Love and Pain
Chapter 1 Time for the Truth
Naboo
Padmé arrived at her sisters' house an hour earlier than she had planned because she couldn't cope sitting in Varykino (her family's lake retreat house) on her own. She heard the screaming of children from the garden and knew at once it was her nieces. Sola came out of her front door before Padmé got to the door.
"You're early" said Sola in a tone that was meant to sound angry but only sounded silly because Sola could never get angry at her sister unless she had to.
Padmé laughed at her sisters' tone of voice and gave her sister a quick hug and then followed her inside the house. It was a large house with 3 bedrooms and a very large garden. Padmé spotted her nieces Ryoo and Pooja and Darred (Sola's husband) playing in the garden but Sola (instead of joining them in the garden like they normally did) led Padmé into the large sitting room and sat down. Padmé did the same and wondered why her sister had brought her in here. Had she done something wrong?
"I brought you in here because I wanted to talk to you properly without interruption" Sola said as if reading Padmé's mind. Padmé looked confused. "And you have to be honest with me Padmé. I want to know the truth" Sola demanded.
Padmé nodded and waited for her sister to start. "We need to talk about your future." Sola began. Padmé sighed. How many times was she going to have this conversation with her sister? She thought that now she was married to Anakin Skywalker that Sola would see that Padmé was happy (even though she wouldn't know why) and just accept it. But Sola didn't think like that. Yes she knew that Padmé was happier these past 3 years than she had ever been and she wanted to know why and she felt the only way to do that was to ask Padmé in question until she finally got the truth out of her.
"Sola I'm tired of this conversation" Padmé said. "Can we please talk about something else?"
"Alright" Sola said in a disappointed tone. She thought for a second and remembered something about when Padmé had visited her parents' house 3 years ago. She remembered a strange, young, handsome man that was Padmé's jedi protector. Sola also remembered how he looked at Padmé and she could tell that he was in love with her straight away. And she also knew that Padmé was very happy and comfortable to talk about things that she would only discuss with her sister. Sola thought about how to approach this new evidence that she had come across. She decided to play it cool. As if she didn't mean any harm.
"Where's your jedi friend?" Sola said innocently "you know the one you were with when you visited Mum and Dad 3 years ago." Padmé knew what her sister was doing. She wasn't going to play her games. She knew it was time.
Time to tell the truth...