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In My Dreams, Shadow’s Call (You’re the Light at the End of the Hall) snippet/ WIP Wednesday

“Okay, just a bit of mascara and you’re done okay?” Winter asked.

Luke nodded. He was so nervous. Even if he wasn’t getting a bad feeling with the force, he felt this was a bad idea. A thousand what ifs ran through his head. The worst of which was “what if Din hated this side of him after he saw it?”

“Flutter your lashes for a minute.” Winter said.

Like but his lip and did as he was told. Winter moved her hand to the other side of his face once he was done.

“Again.” She said.

Luke once again did as he was told. Meanwhile Leia let out a loud “aha” and triumphantly pulled out a dress from her wardrobe. Luke didn’t dare look until Leia was ready to show him. He’d made that mistake before and had to attend a ball with a black eye and Leia had to take anger management classes. He knew Leia wouldn’t hit him again, but she would probably shave his stuffed toys in his sleep. Or maybe she’d finally give up on being petty. In three years she’d be queen after all.

“There, you’re done.” Winter said, capping the mascara.

“Before you look, put this on!” Leia cried rushing over with the gown.

Luke gasped. It was a miniature version of their mother’s lakeside gown. Instead of the usual yellow, pink, purple it went from white to a sky blue. Luke tried not to cry. Leia knew that his favorite of all their mom’s dresses was the lakeside one.

“You have no clue how hard it was hiding this from you.” Leia said. “Rae-Lye spent months working on this for you. We’re lucky she used to be a tailor.”

Luke blinked in surprise. Din’s mom had made this for him? She’d been in on Leia’s plan? Luke couldn’t believe it. He ran his hand over the fabric. It seemed so well made, he’d have expected their usual tailor to have made it. A grin broke out on his face as he pictured Rae-Lye working on the dress in the servants quarters after a long day of work just to surprise him. He’d have to do something nice for her as a thank you.

He hurried to get changed. He was excited to put the dress on. To look like his mother. To wear something his best friend's mom had made just for him. It might be a bit tame for a ball, but he wanted to wear it regardless. He could dress it up with a shawl or cape like his mother did.

“How do I look?” Luke asked, giving a twirl and he stepped out from behind the privacy screen.

“Gorgeous!” Leia said, clapping her hands. “Come look at your makeup!”

Luke walked over to the mirror and gasped at his reflection. Winter had done an all natural look, except for the eyeliner which added a pop of sky blue to his face. He loved the way he looked. It was definitely better than when he did it, but then again Winter was trained to do makeup and he wasn’t.

In My Dreams, Shadows Call (You’re The Light at the End of the Hall) snippet

It had been a good day, overall for Din. You had to understand, the fire in the kitchen wasn’t their fault. Kind of, and Luke had used his powers to put it out quickly. The scolding they’d gotten for it was a small price to pay for all the pasties they’d managed to snag from the kitchen. Which led to where they were now. Sitting in Luke’s room gobbling down their stolen stash of snacks, giggling like a couple of idiots.

When Din and his family had first moved to Naboo’s capital city Theed five years ago, he’d never imagined his best friend would be the prince his family served. If you had told nine year old him he’d be allowed to call the then six year old prince by his first name he’d have called you crazy. Luke was his best friend, the King, Anakin, treated him like a second son. It was more than he could have dreamed of. Still, as he glanced at Luke, with filling on his cheek, he couldn’t help but wish they were older.

Din grinned before leaning over and licking the filling off Luke’s cheek.

“Ack! Din what the heck?!” Luke cried.

“Consider it payback for that time you were convinced you were part tooka and felt the need to groom me like one.” Din said.

“What the heck?” Luke said, laughing and shoving him. “I was like, six!”

“Exactly! I waited five years for my revenge.” Din said laughing.

“What? You’re so mean!” Luke cried.

“You love it though.” Din teased.

“Love? Who-who said anything about love?!” Luke asked. “Y-you’re crazy!”

‘Well, that was a weird reaction.’ Din thought, putting another pastry in his mouth.

Luke, for his part, had buried his face in his hands and pulled his knees to his chest. Something he only did when he was embarrassed. Din assumed it was because of his reaction. He held out a pastry, trying to cheer him up

Since a few people asked, I will be working on the DinLuke Anastasia Au and posting it on Ao3. I’m calling it In My Dreams, Shadows Call (You’re the Light at the End of the Hall) based on a line from my favorite song from the Broadway musical. My younger sister is helping co-write it because I was overwhelmed by the fact people actually want to see this. She doesn’t have an ao3 account (that I know of) and isn’t writing entire chapters, just parts of them. If the writing style suddenly changes, that’s why. I’ll be posting snippets of the story on hear as I write it. In the meantime Here’s a picture of Luke as Anastasia I’m working on