She awoke in a cold white room. Around her monitors beeped. She could hear a low hiss of the oxygen tubs attached to her nose. She sat up gingerly. She was sore. Her hand went to her stomach. They were gone. Panic began to set in.

"Padme? Shh, its alright. You're safe. They are safe." A familiar voice came from her right and a hand grabbed hers. It wasn't the right voice though and the hand was far to rough.

"Obi-wan?" She said. Her voice was horse and it was hard to talk. Images flashed though her head. A lava planet, a tightness around her neck, and her begging for their lives.

"How do you feel?" He asked

"I'm" She was speechless for a moment. " I was hoping it was all a dream."

"So do I." Obi-wan looked at her with such a sadness.

"The twins?"

"Are healthy. They were a few weeks to early, but the medi-droid says they are ok. They want to keep them for one day for observation." Padme breathed a sigh of relief.

"Oh, Obi-wan. Im so sorry. I should have believed you, I should have stopped this. I should have.." She began to sob.

"No one could have stopped this. He made his choice." Obi-wan said almost coldly. They sat in silence while the emotions of the last few days hit Padme at full force. At first Obi-wan sat there not quite sure what to do, finally he sat on the bed and pulled her close. When she finally calmed down Obi-wan pulled away. "Would you like to see them?" He asked warmly. Padme could only shake her head yes. Obi-wan waved to one of the medi-droid standing outside the room. They pushed in a two small med-cribs. Her children. She gently picked them up, holding them close. They were small, tiny, innocent. They slept calmly, not knowing of the pain and suffering around them. She began to cry again. She had failed them. She had one job, keep them safe. Now what? She had been sentenced to a life on the run. That wasn't fair to either of them. As the realization of this sank in she felt a sudden sureness, a calm, a coldness. She tired to push it back for the moment. To take in her twins, to hold them and tried to make sure they felt love. They were only a few hours old and she already loved them more than she had ever loved someone before. Even more than her love for him. She was so wrapped up in them she didn't notice Obi-wan slip out of the room. She held them for hours, taking in their faces, memorizing every detail. Later in the afternoon, Bail Organa, Master Yoda, and Obi-wan came to see her.

"Good it is, to see you awake." Yoda said, taking a seat at the end of the bed. Padme couldn't say anything. She looked at him with such regret.

"Padme, we need to know everything." Obi-wan said. She started from the beginning. It took time, it was hard to speak at first but the more she told her story the stronger she felt. The three men sat in silence and listened.

"I could see the pain he was in. I tried to make him feel better. To tell him its alright. I thought that maybe, if we could make it to birth, that he could see they were just dreams. That we could somehow make this work." She began to wrap up. " I never thought that he would." She broke off.

"You're fault this is not. To attached he was, break way from his attachments, he could not. Why attachments were forbidden, this is." Yoda said

"I knew better. I should have said no, I did at first." She shot back.

"Padme, you are human, He knew better. He knew The Code." Obi-wan said. She noticed how nobody could say his name.

"I could have said no. "

"Focus not on that, you should. Focus on your children you must. Protect them, we must. Our last hope they maybe."

"What do you mean?" She asked

"Do you remember anything Padme?" Bail finally spoke up.

"I remember him...I remember him choking me. Then I remember pain, and them crying." She said looking down at her twins. Her beautiful children.

"You were dying." Obi-wan said with an urgency. "For no reason at all you were fading. All around you I felt the Dark Side. You began to tell me, that you thought there was good still in him but you slipped away. We thought you were gone. I felt you leave, but then."

"A strong shift we felt with in the force." Yoda explained. "From the twins, it came."

" It came from Leia, Padme, then Luke. They are force sensitive. Even at only a few hours old. We don't need to even test them. They brought you back." Obi-wan explained. Padme was shocked. They had saved her.

"Padme, there is no easy way to say this. " Bail interjected

"We need to separate them." She said, without looking up at the men. Leia cooed in her arm, looking up at her with warm brown eyes. Luke was out cold, hardly noticing the world around him. Just like his father.

"What best, we think."

"But Padme, we can find another way." Obi-wan said. "We wont make you give them up."

"No" She said sharply. "No, its not fair to them. Once Palp...Once the Emperor finds out I'm alive he wont let me live long. If...If Ana...if Vader finds out I'm alive... Its not the childhood I want for them. They deserve better. They deserve to grow up as far away from all this as they can. They need to be put on opposite ends of the galaxy." She felt the coldness come back, it settled in her heart. She had no more tears to shed. Not over this. Darth Vader had made his choice. Anakin was dead. At least that is how she needed to rationalize it. Now she would have to make her own choices, for their kids own sake.

"I will take Leia." Bail said. "Breha and I, we have been trying but...She always wanted a girl."

"Good. I couldn't think of a better place for her." She smiled down at her daughter.

"and Luke?" Yoda asked.

"Anakin has family on Tatooine." She finally said his name. "A Step-Father and Step-Brother, Owen. Anakin hated Tatoonine. Its the last place Vader would look."

"Will they really take them?" Bail asked.

"Owen and his wife were trying to have a child. I have stayed in contact with them the last few years. I thought maybe after the war...Last I heard, Beru found out she couldn't have kids. This is their chance. I don't see how they wouldn't take it. "

" I will go. I can watch over him. I might be able to protect him should...Vader find out." Obi-wan said. Padme smiled at him. Luke was his second chance at doing right by Anakin but she found comfort in knowing that he would be there.

"And of you?" Yoda asked

"I want Vader to pay." She could feel the pain and anger rise within her. " I want him to feel the pain that I felt. I want him to know, exactly what it feels like to lose everything." The words came out like venom. "Right now hes won. I am alive. I should have died."

"You can't sacrifice yourself. Not after they saved you." Obi-wan said.

"What choice do I have?"

"What if we made it look like you died?" Bail asked

"What do you mean?"

"There is a plant on Alderan. It creates the allusion of death. What if we used that? If the Empire thinks you are dead, the Emperor gets what he wants, Vader loses everything and the twins are safe."

"It could work." Obi-wan said.

"Anakin only knew about one of the babies. We could create a death certificate for Leia. Anakin wanted a girl." She knew that would hit him hard. They spent the next hours making plans. This was their only hope. They had to put an end to the Empire, but it would take time. For now, they just needed to plan for the moment.