Epilogue Part 1
Padme's eyes slowly started to open, but she struggles as she is blinded by the bright lights aboard her ship. Her heads start to hurt as memories start to make their way back to her.
"Anakin has turned to the dark side"
"Together you and I can rule the Galaxy, make things the way we want them to be."
"The Jedi turned against me. Don't you turn against me."
"Stop. Stop now. Come back. I love you."
"Liar! You're with him. You brought him here to kill me."
Every memory and every conversation came back and hit her at once, until the last thing she remembered. The man she loved with the look of pure hatred on his face as her lifted his hand and choked her. The man she loved, who not so long ago they talked about running away to Naboo to raise their child, tried to kill her and their unborn child.
Still processing everything, she hears someone come on the ship. Her thought is, no matter he did and the pain he caused her, Anakin. She slowly opened her eyes and saw it was Obi-wan only he was alone. His Jedi robes were charred up and covered in grim and he had the look of such sadness on his face. She knew the answer to the question she was about to ask, before she even asked it.
"Obi-Wan, is Anakin alright?" she asked him having trouble speaking and staying awake.
All he had to do was look at her for her to know the answer, he touched her check, but she could no longer stay away and slowly started to fade away. He last thought were thinking this was her fault, she brought him here or maybe if she cared more about Anakin's dream instead of pushing it aside. Maybe then this wouldn't be happening.
After his brutal defeat by Obi-Wan, Anakin managed to pull himself slightly away from the hot lava below him. With only one arm, since Obi-Wan cut off this mechanical one in the battle, he was finding this to be difficult. He also knew he didn't have much time for Obi-Wan also stabbed him right through the lungs. Hoping to kill him. He remembered Obi-Wan saving he has failed him and that he loved Anakin. Lies. All lies. He was a Jedi that was all they did the many years he training under them was lie to him. He groan slowly loosing his strength. He gave up moving himself, figuring what is the use anymore. His vision was starting to go blurry and his breathing was becoming hardly. His breathes barely coming out anymore. He turned himself over with his last bit of strength. He was surprised he managed to stay alive this long, but with the dark side and the rage he was feeling towards Obi-Wan running through his veins. He figured that was keeping him alive for just a little bit longer. He could feel the heat from the rocks on his back and it almost felt good. He looked up and noticed a shuttle landing. He could feel the presence of his master on board. He slowly closed his eyes as the last few breathe started to escape his throat. He pictured her face, hoping she would forgive him, for the pain he caused her.
She wake up again to another bright light, but this one was different. She knew she was no longer on her ship anymore, but in some sort of medical bay. She sees that she is on a medial table and she is wearing a medical gown. She hears medical droids wondering around somewhere by her talking about complications and how the babies need to be born now if they are to survive. She gasped and the droids followed by Obi-Wan walk over to her.
"Good. You're wake Padme." Obi-Wan gives her a sad smile.
"What's wrong with the baby?" She says in a small whisper for her throat still hurts.
He looks away at the droids and pauses because telling her. "There have been some complications and they believe if we want to save them both, they need to be taken out now."
She is shocked to hear him say babies, so there was more than one of you in here. She laughs to herself, because crying. Anakin isn't here. The babies are coming to soon. None of this is how it was supposed to be.
Obi-wan shhes her to try and calm down. "It will be okay. They will be alright Padme."
"No. No. Nothing will be okay anymore." She says as she calms down and the medical droids start to prepare her to give birth.
Anakin wake up in more pain than he has felt in his life. He looked around not knowing where he was only seeing droids working on his cut off arm and poking around inside his chest. He tried screaming out in pain, but with the oxygen mask on his face that was hard to do. He merly grunted swing his one good arm hitting whatever droid was next to him. He tried to sit up, but he was strapped down. He was feeling such rage until he felt his Master presence somewhere close by.
"Lord Vader. The droids are healing your damaged lungs. Stop being foolish." He heard his master say.
He calmed down a bit and stopped trying to escape his restrains. He slowly felt himself growing tired as his eyes started to shut and yet again he feel asleep with the image of her in his head hoping to see her when all this was over.
Feeling a sharp pain, pain she never felt before, Padme began to cry out in pain. She felt someone grab her hand and she looked up expecting to see Anakin, cause that was how this was supposed to be, instead it was Obi-wan. She was grateful he was here, but she definitely wanted her Ani. She screamed out one more time only this time her scream was joined by a tiny scream.
She hears the medical droid telling her it was a boy. She smiles as the droids brings him around and places him in Obi-Wan arms.
"Luke." She says as she brushed her hand across his tiny cheek.
She then felt that same pain again and knew she wasn't over yet. She cried and pushed some more until the pain was gone.
She breathed as the droid tells her the gender.
"Its a girl." Obi-Wan also tells her.
"Leia." She says smiling looking at her. She tried smiling cause she truly was so happy and blessed that they both were healthy and safe, but she couldn't stop thinking about Anakin. Dead. Never getting to meet there kids and there kids never getting to meet them.
Her eyes begin to flutter as she grows tried. She takes one last look at both her kids, before shutting her eyes and falling back asleep.
Anakin wakes up and something didn't feel right. He still was strapped down and couldn't look anywhere, but up. Looking up he saw an object slowly being lowered to his face.. He was confused by what was going on. Not understanding. He tried to fight back, but there was no were to move. The object was placed on his face and he realized it was some sorta of mask that masked his whole face. He heard the mask casping into place. He could finally breathe again. He took one breathe and was confused as he heard his breathe, which didn't sound normal. This one sounded mechanical. He felt the table moving as he was slowly rising until he was standing facing up. He looked around with his new mask and everything was different. He wasn't seeing out of his eyes pre say. It was like looking through a computer screen. Still strapped to the table, he started to get angry until he felt the presence of this master again. He slowly calmed down still hearing the sound of his breathing.
"Lord Vader. Can you hear me?" He hears his master call out. Even hearing things in the mask was weird. It was more clouded. What was he wearing this?
"Yes master." he hears himself says, but that's not his voice. This voice he was hearing, was deeper than his normal voice.
So much confusion was running through his mind, but there was only one question he wanted answered. Seeing as she wasn't here right now with him and he couldn't feel her presence near by.
"Where is Padme? Is she safe? Is she alright?" he ask wanting to see her so he can apology for the pain he caused her and just to make her understand. He just wanted her to listen and she was so stubborn she refused too and then Obi-Wan walked out of the ship.
"It seems, in your anger, you killed her." Palpatine says.
Anakin pauses confused by what he was just told. He thinks maybe something is wrong with the mask. That he clearly didn't hear him right.
"I? I couldn't have?" he starts to say thinking about to that moment. He didn't choke her for very long. She should have been okay. He felt her life presence even as he was fighting with Obi-Wan. He felt the rage running in his body and heard the medical droids and medical supplies breaking and falling around around him. "She was alive! I felt it!" He tried to move his body, but couldn't which caused him more anger. He slowly moved his hands and legs and broke out of the restraints. The first step he took he almost feel over. He looked down and realized not only was he wearing a mask, but he was in a full body suit. He cries thinking this wasn't supposed to happen. She was supposed to live. That is the whole reason I did all of this.I did all of this for her.
He screams out in agony as all the pain hits him at once. The pain he felt killing the Jedi and the youngling. The pain he felt from his injuries and most of all the pain he felt by loosing his everything. The one thing he loved. Paadme.