A Rose In The Frost9

3 months later

Leia, Obi-Wan had to admit was becoming a Jedi far more powerful than him. If she was going to be able to defeat Vader it was clear she would need training from someone more powerful. The only other living Jedi master was Yoda though and he lived on Dagobah, which wasn't exactly local.

This was a problem that was going to require some serious consideration.

Vader strode along the halls of his ship. He was going to do something he hadn't done in a long time. Talk to senator Amidala. He was proud of Luke and his Sith training was going very well. Indeed the boy looked up to his master far more than he did, and that was scarcely imaginable. However this was not what he wanted to talk to the senator about, or rather ex-senator about.

He reached her door, presses the buzzer and waited. There was a pause and the door slid open revealing a very irritated Padme.

"What do you want?" She asked, letting him aside to come in. Her voice was practically a growl. He could sense how much she hated him.

"To talk." He said casually. She glared at him.

"About what?" She asked, not sounding remotely interested.

Vader found himself thinking about how beautiful she still was, he glared at himself and banished the thought.

"You are to be removed from here." He said.

"You mean I can go now?" She asked, optimism rising in her voice.

"No, you are to be removed to my new ship. The Death Star." Padme glared at him again.

"What a cheerful name." She said sarcastically adding. "And Luke?"

"Is to stay here with my master." Said Vader tersely.

When he said "My master" Padme had given a derisive snort. Vader felt anger rising up against her and an emotion he had not felt for a long time. The embers of love? Hating himself, he turned and left the room. Without a word or backwards look.

" Leia we are not sure what this "Space station" is. We think it could contain a weapon so powerful it could destroy an entire planet."

Leia starred at her father in disbelief.

"What is it called again?" She asked.

"The death star. Leia this will be your most dangerous mission for the rebels yet. If you get hold of any information the empire will stop at nothing to get it back."

Leia smiled determinedly at her father.

"This is something I have to do. I will set off tomorrow morning."

As Vader piloted the shuttle Padme grew anxious. She wasn't exactly enjoying being cooped up in space with her maniac husband and a droid. She had been sat next to him for five hours and he hadn't said a word.

She soon forgot all of this when a huge moon came into view. Yet, it was too large to be a moon. With a shock she realised it was a huge space station.

"That is the Death Star." Said Vader, with almost parental proudness. "It can destroy any planet."

Padme was filled with deep horror.

"That's evil, you're evil." She was then lost for words. She sank back in her seat, feeling the worst she ever had. They flew closer and closer until a hole opened up in the death Star's side and Vader piloted the ship inside. When they landed Padme noticed a group of people stood ready to greet them.

The ship landed and Vader got out, Padme unwillingly followed. Padme saw that they were in a room large enough for twenty or so large ships. The party advanced to meet them, Padme did not recognise any of them.

"Lord Vader and…" A man in an official looking uniform asked.

"This is my wife Amidala." He said casually.

Padme could have murdered him.

"I'm not your wife." She said calmly, but glaring at him.

"Yes, Padme you are legally." The group of men starred at him and Padme continued to glare. He was wrong. She had "legally" married Anakin Skywalker not Darth Vader.

End of chapter 9