Meet the Parents
Summary: Padme's parents know that she's married, but they don't know to who. So when Padme and Anakin are asked back to Naboo, for a 'family reunion' things do not goes as planned.
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Authors Note: So sorry about the delay of this chapter! It's been awhile since I wrote anything and I thought I should update all my stories, so here is the update! I hope you like it and again I am really sorry about the lack of chapters! This is one of the more serious chapters and the next chapter will be up soon! Thanks for the reviews! OH YEAH IMPORTANT NOTE: THE SIGNATURE AT THE END OF THE CHAPTER, THE NAME WAS SUPPOSE TO BE CROSSED OUT, BUT IT DIDN'T WORK... So just pretend that it's crossed out! Okay? Thanks! Enjoy!
I DO NOT OWN STAR WARS!
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Chapter 9
Padme stood in amazement and looked at her parents then Anakin and then Obi-Wan, "No way! I'm married and I'm happy… Just leave me alone!" Padme yelled and ran towards her room. She hated this family and she just couldn't wait to get out of it. She grabbed her bag and walked back out still in a huff.
"I'm leaving and there's nothing that you can do about it. I have to go, my job calls me I'll call you later Sola." She stuffed the bag in Anakin's hands and walked out of the doors. Anakin shrugged and walked after her.
"What was that back there Padme?"
"It was me leaving Palo and everybody else behind me."
"You're sure about this?"
Padme turned and stopped walking, "Are you kidding me? I'm absolutely positive about this."
"Padme!" Jobal yelled and ran down the street. Padme shook her head and waited patiently for her mother to come. "Padme Amidala-Naberrie, you are coming back in that house and marrying Palo or else!"
"Or else? Is that the best you can do mother?"
"Or else I'll tell the council that Anakin and you are married and I know how much you don't want that Padme!" Jobal yelled and smirked as she watched her daughters face change from happy to worried to sad to every emotion possible.
The words echoed in her mind and she looked at Anakin who sighed softly and nodded to her sadly. They couldn't risk that, they couldn't risk him getting found out and him losing all his dreams that he had promised his mother before she died. Padme nodded as she bit her lip and then stuck out her hand as her mother led her away, Anakin trailing behind her.
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"Padme, darling?" Palo questioned and placed the ring on her hand. She looked out the window as he settled down next to her and she sighed. "Padme darling you have to be happy for me to be happy.
"How can I be happy? You just blackmailed me into getting married to you!" Padme said and crossed her arms across her chest the ring was unfamiliar to her fingers and she didn't like it. She didn't like wearing a ring. "I hate you so much."
"Don't' blame me Padme; it was your mothers' idea."
"I know, I hate you both."
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Padme breathed in deeply and then sighed again. She was sitting on the window still on the second month of her engagement to Palo. She hadn't expected Anakin to hang around, but he had decided that divorce was the best thing for them. He couldn't stop them and they both knew that he couldn't give up his job as a Jedi, so she had to get married. Maybe if some different world, they could have been together, but not now, they had their jobs to return to and they just couldn't be together. She looked at her two nieces playing in the yard and then to Sola and her husband. She hadn't spoken very much to Palo or her mother, but her father was the only one she was willing to talk too.
"Padme darling, are you alright?" Her father questioned and she turned around.
"Father, I didn't' know you were going to come today…"
"Padme, are you alright?" He repeated and she shook her head.
"Mothers making me marry Palo and I don't want too and Anakin's making me divorce him so his secret doesn't get exposed and I don't know what to do!" She said like she was a four year our and complaining to her father. He sat down next to her and smiled slightly.
"Honey, you're wedding in three months, you have to decide what to do by then even if it means giving something up. But not matter what, the people that truly matter will always be with you."
Padme nodded and sighed, "You tried talking to mother?"
"Yes and I didn't get very far at all… I'm sorry Padme, I don't know what else to do either." Her father stood up and walked towards the door, "Good luck Padme, I will speak with you about this later."
"Good-bye father." She whispered and turned back to the window. She pressed her palm firmly against the glass and realized that she wanted to be Sola, she wanted to be a mother and having a loving family and a loving husband. She didn't know what she would give up to be like her. Everything probably.
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Padme was sitting at the kitchen table, a pen in hand when Anakin arrived. It had been months since she had seen him and when he entered the room her breath was gone and she couldn't think of anything but him and the times that she had had with him. She couldn't believe what she was giving up. She bit her lip as she looked at the papers in his hands. He handed it to her without a word and then sat down beside her as she read them over. He hadn't wanted this and he just wanted to hold Padme in his arms and tell her that everything was alright and everything would be alright and that she had nothing to be worried about. But he watched as she traced along the words as she read with her pen making light lines under the words. She read through it quickly, skipping most of the important parts and not caring because she knew that he wouldn't take anything that important. She got to the last page and then smiled. She was giving him everything in Coruscant because she was going to live here from now on. She looked at where he had signed it and then she swallowed and placed her pen at the 'x'. She shook her head to clear her thoughts before she scribbled her first name. Then she finished with her two last names and then shoved it over to Anakin, not wanting to look at it anymore. She went back to her paperwork as he stood up without another word and walked out of the room. She wanted to cry right then, but she was sure that he would only think that she was weak and that she just didn't have any self-control at all. She was sure he blamed her for everything and she couldn't believe that she had just given up the love of her life… He couldn't either.
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Anakin walked through the streets and found himself back at the lawyers' office. He had promised to keep this a whole secret or else. And those were Anakin's exact words, 'If you tell anybody about this, there will be a problem. You cannot tell anybody… Or else.' He was sure that the lawyer wasn't going to tell anybody. He flipped to the last page of the papers and looked at her signature.
x Padme Skywalker-Amidala-Naberrie
She had crossed it, but it was still there in print and he believed that she still loved him. He was certain that she still did, and he clearly still loved her, but this was the way it had too be and he couldn't do anything about it. It was fate and you just can't fight fate.
End of Chapter 9
