Anakin just sat there gaping in shock as Bail Organa made his request. Organa was one of Padme's friends in the senate and a friend of the Jedi. Being in the public eye, it had only been natural that the man's wife's problem with carrying a child to term had been plastered all over the news, especially since Breha Organa nee Antilles was the head of Alderaan's ruling family.

He hadn't expected the man to ask this of Padme however...

Eventually, he got over his shock, and gave his reply. Organa was a good man who'd had a bad hand dealt to him, and he'd been raised to help those who needed it. If Padme wasn't against this, then he wouldn't be either.

Two weeks later, Padme headed into a clinic, and the deed was done.

As Padme's due date drew closer, Anakin started having dreams of Padme dying in childbirth. No matter how much he begged and pleaded, Padme refused to listen to him and end the pregnancy. He ended up turning to the only person who ever really listened to him, and that man ended up leading him astray.

On Polis Massa, Bail Organa stared at the test results, and knew exactly what they meant under the new regime. According to studies that had been made over the last several millennia, when Force sensitive twins were separated, their abilities went...well, not quite dormant, but they were nowhere near as strong as they would be when the twins were together.

He had been advised to separate the twins for their own safety, and given time to make the agonizing decision over which one to keep, and which to give away.

Eventually, he had chosen to keep the weaker of the two, confident that the Jedi would train the stronger.

Nineteen years after Bail Organa made his fateful decision, a ship called the Tantive IV was captured. Aboard was the 19 year-old senator from Alderaan, a black-haired, brown-eyed, young man named Bail Organa Jr.

Below, on the desert world of Tatooine, was a young girl with black hair and brown eyes who answered to the name Shimi Lars, that had been adopted by a family who had been unable to have a child of their own, who was tending to her chores about the family's moisture farm.

Three years after that fateful day above Tatooine, Darth Vader reflected on his duel with his former master's Padawan Shimi. If he hadn't known for a fact that Breha Organa's eggs had been used, he would have been willing to swear that she was Padme's. As it was, "I was your Surrogate Mother's husband" was lacking a certain something, as was "I am your step-uncle".