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Luke & Vader, AU, join the rebellion together

Vader finds Luke early and raises him, but is smarter enough to be super anxious about Palpatine. He knows his Master won't tolerate a powerful force sensitive like Luke running around as a free agent once he's old enough to be a threat, and he also knows exactly how horrible it is to serve Palpatine. He's able to put off deciding about this for a while--either because he manages to hide Luke from Palpatine, or because Palpatine doesn't push the issue while Luke is still a kid--and he gets at least a few years of raising Luke on his own, as Darth Vader, and while he's probably not really a good parent he does love his kid and is not cruel or violent, and they bond and have a good relationship. But then either Palpatine finds out or decides their time is up, and Vader knows he isn't powerful enough to protect Luke on his own.

Finally he decides the only safe place for Luke is with the Rebel Alliance, so he defects.

Both the title and series name come from musicals because I'm a big ole theatre geek. Bring Him Home is a reference to a song from Les Miserables and the series title is a line from Dear Theodosia from Hamilton. Both songs are bringing serious Dad vibes.

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Tentatively planned as a 3 part story. This series is not updated on any sort of regular schedule.

On hiatus as of 2021. Between general covid/plague times anxiety, family health problems, and falling into another fandom, my writing for this fic is currently on the backburner. Plans to return at some point as I do jump around fandoms gleefully. Just wanted to be upfront for anyone waiting on updates.