okkk.. Sorry i made you all wait SOOOOOOO long... i have been busy.. lazy.. and then our computer was taken to be updated..../(lord knows why its a brand new sony vio... but ok)

And also.. I recently fell in love with a certian elf from LotR, and i have been drowning in stories with him in it! :) welll here is an update.. and i SWEAR the next one WILL be sooner.. I cant beliveve it was so long.. i would hvae died if i had to wait this long! SORRY!

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"I wouldn't be able to handle that Anakin, Could you? Could you live like that Anakin?" Her words began to repeat from just a year before. Anakin listened deeply to her words. She was right then, and she was right now. They would be living a lie.

"I can't live knowing that each day, you will look at a child that isn't yours. I must leave. I'm sorry Anakin." Every word that she said she meant.

She truly was sorry, she loved him too much to torture him everyday with a different mans child. It was bad enough that she would be torturing herself with her own mistake, but not her loves, she couldn't do that to him.

"NO! Please, don't." Anakin grabbed her arm as she turned to leave the kitchen area.

She didn't fight against his actions, so he slowly brought her cut finger to his lips, and as he kissed the wound with the gentlest touch, the cut began to disappear. Padme could feel it closing up, and then soon she felt no pain. The cut was gone. Anakin had healed her. Healed her with his love, his love for her.

"I don't know what I would do if you left. When you aren't around I'm weak. I'm lost without you Padme."

"I have to go." Padme whispered back, Anakin still held her warm hand against his tear streaked face, and she sighed a relaxed a little as he slowly began to kiss her fingertips. He could tell she was fighting between he emotions and choices, but she had chose, and she was sticking with it.

"I need to sort things out Anakin. I wont be gone forever." She pulled her hand away from his lips, and caressed his face momentarily before pulling away and turning back to the door.

When she looked at Anakin she saw happiness, when she looked at the metal door, she saw loneliness. She took one last look at Anakin and then headed for the door. Her last words had hurt herself, her mind was racing as she walked to the door. She wanted to turn around and run back into his arms. But that would only make things worse. what she needed right now was time. And she was going to get it.

She walked closer to the door, time seemed to slow around her. She knew very well that she was lying to Anakin. She might actually be gone forever. She loved him. She loved him too much. She had to get out before things got worse.

"Please Padme. Listen to me..." Anakin sputtered out when she neared the door. He couldn't believe it, she really was leaving. "I can't live without you."

"Yes you can Anakin. You just don't want to." She answered without faltering her speed or composer. "It's for the better I promise."

"Better for what?!" Anakin cried out.

Padme ignored his question and exited the room. As the door to his quarters slid close, she turned for a last look. "Good-bye Anakin."



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Sorry this is short.. I was going to put the next part on.. but I want to make it its own chapter, because it takes place 4 months later... I will add it on later TODAY tho.. I swear! I will even upload it now, so i dont get lazy later!