Come Back To Me My Love



Chapter 2: A Lost Child

Padme lifted her hood and knelt down to her children's eye level. "Ok we need to put those hoods on," she said in a somewhat childish undertone. "I don't need either of you getting sick if a sand storm appears. She knew that you could never get sick from sand storm, but she said it just the same so both Luke and Leia would put the hoods of their cloaks on.

Luke just shook his head. "I'm a big boy. I don't get sick," he said very proudly.

"Is that so. Well your going to have to put it on big boy or not do you understand me?" her tone was a little harsh but not by much. She flung the hood over Luke and gave him a look of disapproval when he tried to get it off. "Leia would you like me to put your hair up?"

Leia gave her a nod and she stood there patiently, while her mother braided her long brown locks and rapped them around one another. Leia placed her hood over her head and the three of them started off towards the small desolate home, in which Obi-wan, Sabe, and Mara Kenobi lived.

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The Kenobi home did not look like much. Obi-Wan had built it into the rock formation and kept it the same color as the rocks so it could stay well hidden form the Tuskin Raiders. Obi-Wan had been for two years now savaging for old ship parts in dusty desert terrain and sell to them to the Junk Dealers, he was not proud of this but it kept food on the table and that's all they needed. Sabe had been helping him look for the parts a little while but once she was pregnant Obi Wan had told her she should stop and let him do this because she was going to need to take care of the baby. She had protested on this because there would not be as much done but after the long argument she had given form what Padme remembered.

Padme walked up to the door Obi-Wan and Sabe's Home. She noticed that it was much quieter here than it normally was she did not hear Mara screaming for something in the background. She knocked on the door but no one answered, she knocked again but there still came no answer.

Luke tugged on the hem of her skirt. "Mommy? Uncle Obi and Aunt Sabe aren't coming out why?"

"I'm not sure honey." She knocked one more time but still nothing happened. She placed Leia on the ground and was about to punch in the code to open the door when she noticed a single blaster mark. She pushed a small green button at the bottom right corner of the panel, but the door only opened a few inches.

"Mommy! Mommy! I can help! I'm a big boy!" Luke said proudly as he ran in front of his mother and tried to pry the door open. Leia giggled at the site of seeing her younger brother try so but not succeeding in his task. Padme smiled at her son and placed her hands high enough so that Luke could not see, she pushed the door lightly and it slid open.

Luke walked in proudly and was fallowed by Leia who was still giggling because she new her mother had opened the door. Padme walked in smiling at her children, but her smile was soon replaced with an intense worry because she saw no sign of her two good friends. She knelt down to Luke and Leia and pulled them in close. "Can you do something for me?" she asked as both of them nodded vigorously. "Can you look for your Uncle Obi and Aunt Sabe in the back and down here? And if you find them just give a yell and I will come to you as fast as possible ok."

"Yes Mommy" the two of them said in unison. Both of them ran to the middle of what looked to be the living room and spilt apart.

After looking in all the rooms of the first floor with no luck. She moved to upstairs, there was same array silence that plagued the house up here. She had just finished looking in Obi-Wan and Sabe's bedroom, she did not find them in there and she was very relieved that she did not; she was in the doorway just about to go back down stair when she heard the faint sound of crying coming form Mara's bed room.

She walked in to see Sabe hunched over a self-made rocking chair. She was slowly rocking back and forth and she was sobbing. Padme quickly went to her friend's side and placed a hand on her back. Sabe jumped with surprise and looked up at Padme, her face was stained with tears she had to have been crying for a long time. "What happened Sabe?" Padme pulled the closest chair over to where Sabe was and sat down.

"M.M.. Mara was taken." Sabe answered with a large stutter in her voice. "I had come this morning to check on her." She paused and let out a sniffle. "She did not cry at the normal time in the morning like she usually does so I came in to check on her and she was not in her crib. I did not know what to do so I just sat down in her and started to cry. Obi-Wan came in shortly after and asked me why I was crying and all I could do was point to the cradle."

Padme had started to rub her back so that she could speak normally. "Lets go down stairs. I will fix you something to drink." She helped Sabe up and walked with her back downstairs and into the kitchen.

Sabe had sat down at the small table, she was still crying. Padme was at the counter she was fixing her a red drink. "So is Obi-Wan here?"

"No he went off to look for who ever did this to us."

"When we arrived I noticed that your door panel had been blasted. It could not have been Tuskin Raiders they don't have that good of aim." She walked over to her and handed her the drink.

"Why would this happen to me? How could this happen to me? Am I not a good mother?"

"Of course not you are a wonderful mother. I am as confused as you are about this." Padme had stopped in mid-sentance. The sound of a door sliding open had come form the back

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-All right I hope you are enjoying this story and please tell me if you think I'm doing a good job with the young Luke and Leia.