CHAPTER ELEVEN

VADER

Vader was in a very good mood on the way back to Rane's house. It had taken longer than he wanted but none the less he got the exact parts he needed. Tomorrow he would work on the communicator all day and they could go home. He needed to get away from the senator as soon as possible.

"Well I hope you are happy with the parts." Zieger hopped out of the speeder.

"I'm very pleased." Vader nodded. As they reached the house Vader could sense the senator's presence in the house. He was happy she hadn't tried to escape. Finally they could leave.

"Well hello hello." Said Zieger walking in the house with a large smile that could be heard in his words. There was Padme and Rane at the table in the kitchen laughing together. "You started without me didn't you?" Zieger fake pouted walking over to the empty bottle in the middle of the table.

"Well you two were taking too long." Rane giggled. "And Padme here has never had any of Tatooines finest." Vader glanced at the bottle that was sitting on the table and glanced at the senator who was smiling at him. He was slightly moved and confused by the fact that she was smiling at him with genuine joy he was there. It must be the alcohol. This made him come to the conclusion that she was obviously drunk. He glanced again at the bottle and realized by. Rane had pulled out some pretty strong liquor for the tiny senator.

"Hi." Padme's voice was soft and quiet as she looked at him with those soft brown eyes. She was aware that he might lose his temper and to be honest it was taking everything in him not to. What had made this woman think it was ok to be drunk? Has he truly gone soft in this short amount of time? "Can we go back to our ship now?" her eyes were pleading him not to make a fuss.

"Yes, lets go." His voice was very tight and to the point. The last thing he wanted was to mess with the drunk senator tonight.

"Oh come on Anakin have a drink! It's only one night." Rane slurred at him.

"Some of us have work to do." Vader snapped at walked outside.

"Bye Rane." Padme waved and stumbled to the door.

"Bye Padme. It was so nice talking to you." She smiled widely. "Oh!" she perked up and walked quickly over to Padme with a small secretive smile. "Here you go. Just in case." She winked as she slipped Padme another bottle in a bag for her to take.

Padme chuckled and took the bag without a second thought.

Vader walked to the speeder and soon after Zieger came out with Padme behind him. He could sense he made everything awkward.

"So can we go home now?" Padme slurred in the speeder as Vader climbed in beside her with Zieger driving on her other side. Vader tried to sit as far away from the senator as possible in the tiny speeder but she was oblivious to their close contact or she just didn't care. It was strange having someone sit this close with no sense of fear in them. Vader had to admit he liked how close the senator was.

"Hopefully tomorrow."

"Good." Padme smiled. "This hasn't been as torturous as I would have thought."

"That's about to change." Vader mumbled to himself looking as they sped toward their broken ship.

Padme ignored him and continued on her rant of nonsense. "You know I like Rane. She's a nice lady. I bet she was fun when you two were little." Padme stumbled on a few of her words. "She's right though you need to loosen up every once in a while. You're so young still!"

"Coming from you?" Vader glared at her. "I'm sure you've heard of the rumors about yourself milady?"

"Oooh there are rumors about you?" Zieger chimed in curiously. "What sorts of rumors?"

"Oh they're all lies." Padme waved them off trying to change the subject.

"Are they?" Vader questioned to stir up the senator. He wasn't letting her off that easily.

"Well I'm not a lesbian if that's what you're asking!" Padme huffed.

Zieger burst out laughing. "woah woah woah that's the sort of rumors about you?"

"Yes, but they are certainly not true. I just don't need everyone to know about my personal life. I just haven't found the right man yet."

"To marry?" Zieger asked her an innocent question.

Padme's face flushed unvoluntarily. "Yes."

"I mean you have been with a man correct?"

Padme turned an even deeper red. "That's none of your business."

Zieger's eyes now went wide. " You've never had sex? A woman like yourself?"

Vader couldn't help the surprise he felt with that knowledge as he turned to gaze at her. He himself has even admitted how beautiful of a woman the senator is and had to control himself. Now to know that she's never let a man touch her gave her even more of an unwanted attraction to Vader.

Padme looked at Vader now. "What? Don't…don't look at me like tha. I don't want to talk about this anymore." Padme crossed her arms over her chest in a huff like a child. Her words were even sounding more childish.

"Alright alright I'm done nosing around your business." Zieger chuckled now pulling up to their ship. "Well here we are."

"I appreciate your help." Vader said to Zieger.

"No problem at all." He smiled at the sith.

"Lets go!" Padme was now actually attempting to crawl over Vader to get out of the speeder. Vader felt the uncomfortable attraction again as she laid across him wiggling to get out. He took action fast and simply picked the small woman up around the waist and put her on her feet.

