Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars, I know we all wish we did but we don't, George Lucas does along with that evil mouse (just kidding love you Mickey ma boi)

Important!: Hi new readers and old readers, really hope you enjoy my book! I highly highly highly recommend you read 'My Angels Nose' before this book, I'm not your boss so if you'd rather not be my guest and go ahead and read but you may be confused when it comes to certain things, in case you decide to skip the first book something you must know is we have a suitless Vader, because I'm almost certain suited Vader can't shower, either way I hope you enjoy both my works and my cover art (original too, not to brag or anything)

Padme could feel the cold breeze nipping at her toes that barely peeked out of the thick black comforter she was almost completely wrapped up in. She was quick to spring her knees to her chest, pulling the little blanket that covered her husbands side of the bed over her slightly exposed chest. It was the third morning she had woken up in the imperial palace on the busy planet of Coruscant. Anakin, their little joy Luke, R2-D2 and Admiral Firmus Piett had accompanied her into her new life of the new Empress of the Galaxy, Emperor Vader's wife and last but certainly not least, Prince Luke's mother.

Oh how she adored her young son, he was the epiphany of a prince even at such a young age. While she felt awful Luke's time as an adult had been majorly reduced she couldn't help but thank the force for giving her a chance to raise her child, even if her husband was fighting for the wrong reasons, she would work on that. Padme blinked open her brown eyes and pushed herself into a sitting position, rubbing away the rheum that coated her lower lash line, it was safe to say she wasn't accustomed to the life of these luxuries.

"You were once a queen" Anakin had questioned once she mentioned the beauty of their grand bed chamber. "I'm sure you had luxuries just like this" and while her husband wasn't wrong it had been many years since she had slept on a mattress as soft as the one she currently sat upon. The room itself was just as beautiful, with the large shared bed in the centre of the back wall, a decent sized desk by the door leading to the 'fresher, wardrobe closests that were just so recently filled with robes and gowns for herself and rows of tunics for her husband, mirrors along one wall and beautifully polished marble flooring. Luke was only down the hall as both parents were very keen on having their baby close, however Padme knew it still seemed like he was a good mile away due to the size of each particular room. After giving the chrono a quick glance and realising she still had almost 3 hours before it hit 0900 and she was forced to wake up her son.

Luke was only young. Using what was left of her medical equipment on the Executor Star Destroyer she determined he was just over the age of 3, and it clearly showed through his big innocent smile and his shinny blue eyes. Padme lay back down while thinking of her little angel, pulling the blanket over her head and resisting the light that called to fully wake her up. After the extremely long days of travelling on her husbands shuttle from the Executor to the Imperial Palace, hand choosing everything both her son and herself had clothing wise and generally taking care of Luke she was not about to let valuable resting time go to waste.

Three year olds were gosh darn handfuls.

She listened closely to the sounds of water droplets pounding against the ceramic inclosure of the hydroshower in the 'fresher, signalising Anakin was already awake and preparing for the day, she knew she should be doing the same but as long as Luke was still in bed she could squeeze in an extra few hours-

The brunette woman shot up out of bed as a little sob echoed through her mind. She knew she wasn't force sensitive but she definitely had a mother's instinct to protect her baby. The Empress to be skidded straight out of her room and down the hallway, the quiet sobs growing louder as she neared her little boy's room.

"Luke, Luke honey what's wrong?" She asked pleadingly. She wanted to remain calm as she tried to comfort him, but the big fat tears rolling down his soft cheeks and his blond hair dripping with sweat made her panic. He'd obviously had a nightmare. "Come here my little prince. Mama's here, nobody is going to hurt you"

Luke wriggled into his mother's arms as she perched down on his soft mattress, rocking her son back and fourth in an attempt to console him.

"I-It sc-scary Mama" he sobbed, clutching her nightgown with a surprisingly good grip.

"What did you dream about?" Padme asked, planting a soft line of kisses along his forehead.

"P-Papa gots h-his head cuts off by b-bad ug-ugly man!"

"I'm sure that won't happen in real life sweetheart. Papa is a very powerful man, and isn't afraid of anybody. The only person close enough to Papa's head to cut it off would be me" Padme soothed. "And who would I give all my super big kisses too if your Papa didn't have a head?"

