"Leia. Do you remember your mother, your real mother?"

"Just a little bit. She died when I was very young."

"What do you remember?"

"Just images, really. Feelings."

"Tell me."

"She was very beautiful... kind... but sad. Why are you asking me this?"

"I have no memory of my mother. I never knew her."


With pain, Padme Amidala Skywalker gave birth to a child. In the faintest of consciousness she heard the droid tell her in a foreign tongue that it was a boy.

"Luke," she tells Obi Wan wearily. As Anakin's old friend brings her son to her, Padme remembers one Force trick her husband had taught her.

She reached out to touch her son. "Oh, Luke," she cried. She didn't want to do this to him, but she had to. She imparts a message through the Force, "Don't remember me like this."

Would it work? Padme wasn't strong in the force but surely Anakin's son-

Before she could finish her thought- pain. Again. Worse than before.

Another baby. A girl, the droid said.

Padme knows she doesn't have enough strength to give the same message to her daughter. Naming her was the only gift she could give. "Leia."

All Padme's miniscule strength needed to go to one final task.

"Obi Wan…" she whispers. Close enough for her son to hear. "There is good in him. I know. I know there's still-"

And as her daughter watches, and remembers, she takes her last breath.


A/N: This is based on a few assumptions- that Padme would have some strength in the Force- obviously not enough to become a Jedi, but some- and that Anakin and Padme would have spent time, as they did in Episode II, goofing off or playing with Force tricks. I don't think either of these is a huge leap.