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Chapter One:
Padme stood on her balcony, overlooking the luminous city of the planet Coruscant that stood before her. She stared blankly into the distance, oblivious to the hundreds of ships that were passing by. This level of traffic was normal for the city-planet. All that Padme could focus on was miles away: the Jedi Temple. Although she knew that what, or whom, she was looking for was not there, she still found a sense of comfort in looking. Lights were glowing from the temple, under the night sky.
The temple was so far away, the ships around it looked like gnats. But this was how it had to be. There would always be miles separating the Jedi Temple from the Galactic Senate building. There would always be miles separating Senator Padme Amidala and….Anakin Skywalker. There will never be wholeness between a Senator and a Jedi. These thoughts haunted Padme every waking second, for she knew them to be true.
Anakin was a devoted Jedi Knight….and Padme's husband. This was a bond that had to be kept secret, for a Jedi makes a commitment to the Order, one of which is to never marry. In falling in love, a Jedi loses focus, when the Jedi should consider solely his duty. Love is selfish.
"Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden," Anakin had said to Padme, as they traveled to Padme's home planet of Naboo, to protect her from assassination.
But he had also said something else:
"Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi's life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love." Padme smiled at this thought. Anakin always had a way of finding what he wanted from something that seemed hopeless. Those care-free days seemed so long ago. I miss those times Padme thought. She would never forget their time on Naboo, for it was then that she fell in love with him. Although she had tried to be rational, knowing that their love was not possible, they both gave in, and following the Battle of Geonosis, married in secret.
Those times were so simple, though not without political complications, for war against the Separatists, who opposed the Galactic Republic, seemed close. War was the one thing Padme had feared, and now, her world was consumed by war, for the Clone Wars had commenced.
The Clone Wars terrified Padme to no end. They threatened the end of a Republic that Padme held dear to her heart. An end of the Republic meant an end of freedom. Freedom that she fought to keep for her people on Naboo when she had been Queen years ago. Padme did not trust the effectiveness of the Senate anymore. She feared that the ideals that it used to live by were fading away. Democracy was dying, and Chancellor Palpatine did not seem to care about saving the decaying Republic.
The Clone Wars terrified Padme in another way as well. Anakin was a Jedi General fighting for the Republic. Every day Padme had to live with the fear that she may never see Anakin again. What would I do if he died? He is my life. Padme's hands tightly grasped the balcony railing at the thought of losing Anakin. I would do anything to end this war. What I wouldn't do to save the Republic, and save my husband Padme thought desperately.
Padme became drowsy, and was unable to handle these haunting thoughts. She decided to retire for the night, awaiting another day of attempted diplomatic solutions to this war, and her life.