Death Star: episode #49 Payback to Anakin
Previously: Luke and Jira have talked about Anakin Skywalker. Luke learns that he was a very famous Jedi, and that he was the hero of the Clone Wars. Jira shows him pictures of Anakin along with the program form the old pod race. Finally, Luke ends up telling her that Anakin is his father.
After Luke saw the pictures and the program, he asks, �Can I buy a copy of these? I�ll pay you for them.� Jira looks at Luke really strangely. �Yes, I could get copies of them. Why would you want them?� Luke, remembering what he had promised his uncle, even though it�s been really hard form keeping it form Jira, says, �I have my reasons�I�� she says, �I rally don�t know if I should give them to you. I don't want them to end up hurting Anakin. I barely know you. I don�t know who you are.� Luke sighs, �My name�s Luke Skywalker, and according to my uncle, Anakin was my father.� Jira looks at Luke in total surprise. �Your father? I didn�t know they had any children. How old are you?� �18.� �Okay, then�. that means your birthday has to be October or later�. and since you�re already 18�� Luke shakes his head, �Try September.� Jira says, �Well that�s going to be hard for me to believe. I knew Anakin well�he and his wife wouldn�t have done anything until they were married. They were married in February, which means for you to be their son, you would need to have been born a month early.� �I don�t know,� says Luke. �That�s just what my uncle told me. It�s probably a lie. He probably just said that because my father was like nothing�but I do know that the things Ben said about my father were true. Ben didn�t tell me his name, but I do know that my father was a Jedi Knight, was good at building things, and was a slave. All I can do is go off of what other people tell me. But I don�t know, maybe more than one person could fit into that category.� �I�m not saying you�re wrong, Luke. I�m just saying it�d be hard for it to be true. Anakin died a few days after he married his wife. It was big news.� �If that�s true, then both my uncle and Ben lied to me. They told me my uncle was babysitting me when I was a baby and they got killed.� Luke looked up at Jira. �I don�t know what�s true and what�s not, I don�t know anything. I hate my life.� Jira says, pleasantly, �Well, if Anakin�s your father, then I�m paying him back by helping you. If not�then I�m still helping someone.� Luke looks at the floor. �Yeah, a nobody that doesn�t even know who they are.� He looks back up. �Did Anakin have asthma?� Jira shook her head, �No. By the way, since you�ve told me your name, my name�s Jira.� �Pleased to meet you,� says Luke. �I have something that belonged to my father, whether it�s Anakin or not, I�ll probably never know, but Ben gave it to me�it�s my father�s lightsaber. I suppose I�ll have to get up to take it off.� He�d been sitting on the floor the entire time the conversation was going on. �Tits not too much of a bother for you is it? How are you feeling?� Luke says, �No, it�ll be all right. I�m still sick, but the cooling unit�s really helped. I feel a lot better. Besides, I�ve been here awhile�I should probably get going anyway.� Luke gets up, and then hands the lightsaber to her, saying, �I can�t do anything about my asthma anyway, so I might as well do something instead of sit there.� She took it and looked it over carefully. She, too saw the initials A.S. on it�but since his last name is Skywalker, and it is a common last name�A could be almost anything: Andy, Andrew, Anakin, Alex, Alexander, Adam, Aaron, Aliken, or any other A name. �I can�t tell from this,� she says. �But go ahead and take the pictures. I have the negative somewhere. You need a father figure, and even if he were not your father, he�d be good for you to associate yourself with. That�s probably what your uncle was doing.� �Yeah, thanks�how much do you want for these?� �I don�t know�10 credits would be all right.� Luke searches his money pouch on the utility belt and comes up with a coin worth 25 credits. �This is all I have. Go ahead�I�m going with Ben to Yavin. I don�t�� �Luke, why don�t you keep it? If you�re�� �My uncle can give me more money. This is his anyway. You need it more than I do.� Jira looks at Luke with raised eyebrows. She didn�t say anything, but just stared at him. Finally she says, �all right.� So Luke started heading to the cantina. He�d been coughing over the course of his visit with her. But he was definitely better now. The droids followed. As he entered, he could smell alcoholic beverages and cigarette/pipe smoke. He winced. He was also allergic to that kind of smoke, which he knew would not get him feeling any better. It definitely wouldn�t be good for him. He went in anyway. As soon as he went in, everyone turned to stare at him. Ben was pleased to see him. The people there could tell he was not accustomed to cantinas. He wasn�t the type. The bar tender turned to him. �We don�t serve their kind.� �What?� �Your droids. They�ll have to wait outside.� �Right�you two better go outside. We don�t want any trouble.� C-3PO says, �I highly agree with you, sir.� C-3PO and R2-D2 leave. Luke knows he could get very sick there. That smoke irritated his asthma before�but since he was already sick from it, he knew he could get a lot worse. Because of this, Luke decided to go up to the bar and get something non-alcoholic to get his mind off of where he was. He glanced around and noticed all the strange creatures.
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Death Star: episode #49 Payback to Anakin