The sun dipped over the horizon as Padme stood on her balcony looking
hopelessly into the orange and red oblivion wishing she could feel Anikin's
strong arms around her shoulder once again. She hugged her own shoulder and
let out a sigh from her chest just as the fantasy in her head was replaced
with something tangible. Cyu had wrapped his arms around her waist and was
resting his chin on her shoulder.
"Cyu!" Padme jumped as she turned to face him knocking him off balance for a moment.
"Hi Padme, I was coming to check up on you. It's been a week since Anikin left and you haven't done anything but be depressed."
"Well Cyu it's hard for someone to let go of a special person like that. Anikin was my whole life. We had dreams and plans together and now the council wants to rip us apart which isn't fair! They didn't even ask me to be at the meeting, I would have liked to fight this."
"Well I told you, they would have felt that your presences would be totally unacceptable and dangerous on that matter cause your attacker was there."
"They can't prove it to me that he tried to kill me, no one can! I know Anikin better than that. I saw him board the ship Cyu, he looked so sad. I was watching from my room not knowing what the heck was going on cause you didn't tell me anything!" Padme accused.
'Exactly the way I wanted it Padme, your little hand maiden was a good trick on Anikin, he saw us hug and it set him off so now he thinks you don't care about him.' Cyu thought in his mind as he brushed his hand across her golden cheek but she turned away.
"Don't touch me, you're creepy when you do that. You know I don't trust you anymore. Ever since Anikin left you've been nothing but happy and it's all too weird for me."
Cyu cocked his head to the side, "Well that's because I wanted him gone Padme."
"What!?"
"I was the one who sent him away Padme, he never tried to kill you, wasn't it the perfect frame? Your little lover boy was telling the truth and all the council believed me. It was way too perfect."
Padme backed up to the railing of the balcony and shook her head at the information he was boasted about. "How…how did you…?"
"Easy, I simply stole his little light saber and attacked you after I knew he would be coming back in a bad mood hoping you would think he was the killer too. I disappeared knowing also that he would return into the window at a certain time because I placed a tracking device on him. You were strong minded my pretty little flower so that's the only flaw in this plan so when the council told me to tell you to report to the council meeting over all this I simply altered the message so that you would not appear and mess anything up. I got him banished and added a little sting at the end to him. A little salt on the open wound if you will."
"What the hell was that?" Padme snapped.
"Oh I paid your hand maiden to hang herself all over me after the meeting as he was departing and tell him off pretty badly. You should have seen his look." Cyu boasted grabbing her wrists.
"Don't touch me you slime ball!" Padme cried snapping her wrist out of his grip. She rubbed her wrist giving an evil sideward glance at Cyu smirking at her and asked, "So the hospital, that was a set up too. You were just trying to get Anikin mad so that the council would be believe you."
"Yes that was my intent, I also wanted you to believe me too. You almost did too didn't you darling?"
"No! Anikin was already in enough trouble at the time so I shooed him away because if he was found in my hospital room then our secret marriage might have to come out. Plus you two were fighting and one of you had to go. As much as I would have liked it to be you, I knew that Anikin would be the better choice for his safety." Padme explained.
"Ah, crafty little thing aren't you, just how I remember you." Cyu smiled grabbing her wrists and pulled her closer.
"You try anything Cyu and I swear I will have Yoda kick your ass!" Padme hissed.
"That green thing? Ha! Trust me I think I can handle him." Cyu laughed.
"You haven't seen him fight." Padme warned twisting her wrist free with a typical dance twist over her head and then kicked Cyu back into the sliding door with her left foot.
"Padme your just as fiery and spirited as I remembered you to be but you forget what I told you years ago." Cyu replied getting up slowly as Padme put her fists out to fight.
"And what is that? I am a prick and I think I will come back and screw your life over?" Padme taunted.
"I would turn to the dark side if you didn't love me. I did Padme, I am now on the other side of the force and there is such power I wouldn't even dream of challenging myself."
"So that is where you went when you disappeared! You turned!" Padme thought aloud as Cyu nodded.
