Well I know its been months since the first part of this story was posted, but I've been so busy with exams I haven't had the time to write this piece, which connects the beginning with the end, most of which I wrote awhile ago. I'm trying to make these stories fit in with what we learn in Epsiodes 4,5 and 6. I don't particularly like this part, because it skips too much time, so please read and review and tell me how I can improve it.
[See Part I for information and disclaimers]

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Obi-Wan's hand clutched her wrist tightly as he pulled her through the secret corridors of the palace, towards the back exit that led to one of the landing pads.

At one stage a guard marched right in front of them when they were about to dash for the exit, and Obi-Wan had closed his hand around Amidala's mouth and pulled her back in line with him until he had passed them.

Finally, the decoy he had sent ahead led the guard away, while the pair slipped through the gap in the wall and began running toward a small royal ship, disguised to look like an inter-galactical freighter.

Aboard the ship awaited her two most loyal handmaidens and two of their most competent and faithful pilots.

They ran up the ramp and into the bowels of the ship and as soon as they were inside, it took off and Amidala had a chance to thank him.

She embraced him tightly before whispering, "Thank you, Obi-Wan, you've saved my life and the lives of my children I am forever indebted to you", before she retired to her quarters to sleep through much of the journey.

Obi-Wan clicked back to reality and replied to the empty room 'it is I who can never repay you, Dala."

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The small ship was descending toward a beautiful planet. Their journey had taken much longer than it should have, because Obi-Wan insisted they zigzag across the galaxy and double-back where they could to hide their trail.

Amidala waited with Obi-Wan at the back of the ship, dressed in the orange attire of her handmaidens.

"The Empire would pay a high price for my capture. Are you sure your friend will not betray us?"

"Very sure. There is no safer place to deliver your children than here, Dala. After all these years, do you doubt my loyalty?"

"No, Obi. But then again, I never doubted Anakin's."

Obi-Wan looked away from the Queen and though he knew she did it unwittingly, she had hurt him very deeply with that comment. It was his fault Anakin had left her. As if she knew what he was thinking, she reached for Obi-Wan's hand and squeezed it tightly.

The ship touched down gently and Obi-Wan straightened up before giving Amidala a sombre smile and taking the arm of the decoy and releasing the door-lock.

He led the handmaiden down the ramp, while Amidala followed behind.

"Obi-Wan Kenobi?" A voice whispered from the eerie dark of night.

"Yes."

"Follow me."

The figure turned and led the quartet quickly away from the palace and through the maze of garden beds until they reached a stone statue. The woman rapped on the back, and it slid open to reveal a guard, who ushered them down the steep steps, checked that no one had followed them and slid the panel closed again.

At the end of a long dark tunnel, the guard slid another section of the seamless wall, which opened to reveal an enormous bright room, full of the comforts Amidala was used to.

"Obi-Wan, it's good to see you. Welcome to Alderaan."

A tall and impressive-looking man strode towards them and embraced Obi-Wan. "You're late - I was beginning to get worried."

Obi-Wan smiled. "Bail Organa, meet Queen Amidala."

The King extended his hand to the decoy, but Amidala stepped in front of her.

"It's a pleasure to finally meet you."

He looked surprised then took her hand and kissed it gently.

"You can stay here for as long as you need Your Highness. The only people that will know of your presence will be the two people who led you here - your guard and your midwife - and myself. You must be somewhat wary of me, but I can and will do everything to protect you and your children."

"I hope that one day I can repay your kindness, King Organa."

"There's no need for such formalities. Bail is fine."

"Very well."

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A few months later, the only people in the room to herald the arrival of the galaxy's newest prince and princess were the Queen's long-time friend who paced nervously about the room and the midwife she had grown to know as a sister.

After the queen had recovered, Obi-Wan placed the two children in her arms, and all her worries melted away, even only just for a few moments. She didn't think about the fact she was a prisoner here. Or that she couldn't raise her children herself. She just held their warm bodies against hers and stroked their faces, taken in every little detail about them.

The midwife excused herself and left the quartet alone.

"They're beautiful, Dala. What are you going to name them?"

"Leia, after a good friend I lost when I was very young. And Luke. It means light", she said simply, but both knew the significance of his name.

"How soon do you want to leave?" Obi-Wan asked after a few silent minutes had passed.

"Leave?"

"Well you can't stay here forever. You have to go back and fight this war. I have arranged a place for each of the children on separate far-flung worlds that the Empire has no interest in. There's really no reason why they ever should."

"Give me a few months."

"You don't have a few months. The Empire could find you at any time. And right now if they find you they find them", he relaxed his tone a little before continuing, "in a few months you will have become too attached to them to let them go."

"Oh it's too late to worry about that! I've loved them ever since I've known about them. I'm already attached to them." She looked up despairingly into Obi-Wan's face and added sadly, "We'll leave in one month."

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"We're going to split up."

"What? Why?" A terrified Amidala cried to comfort her three-week-old baby, while eyeing off the distance to the shuttles.

"Just in case. I'll take one of them with me in one shuttle and you take the other baby with your handmaidens in the other and we'll meet up on Tatooine", Obi-Wan revealed the last few details of his plan.

"Is there any other way?"

"No, Dala. I am sure that the Empire is aware of your presence here. We must leave now or all this will have been for nothing."

She nodded, then pulled the cloak tighter around her and her child. "Let's go."

"I'll look after him, Dala. See you on Tatooine." He gently kissed her cheek and began to run towards his shuttle, and Amidala, shadowed by her guard, walked as quick as she dared towards hers.

The shots came so quickly that Amidala's guard had fallen down only a few steps from the safety of the garden. Her first instinct was to turn back, but Obi-Wan was almost at his shuttle and she ran forward blindly. The were coming from everywhere now - from every conceivable angle towards her and the bundle she gripped tightly. She could see the shuttle ramp just a few metres ahead. In a moment she would safety inside…

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A terrified cry escaped Obi-Wan's lips. The wave of debris from the other shuttle rolled over their ship and rocked it gently. Then there was nothing.

He dropped down into the pilot's seat, layed in a course for Tatooine, and set it on autopilot.
As soon as he allowed himself to relax, his hands shook with the shock and he felt violently ill. Amidala and her baby girl gone…

A squawk from the back of the ship brought him back to the present. He walked over to the boy and picked him up in his arms. He looked so much like his father… it must have been so painful for Dala to hold him and look into his eyes. But she will never hold him again. She would never do anything again. She was gone and he'd never told her how he'd felt.

He brushed a tiny blond curl from the boy's forehead, and held him close against his cheek. How he would love to look after this child - her child - and in some small way redeem himself for all the pain he'd caused her. He had failed. He had failed the Jedi counsel. He had failed Anakin. But worst of all he had failed Amidala. She had lost everything - and he had lost her. But he knew he couldn't raise this child alone. There was always the danger that Anakin could learn of the child - learn that Obi-Wan had taken him. He needed to destroy all links with the Jedi and with the boy, and there was only one place in the galaxy where the child had a chance at freedom.

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She lifted her head towards the sky in time to see the pulse flash between the enemy ship and the shuttle that had taken off without her. She didn't have time to wonder what had caused her sprawl out on the ground or why they took off so quickly without their most precious cargo.

As it exploded, she tucked her head down again, against her daughter's, as the deafening sound filled the air.

Then everything seemed to merge and spiral deeper and deeper into darkness until it swallowed her up completely.

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Okay, well that's it. I would really appreciate it if you could review it for me.
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Depending on feedback, I should be posting the next part within a week, so keep checking back! Thanks for reading.