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all the echoes fade by reedroad
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Thrawn Series - Timothy Zahn (2017), Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy Trilogy - Timothy Zahn
26 May 2024
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Luke's exploration of some old Jedi ruins goes terribly wrong after he meets a strange man named Ezra. He finds himself in another world where his father and mother are very much alive, and, unfortunately, so is the Empire.
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If Luke had been considering stealing this Luke's life, now he was really after it. This guy had everything!
Well, plus the Empire. It did suck that the Empire was still around. But Alderaan still existed! Jedha and Scarif weren't scarred and ruined! Millions of people were probably still alive.
He was jealous of himself, certainly. More than that, he just wished for more. He wished his family wasn't so fractured. He wished Leia wasn't in such a weird predicament, and he could just see her. Even if she worked for the Empire, she was still Leia. And he would always understand Leia.
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Yet he did not have everything. He did not have his sister. That had been stolen from him, if Vader's words from earlier were any indication. He wondered if this version of himself held rebel sentiments, as his mother seemed to. That would make sense, considering he could already tell that he was her favorite, while Vader… strangely favored Leia.
So Luke got everything he had ever wanted, but it was all backwards. Great.
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"What if she dies?" Vader demanded. "You will regret this, Padmé. You know you will."
"What is another regret?" Padmé said coldly. "I have not seen my daughter in ten years. This is the path she chose. Let her die on it."
Luke's eyes flashed to his mother in utter disbelief. He felt unbearably cold and sick, realizing that though this hurt Padmé more than she let on, she was speaking the truth.
"You can't mean that," Luke gasped, searching his mother's face. She avoided his gaze, and instead glared up at Vader with the iciness of a woman with nothing to lose. "Leia… even if she's done terrible things, she's still Leia!"
"Sit down, Luke," Padmé murmured.
"No!" Luke shot a furious glance between his two parents, sick and frustrated to death by this strange waltz of loathing and bitterness. "How dare you. Both of you! I don't care what's happened in the past, but using your daughter's disappearance as a weapon to hurt one another is— it's just cruel! Leia's actually missing! She's in danger! And you two are just playing a game of who can hurt the other worse?"
These two people, these two utter strangers, turned to look at him in shock. Then they both frowned.
"Stay out of this," his mother said.
"Silence, boy," his father said.
Luke thought he might tear his hair out and scream into the night.
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The words seizure and coma slid over him like an oozing slime. Like perhaps an egg cracking upon his head and melting into his brain. He was freezing up, thinking about the medicine, the strange behavior of his parents, the lack of information about him anywhere, and to be quite honest, he was beginning to panic.
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"A gift," she echoed coolly. "Do you think it is a gift that my son, who is gravely ill, is now being dragged all across the galaxy without any sort of care? That my daughter, Force help her, is missing and almost certainly lost her way as she has been warped beyond recognition by my former mentor? That my husband is a shell of himself, bending to the whims of a tyrant, unable to see that he has already been replaced and that he destroyed the whole world for nothing."
"He destroyed the whole world for you," Sabé countered.
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I have to get off this ship, Luke thought dazedly, and I have to speak to Ezra alone.
It seemed ridiculous to imagine that they had both been thrown from their own worlds into this one, but there was something about Ezra that made Luke feel like he was the key to everything. He just had to be.
Even if he was a colossal jerk who was basically trying to die.
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He thought about all the things he wanted to say. About his own life. But he imagined this was already too confusing.
"All you two have is each other," he said firmly. "If I can save Vader, I will, but I think it's more important that at the end of this, you're together."
It was not pleasant to think about, but there was no question of who to choose if he was forced between saving his father and his sister.
Then he ended to recording, feeling a bit foolish for it. But at the end of it all, wasn't he just trying to get home? Seeing his other self, hearing him speak, Luke understood that being here was just a crime against him. It was not fair. And the other Luke did not have time to be kicked out of his own body.
Wait, Luke thought dazedly, is this Luke in my body?
He had to get back home.
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