"Sunshine" , "Runaway"

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Claim: Star Wars (General Series)
Prompt: 27. Beginnings
Title: Sunshine
Author: gabri_jade
Rating: PG.
Length: Short. One shot. About 2,000 words-ish.
Brief summary: Luke and Mara break the news of their engagment to the rest of the family.
Link: Sunshine




Mara stopped, her arm linked with his forcing him to stop too. "Luke Skywalker. Are you really going to tell me that you're afraid of a little water?"

The corner of his mouth twitched with tamped-down amusement. "I didn't say anything about being afraid. I'm just not going diving, is all."

"Uh-huh." Mara folded her arms skeptically.

"Mara, perhaps you remember that little flood that nearly killed us both a few days ago?" Luke asked, planting his feet as firmly as if he intended to grow roots to tie him to that spot. "Or maybe you hit your head harder than you thought when you first landed on Nirauan."

Mara narrowed her eyes at him. His hair seemed almost to shimmer in the glint of the early morning sun, and he looked quite appallingly attractive, if stubborn. "You could at least take your boots off."




Claim: Star Wars (General Series)
Prompt: 19. Dark
Title: Runaway
Author: Valeria Vancollie
Rating: G.
Length: Long. Upto 50,000 words.
Brief summary: Luke runs away from Tatooine and joins the Imperial Academy. It's the story of Luke's descent into the Dark Side.
Link: Runaway



Vader waited until the Admiral was gone before he turned to his waiting son. Reaching out he entered the boy's mind finding confusion, fear, and curiosity about both him and the Force. Probing deeper he came across the boy's lust for power and his feelings about it, he nearly laughed aloud when he saw that his son was disgusted by it. Soon his boy would learn to accept it. And once he did then he'd be able to tell the boy his full plan, tell him that together they would overthrow the Emperor, but not before. Indeed, now the boy wouldn't understand, but by the time he got far enough into his training he'd also have seen just how badly Palpatine mishandled the Empire.

"Now we shall continue your training my apprentice," he stated and watched Luke hesitate before nodding his head. "Do as you did before breakfast."

Letting his anger fill first him and then the room Luke reached out as he had done earlier.

Two months later, Luke gently landed his TIE fighter in its rack in the docking bay of the Executor. They had just attacked another Rebel outpost, a battle they had won with almost no losses. Taking off his mask he quickly got out of his TIE fighter.

"Not bad Skywalker," Black 3 said as he walked up to Luke. "Not bad."

"Thanks," Luke replied knowing that 'not bad' from Black 3 was a major compliment.

"You coming down to the gym?" Black 3 asked.

"No," Luke replied nervously. "Lord Vader told me to see him once I came back."

"Okay," Black 3 replied icily before he turned around and left.

Shaking his head Luke headed for Vader's quarters, although he was coming to like learning about the Force more and more he disliked the consequences of the training. The other pilots had quickly become aware of the fact that he was spending a lot of time with Lord Vader and they were staying away from him because of it. Approaching Vader's quarters he felt the Dark Lord's mind reach out and touch his.

That was another thing that bothered him, being this close to Vader. There were times when he'd be eating or relaxing and that he'd suddenly feel the Dark Lord's touch in his mind. And, since he knew that Vader could hide his presence from him, he was sure that the man was in his mind more often then he'd like. And then there was this strange connection he felt to Vader, he couldn't describe the feeling, but the more he was with him the stronger the feeling would get.

Entering Vader's quarters as the door opened he quietly walked to stand before his master.


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