Hi, Guys! I apologize for not updating for a while, it has been hard to find the time whilst working full time, and I've had a little bit of stressful things going on with work but it seems that every things getting better, fingers crossed!
Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone who R&R'd this story, it means a lot to me to know what people think and it also makes me feel so happy to know that I have made you happy too.
Regarding the questions asked in the Reviews Page, I do not want to give away too much spoilers - Yes, Anakin will turn to the Darkside but it's my thoughts on what will happen as he progresses and Padme will not die in this story! I can't take the sadness, we can't take the sadness!
I have also seen that you have recommended Star Wars novels to read, to be honest, I never knew that they existed! I will look into reading them so thank you very much for mentioning them :)

Thank you for everything and here is Chapter 4!

Chapter 4: Reunited

Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan, Anakin Skywalker stood inside the turbo lift of the Senate apartment building. The sun glistened off the clear windows of the lift as it soared high and made both Jedi squint from its brightness. The light was both beautiful and bright and al Anakin could think about was the stunning, Padme Amidala. The woman-Angel who had captured his very heart and soul. Even when he was only ten years old, a young slave on the sandy planet of Tatooine and then had first met her, he couldn't stop loving her. He wouldn't stop.

"You seem a little on edge, Anakin." Obi-Wan Kenobi noted as the lift continued to soar high.

"I'm fine." Anakin replied, sounding very unconvincing. His Master took a quick look at his Padawan.

"I haven't seen you this nervous since we fell into that nest of Gundarks." He specified before Anakin turned to look at him raising one eyebrow.
"You fell into that nightmare, Master and I rescued you, remember?" Anakin corrected him with a very small but cheeky smirk on his face. Obi-Wan chuckled at his answer as he noticed small droplets of water drizzling down his Padawan's forehead.
Your sweating. Take a deep breath and relax." He expressed wondering why in the world Anakin was panicking. It was never in Anakin's character to panic, well Obi-wan never noticed Anakin panic before, not like this.

"I haven't seen her in ten years, Master." Anakin breathed, not daring to look into his Masters eyes. He didn't want to make his love for the Senator that obvious, but his mood seemed to certainly show it.

"She isn't Queen anymore if that's what you mean so just relax." His Master said. No, he didn't mean that. Anakin was shocked how his Master didn't catch him out, the force literally screamed Padme from his thoughts of her.

The lift door suddenly slid open and Master Kenobi moved into the large entrance of the building. Anakin slowly followed while wiping the few sweat droplets from his forehead with the sleeve of his Jedi robes and whispered: 'That's not why I am nervous.' But only quiet enough for himself to hear.

As they stepped into the corridor, a smartly dressed Gungan stepped into the corridor from another room but it was on the opposite side of them. He looked at the two Jedi for a split second before realising who they were.

"Obi!" Jar Jar Binks cried with excitement, shaking Master Kenobi's hand in a happy but aggressive manner. "Mesa so smilen to see'en yousa! And no…Annie? Little bittie, Annie?"

Obi-Wan smiled at the Gungan politely as his mentor stood there cringing with embarrassment beside his master. Anakin hated it when people could only see him as that small child when he thought of himself a grown man, a grown Jedi.

"It's good to see you, Jar Jar." Obi-wan commented, trying to at least try and calm down the restless creature.
"Hi there, Jar Jar." Anakin brought a small smile to his lips awkwardly.

"Mesa can't believen mesa eyes!" Jar Jar explained looking back and forth at the Jedi. "Follow mesa, Senator awaiting yousa presence!" The excited Gungan made the Jedi follow him into a large room.

The room was impressively decorated; cushiony chairs and well placed artworks set around on the walls. There was also a couple of statues in the enormous room where one of Padme was placed near the wall length window. The detail was incredible and Anakin caught himself admiring it for a while until two people at the end of the room were standing there.

Captain Typho and handmaiden, Dorme stood against the wall talking to one another. They also were talking to someone in the other room near them and Anakin knew that it was Senator Amidala. Both Typho and Dorme were reasonably well dressed. Dorme wore an elongated burgundy coloured dress. It was very pretty and very similar to Senator Amidala's attires. Captain Typho wore a blue uniform under a plain brown tunic made of leather. He wore that with black boots, black gloves and a stiff cap of black leather.

