Chapter 7:
A/N: To my faithful readers…I am sooo sorry it took forever to update, I've just been really busy w/ softball and exams and stuff that I haven't had much time to do anything. Anywho, enjoi the story! P.S. Slight smut in this chapter, I'm not sure yet how smutty I'm going to make it, but forewarning! Oh, and please, to anyone who knows, what are the speed racer things called that people drive everywhere? Cuz I've been calling them speed racers or vehicles, but I don't think those are what they're called. Just let me know if you know.
As Anakin sat on the hospital bed looking from the boy in his arms to the daughter in his wife's arms, he thought about how he was probably the happiest and luckiest man in the entire universe to have the love of his life and now a family.
Padme looked at the sleeping baby in her arms. Just hours ago the baby was inside her stomach along with the baby that was in Anakin's arms. She leaned against her husband's shoulder and sighed deeply. She turned her head to look up into his eyes, but her own eyes landed on his shoulder.
"Ani, what happened to your shoulder!" Padme said in a distraught manner. She gently brought her fingers to the large, bleeding cut on Anakin's shoulder. As her fingers touched the red, inflamed skin around the cut, Anakin flinched.
"It's alright Padme, I just got hit with Palpatine's lightsaber. It's just a flesh wound, I promise I'm alright," Anakin said, getting up off of the bed with Luke still in his arms. He walked over to the cradle like contraption in the corner of the room when he heard Padme moving behind him. She was trying to get out of bed.
"Padme, stay in bed, you are not well enough to walk yet," Anakin said, putting Luke in the cradle and running over to the bed to make Padme lay down again, and took Leia to the other cradle in the same corner as Luke's.
"I am well enough to walk if you promise your shoulder is alright. It's bleeding terribly, you need to see one of the doctors," Padme said, looking sternly at her husband. She was obviously worried about him. Anakin looked down at his wife, whom he had made lay back down on the bed. He kissed her forehead.
Without moving his lips from her skin, he said, "I will have the doctor look at it right now. You sleep and get your rest, and I will be back before you know it." Padme smiled at his words. Anakin stood straight up and walked out of the room and quietly closed the door behind him.
Once outside, Anakin looked around for Obi-Wan. He was standing against a wall near the doctor's table of medicines.
"Obi-Wan, where is the doctor. I promised Padme I would have the doctor look at my shoulder," Anakin said, now realizing how painful his shoulder really was. Before Obi-Wan could answer, the doctor walked right up to Anakin upon hearing him being mentioned.
"Yes, Anakin, I will look at your shoulder at once. Come with me and we will get you healed," The doctor said, leading Anakin into another examination room. After applying a strong medicine to bind the skin back together, Anakin walked back out and across the hall to enter Padme's room. Before he opened the door, he could hear Padme screaming behind the door. Anakin burst through the door, wincing when his shoulder hit the door. Anakin ran over to the bed, where Padme was sleeping, and screaming.
"Padme! Wake up! It's me, Ani!" Anakin said, shaking his wife softly by her shoulders. Padme's eyes shot open and she looked up at her husband. Her arms flew around his neck and she hugged him tightly.
"Oh, Ani, you were just killed, and I never saw you again, and Palpatine was there…" Padme sobbed into Anakin's shoulder, while he leant down and hugged her tightly.
"It's alright Padme, I'm here, and I'm not leaving," Anakin said.
"But Palpatine…he's alive, and he wants to kill you," Padme said quietly into his shoulder.
"I know, but I'm alright, I'm a Jedi Master now. Which reminds me, as soon as you're out of the hospital, we're going to have a ceremony to me becoming a Jedi Master. I want you to be there, with our children," Anakin said, pulling back and looking into Padme's eyes.
"Alright, I'm ready to leave now and go home, and in our own bed," Padme said, smiling and wiping tears from her cheeks. Anakin kissed the last tear away.
"Of course, I'll go talk to the doctor."
Anakin woke up with Padme's head on his chest. Her hand was open laying on his bare chest over his heart. Anakin's arm was around her waist tightly as if she was his life support. It was early, he could tell by the amount of light coming into the bedroom from the balcony. He looked down at the sleeping figure of his wife.
It had been almost a month since Padme and the babies had come home from the hospital. Padme and Anakin had been the happiest they had ever felt since the day they were married. Anakin was a father of two beautiful babies, and he couldn't believe his luck, because it was also the day he would officially be a Jedi Master…his life dream.
Padme began to stir beside him. He watched her as she opened her eyes and looked up at him.
"Good morning Ani," Padme said, lightly kissing Anakin.
"Yes, it is a beautiful morning, and it's going to be an amazing day," Anakin said, smiling down at his wife. Padme smiled back and started to get out of bed. Anakin lightly grabbed her wrist and pulled her back down, so he nuzzled his face in her neck and kissed the soft skin below her ear, Padme's weak spot.
"Anakin, we have to get up. Your ceremony started in a few hours. You need to get ready," Padme said, breathing a bit heavier due to Anakin's nipping and kissing of her neck.
"We've got time," Anakin said between kisses as he ran his fingers gently up Padme's leg. Padme giggle, it always tickled when his fingers ran up her leg.
"But the doctor said 6 weeks Ani," Padme said, pulling her neck away from Anakin and looking deep into his eyes. He sighed.
"All right, then I'm going to take a shower and I'll be out in a while," Anakin said, kissing Padme gently on the lips and headed to the bathroom.
After shedding his pants, Anakin used the force and turned on the water to the perfect temperature, where it was hot, but not too hot. He stepped in and let the water run over his sore, yet sculpted muscles. After washing his body with soap, he stood in the shower and let his muscles relax under the hot water.
Anakin was rinsing his face of soap when he felt fingernails running up his back. He turned around and saw the Padme was standing in front of him, completely naked.
