Polis Massa 19BBY
"Push Senator push" the medi-droid encouragingly urged. Padame was sweating and breathing heavily, she closed her eyes in pain and pushed. Crying from the newly born child ensued. "It's a boy" a depressed voice from the corner of the room spoke. Obi Wan took her newly born son in his arms and showed him to Padame, she saw that he had a peaceful, tired look upon his young face. His blue eyes opening and locking onto her… blue eyes… his fathers eyes… Anakins eyes. Padame felt tears drip from her eyes when she remembered that Anakin was not here, where he should be holding her hand. But he wasn`t.
"Senator you must push" the voice of the unfeeling medical droid brought Padame out of her thoughts. Once again she closed her eyes in pain and pushed. "It's a girl Senator, well done" the droid immediately responded. It gave Padame her beautiful new born daughter. "What should their names be"? asked Obi Wan, as the medical droid rolled out of the room leaving the four of them alone.
"For my son Luke, for my daughter… Anakin always wanted to call her Leia" spoke Padame, softly stroking her childrens face as she looked down on them with motherly affection. "Obi Wan" she whispered "where is he where is Anakin"? His silence unnerved her, fear grew as the silence lengthened. "Oh no what has happened to Anakin why is he not here with me" she silently cried.
"He… tried to jump" Obi Wan said at last. Pain flickered all over the features of his face. "And I-I killed him" muttered softly, as if he were trying to convince himself of this fact. Anakin, my husband, my Ani's dead. The tears that she was holding in flowed freely down her face as she said Obi Wans terrible revelation over and over in her head. My Ani's dead my Ani's dead my Ani's dead. How can I go on when the person I love more than life itself is dead… no stop thinking like that he wouldn't want you to just give up, to leave our children alone. I'll raise to be what he would be proud of.
"Obi Wan what do we do now?" as thoughts of the future came to her. "You and the children must go into hiding, the Emperor will want to have your children" he replied. "The Emperor" I confusingly uttered…
Padame gasped as more memories came back to her.
Palpatine, Darth Sidious. The man who destroyed the Republic and democracy. The man who her Ani trusted and confided, and looked up to as the kindly caring old uncle he never had. The man who abused Ani's trust, and used him as a tool in his plans for his aspirations of galactic domination. You will pay for taking him from me Padame thought angrily, you will pay for taking my Ani from me and my children.