Obi-Wan and Anakin both watched as Captain Typho and Dorme started to head toward the two Jedi. But Anakin had caught notice of the third person who had captured his heart and appeared in his dreams. There she was, glorious Senator Amidala gracefully sauntered behind letting her dress trail close after. She walked so gracefully as if she were a model moving down the catwalk showing off the latest clothing. She didn't notice Anakin behind of his master which gave him the chance to admire her fully over his Master's shoulder. Padme was just as beautiful as he had remembered her to be all those years ago. She seemed to age only in height and not in appearance as her features were still as flawless and young as they were ten years before. Anakin sneakily let his eyes roam over her slim and shapely figure in her black and purple robes, taking in every aspect of her form. He then observed her thick brown hair that he remembered was thick with lush curls. Her hair was drawn up high at the back of her head in this – what looked like a basket accessory. He finally set his Ocean blue eyes on hers, the big brown jewels of beauty and wanted to stare into them for the rest of his life. He eyed her soft looking lips of pillows and wanted to press…

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you again, M'Lady." Obi-Wan said, moving to kiss the hand of the young and stunning Senator before him. Anakin began to feel a small part of himself envy his older master, for kissing his very world in front of him. Padme then took Obi-Wan's hand into her own and gave him a welcoming smile upon the lips Anakin would die to capture.

"It has been far too long, Master Kenobi. I'm so glad our paths have once again crossed but I must warn you that your duty here to protect me is unnecessary."

"I am sure that the members of the Jedi Councilhave their reasons." Obi-Wan quickly replied.

Anakin started to feeling more of that envy feeling as well as betrayal. How is it that they both could look into each other's eyes to share a friendly conversation? How was it that Padme hadn't taken note of him yet? He tried to shake away his deep negative feelings and closed his eyes for a moment, inhaling deeply and then breathing out in the next. Anakin could smell her scent again, the scent that once and now again burned through him. It made him crazy, crazy for her-

"Annie?" Padme questioned. Anakin jumped out of his thoughts and realised that the 'Annie' she was referring to was himself. He began to feel nervous all over again. "My goodness, Annie? Can it be? By the Gods, you've grown!"

Anakin watched in enjoyment with a smile appearing across his face as the goddess moved to stand in front of him. She held a joyful smile and the flash of excitement in her eyes made him love her even more. He then immediately felt her kind spirit leap through the force that surrounded him sending him a calm and peaceful Aura.

Senator Amidala looked down and then followed the line of Anakin's lean body, tilting her head upwards to emphasize the height he had grown and then realising that he now towered over her.

Being called, 'Annie' did little to bolster Anakin's confidence as he was lost in her exquisiteness. She was smiling, her smile widened and he knew that it was a clear sign that she was more than happy to see him again, but Anakin seemed to miss the implications of it.

"So have you." Anakin started awkwardly from his nerves. "Grown more beautiful, I mean." He then cleared his throat and attempted to ignore the anxieties within. "And a little taller than before." He teased, trying to sound in control but instead felt like he was being offensive to her. "For a Senator, I mean."

Anakin didn't need to look at Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, he could already feel the disapproving scowl from his master beside of him and was relieved that Padme Amidala had laughed any tension away whilst shaking her head.

"Oh, Annie, you'll always be that little boy I once knew on Tatooine." She stated before turning and heading towards the cushiony sofa in the middle of the room. Both Jedi followed. Anakin had felt as if she had grabbed his lightsaber from his utility belt and sliced his legs from under him that once held him confident and high. He looked down with embarrassment covering his expression.

"Our presence will be invisible, M'Lady, I assure you." Obi-wan noted, taking a seat on the sofa opposite Senator Amidala. His padawan joined.

"I am very grateful that you are here, Master Kenobi." Captain Typho commented in a stern tone of voice.

"Yes. The situation is more dangerous than M'Lady will admit it to be." Dorme agreed quietly as she looked worriedly to the side of her where Padme was seated. Padme knew how much 19 year old, Dorme worried for her at her very young age but sometimes there was no need to. Her handmaiden had dark hair, fair skin and light hazel eyes, she looked and resembled Senator Amidala so much and had succeeded with being her decoy once before shortly before the Sith were in hiding. The Senator had argued with the Chancellor a while ago about the idea of sending Dorme as her decoy but had no chance of succeeding to come to an agreement. Thank Goodness that she wasn't harmed.

