Anakin POV

Padme came out of our room wearing a beautiful turtle neck top with sleeves that went down to her elbows and a purple top that went over it. Then a long blue pants stared at her waist, revealing her midriff. She had her hair up in a sideways bun. As always she looked amazing.

"Wow," I said.

"What?"

"You look beautiful," I said, walking up to her, I took her in my arms and we kissed.

The doorbell rang. It was Obi-Wan and Satine coming to babysit.

"Do you think we can do this?" asked Padme, as I went to open the door.

"Yes, honey," I said. "Obi-Wan is good with younglings, and the kids are going to be fine."

"That Sith came and tried to hurt them last week," she said. "I am worried that another one might come."

"Padme, that was three and a half months ago. Besides, Obi-Wan trained me. He trained Luke. he fought Darth Maul, Dooku, Grevious, and Ventress. He was a General during the Clone Wars. He survived Order 66. There is nothing that I can do that he can't." I press the button for the door to open. Obi-Wan and Satine came in.

"Hey," I said.

"Hi," said Satine. "So first night out without the kids. Where are you going?"

"The Manarai," Padme said.

"Oh my gosh," said Satine, "that is one of the most popular places in all of Coruscant. How in the galaxy did you land a reservation?"

"Simple. You tell everyone that you are the mysterious Chosen One, join the Sith, learn all their secrets, enslave the galaxy, kill the Sith, then free the galaxy, then die," I said.

"All to make a good reservation," said Obi-Wan, raising an eyebrow.

"I may play the fool, but I always had a plan," I said smiling.

Satine laughed. "Well, if good food is what you earn after the life you live, Anakin, then you deserve it."

"Thanks."

"Have fun," said Obi-Wan.

"Okay, few things about the kids," said Padme as she grabbed her purse, "They need about fourteen hours of sleep, so I have already put them down for the night. There is a baby monitor in both their rooms and it is on. Um, we should only be out for a few hours unless something happens. Usually they do not wake up until 0100 or 0200 so we should be back by then, but I have my comlink if you need me. And-"

"Padme, were going to Monument Plaza for three hours, not Geonosis," I said.

"I know," she said, turning to me. "It's just…"

"It's hard to let go," Obi-Wan said. "Evan for a few hours. How about this, if there is something that my Jedi training has not prepared me for, I will contact you immediately. Other than that, have a nice night."

"Okay," she said, nodding, missing the joke. I laughed and shook my head.

She turned and grabbed my hand, and we walked out the door together. But then she stopped and turned back, "My comlink number is on the kitchen table."

I rolled my eyes, and started to pull her towards the speeder. "Honey, they have known you for thirty eight years. They know your comlink number."

"Well, they could have forgotten," she said as she jumped in.

She was such a helicopter mom already, we needed this. It was not her fault that she was so nervous. Palpatine ruined everything the last time we had kids. She died, I turned to the dark side, the kids were split up. She had every reason to be paranoid that something was going to happen. Then on this side of the Force, I had that disaster of a dream during our honeymoon, she went into some sort of shock during birth, hell, we were attacked three months ago. Yeah, I was kind of terrified too, but Obi-Wan would die before he let a Sith near my children. I could relax and enjoy my wife for a few hours.

I jumped in the speeder and kissed her on the cheek. "I am nervous too, but we need to do this. Go out and be a couple again. The kids will be fine. Trust me." I started up the speeder and punched it to Monument Plaza.

We went to the Pinnacle, which served food from all over the galaxy, for dinner and had some wine, five blossom bread, uj'alayi, and Mandalorian soup. It was good.

"This bread is good," I said, "but I like yours better. It's sweeter somehow."

"This does not have as much sweetener in it," Padme said. "And I put more water in it so it's softer."

I nodded, and grabbed another roll despite myself. I dipped it into my soup, and then tasted it. The result was incredible. The bread was soft and the flavors mixed well together. I was enjoying my creation when Padme dropped her spoon in her soup bowl and started crying.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"I miss my babies," she said.

I grabbed her hand. "Padme, I promise they will be there when we go home in an hour and a half. You can go to their room and see them safe and asleep. Nothing is going to take them away from you, ever. Not even the Jedi now, they will go to school for training, and then come home to you. You will be the mother of Jinn and Ashla forever, and nothing will ever happen to any of you. I promise."

She tried to stop crying. "I just do not have any memories of Luke and Leia, and I am scared of the same thing will happen with Jinn and Ashla."

"Depa says that is called catastrophizing. It is when your brain says something awful is going to happen and it goes to worse case scenario when there is no evidence."

She smiled through her tears, "You have changed so much Ani."

"Well, I was bound to do something right."

She started laughing, and we kissed.