Breaking Apart the Cracks

By aznJEDI13

Notes: I write this just because I am very tired of seeing so many other kinds of fics involving Padme. I didn't intend when I first wrote this to offend any of those writers who work so hard or diligently to create a surreal world, but I simply was just getting a little annoyed that there were so many. This is just part of my contribution to the fan fiction world. I realize its only fan fiction!

Sorry I never had time to check spelling or grammar or punctuation!!!!

Disclaimer: George Lucas owns everything in this story, Anakin, Padme, Obi-wan and other characters, settings, places, and things. The only thing I own is the plot line.

Breaking Apart the Cracks

'…It seems I found the road to nowhere

And I'm trying to escape…'

He squeezes my hand and glances out of the cockpit window. Slowly, I feel his arms come around me and embrace me in an ardent hug. He holds me just right – not too lose, afraid that I might disappear, but not too tight, afraid I might slip away.

This brings comfort to me and I began to drop those shields and take off the mask I formed when he was gone – when he was suppose to me dead.

"Obi-wan told me you were dead." I began, simply, I do not know how else to start or for that matter what else to say.

He glanced at me and then back at the stars, it was easier, I suppose, for him to not look at me when he was talking. Did it take some of the pain away, I wondered? His voice cracked before he spoke and he blinked. "He lied."

I could tell this was hard for him and he could most definitely not stand it.

"He lied, about what?" I questioned. My fingers are trembling I realize and my heart is thumping terribly against my rib cage. It's getting faster every second that I wait for his answer. "What are you insinuating Anakin? You believe that Obi-wan lied to me about you so he could seduce me?"

Anakin turned away and refused to look my in the eyes. I wanted to see his cerulean blue eyes, but he turned away and hid his face from me. His handsome features melted into somber emotions and he lowered his head, staring at his feet. Why wouldn't he look me in the eyes?

"Anakin?" I questioned, reaching out and pounding on his shoulder in irritation and confirmation; "Obi-wan's like your father!" I cried, didn't he understand? Obi-wan wouldn't do that…

He turned around suddenly and startled her with his actions, "I know!" He cried back. His eyes reeling with overwhelming pain and inevitable agony, "Don't you think I know that!" He began to shake his head furiously; "I've been dead for how long, Padme, how long? Two, three years…" He pointed his finger at me, "I've researched, I've observed, and I'm right."

I blinked my eyes, the shock still running through my body and realization washing through my system. It made sense. Obi-wan's perfect timing, how he suddenly came in my vulnerability to sweep me off my feet and fly me away to another time and place.

It made sense.

But more importantly, I had been betrayed.

Betrayed by the man whose arms surrounded me every night. Whose kisses I had received and reciprocated for the past two years, whose breath had been on my body, whose hands had touched my skin, whose heart had tried to connect with my own.

The man who was supposed to be my friend, my lover, and my protector had betrayed me.

I had been such a fool.

I closed my eyes, sniffling and allowing the shock to overwhelming me for a tiny bit longer. I looked up and his cerulean blue eyes pierced me. I inhaled the air around me, the aroma from his skin and the mechanical scent of the ship.

"Ani…" My voice trailed off in apprehensive and consternation, "Ani…"

His arms came around me in a hug, gently pulling me into that tender embrace that for so long I had missed and yearned to be in once again. He sweetly kissed the top of my head and pulled me in tighter.

I breathed out heavily again, watching the stars glow, "Anakin, he betrayed me."

He nodded against my head, "I know."

"I'm a fool Ani, such a fool." I felt the tears began to slide down my cheeks, "Such a fool. I was such a fool."

Finally, I broke down crying, the shock, the pain, and the tears – everything just so overwhelming. It hurt so badly. Anakin's arms tightened around me and thus it only made me cry harder and harder. I could not believe it.

I had been betrayed.

To be continued…

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