Padme awakens over twenty one years after the birth of her children. She finds that she has been encased in carbonite to keep her alive. But the process leaves an unexpected and devastating aftereffect. Padme/Ani/Vader AU. POST ESB.

The Sith Lord Darth Vader lived his life. He probably didn't live it well, but he lived it as well as he knew how. At the end there, he'd even managed to woman up and kill Sidious. But he was dying, and at peace with the past. The past wasn't at peace with him.