Hey guys I'm just experimenting with this because I thought it would be sort of cool if Padmé had lived, but wasn't with Anakin and I'll see where the story takes me. I swear I'll add more chapters soon!
Padmé spent most of her days without even leaving her bed. Most of the time, she was just fine with the calm life she led as war surrounded the rest of the empire, and looking out on to the waters of Naboo from her beautiful stone house gave her all the pleasure it did when she was younger. But things were very different now from when she was a child.
She had nearly died the day she gave birth to her two wonderful children, and all but a few people believed she had. But she was strong, and she survived without the love of her life by her side.
Padmé often found herself thinking of Anakin even when she didn't want to. When she first came to after being unconscious for a week, all she wanted was to go find him and check on him. But after hearing everything about how dangerous he had become, she had been warned not to. She didn't look for her own safety and that of their kids.
But even when she wanted nothing more than to run away to Anakin, she couldn't. She had been left so weak after her strange childbirth that she could barely find the strength to get up and take a short walk every day.
There was a bustling noise in the entryway to her parents' house and in almost no time, a little head appeared in the doorway to her room. "Mommy!" The little brown braided head bounded up on top the bed to give her mother a hug.
"Leia, you've grown so big since I've last seen you!" A rare smile made its way into Padmé's face as it usually did when her daughter came with Senator Organa and his wife every once and a while. She cuddled the most important person in here world and thought about the hardest decision she had to make three years ago. She had to send Leia to live with the Organas since she couldn't take care of herself, much less a child. But at least she got to see her little girl. With Luke she was not so lucky. He was sent with Obi-Wan to live with Anakin's step-brother and his wife where nobody would touch him. She knew it was for their safety, but every time Leia came to visit, she regretted her choice. But she always reminded herself what Anakin would do if he ever found out about them.
"Should we go into the kitchen for some lunch?" She asked the mini version of herself. The little girl's energetic head bounced up and down, and Padmé moved towards the edge of her bed. With great effort, she shoved her legs out and stood cautiously. Left foot and right foot, Padmé, she thought, left and right. She held the small, soft hand in her own and continued down the hall to a lunch she would barely touch as she always did.