"I hated you!" Vader screamed at his old master who lay dying in the lava.
"I loved you, Anakin! You were my brother!" Obi-Wan's last words were swallowed in a scream of pain.
C3P-0 carried his mistresses' body up the landing ramp as quickly as he could. Padme moaned again.
"Don't worry, Mistress Padme. Artoo will get us out of here."
"Ani!" Padme called out to the dunes of red hot sand, "Ani!"
"Artoo, we really must hurry. Vader will return any moment."
Artoo bleeped in acknowledgement and started towards the cockpit. A moment later they were taking off.
"It will be all right, Mistress Padme. You must hold on. For your children, Mistress." Threepio fretted.
The ship lurched into hyperspace. Moments later they re-entered realspace. Artoo had found a med center on a nearby moon. As they landed, Threepio ran down the landing ramp as quickly as his joints would allow.
He moved to a med droid, "My mistress is giving birth on that ship," he said, pointing, "There are no humans or med droids to help with the delivery!"
As the med droid raced up the ramp Threepio followed it back up, somewhat more slowly. The faster droid met him half way, carrying Padme's body. Threepio turned back to move the way he'd come.
When they reached the delivery area, Padme was very close to birthing her child. Threepio watched and fretted as Padme gave birth to twins. As the two little bundles entered the galaxy their mother named them, Luke and Leia.
One of the droids helped Padme to sit up and passed her the children. Luke immediately started to nurse and Leia quickly followed suit.
Padme managed to smile despite her pain, "Look at them, Threepio, aren't they perfect?"
Threepio looked at the wrinkled, pink and truthfully quite hideous bodies, "Yes. A ship has just landed. Master Yoda and Senator Organa would like to see the babies too, I'm sure."
"Yoda is here?"
"Yes, should I see him in?"
"Yes, please."
Threepio exited Padme's room, "This way, please, Master Yoda."
"Padme, all right is she?"
"Yes, and she has the two most lovely babies! Their names are Luke and Leia and…" Yoda tuned the droid out and entered Padme's room.
Padme gave the Jedi Master a weak smile and held her children close. She was well aware of the danger the children were in and of the damage she had caused the galaxy.
Picking up these thoughts Yoda shook his head, "Your fault, it was not. Anakin's turn, inevitable it was. Moves in strange ways, the Force does."
Padme looked at her children. They had stopped nursing and were moving around slightly. Bail Organa, who had followed the droid and the Jedi Master in to the room, reached out to Padme in an offer to take one of them for her. Padme carefully extracted Leia from her brother's arms and placed her in the Senator's hands.
"Protected the children must be, Padme. For their safety it is."
"I can let one go, Master Yoda, but, please, don't ask me to say goodbye to both." Padme felt her son squirming blindly, trying to find his sister.
"If sure you are."
Padme looked at the girl in Bail's hands and at the little boy in her lap. She hated herself for saying goodbye to either one of them. How would the twin she had to let go feel if it ever found out? As she studied her son's tiny features Bail spoke up.
"Padme, if you would like the girl-"
"Leia," Padme corrected.
"Leia, to stay with me, I would be more than happy to take her in. My wife and I have always talked of adopting a baby girl."
"I don't know. I don't want to let either one of my precious children go. It would be a danger to her if I visited her, wouldn't it?"
"A danger it would be. Yes." Yoda bowed his head.
Suddenly Luke blinked. As his eyes opened for the first time Padme saw a flicker of her husband there. Staring into her baby's blue eyes, she made the decision. It tore her to let either baby go, but Luke was so like his father… "Take good care of her, Bail. I'm counting on you."
"Keep the boy, you will?"
"Yes, Master Yoda. Luke will be safe with me." Padme looked again at her son's adorable features and snuggled him gently.
Bail looked down at the baby girl he had just adopted and wondered how his wife would take it. They had talked about adopting a baby girl, but they had assumed that there would be more planning and less spur-of-the-moment decision making. Leia smiled sweetly and Bail decided that all he had to do was teach her to do that on command and he would be in the clear.
"I have to go. My wife will want to know what's happened."
Padme sat up and kissed her daughter goodbye and then Bail was gone, along with Leia.
Luke started wailing the moment his sister left the room. Padme held him and cuddled him and tried to console him, but her own tears did not make her very convincing.
After a few minutes, Luke had calmed down enough that it was possible to talk over his small sobs.
"Go, I must. Looking for me the Emperor will be. If contact me you must, use this." He passed Padme a comlink.
"Yes, Master Yoda. If there is an emergency you will know."
Yoda left Padme alone to hold her son and try to calm him and convince him that he would be all right without his sister.