"Hey!" Padme huffed.

"Have fun you two!" Zieger winked and took off towards his house.

Vader watched as Padme looked at the fading ship longingly. He could sense her fear at how he was going to handle her and for good reason. She slowly turned to look at him, her eyes glazed over in her drunken state.

"You are the most foolish woman I have ever met in my life." His anger began to get to the better of him. "Lets get inside. Now." He grabbed her arm and dragged her up the ship. The senator's drunken protests getting louder and louder as they entered the ship.

"Let me go!" She glared at him and even had the gall to try to grab his upper arm to pull it off of hers.

"What possessed you to drink tonight?" He threw her down into the seats. His yellow eyes scanned her up and down waiting for an answer.

"I figured if I was gunna die….I might as well have a lil fun while I still could." Her brown orbs challenging his.

"If I was going to kill you don't you think I would have done it already and not torture myself with your presence for this long?"

"There's no good reason to keep me alive. You know as well as I that no one would know the difference if I died in the crash or by your hands" She now glanced down at her feet.

"You still have your uses alive. What's in the bag?" He questioned since she didn't have one before they left. He didn't wait for her response and quickly grabbed it to show another bottle. "Did Rane give you a little parting gift? I never knew Senator Amidala was a secret alcoholic." He began to push buttons wanting her to feel as annoyed as himself.

"I'm not!" she protested standing up on her unstable feet. She quickly caught herself as she about fell into the sith lord. "In fact I've never been drunk before."

"You thought now in this particular situation that tonight was a good night to try it out?" Vader questioned. His tone still clipped in anger.

"I didnnnn't mean to get drunk! She said this was strong but I didn't knows how much." Padme blabbered on flailing her arms around. "I just wanted to relax since all I ever do is work work work. You know….maybe not act like all those stupid rumors around about me." She tried to snatch the bottle out of Vader's hands but he pulled away too quickly and held it out of her reach.

"Act like a lesbian?" Vader raised an eyebrow in confusion. He would have chuckled if not for his anger.

"No! How many times do I have to say I like men!" Padme glared up at him and continued on. "Act like I know how to have fun. I'm not just all about the senate and paperwork. Like…I have a damn life!" Vader stared at her for a moment. He couldn't help but understand her reasoning as he has felt like that himself. In fact wasn't that the very same reason he occasionally slept with Azira? He questioned himself. It was something he justified as to get out of his system but it was something to make him feel anything other than a sith that does nothing but work and cause mayhem. "I mean you're young, don't you ever get sick of having to be a sith aaaall the time and never being able to go out and have some fun?"

He couldn't help but feel that he agreed with her and with that he slowly lowered the bottle down. She took the opportunity and grabbed it from him which almost made him chuckle again. For some reason he had a hard time staying angry when around this woman. She plopped down clumsily in the chair and popped the cork of the bottle. She looked up and him and patted the table in front of her. "Come on now. Sit down and have a drink. No one will ever find out."

"You know that's one of Tattooine's most potent drinks right?" He remembered seeing a lot of men order this for their dates. It took about two shots for the girl to happily go home with them. Padme had obviously had a few more than two for her to willingly do the things she was doing. Most people would be well past their limit to offer a sith such as himself a drink.

"No." she frowned but shrugged anyway as she put the bottle to her lips to take a drink.

"You know there are glasses." Vader's irritation was popping up again.

"Yes…I knooow that Vater. I don't have cooties." She rolled her eyes. "Now are you going to take a drink or am I going to be sent to my room?" She actually began to get up to leave but but her eyes widened with surprise and satisfaction when Vader sat down in front of her.

She already knew way too much about him and this was probably a stupid thing for him to do but he figured she had just as much to lose as he did. If he was going down then so was she. Plus she might end up blacking out and not even remembering a single thing.

The reason she wanted to drink just reminded him how similar they were. He was young and had nothing to show but the works he's done. Sure he was extremely pleased with the outcome and wanted nothing more than to rule the galaxy one day but still, he couldn't ignore the need to have some fun every once in a while. He was only 23 and his former self still lingered in him at times begging for him to impulsively do something just to find out how it'll turn out. It made him feel good to realize that this senator felt the same way which made it easy for him to make the decision he was about to make.

Padme's face then adorned the biggest smile as she passed the bottle over to the sith. It felt good to be the reason for that huge smile.

"You know it's never the wisest or safest of choice to try to get a force sensitive being drunk." He eyed her as he took a drink from the bottle. Padme looked at him with confusion at his words. Vader guessed not very many force sensitive beings ever got drunk around her or at all for that matter. "We have poor control over our use of the force." He smirked at her.