"That's right Padme, I loved you so much but you would not stop your talk about that stupid boy Anikin! It was always Anikin this and Anikin that so I thought if I came back a much more powerful man I could win your love but I guess that's not the case anymore. I wasn't planning on him coming back and you two getting married while I was gone."
"Anikin and I were meant for each other, the only reason why I dated you was because you reminded me of him. I was so desperate for his love! Cyu I am sorry to have used you that way but I was young and I wasn't thinking you'd totally fall in love with me like this." Padme replied.
"Oh so now you think I will back off? No way darling, I will give you a choice either me or death. My master has ordered me to kill you as soon as possible and frame it on Anikin. Now you can run off with me and we can fake your death and put that miserable boy to death or we can do it the hard way." Cyu reasoned.
"I would never ever dream of going with you and killing Anikin." Padme snapped.
"Alright I guess it's the hard way then huh darling? Too bad cause you are such a beautiful girl." Cyu replied switching his light saber on. Padme screamed as she backed up to the edge of her balcony railing.
Cyu took a swing at her but Padme ducked and hooked her foot around of one of his legs and pulled it out from underneath him. Cyu fell backwards as Padme quickly caught herself from falling backwards and leaned over Cyu. His eyes were shut as blood was trickling out of his mouth. Padme lowered herself to rest her hand on his chest to see if he was breathing but Cyu caught her hand and pushed her backwards so she was on her back and he was leaning over her.
"So this is it for you darling, I am sorry it had to end this way for you." Cyu apologized.
"Hey you don't have to kill me you jerk!" Padme spat at him as he raised his light saber above his head. Padme had enough room to lift her leg and hit Cyu right in his crotch and slide herself away from him. She helped herself up by the railing and looked over it to see the zooming cars fly by. She looked back to see Cyu was guarding the exit seeing her plan form in her head.
"No where to run Padme, that was a nice trick you pulled on me but I don't think it's going to work." Cyu squeaked out still holding his crotch with one hand.
"Not exactly." Padme smiled getting up on the railing and turned to face him.
"What the hell are you doing?" Cyu asked as Padme leaned backwards and began to fall to the ground. The only sound she heard in her ears was the swooshing of air and the buzz of passing speeders.
~
Anikin woke up with a jolt out of his bed as he felt his heart pounding in his chest with such a force that he probably could have seen an imprint of it on his sweaty skin. He turned to look out at the icy terrain outside his window and scowled and the moon.
"Cyu…" he growled.
"I felt it too Anikin." Obi-wan answered in the darkness flipping on the light in his room. Anikin looked up to find his master in the doorway fully dressed with a practice ball in his hand and Anikin's saber in his other.
"Master?" Anikin asked.
"Anikin once I got to this planet I finally was able to sense the fear that you had sensed. I think Cyu is powerful enough to have clouded the master's minds." Obi-wan explained.
Anikin jumped out of bed and started getting himself dressed while saying, "I have to go to her, she's in trouble."
"Not with out some training first, I want you to be prepared for this guy Anikin and not go to him blind. I think Padme can handle herself for at least one more day."
"Alright master, but only one more day." Anikin agreed finished getting dressed.
~
Padme staged out of the trash can as some passer-bys looked at her strange. They had seen the senator fall out of the sky and right into a trashcan. Padme took the bits of garbage off herself. Her body was aching from the broken fall as her clothing was stained red on her right arm and both her legs. She looked up at the place where she fell from and began to rush towards the building and right up to the Jedi's meeting place.
Once in the room she was surprised to see most of the masters there in the room finishing up some matters.
"Senator?" One of them asked looking her up and down.
"I can explain trust me, I would love to explain." Padme smiled seeing now that she was finally safe.
"You better explain Padme, I was worried." Cyu replied appearing from the shadows. Padme nearly died right there.
"Cyu tells us you ran off in search of Anikin maybe?" Windu asked.
"No he tried…" Padme started but trailed seeing the hopeless situation. "I got lost."
"Well let me escort you back to your room Padme." Cyu offered taking her arm. Once out of the room he twisted her arm and looked her straight in the eyes, "Padme your not hard to figure out you know that? I knew you'd go running to them once free. Trust me that is not smart to do cause I can twist them to my will and if I have my way you will have a worse death than what I plan for you."
