Week 1 (07.07.06) (UDC 1) (Padme)
1. beginnings
The start of the story was heralded with the beginning of one thing and the end of another. As she lay there on the hospital bed in the sterile room, she couldn't help but remember the little boy she'd first seen in a junk dealer's shop so long ago. He hadn't yet seemed important, just a little boy from nowhere whom she hadn't known, and so she'd done her best to ignore him.
"Are you an angel?" would forever resound in her memory as a point on which everything had changed. That so much had sprung from such an innocent question...
2. middles
It had been behind a stone pillar where she'd been the happiest. There, in his arms as he had soothed and comforted her in the wake of the news she had waited so long to share with him.
There in his arms, he had touched her cheek and made everything all right with a smile and just the words she had needed to hear in that moment. There, when there were no worries of politics, or oaths taken, or rules. Where it was only them, and no one else to intrude.
"This is a happy moment." And it had been...
3. ends
The end had some so suddenly that at first she hadn't known it was the end. Or hadn't wanted to admit it.
Who would have wanted to admit it while proof that everything should have been right, could still be righted, if she tried hard enough... could be? Was it so bad to have hope, and fight for him, even if he wasn't fighting for himself and had stopped fighting himself? She didn't think it was..
In the end, as he lifted her off the ground with an invisible hand at her throat, she knew better... or thought she did.
4. first
Memory of firelight made her smile as she sat in the senate and listened to a spirited filibuster by the Senator from Ithor on finance.
She hadn't wanted to give in. To compromise the oaths they had both taken with passion and secrecy had gone against all of that. They had sworn their allegiance, she to the people of the Naboo and to the Republic, and he to the Jedi.
But he had argued with her, and eventually she had let the walls come down. It had led to their first kiss... She wouldn't have traded that moment for anything.
5. last
The last time she'd seen him, he had been shorter than her.
Now, as she looked at the young man standing next to Obi-Wan, she almost didn't recognize him. Not only was he significantly taller, but he'd also matured into a handsome young man.
"Ani? Little Ani?"
In that moment, as he looked directly at her, she couldn?t help but find him adorable. She could see the little boy she?d known lurking behind the man in his eyes, and wanted to know everything that had happened to him since she'd last seen him.
But now was not the time for that...
