attackoftheclothes:
✫ Leia Amidala Skywalker arriving at Varykino
Tagrid elHage, Spring 2017 – “Alice” Couture Collection
What If… Anakin Skywalker decides to resign from Jedi Order, although he refuses to tell the council why, after Padmé tells him she pregnant. After Anakin dreams about Padmé dying while giving birth, he convinces her to leave early for Naboo where they tell her family about their clandestine marriage. Unknowingly because the couple wasn’t on Coruscant, they thwarted Palpatine’s plans for Anakin and prevailed him from turning to the dark side. Nor was Anakin present when the Jedi confronted when Mace Windu killed Sidious. For the next two decades or so Anakin and Padmé try raise to their children all the while the Republic is falling apart and wars break out around them…
Her father wasn’t here. Leia had journeyed to the Lake Retreat to talk to him, more specifically to thank him for his advice how to interact with Jedi Council. It couldn’t have been easy for her father to talk about Jedi, the circumstances of him leaving the Order was still something he struggled with. She felt guilty about it, having to ask him about it. But it was either ask him or Ahsoka, well that was choice easily made. She could have asked her mother of course, but somehow Leia knew mother’s would be… lacking.
Leia walked around and called out his name few times. When only silence met her call, she sat down on the veranda. She could sense him through the force, so she knew was nearby. He probably meditating in one of the meadows. Still, he would make his way back soon.