Padme nodded in agreement and began to sob as Cyu led her back to her room and threw her in it. He then locked the door and put the key in his pocket and ordered the windows locked immediately from the outside only.
"Cyu!" Padme jumped as she turned to face him knocking him off balance for a moment.
"Hi Padme, I was coming to check up on you. It's been a week since Anikin left and you haven't done anything but be depressed."
"Well Cyu it's hard for someone to let go of a special person like that. Anikin was my whole life. We had dreams and plans together and now the council wants to rip us apart which isn't fair! They didn't even ask me to be at the meeting, I would have liked to fight this."
"Well I told you, they would have felt that your presences would be totally unacceptable and dangerous on that matter cause your attacker was there."
"They can't prove it to me that he tried to kill me, no one can! I know Anikin better than that. I saw him board the ship Cyu, he looked so sad. I was watching from my room not knowing what the heck was going on cause you didn't tell me anything!" Padme accused.
'Exactly the way I wanted it Padme, your little hand maiden was a good trick on Anikin, he saw us hug and it set him off so now he thinks you don't care about him.' Cyu thought in his mind as he brushed his hand across her golden cheek but she turned away.
"Don't touch me, you're creepy when you do that. You know I don't trust you anymore. Ever since Anikin left you've been nothing but happy and it's all too weird for me."
Cyu cocked his head to the side, "Well that's because I wanted him gone Padme."
"What!?"
"I was the one who sent him away Padme, he never tried to kill you, wasn't it the perfect frame? Your little lover boy was telling the truth and all the council believed me. It was way too perfect."
Padme backed up to the railing of the balcony and shook her head at the information he was boasted about. "How…how did you…?"
"Easy, I simply stole his little light saber and attacked you after I knew he would be coming back in a bad mood hoping you would think he was the killer too. I disappeared knowing also that he would return into the window at a certain time because I placed a tracking device on him. You were strong minded my pretty little flower so that's the only flaw in this plan so when the council told me to tell you to report to the council meeting over all this I simply altered the message so that you would not appear and mess anything up. I got him banished and added a little sting at the end to him. A little salt on the open wound if you will."
"What the hell was that?" Padme snapped.
"Oh I paid your hand maiden to hang herself all over me after the meeting as he was departing and tell him off pretty badly. You should have seen his look." Cyu boasted grabbing her wrists.
"Don't touch me you slime ball!" Padme cried snapping her wrist out of his grip. She rubbed her wrist giving an evil sideward glance at Cyu smirking at her and asked, "So the hospital, that was a set up too. You were just trying to get Anikin mad so that the council would be believe you."
"Yes that was my intent, I also wanted you to believe me too. You almost did too didn't you darling?"
"No! Anikin was already in enough trouble at the time so I shooed him away because if he was found in my hospital room then our secret marriage might have to come out. Plus you two were fighting and one of you had to go. As much as I would have liked it to be you, I knew that Anikin would be the better choice for his safety." Padme explained.
"Ah, crafty little thing aren't you, just how I remember you." Cyu smiled grabbing her wrists and pulled her closer.
"You try anything Cyu and I swear I will have Yoda kick your ass!" Padme hissed.
"That green thing? Ha! Trust me I think I can handle him." Cyu laughed.
"You haven't seen him fight." Padme warned twisting her wrist free with a typical dance twist over her head and then kicked Cyu back into the sliding door with her left foot.
"Padme your just as fiery and spirited as I remembered you to be but you forget what I told you years ago." Cyu replied getting up slowly as Padme put her fists out to fight.
"And what is that? I am a prick and I think I will come back and screw your life over?" Padme taunted.
"I would turn to the dark side if you didn't love me. I did Padme, I am now on the other side of the force and there is such power I wouldn't even dream of challenging myself."
"So that is where you went when you disappeared! You turned!" Padme thought aloud as Cyu nodded.
"That's right Padme, I loved you so much but you would not stop your talk about that stupid boy Anikin! It was always Anikin this and Anikin that so I thought if I came back a much more powerful man I could win your love but I guess that's not the case anymore. I wasn't planning on him coming back and you two getting married while I was gone."
