Epilogue Part 2
Padme slowly wakes up and see she is in another medical room. She sits up slowly and sees she is alone. No droids, no Obi-Wan, no babies. She slowly places her feet on the ground and stands up feeling a little wobbly. She grabs onto the bed to steady herself. She slowly walks to the door and looks out trying to find someone. She walks down the hall using the wall for support. She hears people talking and stops to listen.
"Hidden, safe the children must be kept." She hears Yoda say.
"We must take them somewhere where the Sith will not sense their presence." She hears Obi-Wan say.
"Hmm. Split up they should be." Yoda says.
Padme gasps realizing they are talking about her kids. They can't take her kids from her. How dare they even talk about this without her knowledge.
She steps into the door way and they all look at her shocked. "You want to take my children from me? I'm pretty sure I can keep them safe myself." She spits out looking at Bail, Yoda, and Obi-Wan.
"Padme please sit down." Obi-Wan walks over to her and tries to grab her arm, which she pulls away not wanting to be touched by him.
"I am fine right here." he tells him.
"Very well." Obi-Wan before he pausing thinking of what he wants to say. "I know this is a difficult decision, but we have all thought and agreed that this would be best for them. Palpatine is still alive and if he finds out about them. He still stop at nothing to get them."
"I can protect them myself." She says even thought she is a little unsure of her answer.
"Padme. You don't understand the power Palpatine possess. He isn't the Chancellor you knew." Obi-Wan says trying to get her to understand the severity of the situation.
"Indeed. Fail I did when confronting him." Yoda says shaking his head.
This was a surprise to her. Anakin always talked about how powerful Yoda truly was and if he couldn't kill him what change did she have.
"Why would he want Luke or Leia? They are just babies what use would they have from him?" she asks.
"They are the children of the chos- of Anakin. I'm sure if we were to test them their midichlorian count would be just as high as Anakin's."
"No. No. He can't." She says and she feels herself starting to get dizzy and grabs onto the walk.
"With Anakin." Obi-Wan pauses not sure how to say it. "dead he is gonna need a new apprentice. He will want to raise them in the Dark Side of the force.
She stares at him and keeps repeating what he said said in her mind. With Anakin dead. She knew he probably was, but no one told her anything so she hoped even after everything that he was okay.
Padme starts to loose her balance again thinking back on everything that has happened in the last day or two she wasn't even sure what day it was. She feels someone grab her arm and start to take her to a chair. She pulls her arm away seeing it is Obi-Wan.
"No. You are all lying." She leaves the room holding back tears. "I'm going to find my kids and leave this awful place."
Anakin, or maybe he is known as Vader now he wasn't sure everything was still circling around in his head. Did he even want to be Anakin anymore he surely didn't want to be Vader, but Anakin wouldn't have done what he did. Anakin Skywalker was a war hero. He was the hero with no fear. He wouldn't have killed his wife and his unborn child. He wouldn't have disobeyed the Jedi and Obi-wan. Obi-Wan he thought, he did this. He stuck onto her ship. He was the reason he lost it and tried to harm Padme. Him and the Jedi. They had this coming. They kept pulling him back from his true power. They wouldn't even grant him the rank of master. They lied and used him for their own good. Even when he tried to tell them about Palpatine, they wouldn't let him came.
His hands went into fist as he thought back to tell and slowly stopped feeling bad. They did this. They did all of this. He stands up and leaves the room he went into to try and get away from everyone. No longer was he Anakin Skywalker. Anakin Skywalker was dead. He dead back on Mustafar. He lost everyone he cared about and he was going to stop at nothing to make sure the remaining Jedi paid.
She wondered down a few hallways and looked in a few doors, before she found them. He child. Luke and Leia. She sighs out in relief as she walks over to them and looks in their cribs.
They are perfect. She thinks. Luke, he looks just like Anakin. She smiles down at him. She looks over a Leia and sees that even though they are twins. She looks a little more like her. She looks at them and smiles.
She thinks of Anakin and how he should be standing next to her. But every time she thought about him all she could think about was their last conversation. How he wanted to rule the galaxy with her by his side? He should have known she never would have be okay with that. Shouldn't he? They were married after all. He should know that she has been fighting against something like that for years. Maybe he didn't really know her. How often did they really get to see each other? NO. NO. He loved her and she knew it. He was just tricked by a lie. They all were. She knew Palpatine longer than everyone. She worked beside as Queen and even in the Senate. She helped him become Chancellor. She was the reason he got so powerful.