"Padme, why do you do this to me?" Anakin said, placing his hands on her hips, and running his hands up and down the small of her back.
"All I said was that we couldn't make love for 2 more weeks, but there are plenty of other things we can do," Padme said into his ear in a very sensual voice. Padme let her fingers graze to Anakin's manhood, where she had her way with him. Anakin groaned and growled as her hand worked wonders on his member.
"Don't tease me Padme," Anakin said in a husky voice, his breathing jagged.
"I'm not," Padme said with a slight smile as she kissed his chest and let go of his member. Her hands ran up to the back of Anakin's neck and let her fingers travel through the hair on the nape of his neck. It had grown out a lot since when they had gotten married, and she liked it better longer. She pulled his head down to hers and kissed him deeply. When she pulled away Anakin looked deep into her eyes.
"I love you Padme," he whispered.
"I love you too Ani," Padme whispered back.
"And I love our children," Anakin said, his hand on Padme's now flat stomach.
"I do too," Padme said, smiling. Anakin kissed her gently and got out of the shower to get dressed.
Anakin was standing in front of Master Windu in his best robes. Behind him, all the Jedi's, Padme, Luke, Leia, and Obi-Wan were standing.
"We all welcome Anakin Skywalker into the Master's Order of the Jedi," Master Windu finally said, placing a metal around Anakin's neck. Anakin stood up and bowed to Master Windu and Master Yoda, who was standing next to Windu. Anakin could hear the Jedi Order and his wife cheering behind him.
Anakin turned around and walked over to Padme, and kissed her lightly on the lips. She was standing behind and stroller like contraption where both of their babies were now sleeping. Anakin squatted next to the stroller and kissed both his children's foreheads. When he stood back up he looked into the rather larger crowd that had gathered for the ceremony.
After a few moments, each Jedi master and Jedi came up to Anakin and shook his hand, telling him "congradulations," before walking off to eat and drink from a large buffet that was set out to celebrate.
Before Anakin had shaken the last Jedi's hand, he sensed something. Within his body he could tell that something wasn't right.
"Padme, take the babies home," he whispered to Padme, who seemed to be in a deep conversation with another Senator before Anakin interrupted her.
"Why Anakin? What's wrong?" Padme whispered back, sensing the urgency in his voice.
"I can sense something bad is about to happen, and I have a feeling that Luke and Leia are going to be involved with it. Please take them home and I will be there soon," Anakin said, looking Padme right in her eyes, something that always made her go weak at the knees.
"Alright," Padme said, as she started towards the launching deck where their vehicle was located. Before she even took 3 steps there was a loud grumbling noise coming from somewhere close to the place where the ceremony was. Anakin put a protective arm around Padme's waist, and put his other hand on his lightsaber. He looked around, and noticed that the other Jedi's also had their hands on their lightsabers, ready to fight if necessary. Anakin was not then only one who sensed something was not right.
Suddenly, from somewhere below the building where everyone was, a large vehicle-like flew out from it's hiding spot, and it's doors opened. Out of the doors jumped Palpatine and his cronies.
"I told you that you would be sorry, Skywalker," Palpatine yelled as fighting had erupted from both sides. Red lightsabers whipped around, along with blue, green, and one purple lightsabers flew back at the red ones, making their familiar sound when they met.
"Padme, stay behind me," Anakin whispered, "just stay away from Palpatine, and protect the children." Padme looked like she could kill Palpatine from the glare she was giving him. Padme had obviously ignored Anakin, because she pulled a laser gun out of her belt and started shooting at unsuspecting evil guys (a/n: yea yea, I know, 'evil guys' isn't really the best term, but I'm having a brain fart.).
Anakin sighed and walked towards Palpatine, who had his lightsaber drawn and ready to duel.
"You should know by now, Palpatine, that you cannot win this war. I took one of your hands, and now I will take the other if I have to," Anakin shouted as he kept walking up to Palpatine, who only smirked and flexed his new metallic hand which was covered by a black glove, much like Anakin's hand which was taken by Palpatine's former apprentice.
"Trust me Anakin, I will win this war," Palpatine said. Palpatine then charged Anakin, lightsaber drawn, and ready to fight. All of a sudden, before the 2 lightsabers struck, there was a loud siren noise. Palpatine smile and ran back to the flying vehicle, which he had originally come out of. Anakin was very confused and just watched him leave.
Once Palpatine was standing on the platform to the vehicle, Anakin snapped back to realizing he had to kill this man, and ran after him.
"Don't worry Anakin, he will be in good care. He will learn from me, and will kill you one day, it is my new prophesy," Palpatine shouted as the vehicle started to ascend into the air.
"And what do you mean by that?" Anakin shouted back, now standing on the edge of the landing platform on the building.
"I mean this," Palpatine shouted, and turned around for a moment. Anakin had no idea what this crazy man was talking about. Padme had jogged up and now was standing next to Anakin, also watching Palpatine. When Palpatine turned around, Anakin froze in horror.
"NO!" Anakin shouted and watched as Palpatine smirk and the vehicle blasted into space. Anakin sank to his knees. He knew there was no way he would be able to catch up or find Palpatine now. Padme was now beside Anakin, head in his chest, sobbing. The fighting behind Anakin had stopped, and Obi-Wan ran up to Anakin.
"Anakin, what is wrong?" Obi-Wan asked, squatting down besides Anakin. Anakin raised his head from Padme's shoulder, who was still crying and looked Obi-Wan right in the eyes. Obi-Wan could see the pain, fear, and anger in his eyes.
"Palpatine has my son."
A/N: DUN DUN DUN! Once again, I am SOOOOO sorry for taking so long to update, but I was camping for a week, and there were no computers. I love you all my faithful readers, and plz review!
SAM