"Sooo will things be floating around the ship? Can you force fly the ship home?!" she got excited.

"I don't think that's possible…." Vader thought for a moment. At least he didn't think it was.

PADME

Padme couldn't believe she was sitting her with Darth Vader drinking. She didn't even know how much time had passed but she did know she was actually having a good time. She probably had the alcohol to thank for that. They talked about many different things going on and had somehow managed to talk around the empire or the rebellion. Talking to him almost seemed natural now that she had him in a state where he actually would have a conversation with her. They had some slight playful arguments about random things that immensely entertained Padme. Even if she ever told anyone what was happening now no one would believe her. Although no one would even believe her if she told them Darth Vader was an extremely sexy man underneath his suit either. She blushed at her thoughts.

"What?" Vader asked grinning at her reddening face, asking what she was blushing about.

Padme ignored his question and started giggling. "Stop moving the shalt saker."

Vader grinned at her "The what? Salt shaker?" he looked at the table to see he was lifting the salt shaker up again.

"Well jeez, didn't think you'd get tispy off of a couple swallows." Padme chuckled.

"Siths never drink and I don't have the luxury of building a tolerance by sipping on wine all day like most politicians." Vader took another swig. "Also I've had a bit more than you milady. We've already drank more than half the bottle."

Padme started to laugh. "Darth Vader is a lightweight. Who knew?"

Vader playfully glared at her. "Senator Amidala is a virgin…who knew?"

Padme's smile quickly dropped off her face as she angrily snatched the bottle out of his hands. "Well wasn't that just mean? Aren't you sith supposedly celibate or whatever like Jedi? You're supposed to be a virgin as well milord. Are you telling me you're a rulebreaker?"

Vader shrugged. "Well if the Jedi and Sith have anything in common I'd suppose it'd be that. Although Sith aren't as strict upon being celibate but more in other areas of that whole issue. I mean what's the problem if you have sex but there are no attachments and it doesn't effect anything?"

Padme stared at him for a good couple seconds. He raised his eyebrows waiting for her response. Padme couldn't help herself when she went into a fit of giggles.

"What's so funny?" Vader questioned her.

"I'm sorry. I just never thought I'd here Darth Vader say the word 'sex'." Padme continued giggling.

Vader rolled his eyes at her. "Alright alright."

Padme stopped laughing and wiped the small tears that had begun rolling down her face. She stared at the young sith smiling at him. "You know you really do have beautiful eyes. It's a shame no one gets to see them." Padme could have thrown her hands over her mouth as she had just spit that out.

It took her by surprise when a small grin crept on his face and he reached across the table wiping a stray tear off her cheek. "I believe yours are more beautiful milady."

"Um I should really get to bed." Padme stammered as she stood up on her wobbly feet. Drunk or not she couldn't let this continue. She still had to remember this was Darth Vader even if nothing about him right now seemed like the same man.

Vader stood up and Padme noticed his stance was slightly off compared to how board-like it usually was. "Of course milady. I suppose it is like two in the morning." He chuckled at that.

"Thank you." She looked up at him sincerely as she stood by her bedroom door. "This was really a nice night."

"I agree." He stared at her for a moment longer before stepping up to her to grab her hand. "Good night senator." He brought her hand to his lips and kissed it gently. Padme sucked in a breath as her stomach tightened with anticipation. She bit her lower lip as she felt the lust wash through her. The alcohol had to be the culprit for these intense feelings she rationalized. Although she knew that wasn't true. Vader smiled at her again as he gently let her hand down and took a step backwards. The sexual tension was electrifying at this point. Before Padme even knew what she was doing she stepped towards him and looked up at him. She knew this was dangerous and yet everything about this seemed right. She continued to stare up at him wondering if he was feeling what she was feeling. Before she knew it her question was answered when Lord Vader bent down and captured her mouth in a kiss. Padme quickly responded throwing her arms around his neck returning his kiss with just as much passion. Both of them lost and neither of them realizing what they had just begun.

END CHAPTER ELEVEN

Author's Note: I'm so sorry for the long wait! I haven't had a chance to just sit down and relax to just write. I'll try to do better! I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'd just like to point out that I'm not exactly moving this as fast as you are probably thinking at this point. It may seem like it, but no. I'm not going to pull any drunken sex and waking up to 'oh my god what did we do?!' and then 'Oh no I'm pregnant' kind of stuff so don't stop reading if you think that's my plan:-) Also please keep in mind that it's late and I'm very tired. I did proof read but that may or may not have made a difference. I just really wanted to get this up since it's been So bare with me. Please review and let me know how you're liking it!