She falls to the ground and starts to cry as she hears someone running in. She looks up to see Obi-Wan. He must have followed her and has been waiting.
"Is Anakin really dead?." She says between tears.
"I'm Padme. I truly am. I tried, but he was too far gone. Palpatine twisted his head too much for him to return." Obi-wan says and she can see he truly means it. She knew how close him and Anakin had grown. They were definitely closer than most Jedi she has seen.
"How-how am I just supposed to give them up?" She asks not wanting to talk about Anakin anymore.
"You are strong Padme. I always thought it. The whole Jedi Counsel thought it. You know this is the right choice if you want to protect them."
She nods her head as he helps her up and takes her back into the room with Bail and Yoda. This time she accepts his offer of sitting, afraid she wasn't going to be able to stand anymore.
"Where-where will they go?" she says not looking at anything, but the table in front of her.
"My wife and I will take the girl. We've always talked about adopting a baby girl. She will be loved with us." Bail says trying to comfort her.
She closes her eyes, angry that he will get to watch Leia grow up and be the father Anakin was supposed to be. And-and his wife will get to raise Leia as a mother she was supposed to be.
More tears start to falls down her face, but she knows this will be best. She knows if Palpatine finds them. She will try, but there is nothing she can do.
"And Luke?" she whispers out.
"Hmm. NO family are either side to send him." Yoda ponders.
"Tatooine. Ana-Anakin had a step brother he met once. He wouldn't even think of looking there." she says.
"Very well. I will take the child and watch over him." Obi-wan tells her also trying to cheer her up.
Sadly there was not cheering her up. This was the worse day of her life. She lost Anakin and her children. No mother should ever have to do this, but if it will keep them safe.
"I will go into hiding as well. Tell everyone, the queen, my-my parents, everyone that there was complications with my birth and I died as well as the baby. I don't want them questioning my family and hurting them." she says wiping away her tears.
"As you wish. I will notify Naboo and let them know what happened. We can use a hologram of you so no one suspects anything." Bail tells her.
She stands up. "Very well. Just let me say goodbye and we can precede." She says holding back her tears.
She walks back to the room they were places in and looks down at both her kids, knowing this will probably be the last time she will see them. She starts to grow angry at Palpatine, who once was her friend. How he ruined everything for her. She will make him pay. She wasn't sure when or how, but she would find a way even if it killed her in the process.
After saying her goodbyes, Obi-Wan walked in to inform her they were arriving on Tatooine shortly meaning that when everyone was to split up. Bail would leave from here with Leia, Obi-Wan would leave with Luke ,and Yoda would leave for the Dagobah system. That just left her, she wasn't sure where she was too go. She couldn't stay on Tatooine, nor could she return to Coruscant or Naboo. She would have to find a new home and build a new life for herself alone. She said one finally goodbye to Leia as she walked off the ship with Obi-Wan holding Luke for one last time and watching as the ship took off taking her daughter with it.
"You are doing the right thing." Obi-Wan tells her.
"I know." she says still looking at the ship until she could no longer see it. She looked down at Luke one last time and kissed his forehead before handing him over. "Promise me nothing will happen to him. That he will be safe."
"I may have failed Anakin, but I will not fail Luke or you." He says sadly as he turns around and starts to make his way to town hoping to find a ride to the Skywalker family.
She watched him leave taking Luke with him and was stilling managing to hold back tears for now. She watched as he turned back around.
"You are come with me you know?"Obi-wan says.
"No. It's better this way." She says pulling up hood on her robe and walking away, letting the tears run down her face and thinking of where she was supposed to go from here.
The news of Padme death has already broken, but Anakin wasn't surprised she was a well known Senator and even as Queen she known by many. The news coverage says how she died due to complication with birth and how sadly the children died with her. They started to talk about her funeral back on Naboo, but Vader couldn't listen anymore. He lost Padme and their baby. He didn't ask, but he hoped maybe the child still survived. He thought maybe he could find them and raise them, but sadly he ruined that too. No. The Jedi ruined that he had to remind him self. He walk around on the ship until he reached the command center, where he saw his Master staring out the window. He noticed as he walked everyone looked up at him in fear. Maybe this bulky annoying suit had some perks. He stood next to his master and he watched something being build as side.
"It's a Death Star, Lord Vader. It will be the most powerful weapon in the galaxy once it is finished." The emperor tells him.
Vader crosses his arms and looks out at his new future. His new future as Darth Vader.