Chapter 1
It was bright and beautiful morning and Padme was up and reading some news that was concerning the Emperor, and yesterday morning at her meeting with the reining Queen news came to them that Emperor Palpatine was here and he was up at his retreat.
Her only thought was now was he here too.
" Good morning Padme, you are up early today?" Sabe` said as she came into the kitchen.
" Morning Sabe`, I just can't sleep not with the Emperor being so very close to us." Padme said taking a sip of her tea.
" I see and you have a every reason to be frighten, do you think that he is here too." Sabe` ask as she poured herself some tea too.
" I don't know if he is here or not, I didn't get any word if he is here, but I guess will just have to wait and see." Padme said as she took another sip of her tea.
Sabe` just sat there and watched her Mistress, her heart just breaks as she sits here and see the empty shell of what was a very strong and powerful woman. She really has no spirit left in her, and if it wasn't for the twins she believes that Padme would die. But as long as the twins were alive and near her then she has something to fight for.
" I'll give you the list of things that we need from the market, are you sure that you don't need any help?" Sabe` said as she sat down across from Padme.
" Ok, and no I'll be ok besides it's easy for me to slip in and out of city without anyone seeing me. Besides you need to say here with the twins." Padme said giving her best friend a small smile.
The only thing that makes her happy these days are her two children, Luke and Leia. Her little angels and also her heart break too.
Leia looks so much like her when she was her age, but Luke well he looks more like his father, the same person who turned on her and tried to kill her all because he believed she betrayed him when Obi-Wan showed up, without her knowledge too.
Her once loving husband had been brainwashed by the Emperor, but at the time he was the Supreme Chancellor, and not only was he controlling the Senate but he was also controlling the Jedi Council. And he brainwashed everyone who wasn't strong will.
" Ok you know that I'm always here for you no matter what, Padme you are like a baby sister to me. Oh, are we going to see your parents this weekend?" Sabe` asked as she got up and began to make her something to eat.
" Thanks I know I can always trust you and you are like my other older sister, from what I understand we are still seeing them." Padme said as she got up and went over to Sabe` and giving her a sisterly hug before grabbing herself something to eat also.
" You might to ware something a little warm this morning because it's a little windy outside, I had my bedroom window open and I could feel the cool wind coming through the window. I was thinking while you are at the market that I would take the twins to the park for about thirty minutes to an hour." Sabe` said sitting down at the table with her breakfast.
" Sure that sounds like a great idea, but keep an eye open for trouble." Padme smiled and wish that she could be carefree and could go anywhere without worrying about being found out who she was.
They were silent will they ate their breakfast and just as they finished up the quietness was interrupted by the sound of crying baby.
" Well duty of a mother calls." Padme said getting up from the table putting her small plate into the sink, before walking out of the kitchen.
Padme walked down the small hallway to the last door on the left side of the hallway. Opening the door, going inside, and coming up to the crib.
" Hey sweetie mommy is here." Padme said picking up her daughter and going over to the changing table and began changing Leia's diaper.
Once Leia's diaper was changed, she stopped crying as Padme went over to the gladding chair and sat down.
Padme lifted up her top and put Leia to her breast, then she began rocking and watching her soon to be month old daughter nurse. As she rocked she began singing the lullaby that her mother used to sing to her when she was little, and it would put her to sleep.
" Hey you need any help?" Sabe` stuck her head into the nursery.
" Not at the moment, Luke is still asleep, and Leia is almost done here." Padme said looking back at Leia and saw that she had fallen back to sleep.
" Ok, here let me take Leia while you get Luke because he is waking up now." Sabe` said as she looked into the crib and saw the face the baby was making to let her know that he was about to cry.
Padme handed Leia over to Sabe` before getting up and walking over to the crib and looking down at her son.
" Good morning little man, and did you sleep good." Padme said with a smile as she leaned over and picked up her son, and carried him over to the changing table.
" I'm going to jump into the shower while you are feed Luke then I'll come back and help you get them dress and ready for the day." Sabe` said as she laid Leia back down in the crib.
" Ok that sounds good, well lets eat my little man." Padme said as she took Luke to the chair and like before she sat down and put Luke to her other breast and began singing to him too.
Thirty minutes later both Padme and Sabe` had the twins dress and ready to head out to the park for a little while, while Padme was at the market getting the stuff that she need to get.
