Futures Past

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Chapter 14- Helpless

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Milady, I'm afraid I'm going to have to inject this sedative in you. We can't have you seeing our path or giving me any trouble can we?" The transport had stopped in a dark area and Padmé had no idea where they were anyway.

"No, please. Stop."

"Feel free to scream senator, it makes it so much more entertaining."

Padmé clamped her mouth shut, gritting her teeth. She wasn't going to give Dooku the satisfaction of making her scream. Dooku grabbed her arm and pulled out a large injector.

He inserted it quite roughly into her arm and Padmé winced, biting her cheek to stifle the groan of pain threatening to emerge.

She saw Dooku's grinning face as her vision began to swim, and darkness enveloped her, transporting her to a world of fevered visions.

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"Master Yoda!"

"Anakin, Obi Wan, help you can I?" Yoda turned away from the cityscape he was looking at.

"Padmé Master, we think she's been kidnapped." Obi Wan explained, trying to mask his inner turmoil.

"What? How possible is this?"

"She left in a transport, we don't know why…"

I know why. Obi Wan thought guiltily.

"And now we fear it contained Dooku, who has kidnapped her! Master what can I do, let me go after her!" Anakin pleaded his face a swirl of emotion.

"Patience young one. If indeed captured Senator Amidala Dooku has, grave danger she in. But face him alone you cannot, remember your last encounter we do." Yoda pointed with his stick at Anakin's robotic hand.

"Even if we knew where he went, which we don't because of this-" Obi wan handed Yoda the printout of what they had found in the databanks,

 "- we still could not face him, for all we know he is using her as bait to lure us to him."

"We can't just leave her there!" Anakin shrieked.

Yoda looked at him sharply.

"Not planning to are we, but plan we must, before in we barge and killed we get her hmm?!"

Anakin closed his mouth and Obi Wan was glad for Yoda's presence. He would never have been able to quell Anakin like Yoda just did.

"Visit Master Windu I suggest." Yoda nodded to the door and shuffled out.

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An entangled mess of entwined limbs under silken sheets. Red- brown hair contrasts with dark curls upon the pillows.

Sounds of passion emanate from the room and the scents and sights of love fill the senses.

Skin meets skin as lips graze silken flesh and arms envelop each of the pair as they join together in passion. Dark soulful eyes lock with stormy blue ones and a whisper of pleasure is caught in the breeze.

'Obi Wan…'

*

The taxi transport landed in among the dark halls of a warehouse. Padmé was unconscious, now bound and gagged, in the backseat.

Dooku stepped from the vehicle and opened the door with the power of the Force. He floated Padmé out behind him and started walking, her limp body following behind him.

He made his way into an office type room with meagre furnishings, only an old bed and table and chair. Then setting Padmé down on the bed he pulled out a holocam and activated it.

"I have recovered the senator my lord. What would you have me do?"

"Very good, Tyranus. Let me see her."

Dooku stepped aside so that the form of Padmé was in view.

"Ah as stunning as ever. I shall send a ship to you immediately, so she can join me on my cruiser. When you informed her of her fate, what were her feelings?"

"She was less than thrilled Master."

"As to be expected, I would expect her to be fiery and bold. No matter, she will have no choice but to accept me, she will learn her place in time."

"Yes my lord."

"Have her prepared for me. The ship will be there as soon as possible."

"As you wish my lord, it shall be done."

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"Master I see no point in this waiting! I could sense her from here to Ison and the wildest reaches of space."

So could I. Obi Wan sighed.

"I know Anakin but we have to do these things properly, if we go rushing in we could get her killed, or us."

"Well I'm going now, and if you wanna stop me you had better follow on!" And Anakin leapt down the stairwell and towards the hangars.

"Why must he always do that?" Obi Wan sighed casting one last glance at Mace Windu's office and chasing off after Anakin.

His young apprentice was already in a speeder and Obi Wan managed to leap in just before it took off.

"She went this way master I'm sure of it. Its like a magnet is pulling me the right way."

Obi Wan nodded as Anakin pushed the speeder into a hard turn, barely dodging another transport.

"Must you drive like that Anakin, this isn't podracing you know?"

 "Sorry master one speed only in my cockpit."

"Quite." Obi Wan winced looking decidedly paler as they narrowly avoided a head on collision with another speeder.

"I'm sensing it was in the direction of the abandoned warehouse district."

"Follow your instincts Anakin." Obi Wan said simply, though he was picking up strange vibrations in the Force. Padmé was in pain but recently was quite calm and pleasured, he was confused how this could be, but worried for her safety as it was now of strong fear. It appeared Anakin wasn't aware of it. His young protégé was not as attuned to the Force as he liked to think.

"Hurry Anakin." He said quietly, he didn't want to worry the boy, but he was worried himself.

Anakin saw Obi Wan's expression and put his foot down.

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Padmé had had the most wonderful dream, she couldn't remember all of it, but she remembered feeling safe and warm and loved in strong arms, making love like never before, the tenderness and passion was thrilling, but then she woke up.

Anything was preferable to the nightmare she was now living.

Bound and gagged, chained to a wall, while droids stripped and washed her, then clothed and preened over her, it was worse than when she was Queen, a degrading intrusion, all under the unnerving eyes of Dooku and presumably his master, judging by a holocam on the table. She wanted to cry out, but she wouldn't give them satisfaction. She wished for the strong arms of her dream lover, of Anakin, of anyone to save her.

An outfit that left little to the imagination was fitted to her, despite her struggling, she only succeeded in being given another sedative, but this didn't knock her out, just dumbed her senses so she couldn't move or struggle while the robots went about their business.

"You… can't… do this…to me." She gasped, trying to hold her head up to face Dooku.

"I think you'll find I can. This is nothing my dear, compared to what my Master has in store for you."

Padmé groaned. Her entire body felt like iron, it was all she could do to stop her head lolling.

"Beautiful." Dooku nodded appreciatively, hungry eyes upon her.

"You…are…sick…You…won't…get…away with this…" She rasped, with effort.

"We shall see, your ladyship. We shall soon see."

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