Luke giggled, his loud sobs slowly coming to a stop.

"You've still got three hours until you need to wake up, do you want to come sleep in Mama's bed?" She asked, brushing a hand through his hair.

"Yes" he nodded, wrapping his arms around her thin neck and his legs hooked to her side.

"You're so cute" she chuckled.

"I not cute"

Padme rolled her eyes as she slowly walked back into her own bedroom, the sound of the hydroshower completely vanished. She lay back down and rested Luke against her chest, pulling the thick blanket around his tiny torso.

"I feel oddly replaced" Anakin snorted as he emerged from the 'fresher in a thin, oddly transparent robe.

"Ani, three year old in our presence" Padme hissed.

"Three year old in our presence who's fast asleep, don't you like what you see?" He teased, earning a pillow to the face as Padme extracted her arm from under Luke's head.

"No comment" she mumbled as he began scanning the many different black tunics he owned. "Quick question. Where is R2-D2? I haven't seen him since we got here a few days ago"

"He's staying with Admiral Piett, seeing as he scares Luke and I'm very close to cutting all of his circuits short, since he calls me that blasphemous name"

"I get to call you Anakin" she chuckled, brushing a piece of Luke's blond hair behind his ear.

"You're my wife, you're the only thing that name doesn't bring in horrid memories. But besides that, I was thinking about our reign earlier this morning"

"Oh mighty Sith Lord, Anakin Vader. You have shower thoughts?" Padme gasped in mock surprise, earning the pillow she'd thrown at her husband to be tossed back in her direction. Padme found it quite comical if anybody, anybody on the face of any planet in the entire Galaxy had spoken to Lord Vader that way they would have been killed slowly and painfully yet she was doing it with pure ease and getting away with it.

"Yes oh beautiful Empress Padme Vader-Naberrie I do. I was thinking about how Emperor Palpatine took his reign more on the political side, going to the senate and hosting those sorts of meeting-"

"You'd think it'd be best if I took that side of things since I was a senator for so long and you can take over the battles and the physical side of things seeing as you've been a Jedi and a sith since you were 9, I assumed we were doing that anyway"

"How- How do you do that without the force?" He asked in disbelief, tying his belt around his waist.

"Mother's instinct and wife's instinct" she yawned.

"I'm going to let you get some more sleep my angel, the comlink is on the desk and I'll be with Admiral Piett until around 1500. I love you"

"I love you too Ani"

To say it was very calming for the soon to be Emperor to see his wife and their son tucked into bed safely, no threats opposing them and no hardships plaguing them was a genuine understatement. To only have just had them brought into his life Vader wasn't about to let anything happen to his angel and his little one. With a small smile, something he had only began to do after rescuing Luke from Jabiim that mere month ago, Vader leant over and kissed both of his only living family members across their foreheads, his smile growing larger as Luke let out a little noise that wasn't far off a giggle.

After tousling his own hair with a towel and attaching his signature cloak around his shoulders Vader pulled out his black boots and began to slip them on. While he and the Admiral would be busy preparing every caution during the speeches for the announcement ceremony that would take place the following day, Padme and Luke would have one last day of relaxation before Padme's new duties began to set in stone. Glancing over his shoulder once more Vader raised his hood and left the room, making his way to the other side of the palace wing that the couple had generously given to Admiral Piett, who had been with dark lord and Imperial Prince since Luke's arrival in Vader's life.

Just over an hour had passed when Padme began to gain consciousness once again, opening up her eyes to her son's head of blond curls right under her nose. Knowing it would just be lazy of her to fall back into a slumber she blew away the soft strands of her own hair that fell in her eyes and pushed herself out of the warmth and onto her feet, slightly off balance at the large drop to the ground.

"Note to self: we need rugs, one so Luke doesn't fall and split his head open and two because I'm short and will probably do the same getting out of bed" she chuckled to herself, tucking Luke further into bed, he looked too peaceful for her to wake him. Anakin had already explained to her the plans for the following day, she had it free to do whatever she pleases and then she would become the official Lady Vader and Empress to the Galaxy. After that would take every day as it came.

