For the whole day, Padme has been distant from Anakin, never being affectionate, friendly, or kind to. She just either ignores, or snaps at him.

~Night~

Padme is at dinner with Anakin wearing a black corset, a long, black, skirt, and long, black, sleeves, separate from the corset, covers her arms and has a small strap between her thumb and index finger. She also has a black choker with long strands of black beads in front hanging down. Her hair is put in a twist braid with a two-piece, silver, tiara.

As Anakin eats Padme plays with her food with a fork.

Anakin drops his fork and swallows his food, "Padme, is there something wrong? You've been ignoring everyone, resisting any kind of help or comfort."

"I told you already, I'm fine," she says looking up, dropping her fork as well.

"You're lying, I can feel it. You're hiding something from everyone. Padme what did really happen with that healer?"

"Just drop the subject Ani," says Padme walking to the fireplace.

Anakin stands up and follows her, "No I will not. Padme there is something wrong, please tell me what it is."

Padme turns around with tears forming in her eyes, "I can't."

"No you just won't, Padme put your fear behind you."

"You said this would destroy our lives, and now I think you're right," says Padme shedding a tear and falling to the couch.

"Padme," Anakin sits and wipes a tear away from Padme's cheek. "I was wrong."

"Anakin," she says faintly. "I'm pregnant."

Anakin stares unsure how to react, "I'm going to be a father?"

"Yes."

"Padme this is great, why didn't you tell me before," asks Anakin with a smile.

"Ani don't you get it, you're a Jedi. You're not allowed to love, marry, or have children. I don't want you to get expelled."

Padme looks down for a few minutes until Anakin lifts her chin up.

"We can get through this Padme, I promise you."

"The Sith must not want me in the Republic," says Padme changing the subject slightly.

"That's because people listen to you Padme, you're a powerful being."

"Ani, I don't want to hide anymore. I'm tired of it now; I want to actually do my job. I know I can't do it for too long, because of our child but I want to help as much as I can for now."

"Alright, we will stay here for two days and we'll leave for Corascant."

"Thank you," she says softly.

Anakin nears his face to her and presses his lips against hers, Padme reacting back immediately.

~Late morning~

Padme lies in the grass with Anakin wearing a beautiful, yellow dress, with thin straps; the sleeves have is strips of green, gold, and white, with some colorful ribbons hanging from it. And a yellow veil, with rose designs sown in as her shawl. Her hair is pinned back with ribbons tied in, with two, small, yellow, hairnets with some hair bunched in on the two sides of her head, and also two tendrils next to it. And last but not least a green, flower designed, tiara (The picnic dress from Ep2.)

"I don't know," says Padme unsure, playing around with a long blade of grass.

"Sure you do, you just don't want to tell me."

"Are you going to use one of your Jedi mind tricks on me," she asks looking back at him.

"They only work on the weak-minded. You are anything but weak-minded," he says with a large smile, as she smiles back.

"All right, his name was Palo. I was twelve. We were both in the Legislative Youth Program. He was a few years older then I," Padme then decides to tease Anakin. "Very cute, dark curly hair, dreamy eyes."

"All right, I get the picture," says Anakin, fuming with jealously, making Padme smile.

"Whatever happened to him?"

"I went on to become a Queen. He went on to become an artist."

"Maybe he was the smart one."

"You really don't like politicians, do you," asks Padme letting go of the blade of grass.

"I just don't think the system works."

"How would you have it work?"

"We need a system where the politicians sit down and discuss the problems, agree what's in the best interests of all the people, and then do it."

"That is exactly what we do. The trouble is that people don't always agree."

"Then they should be made to."

"By whom? Who's going to make them?"

"I don't know. Someone."

"You?"

"Of course not me," he says, as if that were a stupid question.

"But someone," asks Padme trying to understand.

"Someone wise," adds Anakin.

"That sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship to me," she says looking back at some flowers beside her.

A mischievous little grin creeps across Anakin's face, "Well, if it works."

Padme stares at him, with an eyebrow rising. He looks back at her, straight- faced, but still can't hold a smile back.

