Luke sighed. "There was still good in him, I could sense it and I wanted to save him. Before the battle on Endor, he was on a ship with the Emperor, I turned myself over to him. He thought that I had come to join him but I hadn't. We fought again, the Emperor was encouraging us." It was still hard to think about and he had to stop for a moment. "That's when he tapped into my mind and found out about Leia. I got angry and came close to giving in but I didn't."
He could still feel that anger, that wish to destroy the man who had hurt so many people but he pushed it aside just as he had then and looked up at at Ben. "I refused, the Emperor attacked me with Force lightning, I was nearly dead and then Vader stepped in and took it for me and killed the Emperor by throwing him out into space. I felt it then, I felt him turn back, the man who did that was my father, he wasn't Vader anymore." Luke drew a shaky breath. "He asked me to take off the mask he wore, he had to wear it in order to breathe, so he could see me with his own eyes and they were just like mine, I'll never forget that. It was only a moment but he spoke to me as Anakin Skywalker, I know that beyond the shadow of a doubt. Then he died and I had to get him back off the ship before it was destroyed. I gave him a Jedi funeral, it was only me but I felt that even if he had lived many years as a Sith, I know that he died a Jedi."