Chapter 12
Padme walked into her office and Jeanie looked up from her monitor and her typing of the notes and schedules for Padme.
" Good morning I hope that you had a wonderful weekend?" Padme came up to the desk and took the messages that were in the message box.
" Good morning Padme, my weekend was great thank you, My parents are here visiting me and it is so great to see them, Oh there is a gentleman in your office." Jeanie smiled when up at Padme when she told her about parents being here on Coruscant.
" That is so great, I would really like to meet them and I would like for you and your parents to join me for dinner tonight, um . . . really did he give you his name?" Padme asked her office Aide.
" No he did not give me a name, but he did tell me that you will know him, oh also you have a meeting with the Emperor tomorrow morning before the Senate Session." Jeanie looked at the closed office door.
" Ok thank you and after you finish with your typing here, you can have the rest of the day off so that way you can spend time with your parents." Padme smiled at Jeanie before going to the door and opened it up.
" Thank you Padme oh I was wondering if they could sit in on one of the Sessions with us." Jeanie asked.
" Sure if they like they can sit in tomorrow's Session if they want to." Padme nodded to office Aide.
" Thank you, and I know that they would really like that very much." Jeanie smiled and nodded before going back to her work.
Padme walked into the room only to stop in her tracks when she saw the cloak figure standing next to the window that looked out towards the crumbling Jedi Temple.
" Um . . . can I help you?" Padme came closer to the cloak figure.
" Hello Padme . . . glad to see that you are very much alive." the cloak figure turned away from the window and faced her as he lowered his hood off his head.
" Oh . . . my . . . gods . . . Anakin." Padme looked at the person standing in front of her in total shock.
" You look as beautiful as ever and I know what you are thinking." Anakin gave Padme his famous smile.
" Thank you, I thought you were dead, and the last thing I heard was that you had fallen to the Dark side of the Force, and you now have a new name . . . Darth Vader." Padme looked at her husband.
" Yes I am very much alive just like you too, and yes you are right about everything that you have heard about me." Anakin looked at his wife and took a step towards her.
" Oh Anakin, am so very glad to see that you have survived but what happen to you, Obi-Wan told me that you were dead, because you burned to death?" Padme felt tears come to her eyes and then felt the warmth of his fingers on her cheek.
" Do not call me that name any more, my name is Darth Vader, and you are right one thing Anakin is dead . . . just like you Senator Amidala, and did he tell you that I was begging him to help me, but he just turned and walked away from me and let me burn to death, but if it was not for the Emperor I really would be dead." Anakin reached out and gently wiped away a tear that rolled down Padme's face.
" Ok fine, um . . . I thought you lived in that black armor suit?" Padme took a hold of Anakin's hand that was laying against her cheek.
" I did suffer a really bad injury from the fire that had burned most of my body, which also has damaged my lungs, but I have a medical center that works with cloning cells, and well they have helped me with my scars by cloning my cells and healing my scars, but I still need the suit for the respirator, I can only be without it for a couple of hours." Anakin turned away from Padme and went back to the window.
" I see well I am glad that you are alive and does the Emperor know what you are doing?" Padme came up to Anakin.
" No he doesn't know and I do not want him to know either." Anakin turned around and looked down at the beautiful woman he had once called his wife.
" I understand, and I promise not to say a word, so I was wondering if you would like to have dinner with me tomorrow night just the two of us." Padme looked up and for the first she noticed that his eyes were his original blue color.
" I would love to have dinner with you Milady, well I better get going before the Senate goes into Session today." Anakin smiled down at Padme before grabbing his hood and lifting it up and pulling it over his head.
" Ok then I will see you then." Padme smiled back at him as the com-link on Padme's desk began to buzz.
" Oh and I want you to know that I still love you?" Anakin said before he opened the door and stepped out of the office.
" Yes Jeanie?" Padme looked at Anakin in total shock before answering the com-link.
" Oh . . . um . . . there is a Senator Clovis here to see you." Jeanie told Padme.
" Um . . . thank you and I will see him." Padme looked through the door and saw Anakin and Rush look at each other and she watch Anakin's right hand balled into a fist.
Anakin left the office and headed down to the turbo-lift to where the landing platforms are located and got into his air shuttle that took him to his Palace.
" Good morning Padme, it is a pleasure to see you looking so very beautiful this morning." Rush came into the office and closing the door behind him.
" Morning Rush, and what are you doing here?" Padme went behind her desk and sat down in her chair.
" Well I was hoping that you would join me for dinner tonight?" Rush came over to the desk.
" Well I have to turn your offer down, because I already have dinner plans for this evening." Padme turned on her monitor.
" I see then how about tomorrow night?" Rush leaned over the desk so that way he could be very close to her.
" Sorry but I also have dinner plans for tomorrow night too, now if you will excuse me I do have some work to do before the Session starts in about an hour." Padme moved slightly away from him.
" I see well then lunch Wednesday?" Rush moved to sitting down on the edge of Padme's desk.
" Sorry I am in a meetings all day, and that also includes lunch too, and I really must ask you to leave now so I can get back to work." Padme looked at Rush and gave him a look that he is over staying his welcome.
" Ok fine, I well leave if you tell me one thing, who was that guy that was here when I got here?" Rush got off the edge of the desk and headed for the door.
" Just an old friend of mine and that is all you need to know now good day Senator." Padme let her voice raise with the anger that she was beginning to feel for this ass hole.
" As you wish Milady, good day." Rush turned and opened the door and walked out of the room, before walking out of the office and headed all the way to his office.
" What is that guy's problem and what did he want?" Jeanie came into the office with a cup of tea.
" Thank you, he wanted to have dinner with him tonight but I already have plans, for tonight and tomorrow night and then he wanted to have lunch but I told him that I was busy." Padme took a sip of her tea.
" I will be here until you go into Session and I will leave then." Jeanie turned and headed back to her desk.
Padme got back to work and she just finished up her notes before turning things off and headed out of her office before locking up the door behind her, and telling Jeanie bye and also told her what time dinner will be ready for her and her parents, and she would see them later.
After a short Session Padme left the Senate building and headed home and got ready for the small dinner get together with her office Aide and the girl's parents.
It was around ten when Padme headed for her bedroom and got ready for bed, and once she was dressed in her night gown she climbed into bed and fell sound asleep.