Rita's burns from the lava were treated when they landed on Coruscant. Roddy was pretty well off, considering he had been deprived of air for almost a minute and a half. Rita couldn't go without breathing for that long.

Rita winced as the droid doctor applied a clear bandage. "Allow a few weeks for the burns to heal," it instructed. "You can go ahead and go." Rita left and walked into the maternity ward, where Obi-Wan Kenobi and master Yoda stood outside of Padme Amidala's birthing chamber. She was dying after Anakin had choked her just like Lavigne had done Roddy. Rita was a good friend of Padme's and didn't want to see her die.

"You alright, Master Kenobi?" Rita asked, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I just didn't want to kill Anakin."

"The force is telling me you didn't. He will fulfill the prophecy, I know he will." Rita said. The prophecy said that one Jedi would bring balance back to the force, bringing lasting peace. A droid nurse came out to tell Obi-Wan that Padme wanted him to be with her.

Padme yelled in pain and Rita winced. That must be horrible to go through, especially when you know you're on the brink of death, Rita thought. Padme took a breath or two, then did as she was told and pushed. A cry filled the room, and Padme managed a slight, pained smile.

"It's a boy," Obi-Wan told her. Padme wheezed out the name. "Luke," then went back to laboring. She yelled in pain again, then another tiny cry brightened the room, the sound almost crying alto to Luke's cry.

"It's a girl." Obi-Wan told Padme again. "Leia," Padme said, rapidly losing life. She said something to Ob-Wan, then her head lolled over and her eyes closed, as if she were drifting off to sleep.

But this was eternal sleep, and Rita turned away, hiding her sadness. Padme was really the only friend she had, one she had protected, defended, and visited on a regular basis. The two laughed over things that either Roddy had done, like practicing in the training room with his lightsaber and lopping off the artificial opponent's head on accident, and other things.

Padme was also a strong woman, considering everything that had been shoveled on her plate. Being a queen, almost assassinated, a senator, and now a pregnancy was stacked on top. Padme had never taken her anger out on anyone. She seemed to just bottle it up and store it away. I would REALLY like to know how she does that, Rita had thought a few years back.

The droid nurse draped a sheet over Padme's lifeless face. Rita couldn't watch anymore. She went back to Roddy's rehabilitation chamber and knelt by his side. He opened his eyes and turned his head to look at his secret wife.

"Are you feeling alright, Rodders?" Rita asked. Roddy nodded and Rita gently kissed him, totally oblivious to what was happening in the same building, but in a different sector. A sector no one went into.

ELSEWHERE IN THE BUILDING

Darth Sideous approached his apprentice, Darth Vader, when the operating table the young sith was strapped to turned vertical.

"Darth Vader, can you hear me?" he asked gently. Vader turned his head slightly.

"Where's...Padme?" he asked, his voice disguised by the mask he now wore. "Is she alright? Is she safe?"

For once Sideous was pained to break news to an apprentice. "It seems that in your anger, you killed her."

Vader's ominous breathing sound became rapid and angry. "No, I couldn't have! She was alive, I felt it!"

Bottles, flasks, tubes, supports, and everything but the clones and people in the room broke, were crushed, coiled with tension emitting from Vader's anger. He had used the force to crush everything involuntarily, proving that he was a true Sith. He pulled himself fron the clasps holding him to the table and took a shaky step away fron the vertical table.

"Noooooooo!" He yelled in anguish. Pure anguish.

WITH THE JEDI

Rita knelt next to Roddy, the droids performing tests on him. Apparently he was fine and could go home now, but Obi-Wan, Mace, and Yoda had caught Rita kissing Roddy. They were no longer Jedi, having been expelled fron the order. Rita wanted to keep being a Jedi. She loved keeping galactic peace, fighting against the CIS forces, and most of all, giving the inhabitants of systems around the galaxy freedom, peace of mind, and security. She begged to continue her career without benefits, but the answer was a no. Rita and Roddy were admitted to go home and live a civilian's life, a normal life without lightsabers, clones, nothing.

But nothing could eliminate their love, and the force they had been trained to use.

The End

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