Chapter 1- "Home
in the suns"
" Anakin! Hurry up before you miss the sunset!", Padme
Skywalker shouted to her husband while standing in the little marble balcony
that was in the backyard of their small house in Tatooine. Anakin left the 43DT
droid that he was fixing giving it a concerned look. He had bought it when it
was broken in hope that he could fix it once he bought it. He had indeed fixed
it, but sometimes it could get slower and eventually fall down. Anakin knit his
brows and placed his hand over his chin, his face giving a questionable
expression. He turned around leaving the mechanical broken droid and met the
orange red light inside the small living room. Shadows formed of the objects in
the room from the blazing light, long sharp dark figures on the stone floor.
Anakin walked out from the house and went to the balcony where his wife was
standing with a dreamy look on her beautiful brown eyes. She had a simple light
blue dress on that wrapped around her slender body as a gentle hand holding a
vulnerable flower. Her hair was down, long and shiny curling itself when meeting her shoulders. She turned
around sensing Anakin approaching. "Come", she said reaching out for his hand.
Anakin took her hand in his, giving her a gentle smile, his sky blue eyes
shining with a tender love for her.
The next
moment he wrapped his arms around her, he gazed at the two suns of Tatooine
that slowly became smaller. She laid back against him in his embrace. " Isn't
it beautiful?", she said closing her eyes. Anakin also closing his eyes,
memories floating in his mind. They swam like a thousand fishes in every
directions, everyone of them giving him different feelings. He slowly placed a
gentle kiss on Padme's neck, trying to deny some of the feelings that he felt
when he thought about one person, his mother. "I love you", he said feeling an
inner joy having her in his arms. " I wish that we could stay like this
forever." Her words made his arms tighten around her in a protective position.
" Me to...", he said, "...me to".
When the
night approached and dawn had ended, the couple had returned to the now light
fully house. Candles and electrical lights chased the darkness away like an
angry dog chasing a cat. Padme was behind the kitchen table preparing something
delicious and at the same time easy to do to eat. " Do you wonder what would
have happened if you never met me in that shop? ", she said while looking at a
hologram that Artoo was showing her of a young Anakin talking. A cross the room
Anakin looked up at Padme from his work with the droid. She had stopped
continuing with the food, waiting impatient for his answer. " I would have
eventually gone crazy", he said censoriously with a twinkle in his left eye.
Padme made a grimace and left the kitchen table and walked to Anakin who put
the wrench on the table. She sat down on his lap giving him a small kiss on his
forehead. " No really, tell me", she said while giving him another kiss. " I
mean it, I would have gone crazy. Not having the luck to see your beautiful
face, to even know you. That's why I think, no I mean, I know that I would have
become crazy." He started to kiss her, slowly at first but became more
passionate. He cupped her cheek with his right hand and brought her closer to
him, but suddenly she broke off from the kiss. She took his hand from her cheek
and wrapped both her hands around it, giving it a squeeze. " Really Anakin.
What do you think would have happened? What if I wasn't with Qui Gon when he
went to that shop?". Anakin relaxed against the small sofa while thinking. "
Well, I would have met Qui Gon and helped him with the parts for the ship. He
would had done the same as he did, making me his padawan, I mean Obi Wan's
padawan." Anakin stared at Padme's eyes and for a brief moment pain crossed his
sight. " If I wouldn't have met you, I would have become a Jedi knight", he
said slowly. Padme stroke his cheek, a simple touch that warmed his heart. " I
still can't believe that you sacrificed your biggest dream...for me". Her tone
was sad, knowing that his love made his desires die. " But don't you know jet.
You are my biggest dream. You." He stroke away a strand of hair from her eye
that had loosened from the tiara cloth she had to keep the hair from her face.
" A position is indeed powerful, but having a feeling for a person is stronger
and brings more joy for both persons." Padme smiled at him and stood up, his
words still trembling in the air. This wasn't the first time the once little
boy Anakin Skywalker had secured his love for her, but that didn't matter.
Every time he did it he said it with a new meaning, with more feeling and love.
Anakin took her hand before she went back to the kitchen, he had devil eyes and
his lips curling into a smile. "Why do
you have to go up now, we were in a middle of something, you now", he said bringing
her back to his lap and giving her a kiss. First he was gentle but every second
that went on he became more passionate, enjoying more. Padme sight a bit,
suddenly feeling dizzy from the rushed kiss, but in that little second Anakin
took the opportunity of her open mouth
and opened his as well.
A beep made
them both jump from their kiss that had suddenly become more than just that.
Artoo circled around the room, trying to say something. CP3O came out from the
garage, there he was kind of out of the way from his masters, when he heard
Artoo's beeping. " What does he say? ", Anakin said raising from the sofa putting Padme down on it. He
walked to Artoo, who became more hysterical. " He says that he has got a....
message, master Anakin", CP3O walked to his master, who suddenly looked very
concerned. Anakin had a bad feeling about this, his senses about some kind of
danger increasing. " He says that it is for Padme, master Anakin" While hearing
her name, Padme stood up looking at CP3O first and then at Anakin. They changed
looks and stared at the little droid that had eventually calmed itself
down. Anakin bent down to Artoo's
level, pushing a red single button in
the droids blue, shiny left side. A transparent blue light came out from a solo
small hole. A few seconds later an old man appeared in the hologram. His long
brown robs touching the floor in the hologram and his calmly eyes searching for
someone particular in the room. He stared at Padme as if he could see her in
the room, his gaze steady and wise. Anakin took a deep breath, as if air had
vanished. He looked at the man and knew who it was. " Obi Wan", he
murmured to himself looking at the
hologram, transfixed at the old man inside it.
" Padme. I
knew that if I turned to you, you could make your husband Anakin to understand
what I'm about to say. Make him listen, for it is time, even if he doesn't want
to..." Obi Wan walked a few steps forward, but not coming any closer to them. "...The
jedis are not as strong as they were before. The galaxy is in corruption
and...a was is indeed impossible to prevent. Life itself lies on our hands, but
we need everyone who the force has blessed. And you Anakin..." Obi Wan turned
his head to Anakin, who looked almost stunned."...are one of them. I hope that
the force will lead you to the right path and take the right decision. May the
force be with you".
To be continue.....
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