Padme Amidala is miserable. Anakin has gone to the darkside and she has given up the twins. She is kidnapped by Palpatine on a diplomatic mission, and is horrified to meet Lord Vader. Written a good few years before Sith and so is very AU.
Han piloted the ship steadily through space,
Chewbacca was navigating. Nobody on board was paying any attention to either of
them. Padme was watching Obi and Anakin teach Leia new lightsaber moves. She
was finding the entire process very amusing, and was much too shocked to speak
herself.
She hadn't been this happy for
twenty years. She had her daughter and best friend back. But more
importantly the husband she had lost to the Dark Side had returned to her.
She turned to watch him now; he had left his
old red lightsaber behind on the Death Star and was trying to teach Leia to
deflect bullets more accurately.
He seemed to sense her watching him,
and turned to smile at her. She smiled back thinking how much they had both
changed. Padme, to everyone's amazement, although in middle age did not look
older than 34. Perhaps it was because she had been stunned so often.
Anakin's face was lined by age, and trouble.
But his eyes still had that boyish charm and sparkling light. Han's voice
interrupted her meditations.
"We are approaching Alderaan."
So, Padme thought under her breath. We're off
to see the Rebels, the wonderful rebels on Alderaan.
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