When she woke up the next morning, Padme realized that she had never known so much passion in her life before. Love and passion for Vader, and anger and resentment towards her family for lying to her all these years.

Vader could sense her anger. He seemed to feed off of it.

"I can feel your anger, Padme." Vader told her.

"I am still so angry at my family." Padme told him. "They were holding me back from my true potential. They kept me in a golden cage called Naboo. They kept me from you."

Vader kissed her, and said, "You know, Padme one day I will overthrow the Emperor and you will be my Empress."

"What are you talking about?" She asked him.

"I want you to help me defeat the Emperor."

"How am I going to do that?" Padme asked him. The thought of getting rid of the Emperor appealed to Padme.

"You can do it by joining me. I need you to convince our son to join me in the Dark Side. Together, we can defeat the Emperor."

"We have a son?" She asked him.

"Yes, my love. We had a son. Luke. He is very strong with the Force."

"Why didn't you tell me this before?" She asked him

"Because I wasn't sure who you were. Now I know that you are my Padme, I'm telling you. You wouldn't have believed me anyway if I told you that you had a son who is older than you!"

Padme was trying to process all the information that Vader was telling her. A son. Luke. Then why did the name Leia enter her mind?

"Where is Leia?" Padme asked him.

"Princess Leia Organa?" he asked her. "She is one of the Rebel leaders that I am trying to destroy."

"No," Padme said. "She is ours."

"Leia is ours? What do you mean?" Vader asked her.

"She is our daughter. Luke's twin sister. Don't ask me how I know. I just do."

Vader smiled. So he had two Skywalkers two join him.

"Padme, together you and I and our children will rule over the galaxy. This has always been my intention from the beginning."

"It sounds tempting, my love," she told him. This would show her family. She didn't need them. She had a new family of her own.

"I need to think about it," she said.

Vader flashed her his handsome grin. "As you wish," He said as he nuzzled close to her and started to nibble on her neck.

"Are you seducing me to the Dark Side?" she asked him.

"Is it working?" he asked her.

She answered him with a hungry kiss.

Heat, she felt the scorching furnace around her. Etherial, orange-red, and glowing. Is she in hell? Pain, she felt pain and sadness. Something is choking her. She can't breath, and it seemed as if her heart had been shattered into a thousand pieces.


Then she felt his pain. The pain of having his limbs severed, the pain of being burned alive, but even that did not compare to the pain of betrayal. She felt the hatred and anger in his heart, sustaining him, giving him the willpower to live to exact revenge on the person who did this to him.


For the first time, she saw the medical tables. She saw the droids hovering above her. Then she saw the birth of her babies. Luke and Leia. So much love, so much hope. She heard herself say, "There is still good in him." Then she felt her heart ache, an aching so ferocious that it took her breath away. She tried to fight the blackness that was enveloping her, tried to will herself to live so she could care for the twins, but she heard him calling to her in the darkness. He was dying, and she had to find him. His voice became dimmer, and suddenly she was alone in the darkness.


Then she saw the break of light. It was dawn on Naboo. She saw herself in a carriage, being carried to her final resting place. She saw the pain that her family endured. She kept thinking to herself, I must bring him back to the light! There is still good in him.

Padme woke up. So that's how I died, she thought to herself, trying to save him from the Dark Side. She looked over at his sleeping form next to her. She smiled recalling the day that she had spent with him. They had made love that morning, and had spent the day lazily in bed, talking about their children, about themselves, about time lost between them. She thought of all the consequences if she were to join him. If she could convince Luke and Leia to join him, they could defeat the Emperor. His Empire would crumble, but from the ashes, Vader's Empire would rise. The Darkside would not let him rule justly. It would still be a dictatorship. There would be no peace. She could not participate with Vader's plan. Then her former life would have died in vain.

And to condemn her children to be Siths? No, they needed love in their lives. What kind of terrible existence would it be for them to only know power, and not love?

Just then, he stirred, and noticed that she was sitting up in bed. He shifted to her side, and pulled her in a tight embrace and kissed her cheek.

"What's the matter, Padme?" he asked her.

"I can't do it."

"Do what?" He asked her.

"I can't ask our children to embrace the Darkside."

"Padme, I need their help if I am to destroy the Emperor."

"Yes, but I cannot ask that of them. I want you and Luke and Leia to destroy the Emperor as Jedi, not Siths."

"You don't understand the power of the Dark Side, Padme."

"I do understand," she told him defiantly. "I understand that it has imprisoned you for the past 20 years. I understand that it tore our family apart. I also understand that it led you to try to kill me." Her words tore through him like a knife. He felt the tears falling from her eyes as she spoke the last words to him.

"Forgive me, Angel. I am truly repentant for that action. I am so sorry that I did that to you. Padme, please forgive me."

She felt him tremble as he repeatedly asked for her forgiveness. She knew that he was deeply ashamed of his actions. He must have carried that guilt for the past 23 years. She knew that she had already forgiven him in her past life. She was here again by the will of the Force to forgive him, to bring him back to the light.

"Ani, I know it wasn't you who did it. You would never hurt me. I know that. But the Dark Side is evil and corrupt; it does not know what love is."

She placed her hand over his heart. "The Dark Side does not claim you completely Ani, because you do love. Loving was your weakness when you were a Jedi, but it will be your strength as a Sith. I know there is still good in you. In time, you will see the same." She kissed him, and said, "I have already forgiven you. Now you must learn to forgive yourself."