"You're making fun of me."

"Oh no, I'd be much too frightened to tease a Senator," he says sarcastically. The both laugh gleefully.

Then Anakin stands up in front of a Shaak, yelling at it and waving his arms. Padme starts laughing as Anakin runs in circles, being chased by the Shaak.

The Shaak crosses in front of Padme. Anakin is riding it, facing the Shaak's tail; but the Shaak bucks Anakin off, he falls to the ground with a thud. Padme laughs even harder, but then stops, Anakin isn't moving. She felt her heart stop, she felt like her world just shattered in front of her. She runs as fast as she can to where he is facing down in the grass. She turns him over; but to her surprise he is at her at her. She yelps in mock fury and takes a swing at him; he catches her arm, as she then struggles. They start to roll over in the grass. Until then Padme lays on top of him, they both laugh and catch their breath, they stop and look at each at each other intently. Anakin smiles as Padme returns it as well; she lowers down and kisses him lightly then deeply, and passionately.

She stops, stands up, and lends a hand to Anakin. He takes it and gets up; they both brush off the grass on them. Then Padme takes Anakin's hand, "I want to show you something."

She leads him to a part of the forest and there he sees all the horses. He looks in amazement at their beauty, watching them frolic about, but then Padme takes him down the horses, they all perk up their heads but see he's with Padme so they go back to what they 're doing. Padme then whistles, Anakin sees Nahima walk over with Wakiza by her side. He notices Nahima's stomach is swollen.

"Nahima is pregnant too," says Padme suddenly.

Anakin smiles brightly, he strokes Nahima and then Wakiza, with Padme doing the same.

As night comes, Padme and Anakin fall asleep in the same bed after their long day.

~Afternoon~

Their last day as relaxation Padme dresses in a light colored dress, the colors go from yellow, pink orange in the front, and blue in the back, and finally pink on the bottom. And she puts her hair up with several blue headbands in a snail shell like shape (The dress she wears when she first kisses Anakin in Ep2.). She takes Anakin to her Lake Retreat by boat. Anakin steps off and then helps Padme out they walk as, then, Padme starts to talk.

"When I was in Level Three, my friends and I used to come here for school retreat. See that island? We used to swim there every day. I love the water," she adds at the end.

"I do too. I guess it comes from growing up on a desert planet," says Anakin.

They stop at part of the railing, Padme leans her elbows on it and look out at the island.

"We used to lie on the sand and let the sun dry us... and try to guess the names of the birds singing."

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and irritating, and it gets everywhere. Not like here though," he says softly.

"There was a very old man who lived on the island. We used to watch him make glass out of sand - and vases and necklaces out of the glass. They were magical."

"Everything here is magical," he adds, causing Padme to smile.

"You could look into the glass and see the water. The way it ripples and moves. It looked so real," she trails off but then speaks again. "But it wasn't."

She looks back at him, and sees that he has been staring at her the whole time.

"I used to think if you looked too deeply into glass, you would lose yourself," she adds with a small smile.

"I think it's true," he says with a grin in return.

"How do you do that?"

"Do what?"

"Be so charming and yet so stubborn," she says with a huge grin.

Anakin returns a mischievous smile, "It's a curse."

She giggles, but lets Anakin kiss her deeply, returning it after.

They stop and Padme gives him this time a mischievous smile, she then lifts her dress a few inches off the ground and slips her shoes off, she saunters quickly down the stairs with Anakin following her puzzled.

Splash!

She has jumped into the lake, she reaches the surface she takes her headbands and pins out and throws them ashore, letting her wet hair down.

"Come on!" she motions to Anakin. He smiles and he removes is robe and boots, and then jumps in. They splash around and laugh together, they then swim to the island. Padme gets out first with Anakin coming out after. They lie on their backs and sigh.

Padme then rests her head on Anakin's chest as they both rest their eyes, listening to the birds sing. ***************************************************************************

I wanted to make a sweat chapter with Padme and Anakin relaxing for once. Tell me what you think, because in the next chapter, Padme finds out who the snitch is.