"Anikin and I were meant for each other, the only reason why I dated you was because you reminded me of him. I was so desperate for his love! Cyu I am sorry to have used you that way but I was young and I wasn't thinking you'd totally fall in love with me like this." Padme replied.
"Oh so now you think I will back off? No way darling, I will give you a choice either me or death. My master has ordered me to kill you as soon as possible and frame it on Anikin. Now you can run off with me and we can fake your death and put that miserable boy to death or we can do it the hard way." Cyu reasoned.
"I would never ever dream of going with you and killing Anikin." Padme snapped.
"Alright I guess it's the hard way then huh darling? Too bad cause you are such a beautiful girl." Cyu replied switching his light saber on. Padme screamed as she backed up to the edge of her balcony railing.
Cyu took a swing at her but Padme ducked and hooked her foot around of one of his legs and pulled it out from underneath him. Cyu fell backwards as Padme quickly caught herself from falling backwards and leaned over Cyu. His eyes were shut as blood was trickling out of his mouth. Padme lowered herself to rest her hand on his chest to see if he was breathing but Cyu caught her hand and pushed her backwards so she was on her back and he was leaning over her.
"So this is it for you darling, I am sorry it had to end this way for you." Cyu apologized.
"Hey you don't have to kill me you jerk!" Padme spat at him as he raised his light saber above his head. Padme had enough room to lift her leg and hit Cyu right in his crotch and slide herself away from him. She helped herself up by the railing and looked over it to see the zooming cars fly by. She looked back to see Cyu was guarding the exit seeing her plan form in her head.
"No where to run Padme, that was a nice trick you pulled on me but I don't think it's going to work." Cyu squeaked out still holding his crotch with one hand.
"Not exactly." Padme smiled getting up on the railing and turned to face him.
"What the hell are you doing?" Cyu asked as Padme leaned backwards and began to fall to the ground. The only sound she heard in her ears was the swooshing of air and the buzz of passing speeders.
~
Anikin woke up with a jolt out of his bed as he felt his heart pounding in his chest with such a force that he probably could have seen an imprint of it on his sweaty skin. He turned to look out at the icy terrain outside his window and scowled and the moon.
"Cyu…" he growled.
"I felt it too Anikin." Obi-wan answered in the darkness flipping on the light in his room. Anikin looked up to find his master in the doorway fully dressed with a practice ball in his hand and Anikin's saber in his other.
"Master?" Anikin asked.
"Anikin once I got to this planet I finally was able to sense the fear that you had sensed. I think Cyu is powerful enough to have clouded the master's minds." Obi-wan explained.
Anikin jumped out of bed and started getting himself dressed while saying, "I have to go to her, she's in trouble."
"Not with out some training first, I want you to be prepared for this guy Anikin and not go to him blind. I think Padme can handle herself for at least one more day."
"Alright master, but only one more day." Anikin agreed finished getting dressed.
~
Padme staged out of the trash can as some passer-bys looked at her strange. They had seen the senator fall out of the sky and right into a trashcan. Padme took the bits of garbage off herself. Her body was aching from the broken fall as her clothing was stained red on her right arm and both her legs. She looked up at the place where she fell from and began to rush towards the building and right up to the Jedi's meeting place.
Once in the room she was surprised to see most of the masters there in the room finishing up some matters.
"Senator?" One of them asked looking her up and down.
"I can explain trust me, I would love to explain." Padme smiled seeing now that she was finally safe.
"You better explain Padme, I was worried." Cyu replied appearing from the shadows. Padme nearly died right there.
"Cyu tells us you ran off in search of Anikin maybe?" Windu asked.
"No he tried…" Padme started but trailed seeing the hopeless situation. "I got lost."
"Well let me escort you back to your room Padme." Cyu offered taking her arm. Once out of the room he twisted her arm and looked her straight in the eyes, "Padme your not hard to figure out you know that? I knew you'd go running to them once free. Trust me that is not smart to do cause I can twist them to my will and if I have my way you will have a worse death than what I plan for you."
Padme nodded in agreement and began to sob as Cyu led her back to her room and threw her in it. He then locked the door and put the key in his pocket and ordered the windows locked immediately from the outside only.