A/N: I've tried fanficton before and it didn't quite work out, so… I hope this may appeal more.?!
Spoilers: The whole series I guess, but mainly the prequel episodes!
Summary: Oneshot! Based on the Hyperspace image entitled Sleepless Knight- Basically my thoughts on the uncertain future haunting the young married couple, Anakin and Padme.
So without further ado… Sleepless Knight
Anakin Skywalker, newly appointed Jedi Knight, was lost, not physically lost as one would think, but more at an emotional loss. As he sat watching his sleeping wife he pondered what the future would hold for them. After two years of marriage he knew they would not be able to keep their secret much longer, certainly not with the child she was very obviously carrying. The bulk of her senatorial garb could help hide this for the time being, but too soon even that wouldn't be enough. The council was bound to have sensed it, any Jedi could have, no matter what clever disguise she wore. 'Master Obi Wan must know,' he thought. After all, how could he not when his old padawan's mind would be light years away, even in the heat of battle.
Anakin shook the thought away, it was no good to think like that. Padme was entering her sixth month of pregnancy, in just a few short months he was going to be a father. The thought both excited and terrified him. Having never really had a father, he didn't know how to be one, yet he knew he could do it. Why not, with his beloved wife at his side?
With that thought, she stirred and awoke, finding the spot beside her empty.
"Ani, what are you doing up," she asked as she got up, which was a task that only hardened with each passing day.
" I was just thinking," he answered, looking at his angel with what could only be described as pure adoration and love.
She stood next to him now, " About what," she asked quietly.
" Everything, you, the baby, the council, the war, everything," he said looking away, picking at his still very robotic hand.
She took his mechanical hand in her own and placed it on her belly," What about the baby," she asked.
He looked at their hands then into her eyes," The council is going to find out, and I think Obi-Wan already knows, but I think I want them to know. There isn't anything they can do now, so why not tell them? What do you think?"
" I think we could tell Obi-Wan, then think about the council after we get his reaction. If he takes it remotely well, then we can tell the council, if not, well let's just hope he'll respect our wishes and not tell anyone," she replied, now putting her arms around his neck hugging him slightly. "We can do this, can't we?"
He put his arms around her waist and rested his head on her chest, listening to her heart. "We can but I don't care what the council thinks, nothing bad can happen, I won't let it, especially not to you," he said pulling her tighter.
A/N: Yes it's only a page and a half on my word processor, but it's doesn't need to be any longer. Please let me know what you think, kindly, with constructive criticism only, thanks. I've been thinking about this and if Anakin is so strong in the force how is it that he didn't know that Padme was having twins, he doesn't know about Leia until he finds out from Luke... I don't know don't think that he'd be able to sense two lives, and not only one? Just a thought.