" Ok here is the list of the stuff that we need and we will see back at the house?" Sabe` said as she handed the data pad over to Padme.
Padme looked over the data pad to see if she need to add stuff to that list too, and seeing that everything was in order she bent down over the hovering pram and kissing each twin on the forehead, before standing back up and pulling the hood further over her head.
" See in hour an half then." Padme` said before heading off into the small wooded area so that way she could enter the city from the back side and make sure that no one sees her.
Twenty minutes later Padme was walking the streets of the small town and trying to blend in too the crowd as she made her way over to the outdoor market where she was going to get most of her stuff at this morning.
" Good morning Paddy and what can I get for you today?" the older lady said as Padme stopped at one of the tables that had fruit laid out on it.
" Morning Lusinda I think I'll have twelve of these, six of these and four of these." Padme said as she began pointing out the fruits that she need for the week or so.
" That is very good choice, they are very fresh today, they were picked yesterday, anything else?" Lusinda asked as she put the fruit into the bag that Padme handed her.
" That's great to hear, you always have the freshest fruit in town." Padme said as she stood there and watched the lady bag up her items.
" Thanks, great what are they doing here?" Lusinda said as watched two Stormtroopers walk past her table.
" Great, um ... I better go and get the rest of my items before lunch. See you next week." Padme said handing the lady her money before taking the bag from her.
Padme headed further down small isles of the market picking up the things that she need, all awhile keeping her eyes on the two Stormtroopers that she had seen, she had just finished picking up the last item on her list when she saw off in the distance the two troopers heading over to the tall dark figure, and that's when she felt the cold run down her spin and she had to get home as fast as she could to the twins and also to make sure that she wasn't being followed by the troopers.
Now she knows her nightmares are about to began because he is now here on Naboo. The terror of the galaxy ... Darth Vader.
Slipping in and out of the alleyways Padme slipped out of the small town and wood that lead up to her house on the hill.
" You look like you have seen a ghost Padme?" Sabe` said as Padme came into the house.
" He is here Sabe`." was all Padme could say.
" Oh ... gods what are we going to do?" Sabe` asked.
" At the moment nothing ... so that means I will have to be careful now knowing that both of them are here." Padme said putting the bags down on the counter and began putting the items up.
" I just hope that they don't sense the twins, and come after them, after all their father was a very powerful Jedi." Sabe` said as she saw a sad look come across Padme's face.
" I hope they don't too, and I just can't believe that Obi-Wan just left Anakin there to die like he did. I never got to tell him that I loved him no matter what happen between us." Padme said as tears welled up in her eyes.
" I can't believe that too, I really thought that they were very close, but I guess I was wrong in thinking that. I know that you had wish that you had his body brought back here so you two could be buried together, but of course there wasn't a body left after it burned into a pile of ashes." Sabe` said coming over to Padme and pulling her into her arms and held her as she began to cry.
" Thanks Sabe` I too wish I had something of him to put in the mausoleum." Padme said pulling away from her friend and drying her tears.
" Well if I remember correctly you do, and it's in your small box that is in your closet." Sabe` said giving her friend a small smile because she knew of her secret.
" What how do you know...never mind... his Padawan braid, I remember the day he gave it to me, he was so excited because he would be away from Obi-Wan, but of course that didn't happen because every time they need a Jedi to fight in a battle they always sent both Anakin and Obi-Wan together to fight some battle." Padme said with a little anger in her tone because of the way the Jedi treated him and Obi-Wan never stood up for him either.
" Yes I thought you had that pendent that he made for you?" Sabe` asked, because the last time she saw the pendent it was supposedly buried with her.
" I know what you are thinking but no it's not in the sarcophagus, it's in the box too. Well mother duty is calling out." Padme smiled as she heard Luke waking up from his nap and was ready to eat.
" I see, if you need any thing just give me a call, I'll be fixing us something to eat for lunch." Sabe` said as she watched her friend go to her children.
So now she will have to be on her toes now that Darth Vader was here on Naboo, just like the old days, when she was Padme's bodyguard and decoy when she was a Senator, it's hard to believe that was only month ago. But now she had to come up with a sure way to protect Padme and the twins from the Emperor and his hunch man Darth Vader.