixteen he was taken by Obi-Wan as a Padawan. Although he could never quite manage to beat his father in a spar or dogfight, he entered the Republic Navy as a pilot when he turned twenty-six. By that time, he was a Jedi Knight.

Leia also trained as a Jedi, although she stayed with her father as his Padawan. When she was eighteen, she started to get involved in politics, and her training was then split between her parents. When she asked her father over dinner why he didn't train her as a diplomat, Obi-Wan, who was also present, started laughing so hard he began to choke and had to be given the Hiemlich maneuver. Needless to say, Leia felt that perhaps it was better that her mother taught her the art of politics.

Anakin healed well, but was still scarred over his right eye. He helped Obi-Wan rebuild the temple, and they had their names engraved on the cornerstone. He trained his daughter as a Jedi until she graduated – much to his sorrow and pride – at twenty-five. He bullied Obi-Wan until the age of training for Jedi was raised and the initiates and Padawans had the option of visiting their parents. He stood by his wife as she was named Supreme Chancellor, and by his two children as they were Knighted. He also paced and stressed as two more children were brought into the world; a boy, named Kit, and three years later a girl, named Sabé.

A month after Yoda arrived on Coruscant, Anakin bumped into him – literally, he tripped right over him. When the laughter – and the apologies that immediately followed – ended, Yoda smiled.

"Wrong I have been, many times." The ears perked up and Yoda's eyes twinkled, "and wrong I will be again."

"Master Yoda?" Anakin smiled uncertainly, unsure what the green gnome was talking about.

"Right, Qui-Gon was." Yoda bowed low, "Skywalker, the Chosen One you are." He shuffled off, leaving a stunned Anakin in his wake.

Anakin was offered a position on the Jedi Council, but he refused. He stayed home with the new little ones, and more than once Padmé would come home to the scene of a food fight or see Anakin try to explain to three-year-old Kit how a hyperdrive worked.

The worlds turned, stars were born and died, and balance was finally regained.