After slipping into the 'fresher to change into her favourite yellow gown and head piece, that were similar to the ones she wore after she realised her feeling for Ani, she was quick to file a list of things that she still needed to buy in her datapad, however almost everybody who knew her as Padme Amidala and as Carrie Kelvin knew she had a tendency to go off when it came to shopping, her argument was she was a woman who use to be a member of royalty; it was just in her nature!

"We didn't really do much entertainment shopping" she began to mumble to herself, finding it much easier to concentrate when speaking out loud. "Toys, books and- is he too young for a gaming holoprojector? Probably, but he is a Sky- a Vader and won't be able to sit still for longer than 5 minutes. Rugs because energetic toddlers and marble floors won't mix very well, children's stories because I'd rather him not know anymore about the clone wars-"

"Mama?" Luke cut her off, sitting up in the sea of blankets and sheets.

"Hello there honey. Come over here sweetheart, help Mama make a list of essentials we need when we go out again today" Luke crawled his way over the mountains of blankets and allowed his mother to pick him up. She stood to her full height and carried her son over to where her comlink lay, switching through the saved frequencies before she got to Ani's.

"Padme? Is everything okay?" He asked urgently.

"Everything is fine, I need to go out again to grab a few extra things for Luke and I. Could you have the two stormtroopers who accompanied us yesterday sent to the hanger please?" She asked, slowly gliding towards Luke's room to get her son dressed.

"Yes I can do that. Is Luke awake?"

"Yep. Mornin' Papa"

"Good morning my little one. I'll leave you two to get ready then. I love you both"

"We love you two" Padme smiled, placing down her comlink and sitting her son on his bed. "Let's get you dressed. We're going to have a great day today, buy you whatever you want"

"We buy me a ship?!" He asked excitedly.

"Almost everything you want"

"And then during the displays on the evening Luke will most likely be very tired. Padme and I will have to go and greet the public, while I think he should definitely be there you should come and stay with him. It'll prove that I'm not allowing my child to overrun my duties as Emperor" Vader explained, both him and Admiral Piett looking over 13 datapads and all of their informations around Luke and the busy day of ceremonies. "I think we've covered everything"

"Yes sir" he nodded in clarification after giving the pads a final scan. "Shall I come and help explain everything to the prince and Empress"

"Yes you can. We should be heading back there soon. It's 2245 and Luke will most likely be fast asleep as we speak"

The two men retreated to Vader's shared quarters in comfortable silence, neither one needing to utter a word to keep the atmosphere from becoming too uncomfortable.

Upon arrival Padme was sat on Luke's bed with the boy buried under the covers, reading over a children's book with such a sickly sweet title that made Vader's teeth hurt.

"Padme, is he asleep?" Vader asked, poking his head around the open door to his sons room. Despite the darkness Vader could tell the shelves were now littered with toys and action figures for his son to play with.

"You two have been busy Mr. 'I'll be back by 1500'" Padme teased, taking Vader's hand as he pulled her up from the bed.

"Why are you soaking wet?" He asked in confusion, dimming the bedside light with the force.

"Because you're son doesn't like taking baths" she commented with a smile "but he's clean now. Did you two manage to complete everything?"

"Yes my lady. We were thankfully very success" The Admiral spoke up, spreading Padme's smile from ear to ear. "I think I shall retire to my quarters if granted my Lord. I shall be here tomorrow morning at 0530"

"Permission granted Admiral" Vader spoke up, linking his arm around Padme's waist.

"I'm going to shower and then I'm heading to bed" she mumbled. "It's going to be an early rise tomorrow"

To anybody wondering I'm going to address Vader as Anakin when he's spoken about by Padme or he does something cute or funny, he'll be Vader apart from in these moments just to avoid confusion.

Another thing I should bring up is I reply to reviews! I love connecting with you guys (ask PadawanSkywalker, we have a literal ongoing conversation over my reviews which I love XD) so please leave them, I don't mind constructive criticism at all as it makes me a better writer so if you have any don't be afraid to drop it, I don't bite I promise.

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- Briar x