Chapter 2

Author's Note: Go Bail/Jar Jar shippers. Just kidding. Here is the one and only chapter two of this fic! Warning I completely alter the original trilogy. Vader is 38 if anyone cares.

Eighteen Years Later Tatooine

Obi Wan was walking aimlessly round Tatooine, something which he had become rather good at in his older age. The disreputable Space Port of Mos Elios was his home away from cave. So it was a bit of a shock to him when one perfectly ordinary morning, he saw stood in the middle of Mos Elios looking lost and confused, somebody he thought was dead. Padme Amidala.

      It was a terrible shock. The main reason was despite the fact her dress was torn and her hair was a mass of wild tangles, she didn't look a day over twenty-five. He walked forwards until he was stood directly behind her. She was looking around but didn't seem able to see anything.

"Padme?" Obi Wan asked her gently.

"Obi Wan?" She asked wildly, as she collapsed in his arms.

He picked her up and she felt remarkable light and carried her back to his cave. There was something very wrong here. When he got her back he lay her down, she was unconscious and shaking, ever so often she would mumble indistinctly. Obi Wan could guess what was wrong with her, for the last eighteen years Padme Amidala had been frozen in carbonate.

Padme remained like that for three days. But on the fourth morning she opened her eyes and starred dazedly around her.

"Anakin?" she asked in confusion.

"Not quite." Replied a quiet voice from her side. She turned slowly on the hard stone "bed" to face Obi Wan. His face was full of concern, but his eyes were a light with interest.

"Obi?" She asked in shock. "How come you look so old….." Then she viewed her surroundings.

"Why are we in a cave?"

Obi sighed, and starred Padme intently in the face asked,

"What can you remember Padme?"

Padme suddenly felt strange, as though she had missed the last step while walking downstairs.

"I was on a diplomatic mission, when our ship was taken over, that's all….. But how did you find me, how are Luke and Leia? What happened!!!" She was sat up now, and practically in hysterics.

"You are on Tatooine. As far as I know Luke and Leia are perfectly well and living with their representative foster families. You however have spent the last eighteen years frozen in carbonate." Obi said all of this calmly, as though giving a report on the weather.

"What! By who?" Padme asked, blinking in disbelief.

"I have no idea, space pirated I'd guess. When I found you the Tatooine sun had thawed you out. I know nothing about how you got here. When I found you, you were suffering from bad carbon sickness. So I bought you here."

Padme sighed again, before asking her next question.

"So I'm still 25, and have 18 year old children?"

"Yes." Obi replied. "Leia is a representative for Alderaan in what's left of the galactic senate. Luke is growing up as a Tatooine farm boy."

Padme's face was still full of shock and now amazement. Trembling slightly she asked the question that scared her the most.

"And what of lord Vader?"