Have We Met?

Padme POV

"What do you think?" I asked. I picked out my favorite purple outfit that makes me feel powerful in front of the senate.

"No," came Sola, falling down on the bed in dismay. "That is your senator outfit, Padme. He sees you in it all the time. You are going out on a date. You need to look sexy!"

"Here, let me help," said Ashoka. She came into my closet and started to riffle through some things. "They all look 'senatorial', Sola. We need to go shopping."

"No," I said. "I have too many clothes already. We are not going shopping. I can just wear this."

"Oh wait!" cried Ashoka, and she came out with one of my two piece light blue outfits I forgot I had. "Try this one on."

I stepped into the fresher and put on the outfit. It was a light blue full sleeve silk shirt that stopped beneath the bust line, and a matching skirt that started at my hips and went all the way down to the floor. I usually wore it with my hair up and a matching headband.

"Padme," cried Sola, "come out let us see."

"It's a little revealing," I said as I stepped out of the fresher.

"It's a date, Padme. Besides he has already seen you naked. What are you self conscious about?"

I reached over and slapped my sister, but laughed in spite of myself.

"Where is he taking you too?" asked Ashoka.

"I don't know. It's a surprise," I said.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang. My heart raced. I did not know why I was so nervous. It was just Anakin. The door opened, and there he was in Master Jedi robes, with a dozen of roses in his hands, and a big smile on his face.

"Hi, Padme," he said and then he kissed me.

"Aww," came Sola and Ashoka behind me. I turned around and glared at them.

"I'll put these in some water," said Sola taking the flowers. "And she has nothing to do tomorrow so you make her have fun."

Anakin grinned his up to no good grin, "I will," he promised. He took my hand, "Shall we?" and we ran for his speeder and drove off into the night.

The restaurant that Anakin made reservations at was beautiful. It had a crystal chandelier in the middle of the room that was made of diamonds. The food was good too. We were eating crab rotoven. Anakin had never had it before and wanted to try it.

"You like it?" he said.

"Yes."

"Me too. It feels good to be able to eat again."

"What do you mean?"

"Well Palpatine had a tendency to push my body to its limits. So basically if I could stand taking over a planet without passing out, I was doing it. I would go days without food or rest. Obi-Wan is trying to get me back into the habit of a regular schedule."

"That's horrible. Why would Palpatine do that?"

"For power," he said shrugging.

"Ani, why would you blindly serve someone who would abuse you like that?"

"You were dead. I thought Luke and Leia were dead. There was nothing for me, outside of taking my own life."

My fork dropped. I looked up at Anakin to see if there was some kind of sick humor on his face. "You… You would do that?"

He nodded. My stomach dropped and suddenly I knew I could not eat anymore. "I tried a couple times. The bad one was after seeing a vision of you, I dropped a building on myself."

"Anakin," I said in shock.

"But then everything got better when I found out that Luke was alive. It was like you were still alive in a way. He thought that Darth Vader was a monster, too. So I turned back to the light."

I felt like I was going to cry.

Anakin noticed. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"What's wrong?! You just flippiantly told me that you tried to kill yourself! Does anyone know this?!"

"Relax Padme, okay," he said. "Look one of the Masters that is working with me is a Shrink of some sort, and yeah I already told her about the suicide attempt and everything. It was years ago, anyway. Now, I have Luke and Leia, Ahsoka and Rex, my mom, Obi-Wan and hopefully, you. Besides I am already dead, so no point in trying."

A thought came across my mind. "Your not into hurting yourself are you? Cutting or any of that?"

"No, nothing. I swear."

We sat in silence for a minute.

"What makes you do it?" I asked.

"Its called Borderline Personality Disorder. Basically I'm impulsive and have really intense emotions which is not a good combination. Sidious took advantage of it and turned me to the dark side."

I nodded, thinking.

"Hey," he said suddenly, "I wasn't planning on telling anyone about the whole suicide attempt so can we-"

He stopped when he saw me glare at him.

"You know what," he said, "tell anyone you want, and I'll just deal with it."

"I'm telling your mother, and Obi-Wan," I said.

"Obi-Wan knows," he said.

I smiled. Good, I thought, at least someone is looking out for him.

"Im also telling Ashoka and Rex," I said.

Anakin looked like he was about to start a fight, but then he sighed and said "Tell whomever you like."