"I don't need more security." Padme argued, addressing Captain Typho and her handmaiden especially but then turned to answer Ob-Wan Kenobi. "I need answers, I want to know who is trying to kill me. I believe that there might lie an issue to the utmost importance to the Senate. There is something more here…"She stopped as she noticed a small frown appear over Master Kenobi's face.

"Were here to protect you, Senator, not to start an investigation." He pointed out to her in a calm tone of voice, but even when he had finished his sentence, Anakin had already contradicted him.

"We will find out who's trying to kill you, Padme. I promise you." The young padawan ensured, fixed on her curious brown eyes. And then Anakin realised his error of what he had just said. He'd already felt the harsh gaze on him that Obi-Wan Kenobi was sending him.

"We will not exceed our mandate, my young padawan learner!" Obi-Wan reminded Anakin, sharply. Anakin felt stung in the way his master had just addressed him down publicly. He felt angry and humiliated, especially in front of Senator Amidala.

"We are not going through this exercise again, Anakin." Obi-Wan instructed, continuing his sentence. "And you will pay attention to my lead."
"Why?" Anakin shot the words straight out of his mouth. He didn't care what kind of audience he had seated before him, he wouldn't let his own Master downgrade him like some 'nobody' and get away with it.
"What?" His master questioned. His head darted round to examine his Padawan who was frowning. He was shocked at how Anakin answered him back in the way that he did. Sure, he was a stubborn character, but in front of an audience was unlike him.
"Why else do you think we were assigned to her, if not to find the killer?" Anakin asked, pushing far and fast. "Protection is a job for local security, not Jedi. It's overkill, Master, and so an investigation is implied in our mandate."
"We will do exactly as the council has instructed." The wise Master Kenobi argued. "You will learn your place, young one."

Anakin looked away from the stares that were upon him, down at his boots. He could sense the awkward looks within the room until the silence was then broken.

"Perhaps with merely your presence about me, the mysteries surrounding this threat will be revealed." Padme suggested. Obi-Wan's padawan looked up at her and had decided that it was a wise idea to keep his mouth shut for a while. And then he received a calm smile from the Senator, so did Master Kenobi. Until then, the Jedi hadn't noticed whilst their argument of how late it had gotten, and how tired the former Queen had appeared. She was blinking a lot faster than usual which suggested that she needed sleep. "Now if you excuse me, I will retire."

As the exhausted Senator began to rise from the sofa, she had obtained the simple nods from the Jedi as they risen from the opposite sofa too. Padme's bodyguard and Handmaiden stood and began to follow her into the other room. And she disappeared.

Anakin looked down in disappointment until another figure emerged into the room the Jedi stood in. It was Jar Jar Binks again. Anakin sighed and decided to greet the creature again. Luckily, he seemed calmer.

"I'm going to check the security on each floor." Obi-Wan remarked making his apprentice look to listen to him. "If you notice or sense anything unusual, Comm me." And then he walked into the lift. Anakin nodded and held his gaze at the lift as the doors closed and Master Kenobi had left.

"She didn't even recognize me, Jar Jar." He blurted out to the Gungan beside of him. The creature looked confused to what young Anakin had meant.
"What's yousa mean, Annie?" It asked, tilting its head to the side.
"She's forgotten me completely. She'd spoken to Master Obi-Wan more than she had spoken to me. I've never stopped thinking about her."
"Shesa happy to see yousa. Mesa haven't seen her happy in a longo time." Jar Jar Binks pointed out, hoping that it would cheer up the Jedi and when he'd seen that his words hadn't of made a difference to his emotions, he rested a large lizard-like hand on Anakin's shoulder. "Deisa bad times, Annie, bombad times."

For a moment, Anakin accepted Jar Jar's words but had decided to remain quiet and then nodded once as he stared off at the painting on the nicely decorated wall.

Thank you for reading this chapter, did you enjoy it? I made this chapter a lot longer and will do for the next upcoming chapters of the story! Please tell me what you think of it. The next chapter will be a lot different to the way the Attack of the Clones was set, not too different but different if you get what I mean haha. I'll try and update as soon as possible!

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