A Rose In The Frost4
Vivien

Author's Note: A HUGE Thank you to my reviewers!

Padme barely slept that night. When Luke wasn't crying demanding attention her mind was dwelling on Anakin. Anakin, smiling at Luke, Anakin's eyes full of love starring at her, but then Anakin obeying Palpatine's every command. Anakin was Palpatine's puppet and she could not stand to see it. Palpatine represented evil, and although she loved Anakin he was evil's agent and therefore her enemy.

Luke began to cry again and she cradled him in her arms. He eventually stopped crying, Padme smoothed down his blonde hair he looked so much like Anakin. She sighed and put him into his cradle, which someone had conveniently placed in the room. She was desperate not to think about Leia; Anakin could sense her feelings and no one here must ever find out about Leia. Leia would have a future. Being raised by Bail she would learn political abilities. Maybe she would help save the republic, what was left of it.

Obi-Wan Kenobi, starred dumbstruck at Captain Typho and Dorme.

"What do you mean kidnapped?"

Dorme looked miserable.

"I told you, our ship was caught inside a tractor beam by Palpatine's ship. Her staying was a condition of our release."

Obi Wan dreaded to ask his next question.

"Was Anakin there?"

"No, the only people I heard mentioned were Palpatine and somebody called Lord. Vader?"

Obi Wan sighed, he hadn't heard of Lord Vader. But it was obvious why Padme had been abducted. They wanted to know the whereabouts of Luke and Leia. If they were turned to the dark side they would be deadly.

"Good bye." Said Obi sharply. He had to get to Tatooine.

A few hours later he was striding through the Tatooine landscape. Ignoring the sand and heat. He had to get to the Lars's homestead. The suns were beating down on him and a trickle of sweat was running down his neck. He must be just minutes away, minutes away. He could guess what he was going to find, he could feel it in the force, pain, suffering, despair. He didn't want to admit it to himself, but death. He could sense death.

Then the smell caught him. The acrid smell of burnt plastic and burnt flesh. In the light of Tatooine's sun were three charred bodies. Obi did not examine them closely. They were lying in from of the burnt wreckage of their home.

So Padme had been forced to betray her children. Palpatine had Luke! He did not think too long about Anakin betraying his own family. Thoughts like that would lead him to the dark side and that was the last thing they needed. Right now he had to get to Alderaan. Loosing Luke to evil was bad enough, but loosing Leia would be unbearable.

Anakin walked around his quarters. Luke was to be trained to be a Sith. It was his destiny. It was what Anakin wanted for him.

But that didn't matter it was what his master wanted for him, and his master was all that mattered now.

 In the next chapter we skip 18 years and meet senator Leia.