So here's the next chapter. Thanks for all the reviews. Hope you all like it.

Chapter 2

Padmé flew into Anakin's open and waiting arms. He held her tightly, close to him. Neither wanted to let go and after 23 years apart that was no great surprise. They would never need to be separated like that again because this spirit world of the dead was their permanent home.

Finally releasing each other from their tight embrace, Anakin looked into his wife's brilliant brown eyes and noticed that crystal tears had formed and were slowly falling down her ghostly cheeks.

"Hey angel, don't cry." He whispered in Padmé's ear, wiping the tears from her now immortal face. "Everything's fine now. We're together again."

"I know. I'm just so happy to be with you again. I've missed you so much these 23 years." Padmé told her husband. Anakin looked away guiltily as he replied.

"I am truly sorry for everything. That's all in the past though and I would gladly forget it. I don't want it looming as a great shadow over my time with you."

"Me too Ani, but can you please can you just answer me this one question first?" Padmé asked.

"Anything." Anakin simply replied.

"Why did you turn? I need to know" She nervously inquired.

Anakin took an unnecessary deep breath as he shut his eyes, trying to think of the right way to answer his wife's question. He'd known as soon as he'd seen her that she's want to know. He grasped her hand in his own and began.

"Some of this will probably be hard for you to hear, but can you please let me finish first. If I don't get it all out now it'll be worse."

"Of course." She nodded her head.

"A short while before … before you died, I had a vision of you in trouble, of your death. It scared me beyond belief. I wanted, more than anything, to stop that happening, but none of the Jedi knew. Not Obi-Wan. Not Mace. Not even Yoda. None of them knew the secret to helping me save you. Then came Palpatine. He said he knew the secret, but he also told me that I couldn't learn it from a Jedi. My love for you blinded me to what he was really doing. I thought that I had to align myself with him to save you. Shortly after I became Vader. I still thought that I could save you, but I guess I was too far-gone from my former self. I killed Mace, the other Jedi, the children and I wasn't myself anymore. When you showed up on Mustafar with Obi-Wan, something just snapped and I…well I guess you know the rest." He laughed nervously, trying to comfort himself as much as his loving wife. "I only wanted to save you angel, but instead I became a monster, a killer. I killed the one person I loved more than anything else in this world. I almost destroyed the only father I ever knew. I left Luke and Leia without both their parents. I have to…"Padmé cut him off.

"Shh Ani." She brushed her hand across his cheek. "You don't need to apologize to me. I know that it wasn't you who truly did the worst of those things. I also saw what you did Anakin. I saw you save our son. Everything else is behind us now. Don't you feel better for getting it all out? You are free now. Freer to enjoy our time together." She kissed him, deeply.

Anakin pulled away to speak to Padmé.

"Thank you for that. I love you so much."

"I love you too." She responded.

They walked hand in hand around the Lake Retreat, savouring the happy memories that that place held of their wedding day.

After finally returning to their home of the spirit world, Anakin and Padmé's discussion turned to their children.

"You have been watching them both?" Asked Anakin.

"Every day." Replied Padmé. "They are so wonderful. I am incredibly proud of them both."

"I know. Me too. Luke is an amazing fighter, a great Jedi." Added Anakin.

"Just like his father." Smiled Padmé.

"He has your kindness. Your faith in people. He would not give up on me. And Leia, Padme she is beautiful. Exactly like you. Obi-Wan said that she was stubborn like me and that is why she would take longer to forgive me than Luke." He laughed. As did Padmé. They were equally happy that parts of both of them lived on in their children.

"She is in love, you know. With Han." Padmé informed Anakin. His smile faded.

"She must hate me for what I did to him." Anakin was deeply ashamed at causing his only daughter that much pain.

"Eventually she will see, like Luke does, that that was not your true self." Padmé consoled her husband.

"Did you ever go down to be near them?" Anakin questioned.

"No." Padmé answered to her husband. "I thought it would be too hard to be that close to them and not being able to reveal myself to them."

"You do not need to be worried about that anymore. We are able to visit them both."

"Really?" Padmé asked as her head rose and a hopeful smile swept across her face.

"Indeed. I think they should meet us both." Anakin's plan was not only to please his wife- he also wished to properly meet both his children. "You wish to go right away, don't you?" he finished.

"Yes." Padmé replied whilst nodding her head and still smiling.

"Well who am I to deny the wishes of my gorgeous wife." He told Padmé as he gently grasped hold of her hand to lead her out of this world to meet their children

Next chapter is Anakin and Padmé meeting their children

Hoped you liked this one.

For the timing, I'm going off what it says on IMDB, but if that's wrong I apologize.